Sociology 2024-2025

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CHILDREN OF A TROUBLED TIME

GROWING UP WITH RACISM IN TRUMP’S AMERICA

MARGARET A. HAGERMAN

“Hagerman’s data is chillingly thorough, and her argument is well supported and convincing.”

—Kirkus Reviews

240 PP | CLOTH | $27.95 | 9781479815111

A COLD WAR EXODUS HOW AMERICAN ACTIVISTS MOBILIZED TO FREE SOVIET JEWS

SHAUL KELNER

Reveals the invention of the mass mobilization tactics that helped free Soviet Jews

456 PP | CLOTH | $35.00 | 9781479879397

THERE WAS NOTHING THERE WILLIAMSBURG, THE GENTRIFICATION OF A BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOOD

SARA MARTUCCI

BEFORE THE BADGE HOW ACADEMY TRAINING SHAPES POLICE VIOLENCE

SAMANTHA J. SIMON

“This trenchant study of the institutional origins of police violence deserves a wide readership.”

Publishers Weekly, STARRED

304 PP | CLOTH | $28.95 | 9781479813278

“ARE YOU CALLING ME A RACIST?”

WHY WE NEED TO STOP TALKING ABOUT RACE AND START MAKING REAL ANTIRACIST CHANGE

SARITA SRIVASTAVA

“Exposes the flaws of ‘feel-good’ antiracist workshops, instead calling for ... real reforms.”

—Kirkus Reviews

352 PP | CLOTH | $28.00 | 9781479815258

240 PP | PAPER | $30.00 | 9781479815579

WHEN ANIMALS DIE EXAMINING JUSTIFICATIONS AND ENVISIONING JUSTICE

EDITED BY KATJA M. GUENTHER AND JULIAN PAUL KEENAN

Explores human–animal relations and deaths with depth and hope

Explores the daily, lived effects of gentrification for neighborhood residents 264 PP | PAPER | $35.00 | 9781479818891

In Animals in Context

UNSETTLED

AMERICAN JEWS AND THE MOVEMENT FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE

OREN KROLL-ZELDIN

Examines how young Jewish Americans’ fundamentally Jewish values have led them to organize in solidarity with Palestinians

PEER EFFECT HOW YOUR PEERS SHAPE WHO YOU ARE AND WHO YOU WILL BECOME SYED ALI

MARGARET M. CHIN

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

GOOD GUYS BAD GUYS THE PERILS OF MEN’S GENDER ACTIVISM

EMILY K. CARIAN

Explores questions of masculinity, privilege, and identity to explain why some men become feminists while others become men’s rights activists

272 PP | PAPER | $30.00 | 9781479821013

NATURAL BLACK BEAUTY AND THE POLITICS OF HAIR CHELSEA MARY ELISE JOHNSON

How Black women celebrate their natural hair and uproot racialized beauty standards

288 PP | CLOTH | $30.00 | 9781479814732

THE THIRD NET

THE HIDDEN SYSTEM OF MIGRANT HEALTH CARE

LISA SUN-HEE PARK, E RIN HOEKSTRA, AND A NTHONY M. JIMENEZ

Reveals the presence of an informal system of valuable support and care for marginalized migrants

256 PP | PAPER | $30.00 | 9781479821563

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 care choices

296 PP | PAPER | $30.00 | 9781479801947

MICHELLE J. MANNO

240 PP | PAPER | $28.00 | 9781479885381 DENIED WOMEN, SPORTS, AND THE CONTRADICTIONS OF IDENTITY

ELDER CARE IN CRISIS HOW THE SOCIAL SAFETY NET FAILS FAMILIES

EMILY K. ABEL

Explains why there is a crisis in caring for elderly people and how the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated it

A courtside view of how women athletes’ identities are policed, on and off the court 232 PP | PAPER | $28.00 | 9781479815395

SCARRED A FEMINIST JOURNEY THROUGH PAIN

L. AYU SARASWATI

PROSE Award Winner for Biography and Autobiography

Offers thoughtprovoking theories and life-transforming ways to deal with pain

232 PP | PAPER | $27.00 | 9781479817092

TOXIC SEXUAL POLITICS

TOXICOLOGY, ENVIRONMENTAL POISONS, AND QUEER FEMINIST FUTURES

MELINA PACKER

How the foundation of toxicology has been contaminated by sexist and racist ideologies

OUTSKIRTS

QUEER EXPERIENCES ON THE FRINGE

EDITED BY D’LANE R. COMPTON AND AMY L. STONE

Celebrates diverse queer experiences on society’s margins

336 PP | PAPER | $35.00 | 9781479821501

BLACK

AND QUEER ON CAMPUS

MICHAEL P. JEFFRIES

An inside look at Black LGBTQ college students and their experiences

288 PP | CLOTH | $30.00 | 9781479803910

PAISLEY CURRAH

Winner, Sexuality and Politics Book Award - American Political Science Association

Finalist,

256 PP | PAPER | $19.95 | 9780814717097

DADDIES OF A

SEX AND ROMANCE BETWEEN

TONY SILVA

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

ENTICEMENTS

QUEER LEGAL STUDIES

EDITED BY JOSEPH J. FISCHEL AND BRENDA COSSMAN

Interdisciplinary interventions upon the social and legal regulation of sex, gender, reproduction, and family.

In LGBTQ Politics

408 PP | PAPER | $40.00 | 9781479807611

THE POLITICS OF PERVERTS

THE POLITICAL ATTITUDES AND ACTIONS OF NONTRADITIONAL SEXUAL MINORITIES

CHARLES ANTHONY SMITH, SHAWN R. SCHULENBERG, AND CONNOR B. S. STROBEL

Reveals the politics of non-traditional sexual minorities

280 PP | PAPER | $30.00 | 9781479822744

THE GLOBAL FIGHT AGAINST LGBTI RIGHTS HOW TRANSNATIONAL CONSERVATIVE NETWORKS TARGET SEXUAL AND GENDER MINORITIES

PHILLIP M. AYOUB AND KRISTINA STOECKL

An in-depth look at the global movement to curtail LGBTI rights

FAMILIES WE KEEP LGBTQ PEOPLE AND THEIR ENDURING BONDS WITH PARENTS

RIN RECZEK AND EMMA BOSLEY-SMITH

Why LGBTQ adults don’t end troubled ties with parents and why (perhaps) they should

LAND OF EXTRACTION PROPERTY, FRACKING, AND SETTLER COLONIALISM

REBECCA R. SCOTT

Explores fracking’s dual impact on settler colonial culture and sustainability

240 PP | PAPER | $30.00 | 9781479821266

TOXIC LAKE ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION AND THE EPIC FIGHT TO SAVE ONONDAGA LAKE THOMAS SHEVORY

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

312 PP | PAPER | $30.00 | 9781479815685

UNSUSTAINABLE MEASUREMENT, REPORTING, AND THE LIMITS OF CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY MATTHEW ARCHER

PLANTING WITH PURPOSE HOW FARMERS CREATE A RESILIENT FOOD LANDSCAPE

STEPHEN ELLINGSON

Examines local food movement activism in a period of increasing chaos and division

FOOD ACTIVISM TODAY SUSTAINABILITY, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

DONALD M. NONINI AND DOROTHY C. HOLLAND

Illuminates how food activism has been taking shape and where it is headed

MINING THE HEARTLAND NATURE, PLACE, AND POPULISM ON THE IRON RANGE

A behind-the-scenes look at how corporate and financial actors enforce a businessfriendly approach to global sustainability 272

256 PP | PAPER | $30.00 | 9781479822010

JAMES C. RICE

The catastrophic fallout of decades of nuclear

ERIK KOJOLA

The cultural struggles and political conflicts of proposed coppernickel mines in Minnesota’s Iron Range

BEACH POLITICS SOCIAL, RACIAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE ON THE SHORELINE EDITED BY SETHA LOW

Explores how elites restrict access to public beaches around the globe

FIERCE, FABULOUS, AND FLUID HOW TRANS HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WORK AT GENDER NONCONFORMITY

LJ SLOVIN

240 PP | PAPER | $30.00 | 9781479819607

Highlights the work trans youth do to create inclusive spaces in schools 224

FALSE STARTS THE SEGREGATED LIVES OF PRESCHOOLERS

CASEY STOCKSTILL

“A thorough account of the history... [and] an enlightening study of the promises and obstacles of US preschools.” —Foreword Reviews

232 PP | CLOTH | $28.00 | 9781479815005

288 PP |

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

CONDITIONAL BELONGING

THE RACIALIZATION OF IRANIANS IN THE WAKE OF ANTI-MUSLIM POLITICS

SAHAR SADEGHI

How race and politics have affected Iranian immigrants in the United States and Germany

WHITE KIDS

GROWING UP WITH PRIVILEGE IN A

MARGARET A. HAGERMAN

Finalist, 2019 C. Wright Mills Award

Riveting stories of how affluent, white children learn about race

THE COLOR OF HOMESCHOOLING HOW INEQUALITY SHAPES SCHOOL CHOICE

MAHALA DYER STEWART 2023 C. Wright Mills Award Finalist

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

MARKED MEN BLACK POLITICIANS AND THE RACIALIZATION OF SCANDAL

NYRON N. CRAWFORD

Examines Black Americans’ suspicion about the potential political harassment of Black elected officials

208 PP | PAPER | $30.00 | 9781479816330

GEEK GIRLS INEQUALITY AND OPPORTUNITY IN SILICON VALLEY

FRANCE WINDDANCE TWINE

Choice Outstanding

Academic Title for 2023

Gender and racial discrimination in the high-tech industry

FUTURE OF POLICE REFORM THE U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AND THE PROMISE OF LAWFUL POLICING

SAMUEL WALKER

The first thorough study of the Justice Department’s pattern or practice program

BIRTH IN TIMES OF DESPAIR REPRODUCTIVE VIOLENCE ON THE US-MEXICO BORDER

CARINA HECKERT

Explores forms of maternal harm stemming from US policies on the USMexico border

THE NEW TRUE CRIME HOW THE RISE OF SERIALIZED STORYTELLING IS TRANSFORMING INNOCENCE

DIANA RICKARD

How serialized crime shows became an American obsession

In Alternative Criminology

THE RISE OF DIGITAL SEX WORK

KURT FOWLER

How technology transformed the nature of sex work

An in-depth portrait of Thailand’s billiondollar sex industry

THE IMMIGRATION LAW DEATH PENALTY AGGRAVATED FELONIES, DEPORTATION, AND LEGAL RESISTANCE

SARAH TOSH

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

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

DAVID CAMPBELL AND JARROD SHANAHAN

A unique insider perspective of daily life in New York City’s most notorious house of correction

240 PP |

OUT OF PLACE

THE LIVES OF KOREAN ADOPTEE IMMIGRANTS

SUNAH M LAYBOURN

How Korean adoptees went from being adoptable orphans to deportable immigrants

BROWN AND GAY IN LA THE LIVES OF IMMIGRANT SONS

ANTHONY CHRISTIAN OCAMPO

Co-Winner of the 2023 Latino/a Section Best Book Award

The stories of secondgeneration immigrant gay men coming of age in Los Angeles

JAPANESE AMERICANS AND THE RACIAL UNIFORM CITIZENSHIP, BELONGING, AND THE LIMITS OF ASSIMILATION

DANA Y. NAKANO

How race continues to shape the lives of latergeneration Japanese Americans

CONTESTED AMERICANS

MIXED-STATUS FAMILIES IN ANTI-IMMIGRANT TIMES

CASSAUNDRA RODRIGUEZ

2023 C. Wright Mills Award Finalist

The impossible choices mixed-status families often face for their loved ones

MEDICAL LEGAL VIOLENCE

HEALTH CARE AND IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT AGAINST LATINX NONCITIZENS

MEREDITH VAN NATTA

How punitive immigration policies undermine the health of Latinx immigrants

PRIVATE VIOLENCE

LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN AND THE STRUGGLE FOR ASYLUM

CAROL CLEAVELAND AND MICHELE WASLIN

How the US asylum process fails to protect against claims of gender-based violence

UNINSURED IN CHICAGO

HOW THE SOCIAL SAFETY NET LEAVES LATINOS BEHIND

ROBERT VARGAS

Why millions of Latinx people don’t access the healthcare system, even in times of need

THE MANUFACTURING OF JOB DISPLACEMENT HOW RACIAL CAPITALISM DRIVES IMMIGRANT AND GENDER INEQUALITY IN THE LABOR MARKET

LAURA LÓPEZ-SANDERS

The push to replace Black workers with unauthorized immigrants

312 PP | PAPER | $30.00 | 9781479822997

SEX WORK TODAY EROTIC LABOR IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY EDITED BY ANGELA JONES, BARBARA G. BRENTS, AND BERNADETTE BARTON

Current trends in sex work, from sugar relationships and cyber brothels to financial domination, activism, and feminist porn

400 PP | PAPER | $35.00 | 9781479821341

THE OPPORTUNITY TRAP

HIGH-SKILLED WORKERS, INDIAN FAMILIES, AND THE FAILURES OF THE DEPENDENT VISA PROGRAM

PALLAVI BANERJEE

Winner of the 2023 ASA Section on Asia and Asian America’s Book Award

PREGNANT AT WORK

LOW-WAGE WORKERS, POWER, AND TEMPORAL INJUSTICE

ELISE ANDAYA

A compelling analysis of social inequality through the perspective of pregnant, low-wage service workers

RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AND LIVED RELIGION TRANSFORMING MASS INCARCERATION IN CHICAGO

JASON A. SPRINGS

Frames restorative justice as a form of spiritual practice In Religion and Social Transformation

272 PP | PAPER |

GOODBYE RELIGION THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF SECULARIZATION

RYAN T. CRAGUN AND JESSE M. SMITH

Examines why so many are leaving religion, and what that means for American society

In Secular Studies

THE CHURCH OF STOP SHOPPING AND RELIGIOUS ACTIVISM COMBATTING CONSUMERISM AND CLIMATE CHANGE THROUGH PERFORMANCE

GEORGE GONZÁLEZ

Explores the activism of this performance group

In North American Religions

CATHOLICISM AT A CROSSROADS

THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF AMERICA’S LARGEST CHURCH

MAUREEN K. DAY, JAMES C. CAVENDISH, PAUL M. PERL, MICHELE DILLON, AND MARY L. GAUTIER, WITH WILLIAM V. D’ANTONIO

Offers an analysis of American Catholicism

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

312 PP | PAPER | $22.00 | 9781479847884

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

216 PP | PAPER | $18.95 | 9781479804467

DISCIPLINARY FUTURES

SOCIOLOGY IN CONVERSATION WITH AMERICAN, ETHNIC, AND INDIGENOUS STUDIES

EDITED BY NADIA Y. KIM AND PAWAN DHINGRA

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

384 PP | PAPER | $35.00 | 9781479819041

THE VIOLENT UNDERPINNINGS OF AMERICAN LIFE

HOW VIOLENCE MAINTAINS SOCIAL ORDER IN THE US

LIAM DOWNEY

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

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

288 PP | PAPER | $30.00 | 9781479814961

TOXIC COMMUNITIES

ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM, INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION, AND RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY

DORCETA TAYLOR

Uncovers the systemic problems that expose poor communities to environmental hazards

352 PP | PAPER | $32.00 | 9781479861781

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

304 PP | PAPER | $32.00 | 9781479804177

SOCIOLOGY MEETS MEMOIR AN EXPLORATION OF NARRATIVE AND METHOD

MARGARET K. NELSON

How sociologists can approach memoir in their writing, research, and in the classroom

PP | PAPER | $28.00 | 9781479827329

RON CAREY AND THE TEAMSTERS HOW A UPS DRIVER BECAME THE GREATEST UNION REFORMER OF THE 20TH CENTURY BY PUTTING MEMBERS FIRST KEN REIMAN

Probes the enduring impact, and devastating fall, of Ron Carey

320 PP | PAPER | $25.00 | 9781685900588

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

228 PP | PAPER | $26.00 | 9781583679821

THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY AND SOCIALISM

SCIENCE AND SOCIETY IN CUBA AGUSTÍN LAGE DÁVILA

Examines Cuba’s approach to scientific research, and distinguishes it from that of capitalist societies

320 PP | PAPER | $29.00 | 9781685900427

THE MYTH OF BLACK CAPITALISM

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

UNCUT A CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF THE FORESKIN

JONATHAN A ALLAN

Explores the significance of the foreskin in contemporary culture

352 PP | PAPER $29.95 | 9781779400307

NEW VILLAGE PRESS

INSPIRED AND OUTRAGED THE MAKING OF A FEMINIST PHYSICIAN

ALICE ROTHCHILD

Reveals Alice Rothchild’s journey from 1950’s good girl to irreverent, feisty, feminist obstetriciangynecologist

336 PP | CLOTH | $27.95 | 9781613322604

CREATIVE INSTIGATION THE ART & STRATEGY OF AUTHENTIC COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FERN TIGER

Describes research that delves deeply into qualitative areas that uncover the soul of a community or an organization

328 PP | PAPER | $44.95 | 9781613322512

ZONED OUT! RACE, DISPLACEMENT, AND CITY PLANNING IN NEW YORK CITY, REVISED EDITION

EDITED BY TOM ANGOTTI AND SYLVIA MORSE

Common sense solutions for affordable housing that is truly affordable

192 PP | PAPER | $22.95 | 9781613322079

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