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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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