Sociology 2023-24

BLACK AND QUEER ON CAMPUS

Michael P. Jeffries

“Jeffries interviews Black L.G.B.T.Q. college students to illustrate the struggles they face in finding belonging at both predominantly white and historically Black institutions.” New York Times Book Review

THE SHAMING STATE

How the U.S. Treats Citizens in Need

Sara Salman

A riveting indictment of a government that fails to help citizens in need of aid, protection, and humanity

THE REPRODUCTION OF INEQUALITY

How Class Shapes the Pregnant Body and Infant Health

Katherine Mason

An important analysis of the difference class makes in reproductive health choices

THE VIOLENT UNDERPINNINGS OF

AMERICAN LIFE

How Violence Maintains Social Order in the US

Liam Downey

A damning examination of how violence serves to maintain social order and elite power in the United States

THE PEER EFFECT

How Your Peers Shape Who You Are and Who You Will Become

Syed Ali and Margaret M. Chin

How the power of peers and peer culture shapes individual behavior and future success

DISCIPLINARY FUTURES

Sociology in Conversation with American, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies

Edited by Nadia Y. Kim and Pawan Dhingra

Reimagines how race, ethnicity, imperialism, and colonialism can be central to social science research and methods

BROWN AND GAY IN LA

The Lives of Immigrant Sons

Anthony Christian Ocampo Co-Winner of the 2023 Latino/a Section Best Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association

In Asian American Sociology

FALSE STARTS

The Segregated Lives of Preschoolers

Casey Stockstill

An inside look at the racial and class divides between Head Start and private pre-K classrooms for children and their families

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DENIED

Women, Sports, and the Contradictions of Identity

Michelle J. Manno

A courtside view of how women athletes’ identities are policed, on and off the court

GENDER REPLAY

On Kids, Schools, and Feminism

Edited by Freeden Blume

Oeur and C. J. Pascoe

The first book-length critical reception of Barrie Thorne’s classic book, ‘Gender Play’

In Critical Perspectives on Youth

THE

PORNIFICATION OF AMERICA

How Raunch Culture Is Ruining Our Society

Bernadette Barton

“Persuasively argues that ‘equating hypersexualization with sex positivity is a form of Orwellian doublespeak.’”

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SCARRED

A Feminist Journey Through Pain

L. Ayu Saraswati

“Drawing on her travels across 20 countries in just over a year, Saraswati, a professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies, shines a feminist light on pain.”

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—New York Times Book Review

LGBTQ STUDIES

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—Publishers Weekly

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DADDIES

OF A DIFFERENT KIND

Sex and Romance Between Older and Younger Adult Gay Men

Tony Silva

An intimate look at gay and bisexual daddies and their younger partners

BI

Bisexual, Pansexual, Fluid, and Nonbinary Youth

Ritch C. Savin-Williams

“An essential book for activists, practitioners, and scholars of youth and sexuality.”

—Choice

408 PP | PAPER | $35 9781479808786

MALE

FEMININITIES

Edited by Dana Berkowitz, Elroi J. Windsor, and C. Winter Han

Innovative essays that explore how men perform femininity and what femininity looks like without women

QUEERING THE MIDWEST

Forging LGBTQ Community

Clare Forstie

How LGBTQ community life in a small Midwestern city differs from that in larger cities with established gayborhoods

INDIGENOUS MEMORY,

Michelle R. Jacobs Contemporary accounts of urban Native identity in two pan-Indian communities

THE

How the Government Response to Disaster Endangers African American Communities

Robert D. Bullard snd

“Dr. Bullard is one of the foremost experts of enviornmental justice in the world.”

—The New York Times

LATINA/O SOCIOLOGY SERIES

CONDITIONAL BELONGING

The Racialization of Iranians in the Wake of Anti-Muslim Politics

Sahar Sadeghi

A compelling account of how race and politics have affected Iranian immigrants in the United States and Germany

FORCED

Migrant Mothers in Search of Refuge and Hope

Susan J. Terrio

Features the stories of undocumented mothers who reunite with their children in the US years after fleeing violence at home

MEDICAL

An

SOUTH

Finding Home and Building Community in South L.A. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Manuel Pastor

Winner of the 2022 Latino/a Section Best Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

MINING THE HEARTLAND

Nature, Place, and Populism on the Iron Range

Erik Kojola

A riveting portrait of the cultural struggles and political conflicts of proposed copper-nickel mines in Minnesota’s Iron Range

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COAL, CAGES, CRISIS

The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia

Judah Schept

How prisons became economic development strategies for rural Appalachian communities

DOWNWIND OF THE ATOMIC STATE

Atmospheric Testing and the Rise of the Risk Society

James C. Rice

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LABOR AND WORK

THE

OPPORTUNITY TRAP

High-Skilled Workers, Indian Families, and the Failures of the Dependent Visa Program

Pallavi Banerjee

2023 Asia and Asian America Section Book Award Winner, given by the ASA

336 PP | PAPER | $32 9781479841042

STUCK

Why Asian Americans Don’t Reach the Top of the Corporate Ladder

Margaret M. Chin

Winner, 2022 Max Weber

Award for Distinguished Scholarship, given by the American Sociological Association’s Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work

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How the scientific community overlooked, ignored, and denied the catastrophic fallout of decades of nuclear testing in the American West

TOXIC LAKE

Environmental Destruction and the Epic Fight to Save Onondaga Lake

Thomas Shevory

The environmental history of “the most polluted lake in America.”

320 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479815685

THE RISE OF DIGITAL SEX WORK

Kurt Fowler

How technology transformed the nature of sex work

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THE MANUFACTURING OF JOB DISPLACEMENT

How Racial Capitalism Drives Immigrant and Gender Inequality in the Labor Market

Laura López-Sanders

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The employer-driven push to systematically replace Black workers with unauthorized immigrants

THE DIGITAL DEPARTED

How We Face Death, Commemorate Life, and Chase Virtual Immortality

Timothy Recuber

A fascinating exploration of the social meaning of digital death

MISOGYNOIR TRANSFORMED

Black Women’s Digital Resistance

Moya Bailey

Where racism and sexism meet—an understanding of anti-Black misogyny

In Intersections

GEEK GIRLS

Inequality and Opportunity in Silicon Valley France Winddance Twine

An inside account of gender and racial discrimination in the hightech industry

CONNECTING AFTER CHAOS

Social Media and the Extended Aftermath of Disaster

Stephen F. Ostertag

A riveting portrait of how one community used the power of culture to restore their lives and social connections in the years after a devastating natural disaster

MOTHERHOOD ON ICE

The Mating Gap and Why Women Freeze Their Eggs

Marcia C. Inhorn

“Those who want to keep their biological motherhood options open may find hope and a sense of community in these pages.” —Booklist

DIGITAL BLACK FEMINISM

Catherine Knight Steele

Winner, 2022 Nancy Baym Book Award, given by the Association of Internet Researchers

In Critical Cultural Communication

UNSUSTAINABLE

Measurement, Reporting, and the Limits of Corporate Sustainability

Matthew Archer

A behind-the-scenes look at how corporate and financial actors enforce a business-friendly approach to global sustainability

@nyupress

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THE

How the Rise of Serialized Storytelling Is Transforming Innocence

Diana Rickard

How serialized crime shows became an American obsession In Alternative Criminology

THE

IMMIGRATION LAW DEATH PENALTY Aggravated Felonies, Deportation, and Legal Resistance

Sarah Tosh

Traces the role of the aggravated felony in today’s deportation regime

THE SLOW VIOLENCE OF IMMIGRATION COURT

Procedural Justice on Trial

Maya Pagni Barak

The arduous, confusing and fraught journey that immigrants take through immigration court

THE POLITICS OF CRIME PREVENTION

Race, Public Opinion, and the Meaning of Community Safety

Kevin H. Wozniak

The role public opinion plays in crime prevention policy

In New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law

THE

POLITICS OF INNOCENCE

How Wrongful Convictions Shape Public Opinion

Robert J. Norris, William D. Hicks, and Kevin J. Mullinix

The political dynamics that shape the Innocence Movement

SEX TOURISM IN THAILAND

Inside Asia’s Premier Erotic Playground

Ronald Weitzer

An in-depth portrait of Thailand’s billion-dollar sex industry

ASIAN AMERICAN SOCIOLOGY SERIES

JAPANESE

AMERICANS AND THE RACIAL UNIFORM Citizenship, Belonging, and the Limits of Assimilation

Dana Y. Nakano

How race continues to shape the citizenship and everyday lives of later-generation Japanese Americans

OUT OF PLACE

The Lives of Korean Adoptee Immigrants

SunAh M Laybourn

How Korean adoptees went from being adoptable orphans to deportable immigrants

THE COLOR OF HOMESCHOOLING

How Inequality Shapes School Choice

Mahala Dyer Stewart

How race and racism shape middle-class families’ decisions to homeschool their children

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

CRITICAL RACE THEORY, FOURTH

EDITION

An Introduction

Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic

A new edition of a seminal text in Critical Race Theory

In Critical America

THIS IS OUR SCHOOL!

Race and Community Resistance to School Reform

Hava Rachel Gordon

2023 AERA Outstanding Book Award Winner

How local educational justice movements wrestle with neoliberal school reform

SOCIAL PARENTHOOD IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

Edited by Clare Huntington, Christiane von Bary, and Courtney G. Joslin

Investigates social parents – people who function as parents but who may not be recognized as such in the eyes of the law

GROWING UP LATINX

Coming of Age in a Time of Contested Citizenship

Jesica Siham Fernández Winner, Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award of the Section on Children and Youth, given by the ASA

In Critical Perspectives on Youth

THE HOMESCHOOL CHOICE

Parents and the Privatization of Education

Kate Henley Averett

Honorable Mention, Sex & Gender Section Distinguished Book Award, given by the ASA

In Critical Perspectives on Youth

DRAWING DEPORTATION

Art and Resistance among Immigrant Children

Silvia Rodriguez Vega

Illustrates how the children of immigrants use art to grapple with issues of citizenship, state violence, and belonging

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MUSLIMS ON THE MARGINS

Creating Queer Religious Community in North America

Katrina Daly Thompson

Offers vivid stories of nonconformist Muslim communities

In North American Religions

QUEER JUDAISM

LGBT Activism and the Remaking of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel

Orit Avishai

Offers a compelling look at how Orthodox Jewish LGBT persons in Israel became more accepted in their communities.

GOD’S RESISTANCE

Mobilizing Faith to Defend Immigrants

Brad Christerson, Alexia Salvatierra, Robert Chao Romero, and Nancy Wang

Yuen

208 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479816422

Explores the power of faith to drive resistance to antiimmigration policies in the United States

BEYOND DOUBT

The Secularization of Society

Isabella Kasselstrand, Phil Zuckerman, and Ryan T. Cragun

Demonstrates definitively that the secularization thesis is correct, and religion is losing its grip on societies worldwide

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In Secular Studies

THE

FAITHFUL SCIENTIST

Experiences of AntiReligious Bias in Scientific Training

Christopher P. Scheitle

Reveals biases within scientific PhD training programs against emerging scientists who embrace a religious faith and the ramifications for science

CONCEIVING CHRISTIAN AMERICA

Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics

Risa Cromer

How embryo adoption advances the Christian Right’s political goals for creating a Christian nation

320 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479818594

TRAUMA AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

VIOLENCE NEVER HEALS

The Lifelong Effects of Intimate Partner Violence for Immigrant Women

Allison Bloom

Explores experiences with disability and aging for immigrant survivors of domestic violence across the life course

224 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479822058

In Anthropologies of American Medicine

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In Anthropologies of American Medicine

THE VARIETIES OF SUICIDAL EXPERIENCE

A New Theory of Suicidal Violence

Thomas Joiner

Argues that a range of behaviors such as murdersuicide, terrorism, and mass shootings are better understood as motivated by suicidal impulses than by homicidal ones

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GREAT FOR COURSES

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

FEARING THE BLACK BODY

The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

Sabrina Strings Winner, 2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the ASA

How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years

POLICING THE RACIAL DIVIDE

Urban Growth Politics and the Remaking of Segregation

Daanika Gordon

2023 Edwin H. Sutherland Book Award Winner

A behind-the-scenes account of the harsh realities of policing in a segregated city

THE SOCIOLOGY OF BULLYING

Power, Status, and Aggression Among Adolescents

Edited by Christopher

Donoghue

A new collection on the nature and consequences of bullying

In Critical Perspectives on Youth

TRANS MEDICINE

The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender stef m. shuster

“It is an essential story, one that is not yet complete, as shuster acknowledges. A must-read.”

—Library Journal

KEEPING THE MARCH ALIVE

How Grassroots Activism Survived Trump’s America

Catherine Corrigall-Brown

How activist groups across the country adapted their strategies and tactics to their local contexts to keep the protests alive

DENIAL

How We Hide, Ignore, and Explain Away Problems

Jared Del Rosso

From climate change to fake news, an entertaining and enlightening look at the widespread phenomenon of denial in our society

THE TRAGEDY OF HETEROSEXUALITY

Jane Ward

Winner, 2021 PROSE Award in the Cultural Anthropology & Sociology Category

A troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeToo

In Sexual Cultures

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A NEW GLOBAL GEOMETRY?

Socialist Register 2024

Edited by Greg Albo

Scrutinizes possibilities for an equalised global order, in light of recent conflicts between the world’s major powers

Published by Monthly Review Press

THE DIALECTICS OF DEPENDENCY

Ruy Mauro Marini

Edited by Amanda Latimer and Jaime Osorio

A foundational essay of class struggle published in English for the first time

Published by Monthly Review Press

COMMUNE OR NOTHING!

Venezuela’s Communal Movement and its Socialist Project

Chris Gilbert

Venezuela’s most innovative socialist project, with important lessons for movements worldwide

208 PP | PAPER | $23 9781685900236

Published by Monthly Review Press

THE MYTH OF BLACK CAPITALISM

New Edition

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Deciphers the history of “Black capitalist” rhetoric— and how it serves to enrich a minuscule few at the expense of the many

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Published by Monthly Review Press

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THE

EDUCATION OF AUGIE MERASTY

A Residential School Memoir - New Edition

Joseph Auguste (Augie) Merasty

One Indigenous child’s experience in Canada’s residential schools

Published by University of Regina Press

ZONED OUT!

Race, Displacement, and City Planning in New York City, Revised Edition

Edited by Tom Angotti and Sylvia Morse

Ways the city can address inequalities, promote community-based planning and develop housing in the public domain.

Published by New Village Press

WHO GETS IN

An Immigration Story

Norman Ravvin

An eye-opening account of the Jewish immigration experience in the 1930s, and one man’s battle against anti-Semitic immigration policies.

Published by University of Regina Press

320 PP | PAPER | $27 9780889779228

WHY MEN HURT WOMEN AND OTHER REFLECTIONS ON LOVE, VIOLENCE

AND

MASCULINITY

Kopano Ratele

Published by Wits University Press

288 PP | PAPER | $30 9781776147632