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THE BATTLE OF NEGRO FORT

The Rise and Fall of a Fugitive Slave Community MATTHEW J. CLAVIN The dramatic story of Andrew Jackson's destruction of a free and independent community of fugitive slaves in Spanish Florida In the aftermath of the War of 1812, Major General Andrew Jackson ordered a joint United States army-navy expedition into Spanish Florida to destroy a free and independent community of fugitive slaves. The result was the Battle of Negro Fort, a brutal conflict among hundreds of American troops, Indian warriors, and black rebels that culminated in the death or re-enslavement of nearly all of the fort’s inhabitants. By eliminating this refuge for fugitive slaves, the United States government closed an escape valve that African Americans had utilized for generations. At the same time, it intensified the subjugation of southern Native Americans, including the Creeks, Choctaws, and Seminoles. Still, the battle was significant for another reason as well.

Matthew J. Clavin is Professor of History at the University of Houston and the author of Aiming for Pensacola and Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War.

During its existence, Negro Fort was a powerful symbol of black freedom that subverted the racist foundations of an expanding American slave society. Its destruction reinforced the nation’s growing commitment to slavery, while illuminating the extent to which ambivalence over the institution had disappeared since the nation’s founding. Indeed, four decades after declaring that all men were created equal, the United States destroyed a fugitive slave community in a foreign territory for the first and only time in its history, which accelerated America’s transformation into a white republic. The Battle of Negro Fort places the violent expansion of slavery where it belongs, at the center of the history of the early American republic.

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The Crisis of Voter Suppression in the United States GILDA R. DANIELS Exposes the assault on voting rights—crucial reading in advance of the 2020 presidential election

Gilda R. Daniels is Associate Professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is considered one of the most effective pieces of legislation the United States has ever passed. It enfranchised hundreds of thousands of voters, particularly in the American South, and drew attention to the problem of voter suppression. Yet in recent years there has been a continuous assault on access to the ballot box in the form of stricter voter ID requirements, meritless claims of rigged elections, and baseless accusations of voter fraud.

In the past these efforts were aimed at eliminating African American voters from the polls, and today, new laws seek to eliminate voters of color, the poor, and the elderly, groups that historically vote for the Democratic Party.

Uncounted examines the phenomenon of disenfranchisement through the lens of history, race, law, and the democratic process. Gilda R. Daniels, who served as Deputy Chief in the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division and has more than two decades of voting rights experience, argues that voter suppression works in cycles, constantly adapting and finding new ways to hinder access for an exponentially growing minority population. She warns that a premeditated strategy of restrictive laws and deceptive practices has taken root and is eroding the very basis of American democracy—the right to vote!

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STAY WOKE

A People's Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter TEHAMA LOPEZ BUNYASI and CANDIS WATTS SMITH The essential guide to understanding how racism works and how racial inequality shapes black lives, ultimately offering a road-map for resistance for racial justice advocates and antiracists When #BlackLivesMatter went viral in 2013, it shed a light on the urgent, daily struggles of black Americans to combat racial injustice. The message resonated with millions across the country. Yet many of our political, social, and economic institutions are still embedded with racist policies and practices that devalue black lives. Stay Woke directly addresses these stark injustices and builds on the lessons of racial inequality and intersectionality the Black Lives Matter movement has challenged its fellow citizens to learn.

In this essential primer, Tehama Lopez Bunyasi and Candis Watts Smith inspire readers to address the pressing issues of racial inequality, and provide a basic toolkit that will equip readers to become knowledgeable participants in public debate, activism, and politics.

Tehama Lopez Bunyasi is Assistant Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University.

Candis Watts Smith is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel. She is the author of Black Mosaic: The Politics of Black Pan-Ethnic Diversity.

This book offers a clear vision of a racially just society, and shows just how far we still need to go to achieve this reality. From activists to students to the average citizen, Stay Woke empowers all readers to work toward a better future for black Americans.

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INTRODUCING AN EXCITING NEW SERIES...

Avidly Reads is a series of short books about how culture makes us feel. Part memoir, part cultural criticism, each volume in the Avidly Reads series brings to life the author’s emotional relationship to a cultural artifact or experience. Building on the popular online magazine Avidly, founded in 2012 by Sarah Blackwood and Sarah Mesle and supported by the Los Angeles Review of Books, Avidly Reads continues the Avidly project of encouraging experts to offer original, surprising, and entertaining explorations of how it feels to try and understand the world. Avidly Reads invites us to explore the surprising pleasures and obstacles of everyday life.

Sarah Blackwood and Sarah Mesle on Avidly We started Avidly in 2012 because we felt that the slow, deep learning carried out by the smartest people we knew—mostly academics, but also attentive fans and rigorous artists—had a too-narrow range of creative outlets. What happens when scholars are given space to write in a way that shows their feeling as well as their knowledge? Selfishly, we wanted to find out. Our animating principle is that reading things really closely is how you love them, or sometimes how you hate them. With Avidly, and now with the Avidly Reads book series, we have made a place to mix enthusiasm and expertise; both outlets feature voices that approximate the heady feeling of getting into it with a beloved friend about the intense ways that culture, we might say, gets into you. We’re excited to share with readers these charismatic volumes that will be immersive to read and pleasurable to talk about, whether in the classroom, book club, coffee shop, or bar.

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AVIDLY READS BOARD GAMES

ERIC D. THURM Writer and critic Eric D. Thurm digs deep into his own experience as a board game enthusiast to explore the emotional and social rules that games create and reveal, telling a series of stories about a pastime that is also about relationships. Thurm thinks through his ongoing rivalries with his siblings and ponders the ways games both upset and enforce hierarchies and relationships—from the familial to the geopolitical. Like sitting down at the table for family game night, Board Games is an engaging book of twists and turns, trivia, and nostalgia.

Eric D. Thurm is a writer whose work has appeared in, among other publications, Esquire, WIRED, Real Life, and The New York Times.

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AVIDLY READS MAKING OUT

KATHRYN BOND STOCKTON Mid-kiss, do you ever wonder who you are, who you’re kissing, and where it’s leading? It can feel luscious, libidinal, friendly; but are we trying to make out something through our kissing? Making Out is Stockton’s memoir about a non-binary childhood before that idea existed in her world. We think about kissing as we accompany Stockton to the bedroom, to the closet, to the playground, to the movies, and to solitary moments with a book, the ultimate source of pleasure.

Kathryn Bond Stockton is Distinguished Professor of English, Dean of the School for Cultural and Social Transformation, and Associate Vice President for Equity and Diversity at the University of Utah.

October 2019 • 176 pages • 4.37 x 7 • Paper • 978-1-4798-4327-5 • $14.95T(£11.99) Cloth • 978-1-4798-3382-5 • $79.00X(£65.00) • Cultural Studies

AVIDLY READS THEORY

JORDAN ALEXANDER STEIN As an avowed “theory head,” Jordan Alexander Stein confronts a contradiction: that the abstract and often frustrating rigors of theory also produced a sense of pride and identity for him and his friends, an idea of how to be and a way to live. Although Stein explains what theory is, this is not an introduction or a how-to. Organized around five ways that theory makes us feel, Stein travels back to the late nineties to tell a story of coming of age at a particular moment and to measure how that moment lives on now.

Jordan Alexander Stein teaches in the English department and the Comparative Literature program at Fordham University.

October 2019 • 152 pages • 4.37 x 7 • Paper • 978-1-4798-0100-8 • $14.95T(£11.99) Cloth • 978-1-4798-2739-8 • $79.00X(£65.00) • Cultural Studies

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PARKCHESTER

A Bronx Tale of Race and Ethnicity JEFFREY S. GUROCK The eight-decade story of a New York neighborhood

Jeffrey S. Gurock is Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University. A prize-winning author, he has written or edited fifteen books in American Jewish history. Gurock has served as chair of the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society and as associate editor of American Jewish History. He lives with his family in the Riverdale section of the Bronx.

In 1940, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company opened a planned community in the East Bronx, New York. A model of what the neighborhood would become was first displayed to an excited public at the 1939 World’s Fair. Parkchester was celebrated as a “city within a city,” offering many of the attractions and comforts of suburbia, but without the transportation issues that plagued commuters who trekked into New York City every day. This new neighborhood initially constituted a desirable alternative to inner city neighborhoods for white ethnic groups with the means to leave their Depression-era homes. In this bucolic environment within Gotham, the Irish and Italian Catholics, white Protestants and Jews lived together rather harmoniously.

In Parkchester, Jeffrey S. Gurock explains how and why a “get along” spirit prevailed in Parkchester and marked a turning point in ethnic relations in the city.

Gurock is also attuned to, and documents fully, the egregious side to the neighborhood’s early history. Until the late 1960s, Parkchester was off-limits to African Americans and Latinos. He is also sensitive to the processes of integration that took place once the community was opened to all and explains why transition was made without significant turmoil and violence that marked integration in other parts of the city.

As a child of Parkchester himself, Gurock couples his critical expertise as a leading scholar of New York City’s history with an insider’s insight in producing a thoughtful, nuanced understanding of ethnic and race relations in the city.

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EDUCATED FOR FREEDOM

The Incredible Story of Two Fugitive Schoolboys who Grew Up to Change a Nation ANNA MAE DUANE The powerful story of two young men who changed the national debate about slavery In the 1820s, few Americans could imagine a viable future for black children. Even abolitionists saw just two options for African American youth: permanent subjection or exile. Educated for Freedom tells the story of James McCune Smith and Henry Highland Garnet, two black children who came of age and into freedom as their country struggled to grow from a slave nation into a free country.

Smith and Garnet met as schoolboys at the Mulberry Street New York African Free School, an educational experiment created by founding fathers who believed in freedom’s power to transform the country. Smith and Garnet’s achievements were near-miraculous in a nation that refused to acknowledge black talent or potential. The sons of enslaved mothers, these schoolboy friends would go on to travel the world, meet Revolutionary War heroes, publish in medical journals, address Congress, and speak before cheering crowds of thousands. The lessons they took from their days at the New York African Free School shed light on how antebellum Americans viewed black children as symbols of America’s possible future. The story of their lives, their work, and their friendship testifies to the imagination and activism of the free black community that shaped the national journey toward freedom.

Anna Mae Duane is Associate Professor of English and director of the American Studies Program at the University of Connecticut.

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FIXING PARENTAL LEAVE The Six Month Solution GAYLE KAUFMAN A real-world solution for parental leave that promotes gender equality at work and at home What do Papua New Guinea, Suriname, and the United States have in common? These three nations are the only ones that do not offer some form of parental leave to new parents. The US lags far behind the rest of the world on this important issue, raising questions about our commitment to gender equality and the welfare of our families.

Gayle Kaufman is Nancy and Erwin Maddrey Professor of Sociology and Gender & Sexuality Studies at Davidson College in North Carolina. She is the author of Superdads: How Fathers Balance Work and Family in the 21st Century.

In Fixing Parental Leave, Gayle Kaufman takes an in-depth look at parental leave policies in the US, the UK, and Sweden, and evaluates the benefits and drawbacks of leave policies in each country.

She finds that there is more to parental leave policies than whether a country provides time off around the birth or adoption of a child. While most policies are designed to help women return to work, this is only half of the puzzle. The second half requires men to be meaningful partners by encouraging them to take equal time at home.

Ultimately, Kaufman arrives at a rational solution that will promote gender equity through a policy that enables parents at companies of all sizes to spend six months with their new child.

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WHITER

Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism Edited by NIKKI KHANNA Heartfelt personal accounts from Asian American women on their experiences with skin color bias, from being labeled “too dark” to becoming empowered to challenge beauty standards “I have a vivid memory of standing in my grandmother’s kitchen, where, by the table, she closely watched me as I played. When I finally looked up to ask why she was staring, her expression changed from that of intent observer to one of guilt and shame. . . . ‘My anak (dear child),’ she began, ‘you are so beautiful. It is a shame that you are so dark. No Filipino man will ever want to marry you.’”

—From Shade of Brown, Noelle Marie Falcis How does skin color impact the lives of Asian American women? In Whiter, thirty Asian American women provide first-hand accounts of their experiences with colorism in this collection of powerful, accessible, and brutally honest essays, edited by Nikki Khanna.

Nikki Khanna is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Vermont and author of Biracial in America: Forming and Performing Racial Identity.

Featuring contributors of many ages, nationalities, and professions, this compelling collection covers a wide range of topics, including light-skin privilege, aspirational whiteness, and anti-blackness. From skin-whitening creams to cosmetic surgery, Whiter amplifies the diverse voices of Asian American women who continue to bravely challenge the power of skin color in their own lives.

February 2020 280 pages • 6 x 9 8 black & white illustrations Paper • 978-1-4798-0029-2 • $25.00A(£19.99) Cloth • 978-1-4798-8108-6 • $89.00X(£74.00) Women’s Studies

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BANNED

Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump SHOBA SIVAPRASAD WADHIA Examines immigration enforcement and discretion during the first eighteen months of the Trump administration Within days of taking office, President Donald J. Trump published or announced changes to immigration law and policy. These changes have profoundly shaken the lives and well-being of immigrants and their families, many of whom have been here for decades, and affected the work of the attorneys and advocates who represent or are themselves part of the immigrant community.

Banned examines the tool of discretion, or the choice a government has to protect, detain, or deport immigrants, and describes how the Trump administration has wielded this tool in creating and executing its immigration policy.

Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia is the Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar and the Director of the Center for Immigrants’ Rights at Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law. Previously, Wadhia was Deputy Director for Legal Affairs at the National Immigration Forum and an associate with Maggio Kattar PC, both in Washington, DC.

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Banned combines personal interviews, immigration law, policy analysis, and case studies with a robust analysis of immigration enforcement and discretion during the first eighteen months of the Trump administration and offers recommendations for moving forward.

The story of immigration and the role immigrants play in the United States is significant. The government has the tools to treat those seeking admission, refuge, or opportunity in the United States humanely. Banned offers a passionate reminder of the responsibility we all have to protect America’s identity as a nation of immigrants.

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FIXING LAW SCHOOLS

From Collapse to the Trump Bump and Beyond BENJAMIN H. BARTON An urgent plea for much-needed reforms to legal education The period from 2008 to 2018 was a lost decade for American law schools. Employment results were terrible. Applications and enrollment cratered. Revenue dropped precipitously and several law schools closed. Almost all law schools shrank in terms of students, faculty, and staff. A handful of schools even closed. Despite these dismal results, law school tuition outran inflation and student indebtedness exploded, creating a truly toxic brew of higher costs for worse results.

The election of Donald Trump in 2016 and the subsequent role of hero-lawyers in the “resistance” has made law school relevant again and applications have increased. However, despite the strong early returns, we still have no idea whether law schools are out of the woods or not. If the Trump Bump is temporary or does not result in steady enrollment increases, more schools will close.

Benjamin H. Barton is Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee and the author of Rebooting Justice, Glass Half Full: The Decline and Rebirth of the Legal Profession, and The Lawyer-Judge Bias in the American Courts.

The urgency of this book is to convince law school stakeholders (faculty, students, applicants, graduates, and regulators) not to just return to business as usual if the Trump Bump proves to be permanent. We have come too far, through too much, to just shrug our shoulders and move on.

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THE TOUGHEST GUN CONTROL LAW IN THE NATION The Unfulfilled Promise of New York's SAFE Act JAMES B. JACOBS and ZOE FUHR A comprehensive assessment of real gun reform legislation with recommendations for common sense gun control A month after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, New York State passed, with record speed, the first and most comprehensive state post-Sandy Hook gun control law. In The Toughest Gun Control Law in the Nation, James B. Jacobs and Zoe Fuhr ask whether the 2013 SAFE Act—hailed by Governor Andrew Cuomo as “the nation’s toughest gun control law”­—has lived up to its promise.

James B. Jacobs, legal scholar and sociologist, is Warren E. Burger Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Research in Crime and Justice at NYU School of Law. Among his books are Mobsters, Unions & Fed: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement; Gotham Unbound: How New York City Was Liberated from the Grip of Organized Crime; Busting the Mob: United States v. Cosa Nostra; and Corruption and Racketeering in the New York City Construction Industry.

Zoe Fuhr is a New Zealand-based criminal lawyer and a fellow at New York University’s Center for Research in Crime & Justice.

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Jacobs and Fuhr illuminate the gap between gun control on the books and gun control in action. They argue that, to be effective, gun controls must be capable of implementation and enforcement. This requires realistic design, administrative and enforcement capacity and commitment and ongoing political and fiscal support. They show that while the SAFE Act was good symbolic politics, most of its provisions were not effectively implemented or, if implemented, not enforced.

Gun control in a society awash with guns poses an immense regulatory challenge. The Toughest Gun Control Law in the Nation takes a tough-minded look at the technological, administrative, fiscal and local political impediments to effectively keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous persons and eliminating some types of guns altogether.

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WAR AND HEALTH

The Medical Consequences of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan Edited by CATHERINE LUTZ and ANDREA MAZZARINO Provides a detailed look at how war affects human life and health far beyond the battlefield Since 2010, a team of activists, social scientists, and physicians have monitored the lives lost as a result of the US wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan through an initiative called the Costs of War Project. Unlike most studies of war casualties, this research looks beyond lives lost in violence to consider those who have died as a result of illness, injuries, and malnutrition that would not have occurred had the war not taken place.

Incredibly, the Cost of War Project has found that, of the more than 1,000,000 lives lost in the recent US wars, a minimum of 800,000 died not from violence, but from indirect causes.

War and Health offers a critical examination of these indirect casualties, and considers the effect of the war on both civilians and on US service members, in war zones and in the United States.

Ultimately, it draws much-needed attention to the far-reaching health consequences of the recent US wars, and argues that we cannot go to war—and remain at war—without understanding the catastrophic effect war has on the entire ecosystem of human health.

Catherine Lutz is Professor of Anthropology at Brown University, where she has a joint appointment with the Watson Institute for International Studies. Her books include Homefront: A Military City and the American 20th Century.

Andrea Mazzarino is a social worker and human rights activist with interests in the health impacts of war and in children’s and disability rights. She has held various clinical and research positions, including as co-founder of Brown University’s Costs of War Project, as a clinician at the Veterans Affairs PTSD Outpatient Clinic, and as a researcher and independent consultant with Human Rights Watch’s Europe & Central Asia Division.

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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PROPERTY LAW STEPHANIE M. STERN and DAPHNA LEWINSOHN-ZAMIR Preface by LINDA J. DEMAINE Considers how research in psychology offers new perspectives on property law, and suggests avenues of reform

February 2020 312 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $40.00S 978-1-4798-7889-5 Cloth • $120.00X 978-1-4798-3568-3 In the Psychology and the Law series Psychology

The Psychology of Property Law explains how assumptions about human judgement, decision-making­—and behavior have shaped different property rules—and examines to what extent these assumptions are supported by the research. Employing key findings from psychology, the book considers whether property law’s goals could be achieved more successfully with different rules. In addition, the book highlights property laws and conflicts that offer productive areas for further behaviorally-informed research.

Stephanie M. Stern is Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology.

Daphna Lewinsohn-Zamir is Louis Marshall Professor of Environmental Law at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Linda J. Demaine is Professor of Law and Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar at Arizona State University.

UNDERSTANDING POLICE INTERROGATION Confessions and Consequences WILLIAM DOUGLAS WOODY and KRISTA D. FORREST Uses techniques from psychological science and legal theory to explore police interrogation in the United States Understanding Police Interrogation provides a single comprehensive source for understanding issues relating to police interrogation and confession. It sheds light on the range of factors that may influence the outcome of the interrogation of a suspect, which ones make it more likely that a person will confess, and which may also inadvertently lead to false confessions.

William Douglas Woody is Professor of Psychological Sciences at the University of Northern Colorado.

Krista D. Forrest is Professor of Psychology at the University of

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COPS, CAMERAS, AND CRISIS The Potential and the Perils of Police Body-Worn Cameras MICHAEL D. WHITE and AILI MALM The first expert and comprehensive analysis of the surprising impact of body-worn cameras Following the tragic deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, and others at the hands of police, interest in body-worn cameras for local, state, and federal law enforcement has skyrocketed.

Drawing on the latest research and insights from experts with field experience with police-worn body cameras, White and Malm show the benefits and drawbacks of this technology for police departments, police officers, and members of the public.

Michael D. White is Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University and the Associate Director of ASU’s Center for Violence Prevention and Community Safety. His publications include Jammed Up: Bad Cops, Police Misconduct, and the New York City Police Department.

Aili Malm is Professor in the School of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Emergency Management at California State University, Long Beach.

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THE RISE OF BIG DATA POLICING

Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement ANDREW GUTHRIE FERGUSON The consequences of big data and algorithm-driven policing and its impact on law enforcement Andrew Guthrie Ferguson introduces the cutting-edge technology that is changing how the police do their jobs and shows why it is more important than ever that citizens understand the far-reaching consequences of big data surveillance as a law enforcement tool.

Ferguson reveals how these new technologies—viewed as raceneutral and objective—have been eagerly adopted by police departments hoping to distance themselves from claims of racial bias and unconstitutional practices. But behind the data are real people, and difficult questions remain about racial discrimination and the potential to distort constitutional protections.

Andrew Guthrie Ferguson is Professor of Law at the University of the District of Columbia's David A. Clarke School of Law. Professor Ferguson is a national expert on predictive policing, big data surveillance, and the Fourth Amendment. He is the author of Why Jury Duty Matters.

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THE TRANS GENERATION How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) are Creating a Gender Revolution ANN TRAVERS A groundbreaking look at the lives of transgender children and their families Based on interviews with transgender kids, ranging in age from 4 to 20, and their parents, and over five years of research in the US and Canada, The Trans Generation offers a rare look into what it is like to grow up as a trans child. As a transgender activist and as an advocate for trans kids, Travers is able to document from first-hand experience the difficulties of growing up trans and the challenges that parents can face.

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“Given that trans children are subjected to harassment, bullying, and systemic lack of support, there’s no better time than now to have this book as a resource.”­—Bitch Magazine Ann Travers is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Simon Fraser University.

TRANSGRESSED Intimate Partner Violence in Transgender Lives XAVIER L. GUADALUPE-DIAZ Transgender survivors of violence tell their stories Transgender people face some of the highest rates of violence in the US and around the world, particularly within romantic relationships. In Transgressed, Xavier L. Guadalupe-Diaz offers a ground-breaking examination of intimate partner violence in the lives of transgender people.

Drawing on interviews and written accounts from transgender survivors of intimate partner violence, he sheds much-needed light on the dynamics of abuse that entrap trans partners in violent relationships. An emotionally compelling read, Transgressed offers new ways of understanding the complexities of intimate partner violence through the eyes of transgender survivors.

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Xavier L. Guadalupe-Diaz is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Framingham State University in Massachusetts.

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TRUE SEX

The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century EMILY SKIDMORE The incredible stories of how trans men assimilated into mainstream communities in the late 1800s In True Sex, Emily Skidmore uncovers the stories of eighteen trans men who lived in the United States between 1876 and 1936. By tracing the narratives surrounding the moments of “discovery” in these communities—from reports in local newspapers to medical journals and beyond this book challenges the assumption that the full story of modern American sexuality is told by cosmopolitan radicals. Rather, True Sex reveals complex narratives concerning rural geography and community, persecution and tolerance, and how these factors intersect with the history of race, identity and sexuality in America.

Emily Skidmore is Assistant Professor of History at Texas Tech University, specializing in the history of gender and sexuality in the United States.

She lives in Lubbock, Texas.

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AMERICAN FATHERHOOD A History JÜRGEN MARTSCHUKAT, Translated by PETRA GOEDDE Explores the surprising diversity of fathers and fatherhood throughout American history and society The nuclear family has been endlessly praised as the bedrock of American society, even though there has rarely been a time in history when a majority of Americans lived in such families.

Using biographical close-ups of twelve different characters, each embedded in historical context, American Fatherhood provides a much more realistic picture of how fatherhood has been performed within different kinds of families. Each protagonist covers a crucial period or event in American history, presents a different family constellation, and makes a different argument with regard to how American society is governed through the family.

Jürgen Martschukat is Professor of North American History at Erfurt University in Germany. This book was originally published in 2013 in German by Campus Verlag and won the OAH’s Willi Paul Adams Prize for the best book on American history published in a foreign language.

Petra Goedde is Director of Temple University’s Center for the Humanities (CHAT) and Associate Professor of History at Temple University.

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FIRST LADIES OF THE REPUBLIC Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the Creation of an Iconic American Role JEANNE E. ABRAMS How the three inaugural First Ladies defined the role for future generations, and carved a space for women in America

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America’s first First Ladies—Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, and Dolley Madison—had the challenging task of playing a pivotal role in defining the nature of the American presidency to a fledgling nation and to the world. In First Ladies of the Republic, Jeanne Abrams breaks new ground by examining their lives as a group. These capable and path-breaking women not only shaped their own roles as prominent Americans and “First Ladies,” but also defined a role for women in public and private life in America.

Jeanne E. Abrams is Professor at the University Libraries and the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver, where she is also Director of the Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society, and Curator of the Beck Archives, Special Collections. She is the author of Revolutionary Medicine: The Founding Fathers and Mothers in Sickness and in Health.

VEXED WITH DEVILS

Manhood and Witchcraft in Old and New England ERIKA GASSER Stories of witchcraft and demonic possession from early modern England through the last official trials in colonial New England.

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Vexed with Devils is a cultural history of witchcraft-possession phenomena that centers on the role of men and patriarchal power.

Erika Gasser reveals that witchcraft trials had as much to do with who had power in the community, to impose judgement or to subvert order, as they did with religious belief. Gasser ultimately concludes that the decline of possession and witchcraft cases was not merely a product of change over time, but rather an indication of the ways in which patriarchal power endured throughout and beyond the colonial period.

Vexed with Devils reexamines an unnerving time and offers a surprising new perspective on our own, using stories and voices which emerge from the records in ways that continue to fascinate and unsettle us.

Erika Gasser is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati.

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IN PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America KABRIA BAUMGARTNER Uncovers the hidden role of girls and women in the desegregation of American education The story of school desegregation in the United States often begins in the mid-twentieth-century South. Drawing on archival sources and genealogical records, Kabria Baumgartner uncovers the story’s origins in the nineteenth-century Northeast and identifies a previously overlooked group of activists: African American girls and women.

In this thought-provoking book, Baumgartner demonstrates that the confluence of race and gender has shaped the long history of school desegregation in the United States right up to the present.

Kabria Baumgartner is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of New Hampshire.

December 2019 320 pages • 6 x 9 17 black & white illustrations Cloth • $35.00S 978-1-4798-2311-6 In the Early American Places series History

A WAR BORN FAMILY African American Adoption in the Wake of the Korean War KORI A. GRAVES The origins of a transnational adoption strategy that secured the future for Korean-black children The Korean War left hundreds of thousands of children in dire circumstances, but the first large-scale transnational adoption efforts involved the children of American soldiers and Korean women.

Drawing on extensive research in black newspapers and magazines, interviews with African American soldiers, and case notes about African American adoptive families, A War Born Family demonstrates how the Cold War and the struggle for civil rights led child welfare agencies to reevaluate African American men and women as suitable adoptive parents, advancing the cause of Korean transnational adoption.

Kori A. Graves is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Albany, State University of New York.

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OUR VOICES, OUR HISTORIES Asian American and Pacific Islander Women Edited by SHIRLEY HUNE and GAIL M. NOMURA An innovative anthology showcasing Asian American and Pacific Islander women’s histories Our Voices, Our Histories brings together thirty-five Asian American and Pacific Islander authors in a single volume to explore the historical experiences, perspectives, and actions of Asian American and Pacific Islander women in the United States and beyond.

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The contributions present new research on diverse aspects of Asian American and Pacific Islander women’s history, while acknowledging shared experiences as women of color in the United States. Attending to the collective voices of the women themselves, the volume seeks to transform current understandings of Asian American and Pacific Islander women’s histories.

Shirley Hune is Professor Emerita of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Washington and Professor Emerita of Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Gail M. Nomura is Assistant Professor of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington.

RACE IN A GODLESS WORLD Atheism, Race, and Civilization, 1850–1914 NATHAN G. ALEXANDER A historical analysis of the racial views of atheists in the United States and Britain During the second half of the nineteenth century popular atheist movements were emerging in the United States and Britain and skepticism about Christianity was becoming widespread.

This book offers a long-overdue historical analysis of the racial views of atheists and freethinkers in the United States and Britain during this time period. It provides a much-needed account of the complex and sometimes contradictory ideas espoused by this transatlantic community, tracing the complex ways in which they grappled with ideas about white superiority, and the role they played in early advocacy against racism and in favor of human rights.

September 2019 Nathan G. Alexander is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Weber Centre 256 pages • 6 x 9 for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt.

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COMING OF AGE IN JIM CROW DC Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life PAULA C. AUSTIN An account of African American young people in a segregated city, drawing from previously unpublished material Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC offers a complex narrative of the everyday lives of black young people in a racially, spatially, economically, and politically restricted Washington, DC, during the 1930s. In contrast to the ways in which young people have been portrayed by researchers, policy makers, law enforcement, and the media, Paula C. Austin draws on previously unstudied archival material to present black poor and working class young people as thinkers, theorists, critics, and commentators as they reckon with the boundaries imposed on them in a Jim Crow city that was also the American emblem of equality.

The narratives at the center of this book provide a different understanding of black urban life in the early twentieth century, showing that ordinary people were expert at navigating around the limitations imposed by the District of Columbia’s racially segregated politics. Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC is a fresh take on the New Negro movement, and a vital contribution to the history of race in America.

Paula C. Austin is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Sacramento. She writes and teaches about Black visual culture and African American and civil rights history, and facilitates faculty professional development on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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WE ARE WORTH FIGHTING FOR

A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989 JOSHUA M. MYERS The Howard University protests from the perspective and worldview of its participants

Joshua M. Myers teaches Africana Studies in the Department of Afro-American Studies at Howard University. He serves on the editorial board of The Compass and is editor of A Gathering Together: Literary Journal.

December 2019 288 pages • 6 x 9 10 black & white illustrations Cloth • 978-1-4798-1175-5 • $30.00S(£23.99) In the Black Power series History | African American History

We Are Worth Fighting For is the first history of the 1989 Howard University protest. The threeday occupation of the university’s Administration Building was a continuation of the student movements of the sixties and a unique challenge to the politics of the eighties. Upset at the university’s appointment of the Republican strategist Lee Atwater to the Board of Trustees, students forced the issue by shutting down the operations of the university. The protest, inspired in part by the emergence of “conscious” hip hop, helped to build support for the idea of student governance and drew upon a resurgent black nationalist ethos.

At the center of this story is a student organization known as Black Nia F.O.R.C.E. Cofounded by Ras Baraka, the group was at the forefront of organizing the student mobilization at Howard during the spring of 1989 and thereafter.

We Are Worth Fighting For explores how black student activists—young men and women— helped shape and resist the rightward shift and neoliberal foundations of American politics. This history adds to the literature on Black campus activism, Black Power studies, and the emerging histories of African American life in the 1980s.

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A FEDERAL RIGHT TO EDUCATION Fundamental Questions for Our Democracy Edited by KIMBERLY JENKINS ROBINSON Foreword by MARTHA MINOW Afterword by CONGRESSMAN ROBERT C. "BOBBY" SCOTT How the United States can provide equal educational opportunity to every child This book is the first comprehensive examination of three issues regarding a federal right to education: why federal intervention is needed to close educational opportunity and achievement gaps; the constitutional and statutory legal avenues that could be employed to guarantee a federal right to education; and, the scope of what a federal right to education should guarantee.

This book provides a timely and thoughtful analysis of how the United States could fulfill its unmet promise to provide equal educational opportunity and the American Dream to every child.

Kimberly Jenkins Robinson is Elizabeth D. and Richard A. Merrill Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. She practiced education law for seven years with the US Department of Education Office of the General Counsel and Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan Lovells) in Washington, DC.

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PROTEST AND DISSENT NOMOS LXII Edited by MELISSA SCHWARTZBERG Essays on the justification, strategy, and limits of mass protests and political dissent In Protest and Dissent, the latest installment of the NOMOS series, distinguished scholars from the fields of political science, law, and philosophy provide a fresh, interdisciplinary perspective on the potential—and limits—of mass protest and disobedience in today’s age.

Featuring ten timely essays, the contributors address a number of contemporary movements, from Black Lives Matter and the Women’s March, to Occupy Wall Street and Standing Rock. Ultimately, this volume challenges us to re-imagine the boundaries between civil and uncivil disagreement, political reform and radical transformation, and democratic ends and means.

Melissa Schwartzberg is Silver Professor of Politics at New York University.

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MUSLIM AMERICAN POLITICS AND THE FUTURE OF US DEMOCRACY EDWARD E. CURTIS IV

Reveals the important role of Muslim Americans in American politics Since the 1950s, and especially in the post-9/11 era, Muslim Americans have played outsized roles in US politics, sometimes as political dissidents and sometimes as political insiders. However, more than at any other moment in history, Muslim Americans now stand at the symbolic center of US politics and public life.

Edward E. Curtis IV is Millennium Chair of the Liberal Arts and Professor of Religious Studies at the IU School of Liberal Arts in Indianapolis. A recipient of Mellon, NEH, Fulbright, and Carnegie fellowships, Curtis is author of Muslims in America: A Short History and editor of the Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History.

This volume argues that the future of American democracy depends on whether Muslim Americans are able to exercise their political rights as citizens and whether they can find acceptance as social equals.

Drawing on examples ranging from the political rhetoric of the Nation of Islam in the 1950s and 1960s to the symbolic use of fallen Muslim American service members in the 2016 election cycle, Curtis shows that the efforts of Muslim Americans to be regarded as full Americans have been going on for decades, yet never with full success.

Curtis argues that policies, laws, and political rhetoric concerning Muslim Americans are quintessential American political questions.

Debates about freedom of speech and religion, equal justice under law, and the war on terrorism have placed Muslim Americans at the center of public discourse. How Americans decide to view and make policy regarding Muslim Americans will play a large role in what kind of country the United States will become, and whether it will be a country that chooses freedom over fear and justice over prejudice.

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THE ECOLOGY OF CHILDHOOD How Our Changing World Threatens Children’s Rights BARBARA BENNETT WOODHOUSE How globalism is undermining sustainable social environments for children This book uses the ecological model of child development together with ethnographic and comparative studies of two small villages, in Italy and the United States, as its framework for examining the well-being of children in the aftermath of the Great Recession. Global forces, far from being distant and abstract, are revealed as wreaking havoc in children’s environments even in economically advanced countries.

Barbara Bennett Woodhouse is L. Q. C. Lamar Professor of Law at Emory University and director of the Emory Child Rights Project. Her book Hidden in Plain Sight: The Tragedy of Children’s Rights from Ben Franklin to Lionel Tate was named the best book on human rights in 2009 by the American Political Science Association.

January 2020 368 pages • 6 x 9 29 black & white illustrations Cloth • $60.00X(£50.00) 978-0-8147-9484-5 In the Families, Law, and Society series Law

SETTLER COLONIALISM, RACE, AND THE LAW Why Structural Racism Persists NATSU TAYLOR SAITO How taking Indigenous sovereignty seriously can help dismantle the structural racism encountered by other people of color in the United States Settler Colonialism, Race, and the Law provides a timely analysis of structural racism at the intersection of law and colonialism.

By providing a functional analysis that links disparate forms of oppression, this book makes the case for the oft-cited proposition that racial justice is indivisible, focusing particularly on the importance of acknowledging and contesting the continued colonization of Indigenous peoples and lands. Saito concludes that rather than relying on promises of formal equality, we will more effectively dismantle structural racism in America by envisioning what the right of all peoples to self-determination means in a settler colonial state.

Natsu Taylor Saito is Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Law at Georgia State University’s College of Law in Atlanta.

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LEGALIZING SEX Sexual Minorities, AIDS, and Citizenship in India CHAITANYA LAKKIMSETTI How the rise of HIV in India resulted in government protections for gay groups, transgender people, and sex workers

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This original ethnographic research explores the relationship between the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the rights-based struggles of sexual minorities in contemporary India. Lakkimsetti argues that over time the crisis of HIV/AIDS effectively transformed the relationship between sexual minorities and the state from one that was focused on juridical exclusion to one of inclusion. The new relationship then enabled affected groups to demand rights and citizenship from the Indian state that had been previously unimaginable. A closely observed look at the machinations behind recent victories for sexual minorities, this book is essential reading across several fields.

Chaitanya Lakkimsetti is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies at Texas A&M University.

FREE SPEECH BEYOND WORDS The Surprising Reach of the First Amendment MARK V. TUSHNET, ALAN K. CHEN, and JOSEPH BLOCHER A look at how the First Amendment protects music, non-representational art, and nonsense Nonrepresentational art, instrumental music, and nonsense: all receive constitutional coverage under an amendment protecting “the freedom of speech,” even though none involves what we typically think of as speech—the use of words to convey meaning.

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Comprehensive and compelling, this book represents a sustained effort to account, constitutionally, for these modes of “speech.”

While it is firmly centered in debates about First Amendment issues, it addresses them in a novel way, using subject matter that is uniquely well suited to the task.

Mark V. Tushnet is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard University and the author of Why the Constitution Matters.

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Alan K. Chen is William M. Beaney Memorial Research Chair & Professor of Law at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. He is the coauthor of Public Interest Lawyering: A Contemporary Perspective.

Joseph Blocher is Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law.

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DISTRIBUTED BLACKNESS

African American Cybercultures ANDRÉ BROCK, JR. An explanation of the digital practices of the black Internet From BlackPlanet to #BlackGirlMagic, Distributed Blackness places blackness at the very center of internet culture. André Brock, Jr. claims issues of race and ethnicity as inextricable from and formative of contemporary digital culture in the United States. Distributed Blackness analyzes a host of platforms and practices (from Black Twitter to Instagram, YouTube, and app development) to trace how digital media have reconfigured the meanings and performances of African American identity. Brock moves beyond widely circulated deficit models of respectability, bringing together discourse analysis with a close reading of technological interfaces to develop nuanced arguments about how blackness gets worked out in various technological domains.

As Brock demonstrates, there’s nothing niche or subcultural about expressions of blackness on social media: internet use and practice now set the terms for what constitutes normative participation. Drawing on critical race theory, linguistics, rhetoric, information studies, and science and technology studies, Brock tabs between black-dominated technologies, websites, and social media to build a set of black beliefs about technology. In explaining black relationships with and alongside technology, Brock centers the unique joy and sense of community in being black online now.

André Brock, Jr. is Associate Professor of Black Digital Studies at Georgia Institute of Technology.

"This book is about Black folk online: their creativity and their politics.

I write about how Blackness vivifies the digital, articulating joy in the face of discrimination and in everyday life.”

—André Brock, Jr.

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THE DIGITAL CITY Media and the Social Production of Place GERMAINE R. HALEGOUA Shows how digital media connects people to their lived environments Every day, millions of people turn to small handheld screens to search for their destinations and to seek recommendations for places to visit. Critics have argued that digital media alienates users from space and place, but this book argues that the exact opposite is true: that we habitually use digital technologies to reembed ourselves within urban environments.

The Digital City advocates for the need to rethink our everyday interactions with digital infrastructures, navigation technologies, December 2019 and social media as we move through the world. Through timely 288 pages • 6 x 9 narratives of everyday urban life, Halegoua argues that people 8 black and white illustrations use digital media to create a unique sense of place within rapidly Paper • $30.00S(£23.99) changing urban environments and that a sense of place is integral 978-1-4798-8219-9 to understanding contemporary relationships with digital media.

Cloth • $89.00X(£74.00) 978-1-4798-3921-6 Germaine R. Halegoua is Associate Professor in the Department of In the Critical Cultural Film and Media Studies at the University of Kansas. She is the co-editor Communication series of Locating Emerging Media.

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BEYOND HASHTAGS Racial Politics and Black Digital Networks SARAH FLORINI Unrest gripped Ferguson, Missouri, after Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed by Officer Darren Wilson in August 2014. Many black Americans turned to their digital and social media networks to circulate information, cultivate solidarity, and organize during that tumultuous moment.

While Ferguson and the subsequent protests made black digital networks visible to mainstream media, these networks did not coalesce overnight. They were built and maintained over years through common, everyday use.

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Beyond Hashtags explores these everyday practices and their relationship to larger social issues through an in-depth analysis of a trans-platform network of black American digital and social media users and content creators. Florini looks at how black Americans use these technologies often simultaneously to create a space to reassert their racial identities, forge community, organize politically, and create alternative media representations and news sources. Beyond Hashtags demonstrates how much insight marginalized users have into technology.

Sarah Florini is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at Arizona State University.

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THE RACE CARD

From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities TARA FICKLE How games have been used to establish and combat Asian American racial stereotypes As Pokémon Go reshaped our neighborhood geographies and the human flows of our cities, mapping the virtual onto lived realities, so too has gaming and game theory played a role in our contemporary understanding of race and racial formation in the United States. From the Chinese Exclusion Act and Japanese American internment to the model minority myth and the globalization of Asian labor, Tara Fickle shows how games and game theory shaped fictions of race upon which the nation relies. Drawing from a wide range of literary and critical texts, analog and digital games, journalistic accounts, marketing campaigns, and archival material, Fickle illuminates the ways Asian Americans have had to fit the roles, play the game, and follow the rules to be seen as valuable in the US. Exploring key moments in the formation of modern US race relations, The Race Card charts a new course in gaming scholarship by reorienting our focus away from games as vehicles for empowerment that allow people to inhabit new identities, and toward the ways that games are used as instruments of soft power to advance topdown political agendas. Bridging the intellectual divide between the embedded mechanics of video games and more theoretical approaches to gaming rhetoric, Tara Fickle reveals how this intersection allows us to overlook the predominance of game tropes in national culture.

The Race Card reveals this relationship as one of deep ideological and historical intimacy: how the games we play have seeped into every aspect of our lives in both monotonous and malevolent ways.

Tara Fickle is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oregon and affiliated faculty in Ethnic Studies, the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, and the New Media & Culture Certificate.

“I wrote this book because I wanted people to understand how our stereotypes about racial and national differences persist in even so-called fantasy worlds like games, and how games themselves have very serious political stakes and effects. The Race Card shows how racial groupings, particularly for Asians and Asian Americans, have been not only reflected in but actively shaped by the games they play, make, and write about in fiction.“ —Tara Fickle

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POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CIVIC IMAGINATION Case Studies of Creative Social Change

Edited by HENRY JENKINS, GABRIEL PETERSLAZARO, and SANGITA SHRESTHOVA How popular culture is engaged by activists to effect emancipatory political change

Henry Jenkins is the Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts and Education at the University of Southern California.

Gabriel Peters-Lazaro is Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts.

Sangita Shresthova is the Director of Research of Civic Paths@USC.

One cannot change the world unless one can imagine what a better world might look like.

Civic imagination is the capacity to conceptualize alternatives to current cultural, social, political, or economic conditions; it also requires the ability to see oneself as a civic agent capable of making change, as a participant in a larger democratic culture. Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination represents a call for greater clarity about what we’re fighting for—not just what we’re fighting against.

Across more than thirty examples from social movements around the world, this casebook proposes “civic imagination” as a framework that can help us identify, support, and practice new kinds of communal participation. As the contributors demonstrate, young people, in particular, are turning to popular culture—from Beyoncé to Bollywood, from Smokey Bear to Hamilton, from comic books to VR—for the vernacular through which they can express their discontent with current conditions.

In each instance, activists demonstrate what happens when the creative energies of fans are infused with deep political commitment, mobilizing new visions of what a better democracy might look like.

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FROTTAGE Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora KEGURO MACHARIA A new understanding of freedom in the black diaspora grounded in the erotic In Frottage, Keguro Macharia weaves together histories and theories of blackness and sexuality to generate a fundamentally new understanding of both the black diaspora and queer studies.

Macharia maintains that to reach this understanding, we must start from the black diaspora, which requires re-thinking not only the historical and theoretical utility of identity categories such as gay, lesbian, and bisexual, but also more foundational categories such as normative and non-normative, human and non-human.

In lyrical, meditative prose, Macharia invigorates frottage as both metaphor and method with which to rethink diaspora by reading, and reading against, discomfort, vulnerability, and pleasure.

Keguro Macharia is an independent scholar from Nairobi, Kenya.

November 2019 224 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $27.00S(£20.99) 978-1-4798-6501-7 Cloth • $89.00X(£74.00) 978-1-4798-8114-7 In the Sexual Cultures series American Studies

ARCHIVING AN EPIDEMIC Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde ROBB HERNÁNDEZ Critically reimagines Chicanx art, unmasking its queer afterlife Emboldened by the boom in art, fashion, music, and retail culture in 1980s Los Angeles, the iconoclasts of queer Aztlán—as Robb Hernández terms the group of artists who emerged from East LA, Orange County, and other parts of Southern California during this period—developed a new vernacular with which to read the city in bloom. Tracing this important but understudied body of work, Archiving an Epidemic catalogs a queer retelling of the Chicana and Chicano art movement, from its origins in the 1960s, to the AIDS crisis and the destruction it wrought in the 1980s, and onto the remnants and legacies of these artists in the current moment. With over sixty images—many of which are published here for the first time—Hernández’s work excavates this archive to question not what Chicanx art is, but what it could have been.

Robb Hernández is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside.

November 2019 320 pages • 6 x 9 60 black & white, 12 color illustrations Paper • $29.00S(£22.99) 978-1-4798-2083-2 Cloth • $89.00X(£74.00) 978-1-4798-4530-9 In the Sexual Cultures series American Studies

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REALIST ECSTASY Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature LINDSAY V. RECKSON Explores the intersection and history of American literary realism and the performance of spiritual and racial embodiment

January 2020 336 pages • 6 x 9 22 black & white illustrations Paper • $29.00S(£22.99) 978-1-4798-5036-5 Cloth • $89.00X(£74.00) 978-1-4798-0332-3 In the Performance and American Cultures series American Studies

Recovering a series of ecstatic performances in late nineteenthand early twentieth-century American realism, Realist Ecstasy travels from camp meetings to Native American ghost dances and storefront church revivals to explore realism’s relationship to spiritual experience. In her approach to realism as both an unruly archive of performance and a wide-ranging repertoire of media practices—including literature, photography, audio recording, and early film—Lindsay V. Reckson argues that the real was repetitively enacted and reenacted through bodily practice. Realist Ecstasy demonstrates how the realist imagining of possessed bodies helped construct and naturalize racial difference, while excavating the complex, shifting, and dynamic possibilities embedded in ecstatic performance: its production of new and immanent forms of being beside.

Lindsay V. Reckson is Assistant Professor of English at Haverford College.

RUNAWAY GENRES The Global Afterlives of Slavery YOGITA GOYAL Argues for the slave narrative as a new world literary genre In Runaway Genres, Yogita Goyal tracks the emergence of slavery as the defining template through which current forms of human rights abuses are understood.

Goyal argues that in order to fathom forms of freedom and bondage today—from unlawful detention to sex trafficking and from the refugee crisis to genocide—we must turn to contemporary literature, which reveals how the literary forms used to tell these stories derive from the antebellum genre of the slave narrative. In reassessing these legacies and their ongoing relation to race and the human, Runaway Genres creates a new map with which to navigate contemporary black diaspora literature.

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FRAMED BY WAR Korean Children and Women at the Crossroads of US Empire SUSIE WOO An intimate portrait of the postwar lives of Korean children and women Korean children and women are the forgotten population of a forgotten war. Yet during and after the Korean War, they were central to the projection of US military, cultural, and political dominance. Framed by War examines how the Korean orphan, GI baby, adoptee, birth mother, prostitute, and bride emerged at the heart of empire. Strained embodiments of war, they brought Americans into Korea and Koreans into America in ways that defined, and at times defied, US empire in the Pacific.

Integrating history with visual and cultural analysis, Woo chronicles how Americans went from knowing very little about Koreans to making them family, and how Korean children and women who did not choose war found ways to navigate its aftermath in South Korea, the United States, and spaces in between.

Susie Woo is Associate Professor of American Studies at California State University, Fullerton.

November 2019 336 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $32.00S(£24.99) 978-1-4798-8053-9 Cloth • $99.00X(£82.00) 978-1-4798-8991-4 In the Nation of Nations series American Studies

THE MORAL PROJECT OF CHILDHOOD Motherhood, Material Life, and Early Children's Consumer Culture DANIEL THOMAS COOK Examines the Protestant origins of motherhood and the child consumer In The Moral Project of Childhood, the noted childhood studies scholar Daniel Thomas Cook illustrates how mothers in the nineteenth-century United States meticulously managed their children’s needs and wants, pleasures and pains, through the material world so as to produce the “child” as a moral project.

Drawing on a century of religiously-oriented child care advice in women’s periodicals, he examines how children ultimately came to be understood by mothers—and later, by commercial actors—as consumers. Cook delves into the social politics of motherhood, historical anxieties about childhood, and early children’s consumer culture.

Daniel Thomas Cook is Professor of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University-Camden and author of The Commodification of Childhood: The Children’s Clothing Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer.

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ORGANIZING WHILE UNDOCUMENTED Immigrant Youth's Political Activism under the Law KEVIN ESCUDERO An inspiring look inside immigrant youth’s political activism in perilous times Undocumented immigrants in the United States who engage in social activism do so at great risk: the threat of deportation. In Organizing While Undocumented, Kevin Escudero shows why and how—despite this risk—many of them bravely continue to fight on the front lines for their rights.

February 2020 208 pages • 6 x 9 4 black & white illustrations Paper • $27.00S(£20.99) 978-1-4798-3415-0 Cloth • $89.00X(£74.00) 978-1-4798-0319-4 In Latina/o Sociology Sociology | Latin American Studies

Drawing on more than five years of research, including interviews with undocumented youth organizers, Escudero focuses on the movement’s epicenters—San Francisco, Chicago, and New York City—to explain the impressive political success of the undocumented immigrant community.

A timely, worthwhile read, Organizing While Undocumented gives us a look at inspiring triumphs, as well as the inevitable perils, of political activism in precarious times.

Kevin Escudero is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University.

"SAVE MY KID" How Families of Critically Ill Children Cope, Hope, and Negotiate an Unequal Healthcare System AMANDA M. GENGLER A frank analysis of the medical and emotional inequalities that pervade the healthcare process for critically ill children Families who have a child with a life-threatening illness face a daunting road ahead of them, one that not only upends their everyday lives, but also strikes at the very heart of parenthood.

In "Save My Kid," Amanda M. Gengler traces the emotional difficulties these families navigate as they confront a fundamentally unequal healthcare system in the United States.

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Gengler reveals the unrecognized, everyday inequalities tangled up in the process of seeking medical care, showing how different families manage their children’s critical illnesses. She also uncovers the role that emotional goals—deeply rooted in the culture of illness and medicine—play in medical decision-making, healthcare interactions, and the end of children’s lives.

Amanda M. Gengler is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Wake Forest University.

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THE KIDS ARE IN CHARGE

Activism and Power in Peru's Movement of Working Children JESSICA K. TAFT Details the possibilities and challenges of intergenerational activism and social movements Since 1976, the Peruvian movement of working children has fought to redefine age-based roles in society, including defending children’s right to work. In The Kids Are in Charge, Jessica K. Taft gives us an inside look at this groundbreaking, intergenerational social movement, showing that kids can—and should be—respected as equal partners in economic, social, and political life.

Through participant observation, Taft explores how the movement has redefined relationships between kids and adults; how they put these ideas into practice within their organizations; and how they advocate for them in larger society.

Ultimately, she encourages us to question the widely accepted beliefs that children should not work or participate in politics.

The Kids Are in Charge is a provocative invitation to re-imagine childhood, power, and politics.

Jessica K. Taft is Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

"This book is about children who work and organize for their rights to work in dignified and fair conditions.

What is most interesting to me is that they are trying create a world where children and adults can share power as equals—a revolutionary proposition!

I write about what this equality means to them, how it works in their organizations, some of the challenges they face, and whether or not it is even possible to have truly egalitarian relationships between children and adults. I hope that this book will encourage people to rethink some of their assumptions about the very idea of 'the child.'"

—Jessica K. Taft

September 2019 272 pages • 6 x 9 9 black & white illustrations Paper • 978-1-4798-5450-9 • $30.00S(£23.99) Cloth • 978-1-4798-6299-3 • $89.00X(£74.00) In the Critical Perspectives on Youth series Sociology

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CAMMING Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry ANGELA JONES The first inside look at how sex workers use webcams to make a living The erotic webcam industry, also known as “camming,” is a thriving global business. Angela Jones takes readers inside this multi-billion dollar industry, revealing how its workers experience intimacy, community, empowerment—and, as she compellingly argues, pleasure.

Drawing on in-depth interviews, survey data, web analytics, and more, Jones highlights not only the dangers, but also the rewards, of working in one of the most taboo corners of the Internet.

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A fascinating, much-needed glimpse into the lives of cam models, Camming takes us behind the webcam lens to experience the power of erotic labor in the twenty-first century.

Angela Jones is Associate Professor of Sociology at Farmingdale State College, SUNY.

WHEN ANIMALS SPEAK Toward an Interspecies Democracy EVA MEIJER A groundbreaking argument for the political rights of animals In When Animals Speak, Eva Meijer develops a new, groundbreaking theory of language and politics, arguing that non-human animals speak—and, most importantly, act—politically. From geese and squid to worms and dogs, she highlights the importance of listening to animal voices, introducing ways to help us bridge the divide between the human and non-human world.

Drawing on insights from science, philosophy, and politics, Meijer provides fascinating, real-world examples of animal communities who use their voices to speak, and act, in political ways. She encourages us to rethink our relations with other animals, showing that their voices should be taken into account as the starting point for a new interspecies democracy.

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VEGAS BREWS

Craft Beer and the Birth of a Local Scene MICHAEL IAN BORER An inside look at how craft beer makers and IPA devotees come together to brew, taste, and enjoy fine ale while also building a sense of community in Las Vegas Equally reviled and revered as Sin City, Las Vegas is both exceptional and emblematic of contemporary American cultural practices and tastes. Michael Ian Borer takes us inside the burgeoning Las Vegas craft beer scene to witness how its adherents use beer to create and foster not just a local culture but a locals’ culture. Through compelling, detailed first-hand accounts and interviews, Vegas Brews provides an unprecedented look into the ways that brewers, distributors, bartenders, and drinkers fight against the perceived and preconceived norm about what “happens in Vegas” and lay claim to a part of their city that is too often overshadowed by the bright lights of tourist sites. Borer shows how our interactions with the things we care about—and the ways that we care about how they’re made, treated, and consumed—can lead to new senses of belonging and connections with and to others and the places where we live.

Michael Ian Borer is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the author of Faithful to Fenway: Believing in Boston, Baseball, and America's most Beloved Ballpark.

In a world where people and things move around at an extraordinary pace, the folks Borer spent time talking (and drinking) with remind us to slow down and learn how to taste the “good life,” or at least a semblance of it, even in a city where style is often valued over substance.

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Green Media and the Dilemma of Environmental Virtue SARAH MCFARLAND TAYLOR Tackles a human problem we all share—the fate of the earth and our role in its future Confident that your personal good deeds of environmental virtue will save the earth? The stories we encounter about the environment in popular culture too often promote an imagined moral economy, assuring us that tiny acts of voluntary personal piety, such as recycling a coffee cup, or purchasing green consumer items, can offset our destructive habits. No need to make any fundamental structural changes. The trick is simply for the consumer to buy the right things, and shop our way to a greener future.

Sarah McFarland Taylor is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and in the Program in Environmental Policy and Culture at Northwestern University. She is the award-winning author of Green Sisters: A Spiritual Ecology.

It’s time for a reality check. Ecopiety offers an absorbing examination of the intersections of environmental sensibilities, contemporary expressions of piety and devotion, and American popular culture. Ranging from portrayals of environmental sin and virtue such as the ecopious depiction of Christian Grey in Fifty Shades of Grey, to the green capitalism found in the world of mobile-device “carbon sin-tracking” software applications, to the socially conscious vegetarian vampires in True Blood, the volume illuminates the work pop culture performs as both a mirror and an engine for the greening of American spiritual and ethical commitments.

Taylor makes the case that it is not through a framework of grim duty or obligation, but through one of play and delight, that we may move environmental ideals into substantive action.

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The Causes and Consequences of Fear in America CHRISTOPHER D. BADER, JOSEPH O. BAKER, L. EDWARD DAY, and ANN GORDON An antidote to the culture of fear that dominates modern life From moral panics about immigration and gun control to anxiety about terrorism and natural disasters, Americans live in a culture of fear.

While fear is typically discussed in emotional or poetic terms—as the opposite of courage, or as an obstacle to be overcome—it nevertheless has very real consequences in everyday life.

Persistent fear negatively effects individuals’ decision-making abilities and causes anxiety, depression, and poor physical health. Further, fear harms communities and society by corroding social trust and civic engagement. Yet politicians often effectively leverage fears to garner votes and companies routinely market unnecessary products that promise protection from imagined or exaggerated harms.

Drawing on five years of data from the Chapman Survey of American Fears—which canvasses a random, national sample of adults about a broad range of fears—Fear Itself offers new insights into what people are afraid of and how fear affects their lives. The authors also draw on participant observation with Doomsday preppers and conspiracy theorists to provide fascinating narratives about subcultures of fear.

Fear Itself is a novel, wide-ranging study of the social consequences of fear, ultimately suggesting that there is good reason to be afraid of fear itself.

Christopher D. Bader is Professor of Sociology at Chapman University and affiliated with the Institute for Religion, Economics and Culture (IRES).

Joseph O. Baker is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at East Tennessee State University.

L. Edward Day is Associate Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at Chapman University.

Ann Gordon is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Ludie and David C. Henley Social Science Research Laboratory, Chapman University.

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A RICH BREW How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture SHACHAR M. PINSKER A fascinating glimpse into the world of the coffeehouse and its role in shaping modern Jewish culture

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Unlike the synagogue, the house of study, the community center, or the Jewish deli, the café is rarely considered a Jewish space.

Yet, coffeehouses profoundly influenced the creation of modern Jewish culture from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries.

Examining the convergence of cafés, their urban milieu, and Jewish creativity, Shachar M. Pinsker argues that cafés anchored a silk road of modern Jewish culture. "[H]ugely entertaining and intimidatingly well researched, with scarcely a café in which a Jewish writer raised a cup of coffee from Warsaw to New York left undocumented."

—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker Shachar M. Pinsker is Professor of Hebrew Literature and Culture at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Literary Passports: The Making of Modernist Hebrew Fiction in Europe.

THE JEWS OF HARLEM The Rise, Decline, and Revival of a Jewish Community JEFFREY S. GUROCK The complete story of Jewish Harlem and its significance in American Jewish history During World War I, Harlem was home to the second largest Jewish community in America.

The Jews of Harlem follows Jews into, out of, and back into this renowned metropolitan neighborhood over the course of a century and a half.

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"This well-written volume makes clear that the Harlem Jewish community significantly influenced American Jewry as a whole . . .

This is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of American Judaism."

—Publishers Weekly Jeffrey S. Gurock is Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University.

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FEASTING AND FASTING

The History and Ethics of Jewish Food Edited by AARON S. GROSS, JODY MYERS, and JORDAN D. ROSENBLUM Foreword by HASIA DINER Afterword by JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER How Judaism and food are intertwined Judaism is a religion that is enthusiastic about food. Jewish holidays are inevitably celebrated through eating particular foods, or around fasting and then eating particular foods. Through fasting, feasting, dining, and noshing, food infuses the rich traditions of Judaism into daily life. What do the complicated laws of kosher food mean to Jews? How does food in Jewish bellies shape the hearts and minds of Jews? What does the Jewish relationship with food teach us about Christianity, Islam, and religion itself? Can food shape the future of Judaism?

Feasting and Fasting explores questions like these to offer an expansive look at how Judaism and food have been intertwined, both historically and today. It also grapples with the charged ethical debates about how food choices reflect competing Jewish values about community, animals, the natural world, and the very meaning of being human.

Bookended with a foreword by the Jewish historian Hasia Diner and an afterword by the novelist and food activist Jonathan Safran Foer, Feasting and Fasting provides a resource for anyone who hungers to understand how food and religion intersect.

Aaron S. Gross is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies in the Theology and Religious Studies Department at the University of San Diego, and the Founder and CEO of the nonprofit advocacy organization, Farm Forward.

Jody Myers is Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Jewish Studies Interdisciplinary Program at California State University, Northridge.

Jordan D. Rosenblum is the Belzer Professor of Classical Judaism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Hasia Diner is Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University.

Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of the bestselling novel Everything Is Illuminated.

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DUST TO DUST A History of Jewish Death and Burial in New York ALLAN AMANIK A revealing look at how death and burial practices influence the living Dust to Dust offers a three-hundred-year history of Jewish life in New York, literally from the ground up. Taking Jewish cemeteries as its subject matter, it follows the ways that Jewish New Yorkers have planned for death and burial from their earliest arrival in New Amsterdam to the twentieth century.

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Allan Amanik charts a remarkable reciprocity among Jewish funerary provisions and the workings of family and communal life, tracing how financial and family concerns in death came to equal earlier priorities rooted in tradition and communal cohesion.

At the same time, he shows how shifting emphases in death gave average Jewish families the ability to advocate for greater protections and entitlements such as widows’ benefits and funeral insurance. Amanik ultimately concludes that planning for life’s end helps to shape social systems in ways that often go unrecognized.

Allan Amanik is Assistant Professor in the Judaic Studies Department at Brooklyn College, CUNY.

Winner, 2017 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies from the Jewish Book Council

JEWS ON THE FRONTIER Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America SHARI RABIN An engaging history of how Jews forged their own religious culture on the American frontier

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Jews on the Frontier offers a religious history that begins in an unexpected place: on the road. Shari Rabin recounts the journey of Jewish people as they left Eastern cities and ventured into the American West and South during the nineteenth century. It brings to life the successes and obstacles of these travels, from the unprecedented economic opportunities to the anonymity and loneliness that complicated the many legal obligations of traditional Jewish life.

Shari Rabin is Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Associate Director of the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture at the College of Charleston.

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FILM AS RELIGION, Second Edition Myths, Morals, and Rituals JOHN C. LYDEN Argues that popular films perform a religious function in our culture The first edition of Film as Religion was one of the first texts to develop a framework for the analysis of the religious function of films for audiences.

Like more formal religious institutions, films can provide us with ways to view the world and the values to confront it. Lyden argues that the cultural influence of films is analogous to that of religions, so that films can be understood as representing a “religious” worldview in their own right.

Thoroughly updating his examples, Lyden examines a range of film genres and individual films, from The Godfather to The Hunger Games to Frozen, to show how film can function religiously.

PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION:

“Lyden’s book is well-written, insightful, and especially engaging for anyone who loves movies."

John C. Lyden is the Liberal Arts Core Director and Professor of Liberal Arts at Grand View University. Previously he was Professor and Chair of the Religion Department at Dana College. He is the also the editor of the Journal of Religion & Film as well as of the Routledge Companion to Religion and Film, among other books.

—Religious Studies Review “...offers several new perspectives on this increasingly popular and gradually more critical area...”

—Journal of the American Academy of Religion “Lyden offers perceptive criticisms of some of the most influential ways of talking about myth.”

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SANCTIFIED SISTERS A History of Protestant Deaconesses JENNY WILEY LEGATH The first history of the deaconess movement in the United States In the late nineteenth century, a new movement arose within American Protestant Christianity.

Unsalaried groups of women began living together, wearing plain dress, and performing nursing, teaching, and other works of welfare.

Modeled after the lifestyles of Catholic nuns, these women became America’s first deaconesses.

Jenny Wiley Legath is Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University.

Sanctified Sisters, the first history of the deaconess movement in the United States, traces its origins in the late nineteenth century through to its present manifestations. Drawing on archival research, demographic surveys, and material culture evidence, Jenny Wiley Legath offers new insights into who the deaconesses were, how they lived, and what their legacy has been for women in Protestant Christianity.

The book argues that the deaconess movement enabled Protestant women—particularly single women—to gain power in a male-dominated Protestant world. They created hundreds of new institutions within Protestantism and created new roles for women within the church. While some who study women’s ordination draw a line from the deaconesses’ work to the struggle for women’s ordination in various branches of Protestant Christianity, Legath argues that most deaconesses were not interested in ordination.

Yet, while they didn’t mean to, they did end up providing a foundation for today’s ordination debates. Their very existence worked to open the possibility of ecclesiastically authorized women’s agency.

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RELIGION IN VOGUE Christianity and Fashion in America LYNN S. NEAL How the fashion industry has contributed to religious change From cross necklaces to fashion designs inspired by nuns’ habits, how have fashion sources interpreted Christianity? And how, in turn, have these interpretations shaped conceptions of religion in the United States?

Religion in Vogue explores the intertwined history of Christianity and the fashion industry. Using a diverse range of fashion sources, including designs, jewelry, articles in fashion magazines, and advertisements, Lynn S. Neal demonstrates how in the second half of the twentieth century the modern fashion industry created an aestheticized Christianity, transforming it into a consumer product.

The fashion industry socialized consumers to see religion as fashionable and as a beautiful lifestyle accessory—something to be displayed, consumed, and experienced as an expression of personal identity and taste. Religion was something to be embraced and shown off by those who were sophisticated and stylish, and not solely the domain of the politically conservative.

Neal ultimately concludes that, through aestheticizing Christianity, the fashion industry has offered Americans a means of blending traditional elements of religion—such as ritual practice, miraculous events, and theological concepts—with modern culture, revealing a new dimension to the personal experience of religion.

Lynn S. Neal is Professor of Religious Studies at Wake Forest University. An awardwinning teacher, Neal’s work focuses on the mediation of religion, with special attention to popular culture. Previous publications include Romancing God: Evangelical Women and Inspirational Fiction (2006), Religious Intolerance in America (2010, co-edited with John Corrigan).

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Reflections on History, Sufism, Theology, and Literature­—Volume One AL-ḤASAN AL-YŪSĪ

Edited and Translated by JUSTIN STEARNS Wide-ranging essays on Moroccan history, Sufism, and religious life

Al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī was an eleventh/seventeenthcentury Moroccan scholar.

Justin Stearns is Associate Professor in Arab Crossroads Studies at NYU Abu Dhabi. He is the author of Infectious Ideas: Contagion in Pre-Modern Islamic and Christian Thought in the Western Mediterranean.

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Al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī was arguably the most influential and well-known Moroccan intellectual figure of his generation. In 1084/1685, at the age of roughly fifty-four, and after a long and distinguished career, this Amazigh scholar from the Middle Atlas began writing a collection of short essays on a wide variety of subjects. Completed three years later and gathered together under the title Discourses on Language and Literature (al-Muḥāḍarāt fī l-adab wa-l-lughah), they offer rich insight into the varied intellectual interests of an ambitious and gifted Moroccan scholar, covering subjects as diverse as genealogy, theology, Sufism, history, and social mores.

In addition to representing the author’s intellectual interests, The Discourses also includes numerous autobiographical anecdotes, which offer valuable insight into the history of Morocco, including the transition from the Saadian to the Alaouite dynasty, which occurred during al-Yūsī’s lifetime. Translated into English for the first time, The Discourses offers readers access to the intellectual landscape of the early modern Muslim world through an author who speaks openly and frankly about his personal life and his relationships with his country’s rulers, scholars, and commoners.

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An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century, Volume One & Volume Two ABŪ ḤAYYĀN AL-TAWḤĪDĪ and ABŪ ʿALĪ MISKAWAYH

Edited by BILAL ORFALI and MAURICE POMERANTZ Translated by SOPHIA VASALOU and JAMES E. MONTGOMERY Questions and answers from two great philosophers

Why is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist?

Why do we long for the past, even if it is scarred by suffering? Spanning a vast array of subjects that range from the philosophical to the theological, from the philological to the scientific, The Philosopher Responds is the record of a set of questions put by the litterateur Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī to the philosopher and historian Abū ʿAlī Miskawayh. Both figures were foremost contributors to the remarkable flowering of cultural and intellectual life that took place in the Islamic world during the reign of the Buyid dynasty in Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī (d. 414/1023) was the fourth/tenth century. a prominent litterateur and philosopher in The correspondence between al-Tawḥīdī and Miskawayh holds a mirror to many of the debates and preoccupations of the time and reflects the spirit of rationalistic inquiry that animated their era. It also provides insight into the intellectual outlooks of two thinkers who were divided as much by their distinctive temperaments as by the very different trajectories of their professional careers.

Alternately whimsical and tragic, wondering and brooding, trivial and profound, al-Tawḥīdī’s questions provoke an interaction as interesting in its spiritedness as in its content. This new edition of The Philosopher Responds is accompanied by the first full-length English translation of this important text, bringing this interaction to life for the English reader.

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Abū ʿAlī Miskawayh (ca. 320/932–421/1030) was a philosopher and historian born in Rayy.

Bilal Orfali is Associate Professor of Arabic Studies at the American University of Beirut.

Maurice Pomerantz is Associate Professor of Literature at New York University Abu Dhabi.

Sophia Vasalou is Senior Lecturer and Birmingham Fellow in Philosophical Theology at the University of Birmingham.

James E. Montgomery is Sir Thomas Adams’s Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Hall.

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LIGHT IN THE HEAVENS

Sayings of the Prophet Muḥammad AL-QĀḌĪ AL-QUḌĀʿĪ Translated by TAHERA QUTBUDDIN Foreword by BISHOP PAUL HINDER Humanitarian lessons and practical insights from the prophet of Islam

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The words of Muḥammad, messenger of God and prophet of Islam, have a special place in the hearts of his followers. Light in the Heavens is an outstanding example of a compilation of these sayings, known as hadiths, that circulated orally and were later assembled and written down. For Muslims—who consider Muḥammad’s teachings the fount of wisdom and the beacon of guidance in all things, mundane and sublime—these sayings provide a direct window into the inspired vision of one of the most influential humans to have walked the Earth.

Al-Qāḍī al-Quḍāʿī (d. 454/1062) was a Sunni jurist, a scholar of hadiths and history, and a senior government official of the Fatimid dynasty in Cairo.

Tahera Qutbuddin is Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Arabic Oration: Art and Function.

Bishop Paul Hinder from Switzerland is the Apostolic Vicar of Southern Arabia, responsible for all the Catholics in the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Yemen, resident in Abu Dhabi since 2004.

THE EXCELLENCE OF THE ARABS

IBN QUTAYBAH Translated by SARAH BOWEN SAVANT and PETER WEBB With a new Foreword by JACK WEATHERFORD

A spirited defense of Arab identity from a time of political unrest

In ninth-century Abbasid Baghdad, the social prestige attached to claims of Arab identity had begun to decline. In The Excellence of the Arabs, the celebrated litterateur Ibn Qutaybah locks horns with those members of his society who belittled Arabness and vaunted the glories of Persian heritage and culture. Instead, he upholds the status of Arabs and their heritage in the face of criticism and uncertainty.

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Ibn Qutaybah (d. 276/889) was a renowned judge and writer known for many influential works on a wide range of subjects, including Qurʾanic exegesis, poetry and poetics, and statecraft.

Sarah Bowen Savant is Professor at The Aga Khan University, London, and the author of The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran.

Peter Webb is Lecturer in Arabic Literature and Culture at the University of Leiden and the author of Imagining the Arabs: Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam.

Jack Weatherford is the former DeWitt Wallace Professor of Anthropology at Macalester College. He is best known for his book Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World.

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TAJRĪD SAYF AL-HIMMAH LI-STIKHRĀJ MĀ FĪ DHIMMAT AL-DHIMMAH

A Scholarly Edition of ʿUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Nābulusī’s Text LUKE YARBROUGH

Tajrīd sayf al-himmah li-stikhrāj mā fī dhimmat al-dhimmah is a scholarly, Arabic-only edition of a text by ʿUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Nābulusī (d.

660/1262), also available in English translation from the Library of Arabic Literature as The Sword of Ambition. In this work addressed to the Ayyubid sultan, al-Nābulusī argues against employing Coptic and Jewish officials, leaving no rhetorical stone unturned as he pours his deep knowledge of history, law, and literature into the work.

Luke Yarbrough is Assistant Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at UCLA. His research is concerned with the history of the pre-modern Middle East and North Africa, including inter-communal relations, law and prescriptive discourses, Arabic historiography, the oral transmission of knowledge, and comparative history.

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‘AIN EL-GEDIDA

2006–2008 Excavations of a Late Antique Site in Egypt’s Western Desert NICOLA ARAVECCHIA With contributions by ROGER S. BAGNALL, DOUGLAS V. CAMPANA, PAMELA CRABTREE, DELPHINE DIXNEUF, DOROTA DZIERZBICKA, and DAVID RATZAN

Primary evidence from an archaeological dig at ‘Ain el-Gedida

‘Ain el-Gedida: 2006-2008 Excavations of a Late Antique Site in Egypt’s Western Desert is a presentation of primary evidence from an archaeological dig at ‘Ain el-Gedida. ‘Ain el-Gedida dates to the 4th century and is a uniquely important archaeological site for the study of early Egyptian Christianity; it is also a rare example of a type of Late Roman rural settlement that was previously known only from written sources.

The authors first present the data collected during excavations of various buildings and rooms at ‘Ain el-Gedida; in the second half of the book, specialists on the ‘Ain el-Gedida research team catalog and describe what was found at the site: ceramics, coins, ostraka, and zooarcheological remains.

Nicola Aravecchia is Assistant Professor of Classics at Washington University in Saint Louis and field director of the 'Ain el-Gedida archaeological mission. He was co-author of Oasis City.

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SHAMROCKS AND OIL SLICKS A People's Uprising Against Shell Oil in County Mayo, Ireland FRED A. WILCOX The inspiring story of a successful struggle to preserve what’s left of the natural world

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County Mayo, Ireland, is spectacularly beautiful. Dolphins, whales, and seals frolic in bays, rivers teem with salmon. Into this tranquil, unspoiled region, in early 2002, came Shell Oil, announcing plans to build a gas refinery. Shell promised wonderful things: new jobs, improved roads, money for schools. But when the citizens of County Mayo realized what Shell actually intended to do, they rose up. Shamrocks and Oil Slicks tells the story of County Mayo—the fishermen, farmers, teachers, business people—who, motivated by love for their environment, their community, and their country, fought one of the planet’s most powerful destroyers to a standstill.

Fred A. Wilcox is a writer, teacher, veterans' advocate, and peace activist. He is the author of several books, including Waiting for an Army to Die: The Tragedy of Agent Orange and Scorched Earth: Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam.

THE ROBBERY OF NATURE Capitalism and the Ecological Rift JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER and BRETT CLARK Bridges the gap between social and environmental critiques of capitalism

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In the nineteenth century, Karl Marx argued that capitalism’s relation to its natural environment was that of a robbery system, leading to an irreparable rift in the metabolism between humanity and nature. In the twenty-first century, these classical insights into capitalism’s degradation of the earth have become the basis of extraordinary advances in critical theory and practice associated with contemporary ecosocialism. In The Robbery of Nature, John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark, working within this historical tradition, examine capitalism’s plundering of nature via commodity production, and how it has led to the current anthropogenic rift in the Earth System.

John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon.

Brett Clark is associate editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Utah.

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THE RETURN OF NATURE Socialism and Ecology

JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER A fascinating reinterpretation of the radical and socialist origins of ecology Twenty years ago, John Bellamy Foster’s Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature introduced a new understanding of Karl Marx’s revolutionary ecological materialism. More than simply a study of Marx, it commenced an intellectual and social history, encompassing thinkers from Epicurus to Darwin, who developed materialist and ecological ideas. Now, with The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology, Foster continues this narrative.

In so doing, he uncovers a long history of efforts to unite issues of social justice and environmental sustainability that will help us comprehend and counter today’s unprecedented planetary emergencies.

The Return of Nature begins with the deaths of Darwin (1882) and Marx (1883) and moves on until the rise of the ecological age in the 1960s and 1970s. Foster explores how socialist analysts and materialist scientists of various stamps, first in Britain, then the United States, from William Morris and Frederick Engels to Joseph Needham, Rachel Carson, and Stephen J. Gould, sought to develop a dialectical naturalism, rooted in a critique of capitalism. In the process, he delivers a far-reaching and fascinating reinterpretation of the radical and socialist origins of ecology.

Ultimately, what this book asks for is nothing short of revolution: a long, ecological revolution, aimed at making peace with the planet while meeting collective human needs.

John Bellamy Foster is professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and editor of Monthly Review. His previous books on ecology include: The Vulnerable Planet, Marx’s Ecology, Hungry for Profit (edited with Fred Magdoff and Frederick Buttel), Ecology Against Capitalism, The Ecological Revolution, The Ecological Rift (with Brett Clark and Richard York), What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism (with Fred Magdoff), Marx and the Earth (with Paul Burkett), and The Robbery of Nature (with Brett Clark).

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HOW THE WORLD WORKS The Story of Human Labor from Prehistory to the Modern Day PAUL COCKSHOTT A sweeping history of the full range of human labor

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Few authors are able to write cogently in both the scientific and the economic spheres. Even fewer possess the intellectual scope needed to address science and economics at a macro as well as a micro level. But Paul Cockshott, using the dual lenses of Marxist economics and technological advance, has managed to pull off a stunningly acute critical perspective of human history, from pre-agricultural societies to the present. In How the World Works, Cockshott connects scientific, economic, and societal strands to produce a sweeping and detailed work of historical analysis.

This book will astound readers of all backgrounds and ages; it will also will engage scholars of history, science, and economics for years to come.

Paul Cockshott is a computer engineer, working on computer design and teaching computer science at universities in Scotland. His books include Towards A New Socialism, Classical Econophysics, and Computation and Its Limits.

BEYOND MARKET DYSTOPIA: NEW WAYS OF LIVING Socialist Register 2020 Edited by LEO PANITCH and GREG ALBO Essays that aim to create a world of agency and justice.

How can we build a future with better health and homes, respecting people and the environment? The 2020 edition of the Socialist Register, Beyond Market Dystopia, contains a wealth of incisive essays that entice readers to do just that: to wake up to the cynical, implicitly market-driven concept of human society we have come to accept as everyday reality. Intellectuals and activists such as Michelle Chin, Nancy Fraser, Arun Gupta, and Jeremy Brecher connect with and go beyond classical socialist themes, to combine an analysis of how we are living now with visions and plans for new strategic, programmatic, manifesto-oriented alternative ways of living.

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Leo Panitch is professor of political science at York University in Toronto and author of Renewing Socialism: Democracy, Strategy, and Imagination.

Greg Albo is a professor in the Department of Political Science at York University, Toronto.

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THE PUNISHMENT MONOPOLY

Tales of My Ancestors, Dispossession, and the Building of the United States PEM DAVIDSON BUCK Examines the roots of white supremacy and mass incarceration from the vantage point of history Why, asks Pem Davidson Buck, is punishment so central to the functioning of the United States, a country proclaiming “liberty and justice for all”? The Punishment Monopoly challenges our everyday understanding of American history, focusing on the constructions of race, class, and gender upon which the United States was built, and which still support racial capitalism and the carceral state. After all, Buck writes, “a state, to be a state, has to punish … bottom line, that is what a state and the force it controls is for.”

Using stories of her European ancestors, who arrived in colonial Virginia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and following their descendants into the early nineteenth century, Buck shows how struggles over the right to punish, backed by the growing power of the state governed by a white elite, made possible the dispossession of Africans, Native Americans, and poor whites. Those struggles led to the creation of the low-wage working classes that capitalism requires, locked in by a metastasizing white supremacy that Buck’s ancestors, with many others, defined as white, helped establish and manipulate. Examining those foundational struggles illuminates some of the most contentious issues of the twenty-first century: the exploitation and detention of immigrants; mass incarceration as a central institution; Islamophobia; white privilege; judicial and extrajudicial killings of people of color and some poor whites. The Punishment Monopoly makes it clear that none of these injustices was accidental or inevitable; that shifting our state-sanctioned understandings of history is a step toward liberating us from its control of the present.

Pem Davidson Buck is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College in Kentucky. She is the author of Worked to the Bone: Race, Class, Power, and Privilege in Kentucky and In/ Equality: An Alternative Anthropology.

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A MAN OF THE THEATER Survival as an Artist in Iran

NASSER RAHMANINEJAD Life in Iran as an artist under the Shah and during the Iranian Revolution A Man of the Theater tells the personal story of a theater artist caught between the two great upheavals of Iranian history in the 20th century.

One is the White Revolution of the 1960s, the incomplete and uneven modernization imposed from the top by the dictatorial regime of the Shah, coming in the wake of the overthrow of the popular Mosaddegh government with the help of the CIA. The other one is the Iranian Revolution of 1979, a great rising of Iranian society against the rule of the Shah in which Khomeini’s Islamist faction ends up taking power.

Nasser Rahmaninejad started his theater career in 1959 in Iran. After leaving Iran, he continued to teach and write; his plays in exile include My Heart, My Homeland (1995), and One Page of Exile (1996). His latest play is Between the Grave and the Moon, produced by the Iranian Studies Program at Stanford University in 2016.

Written in a simple direct style, Rahmaninejad’s memoir describes his fraught creative life in Tehran during these decades, founding a theater company and directing plays under the increasing pressure of the censorship authorities and the Shah’s secret police. After being arrested and tortured by the SAVAK and after spending years in Tehran’s infamous Evin prison and being a cause célèbre of Amnesty International, Rahmaninejad is freed by the Revolution of 1979. But his new-found freedom is short-lived; the progressive intellectuals and artists find themselves overpowered and outmaneuvered by the better organized Islamists, leading to renewed terror and to exile.

In Western perception, the Iranian Revolution, which this year has its 40th anniversary, often overshadows the decades of Iran’s modern history that preceded it. A Man of the Theater fills this gap.

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WAGING PEACE IN VIETNAM

US Soldiers and Veterans Who Opposed the War Edited by RON CARVER, DAVID CORTRIGHT and BARBARA DOHERTY How American Soldiers Opposed and Resisted the War in Vietnam While mainstream narratives of the Vietnam War all but marginalize anti-war activity of soldiers, opposition and resistance from within the three branches of the military made a real difference to the course of America’s engagement in Vietnam.

By 1968, every major peace march in the United States was led by active duty GIs and Vietnam War veterans. By 1970, thousands of active duty soldiers and marines were marching in protest in US cities. Hundreds of soldiers and marines in Vietnam were refusing to fight; tens of thousands were deserting to Canada, France and Sweden.

Eventually the US Armed Forces were no longer able to sustain large-scale offensive operations and ceased to be effective. Yet this history is largely unknown and has been glossed over in much of the written and visual remembrances produced in recent years.

Waging Peace in Vietnam shows how the GI movement unfolded, from the numerous antiwar coffee houses springing up outside military bases, to the hundreds of GI newspapers giving an independent voice to active soldiers, to the stockade revolts and the strikes and near-mutinies on naval vessels and in the air force. The book presents first-hand accounts, oral histories, and a wealth of underground newspapers, posters, flyers, and photographs documenting the actions of GIs and veterans who took part in the resistance. In addition, the book features fourteen original essays by leading scholars and activists.

Notable contributors include Vietnam War scholar and author, Christian Appy, and Mme Nguyen Thi Binh, who played a major role in the Paris Peace Accord.

Ron Carver worked with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the early 1960s. From 1969–71 he coordinated support for the GI antiwar movement, and for decades directed campaigns for labor unions and environmental groups. He curated the exhibit Waging Peace for the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

David Cortright is the author or editor of more than 20 books including the 1975 classic Soldiers in Revolt and Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas. He is a professor of peace studies and director of policy studies and the Peace Accords Matrix at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.

Barbara Doherty is a longtime writer and editor for labor unions and nonprofit organizations and lives in the Washington, DC area.

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THE LISTENER In the Shadow of the Holocaust IRENE OORE A reflection on how trauma is passed from generation to generation.

The Listener is the story of an entangled, complicated mother-daughter relationship. It is also a testament to the shock waves that trauma can send through generations.

Growing up, Irene Oore wanted to escape the pain of her past, but finds that doing so would mean discarding something precious—the “gift” of her mother’s stories of surviving World War II in Nazi-occupied Poland. While Oore’s mother escaped the death camps by concealing her Jewish identity, those years found her constantly on the run and on the verge of starvation, living a harrowing and peripatetic existence as she struggled to keep herself and her family alive.

Irene Oore is the co-author of Marie-Claire Blais: An Annotated Bibliography. Born in Łódź, Poland, she immigrated to Israel as a child and is now a professor of French at Dalhousie University in Halifax.

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Throughout the memoir, Oore reveals a certain ambivalence towards the gift bestowed upon her. The stories of guilt, fear, love, and constant hunger traumatised her as a child. Now she shares these same stories with her own children, to keep the history alive.

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FLORENCE OF AMERICA

A Feminist in the Age of McCarthyism FLORENCE BEAN JAMES, with JEAN FREEMAN, editor’s introduction by SEAN PRPICK A woman ahead of her time, Florence James revolutionized American theatre before finding safe haven in Canada from a fascistic strain of American politics that continues to exist to this day.

Born on the Idaho frontier, Florence James was a New York City suffragette. The first to put Jimmy Cagney on stage, she founded both the Negro Repertory Theatre and the Seattle Repertory Playhouse. She worked with Francis Farmer, Paul Robson, and Helen Hayes, but her views on art and politics and her choice of plays led to a clash with the Un-American Activities Committee. In the wake of two Kafkaesque trials, where she condemned her persecutors as liars, she fled to Canada and kick-started professional theatre in Saskatchewan, the home to North America’s first socialist government.

Florence of America tells an inspiring story of one woman speaking truth to power.

Jean Freeman is a celebrated performer and author and the recipient of ACTRA’s Woman of the Year award and an honorary doctorate from University of Regina. Jean’s literary skills and love of drama led to a devoted friendship with Florence James. She lives in Regina.

“An amazing story of achievement, heartbreak, and endurance…But above all, it is a moving and powerful cautionary tale of what can happen, at any time of any age, when, in [Arthur] Miller’s words, a whole world begins to cry ‘spirits.’”

—Moira Day, Department Head of Drama, University of Saskatchewan “An object lesson in courage and vision.”

—Mark F. Jenkins, playwright of All Powers Necessary and Convenient September 2019 232 pages • 4.25 × 6.5 4 black & white illustrations Cloth • 978-0-8897-7647-0 • $19.95T In The Regina Collection Memoir | Politics | Arts University of Regina Press

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IN MY OWN MOCCASINS A Memoir of Resilience HELEN KNOTT, foreword by EDEN ROBINSON A young Indigenous woman struggles to build a meaningful life while dealing with various traumas.

Helen Knott, a highly accomplished Indigenous woman, seems to have it all. But in her memoir, she offers a different perspective.

In My Own Moccasins is an unflinching account of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the wounds brought on by sexual violence. It is also the story of sisterhood, the power of ceremony, the love of family, and the possibility of redemption.

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With gripping moments of withdrawal, times of spiritual awareness, and historical insights going back to the signing of Treaty 8 by her great-great grandfather, Chief Bigfoot, her journey exposes the legacy of colonialism, while reclaiming her spirit.

Helen Knott is a Dane Zaa, Nehiyaw, and mixed Euro-descent woman living in Fort St. John, British Columbia.

Eden Robinson is the award-winning author of Monkey Beach, Son of a Trickster, and other novels. She is a member of the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations.

OUT OF MY MIND A Psychologist’s Descent into Madness and Back SHALOM CAMENIETZSKI A psychologist chronicles his own experience with bipolar disorder Out of My Mind is a memoir and clinical study by Dr. Shalom Camenietzski, a psychologist, who chronicles his self-proclaimed "ascent into madness" and offers a valuable perspective as someone who has been both a provider and a consumer of mental health services. He juxtaposes the destructive forces of his own bipolar disorder with his professional background to create a remarkable account that will appeal to professional and lay readers alike. At times scathing, but always sincere, this book will change the way people think about mental health.

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Shalom Camenietzski is a registered psychologist and psychotherapist with forty years of clinical experience. In addition to his professional background he has published numerous fictional works, including The Atheist's Bible. He lives in Toronto.

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ANGRY QUEER SOMALI BOY A Complicated Memoir

MOHAMED ABDULKARIM ALI A young gay Muslim immigrant struggles to fit in on the streets of Toronto.

Writing from a homeless shelter in downtown Toronto, Mohamed “Mo” Ali chronicles how he ended up there in this powerful and often irreverent memoir of exile, addiction, and racism.

Kidnapped by his father on the eve of Somalia’s societal implosion, Ali was taken to the Netherlands by his stepmother with her children.

Unable to fit into a new blended family or Dutch society, he turns to drugs and other forms of selfharm for comfort. When his stepmother moves again, Canada—with its promise of freedom, opportunity, and multiculturalism—seems to offer a new lease on life. But all is not what it seems.

Evocative and powerfully written, Somali Boy celebrates the twenty-first century’s great unifier—popular culture—while interweaving the story of one gay Muslim immigrant with broader sociopolitical commentary on Somalia, Europe, and Canada, and the dislocation suffered by so many global citizens.

Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali lives in Toronto.

This is his first book.

“A stunning memoir that will resonate with every queer person who has been through the fire.”

—Diriye Osman, author of Fairytales for Lost Children

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UNTIL WE ARE FREE Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada Edited by SYRUS MARCUS WARE, RODNEY DIVERLUS, and SANDRA HUDSON An anthology of African-Canadian writing addressing the most urgent issues facing the Black community in Canada.

The killing of Trayvon Martin in 2012 by a white assailant inspired Black Lives Matter, a dynamic new civil rights movement which quickly spread outside the borders of the United States. The movement's message found particularly fertile ground in Canada, where Black activists speak of generations of injustice. This anthology contains the very best African-Canadian writing on the hottest issues facing the Black community in Canada.

February 2020 300 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $27.95S 978-0-8897-7694-4 Politics University of Regina Press

Syrus Marcus Ware is a core team member of Black Lives Matter Toronto, a Vanier Scholar, a facilitator/designer for the Cultural Leaders Lab, and an award-winning artist and educator.

Rodney Diverlus is a co-founder of Black Lives Matter Toronto and has served as the Queer & Trans Commissioner for the Canadian Federation of Students-Ontario.

Sandra Hudson is a Toronto-based organizer, political strategist, writer and abolition activist. Sandy is the founder of the Black Lives Matter movement presence in Canada and Black Lives Matter – Toronto.

FRENEMY NATIONS Love and Hate between Neighbo(u)ring States MARY SODERSTROMLI How can neighbours that are side by side geographically be so far apart politically, culturally, ideologically, and economically?

In Frenemy Nations, Soderstrom answers this question by addressing a range of geographical “odd couples”: including the United States and Canada; New Hampshire and Vermont; Alberta and Saskatchewan; Haiti and the Dominican Republic; Scotland and Ireland; Rwanda and Burundi; and more. Through it all, Soderstrom shows how tiny differences—in geographic features, colonial histories, resource competition, education, women’s roles, language, and migration—can have outsized effects on how polities develop.

October 2019 276 pages • 6 x 9 27 black & white illustrations Mary Soderstrom is the author of numerous books, including Road Paper • $24.95S Through Time: The Story of Humanity on the Move and Desire Lines: 978-0-8897-7672-2 Stories of Love and Geography. She lives in Montréal.

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LIVE ONES SADIE MCCARNEY “Crosses between the quotidian and the fantastical…these poems hook you with the first line.”

—Kathy Mac, author of Human Misunderstanding

Sadie McCarney’s first full-length poetry collection grapples with mourning, coming of age, and queer identity against the backdrop of rural and small-town Atlantic Canada. Ranging from pelletgunned backyard butterflies to a chorus of encroaching ghosts, Live Ones celebrates the personal and idiosyncratic aspects of death, seeing them as intimately wedded to lives well-lived.

Personal myth-making collides with grocery shopping, ancient history turns out to be alive and well in modern-day Milford, Nova Scotia, and the complexities of queer female desire call out to us from beyond the grave.

In McCarney’s exuberant imagination, the past, present, and future rarely stay where they’re put.

Sadie McCarney’s poetry has appeared in Plenitude, Grain, Prairie Fire, The Malahat Review, The Puritan, Room, and The Best Canadian Poetry in English, among other places. This is her first book.

September 2019 72 pages • 5.5 x 8.5 Paper • $ 16.95T 978-0-8897-7650-0 Cloth • $89.00X 978-0-8897-7675-3 In Oskana Poetry & Poetics Poetry University of Regina Press

PERFORMING TURTLE ISLAND Indigenous Theatre on the World Stage Edited by JESSE RAE ARCHIBALD-BARBER, KATHLEEN IRWIN, and MOIRA J. DAY Views theatre performance as both a mode of empowerment and self-determination and a way of placing Indigenous performance in dialogue with other nations, both on the shores of Turtle Island and on the world stage.

Examining how Indigenous identities and communities inform the aesthetic used to construct and express land, community, and identity, Performing Turtle Island opens up discussion around Indigenous theatre and performance practices, considering current work by artists and academics from multidisciplinary and multicultural perspectives.

Ultimately, this anthology envisions a space of creativity, knowledge practice, criticality and unknowing meant for performers and audiences alike.

Jesse Rae Archibald-Barber is an associate professor of Indigenous literatures at First Nations University of Canada in Regina.

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PrEP, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Barebacking Edited by RICKY VARGHESE Afterword by TIM DEAN How is the practice of barebacking understood and represented across media, theory, and policy?

Marking the tenth anniversary of Tim Dean’s seminal work Unlimited Intimacies, Raw returns to the question of sex without condoms, or barebacking, a timely topic in the age of PrEP, a drug that virtually eliminates the transmission of HIV.

Ricky Varghese has a PhD in sociology of education from the University of Toronto and runs a private practice as a psychotherapist.

He lives in Toronto.

Tim Dean is a British philosopher and author, scholar of queer theory, and professor of English at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign.

Shedding light on some of the most prescient questions regarding sexuality in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, the authors in Raw push Dean’s conclusions and show the urgent need to consider condomless sex, as it is still illegal for HIV-positive people in many jurisdictions.

“Significantly broadens the field of scholarship on bareback, notably by including pieces on bareback in heterosexual pornography, by making connections with lesbian and BDSM identities and practices, and by discussing the experience of Black bareback bottoms and treating sex education considerations.”

—Oliver Davis, author of Jacques Rancière “Opens up the discourse on barebacking to a variety of perspectives and theoretical arguments, and makes clear that the topic remains relevant, unsettled, and shifting in response to a series of changing cirumstances that require thinkers to address the latter’s effects on the subject.”

—John Paul Ricco, author of The Decision Between Us

November 2019 288 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • 978-0-8897-7683-8 • $29.95S Cloth • 978-0-8897-7686-9 • $89.00X In Exquisite Corpse series LGBT Studies University of Regina Press

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Richard Van Camp on Storytelling RICHARD VAN CAMP Master storyteller and bestselling author Richard Van Camp on how to tell a good story Gathering around a campfire, or the dinner table, we humans have always told stories. Through the stories we tell, we define our own identities and shape our understanding of the world. Master storyteller and bestselling author Richard Van Camp writes of the power of storytelling and its potential to transform both the speaker and the audience in Gather. Describing the elements required to make a story, he offers insights into how to read a room, how to capture the attention of listeners, how to create community through storytelling, and how to banish loneliness. A member of the Tlicho Dene First Nation, Van Camp includes stories from Elders whose wisdom influenced him.

Richard Van Camp is the author of over twenty books, including the Eisner-nominated graphic novel A Blanket of Butterflies. His bestselling novel The Lesser Blessed is a critically acclaimed motion picture.

February 2020 220 pages • 5 x 8.5 Paper • 978-0-8897-7700-2 • $14.95T In the Writers on Writing series Literary Studies University of Regina Press

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THE WORLD LOOKS LIKE THIS FROM HERE Thoughts on African Psychology KOPANO RATELE Builds a compelling case for thinking and doing psychology differently in and for Africa

Kopano Ratele is Professor in the Institute of Social and Health Sciences at the University of South Africa (UNISA) and researcher in the South African Medical Research CouncilUNISA Violence, Injury & Peace Research Unit. His books include There Was This Goat: Investigating the Truth Commission Testimony of Notrose Nobomvu Konile (with Antjie Krog and Nosisi Mpolweni, 2009), Liberating Masculinities (2016), Engaging Youth in Activism, Research and Pedagogical Praxis: Transnational and Intersectional Perspectives on Gender, Sex, and Race (coedited with Jeff Hearn, Tammy Shefer, and Floretta Boonzaier, 2018).

September 2019 246 pages Paper • 978-1-7761-4390-0 • $30.00S Cloth • 978-1-7761-4394-8 • $89.00X Psychology Wits University Press

What does the world look like from Africa? What does it mean to think, feel, express without apology for being African? How does one teach society and children to be African—with full consciousness and pride? In institutions of learning, what would a textbook on African— centred psychology look like? How do researchers and practitioners engage in African social psychology, African-centred child development, African neuropsychology, or any area of psychology that situates African realities at the centre?

Questions such as these are what Kopano Ratele grapples with in this lyrical, philosophical and poetic treatise on practising African psychology in a decolonised world view. Employing a style common in philosophy but rarely used in psychology, the book offers thoughts about the ideas, contestation, urgency and desire around a psychological practice in Africa for Africans. Writing against the universal application of a Western model of psychology, which is unreflective about its locatedness even as it pushes Africa to the margins, Ratele urges readers to engage and think deeply about new ways of seeing and thinking about the self and others.

While setting out a framework for researching, teaching and practicing African psychology, the book in part coaxes, in part commands and in part urges students of psychology, lecturers, researchers and therapists to reconsider and reach beyond their received notions of African psychology.

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BEING-BLACK-INTHE-WORLD New Edition

N. CHABANI MANGANYI An annotated edition of a classic text by South Africa's first black psychologist, a collection of essays reflecting on what it meant to be black during the apartheid years.

Being-Black-in-the-World, one of N. Chabani Manganyi’s first publications, was written in 1973 at a time of global socio-political change and renewed resistance to the brutality of apartheid rule and the emergence of Black Consciousness in the mid-1960s. Manganyi is one of South Africa’s most eminent intellectuals and an astute social and political observer.

While the essays in this book are clearly situated in the material and social conditions of that time, they also have a timelessness that speaks to our contemporary concerns regarding black subjectivity, affectivity and corporeality, the persistence of a racial (and racist) order and the possibilities of a renewed de-colonial project.

Each of these short essays can be read as selfcontained reflections on what it meant to be black during the apartheid years. Manganyi is a master of understatement, and yet this does not stop him from making incisive political criticisms of black subjugation under apartheid.

Ahead of its time, the ideas in this book are an exemplary demonstration of what a thoroughgoing and rigorous de-colonial critique should entail. The re-publication of this classic text is enriched by the inclusion of a foreword and annotation by respected scholars Garth Stevens and Grahame Hayes respectively, and an afterword by public intellectual Njabulo S. Ndebele.

N Chabani Manganyi is a clinical psychologist, writer, theorist and critic of biography. He served as Director-General in the Department of Education from 1994-1999 and was Vice-Principal of the University of Pretoria from 2003-2006.

He has published widely, notably books on artists Dumile Feni and on Gerard Sekoto (Gerard Sekoto: ‘I am an African'), and on Es’kia Mphahlele, Bury me at the Marketplace, Es’kia Mphahlele and Company.

Letters 1943-2006 (with David Attwell).

In 2018 Manganyi’s book Apartheid and the Making of a Black Psychologist: A Memoir was the winner of the prestigious ASSAf 2018 (The Academy of Science of South Africa) Humanities Book Award.

September 2019 152 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • 978-1-7761-4368-9 • $30.00A Cloth • 978-1-7761-4462-4 • $89.00X Political Science | Race and Ethnicity Wits University Press

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WHAT EVERY ENVIRONMENTALIST NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT CAPITALISM FRED MAGDOFF; JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER $16.00S • Paper 978-1-5836-7241-9 Monthly Review Press

LEARNING TO DIE Wisdom in the Age of Climate Crisis ROBERT BRINGHURST; JAN ZWICKY $14.95T • Paper 978-0-8897-7563-3 University of Regina Press

FACING THE ANTHROPOCENE Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System IAN ANGUS $19.00S • Paper 978-1-5836-7609-7 Monthly Review Press

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THE CLIMATE CRISIS South African and Global Democratic Eco-Socialist Alternatives VISHWAS SATGAR $40.00S • Paper 978-1-7761-4054-1 Wits University Press

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"Save My Kid"..........................34 Abrams, Jeanne E. ..................18 Albo, Greg ..............................52 Alexander, Nathan .................42 Ali, Mohamed Abdulkarim ..59 Amanik, Allan M. ..................42 American Fatherhood ...........17 Angry Queer Somali Boy ......59 Archibald-Barber, Jesse Rae..61 Archiving an Epidemic .........31 Austin, Paula C. ......................21 Avidly Reads Board Games.....5 Avidly Reads Making Out .......5 Avidly Reads Theory ................5 Bader, Christopher D.............39 Baker, Joseph O.......................39 Banned ....................................10 Barton, Benjamin H...............11 Battle of the Negro Fort, The ..1 Baumgartner, Kabria .............19 Being-Black-in-the-World ....65 Between Two Revolutions.....54 Beyond Hashtags....................28 Beyond Market Dystopia ......52 Black Lives Matter in the Great White North............................60 Blocher, Joseph .......................26 Borer, Michael Ian..................37 Brock, André..........................27 Buck, Pem Davidson..............53 Bunyasi, Tehama Lopez ...........3 Camenietzski, Shalom ...........58 Camming.................................36 Carver, Ron .............................55 Chen, Alan K. .........................26 Clark, Brett ..............................50 Clavin, Matthew J. ....................1 Cockshott, Paul ......................52 Coming of Age in Jim Crow..21 DC Cook, Daniel Thomas ............33 Cops, Cameras, and Crisis ....15 Cortright, David .....................55 Curtis, Edward E. IV...............24 Daniels Gilda R.........................2 Day, L. Edward .......................39 Day, Moira J.............................61 Dean, Tim ...............................62 Demaine, Linda J....................14 Digital City, The......................28 Discourses, TheStearns, Justin...46 Distributed Blackness ............27 Diverlus, Rodney....................60 Doherty, Barbara ....................55 Duane, Anna Mae ....................7 Dust to Dust............................42 Ecology of Childhood, The ...25 Ecopiety ...................................38 Educated for Freedom .............7 Escudero, Kevin .....................34 Excellence of the Arabs, The ....48 Fear Itself .................................39 Feasting and Fasting ..............41 Federal Right to Education, A..23

Ferguson, Andrew Guthrie ...15 Fickle, Tara ..............................29 Film as Religion, 2nd edition .43 Fixing Law Schools ................11 Fixing Parental Leave...............8 Florence of America ..............57 Florini, Sarah ..........................28 Forrest, Krista D. ....................14 Foster, John Bellamy ........50, 51 Framed by War .......................33 Free Speech without Words ..26 Freeman, Jean .........................57 Frenemy Nations ....................60 Frist Ladies of the Republic ..18 Frottage ...................................31 Fuhr, Zoe .................................12 Gasser, Erika ...........................18 Gather ......................................63 Gengler, Amanda M. .............34 Goedde, Petra .........................17 Gordon, Ann...........................39 Goyal, Yogita ...........................32 Graves, Kori A.........................19 Gross, Aaron S. .......................41 Guadalupe-Diaz, Xavier L.....16 Gurock, Jeffrey S.......................6 Gurock, Jeffrey S.....................40 Halegoua, Germaine R. .........28 Hernández, Robb ...................31 Hinder, Paul ............................48 How the World Works ..........52 Hudson, Sandra ......................60 Hune, Shirley ..........................20 In My Own Moccasins ..........58 In Pursuit of Knowledge .......19 Irwin, Kathleen ......................61 Jacobs, James B. ......................12 James, Florence Bean .............57 Jenkins, Henry ........................30 Jews of Harlem, the ...............40 Jews on the Frontier ...............42 Jones, Angela ..........................30 Kaufman, Gayle ........................8 Khanna, Nikki...........................9 Kids Are in Charge, The ........35 Knott, Helen............................58 Lakkimsetti, Chaitanya..........26 Legalizing Sex .........................26 Legath, Jenny Wiley................44 Lewinsohn-Zamir, Daphna...14 Light in the Heavens ..............48 Listener, The ...........................56 Live Ones.................................61 Luden, John C,........................43 Lutz, Catherine .......................13 Macharia, Keguro...................31 Malm, Aili ...............................15 Manganyi, N. Chabani ..........65 Martschukat, Jürgen ..............17 Mazzarino, Andrea ................13 McCarney, Sadie.....................61 Meijer, Eva...............................36 Moral Project of Childhood,

The............................................33 Muslim American Politics and the Future of US Democracy..24 Myers, Jody .............................41 Myers, Joshua M.....................22 Neal, Lynn S. ...........................45 Nomura, Gail M. ....................20 Oore, Irene ..............................56 Orfali, Bilal .............................47 Organizing While Undocumented.......................34 Our Voices, Our Histories ....20 Panitch, Leo ............................52 Parkchester ................................6 Performing Turtle Island.......61 Peters-Lazaro, Gabriel ...........44 Philosopher Responds, The ..47 Pinsker, Shachar M.................40 Pomerantz, Maurice A...........47 Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination.............................30 Protest and Dissent ................23 Psychology of Property Law, The............................................14 Punishment Monopoly, The..53 Qutbuddin, Tahera.................48 Rabin, Shari.............................42 Race Card, The........................29 Race in a Godless World .......20 Rahmani-Nejad, Nasser ........54 Ratele, Kopano........................64 Raw...........................................62 Realist Ecstasy.........................32 Reckson, Lindsay V. ...............32 Religion in Vogue...................45 Return of Nature, The.............51 Rich Brew, A ...........................40 Rise of Big Data Policing, The..15 Robbery of Nature, The .........50 Robinson, Eden ......................58 Robinson, Kimberly Jenkins .23 Rosenblum, Jordan D.............41 Runaway Genres.....................32 Saito, Natsu Taylor .................25 Sanctified Sisters.....................44 Savant, Sarah Bowen..............48 Schwartzberg, Melissa ...........23 Settler Colonialism, Race, and the Law.....................................25 Shamrocks and Oil Slicks......50 Shresthova, Sangita ................30 Skidmore, Emily......................17 Smith, Candis Watts.................3 Soderstrom, Mary...................60 Stay Woke ..................................3 Stein, Jordan Alexander...........5 Stern, Stephanie M. ................14 Stockton, Kathryn Bond..........5 Taft, Jessica K...........................35 Tajrid sayf al-himmah li-stikhraj ma fi dhimmat aldhimmah .................................49 Taylor, Sarah McFarland .......38

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SEPTEMBER The Battle of Negro Fort Matthew J. Clavin | 1 Stay Woke Tehama Lopez Bunyasi, Candis Watts | 3 Banned Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia | 10 New in Paperback The Trans Generation Ann Travers | 16 New in Paperback True Sex Emily Skidmore | 17 Race in a Godless World Nathan Alexander | 20 The Kids Are in Charge Jessica K. Taft | 35 New in Paperback A Rich Brew Shachar M. Pinsker | 40 Library of Arabic Literature The Excellence of the Arabs Sarah Bowen Savant, Peter Webb | 48

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Library of Arabic Literature Tajrid sayf al-himmah li-stikhraj ma fi dhimmat al-dhimmah Luke Yarbrough | 49

University of Regina Press Performing Turtle Island Jesse Rae Archibald-Barber, Kathleen Irwin, and Moira J. Day | 61

Monthly Review Press Shamrocks and Oil Slicks Fred A. Wilcox | 49

Wits University Press The World Looks Like This From Here Kopano Ratele | 64

New Village Press Waging Peace in Vietnam Ron Carver, David Cortright and Barbara Doherty | 55

Wits University Press Being-Black-in-the-World N. Chabani Manganyi | 65

Avidly Reads Theory Jordan Alexander Stein | 5 Avidly Reads Making Out Kathryn Bond Stockton | 5 Avidly Reads Board Games Eric Thurm | 5 Parkchester Jeffrey S. Gurock | 6 Transgressed Xavier L. Guadalupe-Diaz | 16 Runaway Genres Yogita Goyal | 32

University of Regina Press The Listener Irene Oore | 56

Vegas Brews Michael Ian Borer | 37

University of Regina Press Florence of America Florence Bean James | 57

New in Paperback The Jews of Harlem Jeffrey S. Gurock | 40

University of Regina Press In My Own Moccasins Helen Knott | 58

Sanctified Sisters Jenny Wiley Legath | 44

University of Regina Press Live Ones Sadie McCarney | 61

Library of Arabic Literature The Philosopher Responds, V 1 and 2 Bilal Orfali, Maurice A. Pomerantz, Sophia Vasalou | 47

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New in Paperback Vexed with Devils Erika Gasser | 18

Fixing Parental Leave Gayle Kaufman | 8

Dust to Dust Allan M. Amanik | 42

Uncounted Gilda R. Daniels | 2

Fixing Law Schools Benjamin H. Barton | 11

Monthly Review Press The Return of Nature John Bellamy Foster | 51

Educated for Freedom Anna Mae Duane | 7

Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC Paula C. Austin | 21 A Federal Right to Education Kimberly Jenkins Robinson | 23 Muslim American Politics and the Future of US Democracy Edward E. Curtis IV | 24 New in Paperback Jews on the Frontier Shari Rabin | 42 Religion in Vogue Lynn S. Neal | 45 Library of Arabic Literature The Discourses Justin Stearns | 46 Monthly Review Press Beyond Market Dystopia Leo Panitch, Greg Albo | 52

American Fatherhood JĂźrgen Martschukat, Petra Goedde | 17 In Pursuit of Knowledge Kabria Baumgartner | 19 We Are Worth Fighting For Joshua M. Myers | 22 The Ecology of Childhood Barbara Bennett Woodhouse | 25 Legalizing Sex Chaitanya Lakkimsetti | 26 The Digital City Germaine R. Halegoua | 28 Beyond Hashtags Sarah Florini | 28 Realist Ecstasy Lindsay V. Reckson | 32 "Save My Kid" Amanda M. Gengler | 34 Feasting and Fasting Aaron S. Gross, Jody Myers, Jordan D. Rosenblum | 41

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University of Regina Press When Madness Strikes When Madness Strike | 58

Whiter Nikki Khanna | 9 Psychology of Property Law Daphna Lewinsohn-Zamir, Stephanie M. Stern | 14 Understanding Police Interrogation Krista D. Forrest, William Douglas Woody | 14 Cops, Cameras, and Crisis Michael D. White, Aili Malm | 15 A War Born Family Kori A. Graves | 19 Our Voices, Our Histories Shirley Hune, Gail M. Nomura | 20 Protest and Dissent Melissa Schwartzberg | 23 Settler Colonialism, Race, and the Law Natsu Taylor Saito | 25

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NOVEMBER Monthly Review Press How the World Works Paul Cockshott | 52 University of Regina Press Angry Queer Somali Boy Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali | 59 University of Regina Press Frenemy Nations Mary Soderstrom | 60

The Toughest Gun Control Law in the Nation James B. Jacobs, Zoe Fuhr | 12

Ecopiety Sarah McFarland Taylor | 38

War and Health Catherine Lutz, Andrea Mazzarino | 13

Light in the Heavens Tahera Qutbuddin | 48

New in Paperback The Rise of Big Data Policing Andrew Guthrie Ferguson | 15 New in Paperback First Ladies of the Republic Jeanne E. Abrams Jeanne E. Abrams | 18 The Race Card Tara Fickle | 29 Archiving an Epidemic Robb Hernández | 31 Frottage Keguro Macharia | 31 Framed by War Susie Woo | 33 When Animals Speak Eva Meijer | 36

New in Paperback Free Speech beyond Words Mark V. Tushnet, Alan K. Chen and Joseph Blocher | 26 Distributed Blackness André Brock | 27 Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination Henry Jenkins, Gabriel Peters-Lazaro, Sangita Shresthova | 30 The Moral Project of Childhood Daniel Thomas Cook | 33 Organizing While Undocumented Kevin Escudero | 34 Camming Angela Jones | 36 Fear Itself Christopher D. Bader, Joseph O. Baker, Ann Gordon, L. Edward Day | 39 Monthly Review Press The Robbery of Nature John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark | 49

University of Regina Press Black Lives Matter in the Great White North Syrus Marcus Ware, Rodney Diverlus, and Sandra Hudson | 60 University of Regina Press Gather Richard Van Camp | 63

Film as Religion, 2nd edition John C. Lyden | 43

Monthly Review Press The Punishment Monopoly Pem Davidson Buck | 53 New Village Press Between Two Revolutions Nasser Rahmani-Nejad | 54 University of Regina Press Raw Ricky Varghese, Tim Dean | 62

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