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Your data will be used against you
Interrogates how digital self-surveillance can be turned against us by police, prosecutors, and political whimsFor consumers living in a digitally-connected world, smart technologies have built an inescapable trap of digital self-surveillance. Smart cars, smart homes, smart watches, and smart med...
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Lessons for a warming planet
Shows the foundational role law has played throughout U.S. history in both environmental exploitation and protection and offers crucial lessons for addressing contemporary challengesThe relationship between humans and the environment in the United States reflects tales of countless contrasting an...
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Sexuality beyond consent
Radical alternatives to consent and traumaArguing that we have become culturally obsessed with healing trauma, Sexuality Beyond Consent calls attention to what traumatized subjects do with their pain. The erotics of racism offers a paradigmatic example of how what is proximal to violation may bec...
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Fear of queer taiwan
Traces the development of new anti-LGBTQ movements in Taiwan and their interactions with the US Religious Right In 2019, global media celebrated Taiwan as the first Asian country to legalize same-sex marriage. However, the pursuit of this human rights milestone spurred waves of opposition to LGBT...
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Disabled power
Winner, 2026 Allan Clive Service and Spirit Memorial Award, given by the National Hurricane ConferenceA call to place disability at the center of climate and disaster responsesEvery disaster is a disability disaster, argues Angela Frederick. Disabled Power tells the stories of Texans with disabil...
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How to play video games
Forty original contributions on games and gaming culture What does Pokémon Go tell us about globalization? What does Tetris teach us about rules? Is feminism boosted or bashed by Kim Kardashian: Hollywood? How does BioShock Infinite help us navigate world-building?From arcades to Atari, and phone...
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Organize or burn
A successful political playbook for fighting climate change and expanding democracy from the New York socialist movement Climate inaction is already causing widespread suffering and devastation around the world. How can citizens take collective action? Fabian Holt argues that we must go beyond p...
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Global guyana
Shortlisted, 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, NonfictionExposes the global threat of environmental catastrophe and the forms of erasure that structure Caribbean women’s lives in the overlooked nation of GuyanaPreviously ranked among the hemisphere’s poorest countries, Guyana is beco...
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On the side of ice
Shows how police serve to assist ICE despite sanctuary laws insisting otherwiseIn the United States, local law enforcement agencies are legally and organizationally independent entities from federal law enforcement agencies like the FBI and ICE. While local police enforce local, state and federal...
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Sanctuary people
Explores ways faith communities offer protection and services for Latina/o communitiesThe New Sanctuary Movement is a network of faith-based organizations committed to offering safe haven to those in danger, often in churches, often outside the law, and often at risk to themselves. The practice o...
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Halfway house
An inside look at the struggles former prisoners face in reentering society Every year, roughly 650,000 people prepare to reenter society after being released from state and federal prisons. In Halfway House, Liam Martin shines a light on their difficult journeys, taking us behind the scenes at B...
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Fandom is ugly
Winner, 2025 Diamond Anniversary Book Award, given by the National Communication AssociationHighlights the importance of considering contemporary public culture through the lens of fan studiesThe Gamergate harassment campaign of women in video games, the “Unite the Right” rally where hundreds of ...
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No restraint
A wake-up call on the use and abuse of restraints against disabled children in public schoolsOver 100,000 students are restrained and secluded in locked rooms throughout US public schools; the overwhelming majority are students with disabilities. Despite pleas from parents, disability rights orga...
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For women and girls only
Winner, 2024 Jewish Music Special Interest Group PrizeShortlist, 2025 Religion and the Arts Book Award, given by the American Academy of ReligionA compelling look at the lives of ultra-Orthodox and formerly ultra-Orthodox Jewish women and their use of media technologies to create a new market fo...
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Healing movements
How a grassroots abolitionist project of cultural healing counters the carceral state in a Chicanx community in CaliforniaFor many, gang involvement can be a guaranteed life sentence, a force which traps them in an inescapable cycle of violence even if it does not lead to actual prison time. Heal...
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Punished
Honorable Mention, 2014 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award presented by the Society for the Study of Social Problems2012 Best Book Award, Latino/a Sociology Section, presented by the American Sociological Association2012 Finalist, C. Wright Mills Book Award presented by the Study of Soc...
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Feasting and fasting
How Judaism and food are intertwined Judaism is a religion that is enthusiastic about food. Jewish holidays are inevitably celebrated through eating particular foods, or around fasting and then eating particular foods. Through fasting, feasting, dining, and noshing, food infuses the rich tradit...
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Killing radicalism
A radical challenge to the ways anti-rape advocates work with the survivors of sexual assaultWhat is “victim advocacy” when regulated by the government? Victim advocates have long served as the designated support people for survivors of sexual violence. But in the neoliberal era, advocates no lon...
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The book of travels
The adventures of the man who created AladdinThe 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, th...
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White property, black trespass
Uncovers the inherently religious structure of the criminalization of Black, Indigenous, and dispossessed peoplesMost popular critical accounts of mass criminalization interpret police and prisons as purely social or political phenomena. While such accounts have been indispensable in moving milli...
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Queer childhoods
Shortlist, 32nd Annual Modern Language Association Prize for a First BookFinalist, 37th Annual Lambda Literary Awards in LGBTQ+ StudiesExplores how the institutional management of children’s sexualities in boarding schools affected children’s future social, political, and economic opportunities T...
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Keywords for american cultural studies, third edition
Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories for American Studies and Cultural Studies in an updated editionSince its initial publication, scholars and students alike have turned to Keywords for American Cultural Studies as an invaluable resource for understanding key terms a...
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Policing not protecting families
Controlling, surveilling, and punishing poor families through the child welfare systemIn a typical year, one in five US children have some interaction with the child welfare system. Countless other families, particularly those who struggle to care for their children due to poverty or economic ins...
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Latinx civil wars
Uncovers how Mexican-American and Cuban-American writings during the US Civil War shaped Latinidad amid conflicts over race, slavery, and national identityThe mid-nineteenth century was a crucible for the emergence of US Latinidad. Against the backdrop of the US–Mexico War, the Cuban wars of inde...
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Climate change
This volume focuses on three main questions surrounding the ethics and politics of climate change. The first concerns the limits of welfare economics, and of its utilitarian logic, as arguably still the dominant policy approach to climate change, and one which has loomed correspondingly large in ...
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Fearing the black body
Winner, 2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationHonorable Mention, 2020 Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationHow the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years Th...
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Secrets of the killing state
Finalist, 2026 Next Generation Indie Book Award: Social JusticeLethal injection is nothing like what people think. This is its untold story.In the popular imagination, lethal injection is a slight pinch and a swift nodding off to forever-sleep. It is performed by well-qualified medical profession...
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Rituals of migration
Italian and Irish immigrant experiencesWhen people migrate, they often perform social and cultural rituals along the way. The idea of rites of passage—with its elements of preparation, departure, transit, admission, exclusion, expulsion, and return—helps us understand these moments in the process...
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Suspended education
How the historic resistance to racial desegregation in schools led to the over-punishment of students todayEvery year, millions of public school students are suspended. This overused punishment removes students from the classroom, but it does not improve their behavior. Instead, suspension disrup...
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The cult of crossfit
2025 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleReveals the Christian foundations of CrossFitCrossFit in the United States has become increasingly popular, around which a fascinating culture has developed which shapes everyday life for the people devoted to it. CrossFit claims to be many things: a business...
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Jewish marital captivity
Solutions to divorce abuse in Jewish societiesJewish Marital Captivity centers on the experience of women encountering systemic disadvantage in rabbinic marriage and divorce throughout Jewish history and across the map of Jewish life. In rabbinic law, marriage is a unilateral act by the husband, ...
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Critical race theory, fourth edition
A new edition of a seminal text in Critical Race TheorySince the publication of the third edition of Critical Race Theory: An Introduction in 2017, the United States has experienced a dramatic increase in racially motivated mass shootings and a pandemic that revealed how deeply entrenched medica...
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The church of stop shopping and religious activism
Explores the religious activism of the Stop Shopping Church performance groupSince the dawn of the new millennium, the grassroots performance activist group the Stop Shopping Church has advanced a sophisticated anti-capitalist critique in what they call “Earth Justice.” Led by co-founders, Revere...
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Fandom for us, by us
Honorable Mention, 2026 Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Outstanding Work in African-American Popular Culture Studies, given by the Popular Culture AssociationFinalist, 2026 PROSE Award in Media and Cultural Studies, given by the Association of American PublishersThe convergence of...
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Calling the shots
Winner, 2018 Donald W. Light Award for Applied Medical Sociology, American Sociological Association Medical Sociology SectionWinner, 2018 Distinguished Scholarship Award presented by the Pacific Sociology AssociationHonorable Mention, 2017 ESS Mirra Komarovsky Book Award presented by the Eastern ...
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Racial virtuality
Reveals how Asianness emerges as a dynamic media materiality shaped by measurement, circulation, and calibration, amid shifting labor relations under contemporary capitalismRacial Virtuality contends that racialization not only occurs through representation in media, but also through our very int...
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Punishing immigrants
Arizona’s controversial new immigration bill is just the latest of many steps in the new criminalization of immigrants. While many cite the presumed criminality of illegal aliens as an excuse for ever-harsher immigration policies, it has in fact been well-established that immigrants commit less c...
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Front of the house, back of the house
Honorable Mention, Mirra Komarovsky Book Award, given by the Eastern Sociological Society2021 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice MagazineHow workers navigate race, gender, and class in the food service industryTwo unequal worlds of work exist within the upscale restaurant scene of Los Angeles. Wh...
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The slums of aspen
Winner, Allan Schnaiberg Outstanding Publication Award, presented by the Environment & Technology section of the American Sociological AssociationHow the elite ski resort reshaped the socio-economic and demographic landscape in pursuit of profit and pleasureEnvironmentalism usually calls to m...
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Kids at work
Winner, 2020 Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award, given by the Children and Youth Section of the American Sociological AssociationWinner, 2020 Early-Career Book Award from the American Association of Hispanics in Higher EducationHow Latinx kids and their undocumented parents struggle in the ...
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Civility unbound
An urgent interrogation of an eroding normAmidst unprecedented turmoil in American Democracy—as norms of conduct in our institutions erode and polarizing, combative behavior is increasingly rewarded—an acclaimed group of thought leaders, policymakers, artists, activists, and scholars interrogate ...
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Convergence culture
Winner of the 2007 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award2007 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleA classic study on the dynamic between an individual and different media channels Convergence Culture maps a new territory: where old and new media intersect, where gras...
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A federal right to education
How the United States can provide equal educational opportunity to every child The United States Supreme Court closed the courthouse door to federal litigation to narrow educational funding and opportunity gaps in schools when it ruled in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez in 19...
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The third net
Winner, 2025 Thomas & Znaniecki Best Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association International Migration SectionReveals the presence of an informal system of valuable support and care for marginalized migrantsThe United States’ health care system not only consists of a formal s...
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Printing nueva york
Uncovers the network of Spanish-language writers and editors in 19th-century New York, whose media innovations fueled anticolonial struggles and democratic idealsAt the end of the nineteenth century, New York City was a vital hub for writers from Latin America, providing a haven of press freedom ...
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The practice of islam in america
An introduction to the ways in which ordinary Muslim Americans practice their faith. Muslims have always been part of the United States, but very little is known about how Muslim Americans practice their religion. How do they pray? What’s it like to go on pilgrimage to Mecca? What rituals accomp...
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The race card
Winner, 2020 American Book Award, given by the Before Columbus FoundationHow games have been used to establish and combat Asian American racial stereotypes As Pokémon Go reshaped our neighborhood geographies and the human flows of our cities, mapping the virtual onto lived realities, so too has g...
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The new sex wars
Revisits the sex wars of the 1970s and ’80s and examines their influence on how we think about sexual harm in the #MeToo era#MeToo’s stunning explosion on social media in October 2017 radically changed—and amplified—conversations about sexual violence as it revealed how widespread the issue is an...
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Divided by choice
How race and capitalism shape educationSchool choice programs—such as vouchers, education savings accounts, and tax credit scholarships—are surrounded by controversy, raising questions about their impact on student diversity and inequality. In this book, Ryane McAuliffe Straus takes up a core par...
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Bi
What bisexual youth can tell us about today’s gender and sexual identities Despite the increasing visibility of LGBTQ people in American culture, our understanding of bisexuality remains superficial, at best. Yet, five times as many people identify as bisexual than as gay or lesbian, and as much ...
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Deported
Winner, 2016 Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association Latino/a SectionThe intimate stories of 147 deportees that exposes the racialized and gendered dimensions of mass deportations in the U.S.The United States currently is deporting more pe...
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Growing up queer
LGBTQ kids reveal what it’s like to be young and queer today Growing Up Queer explores the changing ways that young people are now becoming LGBT-identified in the US. Through interviews and three years of ethnographic research at an LGBTQ youth drop-in center, Mary Robertson focuses on the voices...
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Keywords for gender and sexuality studies
Introduces key terms, debates, and histories for feminist studies in gender and sexualityKeywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies introduces readers to a set of terms that will aid them in understanding the central methodological and political stakes currently energizing feminist and queer studi...
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Coal, cages, crisis
How prisons became economic development strategies for rural Appalachian communitiesAs the United States began the project of mass incarceration, rural communities turned to building prisons as a strategy for economic development. More than 350 prisons have been built in the U.S. since 1980, with...
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Social parenthood in comparative perspective
Investigates social parents – people who function as parents but who may not be recognized as suchin the eyes of the lawWhat makes a person a parent? Around the world, same-sex couples are raising children; parents are separating and re-partnering, creating blended families; and children are livi...
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Racial exhaustion
How to build stamina to confront racial exhaustion and communicate differently about raceIn the wake of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, many Americans—regardless of race—find themselves exhausted by conversations about race and racism. People of color continue to bear the weight of ...
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Law and justice as seen on tv
Law and Justice as Seen on TV examines the impact, significance, and social and political problems raised by the enormous onslaught of law-related television programming, both fiction and nonfiction, in the years since the rise of live televised trials as major media events. The book weaves toget...
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Before the badge
An inside look at how police officers are trained to perpetuate state violenceMichael Brown. Philando Castile. George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. As the names of those killed by the police became cemented into public memory, the American public took to the streets in unprecedented numbers to mourn, or...
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Families we keep
Why LGBTQ adults don’t end troubled ties with parents and why (perhaps) they shouldFamilies We Keep is a surprising look at the life-long bonds between LGBTQ adults and their parents. Alongside the importance of “chosen families” in the queer community, Rin Reczek and Emma Bosley-Smith found that...
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Black muslim freedom dreams
Explores three generations of Black American Muslims pursuing education and liberation beyond the borders of the United StatesSince the 1970s, hundreds of Black American Muslims in the Tijani Sufi order have sought refuge in a new world that would nurture their racial, religious and gendered iden...
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Enduring otherwise
Explores Muslim queer and trans experiences in the world’s largest Muslim-majority countryMany gender and sexual minorities in Indonesia remain practicing Muslims, but they face violence stemming from Muslim society’s rejection of their sexual and gender identities. With their faith often pitted ...
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Black sailor, white navy
It is hard to determine what dominated more newspaper headlines in America during the 1960s and early ‘70s: the Vietnam War or America’s turbulent racial climate. Oddly, however, these two pivotal moments are rarely examined in tandem.John Darrell Sherwood has mined the archives of the U.S. Navy ...
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Snitching
Reveals the secretive, inaccurate, and often violent ways that the American criminal system really worksCurtis Flowers spent twenty-three years on death row for a murder he did not commit. Atlanta police killed 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston during a misguided raid on her home. Rachel Hoffman was ...
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The omnivore’s deception
Offers the most powerful case yet for ending our exploitation of animals for foodMillions of Americans see themselves as "conflicted omnivores," worrying about the ethical and environmental implications of their choice to eat animals. Yet their attempts to justify their choices only obscure the t...
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Filipino american sporting cultures
Examines the significance of sports in the lives of diasporic Filipino AmericansOrganized sports have occupied a central place in Filipino American life since US colonialism began in the Philippines in 1898. For Filipino diasporas in the United States, sports are important cultural sites through ...
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The coffin ship
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2022Honorable Mention, Theodore Saloutos Book Award, given by the Immigration and Ethnic History SocietyA vivid, new portrait of Irish migration through the letters and diaries of those who fled their homeland during the Great FamineThe standard story of the exod...
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Test, measure, punish
The risk of closure and repression in schoolsIn the last two decades, education officials have closed a rising number of public schools nationwide related to low performance. These schools are mainly located in neglected neighborhoods with high concentrations of poverty. Despite this credible thr...
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Resurgence and revolution
A riveting current history of the Kurdish rebel PKK groupAliza Marcus’ new book tells the remarkable story of Kurdish revolution in the Middle East led by the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party)—the rebel group whose insurgency in Turkey has impacted countries, conflicts, and Kurdish demands throughou...
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The threshold of dissent
Explores the long history of anti-Zionist and non-Zionist American JewsThroughout the twentieth century, American Jewish communal leaders projected a unified position of unconditional support for Israel, cementing it as a cornerstone of American Jewish identity. This unwavering position served to...
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Complex innocence
Exposes the paradox of self-defense in police violence through five case studies of police killingsEvery day in the United States, an average of three people are killed by police officers. Black and Indigenous victims are disproportionately represented, and their stories are too often distorted b...
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Crip times
Contends that disability is a central but misunderstood element of global austerity politics. Broadly attentive to the political and economic shifts of the last several decades, Robert McRuer asks how disability activists, artists and social movements generate change and resist the dominant forms...
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Japanese americans and the racial uniform
Honorable Mention, 2025 AAAS Book Awards: Social Sciences CategoryHow race continues to shape the citizenship and everyday lives of later-generation JapaneseAmericansJapanese Americans are seen as the “model minority,” a group that has fully assimilated and excelled within the US. Yet third- and ...
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Dark agoras
WINNER, 2024 Pauli Murray Book Prize, given by the African American Intellectual History SocietyA history of Black urban placemaking and politics in Philadelphia from the Great Migration to the era of Black PowerIn this book, author J.T. Roane shows how working-class Black communities cultivated ...
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F*ck the army!
Winner, 2025 Lawrence W. Levine Award, given by the Organization of American HistoriansFinalist, 2024 George Freedley Memorial Award, given by the Theatre Library AssociationReveals the theatrical dimensions of civilian support for the revolutionary GI Movement of the 1960s-70sPerformance played ...
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Priests of our democracy
Priests of OurDemocracy tells of the teachers and professors whobattled the anti-communist witch hunt of the 1950s. It traces the political fortunesof academic freedom beginning in the late 19th century, both oncampus and in the courts. Combining political and legal history with wrenchingpersonal...
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Becoming human
Winner, 2021 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize, given by the National Women's Studies AssociationWinner, 2021 Harry Levin Prize, given by the American Comparative Literature AssociationWinner, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ StudiesArgues that Blackness disrupts our essential ideas of race, gende...
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Race and the politics of deception
What is the relationship between race and space, and how do racial politics inform the organization and development of urban locales?In Race and the Politics of Deception, Christopher Mele unpacks America’s history of dealing with racial problems through the inequitable use of public space. Mele...
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False starts
Winner, 2024 Bourdieu Best Book Award, given by the Sociology of Education Section of the American Sociological AssociationHonorable Mention, Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award, given by the Children and Youth Section of the American Sociological AssociationAn inside look at the racial and ...
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Essential soldiers
A new perspective on women’s Black Power leadership legaciesAcademics and popular commentors have expressed common sentiments about the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s—that it was male dominated and overrun with autocratic leaders. Yet women’s strategizing, management, and sustained w...
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Targeted
How video transformed policing and securityVideo cameras are everywhere: attached to buildings, drones, and dashboards; embedded in smartphones, laptops, and doorbells; worn on police uniforms and sunglasses. In Targeted, Kelly Gates argues that the resulting avalanche of video has transformed th...
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The opportunity trap
Winner, 2024 Global Sociology Book Award, given by the Canadian Sociological Association Winner of the 2024 Silver Medal for the Canada West Non-Fiction category, given by The Independent Publisher Book AwardWinner of the ASA Section on Asia and Asian America's Book Award on Asian AmericaHonorabl...
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The rise of digital sex work
How technology transformed the nature of sex workThe internet has revolutionized sex work perhaps more than any other profession. Today’s sex workers go online to attract clients, shape personas, share information, screen potential clients, and build community. The Rise of Digital Sex Work is an ...
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Asian america rising
A collection of movement flashpoints and insurgent visions for Asian American activismIn the late 1960s, Asian American political activism emerged to unite disparate Asian diasporic communities living in the United States behind a radical political identity shaped by the Black Power and anti-impe...
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In dependence
Examines the role of the American Revolution in the everyday lives of womenPatriarchal forces of law, finance, and social custom restricted women’s rights and agency in revolutionary America. Yet women in this period exploited these confines, transforming constraints into vehicles of female empow...
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Extravagant camp
Winner of the 2023-2024 CLAGS Fellowship AwardIlluminates an irreverent queer cultural strategy for grappling with and remaking abject histories of violenceExtravagant Camp takes as its point of critical departure the multiple valences of the word “camp”: the camp, as a geopolitical space and pro...
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The holocaust across generations
Winner of the 2017 Outstanding Book Award for the Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section presented by the American Sociological AssociationBrings together the study of post-Holocaust family culture with the study of collective memory Over the last two decades, the cross-generational transmission...
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Video games have always been queer
Argues for the queer potential of video gamesWhile popular discussions about queerness in video games often focus on big-name, mainstream games that feature LGBTQ characters, like Mass Effect or Dragon Age, Bonnie Ruberg pushes the concept of queerness in games beyond a matter of representation, ...
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A misrepresented people
Offers a Black male response to the challenge of womanist thoughtAlthough much Black religious scholarship has engaged with feminist theory and womanist thought, a gap remains where little work has been done in religious studies to investigate the Black male experience. A Misrepresented People ex...
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Authors of their lives
2008 United States Postal System’s Rita Lloyd Moroney AwardIn the era before airplanes and e-mail, how did immigrants keep in touch with loved ones in their homelands, as well as preserve links with pasts that were rooted in places from which they voluntarily left? Regardless of literacy level, ...
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Clean and white
Clean and White offers a history of environmental racism in the United States focusing on constructions of race and hygieneWhen Joe Biden attempted to compliment Barack Obama by calling him “clean and articulate,” he unwittingly tapped into one of the most destructive racial stereotypes in Americ...
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Wanamaker's temple
How a pioneering merchant blended religion and business to create a unique American shopping experienceOn Christmas Eve, 1911, John Wanamaker stood in the middle of his elaborately decorated department store building in Philadelphia as shoppers milled around him picking up last minute Christmas p...
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Immigration and crime
An essential collection that argues fears of immigrant crime are largely unfoundedThe original essays in this much-needed collection broadly assess the contemporary patterns of crime as related to immigration, race, and ethnicity. Immigration and Crime covers both a variety of immigrant groups—ma...
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Contemporary asian america (third edition)
The third edition of the foundational volume in Asian American studiesWho are Asian Americans? Moving beyond popular stereotypes of the “model minority” or “forever foreigner,” most Americans know surprisingly little of the nation’s fastest growing minority population. Since the 1960s, when diffe...
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One nation underground
Why some Americans built fallout shelters—an exploration America's Cold War experienceFor the half-century duration of the Cold War, the fallout shelter was a curiously American preoccupation. Triggered in 1961 by a hawkish speech by John F. Kennedy, the fallout shelter controversy—"to dig or not...
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The menace among us
A comprehensive study of American Jewish responses to twentieth-century antisemitic extremismDespite significant advances in Jewish civil rights and socioeconomic conditions throughout the twentieth century, American Jews withstood shocking acts of violence and vitriolic propaganda at the hands o...
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Education for the revolution
Traces the history of the Oakland Community School, the last Community Survival Program of the Black Panther PartyEducation for the Revolution offers the first comprehensive historical account of the last standing survival program of the Black Panther Party, the Oakland Community School. First es...
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Neurofutures
Reimagines neurodiversity through intersections of race, disability, and social justiceNeurodiversity has progressed from niche activism to a household term; our culture is now saturated with social media ads promising to "train" ADHD brains and media tropes like the quirky savant. But amidst thi...
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Trial by video
Investigates the significance of video evidence in criminal trials of police officers charged for on-duty shooting incidentsLawyers describe video evidence as a “game changer” for achieving criminal accountability in police-involved shootings. Despite a proliferation of videos of police-involved ...
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Injurious love
In Injurious Love: Racial Violence and Interracial Intimacy, Corrine Collins challenges one of the most durable liberal narratives of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: that interracial love functions as a natural antidote to racism. Across the United States and Great Britain, i...
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The battle for belonging
Asian Americans are the fastest-growing voting bloc in the United States, with AAPI turnout hitting a record high in the 2020 elections. Yet, as a political cohort, they are also remarkably complex and diverse, encompassing a number of ethno-racial groups with different languages, religions, and ...
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