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HIGHLIGHTS SEX IS AS SEX DOES Governing Transgender Identity PAISLEY CURRAH
FIERCE
Examines the development of transgender rights in the United States
AND
$28.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-0-8147-1710-3
PATSY TAKEMOTO MINK , FIRST WOMAN OF COLOR IN CONGRESS
FEARLESS
Coming May 2022 JUDY TZU-CHUN WU AND GWENDOLYN MINK
FIERCE AND FEARLESS Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress JUDY TZU-CHUN WU and GWENDOLYN MINK
The first biography of Patsy Takemoto Mink, the first woman of color in Congress and legislative champion of Title IX $35.00 • 448 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-3192-0 Coming May 2022
DISRUPTING DIGNITY Rethinking Power and Progress in LGBTQ Lives STEPHEN M. ENGEL and
THE GOVERNMENT OF THINGS Foucault and the New Materialisms
TIMOTHY S. LYLE
THOMAS LEMKE
Why LGBTQ+ people must resist the seduction of dignity
Examines the theoretical achievements and the political impact of the new materialisms
$35.00 • 416 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-9986-9 In LGBTQ Politics
RETHINKING COMMUNITY RESILIENCE The Politics of Disaster Recovery in New Orleans MIN HEE GO
Explores the unintended consequences of civic activism in a disaster-prone city
$30.00 • 312 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-2993-4
THE PARTISAN GAP Why Democratic Women Get Elected But Republican Women Don’t
LAUREL ELDER
Why Democratic women far outnumber Republican women in elective offices $25.00 • 240 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0482-5
$30.00 • 280 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0490-0
THE NEW SEX WARS Sexual Harm in the #MeToo Era BRENDA COSSMAN
Revisits the sex wars of the 1970s and ’80s and examines their influence on how we think about sexual harm in the #MeToo era $30.00 • 280 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0270-8
UNINSURED IN CHICAGO How the Social Safety Net Leaves Latinos Behind ROBERT VARGAS
Traces the stories of Latinos’ experience with the Affordable Care Act to explain why many are still uninsured $89.00 • 224 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0714-7 Coming March 2022
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POLITICS IN AMERICA AFTER OBAMA African American Politics in a Post-Obama Era Edited by TODD C. SHAW, ROBERT A. BROWN and JOSEPH P. MCCORMICK II
Examines the complicated political legacy of our first black president $39.00 • 424 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1803-7
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
REIMAGINING BLACK WOMEN A Critique of Post-Feminist and Post-Racial Melodrama in Culture and Politics
NIKOL G. ALEXANDER-FLOYD
A wide-ranging Black feminist interrogation, reaching from the #MeToo movement to the legacy of gender-based violence against Black women $30.00 • 304 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-5089-1
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 better design, implementation and enforcement
$18.95 • 288 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-3648-2
$32.00 • 304 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-3561-4
IT CAN HAPPEN HERE
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White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US
The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America
ALEXANDER LABAN HINTON
GILDA R. DANIELS
A renowned expert on genocide argues that there is a real risk of violent atrocities happening in the United States
An answer to the assault on voting rights—crucial reading in light of the 2020 presidential election
$29.00 • 304 pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0801-4
$16.95 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1198-4
REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS AS HUMAN RIGHTS
WITH HONOR AND INTEGRITY
Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice ZAKIYA LUNA
Reveals both the promise and the pitfalls associated with a human rights approach to the Black-focused reproductive rights activism of SisterSong $35.00 • 312 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3129-6
Transgender Troops in Their Own Words Edited by MÁEL EMBSERHERBERT and BREE FRAM Heartfelt personal accounts from transgender people fighting for the right to serve in the military $28.00 • 240 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-01039 In LGBTQ Politics
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L AW TRUTH AND EVIDENCE NOMOS LXIV Edited by MELISSA SCHWARTZBERG and PHILIP
THE FIGHT FOR FREE SPEECH Ten Cases That Define Our First Amendment Freedoms
KITCHER
IAN ROSENBERG
Explores the challenges of governing in a post-truth world
A user’s guide to understanding contemporary free speech issues in the United States
$65.00 • 240 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-1159-5 In NOMOS - American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY LAW AND THE AMERICAN LABOR MARKET
$27.95 • 312 pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0156-5
“LET US VOTE!” Youth Voting Rights and the 26th Amendment
JON C. DUBIN
JENNIFER FROST
How social security disability law is out of touch with the contemporary American labor market
The fascinating tale of how a bipartisan coalition worked successfully to lower the voting age
$55.00 • 280 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-1101-4
$39.00 • 384 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-1132-8
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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 $19.00 • 232 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0873-1
SENSING INJUSTICE A Lawyer’s Life in the Battle for Change
PERCHANCE TO DREAM A Legal and Political History of the DREAM Act and DACA MICHAEL A. OLIVAS
The first comprehensive history of the DREAM Act and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) $35.00 • 352 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-7828-4 In Citizenship and Migration in the Americas
GEHL V CANADA Challenging Sex Discrimination in the Indian Act
MICHAEL E. TIGAR
LYNN GEHL
The remarkable life of a lawyer at the forefront of civil and human rights since the 1960s
How the Gehl decision advanced indigenous rights in Canada
$29.00 • 512 Pages Paper • 978-1-5836-7920-3 Published by Monthly Review Press
9780889778252 • 288 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1657-6 Published by University of Regina Press
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RELIGION ONE FAITH NO LONGER
CIVIL RELIGION TODAY
The Transformation of Christianity in Red and Blue America GEORGE YANCEY and ASHLEE
Religion and the American Nation in the Twenty-First Century Edited by FELIPE HINOJOSA, MAGGIE
QUOSIGK
ELMORE and SERGIO M. GONZÁLEZ
Irreconcilable differences drive the division between progressive and conservative Christians—is there a divorce coming?
Illuminates how religion shapes Latino politics and community building
$30.00 • 304 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0868-7 THE MYTH OF COLORBLIND CHRISTIANS Evangelicals and White Supremacy in the Civil Rights Era JESSE CURTIS
Reveals how Christian colorblindness expanded white evangelicalism and excluded Black evangelicals $32.00 • 320 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0938-7
$35.00 • 352 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0985-1
FAITH AND POWER Latino Religious Politics Since 1945
Edited by FELIPE HINOJOSA, MAGGIE ELMORE and SERGIO M. GONZÁLEZ
Illuminates how religion shapes Latino politics and community building $35.00 • 352 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0452-8 Coming February 2022
GLOBAL POLITICS ELECTIONS IN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE
EXTRAORDINARY THREAT
Party Politics in an Era of Authoritarianism
Years of Coup Attempts in Venezuela
BRYON MORASKI
US foreign policy decisions behind six coup attempts against the Venezuelan government – and Venezuela’s heightening precarity
Examines how political parties navigate major election reforms by comparing electoral system changes in Russia and Ukraine at the same time, under different regimes
$99.00 • 304 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0776-5 Coming April 2022
CHINA’S GRAND STRATEGY
The U.S. Empire, the Media, and Twenty JUSTIN PODUR and JOE EMERSBERGER
$25.00 • 248 Pages Paper • 978-1-5836-7916-6 Published by Monthly Review Press
A Roadmap to Global Power?
AMERICA AND THE MAKING OF AN INDEPENDENT IRELAND
DAVID B. H. DENOON
A History
Leading scholars examine China’s global strategic plans, from Hong Kong to military power, to economic dominance $38.00 • 296 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0409-2
FRANCIS M. CARROLL
Examines how the Irish American community, the American public, and the American government played a crucial role in the making of a sovereign independent Ireland $35.00 • 312 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0565-5
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HISTORY SUSAN B. ANTHONY A Biography KATHLEEN BARRY
Brings to life one of the most significant figures in the crusade for women’s rights in America
THE IRISH
REVOLUTION A GLOBAL HISTORY
THE IRISH REVOLUTION A Global History FEARGHAL MCGARRY and PATRICK MANNION Illustrates the importance of empire, anti-imperialism and new understandings of self-determination in shaping political discourse and violence in revolutionary Ireland
$30.00 • 448 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0496-2 EDITED BY PATRICK MANNION & FEARGHAL MCGARRY
$35.00 • 368 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0889-2 In The Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series Coming May 2022
ANCIENT TAXATION
OWÓKNAGE
The Mechanics of Extraction in Comparative Perspective Edited by JONATHAN VALK and
The Story of Carry The Kettle Nakoda First Nation Contributions by JIM TANNER,
IRENE SOTO MARÍN
TRACEY TANNER, DAVID R. MILLER
A collection of studies that explore the extractive systems of twelve ancient states and societies from across the ancient world
and PEGGY MARTIN MCGUIRE
$75.00 • 392 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0619-5 In ISAW Monographs
The definitive story of the Nakoda people, in their own words $89.00 • 412 Pages Cloth • 978-0-8897-7815-3 Published by University of Regina Press
I M M I G R AT I O N A N D M I G R AT I O N THE OPPORTUNITY TRAP
IRAQI REFUGEES IN THE UNITED STATES
High-Skilled Workers, Indian Families, and the Failures of the Dependent Visa Program
The Enduring Effects of the War on Terror
PALLAVI BANERJEE
How Iraqi refugees navigate life, belonging, and exclusion in America
Unravels how US visa laws affect Indian professional workers and their legally dependent spouses $89.00 • 304 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-4104-2
KEN R. CRANE
$28.00 • 208 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-8690-6
Coming March 2022
GROWING UP LATINX
ARAB NEW YORK
Coming of Age in a Time of Contested Citizenship
Politics and Community in the Everyday Lives of Arab Americans
JESICA SIHAM FERNÁNDEZ
EMILY REGAN WILLS
Latinx children navigating identity, citizenship, and belonging in a divided America
From Bay Ridge to Astoria, explore political action in Arab New York
$30.00 • 264 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0122-0 In Critical Perspectives on Youth
$27.00 • 224 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-5487-5
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CRITICAL RACE THEORY CRITICAL RACE THEORY, 3RD EDITION
THE DERRICK BELL READER
An Introduction
Edited by RICHARD DELGADO and JEAN STEFANCIC An essential collection of the writings of progressive lawyer and race activist Derrick Bell
RICHARD DELGADO and JEAN STEFANCIC
Updated to include the Black Lives Matter movement, the presidency of Barack Obama, the rise of hate speech on the Internet, and more
$35.00 • 493 Pages Paper • 978-0-8147-1970-1 In Critical America
$20.00 • 224 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0276-0 In Critical America
LATCRIT From Critical Legal Theory to Academic Activism FRANCISCO VALDES and STEVEN W. BENDER
THE LATINO/A CONDITION A Critical Reader, Second Edition RICHARD DELGADO
Examines LatCrit’s emergence as a scholarly and activist community within and beyond the US legal academy
The second edition brings together new and classic Latino/a voices writing on questions of immigration, identity, history, law, and more
$27.00 • 216 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0930-1
$35.00 • 645 Pages Paper • 978-0-8147-2040-0
WHITE BY LAW
RACE AND MEDIA
The Legal Construction of Race
Edited by LORI KIDO LOPEZ A foundational collection of essays that demonstrate how to study race and media
IAN HANEY LOPEZ
Revisits the legal construction of race, and argues that current race law has spawned a troubling racial ideology that perpetuates inequality under a new guise: colorblind white dominance.
$30.00 • 344 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-8931-0 In Critical Cultural Communication
$27.00 • 263 Pages Paper • 978-0-8147-3694-4 In Critical America
THE COMPLEXITIES OF RACE Identity, Power, and Justice in an Evolving America Edited by CHARMAINE L. WIJEYESINGHE
CRITICAL RACE FEMINISM, 2ND EDITION A Reader Edited by ADRIEN KATHERINE WING
Illuminates how recent shifts in demographics, policy, culture and thinking have changed how race is understood today
A classic anthology of writings on the legal status and lived experiences of women of color
$30.00 • 304 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0141-1
$30.00 • 444 Pages Paper • 978-0-8147-9394-7 In Critical America New edition coming 2022
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CLASSICS & BESTSELLERS OUT OF THE RUNNING
CIVIL SOCIETY, SECOND EDITION
Why Millennials Reject Political Careers and Why It Matters
The Critical History of an Idea
SHAUNA SHAMES
A comprehensive discussion and analysis of two and a half millennia of Western political theory
An inside look into why Millennials are rejecting careers in politics, and what this means for the future of America’s political system
JOHN R. EHRENBERG
$32.00 • 352 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-9160-3
$28.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-7748-5 Winner, 2021 PROSE Award in the Business, Finance & Management Category
CONTROLLING THE MESSAGE
WHY AMERICA STOPPED VOTING
New Media in American Political Campaigns VICTORIA A. FARRAR-MYERS and
The Decline of Participatory Democracy and
JUSTIN S. VAUGHN
Examines how giving up the vote became a fundamental aspect of modern American life
American political candidates’ approach to new media strategy is increasingly what makes or breaks their campaign $30.00 • 368 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-6759-2
the Emergence of Modern American Politics
MARK L. KORNBLUH
$25.00 • 352 pages Cloth • 978-0-8147-4708-7 In The American Social Experience
Winner, 2020 ASCA Book Award, given by the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis
WHEN ANIMALS SPEAK
REORGANIZING GOVERNMENT
Toward an Interspecies Democracy
A Functional and Dimensional Framework
EVA MEIJER
ALEJANDRO CAMACHO and ROBERT GLICKSMAN
A groundbreaking argument for the political rights of animals $35.00 • 304 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-6313-6 In Animals in Context
A pioneering model for constructing and assessing government authority and achieving policy goals more effectively $45.00 • 356 pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-2967-5
MUST WE DEFEND NAZIS? Why the First Amendment Should Not Protect Hate Speech and White Supremacy RICHARD DELGADO and JEAN STEFANCIC
A controversial argument for reconsidering the limits of free speech $14.95 • 176 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-5783-8
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POLICING & SURVEILLANCE POLICING THE SEGREGATED CITY Neighborhoods, Law Enforcement, and the Politics of Race DAANIKA GORDON
A behind-the-scenes look at how the police reconfigure segregated landscapes $30.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1405-3 Coming January 2022
THE ETHICS OF POLICING New Perspectives on Law Enforcement Edited by BEN JONES and EDUARDO MENDIETA
Top scholars provide a critical analysis of the current ethical challenges facing police officers, police departments, and the criminal justice system $35.00 • 320 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0373-6
BORDER OPTICS
THE WAR ON DRUGS
Surveillance Cultures on the USMexico Frontier
A History Edited by DAVID FARBER A revealing look at the history and legacy of the “War on Drugs”
CAMILLA FOJAS
Examines how the US-Mexico border is seen through visual codes of surveillance $28.00 • 208 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0701-7 In Critical Cultural Communication
$30.00 • 368 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1136-6
WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS CAN THEMBA The Intellectual Tsotsi, A Biography SIPHIWO MAHALA
Mahala’s biography gives insight into the life and writing of Can Themba (1924–1967), an iconic figure of the South African literary world and Drum journalist who died in exile $30.00 • 312 Pages Paper • 978-1-7761-4731-1 Coming February 2022
DESTROYING DEMOCRACY Neoliberal capitalism and the rise of authoritarian politics Edited by MICHELLE WILLIAMS and VISHWAS SATGAR
A history of the erosion of democracy across the globe $35.00 • 280 Pages Paper • 978-1-7761-4699-4
COLOUR, CLASS AND COMMUNITY - THE NATAL INDIAN CONGRESS, 1971-1994 ASHWIN DESAI and GOOLAM VAHED
Positions the history and inner workings of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) against the canvas of the major political developments in South Africa during the 1970s and 1980s up to the first democratic elections in 1994
$30.00 • 392 Pages Paper • 978-1-7761-4715-1
BONES AND BODIES How South African Scientists Studied Race ALAN G. MORRIS Alan G. Morris critically examines the history of evolutionary anthropology in South Africa, uncovering the often racist philosophical motivations of these physical anthropology researchers and the discipline itself
$30.00 • 304 Pages Paper • 978-1-7761-4723-6 Coming January 2022
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M O N T H LY R E V I E W P R E S S BEYOND LEVIATHAN Critique of the State ISTVÁN MÉSZÁROS
A field-defining masterwork, this posthumous publication maps the evolution of the idea of the state from ancient Greece to today $34.00 • 512 Pages Paper • 978-1-5836-7949-4 Coming February 2022
A LEFT GREEN NEW DEAL An Internationalist Blueprint BECKER RIEXINGER, LIA BECKER, KATHARINA DAHME and CHRISTINA KAINDL
What does a successful socialist Green New Deal look like?
HOW TO READ MARX’S CAPITAL Commentary and Explanations on the Beginning Chapters MICHAEL HEINRICH
An accessible companion to Karl Marx’s essential Capital $28.00 • 448 Pages Paper • 978-1-5836-7894-7
NEW POLARIZATIONS AND OLD CONTRADICTIONS: THE CRISIS OF CENTRISM Socialist Register 2022 GREG ALBO and COLIN LEYS $29.00 • 288 pages Paper • 978-1-5836-7937-1
$89.00 • 146 Pages Paper • 978-1-5836-7946-3 Coming January 2022
INEQUALITY, CLASS, AND ECONOMICS
THE LABOR GUIDE TO RETIREMENT PLANS
ERIC SCHUTZ
For Union Organizers and Employees
What if neoclassical economics addressed the question of class? This accessible overview of economic theory launches this investigation $27.00 • 320 pages Paper • 978-1-5836-7941-8 Coming January 2022
Winner, 2020 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize
JAMES W. RUSSELL
A helpful how-to for workers navigating their retirement and pension options, from the labor organizer’s perspective $24.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-1-5836-7933-3
THE RETURN OF NATURE
HONOURING THE DECLARATION
Socialism and Ecology
Church Commitments to Reconciliation and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER
A fascinating reinterpretation of the radical and socialist origins of ecology $28.00 • 672 Pages Paper • 978-1-5836-7928-9
Edited by DON SCHWEITZER and PAUL L. GAREAU A framework for indigenous and settler reparations $19.95 • 312 Pages Paper • 978-0-8897-7832-0 Published by University of Regina Press
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