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AVERTING CATASTROPHE

Decision Theory for COVID-19, Climate Change, and Potential Disasters of All Kinds CASS R. SUNSTEIN Best-selling author Cass R. Sunstein examines how to avoid worst-case scenarios The world is increasingly confronted with new challenges related to climate change, globalization, disease, and technology. Governments are faced with having to decide how much risk is worth taking, how much destruction and death can be tolerated, and how much money should be invested in the hopes of avoiding catastrophe. Lacking full information, should decision-makers focus on avoiding the most catastrophic outcomes? When should extreme measures be taken to prevent as much destruction as possible? Averting Catastrophe explores how governments ought to make decisions in times of imminent disaster. Cass R. Sunstein argues that using the “maximin rule,” which calls for choosing the approach that eliminates the worst of the worst-case scenarios, may be necessary when public officials lack important information, and when the worstcase scenario is too disastrous to contemplate. He underscores this argument by emphasizing the reality of “Knightian uncertainty,” found in circumstances in which it is not possible to assign probabilities to various outcomes. Sunstein brings foundational issues in decision theory in close contact with real problems in regulation, law, and daily life, and considers other potential future risks. At once an approachable introduction to decision-theory and a provocative argument for how governments ought to handle risk, Averting Catastrophe offers a definitive path forward in a world rife with uncertainty.

Cass R. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. He is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. He is the author of hundreds of articles and dozens of books, including Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (with Richard H. Thaler), Conformity: The Power of Social Influences, How Change Happens, and Too Much Information: Understanding What You Don’t Want to Know. Also of Interest! Conformity The Power of Social Influences by Cass R. Sunstein Now available in paperback. Read more on page 39.

April 2021 176 pages • 5 x 8 Cloth • 9781479808489 • $19.95T(£15.99) Current Events

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GROWING UP BANK STREET A Greenwich Village Memoir DONNA FLORIO A vivid memoir of life in one of New York City’s most dynamic neighborhoods Growing Up Bank Street is an evocative, tender account of life in Greenwich Village, on a unique street that offered warmth, support, and inspiration to an adventurous and openhearted young girl. Bank Street, a short strip of elegant brownstones and humble tenements in Greenwich Village, can trace its lineage back to the yellow fever epidemics of colonial New York. In the middle of the last century, it became home to a cast of extraordinary characters whose stories intertwine in this spirited narrative. Donna Florio is a lifelong resident of Bank Street in Greenwich Village. Nurtured by colorful, eccentric neighbors who taught her to “never wonder about life from the outside. Jump in!” Donna has, over the years, worked as an opera singer, a TV producer, a Wall Street executive, and an educator, and has backpacked around the world.

March 2021 240 pages • 5.5 x 8.5 30 black & white illustrations Cloth • 9781479803200 • $24.95T(£19.99) Memoir | New York City Washington Mews Books

Growing up, Donna Florio had flamboyant, opera performer parents and even more free-spirited neighbors. As a child, she lived among beatniks, artists, rock musicians, social visionaries, movie stars, and gritty blue-collar workers, who imparted to her their irrepressibly eccentric life rules. The real-life Auntie Mame taught her that she is a divine flame from the universe. John Lennon, who lived down the street, was gracious when she dumped water on his head. Sex Pistols star Sid Vicious lived in the apartment next door, and his heroin overdose death came as a wake-up call during her wild twenties. An elderly Broadway dancer led by brave example as Donna helped him comfort dying Villagers in the terrifying early days of AIDS, and a reclusive writer gave her a path back from the brink when, as a witness to the attacks of 9/11, her world collapsed. These vibrant vignettes weave together a colorful coming of age tale against the backdrop of a historic, iconoclastic street whose residents have been at the heart of the American story. As Greenwich Village gentrifies and the hallmarks of its colorful past disappear, Growing Up Bank Street gives the reader a captivating glimpse of the thriving culture that once filled its storied streets.

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GILDED AGE COCKTAILS

History, Lore, and Recipes from America's Golden Age CECELIA TICHI A delightful romp through America’s Golden Age of Cocktails The decades following the American Civil War burst with invention—they saw the dawn of the telephone, the motor car, electric lights, the airplane—but no innovation was more welcome than the beverage heralded as the “cocktail.” The Gilded Age, as it came to be known, was the Golden Age of Cocktails, giving birth to the classic Manhattan and martini that can be ordered at any bar to this day. Scores of whiskey drinks, cooled with ice chips or cubes that chimed against the glass, proved doubly pleasing when mixed, shaken, or stirred with special flavorings, juices, and fruits. The dazzling new drinks flourished coast to coast at sporting events, luncheons, and balls, on ocean liners and yachts, in barrooms, summer resorts, hotels, railroad train club cars, and private homes. From New York to San Francisco, celebrity bartenders rose to fame, inventing drinks for exclusive universities and exotic locales. Bartenders poured their liquid secrets for dancing girls and such industry tycoons as the newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst and the railroad king “Commodore” Cornelius Vanderbilt.

Cecelia Tichi is an award-winning author and Professor of American literature and culture at Vanderbilt University. Her books include Civic Passions: Seven Who Launched Progressive America and What Would Mrs. Astor Do? The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age. Cecelia currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee.

Cecelia Tichi offers a tour of the cocktail hours of the Gilded Age, in which industry, innovation, and progress all take a break to enjoy the signature beverage of the age. Gilded Age Cocktails reveals the fascinating history behind each drink as well as bartenders’ formerly secret recipes. Though the Gilded Age cocktail went “underground” during the Prohibition era, it launched the first of many generations whose palates thrilled to a panoply of artistically mixed drinks. April 2021 176 pages • 5.5 x 8 31 black & white illustrations Cloth • 9781479805259 • $19.95T(£15.99) History | Lifestyle Washington Mews Books

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THE PORNIFICATION OF AMERICA How Raunch Culture Is Ruining Our Society BERNADETTE BARTON An up-close look at how porn permeates our culture Pictures of half-naked girls and women can seem to litter almost every screen, billboard, and advertisement in America. Pole-dancing studios keep women fit. Men airdrop their dick pics to female passengers on planes and trains. To top it off, the First Lady has modeled nude and the “leader of the free world” has bragged about grabbing women “by the pussy.”

Bernadette Barton is Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Morehead State University, and the author of Stripped: More Stories from Exotic Dancers and Pray the Gay Away: The Extraordinary Lives of Bible Belt Gays.

This pornification of our society is what Bernadette Barton calls “raunch culture.” Barton explores what raunch culture is, why it matters, and how it is ruining America. She exposes how internet porn drives trends in programming, advertising, and social media, and makes its way onto our phones, into our fashion choices, and into our sex lives. From twerking and breast implants, to fake nails and push-up bras, she explores just how much we encounter raunch culture on a daily basis—porn is the new normal. Drawing on interviews, television shows, movies, and social media, Barton argues that raunch culture matters not because it is sexy, but because it is sexist. She shows how young women are encouraged to be sexy like porn stars, and to be grateful for getting cat-called or receiving unsolicited dick pics. As politicians vote to restrict women’s access to birth control and abortion, The Pornification of America exposes the double standard we attach to women’s sexuality.

March 2021 224 pages • 6 x 9 63 black & white illustrations Cloth • 9781479894437 • $24.95T(£19.99) Current Events

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MISOGYNOIR TRANSFORMED Black Women’s Digital Resistance MOYA BAILEY Where racism and sexism meet—an understanding of anti-Black misogyny When Moya Bailey first coined the term misogynoir, she defined it as the ways anti-Black and misogynistic representation shape broader ideas about Black women, particularly in visual culture and digital spaces. She had no idea that the term would go viral, touching a cultural nerve and quickly entering into the lexicon. Misogynoir now has its own Wikipedia page and hashtag, and has been featured on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time. In Misogynoir Transformed, Bailey delves into her groundbreaking concept, highlighting Black women’s digital resistance to anti-Black misogyny on YouTube, Facebook, Tumblr, and other platforms. At a time when Black women are depicted as more ugly, deficient, hypersexual, and unhealthy than their non-Black counterparts, Bailey explores how Black women have bravely used social-media platforms to confront misogynoir in a number of courageous—and, most importantly, effective— ways. Focusing on queer and trans Black women, she shows us the importance of carving out digital spaces, where communities are built around queer Black webshows and hashtags like #GirlsLikeUs. Bailey shows how Black women actively reimagine the world by engaging in powerful forms of digital resistance at a time when anti-Black misogyny is thriving on social media. A groundbreaking work, Misogynoir Transformed highlights Black women’s remarkable efforts to disrupt mainstream narratives, subvert negative stereotypes, and reclaim their lives.

Moya Bailey is Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies and the program in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University. She is the digital alchemist for the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network and an MLK Visiting Scholar at MIT. “I coined the term “misogynoir” to describe the anti-Black racist misogyny that Black women experience, and to my surprise, it went viral. In Misogynoir Transformed I argue that Black women’s digital resistance to misogynoir, through the creation of new content and digital practices, is a form of self-preservation and harm reduction, one that attempts to redress the negative impact of stereotypes in their lives and on their health.” —Moya Bailey

May 2021 256 pages • 6 x 9 Cloth • 9781479865109 • $28.00A(£21.99) In Intersections African American Studies | Media Studies

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READ AVIDLY. THINK BOLDLY. Avidly Reads is a series of short books about how culture makes us feel. Part memoir, part cultural criticism, each volume in the Avidly Reads series brings to life the author’s emotional relationship to a cultural artifact or experience. Building on the popular online magazine Avidly, founded in 2012 by Sarah Blackwood and Sarah Mesle and supported by the Los Angeles Review of Books, Avidly Reads continues the Avidly project of encouraging experts to offer original, surprising, and entertaining explorations of how it feels to try and understand the world. Avidly Reads invites us to explore the surprising pleasures and obstacles of everyday life. “It is a truth too rarely acknowledged that there is nothing better than being both smart and fun: how lucky for us, then, that Avidly Reads books are both. To delve into them is to engage new ideas without having to sacrifice pleasure for knowledge, or feeling for thinking.” —Naomi Fry, staff writer at the New Yorker

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AVIDLY READS GUILTY PLEASURES ARIELLE ZIBRAK

"My guilty pleasure wasn’t just reading lowbrow fiction or even female-authored fiction, it was being femme itself." What is it about ribald romance novels, luxurious interior design, and frothy wedding dresses that often make women feel their desires come with a shadow of shame? In Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures, Arielle Zibrak considers the specifically pleasurable forms of feminine guilt and desire stimulated by supposedly “lowbrow” aesthetic tendencies. She takes up the overwhelming preoccupation with the experience of being humiliated, dominated, or even abused that has pervaded the stories that make up women’s culture—from eighteenth-century epistolary novels to popular twentieth-century teen magazine features to present-day romantic comedies. In three chapters—“Rough Sex,” “Expensive Sheets,” and “Saying Yes to the Dress”—that mirror the plot structures of feminine fictions themselves, this book tells the story of the desires that only the guiltiest of pleasures evoke. Zibrak reexamines documents of femme culture long dismissed as “trash” to reveal the surprisingly cathartic experiences produced by tales of domination, privilege, and the material trappings of the heteropatriarchy.

Arielle Zibrak is Associate Professor of English and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wyoming. Her work has appeared in The Baffler, The Los Angeles Review of Books, McSweeney’s, and The Toast.

Part of the Avidly Reads series, this slim book gives us a new way of looking at American culture. With the singular blend of personal memoir and cultural criticism featured in the series, Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures reclaims women’s experiences for themselves.

May 2021 176 pages • 4.37 x 7 Paper • 9781479807093 • $14.95T(£11.99) Cloth • 9781479807079 • $79.00X (£65.00) Popular Culture | Literary Studies

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THE CHURCH OF THE DEAD

The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas JENNIFER SCHEPER HUGHES Tells the story of the founding of American Christianity against the backdrop of devastating disease, and of the Indigenous survivors who kept the nascent faith alive

Jennifer Scheper Hughes is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Riverside and author of Biography of a Mexican Crucifix: Lived Religion and Local Faith from the Conquest to the Present. “Catastrophic epidemics ravaged the Americas just as Christianity was becoming the dominant religion. I saw a great wound and injustice in the history of the Church in the Americas. How was American Christianity shaped and defined by terrible epidemic cataclysm? My questions were, what kind of Christianity was being forged in this catastrophe? Given this I wondered how Christianity managed to survive in the Americas? In a Spanish archive, handling five-hundred-year-old documents, I began to piece together a story of how Catholic communities in Mexico both survived epidemics and used religion to map a future for themselves in the face of catastrophic death.” —Jennifer Scheper Hughes

August 2021 272 pages • 6 x 9 25 black & white illustrations Cloth • 9781479802555 • $35.00S(£27.99) In North American Religions Religion | History

Many scholars have come to think of the European Christian mission to the Americas as an inevitable success. But in its early period it was very much on the brink of failure. In 1576, Indigenous Mexican communities suffered a catastrophic epidemic that took almost two million lives and simultaneously left the colonial church in ruins. In the crisis and its immediate aftermath, Spanish missionaries and surviving pueblos de indios held radically different visions for the future of Christianity in the Americas. The Church of the Dead offers a counter-history of American Christian origins. It centers the power of Indigenous Mexicans, showing how their Catholic faith remained intact even in the face of the faltering religious fervor of Spanish missionaries. While the Europeans grappled with their failure to stem the tide of death, succumbing to despair, Indigenous survivors worked to reconstruct the church. They reasserted ancestral territories as sovereign, with Indigenous Catholic states rivaling the jurisdiction of the diocese and the power of friars and bishops. Christianity in the Americas today is thus not the creation of missionaries, but rather of Indigenous Catholic survivors of the colonial mortandad, the founding condition of American Christianity. Weaving together archival study, visual culture, church history, theology, and the history of medicine, Jennifer Scheper Hughes provides us with a fascinating reexamination of North American religious history that is at once groundbreaking and lyrical.

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THE COFFIN SHIP

Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine CIAN T. MCMAHON A vivid, new portrait of Irish migration through the letters and diaries of those who fled their homeland during the Great Famine The standard story of the exodus during Ireland’s Great Famine is one of tired clichés, half-truths, and dry statistics. In The Coffin Ship, a groundbreaking work of transnational history, Cian T. McMahon offers a vibrant, fresh perspective on an oft-ignored but vital component of the migration experience: the journey itself. Between 1845 and 1855, over two million people fled Ireland to escape the Great Famine and begin new lives abroad. The so-called “coffin ships” they embarked on have since become infamous icons of nineteenth-century migration. The crews were brutal, the captains were heartless, and the weather was ferocious. Yet the personal experiences of the emigrants aboard these vessels offer us a much more complex understanding of this pivotal moment in modern history. Based on archival research on three continents and written in clear, crisp prose, The Coffin Ship analyzes the emigrants’ own letters and diaries to unpack the dynamic social networks that the Irish built while voyaging overseas. At every step of the journey—including the treacherous weeks at sea—these migrants created new threads in the worldwide web of the Irish diaspora.

Cian T. McMahon is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Honors College at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and author of The Global Dimensions of Irish Identity: Race, Nation, and the Popular Press, 1840-1880 (2015).

Colored by the long-lost voices of the emigrants themselves, this is an original portrait of an overlooked aspect of the migration process that left an undeniable mark on their new lives overseas. An indispensable read, The Coffin Ship makes an ambitious argument for placing the sailing ship alongside the tenement and the factory floor as a central, dynamic element of migration history.

June 2021 336 pages • 6 x 9 11 black & white illustrations Cloth • 9781479808762 • $35.00A(£27.99) In The Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series History

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IT CAN HAPPEN HERE White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US ALEXANDER LABAN HINTON A renowned expert on genocide argues that there is a real risk of violent atrocities happening in the United States If many people were shocked by Donald Trump’s 2016 election, many more were stunned when, months later, white supremacists took to the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting “Blood and Soil” and “Jews will not replace us!” Like Trump, the Charlottesville marchers were dismissed as aberrations—crazed extremists who did not represent the real US. It Can Happen Here demonstrates that, rather than being exceptional, such white power extremism and the violent atrocities linked to it are a part of American history. And, alarmingly, they remain a very real threat to the US today. Alexander Laban Hinton is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, and UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention at Rutgers University, and the author of over a dozen books including the award-winning Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide.

Alexander Hinton explains how murky politics, structural racism, the promotion of American exceptionalism, and a belief that the US has achieved a color-blind society have diverted attention from the deep roots of white supremacist violence in the US’s brutal past. Drawing on his years of research and teaching on mass violence, Hinton details the warning signs of impending genocide and atrocity crimes, the tools used by ideologues to fan the flames of hate, and the shocking ways in which “us” versus “them” violence is supported by inherently racist institutions and policies. It Can Happen Here is an essential new assessment of the dangers of contemporary white power extremism in the United States. While revealing the threat of genocide and atrocity crimes that loom over the country, Hinton offers actions we can take to prevent it from happening, illuminating a hopeful path forward for a nation in crisis.

June 2021 304 pages • 6 x 9 Cloth • 9781479808014 • $29.00S(£22.99) Politics

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THE PARTISAN GAP Why Democratic Women Get Elected But Republican Women Don't LAUREL ELDER Why Democratic women far outnumber Republican women in elective offices From Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren to Stacey Abrams and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, women around the country are running in—and winning— elections at an unprecedented rate. It appears that women are on a steady march toward equal representation across state legislatures and the US Congress, but there is a sharp divide in this representation along party lines. Most of the women in office are Democrats, and the number of elected Republican women has been plunging for decades. In The Partisan Gap, Elder examines why this disparity in women’s representation exists, and why it’s only going to get worse. Drawing on interviews with female office-holders, candidates, and committee members, she takes a look at what it is like to be a woman in each party. From party culture and ideology, to candidate recruitment and the makeup of regional biases, Elder shows the factors contributing to this harmful partisan gap, and what can be done to address it in the future. The Partisan Gap explores the factors that help, and hinder, women’s political representation.

Laurel Elder is Professor of Political Science at Hartwick College in New York. She is the co-author of American Presidential Candidate Spouses: The Public’s Perspective and The Politics of Parenthood: Causes and Consequences of the Politicization and Polarization of the American Family.

July 2021 256 pages • 5 x 8 9 black & white illustrations Paper • 9781479804825 • $25.00S(£19.99) Cloth • 9781479804818 • $89.00X(£74.00) Politics | Women's Studies

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CHINA'S GRAND STRATEGY A Roadmap to Global Power?

Edited by DAVID B. H. DENOON Leading scholars examine China’s global strategic plans, from Hong Kong to military power, to economic dominance Over the past few decades, China has increasingly challenged the global influence of the United States. This volume brings together a group of eminent scholars to explain China’s rapid ascendance on the world stage, as well as its future implications for global politics.

June 2021 336 pages • 6 x 9 8 black & white illustrations Paper • $38.00S(£31.00) 9781479804092 Cloth • $120.00X(£99.00) 9781479804085 Politics

Contributors address the military, economic, diplomatic, and internal political factors shaping China’s strategy, in addition to highlighting Beijing’s objectives in different parts of the world, such as Central Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Ultimately, they explore the promise and perils of China’s rapidly changing political ambitions, showing how the country has made its mark on the twenty-first century.

David B. H. Denoon is Professor of Politics and Economics at New York University. He is the author and co-editor of many books, including China, the United States, and the Future of Latin America.

AMERICAN LEGAL EDUCATION ABROAD Critical Histories

Edited by SUSAN BARTIE and DAVID SANDOMIERSKI A critical history of the Americanization of legal education in fourteen countries The second half of the twentieth century witnessed the export of American power—both hard and soft—throughout the world. What role did US cultural and economic imperialism play in legal education? This book offers an unprecedented and surprising picture of the history of legal education in fourteen countries beyond the United States. Each study in this book represents a critical history of the Americanization of legal education, reexamining prevailing narratives of exportation, transplantation, and imperialism. Collectively, these studies challenge the conventional wisdom that American ideas and practices have dominated globally.

July 2021 416 pages • 6 x 9 1 black & white illustration Cloth • $60.00X(£50.00) 9781479803583 Law | Education

Susan Bartie is Lecturer in Law at the University of Tasmania. David Sandomierski is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law at Western University, in London.

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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 After Hurricane Katrina, thousands of people swiftly mobilized to rebuild their neighborhoods, often assisted by government organizations, nonprofits, and other major institutions. This book shows that these recovery efforts are not always the panacea they seem to be, and can actually escalate the city’s susceptibility to future environmental hazards. Drawing upon interviews, public records, and more, Min Hee Go explores the hidden costs of community resilience. She shows that—despite good intentions—recovery efforts after Hurricane Katrina exacerbated existing race and class inequalities, putting disadvantaged communities at risk. As cities come to terms with climate change adaptation—rather than prevention—Rethinking Community Resilience provides insight into the challenges communities increasingly face in the twenty-first century. Min Hee Go is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea.

August 2021 256 pages • 6 x 9 20 black & white illustrations Paper • $30.00S(£23.99) 9781479804900 Cloth • $89.00X(£74.00) 9781479804894 Politics | Sociology

BUILDING A BETTER CHICAGO

Race and Community Resistance to Urban Redevelopment TERESA IRENE GONZALES How local Black and Brown communities can resist gentrification and fight for their interests Despite promises from politicians, nonprofits, and government agencies, Chicago’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods remain plagued by poverty, failing schools, and gang activity. Teresa Irene Gonzales shows us how, and why, these promises have gone unfulfilled, revealing tensions between neighborhood residents and the institutions that claim to represent them. Focusing on Little Village, the largest Mexican immigrant community in the Midwest, and Greater Englewood, a predominantly Black neighborhood, Gonzales gives us an on-the-ground look at Chicago’s inner city. Building a Better Chicago explores the many high-stakes battles taking place on the streets of Chicago, illuminating a more promising pathway to empowering communities of color in the twenty-first century.

Teresa Irene Gonzales is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

June 2021 224 pages • 6 x 9 31 black & white illustrations Paper • $30.00S(£23.99) 9781479814886 Cloth • $89.00X(£74.00) 9781479839759 In Latina/o Sociology Latinx Studies | Urban Sociology

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LATCRIT

From Critical Legal Theory to Academic Activism FRANCISCO VALDES and STEVEN W. BENDER Examines LatCrit’s emergence as a scholarly and activist community within and beyond the US legal academy Emerging from the US legal academy in 1995, LatCrit theory is a genre of critical outsider jurisprudence—a vital hub of contemporary scholarship that includes Feminist Legal Theory and Critical Race Theory, among other critical schools of legal knowledge. Its basic goals have been: (1) to develop a critical, activist, and inter-disciplinary discourse on law and society affecting Latinas/ os/x, and (2) to foster both the development of coalitional theory and practice as well as the accessibility of this knowledge to agents of social and legal transformative change. Francisco Valdes is Professor of Law and Dean's Distinguished Scholar at University of Miami School of Law. Considered the “father” of LatCrit, he is the author of numerous law review articles and the coeditor of an acclaimed collection of essays on the history of Critical Race Theory, entitled Crossroads, Directions, and a New Critical Race Theory. Steven W. Bender is Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at Seattle University School of Law. He is the author of Mea Culpa: Lessons on Law and Regret in US History, Run for the Border: Vice and Virtue in U.S.-Mexico Border Crossings, Tierra y Libertad: Land, Liberty, and Latino Housing, and Greasers and Gringos: Latinos, Law, and the American Imagination.

June 2021 224 pages • 6 x 9 10 black & white illustrations Paper • 9781479809301 • $27.00S(£20.99) Cloth • 9781479809295 • $89.00X(£74.00) Latinx Studies | Law

This volume tells the story of LatCrit’s growth and influence as a scholarly and activist community. Francisco Valdes and Steven W. Bender offer a living example of how critical outsider academics can organize long-term collective action, both in law and society, that will help those similarly inclined to better organize themselves. Part roadmap, part historical record, and part a path forward, LatCrit: From Critical Legal Theory to Academic Activism shows that with coalition, collaboration, and community, social transformation can take root.

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CRITICAL DIALOGUES IN LATINX STUDIES A Reader

Edited by ANA Y. RAMOS-ZAYAS and MÉRIDA M. RÚA Introduces new approaches, theoretical trends, and understudied topics in Latinx Studies This groundbreaking work offers a multidisciplinary, social-science oriented perspective on Latinx studies, including the social histories and contemporary lives of a diverse range of Latina and Latino populations. Editors Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas and Mérida M. Rúa have crafted an anthology that is unique in both form and content. The book combines previously published canonical pieces with original, cutting-edge works created for this volume. The sections of the text are arranged thematically as critical dialogues, each with a brief preface that provides context and a conceptual direction for the scholarly conversation that ensues. The editors frame the volume around the “humanistic social sciences,” using the term to highlight the historical and social contexts under which expressive cultural forms and archival records are created. Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies masterfully sheds light on the diversity and complexity of the everyday lives of Latinx populations, the political economic structures that shape enduring racialization and cultural stereotyping, and the continuing efforts to carve out new lives as diasporic, transnational, global, and colonial subjects.

Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas is Professor in the programs in American Studies and Ethnicity, Race & Migration at Yale University. She is the author of Street Therapists: Race, Affect, and Neoliberal Personhood in Latino Newark and National Performances: The Politics of Class, Race, and Space in Puerto Rican Chicago and co-author of Latino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship. Mérida M. Rúa is Professor in the Latina and Latino Studies Program at Northwestern University. She is editor of Latino Urban Ethnography and the Work of Elena Padilla and author of A Grounded Identidad: Making New Lives in Chicago's Puerto Rican Neighborhoods.

August 2021 592 pages • 7 x 10 40 black & white illustrations Paper • 9781479805211 • $45.00S(£37.00) Cloth • 9781479805198 • $120.00X(£99.00) Latinx Studies

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SOUTH CENTRAL DREAMS

Finding Home and Building Community in South L.A. PIERRETTE HONDAGNEU-SOTELO and MANUEL PASTOR Race, place, and identity in a changing urban America Over the last five decades, South Los Angeles has undergone a remarkable demographic transition. In South Central Dreams, eminent scholars Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Manuel Pastor follow its transformation from a historically Black neighborhood into a predominantly Latino one, providing a fresh, inside look at the fascinating— and constantly changing—relationships between these two racial and ethnic groups in California.

Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo is the Florence Everline Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California. She is author of Gendered Transitions, Domestica, God’s Heart Has No Borders, and Paradise Transplanted. She has edited or co-edited five other books. Manuel Pastor is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California where he is also the Turpanjian Chair in Civil Society and Social Change. His most recent book is State of Resistance: What California's Dizzying Descent and Remarkable Resurgence Means for America's Future.

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Drawing on almost two hundred interviews and statistical data, Hondagneu-Sotelo and Pastor explore the experiences of first- and second-generation Latino residents, their long-time Black neighbors, and local civic leaders seeking to build coalitions. Acknowledging early tensions between Black and Brown communities. they show how Latino immigrants settled into a new country and a new neighborhood, finding various ways to co-exist, cooperate, and, most recently, demonstrate BlackBrown solidarity at a time when both racial and ethnic communities have come under threat. Hondagneu-Sotelo and Pastor show how Latino and Black residents have practiced, and adapted innovative strategies of belonging in a historically Black context, ultimately crafting a new route to place-based identity and political representation. South Central Dreams illuminates how racial and ethnic demographic shifts—as well as the search for identity and belonging—are dramatically shaping American cities and neighborhoods around the country.

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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 Homeschooling has skyrocketed in popularity in the United States: in 2019, a record-breaking 2.5 million children were being homeschooled. Kate Henley Averett provides insight into this fascinating phenomenon, exploring the perspectives of parents who have chosen to homeschool their children. Drawing on in-depth interviews, Averett examines the reasons why these parents choose to homeschool, from those who disagree with sex education and LGBT content in schools, to others who want to protect their children’s sexual and gender identities. With eye-opening detail, she shows us how homeschooling is a trend being chosen by an increasingly diverse subset of American families, at times in order to empower— or constrain—children’s gender and sexuality.

Kate Henley Averett is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, and an affiliate of the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, at the University at Albany, SUNY.

May 2021 288 pages • 6 x 9 6 black & white illustrations Paper • $30.00S(£23.99) 9781479891610 Cloth • $89.00X(£74.00) 9781479882786 In Critical Perspectives on Youth Sociology | Education

THIS IS OUR SCHOOL! Race and Community Resistance to School Reform HAVA RACHEL GORDON How local educational justice movements wrestle with neoliberal school reform Parents, educators, and activists are passionately fighting to improve public schools around the country. Hava Rachel Gordon takes us inside these fascinating school reform movements, exploring their origins, aims, and victories as they work to build a better future for our education system. Focusing on a school district in Denver, Colorado, Gordon takes a look at different coalitions within the school reform movement, as well as the surprising competition that arises between them. Drawing on over eighty interviews and ethnographic research, she explores how these groups vie for power, as well as the role that race, class, and gentrification play in shaping their successes and failures, strategies and structures. This Is Our School! gives us an inside look at the diverse voices within the school reform movement, each of which plays an important role in the fight to improve public education. Hava Rachel Gordon is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Denver.

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JUST LIKE FAMILY

How Companion Animals Joined the Household ANDREA LAURENT-SIMPSON The rise and increasingly important role of companion animals in our families From homemade meals for our dogs to high-end feline veterinary care, pets are a growing multi-billion-dollar industry in the United States. Andrea Laurent-Simpson explores the expanding role of animals in what she calls “the multi-species family,” providing a window into a world where almost 95% of adults who share their homes with dogs and cats identify—and ultimately treat—their animal companions as legitimate members of their families. July 2021 336 pages • 6 x 9 29 black & white illustrations Paper • $30.00S(£23.99) 9781479852628 Cloth • $89.00X(£74.00) 9781479828852 In Animals in Context Sociology

With an insightful eye, Laurent-Simpson examines why and how these animals have increasingly become an important part of our households. This book provides a fascinating inside look at our complex relationships with our beloved animal companions in the twenty-first century.

Andrea Laurent-Simpson is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Southern Methodist University.

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 Bariatric surgery rates around the world have increased exponentially over the past decade. In Extreme Weight Loss, anthropologists Sarah Trainer, Alexandra Brewis, and Amber Wutich provide us with an inside look at how patients experience this medical procedure, as well as its far-reaching and complex personal implications. Drawing on patient interviews, survey data, and more, this book explores why people decide to undergo bariatric surgery, and how that decision transforms their lives. This book explores questions about which bodies are treated as though they belong in modern societies, and which bodies are treated as unwanted. April 2021 232 pages • 6 x 9 5 black & white illustrations Paper • $28.00S(£21.99) 9781479803958 Cloth • $89.00X(£74.00) 9781479894970 Sociology

Sarah Trainer is the Research and Program Coordinator at Seattle University for the National Science Foundation-funded SU ADVANCE Program. Alexandra Brewis is President’s Professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University and Co-Director of the Mayo Clinic-ASU Obesity Solutions. Amber Wutich is Professor of Anthropology in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University.

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DISRUPTING DIGNITY

Rethinking Power and Progress in LGBTQ Lives STEPHEN M. ENGEL and TIMOTHY S. LYLE Why LGBTQ+ people must resist the seduction of dignity In 2015, when the Supreme Court declared that gay and lesbian couples were entitled to the “equal dignity” of marriage recognition, the concept of dignity became a cornerstone for gay rights victories. Stephen M. Engel and Timothy S. Lyle explore the darker side of dignity, tracing its invocation across public health politics, popular culture, and law from the early years of the HIV/AIDS crisis to our current moment. With a compassionate eye, Engel and Lyle detail how politicians, policymakers, media leaders, and even some within LGBTQ+ communities have used the concept of dignity to shame and disempower members of those communities. This book challenges our understanding of dignity as an unquestioned good.

Stephen M. Engel is Professor of Politics at Bates College in Maine and an Affiliated Scholar of the American Bar Foundation. Timothy S. Lyle (they/them) is an Assistant Professor of English at Iona College.

June 2021 416 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $35.00S(£27.99) 9781479899869 Cloth • $99.00X(£82.00) 9781479852031 In LGBTQ Politics LGBTQ Studies | 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 Lesbian, bisexual, and queer families formed after the dissolution of a marriage face a range of obstacles. Katie L. Acosta offers a wealth of insight into their complex experiences as they negotiate parenting among multiple parents and family-building in a world not designed to meet their needs. Drawing on in-depth interviews, Acosta follows the journeys of more than forty families as they navigate a legal and social landscape that fails to recognize their existence. Acosta contextualizes the legal realities of LGBTQ stepparent families and reveals the obstacles these families face in family courts during divorce proceedings and custody cases, highlighting their distrust of courts when it comes to acting in their children’s best interests, especially in the event of an origin parent’s death. This important book provides a fresh perspective, broadening our understanding about families in the twenty-first century.

Katie L. Acosta is Associate Professor of Sociology at Georgia State University.

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BLACK WOMEN'S HEALTH

Paths to Wellness for Mothers and Daughters MICHELE TRACY BERGER The struggles African American women and their adolescent daughters face in living healthy, active lives From heart disease and diabetes to HIV and obesity, Black women and girls face serious health risks, lagging behind their white counterparts by every measure of health, well-being, and fitness. In Black Women’s Health, Michele Tracy Berger shows us why this is the case, exploring how the health needs of Black women and girls are uniquely rooted in their experiences with racism, sexism, and class discrimination.

Michele Tracy Berger is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She is the author of many books, including Workable Sisterhood: The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS.

Drawing on interviews with mothers and their daughters, as well as compelling medical data, Berger provides insight into the larger patterns that place Black women at such high risk on a national level. She shows how Black mothers communicate with their daughters about health, sexuality, and intimacy, including how they attempt to promote healthy living standards even as they navigate widespread, systemic challenges. Ultimately, Berger highlights the important role that family—and specifically, the relationship between mothers and daughters—plays in improving public health outcomes. Black Women’s Health takes a much-needed, intimate look at how Black women and girls navigate different paths to wellness.

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TRANS MEDICINE

The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender STEF M. SHUSTER A rich examination of the history of trans medicine and how it is practiced today Surfacing in the mid-twentieth century, yet shrouded in social stigma, transgender medicine is now a rapidly growing medical field. In Trans Medicine, stef shuster makes an important intervention in how we understand the development of this field and how it is being used to “treat” gender identity today. Drawing on interviews with medical providers as well as ethnographic and archival research, shuster examines how health professionals approach patients who seek gender-affirming care. From genital reconstructions to hormone injections, the practice of trans medicine charts new medical ground, compelling medical professionals to plan treatments without widescale clinical trials to back them up. Relying on cultural norms and gut instincts to inform their treatment plans, shuster shows how medical providers’ lack of clinical experience and scientific research undermines their ability to interact with patients, craft treatment plans, and make medical decisions. This situation defies how providers are trained to work with patients and creates uncertainty. As providers navigate the developing knowledge surrounding the medical care of trans folk, Trans Medicine offers a rare opportunity to understand how providers make decisions while facing challenges to their expertise and, in the process, have acquired authority not only over clinical outcomes, but over gender itself.

stef m. shuster is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Michigan State University. Their work on transgender healthcare has appeared in Gender & Society, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, and Social Science & Medicine.

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UNDERSTANDING EYEWITNESS MEMORY Theory and Applications

SEAN M. LANE and KATE A. HOUSTON An essential overview of how perception and memory affect eyewitness testimony In this book, Sean M. Lane and Kate A. Houston delve into the science of eyewitness memory. They examine a number of important topics, from basic research for perception and memory to the implications of this research on the quality and accuracy of eyewitness evidence. The volume answers questions such as: How do we remember and describe people we’ve encountered? What is the nature of false and genuine memories? How do emotional arousal and stress affect what we remember? May 2021 224 pages • 6 x 9 2 black & white illustrations Paper • $30.00S(£23.99) 9781479877119 Cloth • $89.00X(£74.00) 9781479842513 In Psychology and Crime Psychology | Criminology

Understanding Eyewitness Memory offers a brilliant overview of how memory and psychology affect eyewitness testimony, where quality and accuracy can mean the difference between wrongful imprisonment and true justice. Sean M. Lane is Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of Psychology at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Kate A. Houston is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Texas A&M International University.

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 Ben Jones and Eduardo Mendieta bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars across the social sciences and humanities to reevaluate the role of the police and the ethical principles that guide their work.

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This book covers timely topics including race and policing, the use of aggressive tactics and deadly force, police abolitionism, and the use of new technologies like drones, body cameras, and predictive analytics, providing different perspectives on the past, present, and future of policing, with particular attention to discriminatory practices that have historically targeted Black and Brown communities. As high-profile cases of police brutality spark protests around the country, The Ethics of Policing raises questions about the proper role of law enforcement in a democratic society.

Ben Jones is Assistant Director of the Rock Ethics Institute at the Pennsylvania State University. Eduardo Mendieta is Professor of Philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University.

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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 This book brings together an eminent group of scholars to show us the ways in which crime—and the broader criminal justice system— are depicted on television. From Breaking Bad and Westworld to Mr. Robot and Homeland, this volume highlights how popular culture frames our understanding of crime, criminological theory, and the nature of justice through modern entertainment. Contributors tackle an array of exciting topics and shows, taking a fresh look at feminist criminology on The Handmaid’s Tale, psychopathy on The Fall, the importance of social bonds on 13 Reasons Why, radical social change on The Walking Dead, and the politics of punishment on Game of Thrones. Jonathan A. Grubb is Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Georgia Southern University. Chad Posick is Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Georgia Southern University.

July 2021 384 pages • 6 x 9 2 black & white illustrations Paper • $35.00S(£27.99) 9781479884971 Cloth • $99.00X(£82.00) 9781479804368 Media Studies | Criminology

RE-IMAGINING BLACK WOMEN A Critique of Post-Feminist and Post-Racial Melodrama in Culture and Politics NIKOL G. ALEXANDER-FLOYD A wide-ranging Black feminist interrogation, reaching from the #MeToo movement to the legacy of gender-based violence against Black women Drawing on politics, popular culture, psychoanalysis, and more, Alexander-Floyd examines our conflicting ideas, opinions, and narratives about Black women, showing how they are equally revered and reviled as an embodiment of good and evil, cast either as victims or villains, citizens or outsiders. Ultimately, Alexander-Floyd showcases the complex experiences of Black women as political subjects. At a time of extreme racial tension, Re-Imagining Black Women provides insight into the parts that Black women play, and are expected to play, in politics and popular culture.

Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd is Associate Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies and Political Science at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.

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ONE FAITH NO LONGER The Transformation of Christianity in Red and Blue America GEORGE YANCEY and ASHLEE QUOSIGK Irreconcilable differences drive the division between progressive and conservative Christians—is there a divorce coming? Much attention has been paid to political polarization in America, but far less to the growing schism between progressive and conservative Christians. In this groundbreaking new book, George Yancey and Ashlee Quosigk offer the provocative contention that progressive and conservative Christianities have diverged so much in their core values that they ought to be thought of as two separate religions.

July 2021 320 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $30.00S(£23.99) 9781479808687 Cloth • $89.00X(£74.00) 9781479808663 Religion

The authors draw on both quantitative data and interviews to uncover how progressive and conservative Christians determine with whom they align themselves religiously, and how they distinguish themselves from each other, finding that progressive and conservative Christians use entirely different factors in determining their social identity and moral values. George Yancey is Professor of Sociology at Baylor University. Ashlee Quosigk is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Religion at the University of Georgia.

OPEN HEARTS, CLOSED DOORS

Immigration Reform and the Waning of Mainline Protestantism NICHOLAS T. PRUITT A history of mainline Protestant responses to immigrants and refugees during the twentieth century Open Hearts, Closed Doors uncovers the largely overlooked role that liberal Protestants played in fostering cultural diversity in America and pushing for new immigration laws during the forty years following the passage of the restrictive Immigration Act of 1924. These efforts resulted in the complete reshaping of the US cultural and religious landscape.

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During this period, mainline Protestants contributed to the national debate over immigration policy and joined the charge for immigration reform, advocating for a more diverse pool of newcomers. They were successful in their efforts, and in 1965 the quota system based on race and national origin was abolished. But their activism had unintended consequences, because the liberal immigration policies they supported helped to end over three centuries of white Protestant dominance in American society.

Nicholas T. Pruitt is Assistant Professor of History at Eastern Nazarene College.

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KABBALAH AND THE FOUNDING OF AMERICA The Early Influence of Jewish Thought in the New World BRIAN OGREN Explores the influence of Kabbalah in shaping America’s religious identity This book traces the influence of Kabbalah on early Christian Americans. It offers a new picture of Jewish-Christian intellectual exchange in pre-Revolutionary America, and illuminates how Kabbalah helped to shape early American religious sensibilities. The volume demonstrates that key figures, including the well-known Puritan ministers Cotton Mather and Increase Mather and Yale University President Ezra Stiles, developed theological ideas that were deeply influenced by Kabbalah. Some of them set out to create a more universal Kabbalah, developing their ideas during a crucial time of national myth building, laying down precedents for developing notions of American exceptionalism. This book illustrates how, through fascinating and often surprising events, this unlikely inter-religious influence helped to shape the United States and American identity. Brian Ogren is Anna Smith Fine Associate Professor of Judaic Studies at Rice University.

July 2021 320 pages • 6 x 9 5 black & white illustrations Cloth • $39.00S(£32.00) 9781479807987 Jewish Studies

THE COURSE OF GOD’S PROVIDENCE Religion, Health, and the Body in Early America PHILIPPA KOCH Shows that a religious understanding of illness and health persisted well into post-Enlightenment early America The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the power of narrative during times of sickness and disease. As Americans strive to find meaning amid upheaval and loss, some consider the nature of God’s will. Early American Protestants experienced similar struggles as they attempted to interpret the diseases of their time. In this groundbreaking work, Philippa Koch explores the doctrine of providence—a belief in a divine plan for the world—and its manifestations in eighteenth-century America, from its origins as a consoling response to sickness to how it informed the practices of Protestant activity in the Atlantic world. Drawing on pastoral manuals, manuscript memoirs, journals, and letters, as well as medical treatises, epidemic narratives, and midwifery manuals, Koch shows how Protestant teachings around providence shaped the lives of believers even as the Enlightenment seemed to portend a more secular approach to the world and the human body.

Philippa Koch is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Missouri State University.

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SOUNDTRACK TO A MOVEMENT

African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism RICHARD BRENT TURNER Explores how jazz helped propel the rise of African American Islam during the era of global Black liberation Soundtrack to a Movement examines the link between the revolutionary Black Islam of the post-WWII generation and jazz music. It argues that from the late 1940s and ’50s though the '70s, Islam rose in prominence among African Americans in part because of the embrace of the religion among jazz musicians. The book demonstrates that the values that Islam and jazz shared—Black affirmation, freedom, and self-determination—were key to the growth of African American Islamic communities, and that it was jazz musicians who led the way in shaping encounters with Islam as they developed a Black Atlantic “cool” that shaped both Black religion and jazz styles. April 2021 256 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $30.00S(£23.99) 9781479806768 Cloth • $89.00X(£74.00) 9781479871032 Religion | Music

Richard Brent Turner is Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and the African American Studies Program at the University of Iowa.

BLACK FUNDAMENTALISTS Conservative Christianity and Racial Identity in the Segregation Era DANIEL R. BARE Uncovers the voices of Black Fundamentalists during the early part of the twentieth century

May 2021 288 pages • 6 x 9 8 black & white illustrations Paper • $30.00S(£23.99) 9781479803279 Cloth • $89.00X(£74.00) 9781479803262 Religion

Black Fundamentalists challenges the idea that fundamentalism was an exclusively white phenomenon. The volume uncovers voices from the Black community that embraced the doctrinal tenets of the movement and, in many cases, explicitly self-identified as fundamentalists. Black fundamentalists aligned closely with their white counterparts on the theological particulars of “the fundamentals.” Yet they often applied their conservative theology in more progressive, racially contextualized ways. While white fundamentalists were focused on battling the teaching of evolution, Black fundamentalists were tying their conservative faith to advocacy for reforms in public education, voting rights, and the overturning of legal bans on intermarriage. Beyond the narrow confines of the fundamentalist movement, Daniel R. Bare shows how these historical dynamics illuminate larger themes, still applicable today, about how racial context influences religious expression.

Daniel R. Bare is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Texas A&M University.

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THE OTHER SIDE OF TERROR Black Women and the Culture of US Empire ERICA R. EDWARDS Reveals the troubling intimacy between Black women and the making of US global power The year 1968 marked both the height of the worldwide Black liberation struggle and a turning point for the global reach of American power, which was built on the counterinsurgency honed on Black and other oppressed populations at home. The next five decades saw the consolidation of the culture of the American empire through what Erica R. Edwards calls the “imperial grammars of blackness.” This is a story of state power at its most devious and most absurd, and, at the same time, a literary history of Black feminist radicalism at its most trenchant. Edwards reveals how the long war on terror, beginning with the late—Cold War campaign against organizations like the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense and the Black Liberation Army, has relied on the labor and the fantasies of Black women to justify the imperial spread of capitalism. Black feminist writers not only understood that this would demand a shift in racial gendered power, but crafted ways of surviving it.

Erica R. Edwards is Associate Professor of English and Presidential Term Chair in African American Literature at Rutgers University. She is author of Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership, which received the MLA's William Sanders Scarborough Prize, and co-editor of Keywords for African American Studies.

The Other Side of Terror offers an interdisciplinary Black feminist analysis of militarism, security, policing, diversity, representation, intersectionality, and resistance, while discussing a wide array of literary and cultural texts, from the unpublished work of Black radical feminist June Jordan to the memoirs of Condoleezza Rice to the television series Scandal. With clear, moving prose, Edwards chronicles Black feminist organizing and writing on “the other side of terror”, which tracked changes in racial power, transformed African American literature and Black studies, and predicted the crises of our current era with unsettling accuracy. August 2021 424 pages • 6 x 9 14 black & white illustrations Paper • 9781479808434 • $30.00S(£23.99) Cloth • 9781479808427 • $89.00X(£74.00) African American Studies | Women's Studies

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THE QUEER NUYORICAN

Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida KAREN JAIME A queer genealogy of the famous performance space and the nuyorican aesthetic One could easily overlook the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, a small, unassuming performance venue on New York City’s Lower East Side. Yet the space once hosted the likes of Victor Hernández Cruz, Allen Ginsberg, and Amiri Baraka and is widely credited as the homespace for the emergent nuyorican literary and aesthetic movement of the 1990s.

June 2021 224 pages • 6 x 9 19 black & white illustrations Paper • $28.00S(£21.99) 9781479808298 Cloth • $89.00X(£74.00) 9781479808281 In Performance and American Cultures Cultural Studies

The nuyorican aesthetic recognizes and includes queer poets and performers of color whose writing and performance build upon the politics inherent in the Cafe’s founding. In focusing on artists who began their careers as spoken word artists and slam poets at the Cafe, this book examines queer modes of circulation that are tethered to the increasing visibility, commodification, and normalization of spoken word, slam poetry, and hip-hop theater in the United States and abroad.

Karen Jaime is Assistant Professor of Performing and Media Arts and Latina/o Studies at Cornell University.

BORDER OPTICS Cultures of Surveillance on the US-Mexico Frontier CAMILLA FOJAS Examines how the US-Mexico border is seen through visual codes of surveillance

June 2021 224 pages • 6 x 9 10 black & white illustrations Paper • $28.00S(£21.99) 9781479807017 Cloth • $89.00X(£74.00) 9781479806980 In Critical Cultural Communication Latinx Studies | Media Studies

Border Optics considers the US-Mexico border as one of the most visualized and imagined spaces in the US. As a place of continual crisis, permanent visibility, and territorial defense, the border is rendered as a layered visual space of policing—one that is seen from watchtowers, camera-mounted vehicles, helicopters, surveillance balloons, radar systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, and live streaming websites. Camilla Fojas describes how the perception of the viewing public is controlled through a booming security-industrial complex made up of entertainment media, local and federal police, prisons and detention centers, the aerospace industry, and all manner of security technology industries. The first study to examine visual codes of surveillance within an analysis of the history and culture of the border region, Border Optics is an innovative and groundbreaking examination of security cultures, race, gender, and colonialism.

Camilla Fojas is Professor of Media Studies and American Studies at the University of Virginia.

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PAIN GENERATION Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie L. AYU SARASWATI Explores the perils and promise of feminist social media activism Social media has become the front-and-center arena for feminist activism. Responding to and enacting the political potential of pain inflicted in acts of sexual harassment, violence, and abuse, Asian American and Asian Canadian feminist icons such as rupi kaur, Margaret Cho, and Mia Matsumiya have turned to social media to share their stories with the world. But how does such activism reconcile with the platforms on which it is being cultivated, when its radical messaging is at total odds with the neoliberal logic governing social media? Pain Generation troubles this phenomenon by articulating a “neoliberal self(ie) gaze“ through which these feminist activistssee and storify the self on social media as “good” neoliberal subjects who are appealing, inspiring, and entertaining. This book offers a fresh perspective on feminist activism by demonstrating how problematic neoliberal logic governing digital spaces can be and how to best use them. L. Ayu Saraswati is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Hawai'i.

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CREATOR CULTURE

An Introduction to Global Social Media Entertainment Edited by STUART CUNNINGHAM and DAVID CRAIG Explores new perspectives on social media entertainment There is a new class of cultural producers—YouTube vloggers, Twitch gameplayers, Instagram influencers, TikTokers, Chinese wanghong, and others—who are part of a rapidly emerging and highly disruptive industry of monetized “user-generated” content. As this new wave of native social media entrepreneurs emerge, so do new formations of culture and the ways they are studied. Creator Culture introduces readers to new paradigms of social media entertainment from critical perspectives, demonstrating both relations to and differentiations from the well-established media forms and institutions traditionally within the scope of media studies. This volume does not seek to impose a uniform perspective; rather, the goal is to stimulate in-depth, globally-focused engagement with this burgeoning industry and establish a dynamic research agenda for scholars, teachers, and students, as well as creators and professionals across the media, communication, creative, and social media industries. Stuart Cunningham is Distinguished Professor of Media and Communication, Queensland University of Technology. David Craig is Clinical Associate Professor at USC Annenberg’s School for Communication and Journalism and a Fellow at the Peabody Media Center.

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KEYWORDS FOR COMICS STUDIES

Edited by RAMZI FAWAZ, SHELLEY STREEBY, and DEBORAH ELIZABETH WHALEY Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers emerging in the field of comic studies

Ramzi Fawaz is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics. Shelley Streeby is Professor in the Departments of Ethnic Studies and Literature at the University of California, San Diego, and author of Imagining the Future of Climate Change: World-Making through Science Fiction and Activism. Deborah Whaley is an artist, curator, writer, and Professor of American Studies and African American Studies at the University of Iowa. She is the author of two books and numerous articles, book chapters, and poetry. Her most recent book is Black Women in Sequence: Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime.

June 2021 288 pages • 8 x 8.5 5 black & white illustrations Paper • 9781479831968 • $28.00S(£21.99) Cloth • 9781479816682 • $89.00X(£74.00) In Keywords Media Studies

Across more than fifty original essays, Keywords for Comics Studies provides a rich, interdisciplinary vocabulary for comics and sequential art. The essays also identify new avenues of research into one of the most popular and diverse visual media of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Keywords for Comics Studies presents an array of inventive analyses of terms central to the study of comics and sequential art that are traditionally siloed in distinct lexicons: these include creative and aesthetic terms like Ink, Creator, Border, and Panel; conceptual terms such as Trans*, Disability, Universe, and Fantasy; genre terms like Zine, Pornography, Superhero, and Manga; and canonical terms like X-Men, Archie, Watchmen, and Love and Rockets. This volume ties each specific comic studies keyword to the larger context of the term within the humanities. Essays demonstrate how scholars, cultural critics, and comics artists from a range of fields take up sequential art as both an object of analysis and a medium for developing new theories about embodiment, identity, literacy, audience reception, genre, cultural politics, and more. Keywords for Comics Studies revivifies the fantasy and magic of reading comics in its kaleidoscopic view of the field’s most compelling and imaginative ideas.

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DISLIKE-MINDED

Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste JONATHAN GRAY Explains why audiences dislike certain media and what happens when they do The study and discussion of media is replete with talk of fans, loves, stans, likes, and favorites, but what of dislikes, distastes, and alienation? Dislike-Minded draws from over two-hundred qualitative interviews to probe what the media’s failures, wounds, and sore spots tell us about media culture, taste, identity, representation, meaning, textuality, audiences, and citizenship. The book refuses the simplicity of Pierre Bourdieu’s famous dictum that dislike is (only) snobbery. Instead, Jonathan Gray pushes onward to uncover other explanations for what it ultimately means to dislike specific artifacts of television, film, and other media, and why this dislike matters. As we watch and listen through gritted teeth, Dislike-Minded listens to what is being said, and presents a bold case for a new line of audience research within communication, media, and cultural studies.

Jonathan Gray is Hamel Family Distinguished Chair in Communication Arts, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and author and editor of numerous books, including Show Sold Separately: Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media Paratexts, Fandom, Second Edition, Keywords for Media Studies, and Satire TV, as well as Television Studies (with Amanda D. Lotz), and A Companion to Media Authorship (with Derek Johnson).

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A PHYSICIAN ON THE NILE

A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years ʿABD AL-LAṬĪF AL-BAGHDĀDĪ

Edited and translated by TIM MACKINTOSH-SMITH Flora, fauna, and famine in thirteenth-century Egypt

ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī (557–629/1162–1231) was a Baghdad-born physician and scientist who wrote books on a wide range of topics, including medicine, philology, mathematics, and philosophy. Tim Mackintosh-Smith is a noted British travel author, best known for his trilogy on the renowned Moroccan world-traveler Ibn Battutah, which earned him a spot among Newsweek’s top twelve travel writers of the past hundred years. Since 1982, he has lived in Sanaa, Yemen.

A Physician on the Nile begins as a description of everyday life in Egypt at the turn of the seventh/thirteenth century, before becoming a harrowing account of famine and pestilence. Written by the polymath and physician ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī, and intended for the Abbasid caliph al-Nāṣir, the first part of the book offers detailed descriptions of Egypt’s geography, plants, animals, and local cuisine, including a recipe for a giant picnic pie made with three entire roast lambs and dozens of chickens. ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ’s text is also a pioneering work of ancient Egyptology, with detailed observations of Pharaonic monuments, sculptures, and mummies. An early and ardent champion of archaeological conservation, ʿAbd al-Laṭīf condemns the vandalism wrought by tomb-robbers and notes with distaste that Egyptian grocers price their goods with labels written on recycled mummy-wrappings. The book’s second half relates his horrific eyewitness account of the great famine that afflicted Egypt in the years 597–598/1200–1202. ʿAbd al-Laṭīf was a keen observer of humanity, and he offers vivid first-hand depictions of starvation, cannibalism, and a society in moral free-fall.

A Physician on the Nile contains great diversity in a small compass, distinguished by the acute, humane, and ever-curious mind of its author. It is rare to be able to hear the voice of such a man responding so directly to novelty, beauty, and tragedy. A bilingual Arabic-English edition.

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THE BOOK OF TRAVELS Volume One & Volume Two ḤANNĀ DIYĀB

Edited by JOHANNES STEPHAN

Translated by ELIAS MUHANNA Foreword by YASMINE SEALE

Afterword by PAULO LEMOS HORTA The adventures of the man who created Aladdin

The Book of Travels is Ḥannā Diyāb’s remarkable first-person account of his travels as a young man from his hometown of Aleppo to the court of Versailles and back again, which forever linked him to one of the most popular pieces of world literature, The Thousand and One Nights.

Diyāb, a Maronite Christian, served as a guide and interpreter for the French naturalist and antiquarian Paul Lucas. Between 1706 and 1716, Diyāb and Lucas traveled through Syria, Cyprus, Egypt, Tripolitania, Tunis, Italy, and France. In Paris, Ḥannā Diyāb met Antoine Galland, who added to his wildly popular translation of The Thousand and One Nights several tales related by Diyāb, including “Aladdin” and “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.” When Lucas failed to make good on his promise of a position for Diyāb at Louis XIV’s Royal Library, Diyāb returned to Aleppo. In his old age, he wrote this engaging account of his youthful adventures, from capture by pirates in the Mediterranean to quack medicine and near-death experiences. Translated into English for the first time, The Book of Travels introduces readers to the young Syrian responsible for some of the most beloved stories from The Thousand and One Nights.

Ḥannā Diyāb (b. ca. 1687) was a Syrian traveler originally from Aleppo. He is best known for his contributions to Antoine Galland’s translation of The Thousand and One Nights. Johannes Stephan is a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC-funded project “Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic” at the Freie Universität Berlin. Elias Muhanna is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University.

Yasmine Seale translates from Arabic and French, and her essays on books and art have appeared in Harper’s, The Nation, TLS, and elsewhere. Paulo Lemos Horta is Associate Professor of Literature at NYU Abu Dhabi.

A bilingual Arabic-English edition.

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THE PHILOSOPHER RESPONDS

An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century ABŪ ḤAYYĀN AL-TAWḤĪDĪ and ABŪ ʿALĪ MISKAWAYH

Translated by SOPHIA VASALOU and JAMES E. MONTGOMERY Foreword by JONATHAN RÉE

Questions and answers from two great philosophers

Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī (d. 414/1023) was a prominent litterateur and philosopher in Baghdad.

Abū ʿAlī Miskawayh (ca. 320/932-421/1030) was a philosopher and historian born in Rayy.

Sophia Vasalou is Senior Lecturer and Birmingham Fellow in Philosophical Theology at the University of Birmingham. Her books include Moral Agents and their Deserts: The Character of Mu‘tazilite Ethics, Wonder: A Grammar, and Ibn Taymiyya’s Theological Ethics. James E. Montgomery, author of Al-Jāḥiẓ: In Praise of Books, is Sir Thomas Adams’s Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Hall. His latest publications are Loss Sings, a collaboration with the celebrated Scottish artist Alison Watt, and Dīwān ʿAntarah ibn Shaddād: A Literary-Historical Study.

Jonathan Rée is a freelance philosopher and historian living in Oxford and London. His books include Proletarian Philosophers, Philosophical Tales, I See a Voice, Witcraft, and A Schoolmaster's War.

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Why is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past, even if it is scarred by suffering? Spanning a vast array of subjects that range from the philosophical to the theological, from the philological to the scientific, The Philosopher Responds is the record of a set of questions put by the litterateur Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī to the philosopher and historian Abū ʿAlī Miskawayh. Both figures were foremost contributors to the remarkable flowering of cultural and intellectual life that took place in the Islamic world during the reign of the Buyid dynasty in the fourth/ tenth century.

The correspondence between al-Tawḥīdī and Miskawayh holds a mirror to many of the debates of the time and reflects the spirit of rationalistic inquiry that animated their era. It also provides insight into the intellectual outlooks of two thinkers who were divided as much by their distinctive temperaments as by the very different trajectories of their professional careers. Alternately whimsical and tragic, trivial and profound, al-Tawḥīdī’s questions provoke an interaction as interesting in its spiritedness as in its content. An English-only edition.

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ROME IN EGYPT’S EASTERN DESERT Volume One & Volume Two HÉLÈNE CUVIGNY

Edited by ROGER S. BAGNALL A detailed archaeological study of life in Egypt’s Eastern desert during the Roman period by a leading scholar

Rome in Egypt’s Eastern Desert is a two-volume set collecting Hélène Cuvigny’s most important articles on Egypt’s Eastern desert during the Roman period. The fort excavations that she has directed have uncovered a wealth of material, including tens of thousands of texts written on pottery fragments (ostraca). Some of these are administrative texts, but many more are correspondence, both official and private, written by and to the people (mostly but not all men) who lived and worked in these remote and harsh environments, supported by an elaborate network of defense, administration and supply that tied the entire region together. The contents of Rome in Egypt’s Eastern Desert have all been published earlier in peer-reviewed venues, but almost entirely in French. All of the contributions have been translated by the editor and brought up to date with respect to bibliography and in some cases significantly rewritten by the author, in order to take account of the enormous amount of new material discovered in the intervening time and subsequent publications. A full index makes this body of work far more accessible than it was before. This book brings together thirty years of detailed study of this material, bringing to life the geography, administration, military, quarry operations, life in the forts, and the religion and expressive language of the population who lived in them.

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Hélène Cuvigny is Research Director at the CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) and a papyrologist specializing in the eastern Egyptian desert during the Roman period. Over more than thirty years, beginning with the excavations at the quarry site of Mons Claudianus, Hélène Cuvigny has played a central role in the exploration of Egypt’s Eastern Desert.

Roger S. Bagnall is Leon Levy Director Emeritus and Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. He is author, co-author, and editor of many books including Egypt in Late Antiquity and Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East.

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THE BATTLE OF NEGRO FORT

The Rise and Fall of a Fugitive Slave Community MATTHEW J. CLAVIN The dramatic story of Andrew Jackson’s destruction of a free and independent community of fugitive slaves in Spanish Florida

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In the aftermath of the War of 1812, Major General Andrew Jackson ordered a joint United States army-navy expedition into Spanish Florida to destroy a free and independent community of fugitive slaves. The result was the Battle of Negro Fort, a brutal conflict among hundreds of American troops, Indian warriors, and black rebels that culminated in the death or re-enslavement of nearly all of the fort’s inhabitants. By eliminating this refuge for fugitive slaves, the United States government closed an escape valve that African Americans had utilized for generations. At the same time, it intensified the subjugation of southern Native Americans, including the Creeks, Choctaws, and Seminoles.

Matthew J. Clavin is a Professor of History at the University of Houston.

SUGAR, CIGARS, AND REVOLUTION The Making of Cuban New York LISANDRO PÉREZ Winner, 2020 Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York history | Honorable Mention, 2019 CASA Literary Prize for Studies on Latinos in the United States, La Casa de las Américas The dramatic story of the origins of the Cuban community in nineteenth-century New York

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More than one hundred years before the Cuban Revolution sparked an exodus that created today’s prominent Cuban American presence, Cubans were settling in New York City in what became largest community of Latin Americans in the 19th-century Northeast. This book brings this community to life, tracing its formation and how it was shaped by both the sugar trade and the long struggle for independence from Spain. New York City’s refineries bought vast quantities of raw sugar from Cuba, creating an important center of commerce for Cuban émigrés as the island tumbled into the tumultuous decades that would close out the century and define Cuban nationhood and identity.

Lisandro Pérez is Professor of Latin American and Latina/o Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

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EVALUATING POLICE USES OF FORCE

SETH W. STOUGHTON, JEFFREY J. NOBLE, and GEOFFREY P. ALPERT Provides a critical understanding and evaluation of police tactics and the use of force This book explores a critical but largely overlooked facet of the difficult and controversial issues of police violence and accountability: how does society evaluate use-of-force incidents? By leading readers through answers to this question from four different perspectives—constitutional law, state law, administrative regulation, and community expectations—and by providing critical information about police tactics and force options that are implicated within those frameworks, Evaluating Police Uses of Force helps situate readers within broader conversations about governmental accountability, the role that police play in modern society, and how officers should go about fulfilling their duties. Seth W. Stoughton is Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law. Jeffrey J. Noble is a police consultant and author of Managing Accountability Systems for Police Conduct: Internal Affairs and External Oversight. Geoffrey P. Alpert is a Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of South Carolina.

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FIGHT THE POWER African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City CLARENCE TAYLOR A story of resistance, power, and politics as revealed through New York City’s complex history of police brutality Fight the Power examines the explosive history of police brutality in New York City and the Black community’s long struggle to resist it. Taylor brings this story to life by exploring the institutions and the people that waged campaigns to end the mistreatment of people of color at the hands of the police, including the Black church, the Black press, Black communists and civil rights activists. Ranging from the 1940s to the mayoralty of Bill de Blasio, Taylor traces the significant strides made in curbing police power in New York City, describing the grassroots street campaigns as well as the accomplishments achieved in the political arena and in the city’s courtrooms. Taylor challenges the belief that police reform is born out of improved relations between communities and the authorities arguing that the only real solution is radically reducing the police domination of New York’s black citizens.

Clarence Taylor is Professor Emeritus of History at Baruch College, CUNY.

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PRESUMED CRIMINAL

Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York CARL SUDDLER

A startling examination of the deliberate criminalization of Black youths from the 1930s to today A stark disparity exists between Black and white youth experiences in the justice system today. Black youths are perceived to be older and less innocent than their white peers. When it comes to incarceration, race trumps class, and even as Black youths articulate their own experiences with carceral authorities, many Americans remain surprised by the inequalities they continue to endure. In this revealing book, Carl Suddler brings to light a much longer history of the policies and strategies that tethered the lives of Black youths to the justice system indefinitely. NEW IN PAPERBACK

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Carl Suddler is Assistant Professor of History at Emory University.

BANNED Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump SHOBA SIVAPRASAD WADHIA Examines immigration enforcement and discretion during the first eighteen months of the Trump administration

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Banned combines personal interviews, immigration law, policy analysis, and case studies to answer the following questions: (1) what does immigration enforcement and discretion look like in the time of Trump? (2) who is affected by changes to immigration enforcement and discretion?; (3) how have individuals and families affected by immigration enforcement under President Trump changed their own perceptions about the future?; and (4) how do those informed about immigration enforcement and discretion describe the current state of affairs and perceive the future? Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia pairs the contents of these interviews with a robust analysis of immigration enforcement and discretion during the first eighteen months of the Trump administration and offers recommendations for moving forward.

Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia is the Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar and Founding Director of the Center for Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Penn State Law in University Park, Pennsylvania, and author of Beyond Deportation.

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REPRODUCING RACISM How Everyday Choices Lock In White Advantage DARIA ROITHMAYR Argues that racial inequality reproduces itself automatically over time because early unfair advantage for whites has paved the way for continuing advantage This book is designed to change the way we think about racial inequality. Long after the passage of civil rights laws and now the inauguration of our first Black president, Blacks and Latinos possess barely a nickel of wealth for every dollar that whites have. Why have we made so little progress? Legal scholar Daria Roithmayr provocatively argues that racial inequality lives on because white advantage functions as a powerful self-reinforcing monopoly, reproducing itself automatically from generation to generation even in the absence of intentional discrimination. Drawing on work in antitrust law and a range of other disciplines, Roithmayr brilliantly compares the dynamics of white advantage to the unfair tactics of giants like AT&T and Microsoft. Roithmayr concludes that racial inequality might now be locked in place, unless policymakers immediately take drastic steps to dismantle this oppressive system. Daria Roithmayr is the George T. and Harriet E. Pfleger Professor of Law at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.

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CONFORMITY

The Power of Social Influences CASS R. SUNSTEIN Bestselling author Cass R. Sunstein reveals the appeal and the danger of conformity We live in an era of tribalism, polarization, and intense social division—separating people along lines of religion, political conviction, race, ethnicity, and sometimes gender. How did this happen? In Conformity, Cass R. Sunstein argues that the key to making sense of living in this fractured world lies in understanding the idea of conformity—what it is and how it works—as well as the countervailing force of dissent. An understanding of conformity sheds new light on many issues confronting us today: the role of social media, the rise of fake news, the growth of authoritarianism, the success of Donald Trump, the functions of free speech, debates over immigration and the Supreme Court, and much more. Sunstein concludes that while much of the time it is in the individual’s interest to follow the crowd, it is in the social interest for individuals to say and do what they think is best. A well-functioning democracy depends on it.

Cass R. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard.

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FROM THE GROUND UP Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement LUKE W. COLE and SHEILA R. FOSTER A critical look at the movement for environmental justice

November 2000 256 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $28.00S(£21.99) 9780814715376 Cloth • $89.00X(£74.00) 9780814715369 In Critical America Environmental Science

From the Ground Up critically examines one of the fastest growing social movements in the United States—the movement for environmental justice. Tracing the movement's roots, Luke Cole and Sheila Foster combine long-time activism with powerful storytelling to provide gripping case studies of communities across the US—towns like Kettleman City, California; Chester, Pennsylvania; and Dilkon, Arizona—and their struggles against corporate polluters. The authors use social, economic and legal analysis to reveal the historical and contemporary causes for environmental racism. Environmental justice struggles, they demonstrate, transform individuals, communities, institutions and the nation as a whole.

Luke W. Cole was Director of the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation's Center on Race, Poverty, and the Environment. Sheila R. Foster is Associate Professor at Rutgers University School of Law, Camden.

OCCULT ROOTS OF NAZISM

Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology NICHOLAS GOODRICK-CLARKE Reveals how Nazism was influenced by powerful occult sects that thrived in Germany and Austria almost fifty years before Hitler’s rise to power Over half a century after the defeat of the Third Reich, Nazism remains a subject of extensive historical inquiry and general interest, and, alarmingly, a source of inspiration for resurgent fascism around the world. This powerful and timely book traces the intellectual roots of Nazism back to a number of influential occult and millenarian sects in the Habsburg Empire during its waning years. These millenarian sects—principally the Ariosophists—espoused a mixture of popular nationalism, Aryan racism, and occultism to proclaim their advocacy of German world-rule. Over time their ideas and symbols, filtered through nationalist-racist groups associated with the nascent Nazi party, came to exert a strong influence on Himmler's SS. September 1993 203 pages • 6 x9 15 black & white illustrations Paper • $24.00S(£18.99) 9780814730607 History

Beyond what the Times Literary Supplement calls “an intriguing study of apocalyptic fantasies,” this bizarre and fascinating story contains lessons we cannot afford to ignore.

Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke is the author of several books on ideology and the Western esoteric tradition, including Hitler’s Priestess and Black Sun.

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Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers RICHARD S. NEWMAN Gold Winner of the 2008 Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award, Biography Category Brings to life the inspiring story of one of America's Black Founding Fathers, featured in the forthcoming documentary The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song Freedom's Prophet is a long-overdue biography of Richard Allen, founder of the first major African American church and the leading Black activist of the early American republic. A tireless minister, abolitionist, and reformer, Allen inaugurated some of the most important institutions in African American history and influenced nearly every Black leader of the 19th century, from Douglass to Du Bois. In this thoroughly engaging and beautifully written book, Newman describes Allen's continually evolving life and thought, setting both in the context of his times. This book reintroduces Allen to today's readers and restores him to his rightful place in our nation's history. Richard S. Newman is Professor of History at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York.

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PRIVILEGE REVEALED How Invisible Preference Undermines America STEPHANIE M. WILDMAN With contributions by MARGALYNNE ARMSTRONG, ADRIENNE D. DAVIS, and TRINA GRILLO An in-depth examination of the different forms of privilege perpetuating inequality within American society In this important volume, scholars positioned differently with respect to white privilege examine how privilege of all forms manifests itself and how we can, and must, be aware of invisible privilege in our daily lives. Individual chapters focus on language, the workplace, the implications of comparing racism and sexism, race-based housing privilege, the dream of diversity and the cycle of exclusion, the rule of law and invisible systems of privilege, and the power of law to transform society. Twenty-five years since its first publication, Privilege Revealed is more relevant than ever. With a new introduction bringing the volume up to date, this book offers readers important insight into the inequalities still pervading American society, and encourages us all to confront our own relationship to these often invisible privileges.

Stephanie M. Wildman is Professor Emerita at Santa Clara Law and a member of The Writers Grotto.

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DEAD EPIDEMIOLOGISTS On the Origins of COVID-19 ROB WALLACE A history of COVID-19 and the sociopolitical conditions that led to the 2020 global pandemic

Rob Wallace is an evolutionary epidemiologist with the Agroecology and Rural Economics Research Corps. He is author of Big Farms Make Big Flu and coauthor of Clear-Cutting Disease Control: Capital-Led Deforestation, Public Health Austerity, and Vector-Borne Infection. He has consulted with the Food and Agriculture Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The COVID-19 pandemic shocked the world. It shouldn’t have. Since this century’s turn, epidemiologists have warned of new infectious diseases. Indeed, H1N1, H7N9, SARS, MERS, Ebola Makona, Zika, and a variety of lesser viruses have emerged almost annually. But what of the epidemiologists themselves? Some bravely descended into the caves where bat species hosted coronaviruses, including the strains that evolved into COVID19. Yet, despite their own warnings, many of the researchers appear unable to understand the true nature of the disease—as if they are dead to what they’ve seen. Dead Epidemiologists is an eclectic collection of commentaries, articles, and interviews revealing the hidden-in-plain-sight truth behind the pandemic: Global capital drove the deforestation and development that exposed us to new pathogens. Rob Wallace and his colleagues—ecologists, geographers, activists, and, yes, epidemiologists—unpack the material and conceptual origins of COVID-19. From deepest Yunnan to the boardrooms of New York City, this book offers a compelling diagnosis of the roots of COVID-19, and a stark prognosis of what—without further intervention—may come. “In his brilliance and in the extraordinary depth, range, and courage of his thinking, Rob Wallace is unique. Dead Epidemiologists makes sense of the COVID-19 pandemic like no other work I’ve encountered anywhere. This is radical thinking in the very best sense. Written in perfect, pissed-off, punk-rock eloquence and fury.”

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SENSING INJUSTICE A Lawyer's Life in the Battle for Change MICHAEL E. TIGAR The remarkable life of a lawyer at the forefront of civil and human rights since the 1960s By the time he was 26, Michael Tigar was a legend in legal circles well before he would take on some of the highest-profile cases of his generation. In his first US Supreme Court case—at the age of 28—Tigar won a unanimous victory that freed thousands of Vietnam War resisters from prison. Tigar also led the legal team that secured a judgment against the Pinochet regime for the 1976 murders of Pinochet opponent Orlando Letelier and his colleague Ronni Moffitt in a Washington, DC car bombing. He then worked with the lawyers who prosecuted Pinochet for torture and genocide. A relentless fighter of injustice—not only as a human rights lawyer, but also as a teacher, scholar, journalist, playwright, and comrade—Tigar has been counsel to Angela Davis, Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown), the Chicago Eight, and leaders of the Black Panther Party, to name only a few. It is past time that Michael Tigar wrote his memoir. Sensing Injustice: A Lawyer's Life in the Battle for Change is a vibrant literary and legal feat. In it, Tigar weaves powerful legal analysis and wry observation through the story of his remarkable life. The result is a compelling narrative that blends law, history, and progressive politics. This is essential reading for lawyers, for law students, for anyone who aspires to bend the law toward change.

Michael E. Tigar has worked for over fifty years with movements for social change as a human rights lawyer, law professor, and writer. He has taught at law schools in the United States, France, South Africa, and Japan, and is Emeritus Professor at Duke Law School and American University Washington College of Law. He has authored or coauthored fourteen books, three plays, and scores of articles and essays. His book, Law and the Rise of Capitalism, first published by Monthly Review Press, has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Turkish, and Chinese.

Praise for Michael E. Tigar's Fighting Injustice “No one since Clarence Darrow has been in the middle of more of his generation's important legal battles than Mike Tigar. His memoir … is must reading for those who wonder if law can still be exciting, heroic and moral. Tigar proves it is, with wit, high style and great stories.” —John Keker, partner at Keker & Van Nest; formerly Irangate special prosecutor

July 2021 512 pages • 6 x 9.25 Paper • 9781583679203 • $29.00S Cloth • 9781583679210 • $89.00X Memoir | Law Monthly Review Press

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HOW TO READ MARX'S CAPITAL

Commentary and Explanations on the Beginning Chapters MICHAEL HEINRICH Translated by ALEXANDER LOCASCIO An accessible companion to Karl Marx's essential Capital

Michael Heinrich taught economics for many years at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin and was managing editor of PROKLA: Journal for Critical Social Science. He has written in depth on Marx’s critique of political economy in his book, The Science of Value. His An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital is probably the most popular introduction to Marx’s economic works in Germany.

With the recent revival of Karl Marx's theory, a general interest in reading Capital has also increased. But Capital—Marx’s foundational nineteenth-century work on political economy—is by no means considered an easily understood text. Central concepts, such as abstract labor, the value-form, or the fetishism of commodities, can seem opaque to us as first-time readers, and the prospect of comprehending Marx’s thought can be truly daunting. Until, that is, we pick up Michael Heinrich’s How to Read Marx's Capital. Paragraph by paragraph, Heinrich provides extensive commentary and lucid explanations of questions and quandaries that arise when encountering Marx’s original text. Suddenly, such seemingly gnarly chapters as “The Labor Process and the Valorization Process” and “Money or the Circulation of Capital” become refreshingly clear, as Heinrich explains just what we need to keep in mind when reading such a complex text. Deploying multiple appendices referring to other pertinent writings by Marx, Heinrich reveals what is relevant about Capital, and why we need to engage with it today. How to Read Marx's Capital provides an illuminating and indispensable guide to sorting through cultural detritus of a world whose political and economic systems are simultaneously imploding and exploding. Praise for Michael Heinrich’s An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital

August 2021 448 pages • 6 x 9.25 Paper • 9781583678947 • $28.00S Cloth • 9781583678954 • $89.00X Politics | History Monthly Review Press

“Whether one is a ‘traditional world view Marxist’ like myself, or a student who wants to understand this world we live in, or an activist who is committed to changing it, Michael Heinrich’s succinct, lucid, compelling summary of the three volumes of Marx’s Capital is a ‘must-read’ in our time of crisis.” —Paul LeBlanc, author of From Marx to Gramsci and Marx, Lenin and the Revolutionary Experience

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RACISM AND THE CLASS STRUGGLE updated edition

The Meaning of Black Revolt in the United States JAMES BOGGS An updated edition of James Boggs’s influential essays on revolution and Black Power Having just written his groundbreaking book, The American Revolution, Detroit autoworker James Boggs sat down in the early 1960s to continue his study of revolution. Boggs looked at the Black Power uprisings then beginning in the United States within the global context of the overthrow of rightwing puppet regimes in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. In Racism and the Class Struggle, Boggs produced thirteen powerful and prescient chapters that wrestled with topics such as the specific character of American capitalism and its intricate relationship to American democracy, the historic mission of the Black revolution in the United States, and the need for the 1960s Black movement to develop theoretically and organizationally. Boggs also hailed the coming of what was at the time the new slogan of the "Black revolution" with a momentous essay called "Black Power: A Scientific Concept Whose Time Has Come." In other essays, he hammered at his theme of a "second civil war" and Black control of the cities. With conflicting US forces so sharply polarized, wrote Boggs, "No one can predict when or whether a revolution will succeed, but we do know that … there is no turning back until one or the other side is defeated." Today, amid the metastasizing manifestations of "white power," Racism and the Class Struggle is stunningly pertinent to people of all races who, in the struggle against Empire and white supremacy, will not turn back. “Heady, controversial writing–pungent polemical essays and speeches–which spells out forcefully his Marxist-Fanonist thesis that 'the issues of the black revolt are fundamentally rooted in the American system itself.” —Publishers Weekly

James Boggs (1919–1993) was an African American auto worker and radical activist raised in rural Alabama. His books include The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker’s Notebook and Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century (with Grace Lee Boggs), both published by Monthly Review Press.

May 2021 224 pages • 5.5 x 8.25 Paper • 9781583679128 • $19.00S Cloth • 9781583679135 • $89.00X Economics | Race & Ethnicity Monthly Review Press

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WASHINGTON BULLETS A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations VIJAY PRASHAD Essays on acts of US imperialism, from the 1953 Iran coup to the 2019 ouster of Evo Morales

September 2020 162 pages • 5.5 x 8.5 Paper • $17.00S 9781583679067 Cloth • $89.00X 9781583679074 Politics Monthly Review Press

While applauding itself as an oasis of democracy, the United States, in reality, is a superpower, intent on infiltrating foreign governments, obliterating entire cultures, and carrying out murderous military interventions in developing countries the world over. Washington Bullets is about the bullets sent by the architects of US imperialism—the nation’s political and economic elites—to crush revolutions, assassinate democratically elected leaders, and destroy hope. Focusing on the rising national liberation movements in the Third World after the Second World War and continuing up to the present, historian and journalist Vijay Prashad delivers a scathing indictment of US imperialism, from the 1953 CIA-sponsored coup in Iran, to the twenty-first-century ousters of Dilma Rousseff in Brazil and Evo Morales in Bolivia. Vijay Prashad is the Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He is the author or editor of several books and is Chief Editor at LeftWord Books.

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

April 2021 160 pages • 5.5 x 8.25 Paper • $19.00S 9781583679081 Cloth • $89.00X 9781583679098 History | Politics Monthly Review Press

Even if you don't know much about the war in Vietnam, you've probably heard of "The Hanoi Hilton," or Hoa Lo Prison, where captured US soldiers were held. What they did there and whether they were treated well or badly by the Vietnamese became lasting controversies. Half a century after the fact, Dissenting POWs emerges to recover this history, and to discover what drove the factionalism in Hoa Lo. After the war, the hardcore hero-holdouts—like John McCain—moved on to careers in politics and business, while the dissidents faded from view as the antiwar movement, that might otherwise have championed them, disbanded. Today, Dissenting POWs is a necessary myth-buster, disabusing us of the revisionism that has replaced actual GI resistance with images of suffering POWs—ennobled victims that serve to suppress the fundamental questions of America’s drift to endless war. Tom Wilber represents a US-based nongovernmental organization that works on humanitarian projects with Vietnamese organizations. Jerry Lembcke is an Associate Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, at Holy Cross College and Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.

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CRISIS AND PREDATION

India, COVID-19, and Global Finance RESEARCH UNIT FOR POLITICAL ECONOMY How India's COVID-19 lockdown is creating an unprecedented humanitarian disaster With the advent of COVID-19, India’s rulers imposed the world’s most stringent lockdown on an already depressed economy, dealing a body blow to the majority of India’s billion-plus population. Yet the Indian government’s spending to cushion the lockdown’s economic impact ranked among the world’s lowest in GDP terms. This book shows how this tight-fistedness stems from the fact that global financial interests oppose any sizable expansion of public spending by India, and that Indian rulers readily adhere to their guidance. It reveals that global investors and a handful of top Indian corporate groups actually benefit from the resulting demand depression: armed with funds, they are picking up valuable assets at distress prices.

The Research Unit for Political Economy, based in Mumbai, India, publishes the journal Aspects of India's Economy and a range of research publications in English, Hindi, and other Indian languages.

November 2020 216 pages • 5.5 x 8.5 31 color figures Paper • $15.00S 9781583679241 Cloth • $89.00X 9781583679258 Current Events | Politics Monthly Review Press

EXTRAORDINARY THREAT The U.S. Empire, the Media, and Twenty Years of Coup Attempts in Venezuela JUSTIN PODUR and JOE EMERSBERGER The US foreign policy decisions behind six coup attempts against the Venezuelan government – and Venezuela's heightening precarity In Extraordinary Threat, Joe Emersberger and Justin Podur tell the story of six coup attempts against Venezuela. This book deflates the myths propagated about the Venezuelan government’s purported lack of electoral legitimacy, scant human rights, and disastrous economic development record. Contrary to accounts lobbed by the corporate media, the real target of sustained US assault on Venezuela is not the country’s claimed authoritarianism or its supposed corruption. It is Chavismo, the prospect that twenty-first century socialism could be brought about through electoral and constitutional means.

Justin Podur is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University. Joe Emersberger is an engineer, writer, and activist based in Canada.

June 2021 248 pages • 5.5 x 8.25 22 black & white illustrations Paper • $25.00S 9781583679166 Cloth • $89.00X 9781583679173 History | Politics Monthly Review Press

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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 From the early twentieth century and across generations to the present, In the Struggle brings together the stories of eight politically engaged scholars, documenting their opposition to industrial-scale agribusiness in California. As the narrative unfolds, their previously censored and suppressed research, together with personal accounts of intimidation and subterfuge, is introduced into the public arena for the first time.

Daniel O’Connell is executive director of the Central Valley Partnership, a regional nonprofit organization and progressive network of labor unions, environmental organizations, and community groups spanning the San Joaquin Valley. Trained as a multidisciplinary ethnographer, he holds an MS in International Agricultural Development from University of California, Davis, and a PhD in Education from Cornell University. As a politically engaged scholar, his work is dedicated to achieving social, racial, environmental, and economic justice in California. Scott Peters is a professor in the Department of Global Development at Cornell University and a historian of American higher education’s public purposes and work. He has spent the past twenty years as a leader in the civic engagement movement in American higher education, most recently serving as faculty co-director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA). He is the lead author of Democracy and Higher Education: Traditions and Stories of Civic Engagement.

July 2021 384 pages • 6 x 9 24 black and white illustrations Paper • 9781613321225 • $24.95S(£19.99) Cloth • 9781613321232 • $89.00X(£74.00) Labor Studies New Village Press

In the Struggle lays out historic, subterranean confrontations over water rights, labor organizing, and the corruption of democratic principles and public institutions. As California’s rural economy increasingly consolidates into the hands of land barons and corporations, the scholars’ work shifts from analyzing problems and formulating research methods to organizing resistance and building community power. Throughout their engagement, they face intense political blowback as powerful economic interests work to pollute and undermine scientific inquiry and the civic purposes of public universities. The findings and the pressure put upon the work of these scholars—Paul Taylor, Ernesto Galarza, and Isao Fujimoto among them—are a damning indictment of the greed and corruption that flourish under industrial-scale agriculture. After almost a century of empirical evidence and published research, a definitive finding becomes clear: land consolidation and economic monopoly are fundamentally detrimental to democracy and the well-being of rural societies.

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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 Jane Jacobs’s First City vividly reveals how this influential thinker and writer’s classic works germinated in the once vibrant, mid-size city of Scranton, Pennsylvania, where Jane spent her initial eighteen years. In the 1920s and 1930s, Scranton was a place of enormous di¬versity and opportunity. Small businesses of all kinds abounded and flourished, quality public education was supported by all, and even recent immi¬grants could save enough to buy a house. Opposing political parties joined forces to tackle problems, and citizens worked together for the public good. Through interviews with contemporary Scrantonians and research of historic newspapers, city directories, and vital records, author Glenna Lang has uncovered Scranton as young Jane experienced it and shows us the lasting impact of her growing up in this thriving and accessible environment. Readers can follow the development of Jane’s acute observational abilities from childhood through her passion in early adulthood to understand and write about what she saw. Reflecting Jane’s belief in trusting one’s own direct observation above all, this volume has been richly illustrated with historic and modern color images that help bring alive a past Scranton. The book demonstrates why, at the end of Jacobs’s life, her thoughts and conversations increasingly returned to Scranton and the potential for cohesion and inclusiveness in all cities.

Glenna Lang's previous work about Jane Jacobs—Genius of Common Sense: The Story of Jane Jacobs and “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”—was chosen as a 2009 Notable Book by both the New York Times and Smithsonian Magazine. Lang has illustrated four children’s books for David R. Godine and written and illustrated Looking Out for Sarah, about a day in the life of a seeing-eye dog, which won the American Library Association’s Schneider Family Award. Although she grew up mainly in New York City, she has lived for many years in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and teaches at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, now part of Tufts University.

“Reframes not only who Jacobs was, but also what Scranton was in the early 20th-century.” —Mark Hirsch, senior historian, Smithsonian Institution

May 2021 450 pages • 6 x 9 130 color illustrations Cloth • 9781613321393 • $39.95S(£33.00) Biography | History New Village Press

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THE WAY OF THE GARDENER

Lost in the Weeds Along the Camino de Santiago LYNDON PENNER Reverence takes on a new meaning in this original memoir of an avid gardener walking the Camino de Santiago The Camino de Santiago has been a journey for pilgrims for more than 1,000 years, testing—to varying degrees—their spirit, faith, and physical endurance. Lyndon Penner’s attention lies elsewhere. A renowned gardener and lover of literature, he revels in the plants, trees, and flowers that tell the history of the people and ecology of northern Spain.

Lyndon Penner grew up in Saskatchewan and comes from a long line of gardeners. He is a traveller, environmentalist, and lover of literature, and the author of several books, including Native Plants for the Short Season Yard.

Brimming with wry observations—of nature, himself, and other pilgrims on the road—The Way of the Gardener reveals the beauty and the darkness of the human condition while underscoring the deeply fascinating nature of nature itself. This textured work makes for perfect armchair—or garden—reading.

“Lyndon’s delight at discovering plants he has long loved in their native habitats rings true.” —Sara Williams, author of Creating the Prairie Xeriscape

March 2021 224 pages • 4.25 x 7 17 black and white illustrations Paper • 9780889778061 • $21.95A Cloth • 9780889777835 • $89.00X Travel | Biography - Adventurers and Explorers University of Regina Press

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THE GIRL FROM DREAM CITY A Literary Life

LINDA LEITH Vivid stories from a Canadian literary icon, who shares a life spread across continents and immersed in books It’s the life that many young women dream of: education in some of Europe’s most beautiful cities before becoming a novelist, essayist, translator and literary curator. But the start of Linda Leith’s journey is anything but idyllic. The daughter of a glamorous mother and a charming left-wing doctor, she is never told of her father’s psychiatric breakdown or his subsequent shock therapy for what was then called manic depression. As this secret festers, Leith’s father uproots the Linda Leith attended schools in London, family to various European cities as he reinvents himself as a corporate executive, eventually moving Basel, Belfast, Paris, and Montreal, graduating from the University of London, across the Atlantic to Montreal. It’s there, in her first year of university, that Leith is inspired by Madame de Staël: a writer and salonnière, banished from Paris by Napoleon himself. With none of Staël’s advantages—no wealth, no social status, no château on Lake Geneva—Leith can scarcely imagine a salon, but she is drawn to Paris, and dreams of becoming a writer.

which granted her a PhD on the work of Samuel Beckett when she was twenty-four. A novelist, essayist, literary translator, and the founder of Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival and Linda Leith Publishing, she lives in Montreal.

This dream fuels her education in London, her marriage and writing in Budapest, and—finally— her journey back to Montreal where she meets a community of writers and readers who she works with to transform the city’s literary scene. As Leith publishes, translates, and curates, she also comes to terms with her troubled father and the secrets of her childhood. A luscious read, this book will rivet readers of Jill Ker Conway’s The Road from Coorain and Tara Westover’s Educated, or anyone who has dreamed of building a cultural life. April 2021 304 pages • 4.72 x 7.48 Paper • 9780889777859 • $18.95T In The Regina Collection Memoir University of Regina Press

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WHITE COAL CITY A Memoir of Place and Family ROBERT BOSCHMAN A moving, unflinching exploration of life in Prince Albert, SK, as told through one family’s multigenerational story

January 2021 320 pages • 4.72 x 7.48 Paper • $18.95T 9780889777965 In The Regina Collection Memoir University of Regina Press

Robert Boschman grew up in the living quarters of the King Koin Launderette in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, sandwiched between a residential school and a jail built in the aftermath of the Riel Resistance of 1885. White Coal City is the story of this hard hockey-obsessed white-settler town on Treaty Six territory and Boschman’s troubled family who lived within it. Boschman describes the city of Prince Albert as a “circle of pain”—one felt by white settlers but more so for the generations of First Nations and Métis people in the city and surrounding lands who were forcibly removed, incarcerated, or abducted. White Coal City is a poetic, necessary exploration of the painful landscapes of colonial cities in Canada. Robert Boschman specializes in ecocritical approaches to American literature, with emphasis on the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. His monograph, In the Way of Nature, was published by McFarland in 2009. He is also a past president of the Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada.

GATHER

Richard Van Camp on Storytelling RICHARD VAN CAMP "Van Camp is… a brilliant weaver of tales."—Quill & Quire Master storyteller and bestselling author Richard Van Camp on how to tell a good story

May 2021 162 pages • 5 x 8.5 Paper • $17.95T 9780889777002 Cloth • $89.00X 9780889778047 In Writers on Writing Literature & Literary Studies University of Regina Press

Gathering around a campfire, or the dinner table, we humans have always told stories. Through the stories we tell, we define our own identities and shape our understanding of the world. Master storyteller and bestselling author Richard Van Camp writes of the power of storytelling and its potential to transform both the speaker and the audience in Gather. Describing the elements required to make a story, he offers insights into how to read a room, how to capture the attention of listeners, how to create community through storytelling, and how to banish loneliness. A member of the Tlicho Dene First Nation, Van Camp includes stories from Elders whose wisdom influenced him.

Richard Van Camp is the author of over twenty books, including the Eisner-nominated graphic novel, A Blanket of Butterflies. His bestselling novel The Lesser Blessed has been made into a movie that has also received critical acclaim. He lives in Edmonton, Alberta.

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Spring 2021

RED OBSIDIAN

New and Selected Poems STEPHAN TORRE A visceral new collection grappling with the strength and complexities of life in the northwest wild lands Drawing from a life lived well, amidst hard work and time for reflection in the northwest wild lands of the Canadian and American Wests, Stephen Torre returns to the literary world with his usual descriptive and lyric intensity. Comprised of new and selected poems, Red Obsidian explores the necessary tensions that arise between genders and the pain and grief of environmental loss. Inspired and influenced by a diverse array of literary influences— Indigenous oral poets and English pastoral poets, T’ang Dynasty Chinese poets and Latin American poets, American Imagists and poets—Torre’s book is a poetic journal of a man passionately engaged at once with the marvel of wilderness and the rural labors of family homesteading, construction, and the logging of that wilderness. Stephan Torre's diverse working life includes college teaching, counseling and family services, farming, logging, and construction. He lives in British Columbia.

March 2021 120 pages • 5.5 x 8.5 Paper • $16.95S 9780889777750 In Oskana Poetry & Poetics Poetry University of Regina Press

RESISTANCE 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 These collected poems from writers across the globe declare one common theme: resistance. By exploring sexual assault and violence in their work, each writer resists the patriarchal systems of power that continue to support a misogynist justice system that supports abusers. In doing so, they reclaim their power and their voice. Created as a response to the Jian Ghomeshi case, writers including Joan Crate, Ashley-Elizabeth Best, and Beth Goobie are, as editor Sue Goyette explains, a “multitude, resisting.” The collection could not be more timely. The work adds a new layer to the ever-growing #MeToo movement. Resistance underscores the validity of all women’s experiences, and the importance of dignifying such experiences in voice, however that may sound. Because once survivors speak out and disrupt their pain, there is no telling what else they can do.

Sue Goyette is the award-winning author of six books of poems and a novel. Now Halifax’s eighth poet laureate, she lives in Halifax and teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Dalhousie University.

May 2021 176 pages • 5.5 x 8.5 Paper • $21.95T 9780889778016 Poetry University of Regina Press

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HOW I LOST MY MOTHER A Story of Life, Care and Dying LESLIE SWARTZ A deeply felt account of the relationship between a mother and son, and an exploration of what care for the dying means in contemporary society

Leslie Swartz is a clinical psychologist and a distinguished professor of psychology at Stellenbosch University, South Africa best known for his work on disability studies, disability rights, and mental health issues. His memoir Able-Bodied: Scenes from a Curious Life, received critical acclaim.

March 2021 252 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • 9781776146949 • $30.00S Cloth • 9781776146956 • $89.00S Memoir | Psychology | Sociology Wits University Press

The book is emotionally complex—funny, sad and angry—but above all, heartfelt and honest. It speaks boldly of challenges faced by all of us, challenges which are often not spoken about and hidden, but which deserve urgent attention. This is first and foremost a work of the heart, a reflection on what relationships mean and should mean. There is much in the book about relationships of care and exploitation in southern Africa, and about white Jewish identity in an African context. But despite the specific and absorbing references to places and contexts, the book offers a broader, more universal view. All parents of adult children, and all adults who have parents alive, or have lost their parents, will find much in this book to make them laugh, cry, think and feel.

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SURFACING

On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa Edited by DESIREE LEWIS and GABEBA BADEROON The first collection of essays dedicated to contemporary Black South African feminist perspectives What do African feminist traditions that exist outside the canon look and feel like? What complex cultural logics are at work outside the centres of power? How do spirituality and feminism influence each other? What are the histories and experiences of queer Africans? What imaginative forms can feminist activism take? Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa is the first collection of essays dedicated to contemporary Black South African feminist perspectives. Leading feminist theorist, Desiree Lewis, and poet and feminist scholar, Gabeba Baderoon, have curated contributions by some of the finest writers and thought leaders. Radical polemic sits side by side with personal essays, and critical theory coexists with rich and stirring life histories. By including writings by Patricia McFadden, Panashe Chigumadzi, Sisonke Msimang, Zukiswa Wanner, Yewande Omotoso, Zoë Wicomb and Pumla Dineo Gqola alongside emerging thinkers, activists and creative practitioners, the collection demonstrates a dazzling range of feminist voices. The writers in these pages use creative expression, photography and poetry in eclectic, interdisciplinary ways to unearth and interrogate representations of Blackness, sexuality, girlhood, history, divinity, and other themes. Surfacing is indispensable to anyone interested in feminism from Africa which, the contributors show, is in vivid and challenging conversations with the rest of the world.

Desiree Lewis is Professor in the Department of Women and Gender Studies at the University of the Western Cape. She is the author of Living on a Horizon: Bessie Head and the Politics of Imagining. Gabeba Baderoon is a literary scholar, poet and Associate Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and African Studies at Pennsylvania State University, where she also co-directs the African Feminist Initiative. She is the author of Regarding Muslims: from Slavery to Post-apartheid and four books of poetry, most recently The History of Intimacy.

April 2021 328 pages • 6.14 x 9.21 Paper • 9781776146093 • $35.00S Cloth • 9781776146130 • $89.00S Current Events | Women's Studies | Sociology Wits University Press

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Acosta, Katie L. .....................19 al-Baghdādī, ʿAbd al-Laṭīf....32 al-Tawḥīdī, Abū Ḥayyān ......32 Alexander-Floyd, Nikol G. ..23 Alpert, Geoffrey P. ................37 American Legal Education Abroad .................................12 Averett, Kate Henley .............17 Averting Catastrophe .............1 Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures ................................7 Baderoon, Gabeba ................55 Bagnall, Roger S. ...................35 Bailey, Moya .............................5 Banned ...................................38 Bare, Daniel R. ......................26 Bartie, Susan ..........................12 Barton, Bernadette ..................4 Battle of Negro Fort, The .....36 Bender, Steven W. .................14 Berger, Michele Tracy ...........20 Black Fundamentalists .........26 Black Women's Health .........20 Boggs, James ..........................45 Book of Travels, The .............33 Border Optics ........................28 Boschman, Robert ................52 Brewis, Alexandra .................18 Building a Better Chicago ....13 China's Grand Strategy ........12 Church of the Dead, The .......8 Clavin, Matthew J. ................36 Coffin Ship, The ......................9 Cole, Luke W. ........................40 Conformity ............................39 Course of God’s Providence, The .......................................25 Craig, David ..........................29 Creator Culture .....................29 Crime TV ...............................23 Crisis and Predation .............47 Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies .................................15 Cunningham, Stuart .............29 Cuvigny, Hélène ....................35 Dead Epidemiologists ..........42 Denoon, David B. H. ............12 Dislike-Minded .....................31 Disrupting Dignity................19 Dissenting POWs .................46 Diyāb, Ḥannā .........................33 Edwards, Erica R. .................27 Elder, Laurel...........................11 Emersberger, Joe ...................47 Engel, Stephen M. .................19 Ethics of Policing, The ..........22 Evaluating Police Uses of Force ....................................37 Extraordinary Threat ............47 Extreme Weight Loss ............18 Fawaz, Ramzi .........................30 Fight the Power .....................37 Florio, Donna ..........................2 Fojas, Camilla ........................28 Foster, Sheila R. .....................40

Freedom’s Prophet ................41 From the Ground Up ...........40 Gather .....................................52 Gilded Age Cocktails ..............3 Go, Min Hee ..........................13 Gonzales, Teresa Irene .........13 Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas..40 Gordon, Hava Rachel ...........17 Goyette, Sue ...........................53 Gray, Jonathan .......................31 Growing Up Bank Street ........2 Grubb, Jonathan A. ...............23 Heinrich, Michael .................44 Hinton, Alexander Laban ....10 Homeschool Choice, The .....17 Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette ...............................16 Houston, Kate A. ...................22 How I Lost My Mother ........54 How to Read Marx's Capital .................................44 Hughes, Jennifer Scheper .......8 In the Struggle .......................48 It Can Happen Here .............10 Jane Jacobs's First City..........49 Jones, Ben ..............................22 Just Like Family .....................18 Kabbalah and the Founding of America ...............................25 Karen Jaime ...........................28 Keywords for Comics Studies .................................30 Koch, Philippa .......................25 Lane, Sean M. ........................22 Lang, Glenna .........................49 LatCrit ....................................14 Laurent-Simpson, Andrea ...18 Leith, Linda............................51 Lembcke, Jerry.......................46 Lewis, Desiree........................55 Lyle, Timothy S. ....................19 Mackintosh-Smith, Tim .......32 McMahon, Cian T. ..................9 Mendieta, Eduardo ...............22 Miskawayh, Abū ʿAlī.............34 Misogynoir Transformed .......5 Montgomery, James E. .........34 Muhanna, Elias .....................33 Newman, Richard S. .............41 Noble, Jeffrey J. ......................37 O'Connell, Daniel J. ..............48 Occult Roots of Nazism .......40 Ogren, Brian ..........................25 One Faith No Longer............24 Open Hearts, Closed Doors ...................................24 Other Side of Terror, The .....27 Pain Generation ....................29 Partisan Gap, The ..................11 Pastor, Manuel .......................16

Penner, Lyndon .....................50 Pérez, Lisandro ......................36 Peters, Scott J. ........................48 Philosopher Responds, The .......................................34 Physician on the Nile, A.......32 Podur, Justin ..........................47 Pornification of America, The..........................................4 Posick, Chad ..........................23 Prashad, Vijay ........................46 Presumed Criminal ..............38 Privilege Revealed .................41 Pruitt, Nicholas T. .................24 Queer Nuyorican, The .........28 Queer Stepfamilies ................19 Quosigk, Ashlee ....................24 Racism and the Class Struggle ...............................45 Ramos-Zayas, Ana Y. ...........15 Re-Imagining Black Women ................................23 Red Obsidian .........................53 Reproducing Racism ............39 Research Unit for Political Economy .............................47 Resistance ..............................53 Rethinking Community Resilience ............................13 Roithmayr, Daria ..................39 Rome in Egypt's Eastern Desert ..................................35 Rúa, Mérida M. .....................15 Sandomierski, David ............12 Saraswati, L. Ayu ...................29 Sensing Injustice ...................43 shuster, stef m. .......................21 Soundtrack to a Movement ...........................26 South Central Dreams..........16 Stephan, Johannes .................33 Stoughton, Seth W. ...............37 Streeby, Shelley ......................30 Suddler, Carl ..........................38 Sugar, Cigars, and Revolution ...........................36 Sunstein, Cass R. ...............1, 39 Surfacing ................................55 Swartz, Leslie .........................54 Taylor, Clarence.....................37 The Girl from Dream City ...51 The Way of the Gardener .....50 This Is Our School! ...............17 Tichi, Cecelia ...........................3 Tigar. Michael E. ...................43 Torre, Stephan .......................53 Trainer, Sarah ........................18 Trans Medicine......................21 Turner, Richard Brent ..........26 Understanding Eyewitness Memory ...............................22 Valdes, Francisco ..................14 Van Camp, Richard...............52 Vasalou, Sophia .....................34

Wadhia, Shoba Sivaprasad ...38 Wallace, Rob ..........................42 Washington Bullets ...............46 Whaley, Deborah ..................30 White Coal City.....................52 Wilber, Tom ...........................46 Wildman, Stephanie M. .......41 Wutich, Amber ......................18 Yancey, George ......................24 Zibrak, Arielle .........................7

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