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YOUTH STUDIES White Kids
The Trans Generation
Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America
How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) are Creating a Gender Revolution
MARGARET A. HAGERMAN
“Show[s] how privileged children in a Midwestern town are socialized into whiteness...a sociological gem!” —Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, author of Racism Without Racists
ANN TRAVERS
“[An] insightful evaluation of the lives of transgender kids... an important addition to the growing body of transgender literature.” —Booklist
280 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-0368-2 • $30.00 In the Critical Perspectives on Youth series
288 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-8579-4 • $25.00
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Growing Up Queer
Illegal Encounters
Kids and the Remaking of LGBTQ Identity
The Effect of Detention and Deportation on Young People
MARY ROBERTSON
Edited by DEBORAH A. BOEHM and SUSAN J. TERRIO
LGBTQ kids reveal what it’s like to be young and queer today.
“Powerful and heart-wrenching... a valuable read for anyone wishing to know more about how immigration laws affect youth.” —Tanya Golash-Boza, University of California, Merced
224 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-7694-5 • $26.00 In the Critical Perspectives on Youth series NOVEMBER 2018
256 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-6107-1 • $30.00 FEBRUARY 2019
MEDIA & SOCIETY Algorithms of Oppression
America, As Seen on TV How Television Shapes Immigrant Expectations around the Globe
How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
CLARA E. RODRÍGUEZ
“A landmark study of television’s role in shaping popular views of our nation, particularly its racial, ethnic, class, and gender diversity.” —Carlos E. Cortés, author of The Children Are Watching
SAFIYA UMOJA NOBLE
“Noble demolishes the popular assumption that Google is a values-free tool with no agenda... should prompt some soulsearching.” —STARRED Booklist 256 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-3724-3 • $28.00
2018 Everett Lee Hunt Award, Eastern Communication Association
Death Makes the News
How the Media Censor and Display the Dead JESSICA M. FISHMAN
“A superb, well-written study of a fascinating phenomenon: our love-hate relationship with graphic depictions of dead bodies.” —Todd Gitlin, author of Media Unlimited
240 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-1852-5 • $28.00
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New Media and Society DEANA A. ROHLINGER
A sociological approach to understanding how new media shape our interactions, experiences, and institutions. 240 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-4569-9 • $28.00 FEBRUARY 2019
336 PAGES • PAPER 978-0-8147-6045-1 • $30.00
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RACE NEW IN PAPERBACK
Are Racists Crazy?
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How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity
The Racial Politics of the Movie Industry
SANDER L. GILMAN and JAMES M. THOMAS
MARYANN ERIGHA
The story of racial hierarchy in the American film industry revealed through the practices and biases that limit the production and circulation of movies directed by racial minorities.
“A tour d’horizon of the historical relationship among race, racism, and mental illness.” —Kirkus Reviews 368 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-8730-9 • $25.00 In the Biopolitics series
Multiracial Parents Mixed Families, Generational Change, and the Future of Race MIRI SONG
“This innovative and important book helps us understand an important dimension of a world of increasing ethnoracial diversity.” —Edward E. Telles, author of Pigmentocracies
The Hollywood Jim Crow
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240 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-4787-7 • $25.00 FEBRUARY 2019
Fearing the Black Body The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia SABRINA STRINGS
“Illuminates in detail the intertwining of race and body size as key cultural markers.” —Amy Farrell, author of Fat Shame 304 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-8675-3 • $26.00 APRIL 2019
192 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-2590-5 • $27.00
THE LATINA/O SOCIOLOGY SERIES Immigrants Under Threat
Citizens but Not Americans
Risk and Resistance in Deportation Nation
Race and Belonging among Latino Millennials
GREG PRIETO
“Rich, engaging, insightful, and a welcome exploration of the conditions that both constrain and inspire immigrant social movement organizing.” —Cecilia Menjívar, co-author of Immigrant Families
NILDA FLORES-GONZÁLEZ
“A major contribution to the literature on race in general and on Latinos in particular.” —Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, author of Racism without Racists 208 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-4077-9 • $27.00
256 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-2146-4 • $28.00
2017 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, American Sociological Association Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities
From Deportation to Prison The Politics of Immigration Enforcement in Post-Civil Rights America PATRISIA MACÍAS-ROJAS The DeporTaTion-To-prison from deportation topipeline prison the politics new of immigration enforcement america’s immigration regime in post-civil rights america
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“A fascinating and original view of the day-to-day workings of the immigration detention system.” —Susan Bibler Coutin, author of Nation of Emigrants 240 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-3118-0 • $28.00
Honorable Mention, 2018 Distinguished Book Award, American Sociological Association Latina/o Sociology Section
Latina Teachers Creating Careers and Guarding Culture GLENDA M. FLORES
“A milestone study on Latinas in the classroom... Timely, astute, and heartfelt, Latina Teachers is essential reading.” —Vicki L. Ruiz, author of From Out of the Shadows 272 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-1353-7 • $28.00
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WOMEN’S & GENDER STUDIES Graffiti Grrlz
Feminist Manifestos
Performing Feminism in the Hip Hop Diaspora
A Global Documentary Reader Edited by PENNY A. WEISS
JESSICA NYDIA PABÓN-COLÓN
“This extensive, rich, and diverse anthology of collective feminist declarations is a vital source for understanding the long, global history of feminism.” —Estelle B. Freedman, author of No Turning Back
“The prose takes shape like a fly graffiti backdrop and paints a picture that perfectly captures the work these women put in... groundbreaking and gamechanging scholarship.” —Gwendolyn D. Pough, author of Check It While I Wreck It
704 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-3730-4 • $45.00
320 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-9593-9 • $30.00
Surviving State Terror
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Feminist Accountability
Women’s Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina
Disrupting Violence and Transforming Power
BARBARA SUTTON
Explores accountability as a framework for building movements to transform systemic oppression and violence.
ANN RUSSO
“Masterfully reveals intersections of state terror and gender ideologies with clear relevance across space and time.” —Cecilia Menjívar, author of Enduring Violence
280 PAGES • PAPER 978-0-8147-7715-2 • $30.00 DECEMBER 2018
328 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-2992-7 • $35.00
Gender Reckonings
Vulnerability Politics
New Social Theory and Research
The Uses and Abuses of Precarity in Political Debate
Edited by JAMES W. MESSERSCHMIDT, PATRICIA YANCEY MARTIN, MICHAEL A. MESSNER, and RAEWYN CONNELL
KATIE OLIVIERO
“A lucid and wide-ranging analysis of the powerful emotions generated through political claims to vulnerability.” —Jane Juffer, author of Intimacy Across Borders
“A refreshingly up-to-date collection of essays that covers a wide range of theories and debates.” —Suzanna Danuta Walters, author of The Tolerance Trap
336 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-4782-2 • $30.00
384 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0934-9 • $35.00
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Feminists Rethink the Neoliberal State Inequality, Exclusion, and Change Edited by LEELA FERNANDES
“A superb collection of essays and an indispensable teaching resource.” —Amrita Basu, author of Violent Conjunctures in Democratic India 272 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-9530-4 • $30.00
Sex and Stigma Stories of Everyday Life in Nevada’s Legal Brothels SARAH JANE BLITHE, ANNA WIEDERHOLD WOLFE, and BREANNA MOHR
An intimate and original look at the lives of Nevada’s legal sex workers through the voices of current and former employees, brothel owners, madams, and local law enforcement. 320 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-2070-2 • $30.00 JANUARY 2019
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LGBTQ STUDIES NEW IN PAPERBACK
Beyond Trans
The Path to Gay Rights
Does Gender Matter?
How Activism and Coming Out Changed Public Opinion
HEATH FOGG DAVIS
“This highly recommended work offers clear, real-world discussions of issues facing transgender people, along with practical applications and solutions.”—Starred Library Journal
JEREMIAH J. GARRETSON
“This fine study examines how the change in public opinion took place over the years while looking at the ultimate causes of social change generally...An important addition to the LGBTQ bookshelf.” —Booklist
208 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-5808-8 • $17.00
Coming Out of Communism The Emergence of LGBT Activism in Eastern Europe CONOR O’DWYER
“In this masterful and timely study, O’Dwyer shows us how backlash can paradoxically benefit the domestic organizing capacity of LGBT rights advocates.” —Phillip M. Ayoub, author of When States Come Out 352 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-5148-5 • $35.00
352 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-5007-5 • $35.00
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The Gay Marriage Generation How the LGBTQ Movement Transformed American Culture PETER HART-BRINSON
“[A]n important and provocative book that will encourage us to reassess our assumptions of how social change occurs.” —Brian Powell, author of Counted Out 320 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-2623-0 • $30.00 OCTOBER 2018
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Catch and Release
Sustainability
The Enduring Yet Vulnerable Horseshoe Crab
Approaches to Environmental Justice and Social Power
LISA JEAN MOORE
“Elegantly and poignantly interweaves rigorous observation with creative theoretical analysis, personal memoir, and political critique.” —Sarah Franklin, author of Biological Relatives 224 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-4847-8 • $28.00
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On Infertile Ground Population Control and Women’s Rights in the Era of Climate Change JADE S. SASSER
“An impressive contribution to political ecology, feminist theory, and the pursuit of real reproductive justice.” —Betsy Hartmann, author of Reproductive Rights and Wrongs 224 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-9935-7 • $27.00 NOVEMBER 2018
Edited by JULIE SZE
“Argues for and demonstrates a far more comprehensive and unanticipated way of thinking about sustainability in an era of environmental crisis.” —Laura Pulido, author of Environmentalism 304 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-7034-9 • $30.00
Environment and Society A Reader Edited by CHRISTOPHER SCHLOTTMANN, DALE JAMIESON, COLIN JEROLMACK, and ANNE RADEMACHER, with MARIA DAMON
“Essential readings in environmental studies...an excellent introduction.” —Kimberly Smith, Carleton College 416 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-9491-8 • $35.00 INSTRUCTOR’S GUIDE AVAILABLE
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CRIME & SOCIETY The Sex Offender Housing Dilemma Community Activism, Safety, and Social Justice MONICA WILLIAMS
“A remarkable account of how communities respond to sex offender placements.” —Chrysanthi S. Leon, author of Sex Fiends, Perverts, and Pedophiles
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No Place on the Corner The Cost of Aggressive Policing JAN HALDIPUR
“An important contribution and a great read.” —Barry Glassner, author of The Culture of Fear 224 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-8800-9 • $25.00 NOVEMBER 2018
288 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-3649-9 • $30.00
America’s Jails The Search for Human Dignity in an Age of Mass Incarceration DEREK S. JEFFREYS
“A rich and thoughtful book. A powerful condemnation of America’s jail system, but more than that, a plea to reset the starting point for reform.” —Sharon Shalev, author of Supermax 256 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-1482-4 • $28.00 In the Alternative Criminology series
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“Jesus Saved an Ex-Con” Political Activism and Redemption after Incarceration EDWARD OROZCO FLORES
An examination of the efforts of faith-based organizations to expand the rights of the formerly incarcerated 224 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-6454-6 • $30.00 OCTOBER 2018
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Exonerated
A History of the Innocence Movement
Robert J. Norris
ROBERT J. NORRIS
EXONERATED A History of the Innocence Movement
“[An] informative overview of the development of the innocence movement...A useful contribution to an important national conversation about crime and punishment.” —Kirkus Reviews 304 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-2199-0 • $24.00 FEBRUARY 2019
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The Rise of Big Data Policing Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement ANDREW GUTHRIE FERGUSON
“An important book that goes to the heart of issues at the forefront of contemporary life ...Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how technology is changing American policing.” —STARRED Kirkus Reviews 272 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-9282-2 • $28.00
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The Evolution of the Juvenile Court Race, Politics, and the Criminalizing of Juvenile Justice BARRY C. FELD
“Feld is the preeminent expert in the field of juvenile justice….[An] important book.” —New York Journal of Books 392 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-7129-2 • $25.00 MARCH 2019
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The New Criminal Justice Thinking Edited by SHARON DOLOVICH and ALEXANDRA NATAPOFF
“A cohesive examination of what is wrong with the American criminal justice system, and how we might go about fixing it.” —New York Journal of Books 368 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-6861-2 • $26.00 NOVEMBER 2018
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URBAN STUDIES Market Cities, People Cities
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Politics and Community in the Everyday Lives of Arab Americans
The Shape of Our Urban Future
EMILY REGAN WILLS
MICHAEL OLUF EMERSON and KEVIN T. SMILEY
From Bay Ridge to Astoria, this ethnography shows the everyday political lives of Arab New Yorkers.
“A new way to understand cities and shape their policies to create the kind of city that is right for its residents.” —William Fulton, author of Talk City
224 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-5487-5 • $27.00 FEBRUARY 2019
256 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0026-1 • $30.00
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The Taming of New York’s Washington Square A Wild Civility ERICH GOODE
The surprising and unofficial system of social control and regulation that keeps crime rates low in New York City’s Washington Square Park. 336 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-9821-3 • $30.00 DECEMBER 2018
Arab New York
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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. 368 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-9725-4 • $30.00 FEBRUARY 2019
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Taking Back the Boulevard Art, Activism, and Gentrification in Los Angeles JAN LIN
The promises and conflicts faced by public figures, artists, and leaders of Northeast Los Angeles as they enliven and defend their neighborhoods.
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Skateboarding LA Inside Professional Street Skateboarding GREGORY J. SNYDER
“Skateboarding LA is a thing of beauty: urban sociology on four wheels, cultural criminology on the fly, and ethnography at its best.” —Jeff Ferrell, author of Empire of Scrounge
256 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-9570-0 • $30.00 JANUARY 2019
320 PAGES • PAPER 978-0-8147-3791-0 • $30.00 In the Alternative Criminology series
Spaces of Security
I Want to Go Home Forever
Ethnographies of Securityscapes, Surveillance and Control Edited by SETHA LOW and MARK MAGUIRE
An ethnographic investigation into the dynamics between space and security in countries around the world. 280 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-7006-6 • $32.00 JANUARY 2019
Stories of Becoming and Belonging in South Africa’s Great Metropolis Edited by LOREN B. LANDAU and TANYA PAMPALONE
Thirteen true stories about xenophobia and belonging in Johannesburg. 978-1-7761-4221-7 • $35.00 240 PAGES • PAPER
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THE BIOPOLITICS SERIES Personalized Medicine
The Politics of Bodies, Governance, and Power
BARBARA PRAINSACK
Edited by KELLY E. HAPPE, JENELL JOHNSON, and MARINA LEVINA
“A must-read for anyone interested in the future of patient participation in health and wellness initiatives.” —Frank Pasquale, author of The Black Box Society 288 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-1458-9 • $30.00
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Biocitizenship
Empowered Patients in the 21st Century?
Toxic Shock A Social History SHARRA L. VOSTRAL
A history of Toxic Shock Syndrome that brings to light the complexities behind a stigmatized and under-discussed issue in women’s reproductive health. 240 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-1549-4 • $27.00 NOVEMBER 2018
“A vital resource for discussions on how we narrate and navigate engagements with the materiality of bodies.” —Angela Willey, author of Undoing Monogamy 340 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-6053-1 • $32.00
2017 Distinguished Book Award, American Sociological Association Section on Sex and Gender
Contesting Intersex The Dubious Diagnosis GEORGIANN DAVIS
“An essential update to studies of the intersex and a mustread for those interested in social movements, gender, medicalization, diagnosis, and the relationship between science and culture.” —American Journal of Sociology 240 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-8704-0 • $28.00 INSTRUCTOR’S GUIDE AVAILABLE
HEALTH & MEDICINE 2018 Donald W. Light Award for Applied Medical Sociology, American Sociological Association Medical Sociology Section 2018 Distinguished Scholarship Award, Pacific Sociology Association NEW IN PAPERBACK
Calling the Shots Why Parents Reject Vaccines JENNIFER A. REICH
“[A]n essential contribution…. the definitive study of vaccine hesitancy.” —American Journal of Sociology 336 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-7483-5 • $18.95
Health Care in Crisis Hospitals, Nurses, and the Consequences of Policy Change THERESA MORRIS
“Essential reading for anyone wanting to understand how our health system is failing patients.” —Jennifer Block, author of Pushed 272 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-27695 • $28.00
Inequalities of Aging Paradoxes of Independence in American Home Care ELANA D. BUCH
“A compelling examination of homecare that looks at both workers’ and elder’s experiences.” —Jessica Mulligan, Providence College 288 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0717-8 • $30.00 In the Anthropologies of American Medicine series
Unequal Coverage The Experience of Health Care Reform in the United States Edited by JESSICA M. MULLIGAN and HEIDE CASTAÑEDA
“An excellent group of ethnographic studies describing the lived experiences of unfair health insurance in the United States.” —Choice 336 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-4873-7 • $30.00 In the Anthropologies of American Medicine series
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RELIGION Queer Nuns Religion, Activism, and Serious Parody MELISSA M. WILCOX
“Wilcox beautifully demonstrates how serious political and social engagement can emerge from queer religious camp.” —Anthony M. Petro, author of After the Wrath of God 336 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-2036-8 • $30.00 In the Sexual Cultures Series
Postcards from Auschwitz Holocaust Tourism and the Meaning of Remembrance DANIEL P. REYNOLDS
“Incisively scrutinizes the intersection of tourism and Holocaust remembrance...raises important questions about history, tourism, and genocide.” —STARRED Publishers Weekly 336 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-6043-2 • $35.00
Ark Encounter The Making of a Creationist Theme Park JAMES S. BIELO
“A story of many fascinating encounters between fundamentalism, creationism, biblical consumerism, and religious entertainment.” —Timothy Beal, Case Western Reserve University 240 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-4279-7 • $28.00
The Soul of Judaism Jews of African Descent in America BRUCE D. HAYNES
“As rising antisemitism and negrophobia join forces once again...it is immensely valuable to learn how deeply blackness and Judaism are conjoined.” —Howard Winant, University of California, Santa Barbara 272 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-1123-6 • $39.00 In the Religion, Race, and Ethnicity series
NEW VILLAGE PRESS The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race CARL C. ANTHONY
“Among its many treasures, this book offers solutions that lead with equity for the benefit of all.” —Desmond Mpilo Tutu, Anglican Archbishop Emeritus, social activist, Capetown, South Africa 362 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-6133-2021-1 • $21.95
Root Shock How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It MINDY THOMPSON FULLILOVE
“One of the few books that really tries to come to grips with the deep psychological trauma caused by mass displacement.” —Andrea Gibbon, Writing Cities 304 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-6133-2019-8 • $19.95
Placemaking with Children and Youth
Works of Heart
Participatory Practices for Planning Sustainable Communities
Edited by LYNNE ELIZABETH and SUZANNE YOUNG
VICTORIA DERR, LOUISE CHAWLA, and MARA MINTZER
An illustrated, essential guide to engaging children and youth in the process of urban design
Building Village Through the Arts
Citizen artists revitalize place, celebrate culture, and inspire social change 144 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-6133-2085-3 • $28.00
416 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-6133-2100-3 • $30.00
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GREAT FOR COURSES 2013 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, American Sociological Association Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities
Punished Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys VICTOR M. RIOS
“Rios provides numerous conceptual innovations...A book bristling with insight.” —American Journal of Sociology 237 PAGES • PAPER 978-0-8147-7638-4 • $24.00 In the New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law series
Not Gay Sex between Straight White Men JANE WARD
“With a lot of nuanced arguments and a provocative, corrective thesis, Not Gay is undoubtedly a book that demands to be read.” —Gender & Society 240 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-2517-2 • $25.00 In the Sexual Cultures series INSTRUCTOR’S GUIDE AVAILABLE
Finalist, 2016 Lambda Literary Award
Finding Feminism
Modern Families
Millennial Activists and the Unfinished Gender Revolution
Stories of Extraordinary Journeys to Kinship
ALISON DAHL CROSSLEY
JOSHUA GAMSON Foreword by MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY
“A rich portrait of the myriad forms of feminist activism that college women are using to transform identities, communities, and the gender codes of society.” —Verta Taylor, co-author of Survival in the Doldrums 256 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-8409-4 • $28.00
Choice Top Book of 2017
Islamophobia and Racism in America ERIK LOVE
“Original, timely, and chillingly lucid, this work falls within the best traditions of sociology, critical race theory, and institutional history.” —Hisham Aidi, author of Rebel Music 272 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-3807-3 • $28.00
Honorable Mention, 2018 Distinguished Book Award, American Sociological Association Section on Sociology of Sexualities
The Gang’s All Queer The Lives of Gay Gang Members VANESSA R. PANFIL
“An intimate journey through some of the many extraordinary pathways to parenthood available in the early twenty-first century.” —Sociological Forum 240 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-6973-2 • $15.95 INSTRUCTOR’S GUIDE AVAILABLE
2018 W.E.B. Du Bois Distinguished Book Award, National Conference of Black Political Scientists NEW IN PAPERBACK
Convicted and Condemned The Politics and Policies of Prisoner Reentry KEESHA M. MIDDLEMASS
“A sharp policy analysis and...a powerful framework for making sense of the experiences of those with a felony conviction.” —Nikki Jones, author of Between Good and Ghetto 288 PAGES • PAPER 978-0-8147-7062-7 • $30.00
A Bun in the Oven How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization
“A gem of contemporary sociology: a potent reminder of the discipline’s power to work past a culture’s assumptions and, in the process, to articulate the reach and influence of those assumptions.” —Pacific Standard
“Well-researched and fun and offers a useful model for the comparison of two important social movements.” —Journal of American Culture
312 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-7002-8 • $28.00 In the Alternative Criminology series
256 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-8230-4 • $28.00 INSTRUCTOR’S GUIDE AVAILABLE
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MONTHLY REVIEW PRESS The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean GERALD HORNE
“Acutely perceptive and solidly documented, lucidly presented and uncompromising in its conclusions.” — Ward Churchill, author of A Little Matter of Genocide 256 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-58367-663-9 • $25.00
Health Care Under the Knife Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health HOWARD WAITZKIN
“Incisive essays unravel the serious flaws of this failing system and indicate directions that can lead to decent health care as a fundamental human right.” — Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 336 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-58367-674-5 • $27.00
A Redder Shade of Green Intersections of Science and Socialism IAN ANGUS
“A much-needed call for a new scientific ecosocialism of the 21st century.” — Federico Fuentes, editor of Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal 204 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-5836-7644-8 • $22.00
Mapping My Way Home Activism, Nostalgia, and the Downfall of Apartheid South Africa STEPHANIE J. URDANG
“What a saga, both personal and political. Urdang’s strength and decency and narrative gifts shine throughout this powerful memoir.” – William Finnegan, The New Yorker staff writer; Pulitzer Prize winner
A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism ERIC HOLT-GIMÉNEZ
“Eric Holt-Giménez calls on us to become the change we want to see in the food system, so it nourishes the Earth and all beings.” — Vandana Shiva, environmental and food activist; author of Who Really Feeds the World? 280 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-58367-659-2 • $25.00
Can the Working Class Change the World? MICHAEL D. YATES
“Michael Yates’s passion and respect for the class he came out of delivers a book committed not only to defending workers, but also to building their potentials to transform society.” —Sam Gindin, former chief economist, Canadian Auto Workers Union 224 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-5836-7710-0 • $19.00
Creating an Ecological Society Toward a Revolutionary Transformation FRED MAGDOFF and CHRIS WILLIAMS
“Clear, calm prose carving a path towards a sustainable future with the precision of diamond.” — Emma Thompson, actor and environmental activist 388 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-58367-629-5 • $25.00
Miseducating for the Global Economy How Corporate Power Damages Education and Subverts Students’ Futures GERALD COLES
“Anyone who cares about schools and young people and justice will find this book a welcome blast of wisdom and commonsense.” — Bill Bigelow, Curriculum Editor of Rethinking Schools 256 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-58367-690-5 • $24.00
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