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HIGHLIGHTS SOUTH CENTRAL DREAMS

MISOGYNOIR TRANSFORMED

Finding Home and Building Community in South L.A.

Black Women’s Digital Resistance

PIERRETTE HONDAGNEU-

Where racism and sexism meet—an understanding of antiBlack misogyny

MOYA BAILEY

SOTELO and MANUEL PASTOR Race, place, and identity in a changing urban America

$28.00 • 248 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-6510-9 In Intersections

$32.00 • 368 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0797-0 In Latina/o Sociology

THE PORNIFICATION OF AMERICA

BI Bisexual, Pansexual, Fluid, and Nonbinary Youth

How Raunch Culture Is Ruining Our Society

RITCH C. SAVIN-WILLIAMS

An up-close look at how porn permeates our culture

What bisexual youth can tell us about today’s gender and sexual identities

$24.95 • 232 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-9443-7

$28.95 • 328 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-1143-4

THE GOVERNMENT OF THINGS

TRANS MEDICINE

BERNADETTE BARTON

The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

Foucault and the New Materialisms

STEF SHUSTER

A rich examination of the history of trans medicine and current day practice

THOMAS LEMKE

Examines the theoretical achievements and the political impact of the new materialisms

$27.00 • 240 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-9937-1

$30.00 • 312 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-2993-4

Winner, 2021 PROSE Award for the Business, Finance &

Winner, 2021 PROSE Award for the Cultural Anthropology & Sociology

Management Category presented by the Association of American Publishers

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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 • 232 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-1681-1

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THE TRAGEDY OF HETEROSEXUALITY JANE WARD

A troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeToo $26.95 • 216 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-5155-3 In Sexual Cultures

GENDER & SEXUALITY WITH HONOR AND INTEGRITY 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

QUEER STEPFAMILIES The Path to Social and Legal Recognition KATIE L. ACOSTA

A compelling examination of the social and legal experiences of lesbian, bisexual, and queer stepparent families $30.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0098-8

STILL STRAIGHT

DISRUPTING DIGNITY

Sexual Flexibility among White Men in Rural America

Rethinking Power and Progress in LGBTQ Lives STEPHEN M. ENGEL and

TONY SILVA

Why some straight men have sex with other men $28.00 • 320 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0110-7

TIMOTHY S. LYLE

Why LGBTQ+ people must resist the seduction of dignity $35.00 • 416 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-9986-9 In LGBTQ Politics Winner, 2021 Honorable Mention Sexualities Section Book Award, presented by the American Sociological Association

THE NEW SEX WARS

CAMMING

Sexual Harm in the #MeToo Era

Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry

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

ANGELA JONES

The first inside look at how sex workers use webcams to make a living $30.00 • 344 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-7487-3

RACE & ETHNICITY THE SOCIOLOGY OF W.E.B. DU BOIS Racialized Modernity and the Global Color Line

THE COLORS OF LOVE Multiracial People in Interracial Relationships MELINDA MILLS

JOSÉ ITZIGSOHN AND KARIDA L. BROWN

How multiracial people navigate the complexities of race and love

The first comprehensive understanding of Du Bois for social scientists

$30.00 • 312 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0241-8

$28.00 • 304 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0417-7

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L AT I N A / O S O C I O L O G Y

BUILDING A BETTER CHICAGO

Finalist, 2020 C. Wright Mills Award, presented by the Society for the Study of Social Problems

ORGANIZING WHILE UNDOCUMENTED

Race and Community Resistance to Urban Redevelopment

Immigrant Youth’s Political Activism under the Law

TERESA IRENE GONZALES

KEVIN ESCUDERO

How local Black and Brown communities can resist gentrification and fight for their interests

An inspiring look inside immigrant youth’s political activism in perilous times

$30.00 • 232 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1488-6 In Latina/o Sociology

$27.00• 208 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3415-0 In Latina/o Sociology

LATINAS IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM

FRONT OF THE HOUSE, BACK OF THE HOUSE

Victims, Targets, and Offenders Edited by VERA LOPEZ and LISA

Race and Inequality in the Lives of Restaurant Workers ELI REVELLE YANO WILSON

PASKO

How Latina girls and women become entangled in the criminal justice system

How workers navigate race, gender, and class in the food service industry

$35.00 • 376 Pages Paper • 9781479891962 In Latina/o Sociology

$28.00 • 240 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0062-9 In Latina/o Sociology

Winner, 2020 Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award, given by the

Winner, 2018 Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship Book Award, given by

Children and Youth Section of the American Sociological Association

the Race, Class, and Gender Section of the American Sociological Association

KIDS AT WORK

Latinx Families Selling Food on the Streets of Los Angeles

LATINA TEACHERS

Creating Careers and Guarding Culture

EMIR ESTRADA

GLENDA M. FLORES

How Latinx kids and their undocumented parents struggle in the informal street food economy

How Latina teachers are making careers and helping students stay in touch with their roots

$28.00 • 224 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-7370-8 In Latina/o Sociology

$29.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1353-7 In Latina/o Sociology

CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON YOUTH SERIES GROWING UP LATINX Coming of Age in a Time of Contested Citizenship JESICA SIHAM FERNÁNDEZ

Latinx children navigating identity, citizenship, and belonging in a divided America $30.00 • 264 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0122-0 In Critical Perspectives on Youth

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THE HOMESCHOOL CHOICE Parents and the Privatization of Education KATE HENLEY AVERETT

The surprising reasons parents are opting out of the public school system and homeschooling their kids $30.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-9161-0 In Critical Perspectives on Youth

E D U C AT I O N HYPER EDUCATION

THIS IS OUR SCHOOL!

Why Good Schools, Good Grades, and Good Behavior Are Not Enough

Race and Community Resistance to School Reform

PAWAN DHINGRA

How local educational justice movements wrestle with neoliberal school reform

An up-close look at the education arms race of afterschool learning, academic competitions, and the perceived failure of even our best schools to educate children

HAVA RACHEL GORDON

$30.00 • 312 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-9005-7

$18.95 • 352 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1266-0

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

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$30.00 • 296 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3407-5 In Critical Perspectives on Youth

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

How Latinx kids and their 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

$16.95 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1200-4

$30.00 • 280 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0570-9

SMART SUITS, TATTERED BOOTS

STUDYING LIVED RELIGION

Black Ministers Mobilizing the Black Church in the Twenty-First Century

Contexts and Practices

KORIE LITTLE EDWARDS AND MICHELLE OYAKAWA

Explores the complex role that Black religious leaders play—or don’t play—in twenty-firstcentury racial justice efforts

NANCY TATOM AMMERMAN

Offers an overarching definition and framework for the study of religion as it manifests itself in everyday life $30.00 • 288 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0434-4

$27.00 • 208 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1253-0 Coming February 2022

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URBAN STUDIES Winner, 2021 Glenda Laws Award presented by the American Association of Geographers

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 • 336 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3573-7

THE SUSTAINABILITY MYTH Environmental Gentrification and the Politics of Justice MELISSA CHECKER

Uncovers the hidden costs and contradictions of sustainable policies in an era driven by real estate development $30.00 • 280 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-5527-8

Winner, 2021 Edited Volume Honorable Mention Award presented by the Association for the Study of Food and Society

A RECIPE FOR GENTRIFICATION Food, Power, and Resistance in the City Edited by ALISON HOPE ALKON, YUKI KATO and JOSHUA SBICCA How gentrification uproots the urban food landscape, and what activists are doing to resist it $35.00 • 384 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1137-3

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 • 280 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0490-0

LIBERTY ROAD

CHANGING QATAR

Black Middle-Class Suburbs and the Battle Between Civil Rights and Neoliberalism

Culture, Citizenship, and Rapid Modernization

GREGORY SMITHSIMON

A cultural study of modern Qatar and how it navigates change and tradition

A unique insight into desegregation in the suburbs and how racial inequality persists

GEOFF HARKNESS

$32.00 • 340 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-5482-0

$30.00 • 320 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-6149-1 Coming February 2022 Winner, 2020 Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York history

SUGAR, CIGARS, AND REVOLUTION The Making of Cuban New York

LOOKING TO REFRESH YOUR SYLLABUS?

LISANDRO PÉREZ

The dramatic story of the origins of the Cuban community in nineteenth-century New York $24.00 • 400 Pages Paper • 978-0-8147-6728-3

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CRIME & SOCIETY CRIME TV Streaming Criminology in Popular Culture Edited by JONATHAN A. GRUBB and CHAD POSICK From Game of Thrones to Breaking Bad, the key theories and concepts in criminal justice are explained through the lens of television $35.00 • 376 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-8497-1

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

THE COLOR OF CRIME, THIRD EDITION Racial Hoaxes, White Crime, Media Messages, Police Violence, and Other Race-Based Harms KATHERYN RUSSELL-BROWN

How we can understand race, crime, and punishment in the age of Black Lives Matter $29.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-4315-2

HALFWAY HOUSE Prisoner Reentry and the Shadow of Carceral Care LIAM MARTIN

An inside look at the struggles former prisoners face in reentering society $28.00 • 264 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0069-8 In Alternative Criminology

$35.00 • 320 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0373-6

THE WAR ON DRUGS A History Edited by DAVID FARBER A revealing look at the history and legacy of the “War on Drugs” $30.00 • 368 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1136-6

UNDERSTANDING EYEWITNESS MEMORY Theory and Applications SEAN M. LANE and KATE A. HOUSTON

An essential overview of how perception and memory affect eyewitness testimony $30.00 • 224 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-7711-9 In Psychology and Crime

EVALUATING POLICE USES OF FORCE

GHOST CRIMINOLOGY

SETH W. STOUGHTON, JEFFREY J. NOBLE and GEOFFREY P. ALPERT

The Afterlife of Crime and Punishment

Provides a critical understanding and evaluation of police tactics and the use of force $25.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1016-1

Edited by MICHAEL FIDDLER,

THEO KINDYNIS and TRAVIS LINNEMANN

The haunting effects of crime, violence, and death in our history, memory, and media spaces $35.00 • 384 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-4243-8 In Alternative Criminology Coming January 2022

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HEALTH/MEDICINE BLACK WOMEN’S HEALTH Food, Power, and Resistance in the City

THE BUSINESS OF BIRTH Malpractice and Maternity Care in the United States

MICHELE TRACY BERGER

LOUISE MARIE ROTH

The struggles African American women and their adolescent daughters face in living healthy, active lives

How fear of malpractice affects mothers and reproductive choices

$30.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-9295-2

THE WORLD OF OBSESSIVECOMPULSIVE DISORDER The Experiences of Living with OCD DANA FENNELL

Beyond trivialization and misunderstanding, the realities of people experiencing OCD $30.00 • 288 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-7234-3 Coming January 2022

$35.00 • 336 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-7708-9

EXTREME WEIGHT LOSS Life Before and After Bariatric Surgery SARAH TRAINER, ALEXANDRA BREWIS and AMBER WUTICH

A study that explores patients’ perspectives on a life-altering surgery $28.00 • 224 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0395-8

FA M I L Y & Y O U T H JUST LIKE FAMILY

UNACCOMPANIED

How Companion Animals Joined the Household

The Plight of Immigrant Youth at the Border

ANDREA LAURENT-SIMPSON

EMILY RUEHS-NAVARRO

The rise and increasingly important role of companion animals in our families

Explores how humanitarian aid workers help and hinder the care of unaccompanied children as they arrive in the United States

$30.00 • 312 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-5262-8 In Animals in Context

TRANS-AFFIRMATIVE PARENTING Raising Kids Across the Gender Spectrum ELIZABETH RAHILLY

First-hand accounts of how parents support their transgender children $28.00 • 224 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1715-3

$28.00 • 240 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3861-5 In Critical Perspectives on Youth Coming February 2022

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

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G R E AT F O R C O U R S E S Winner, 2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, presented by the American Sociological Association

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

Winner, 2019 William J. Goode Book Award, presented by the Family Section of the American Sociological Association

WHITE KIDS

Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America SMARGARET 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 Winner, 2019 PROSE Award for Anthropology, Criminology and

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 $28.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3724-3

Anthropology, presented by the Association of American Publishers

THE TRANS GENERATION

How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) are Creating a Gender Revolution ANN TRAVERS

A groundbreaking look at the lives of transgender children and their families $18.95 • 288 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-4041-0

STAY WOKE

WHITER

A People’s Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter TEHAMA LOPEZ BUNYASI and

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

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 $18.95 • 288 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3648-2 Winner, Best Book Award, Latino/a Sociology Section, presented by the 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

$25.00 • 280 Pages Paper • 9781479800292

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 $35.00 • 312 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3129-6

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PA R T N E R P R E S S E S THE UNRAVELLING Incest and the Destruction of a Family DONNA BESEL

In a family torn apart by sexual violence, a daughter finds clarity and redemption in telling her story $18.95 • 280 Pages Paper • 978-0-8897-7843-6 In The Regina Collection, Published by University of Regina Press

HONOURING THE DECLARATION Church Commitments to Reconciliation and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 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

#BLACKINSCHOOL HABIBA COOPER DIALLO

A firsthand account of systemic anti-Black racism in Canadian schools $17.95 • 122 Pages Paper • 978-0-8897-7818-4 Published by University of Regina Press

GEHL V CANADA Challenging Sex Discrimination in the Indian Act LYNN GEHL

How the Gehl decision advanced indigenous rights in Canada 9780889778252 • 288 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1657-6 Published by University of Regina Press

SURFACING

RESISTANCE

On being black and feminist in South Africa Edited by DESIREE LEWIS and

Righteous Rage in the Age of #MeToo Edited by SUE GOYETTE Writers across the globe speak out against sexual assault and abuse in this powerful new poetry anthology, edited by Sue Goyette

GABEBA BADEROON

A collection of essays on black feminism in the South African context $35.00 • 328 Pages Paper • 978-1-7761-4609-3 Published by Wits University Press

$21.95 • 176 Pages Paper • 978-0-8897-7801-6 Published by University of Regina Press

DECOLONISING THE HUMAN

PORTRAITS OF RACIAL JUSTICE

Reflections from Africa on difference and oppression Edited by MELISSA STEYN AND WILLIAM MPOFU

Americans Who Tell the Truth

Examines the ongoing project of constituting ‘the human’ in light of the durability of coloniality and the persistence of multiple oppressions $35.00 • 260 Pages Paper • 978-1-7761-4651-2 Published by Wits University Press GET 30% OFF AND FREE SHIPPING* WITH COUPON SOCIO21-FM

ROBERT SHETTERLY

A vivid portrait collection of past and present Americans speaking truth to power $34.95 • 128 Pages Cloth • 978-1-6133-2163-8 Published by New Village Press

PA R T N E R P R E S S E S JANE JACOBS’S FIRST CITY Learning from Scranton, Pennsylvania GLENNA LANG

A thorough investigation of how Jane Jacobs’s ideas about the life and economy of great cities grew from her home city, Scranton $39.95 • 468 Pages Cloth • 978-1-6133-2139-3 Published by New Village Press

IN THE STRUGGLE Scholars and the Fight against Industrial Agribusiness in California DANIEL J. O’CONNELL and SCOTT J. PETERS

A call to action in an ongoing battle against industrial agriculture $24.95 • 368 Pages Paper • 978-1-6133-2122-5 Published by New Village Press

HOW SPACES BECOME PLACES

DEAD EPIDEMIOLOGISTS

Place Makers Tell Their Stories

On the Origins of COVID-19

JOHN F. FORESTER

ROB WALLACE

Useful and inspiring cases illustrate participatory placemaking practices and strategies

A history of COVID-19 and the sociopolitical crises that led to the 2020 global pandemic

$30.00 • 320 Pages Paper • 978-1-6133-2142-3 Published by New Village Press

$17.00 • 260 Pages Paper • 978-1-5836-7902-9 Published by Monthly Review Press

THE LABOR GUIDE TO RETIREMENT PLANS

PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS IN SOUTH AFRICA

For Union Organizers and Employees

Critical voices from the past Edited by CHRIS BROODRYK

JAMES W. RUSSELL

This edited collection gives voice to neglected public intellectuals in the arts, humanities, and journalism in South Africa who gave voice and presence to those who have been marginalized and silenced in South African history

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 Published by Monthly Review Press

DISSENTING POWS From Vietnam’s Hoa Lo Prison to America Today TOM WILBER and JERRY LEMBCKE

A fresh look at the resistance of US troops to the American war in Vietnam $19.00 • 160 Pages Paper • 978-1-5836-7908-1 Published by Monthly Review Press

$35.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-7761-4689-5 Published by Wits University Press

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