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HIGHLIGHTS NORMPORN

THE TWO REVOLUTIONS

Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us Karen Tongson

A History of the Transgender Internet Avery Dame-Griff

An irreverent look at the love-hate relationship between queer viewers and mainstream family TV shows like Gilmore Girls and This Is Us 216 PP | PAPER | $20 9781479846511

In Postmillennial Pop

The internet origins of the American transgender movement In Queer / Trans / Digital 272 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479818310

AVIDLY READS SCREEN TIME

THE DIGITAL DEPARTED

How We Face Death, Commemorate Life, and Chase Virtual Immortality Timothy Recuber

Phillip Maciak

“Original and thoughtprovoking. Maciak’s willingness to defend screen time refreshes.

Readers will want to tune in to this.”

—Publishers Weekly 168 PP | PAPER | $15 9781479820573

What happens when screen time is all the time?

A fascinating exploration of the social meaning of digital death

288 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479814961

FANDOM IS UGLY

THE NEW TRUE CRIME

Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture Mel Stanfill

How the Rise of Serialized Storytelling Is Transforming Innocence Diana Rickard

Highlights why it’s important to think about contemporary public culture through the lens of fan studies

272 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479824960

In Critical Cultural Communication

How serialized crime shows became an American obsession In Alternative Criminology 304 PP | CLOTH | $30 9781479816040

THE UNINTENDED

CONNECTING AFTER CHAOS

Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism Monica Huerta

Social Media and the Extended Aftermath of Disaster Stephen F. Ostertag

Reimagines photography through the long history of ideas of expression In America and the Long 19th Century 328 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479812400

240 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479815319

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A riveting portrait of how one community used the power of culture to restore their lives and social connections in the years after a devastating natural disaster

CRITICAL CULTURAL COMMUNICATION SERIES CHINESE CREATOR ECONOMIES

STREAMING VIDEO

Labor and Bilateral Creative Workers Jian Lin

Storytelling Across Borders Edited by Amanda D. Lotz and Ramon Lobato

The paradoxical relationship between Chinese creative workers and the state

An international team of experts explores how streaming services are disrupting traditional storytelling.

240 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479811885

376 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479816842

DIGITAL UNSETTLING

THE DIGITAL BORDER

Decoloniality and Dispossession in the Age of Social Media Sahana Udupa and Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan

Migration, Technology, Power Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou Explores the role of technologies and platforms in the transformation of the border

How digital networks are positioned within the enduring structures of coloniality 264 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479819157

256 PP | PAPER | $29 9781479873401

LATINO TV

THE IDENTITY TRADE

A History Mary Beltrán

Selling Privacy and Reputation Online Nora A. Draper

The history of Latina/o participation and representation in American television

264 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479833894

The successes and failures of an industry that claims to protect and promote our online identities

256 PP | PAPER | $26 9781479811922

DIGITAL BLACK FEMINISM

BORDER OPTICS

Surveillance Cultures on the US-Mexico Frontier Camilla Fojas

Catherine Knight Steele Winner, 2022 Nancy Baym Book Award, given by the Association of Internet Researchers

208 PP | PAPER | $27 9781479808380

Traces the longstanding relationship between technology and Black feminist thought

Examines how the USMexico border is seen through visual codes of surveillance

208 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479807017

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POSTMILLENNIAL POP SERIES UNBELONGING

SONIC SOVEREIGNTY

Inauthentic Sounds in Mexican and Latinx Aesthetics Iván A. Ramos

Hip Hop, Indigeneity, and Shifting Popular Music Mainstreams Liz Przybylski

How Latinx artists engage in sonic subcultures to reject neoliberal definitions of belonging

240 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479808465

What does sovereignty sound like?

328 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479816927

THE PRIVILEGE OF PLAY

STYLE

A Queer Cosmology Taylor Black

A History of Hobby Games, Race, and Geek Culture Aaron Trammell

Assembles texts, performances, and personae from American culture to assert the elemental nature of style

The story of white masculinity in geek culture through a history of hobby gaming 240 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479818402

304 PP | PAPER | $35 9781479825004

HIP HOP HERESIES

THE REVOLUTION WILL BE HILARIOUS

Queer Aesthetics in New York City Shanté Paradigm Smalls

Comedy for Social Change and Civic Power Caty Borum

An examination of the relationship between blackness, queerness, and hip hop in New York City from 1975 to present 216 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479808205

An insider’s look at the power of comedy to effect social change 280 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479810833

DIGITAL MASQUERADE

THE DARK FANTASTIC

Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China Jia Tan

Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

Charts a new wave of feminist and queer media activism in postmillennial China

208 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479811847

Winner, 2022 Children’s Literature Association Book Award

240 PP | PAPER | $20 9781479806072

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“Radiant and thoughtprovoking.”

—LA Review of Books

RACE AND ETHNICITY BOTTOMS UP

BLACK PATIENCE

Queer Mexicanness and Latinx Performance Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gomez

Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation Julius B. Fleming Jr.

Proposes a queer way to be in the world and with others

A bold rethinking of the Civil Rights Movement through the lens of Black theater

In Sexual Cultures 272 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479829156

312 PP | PAPER | $29 9781479806843

KEEPING IT UNREAL

CRITICAL RACE THEORY, FOURTH EDITION

Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics Darieck Scott

An Introduction Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic

Explores Black representation in fantasy genres and comic books

A new edition of a seminal text in Critical Race Theory

In Sexual Cultures 280 PP | PAPER | $29 9781479824144

In Critical America 224 PP | PAPER | $20 9781479818259

JUMP

BROKEN

Black Anarchism and Antiblack Carcerality Sam C. Tenorio

The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion Evelyn Alsultany

Asks how we can better understand a politics of refusal

“To gain understanding and achieve true allyship, this is an essential title to read.”

—Library Journal (starred)

208 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479828296

320 PP | PAPER | $20 9781479805136

COLORING INTO EXISTENCE

How diversity initiatives end up marginalizing Arab and Muslim Americans

SKIN THEORY

Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory Cristina Mejia Visperas

Queer of Color Worldmaking in Children’s Literature Isabel Millán

Studies the intersections of incarceration, medical science, and race in postwar America

Argues that queer picture books with main characters of color can disrupt structures of power in both literature and real life 352 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479816989

In Performance and American Cultures

256 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479810789

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DISABILITY STUDIES SIGNS OF DISABILITY

CRIP AUTHORSHIP

Disability as Method Edited by Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez

Stephanie L. Kerschbaum An exploration of the relationship between disability, story, and perception

An expansive volume presenting crip approaches to writing, research, and publishing

In Crip 248 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479811168

384 PP | PAPER | $35 9781479819362

DISABILITY WORKS

FALLING, FLOATING, FLICKERING

Performance After Rehabilitation Patrick McKelvey

Disability and Differential Movement in African Diasporic Performance Hershini Bhana Young

A cultural history of disability, performance, and work in the modern United States

Insists on the importance of embodiment and movement to the creation of Black sociality

In Performance and American Cultures 336 PP | PAPER | $32 9781479824878

320 PP | PAPER | $32 9781479818457

QUEER CHILDHOODS

Institutional Futures of Indigeneity, Race, and Disability Mary Zaborskis

How institutional management of children’s sexualities in boarding schools affected children’s futures 320 PP | PAPER | $32 9781479813896

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In Sexual Cultures

MINORITARIAN AESTHETICS SERIES DEADPAN

280 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479811212

FOR PLEASURE

The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression Tina Post

Race, Experimentalism, and Aesthetics Rachel Jane Carroll

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism

Argues that aesthetic pleasure plays a key role in both racial practices and struggles against racist domination

Explores expressionlessness, inscrutability, and emotional withholding in Black cultural production

288 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479826735

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GENDER & SEXUALITY SEXUALITY BEYOND CONSENT

QUEER FORMS

Ramzi Fawaz

How do we represent the experience of being a gender and sexual outlaw?

Risk, Race, Traumatophilia Avgi Saketopoulou Radical alternatives to consent and trauma In Sexual Cultures 272 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479820252

464 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479820733

FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS ONLY

PAIN GENERATION

Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie L. Ayu Saraswati

Reshaping Jewish Orthodoxy Through the Arts in the Digital Age Jessica Roda

336 PP | CLOTH | $40 9781479809752

How Hasidic women in New York City and Montreal have used media technologies to create a new musical and film market “for girls and women only”

Explores the perils and promise of feminist social media activism

224 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479808335

THE PORNIFICATION OF AMERICA

LGBT INCLUSION IN AMERICAN LIFE

Pop Culture, Political Imagination, and Civil Rights Susan Burgess

How Raunch Culture Is Ruining Our Society Bernadette Barton

232 PP | PAPER | $20 9781479849338

“This book persuasively argues that ‘equating hypersexualization with sex positivity is a form of Orwellian doublespeak.’”

—The New York Times Book Review

A compelling explanation of the American public’s acceptance of LGBT freedoms through the lens of pop culture 232 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479819751

In LGBTQ Politics

MEDIA AND LAW DEFENDING PORNOGRAPHY

THE FIGHT FOR FREE SPEECH

Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women’s Rights Nadine Strossen

Ten Cases That Define Our First Amendment Freedoms Ian Rosenberg

A new edition of a groundbreaking, feminist defense of free speech for pornography

376 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479829903

A user’s guide to understanding contemporary free speech issues in the United States 312 PP | PAPER | $19 9781479825912

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MEDIA IN POPULAR CULTURE MILLENNIAL JEWISH STARS

LIKE WATER

A Cultural History of Bruce Lee Daryl Joji Maeda

Navigating Racial Antisemitism, Masculinity, and White Supremacy Jonathan Branfman

Highlights Bruce Lee’s influence beyond martial arts and film

Highlights how millennial Jewish stars symbolize national politics in US media 320 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479820795

336 PP | PAPER | $20 9781479830732

IN CASE OF EMERGENCY

THE RISE OF DIGITAL SEX WORK

How Technologies Mediate Crisis and Normalize Inequality Elizabeth Ellcessor

Kurt Fowler

How technology transformed the nature of sex work

A much-needed look at the growth of emergency media and its impact on our lives 216 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479811632

272 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479824205

STAY COOL

THE GREEN SPACE

Why Dark Comedy Matters in the Fight Against Climate Change Aaron Sachs

The Transformation of the Irish Image Marion R. Casey A historical exploration of the Irish image in popular culture

“Stay Cool encourages a fresh, creative approach to addressing one of the biggest challenges of the time—climate change.” ­ —Foreword Reviews 176 PP | CLOTH | $22 9781479819393

In The Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series 336 PP | CLOTH | $35 9781479817450

MARTY GLICKMAN

A REVOLUTION IN TYPE

The Life of an American Jewish Sports Legend Jeffrey S. Gurock

248 PP | CLOTH | $28 9781479820870

“The first detailed biography of Marty Glickman, the undisputed voice of New York City sports during the second half of the 20th century...

A fascinating portrait of an important voice in American sports history.”

—Kirkus Reviews

Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press Ayelet Brinn A fascinating glimpse into the complex and often unexpected ways that women and ideas about women shaped widely read Jewish newspapers 328 PP | CLOTH | $39 9781479817665

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KEYWORDS SERIES KEYWORDS FOR COMICS STUDIES

KEYWORDS FOR CHILDREN’S LITERATURE, SECOND EDITION

Edited by Ramzi Fawaz, Deborah Whaley and Shelley Streeby 288 PP | PAPER | $29 9781479831968

Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers emerging in the field of comics studies

Edited by Philip Nel, Lissa Paul and Nina Christensen 272 PP | PAPER | $29 9781479899678

KEYWORDS FOR MEDIA STUDIES

KEYWORDS FOR GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES

Edited by Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray

240 PP | PAPER | $29 9781479859610

Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studies

An updated vocabulary for children’s literature and culture

Edited by The Keywords Feminist Editorial Collective 312 PP | PAPER | $29 9781479808151

Introduces key terms, debates, and histories for feminist studies in gender and sexuality

AVIDLY READS AVIDLY READS BOARD GAMES

AVIDLY READS GUILTY PLEASURES

Eric Thurm

Arielle Zibrak

“How we should think about board games, and what do they do to us as we play them?”

“My guilty pleasure wasn’t just reading low-brow fiction or even femaleauthored fiction, it was being femme itself.”

144 PP | PAPER | $15 9781479826957

176 PP | PAPER | $15 9781479807093

AVIDLY READS OPERA

160 PP | PAPER | $15 9781479811731

AVIDLY READS POETRY

Alison Kinney

Jacquelyn Ardam

“Opera is community, comfort, art, voice, breath, life. It’s hope.”

Why are more Americans are reading poetry in the 21st-century than ever before?

176 PP | PAPER | $15 9781479813582

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GOOD FOR COURSES DISLIKE-MINDED

RACE AND MEDIA

Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste Jonathan Gray

Critical Approaches Edited by Lori Kido Lopez

A foundational collection of essays that demonstrate how to study race and media

Explains why audiences dislike certain media and what happens when they do

In Critical Cultural Communication

In Critical Cultural Communication 272 PP | PAPER | $29 9781479809981

344 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479889310

HOW TO WATCH TELEVISION, SECOND EDITION

432 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479898817

VIDEO GAMES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN QUEER

Bonnie Ruberg

Edited by Ethan Thompson and Jason Mittell

Argues for the queer potential of video games

Investigates the ways we watch and think about television

In Postmillennial Pop

In User’s Guides to Popular Culture

288 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479843749

TWITTER

HOW TO PLAY VIDEO GAMES

A Biography Jean Burgess and Nancy K. Baym The sometimes surprising, often humorous story of the forces that came together to shape the central role Twitter now plays in contemporary politics and culture 144 PP | PAPER | $14 9781479801756

Edited by Matthew Thomas Payne and Nina B. Huntemann

Forty original contributions on games and gaming culture 400 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479827985

CONVERGENCE CULTURE

368 PP | PAPER | $28 9780814742952

In User’s Guides to Popular Culture

TO THE BREAK OF DAWN

Where Old and New Media Collide Henry Jenkins

A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic William Jelani Cobb

A classic study on the dynamic between an individual and different media channels

An inside look into the beats, lyrics, and flow of hip-hop’s history

200 PP | PAPER | $25 9780814716717

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PARTNER PRESSES RESISTANCE

DEFINING SEXUAL MISCONDUCT

Righteous Rage in the Age of #MeToo Edited by Sue Goyette

Power, Media, and #MeToo Stacey Hannem and Christopher J. Schneider

Writers across the globe speak out against sexual assault and abuse in this powerful new poetry anthology

176 PP | PAPER | $22 9780889778016

Published by University of Regina Press

Traces contemporary shifts in power in relation to sexual misconduct 368 PP | PAPER | $30 9780889778092

¡BRIGADISTAS!

FREE SPEECH AND THE SUPPRESSION OF DISSENT DURING WORLD WAR I

An American Anti-Fascist in the Spanish Civil War Miguel Ferguson and Illustrated by Anne Timmons A graphic history featuring the true story of three friends from Brooklyn who join in the global fight against fascism 120 PP | PAPER | $18 9781583679609

Published by Monthly Review Press

Eric T. Chester

The fight for freedom of expression during US government crackdown on dissent during the WWI 416 PP | PAPER | $27 9781583678688

ART IN A DEMOCRACY

256 PP | PAPER | $27 9781613321904

Published by Monthly Review Press

ART IN A DEMOCRACY

Selected Plays of Roadside Theater, Volume 1: The Appalachian History Plays, 1975–1989 Ben Fink

Selected Plays of Roadside Theater, Volume 2: The Intercultural Plays, 1990–2020 Ben Fink

Seminal plays and essays reveal the radical origins of Appalachia’s Roadside Theater

Collaborative plays with diverse ensembles across the country address pressing issues of our times

Published by New Village Press

224 PP | PAPER | $27 9781613321942

THE MYTH OF BLACK CAPITALISM

BABEL UNBOUND

Deciphers the history of “Black capitalist” rhetoric— and how it serves to enrich a minuscule few at the expense of the many Published by Monthly Review Press

Published by New Village Press Rage, reason and rethinking public life Edited by Lesley Cowling and Carolyn Hamilton

New Edition Earl Ofari Hutchinson

136 PP | PAPER | $19 9781685900311

Published by University of Regina Press

Writers from the Global South demonstrate that forms of publicness are multiple, mobile and varied 292 PP | PAPER | $50 9781776145898

Published by Wits University Press

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