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History
THE CHURCH OF THE DEAD
The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas JENNIFER SCHEPER HUGHES
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 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
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.
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. 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.
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).
June 2021 336 pages • 6 x 9 11 black & white illustrations Cloth • 9781479808762 • $35.00A(£27.99) In The Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series
History
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.
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 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
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
June 2021 336 pages • 6 x 9 8 black & white illustrations Paper • $38.00S(£31.00) 9781479804092 Cloth • $120.00X(£99.00) 9781479804085
Politics 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. 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.
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
LATCRIT
From Critical Legal Theory to Academic Activism FRANCISCO VALDES and STEVEN W. BENDER
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.
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. 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.
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
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
SOUTH CENTRAL DREAMS
Finding Home and Building Community in South L.A. PIERRETTE HONDAGNEU-SOTELO and MANUEL PASTOR
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.
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. 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.
July 2021 352 pages • 6 x 9 56 black & white illustrations Paper • 9781479807970 • $32.00S(£24.99) Cloth • 9781479804023 • $89.00X(£74.00) In Latina/o Sociology
Latinx Studies | Urban Sociology
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. May 2021 304 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $30.00S(£21.99) 9781479890057 Cloth • $89.00X(£74.00) 9781479848317
Sociology | Education
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 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. 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.
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.
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. 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
July 2021 272 pages • 6 x 9 49 black & white illustrations Paper • $30.00S(£23.99) 9781479800988 Cloth • $89.00X(£74.00) 9781479800957
Sociology
BLACK WOMEN'S HEALTH
Paths to Wellness for Mothers and Daughters MICHELE TRACY BERGER
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.
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. 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.
April 2021 256 pages • 6 x 9 2 black & white illustrations Paper • 9781479892952 • $30.00S(£23.99) Cloth • 9781479828524 • $89.00X(£74.00)
Women's Studies | Sociology
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.
June 2021 224 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • 9781479899371 • $27.00S(£20.00) Cloth • 9781479845378 • $89.00X(£74.00)
Sociology | LGBTQ Studies
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
July 2021 336 pages • 6 x 9 20 black & white illustrations Paper • $35.00S(£27.99) 9781479803736 Cloth • $99.00X(£82.00) 9781479803729
Criminology 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? 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. 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.
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. April 2021 304 pages • 6 x 9 6 black & white illustrations Paper • $30.00S(£23.99) 9781479850891 Cloth • $89.00X(£74.00) 9781479855858
