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HIGHLIGHTS UNINSURED IN CHICAGO
LATINO TV A History
Mary Beltrán
How the Social Safety Net Leaves Latinos Behind
The history of Latina/o participation and representation in American television
Robert Vargas
Why millions of Latinx people don’t access the healthcare system, even in times of need
In Critical Cultural Communication
In Latina/o Sociology
224 PG | PAPER | 9781479807147 | $26
264 PG | PAPER | 9781479833894 | $30
GROWING UP LATINX
THE QUEER NUYORICAN
Coming of Age in a Time of Contested Citizenship
Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida
Jesica Siham Fernández
Winner, Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award of the Section on Children and Youth, given by the American Sociological Association Latinx children navigating identity, citizenship, and belonging in a divided America 239 PG | PAPER | 9781479801220 | $30
In Critical Perspectives on Youth
Karen Jaime
A queer genealogy of the famous performance space and the nuyorican aesthetic In Performance and American Cultures
224 PG | PAPER | 9781479808298 | $28
CRITICAL DIALOGUES IN LATINX STUDIES
FAITH AND POWER
Edited by Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas and Mérida M. Rúa
Edited by Felipe Hinojosa, Maggie Elmore and Sergio M. González
Latino Religious Politics Since 1945
A Reader
Illuminates how religion has shaped Latino politics and community building
Introduces new approaches, theoretical trends, and understudied topics in Latinx Studies
592 PG | PAPER | 9781479805211 | $45
352 PG | PAPER | 9781479804528 | $35
LATCRIT
UNACCOMPANIED
Francisco Valdes and Steven W. Bender
Emily Ruehs-Navarro
Examines LatCrit’s emergence as a scholarly and activist community within and beyond the US legal academy
Explores how humanitarian aid workers help and hinder the care of unaccompanied children as they arrive in the United States
In Latina/o Sociology
In Critical Perspectives on Youth
From Critical Legal Theory to Academic Activism
224 PG | PAPER | 9781479809301 | $27
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The Plight of Immigrant Youth at the Border
245 PG | PAPER | 9781479838615 | $28
LATINA/O SOCIOLOGY SERIES SOUTH CENTRAL DREAMS
LATINAS IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Finding Home and Building Community in South L.A.
Victims, Targets, and Offenders
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Manuel Pastor
Edited by Vera Lopez and Lisa Pasko
Winner of the 2022 Latino/a Section Best Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association Race, place, and identity in a changing urban America 352 PG | PAPER | 9781479807970 | $32
How Latina girls and women become entangled in the criminal justice system
384 PG | PAPER | 9781479891962 | $35
BUILDING A BETTER CHICAGO
FRONT OF THE HOUSE, BACK OF THE HOUSE
Race and Community Resistance to Urban Redevelopment
Race and Inequality in the Lives of Restaurant Workers
Teresa Irene Gonzales
Eli Revelle Yano Wilson
How local Black and Brown communities can resist gentrification and fight for their interests
224 PG | PAPER | 9781479814886 | $30
2021 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine How workers navigate race, gender, and class in the food service industry 224 PG | PAPER | 9781479800629 | $28
ORGANIZING WHILE UNDOCUMENTED
KIDS AT WORK
Latinx Families Selling Food on the Streets of Los Angeles
Immigrant Youth’s Political Activism under the Law
Emir Estrada
Kevin Escudero
Finalist, 2020 C. Wright Mills Award, given by the Society for the Study of Social Problems An inspiring look inside immigrant youth’s political activism in perilous times
208 PG | PAPER | 9781479834150 | $27
224 PG | PAPER | 9781479873708 | $28
IMMIGRANTS UNDER THREAT
CITIZENS BUT NOT AMERICANS
Greg Prieto
Nilda Flores-González
Risk and Resistance in Deportation Nation
256 PG | PAPER | 9781479821464 | $29
Winner, 2020 Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award, given by the Children and Youth Section of the American Sociological Association How Latinx kids and their undocumented parents struggle in the informal street food economy
Co-Winner, 2019 Latina/o Section Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association A portrait of two Mexican immigrant communities confronting threats of deportation, detention, and dispossession
Race and Belonging among Latino Millennials An exploration of how race shapes Latino millennials’ notions of national belonging
208 PG | PAPER | 9781479840779 | $27
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HISTORY SUGAR, CIGARS, AND REVOLUTION
THE WAR ON DRUGS A History
Edited by David Farber
The Making of Cuban New York
A revealing look at the history and legacy of the “War on Drugs”
Lisandro Pérez
Winner, 2020 Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York history The dramatic story of the origins of the Cuban community in nineteenthcentury New York 400 PG | PAPER | 9780814767283 | $24
368 PG | PAPER | 9781479811366 | $30
CHURCH OF THE DEAD
OPEN HEARTS, CLOSED DOORS
Jennifer Scheper Hughes
Nicholas T. Pruitt
The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas
Immigration Reform and the Waning of Mainline Protestantism
Tells the story of the founding of American Christianity against the backdrop of devastating disease, and of the Indigenous survivors who kept the nascent faith alive 264 PG | CLOTH | 9781479802555 | $35
In North American Religions
A history of mainline Protestant responses to immigrants and refugees during the twentieth century
296 PG | CLOTH | 9781479803545 | $45
History THE COMPLEXITIES OF RACE
THE COLORS OF LOVE Multiracial People in Interracial Relationships
Identity, Power, and Justice in an Evolving America
Melinda A. Mills
How multiracial people navigate the complexities of race and love
Edited by Charmaine L. Wijeyesinghe
Illuminates how recent shifts in demographics, policy, culture and thinking have changed how race is understood today
304 PG | PAPER | 9781479801411 | $30
320 PG | PAPER | 9781479802418 | $30
THE COLOR OF CRIME Racial Hoaxes, White Crime, Media Messages, Police Violence, and Other RaceBased Harms Katheryn Russell-Brown
How we can understand race, crime, and punishment in the age of Black Lives Matter
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256 PG | PAPER | 9781479843152 | $29
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CULTURE BORDER OPTICS
QUEER CARNIVAL
Camilla Fojas
Amy L. Stone
Surveillance Cultures on the US-Mexico Frontier
Festivals and Mardi Gras in the South
Examines how the US-Mexico border is seen through visual codes of surveillance
The importance of citywide festivals like Mardi Gras and Fiesta for the LGBTQ community
In Critical Cultural Communication
208 PG | PAPER | 9781479807017 | $28
280 PG | PAPER | 9781479801985 | $30
RACE AND MEDIA
ARCHIVING AN EPIDEMIC
Critical Approaches
Edited by Lori Kido Lopez
Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde
A foundational collection of essays that demonstrate how to study race and media
Robb Hernández
Winner, 2020 Latino Book Awards in the LGBTQ+ Themed Section Critically reimagines Chicanx art, unmasking its queer afterlife
In Critical Cultural Communication
In Sexual Cultures 344 PG | PAPER | 9781479889310 | $30
320 PG | PAPER | 9781479820832 | $29
THE KIDS ARE IN CHARGE
RACIAL IMMANENCE Chicanx Bodies beyond Representation
Activism and Power in Peru’s Movement of Working Children
Marissa K. López
Jessica K. Taft
Details the possibilities and challenges of intergenerational activism and social movements In Critical Perspectives on Youth
272 PG | PAPER | 9781479854509 | $30
208 PG | PAPER | 9781479813902 | $28
Winner, 2021 NACCS Book Award, given by the National Association for Chicano and Chicana Studies Explores the how, why, and what of contemporary Chicanx culture, including punk rock, literary fiction, photography, mass graves, and digital and experimental installation art
IT CAN HAPPEN HERE White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US Alexander Laban Hinton
A renowned expert on genocide argues that there is a real risk of violent atrocities happening in the United States
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304 PG | PAPER | ISBN | $20
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GREAT FOR COURSES CREOLE RELIGIONS OF THE CARIBBEAN
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Margarite Fernández Olmos and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
Gilda R. Daniels
An updated introduction to the religions developed in the Caribbean region
An answer to the assault on voting rights—crucial reading in light of the 2020 presidential election
In Religion, Race, and Ethnicity
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The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America
An Introduction
384 PG | PAPER | 9781479803484 | $30
272 PG | PAPER | 9781479811984 | $17
BANNED
POLICING THE RACIAL DIVIDE
Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump
Urban Growth Politics and the Remaking of Segregation
Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia
Winner, 2020 Best Book Award, Law Category, given by the American Book Fest Examines immigration enforcement and discretion during the first eighteen months of the Trump administration
Daanika Gordon
A behind-the-scenes account of the harsh realities of policing in a segregated city
232 PG | PAPER | 9781479857463 | $30
288 PG | PAPER | 9781479814053 | $30
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PERCHANCE TO DREAM
Race and Community Resistance to School Reform
A Legal and Political History of the DREAM Act and DACA
Hava Rachel Gordon
How local educational justice movements wrestle with neoliberal school reform
Michael A. Olivas
The first comprehensive history of the DREAM Act and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) In Citizenship and Migration in the Americas
312 PG | PAPER | 9781479890057 | $30
352 PG | PAPER | 9781479878284 | $35
ILLEGAL ENCOUNTERS
PUNISHED
Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys
The Effect of Detention and Deportation on Young People
Victor M. Rios
2012 Best Book Award, Latino/a Sociology Section, presented by the American Sociological Association A classic ethnography that reveals how urban police criminalize black and Latino boys
Edited by Deborah A. Boehm and Susan J. Terrio
The impact of the U.S. immigration and legal systems on children and youth
256 PG | PAPER | 9781479861071 | $30
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In New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law
PARTNER PRESSES RISKING A SOMERSAULT IN THE AIR
¡BRIGADISTAS!
An American Anti-Fascist in the Spanish Civil War Miguel Ferguson and Fraser M. Ottanelli
Conversations with Nicaraguan Writers
Three American friends set off from Brooklyn to join in the fight—determined to make Spain “the tomb of fascism” for the sake of us all
Margaret Randall
240 PG | PAPER | 9781613321829 | $23
First revised edition of interviews with 14 prominent activists whose writings influenced the 1979 Nicaraguan revolution and help us understand presentday Nicaragua
Published by Monthly Review Press 120 PG | PAPER | 9781583679609 | $18
Published by New Village Press
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Scholars and the Fight against Industrial Agribusiness in California
The U.S. Empire, the Media, and Twenty Years of Coup Attempts in Venezuela
Daniel J. O’Connell and Scott J. Peters
Justin Podur and Joe Emersberger
A call to action in an ongoing battle against industrial agriculture
The US foreign policy decisions behind six coup attempts against the Venezuelan government – and Venezuela’s heightening precarity 248 PG | PAPER | 9781583679166 | $25
Published by Monthly Review Press
Published by New Village Press 368 PG | PAPER | 9781613321225 | $25
CUBAN HEALTH CARE
CUBA AND AFRICA, 1959-1994
The Ongoing Revolution Don Fitz
Writing an alternative Atlantic history
How the Cuban health care system became the blueprint for accessible medical care around the world
Edited by Kali Argyriadis, Giulia Bonacci and Adrien Delmas
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296 PG | PAPER | 9781583678602 | $26
Published by Wits University Press
344 PG | PAPER | 9781776146338 | $35
IN THE COMPANY OF REBELS
VENEZUELA, THE PRESENT AS STRUGGLE
A Generational Memoir of Bohemians, Deep Heads, and History Makers
Voices from the Bolivarian Revolution
Chellis Glendinning
Cira Pascual Marquina and Chris Gilbert
Meetings with remarkable activists since the 1960s
Reveals the revolutionary power of the Chavista grassroots movement
Published by New Village Press
Published by Monthly Review Press 288 PG | PAPER | 9781613320952 | $25
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