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HIGHLIGHTS THE TRAGEDY OF HETEROSEXUALITY JANE WARD
A troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeToo $26.95 • 224 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-5155-3 In Sexual Cultures
HYPER EDUCATION Why Good Schools, Good Grades, and Good Behavior Are Not Enough PAWAN DHINGRA
An up-close look at the education arms race of after-school learning, academic competitions, and the perceived failure of even our best schools to educate children $29.95 • 352 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-3114-2
STUCK Why Asian Americans Don’t Reach the Top of the Corporate Ladder MARGARET M. CHIN
A behind-the-scenes examination of Asian Americans in the workplace $28.00 • 224 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-1681-1
THE BUSINESS OF BIRTH Malpractice and Maternity Care in the United States LOUISE MARIE ROTH
How fear of malpractice affects mothers and reproductive choices $35.00 • 336 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-7708-9
THE SOCIOLOGY OF W. E. B. DU BOIS Racialized Modernity and the Global Color Line JOSÉ ITZIGSOHN and KARIDA L. BROWN
The first comprehensive understanding of Du Bois for social scientists $28.00 • 304 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0417-7
A QUEER NEW YORK Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers JEN JACK GIESEKING
The first lesbian and queer historical geography of New York City $30.00 • 320 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3573-7
TRANS-AFFIRMATIVE PARENTING
THE SUSTAINABILITY MYTH
Raising Kids Across the Gender Spectrum
Environmental Gentrification and the Politics of Justice
ELIZABETH RAHILLY
First-hand accounts of how parents support their transgender children $28.00 • 224 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1715-3
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MELISSA CHECKER
Uncovers the hidden costs and contradictions of sustainable policies in an era driven by real estate development $30.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-5527-8
GENDER & SEXUALITY THE PORNIFICATION OF AMERICA How Raunch Culture Is Ruining Our Society BERNADETTE BARTON
How porn has become normalized from #MeToo to Trump
STILL STRAIGHT Sexual Flexibility among White Men in Rural America TONY SILVA
Why some straight men have sex with other men $28.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0110-7
$24.95 • 224 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-9443-7
REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS AS HUMAN RIGHTS 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
FREEZING FERTILITY Oocyte Cryopreservation and the Gender Politics of Aging LUCY VAN DE WIEL
Analyzes how the possibility of egg freezing changes what it means to be fertile and to age in the 21st century $35.00 • 368 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1790-0 In Biopolitics
$35.00 • 320 Pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-3129-6
FEELING MEDICINE
GENDER VIOLENCE,
How the Pelvic Exam Shapes Medical Training
third edition
KELLY UNDERMAN
Edited by LAURA L. O’TOOLE, JESSICA R. SCHIFFMAN, and ROSEMARY SULLIVAN
The emotional and social components of teaching medical students to be good doctors $35.00 • 320 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-9304-1 In Biopolitics
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
An updated edition of the groundbreaking anthology that explores the proliferation of gendered violence $39.00 • 608 Pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-2080-1 2019 PROSE Award for Anthropology, Criminology and Sociology, Association of American Publishers
TRANSGENDER INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE A Comprehensive Introduction Edited by ADAM M. MESSINGER and XAVIER L. GUADALUPE-DIAZ
THE TRANS GENERATION How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) are Creating a Gender Revolution ANN TRAVERS
A groundbreaking overview of transgender relationship violence
A groundbreaking look at the lives of transgender children and their families
$35.00 • 416 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-9031-6
$18.95 • 288 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-4041-0
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F A M I LY & Y O U T H UNEXPECTED Parenting, Prenatal Testing, and Down Syndrome ALISON PIEPMEIER with GEORGE ESTREICH and RACHEL ADAMS
What prenatal tests and Down syndrome reveal about our reproductive choices $27.00 • 200 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-7995-3
“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 $30.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-6462-1
THE WORLD IS OUR CLASSROOM Extreme Parenting and the Rise of Worldschooling JENNIE GERMANN MOLZ
How travelling the world allows new ways to educate children and perform family life on the move $30.00 • 288 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3407-5 In Critical Perspectives on Youth
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 $27.00 • 256 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-1036-9
QUEERING FAMILY TREES
THE TROUBLE WITH SNACK TIME
Race, Reproductive Justice, and Lesbian Motherhood
Children’s Food and the Politics of Parenting
SANDRA PATTON-IMANI
JENNIFER PATICO
Argues that significant barriers to family-making exist for lesbian mothers of color in the United States
Uncovers the class and race dimensions of the “cupcake wars”
$30.00 • 336 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1486-2
$30.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-4598-9
LIVING ON THE SPECTRUM
THE KIDS ARE IN CHARGE
Autism and Youth in Community
Activism and Power in Peru’s Movement of Working Children
ELIZABETH FEIN
How youth on the autism spectrum negotiate the contested meanings of neurodiversity $30.00 • 304 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-8906-8 In Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice
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JESSICA K. TAFT
Details the possibilities and challenges of intergenerational activism and social movements $30.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-5450-9 In Critical Perspectives on Youth
MEDIA CAMMING
RACIALIZED MEDIA
Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry
The Design, Delivery, and Decoding of Race and Ethnicity
ANGELA JONES
Edited by MATTHEW W. HUGHEY and EMMA GONZÁLEZ-LESSER
The first inside look at how sex workers use webcams to make a living $29.00 • 344 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-7487-3
How media propagates and challenges racism $35.00 • 400 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1455-8
L AT I N O / A S O C I O L O G Y S E R I E S FRONT OF THE HOUSE, BACK OF THE HOUSE
ORGANIZING WHILE UNDOCUMENTED
Race and Inequality in the Lives of Restaurant Workers
Immigrant Youth’s Political Activism under the Law
ELI REVELLE YANO WILSON
KEVIN ESCUDERO
How workers navigate race, gender, and class in the food service industry
An inspiring look inside immigrant youth’s political activism in perilous times
$28.00 • 224 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0062-9
$27.00 • 208 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3415-0
KIDS AT WORK Latinx Families Selling Food on the Streets of Los Angeles EMIR ESTRADA
How Latinx kids and their undocumented parents struggle in the informal street food economy $28.00 • 224 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-7370-8
Co-Winner, 2019 Latina/o Section Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award, American Sociological Association
IMMIGRANTS UNDER THREAT Risk and Resistance in Deportation Nation GREG PRIETO
A portrait of two Mexican immigrant communities confronting threats of deportation, detention, and dispossession $29.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-2146-4
2018 Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship Book Award, American Sociological Association’s Section on Race, Class, and Gender
LATINA TEACHERS
Creating Careers and Guarding Culture GLENDA M. FLORES
How Latina teachers are making careers and helping students stay in touch with their roots. $29.00 • 272 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1353-7
LATINA/O SOCIOLOGY This series publishes innovative and engagingly written books of substance and broad interest about contemporary Latinas/os in the United States, and in transnational contexts as well. GENERAL EDITORS Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, University of Southern California sotelo@usc.edu Victor Rios, University of California, Santa Barbara vrios@soc.ucsb.edu www . nyupress . org
MIDDLE EAST & ARAB AMERICAN STUDIES WOMEN RISING
CHANGING QATAR
In and Beyond the Arab Spring
Culture, Citizenship, and Rapid Modernization
Edited by RITA STEPHAN and MOUNIRA M. CHARRAD
Groundbreaking essays by female activists and scholars documenting women’s resistance before, during, and after the Arab Spring
GEOFF HARKNESS
A cultural study of modern Qatar and how it navigates change and tradition $32.00 • 336 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-5482-0
$35.00 • 432 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0104-6
COMING OF AGE IN IRAN
IRAQI REFUGEES IN THE UNITED STATES
Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity
The Enduring Effects of the War on Terror
MANATA HASHEMI
KEN R. CRANE
An inside look at young Iranians navigating poverty and stigma in a time of crisis
How Iraqi refugees navigate life, belonging, and exclusion in America
$30.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-8194-9 In Critical Perspectives on Youth
$28.00 • 208 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-8690-6
FEAR IN OUR HEARTS What Islamophobia Tells Us about America CALEB IYER ELFENBEIN
Argues that anti-Muslim activity reveals how fear is corroding core American values $28.00 • 208 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0458-0 In North American Religions
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ARAB NEW YORK Politics and Community in the Everyday Lives of Arab Americans EMILY REGAN WILLS
From Bay Ridge to Astoria, explore political action in Arab New York $27.00 • 224 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-5487-5
THE NEW ARAB URBAN Gulf Cities of Wealth, Ambition, and Distress Edited by HARVEY MOLOTCH and DAVIDE PONZINI
Cities of the Arabian Peninsula reveal contradictions of contemporary urbanization $30.00 • 368 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-9725-4
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RACE & ETHNICITY 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
FEARING THE BLACK BODY The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia SABRINA STRINGS
How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years $28.00 • 304 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-8675-3
$25.00 • 280 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0029-2 2019 William J. Goode Book Award, Family Section of the American Sociological Association
WHITE KIDS
Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America MARGARET A. HAGERMAN
Riveting stories of white, affluent children in the United States and how they form ideas about racism, inequality, and privilege $18.95 • 280 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0245-6 In Critical Perspectives on Youth
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 $30.00 • 152 pages Paper • 978-1-7761-4368-9 Published by Wits University Press
RELIGION WHITE CHRISTIAN PRIVILEGE
CREATING THE CREATION MUSEUM
The Illusion of Religious Equality in America
How Fundamentalist Beliefs Come to Life
KHYATI Y. JOSHI
KATHLEEN C. OBERLIN
Exposes the invisible ways in which Christian privilege disadvantages religious minorities in America
Investigates how the Christian fundamentalist movement brings Creationism into the mainstream through a Kentucky museum
$28.00 • 256 pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-4023-6
$30.00 • 288 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0570-9
NONE OF THE ABOVE
SOCIETY WITHOUT GOD, second edition
Nonreligious Identity in the US and Canada
What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us about Contentment
JOEL THIESSEN and SARAH WILKINS-LAFLAMME
Compares secular attitudes characterizing “religious nones” in the United States and Canada $30.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-6080-7 In Secular Studies
PHIL ZUCKERMAN
An updated edition showcasing the social health of the least religious nations in the world $30.00 • 304 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-7808-6
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URBAN STUDIES VEGAS BREWS
A RECIPE FOR GENTRIFICATION
Craft Beer and the Birth of a Local Scene
Food, Power, and Resistance in the City
MICHAEL IAN BORER
How gentrification uproots the urban food landscape, and what activists are doing to resist it
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
$35.00 • 384 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1137-3
$30.00 • 336 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-7961-8
NEOLIBERAL CITIES
MAIN STREET
The Remaking of Postwar Urban America
How a City’s Heart Connects Us All
Edited by ALISON HOPE ALKON, YUKI KATO, and JOSHUA SBICCA
Edited by ANDREW J. DIAMOND and THOMAS J. SUGRUE
MINDY THOMPSON FULLILOVE
Traverses the central thoroughfares of our cities to uncover the ways they bring together our communities
Traces decades of troubled attempts to fund private answers to public urban problems
$21.95 • 352 Pages Paper • 978-1-6133-2126-3 Published by New Village Press
$30.00 • 240 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3237-8 In NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis
ROOT SHOCK How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, And What We Can Do About It
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MINDY THOMPSON FULLILOVE Root Shock examines 3 different U.S. cities to unmask the crippling results of decades-old disinvestment in communities of color and the urban renewal practices that ultimately destroyed these neighborhoods for the advantage of developers and the elite
$19.95 • 304 Pages • Paper • 978-1-6133-2019-8 Published by New Village Press
ACTIVISM STAY WOKE
UNTIL WE ARE FREE
A People’s Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter TEHAMA LOPEZ BUNYASI and CANDIS WATTS SMITH
Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada Edited by RODNEY DIVERLUS, SANDY HUDSON, and SYRUS MARCUS WARE
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 $18.95 • 288 Pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-3648-2
An anthology of African-Canadian writing addressing the most urgent issues facing the Black community $27.95 • 368 Pages • Paper • 978-0-8897-7694-4 Published by University of Regina Press
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H E A LT H ADVERSE EVENTS
TOXIC SHOCK
Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals
A Social History
JILL A. FISHER
“Vostral uses the social history of toxic shock syndrome as a cautionary tale...” —CHOICE Magazine
Explores the social inequality of clinical drug testing and its effects on scientific results
SHARRA L. VOSTRAL
$30.00 • 336 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-6216-0 In Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice
$27.00 • 240 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1549-4 In Biopolitics
MANAGING DIABETES
MEN AT RISK
The Cultural Politics of Disease JEFFREY A. BENNETT
A critical study of diabetes in the popular imagination $30.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3528-7 In Biopolitics
Masculinity, Heterosexuality and HIV Prevention SHARI L. DWORKIN
Presents a unique approach to HIV prevention at the intersection of sociological and public health research $29.00 • 240 pages Paper • 978-0-8147-2076-9 In Biopolitics
CUBAN HEALTH CARE
BIG FARMS MAKE BIG FLU
The Ongoing Revolution
Dispatches on Influenza, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science
DON FITZ
An inside look at the health care offerings in Cuba $26.00 • 296 pages Paper • 978-1-5836-7860-2 Published by Monthly Review Press
ROB WALLACE
The first book to to connect big agriculture to pandemics and outbreaks $24.00 • 400 Pages Paper • 978-1-5836-7589-2 Published by Monthly Review Press
LABOR STUDIES TELL THE BOSSES WE’RE COMING A New Action Plan for Workers in the Twenty-First Century SHAUN RICHMAN
A timely plan to bring unions back to full strength and help workers stand up for their rights $26.00 • 256 Pages Cloth • 978-1-5836-7856-5 Published by Monthly Review Press
IN THE STRUGGLE A History of Politically Engaged Scholarship in California’s San Joaquin Valley DANIEL O’CONNELL and SCOTT PETERS
Scholars as activists in California’s San Joaquin Valley $24.95 • 368 pages Paper • 978-1-6133-2122-5 Published by New Village Press
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CRIME & SOCIETY COPS, CAMERAS, AND CRISIS
BEYOND RECIDIVISM
The Potential and the Perils of Police Body-Worn Cameras
New Approaches to Research on Prisoner Reentry and Reintegration
MICHAEL D. WHITE and AILI MALM
The first expert and comprehensive analysis of the surprising impact of body-worn cameras
Edited by ANDREA LEVERENTZ, ELSA Y. CHEN, and JOHNNA CHRISTIAN
$25.00 • 200 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-5015-0
$35.00 • 400 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-5388-5
EVALUATING POLICE USES OF FORCE
UNDERSTANDING POLICE INTERROGATION
SETH W. STOUGHTON, JEFFREY J. NOBLE, and GEOFFREY P. ALPERT
Confessions and Consequences
Understanding reentry experiences after incarceration
WILLIAM DOUGLAS WOODY and KRISTA D. FORREST
Uses techniques from psychological science and legal theory to explore police interrogation in the United States
Provides a critical understanding and evaluation of police tactics and the use of force $40.00 • 352 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-1465-7
$35.00 • 320 Pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-1657-6 In Psychology and Crime
E N V I R O N M E N TA L S T U D I E S HURRICANE HARVEY’S AFTERMATH Place, Race, and Inequality in Disaster Recovery KEVIN M. FITZPATRICK and MATTHEW L. SPIALEK
Heartbreaking stories from survivors along the Texas Gulf Coast $28.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0075-9
THE RETURN OF NATURE Socialism and Ecology JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER
A fascinating reinterpretation of the radical and socialist origins of ecology $36.00 • 672 Pages Cloth • 978-1-5836-7836-7 Published by Monthly Review Press
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UNCERTAIN HARVEST The Future of Food on a Warming Planet IAN MOSBY, SARAH ROTZ, and EVAN D.G. FRASER
A menu for an edible future $24.95 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-0-8897-7720-0 Published by University of Regina Press
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G R E AT F O R C O U R S E S NOT GAY Sex between Straight White Men JANE WARD
A different look at heterosexuality in the twenty-first century $26.00 • 240 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-2517-2 In Sexual Cultures
ALGORITHMS OF OPPRESSION How Search Engines Reinforce Racism SAFIYA UMOJA NOBLE
A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms
IMAGINING QUEER METHODS Edited by AMIN GHAZIANI and MATT BRIM
Reimagines the field of queer studies by asking “How do we do queer theory?” $30.00 • 336 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-2948-4
NEW MEDIA AND SOCIETY DEANA A. ROHLINGER
A sociological approach to understanding new media’s impact on society $28.00 • 240 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-4569-9
$28.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3724-3
Honorable Mention, 2019 Distinguished Book Award, Sex & Gender Section of the American Sociological Association
FEMINIST MANIFESTOS A Global Documentary Reader Edited by PENNY A. WEISS
A wide-reaching collection of groundbreaking feminist documents from around the world $45.00 • 704 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3730-4
SURVIVING STATE TERROR Women’s Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina BARBARA SUTTON
A profound reflection on state violence and women’s survival $35.00 • 328 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-2992-7
2012 Best Book Award, Latino/a Sociology Section, American Sociological Association
PUNISHED Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys VICTOR M. RIOS
A classic ethnography that reveals how urban police criminalize black and Latino boys $26.00 • 237 Pages Paper • 978-0-8147-7638-4 In New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law
TOXIC COMMUNITIES Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility DORCETA TAYLOR
Uncovers the systemic problems that expose poor communities to environmental hazards $29.00 • 352 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-6178-1
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