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Carbon capital
Surprising insights into the worldviews of oil and gas financiersIt is no secret that the fossil fuel industry, whose products power modern America both physically and financially, inflicts immense destruction to our environment. The past, present, and future of US energy have been determined not...
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Raising freedom's child
The end of slavery in the United States inspired conflicting visions of the future for all Americans in the nineteenth century, black and white, slave and free. The black child became a figure upon which people projected their hopes and fears about slavery’s abolition. As a member of the first ge...
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Faithful bodies
In the seventeenth-century English Atlantic, religious beliefs and practices played a central role in creating racial identity. English Protestantism provided a vocabulary and structure to describe and maintain boundaries between insider and outsider. In this path-breaking study, Heather MiyanoKo...
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Lotions, potions, pills, and magic
Health in early America was generally good. The food was plentiful, the air and water were clean, and people tended to enjoy strong constitutions as a result of this environment. Practitioners of traditional forms of health care enjoyed high social status, and the cures they offered—from purg...
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The future of police reform
The first thorough study of the Justice Department’s pattern or practice program, examining how it works and how court-imposed consent decrees implement needed reformsAmerican society grapples with an enduring crisis in policing which is inextricably intertwined with the nation’s deeply rooted ra...
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Aiding ireland
Honorable Mention, 2025 ACIS James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize for Books on History and Social SciencesLooks at the ways that disparate groups used Irish famine relief in the 1840s to advance their own political agendasFamine brought ruin to the Irish countryside in the nineteenth century. In response...
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Unequal lessons
Diversity and racial integration efforts are not sufficient to address educational inequalityNew York City schools are among the most segregated in the nation. Yet over seven decades after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, New Yorkers continue to argue about whether school segregation mat...
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Open world empire
Finalist, 2021 John Hope Franklin Prize, given by the American Studies AssociationSeeking ways to understand video games beyond their imperial logics, Patterson turns to erotics to re-invigorate the potential passions and pleasures of playVideo games vastly outpace all other mediums of entertainm...
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Extravagant abjection
Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series 2011 Winner of the Alan Bray Memorial Book Award presented by the Modern Language AssociationChallenging the conception of empowerment associated with the Black Power Movement and its political and intellectual legacies in the present, Darieck S...
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Living on the spectrum
Honorable Mention, 2020 Stirling Prize for Best Published Work in Psychological Anthropology, given by the Society for Psychological AnthropologyHonorable Mention, New Millennium Book Award, given by the Society for Medical AnthropologyHow youth on the autism spectrum negotiate the contested mean...
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Jews, slaves, and the slave trade
Lays to rest the controversial myth of Jewish involvement in the slave tradeIn the wake of the civil rights movement, a great divide opened up between African American and Jewish communities. What was historically a harmonious and supportive relationship suffered from a powerful and oft-repeated ...
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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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Denied
A courtside view of how women athletes’ identities are policed, on and off the courtWomen’s college basketball is big business—top teams bring in millions of dollars in revenue for their schools. Women’s NCAA games are broadcast regularly on sports networks, and many of the top players and coache...
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The ethics of liberty
The authoritative text on the libertarian political positionIn recent years, libertarian impulses have increasingly influenced national and economic debates, from welfare reform to efforts to curtail affirmative action. Murray N. Rothbard's classic The Ethics of Liberty stands as one of the most ...
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Adverse events
Winner, 2022 Donald W. Light Award for Applied Medical Sociology, given by the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological AssociationWinner, 2021 Robert K. Merton Book Award, given by the Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association2021 Outstandi...
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Steel barrio
Since the early twentieth century, thousands of Mexican Americans have lived, worked, and formed communities in Chicago’s steel mill neighborhoods. Drawing on individual stories and oral histories, Michael Innis-Jiménez tells the story of a vibrant, active community that continues to play a centr...
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Bosnia
The most comprehensive narrative history of Bosnia available in EnglishThis updated edition of Noel Malcolm's highly-acclaimed Bosnia: A Short History provides the reader with the most comprehensive narrative history of Bosnia in the English language. Malcolm examines the different religious and ...
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Looking for leroy
Mark Anthony Neal’s Looking for Leroy is an engaging and provocative analysis of the complex ways in which black masculinity has been read and misread through contemporary American popular culture. Neal argues that black men and boys are bound, in profound ways, to and by their legibility. Th...
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From deportation to prison
Winner, 2017 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book AwardA thorough and captivating exploration of how mass incarceration and law and order policies of the past forty years have transformed immigration and border enforcementCriminal prosecutions for immigration offenses have more than doubled over the last two...
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The philosopher responds
Questions and answers from two great philosophersWhy 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, Th...
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The world of obsessive-compulsive disorder
Beyond trivialization and misunderstanding, the realities of people experiencing OCD Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) affects millions of people worldwide and looms large in popular culture, for instance when people quip about being “so OCD.” However, this sometimes has little relation to the...
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Taming passion for the public good
“Kann's latest tour de force explores the ambivalence, during the founding of our nation, about whether political freedom should augur sexual freedom. Tracing the roots of patriarchal sexual repression back to revolutionary America, Kann asks highly contemporary questions about the boundaries bet...
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Gender replay
Winner, 2026 Outstanding Scholarly Contribution: Edited Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association, Section on Children and YouthThe first book-length critical reception of Barrie Thorne’s classic book, Gender PlayBarrie Thorne’s Gender Play was a landmark study of the social worl...
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Disrupting dignity
Why LGBTQ+ people must resist the seduction of dignityIn 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. In Disrupting Dignity, Stephen M. Engel a...
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Narratives of guilt and innocence
2023 Co-Winner of the Herbert Jacob Book Prize, given by the Law and Society AssociationIllustrates how the power of narrative influences how police, prosecutors, juries, and judges constructlegal realityWrongful convictions have been studied primarily through the lenses of law, psychology, and t...
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The hip-hop generation fights back
From youth violence, to the impact of high stakes educational testing, to editorial hand wringing over the moral failures ofhip-hop culture, young people of color are often portrayed as gang affiliated, “troubled,” and ultimately, dangerous. The Hip-Hop Generation Fights Back examines how youth a...
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Banned
Winner, 2020 Best Book Award, Law Category, given by the American Book FestExamines immigration enforcement and discretion during the first eighteen months of the Trump administrationWithin days of taking office, President Donald J. Trump published or announced changes to immigration law and poli...
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Inside knowledge
2025 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleA powerful critique of mass incarceration by the people who have experienced itInside Knowledge is the first book to examine the American prison system through the eyes of those who are trapped within it. Drawing from the writings collected in the American Pr...
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American secularism
Honorable Mention, American Sociological Association Section on Religion Distinguished Book AwardA rapidly growing number of Americans are embracing life outside the bounds of organized religion. Although America has long been viewed as a fervently religious Christian nation, survey data shows th...
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Accessing abortion
Explores the global landscape of abortion law reformIn many countries, barriers to abortion access—legal, cultural, or practical—have been dismantled in places as diverse as Mexico, Kenya, Thailand, and Ireland. Yet, in a few countries—the United States and Poland to name two—obstacles to abortio...
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Gender, psychology, and justice
Reveals how gender intersects with race, class, and sexual orientation in ways that impact the legal status and well-being of women and girls in the justice system. Women and girls’ contact with the justice system is often influenced by gender-related assumptions and stereotypes. The justice pra...
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Republic of dreams
A harrowing political history of Kurdish Iraq told through the extraordinary rags-to-riches story of a childhood refugeeIn the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, Iraqi president Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons against his own people, the Iraqi Kurds. Five thousand people died in what became known a...
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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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White christian privilege
Exposes the invisible ways in which white Christian privilege disadvantages racial and religious minorities in AmericaThe United States is recognized as the most religiously diverse country in the world, and yet its laws and customs, which many have come to see as normal features of American life...
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Undisciplined
In the 19th century, personhood was a term of regulation and discipline in which slaves, criminals, and others, could be “made and unmade." Yet it was precisely the fraught, uncontainable nature of personhood that necessitated its constant legislation, wherein its meaning could be both contested ...
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Immigrants under threat
Co-Winner, 2019 Latina/o Section Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationA portrait of two Mexican immigrant communities confronting threats of deportation, detention, and dispossession Everyday life as an immigrant in a deportation nation ...
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A cold war exodus
Finalist, 2026 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature: NonfictionWinner of The 74th National Jewish Book Award: American Jewish Studies Celebrate 350 AwardReveals the mass mobilization tactics that helped free Soviet Jews and reshaped the Jewish American experience from the Johnson era throug...
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The public professor
Offers scholars essential advice on bringing their work into the public eyeThe work of academics can matter and be influential on a public level, but the path to becoming a public intellectual, influential policy advisor, valued community resource or go-to person on an issue is not one that most ...
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Racing research, researching race
An examination of the influence of race and racism on the research experienceA white woman studies upper-class eighth grade girls at her alma mater on Long Island and finds a culture founded on misinformation about its own racial and class identity. A Black American researcher is repeatedly assum...
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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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Uninsured in chicago
Why millions of Latinx people don’t access the healthcare system, even in times of needMore than a decade after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, around eleven million Latinx citizens around the country remain uninsured. In Uninsured in Chicago, Robert Vargas explores the roots of this cris...
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Stories of piety and prayer
Uplifting tales from one of the most influential Arabic books of the Middle AgesOne of the most popular and influential Arabic books of the Middle Ages, Deliverance Follows Adversity is an anthology of stories and anecdotes designed to console and encourage the afflicted. Regarded as a pattern-bo...
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The dark fantastic
Winner, 2022 Children's Literature Association Book Award, given by the Children's Literature AssociationWinner, 2020 World Fantasy AwardsWinner, 2020 British Fantasy Awards, NonfictionFinalist, Creative Nonfiction IGNYTE Award, given by FIYACON for BIPOC+ in Speculative FictionReveals the divers...
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Tituba, reluctant witch of salem
A landmark contribution to women's history that sheds new light on the Salem witch trials and one of its most crucial participants, Tituba of The CrucibleIn this important book, Elaine Breslaw claims to have rediscovered Tituba, the elusive, mysterious, and often mythologized Indian woman accused...
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Arabian satire
This lively volume collects poems by Hmedan al-Shwe'ir, who lived in Najd in the Arabian Peninsula shortly before the hegemony of the Wahhabi movement in the early eighteenth century.A master of satire known for his ribald humor, self-deprecation, and invective verse (hija'), Hmedan was acerbic i...
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Test, measure, punish
Winner, 2026 Pierre Bourdieu Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association, Sociology of Education SectionThe 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. The...
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Much ado about religion
This play satirizes various religions in Kashmir and their place in the politics of King Shankaravarman (883–902). The leading character is a young and dynamic orthodox graduate, whose career starts as a glorious campaign against the heretic Buddhists, Jains, and other antisocial sects. By the en...
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Masculinity in american politics
How elements of masculinity manifest themselves in all aspects of American political lifeWhile hardly a new phenomenon, masculinity—which includes elements of toughness, independence, and leadership, among others—roared onto the national political stage in America with the 2016 candidacy, electio...
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Consorts of the caliphs
Consorts of the Caliphs is a seventh/thirteenth-century compilation of anecdotes about thirty-eight women who were, as the title suggests, consorts to those in power, most of them concubines of the early Abbasid caliphs and wives of latter-day caliphs and sultans. This slim but illuminating volum...
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Black sun
Uncovers the mindset and motives that drive far-right extremists More than half a century after the defeat of Nazism and fascism, the far right is again challenging the liberal order of Western democracies. Radical movements are feeding on anxiety about immigration, globalization and the refugee ...
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The great miscalculation
Distinguished Favorite, 2025 NYC Big Book Award: NonfictionHow an engineering crisis threatened a career, a building, and the lives of countless New YorkersThe Citicorp Center, a fifty-nine-story skyscraper built in 1977, immediately became one of the most recognizable features on the New York Ci...
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The human toll
How the thirteen colonies deployed the power of taxation to support, promote, and perpetuate the institution of slaveryThe Human Toll documents how the American colonies used tax law to dehumanize enslaved persons, taxing them alongside valuable commodities upon their forced arrival and then as w...
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Virtues of the imam ahmad ibn ḥanbal
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal (d. 241/855), renowned for his profound knowledge of hadith—the reports of the Prophet’s sayings and deeds—is a major figure in the history of Islam. Ibn Ḥanbal’s piety and austerity made him a folk hero, especially after his principled resistance to the attempts of two Abbasid c...
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Racial indigestion
Winner of the 2013 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize presented by the American Studies AssociationWinner of the 2013 Association for the Study of Food and Society Book AwardPart of the American Literatures Initiative SeriesThe act of eating is both erotic and violent, as one wholly consume...
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Christian imperial feminism
Illuminates how white American Protestant women embraced a racially specific version of socialinclusiveness that centered themselves as the normAmidst the global instability of the early twentieth century, white Christian American women embracedthe idea of an “empire of Christ” that was racially ...
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Fierce, fabulous, and fluid
Winner, 2025 Critics' Choice Book Award, given by the American Educational Studies AssociationHighlights the work trans youth do to create inclusive spaces in schoolsFierce, Fabulous, and Fluid presents a poignant critique of educational policies aimed at supporting trans and gender-nonconforming...
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What ʿīsā ibn hishām told us
With What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us, the Library of Arabic Literature brings readers an acknowledged masterpiece of early twentieth-century Arabic prose. Penned by the Egyptian journalist Muḥammad al-Muwayliḥī, this exceptional title was first introduced in serialized form in his family’s pioneerin...
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Fragmented citizens
A sweeping historical and political account of how our present-day policy debates around citizenship and equality came to beThe landmark Supreme Court decision in June 2015 legalizing the right to same-sex marriage marked a major victory in gay and lesbian rights in the United States. Once subjec...
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Christian nationalism and the birth of the war on drugs
Recovers the religious origins of the War on DrugsMany people view the War on Drugs as a contemporary phenomenon invented by the Nixon administration. But as this new book shows, the conflict actually began more than a century before, when American Protestants began the temperance movement and li...
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Risible rhymes
Written in mid-seventeenth-century Egypt, Risible Rhymes is in part a short, comic disquisition on “rural” verse, mocking the pretensions and absurdities of uneducated poets from Egypt’s countryside.The interest in the countryside as a cultural, social, economic, and religious locus in its own ri...
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Undesirability and her sisters
How Black women’s visual work functions in an era of new racial and gender meaningIn the wake of contemporary art’s post-Black turn and the mainstreaming of intersectionality, Undesirability and Her Sisters charts a new genealogy of Black women’s art that exposes the unfinished project of racial ...
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The book of monasteries
A literary tour of Christian monasteries of the medieval Middle EastThe Book of Monasteries takes readers on an engaging tour of the monastic centers of the medieval Middle East, illustrated with a rich variety of poetry and prose. Starting with monasteries in Baghdad, readers are taken up the Ti...
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The secret life of stories
How an understanding of intellectual disability transforms the pleasures of readingNarrative informs everything we think, do, plan, remember, and imagine. We tell stories and we listen to stories, gauging their “well-formedness” within a couple of years of learning to walk and talk. Some argue th...
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Designer science
The history of the intelligent design movement and its legacyAnti-science rhetoric in contemporary American politics has become a preoccupying concern for science educators, politicians, and government employees. But why are so many Americans primed to distrust the scientific establishment? This ...
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Beyond recidivism
Understanding reentry experiences after incarcerationPrison in the United States often has a revolving door, with droves of formerly incarcerated people ultimately finding themselves behind bars again. In Beyond Recidivism, Andrea Leverentz, Elsa Y. Chen, and Johnna Christian bring together a lea...
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Organizing while undocumented
Finalist, 2020 C. Wright Mills Award, given by the Society for the Study of Social ProblemsHonorable Mention, 2021 Asian America Section Book Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationAn inspiring look inside immigrant youth’s political activism in perilous times Undocumented immigran...
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The queer nuyorican
Finalist for The Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, given by the American Society for Theatre Research.Silver Medal Winner of The Victor Villaseñor Best Latino Focused Non-Fiction Book Award, given by the International Latino Book Awards.Honorable Mention for the Be...
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The complete clay sanskrit library
The Clay Sanskrit Library, co-published by NYU Press and the JJC Foundation, has been created to introduce classical Sanskrit literature to a wide international readership. This literature combines great beauty, enormous variety and more than three thousand years of continuous history and develop...
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Racial reconstruction
The end of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade triggered wide-scale labor shortages across the U.S. and Caribbean. Planters looked to China as a source for labor replenishment, importing indentured laborers in what became known as “coolieism.” From heated Senate floor debates to Supreme Court te...
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The exquisite corpse of asian america
Winner of the 2016 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in Cultural StudiesThe Exquisite Corpse of Asian America addresses this central question: if race has been settled as a legal or social construction and not as biological fact, why do Asian American artists, authors, an...
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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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Avidly reads making out
“Here’s the thing with kissing: it matters intensely or not at all.”Mid-kiss, do you ever wonder who you are, who you’re kissing, where it’s leading? It can feel luscious, libidinal, friendly, but are we trying to make out something through our kissing? For Kathryn Bond Stockton, making out is a ...
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The sociology of w. e. b. du bois
The first comprehensive understanding of Du Bois for social scientistsThe Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois provides a comprehensive introduction to the founding father of American sociological thought. Du Bois is now recognized as a pioneer of American scientific sociology and as someone who made fo...
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Downwind of the atomic state
2024 Outstanding Academic Title, given by Choice ReviewsHow the scientific community overlooked, ignored, and denied the catastrophic fallout of decades of nuclear testing in the American WestIn December of 1950, President Harry Truman gave authorization for the Atomic Energy Commission to condu...
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Living off the government?
Explores the ways welfare recipients lack adequate political representationWho deserves public assistance from the government? This age-old question has been revived by policymakers, pundits, and activists following the massive economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Anne Whitesell takes up thi...
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Votes for college women
Explores the College Equal Suffrage League’s work to advance the campaign for the Nineteenth AmendmentThe woman suffrage movement is often portrayed as having been led and organized by middle-aged women and mothers in stuffy, formal settings. This dominant account grossly neglects a significant d...
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The ocean of the rivers of story (volume 1)
Soma·deva composed his Ocean of the Rivers of Story in Kashmir in the eleventh century CE. It is a vast collection of tales based on The Long Story, a now lost (and perhaps legendary) repository of Indian fables, in which prince Nara·váhana·datta wins twenty-six wives and becomes the emperor of t...
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Hate thy neighbor
Examines the role violence plays in maintaining housing segregationDespite increasing racial tolerance and national diversity, neighborhood segregation remains a very real problem in cities across America. Scholars, government officials, and the general public have long attempted to understand wh...
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We will shoot back
Winner of the 2014 Anna Julia Cooper-CLR James Book Award presented by the National Council of Black StudiesWinner of the 2014 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in LiteratureA bold and exciting historical narrative of the armed resistance of Black soldiers of the Mississippi Freedo...
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The clay sanskrit library: mahabharata
Epic: Maha·bhárata The Maha·bhárata tells the tale of the epic battle between the Pándavas and the Káuravas for the throne. It begins with the famous game of dice between the Pándavas and the Káuravas, which sets the scene for the war that will lie at the center of the Maha·bhárata epic. Even aft...
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Amazons of black sparta, 2nd edition
The only thoroughly documented Amazons in world history are the women warriors of Dahomey, an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Western African kingdom. Once dubbed a ‘small black Sparta,’ residents of Dahomey shared with the Spartans an intense militarism and sense of collectivism. Moreover, th...
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The works of charles darwin, volume 17
Charles Robert Darwin (1809–1882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western thought. His books were widely read by specialists and the general public, and his influence had been extended by almost continuous public debate over t...
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Asian american media activism
Choice Top 25 Academic TitleHow activists and minority communities use media to facilitate social change and achieve cultural citizenship. Among the most well-known YouTubers are a cadre of talented Asian American performers, including comedian Ryan Higa and makeup artist Michelle Phan. Yet benea...
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Revolutionary medicine
An engaging history of the role that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin played in the origins of public health in America Before the advent of modern antibiotics, one’s life could be abruptly shattered by contagion and death, and debility from infectious diseases and epid...
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Torah queeries
A modernized, queer reading of the TorahIn the Jewish tradition, reading of the Torah follows a calendar cycle, with a specific portion assigned each week. These weekly portions, read aloud in synagogues around the world, have been subject to interpretation and commentary for centuries. Followin...
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A mouse in a cage
Questions the treatment of laboratory animals in biomedical researchLaboratory animals are often used to develop medical treatments: vaccines, antibiotics, and organ transplants have all relied upon animal testing to ensure safety and success for human benefit. Yet the relationship between the sc...
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Listening to dementia
How dementia affects those living with the condition, their carers, and their advocacyIn Listening to Dementia, Emily K. Abel demonstrates that recognizing the voices of people with dementia can fundamentally alter our understanding of both their lived experience and the discourse surrounding the...
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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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The heavenly exploits
This selection of religious biographies from the early centuries C.E. offers a delightful introduction to a literary genre that has played an essential part in Buddhist self-understanding for over two thousand years.The Heavenly Exploits are “Buddhist Biographies from the Dívyavadána.” The worldl...
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The principles of sufism
'A'ishah al-Ba'uniyyah of Damascus was one of the great women scholars in Islamic history. Born into a prominent family of pious scholars and Sufi devotees, 'A'ishah received a thorough religious education and memorized the Quran at age eight. A mystic and a prolific poet and writer, she composed...
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Disagreements of the jurists
A masterful overview of Islamic law and its diversityAl-Qadi al-Nu'man was the chief legal theorist and ideologue of the North African Fatimid dynasty in the tenth century. This translation makes available in English for the first time his major work on Islamic legal theory, which presents a lega...
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A treasury of virtues
Insights into a life of integrity by a master of Arabic eloquenceA Treasury of Virtues is a collection of sayings, sermons, and teachings attributed to 'Ali ibn Abi Talib (d. 40/661), the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad, the first Shia Imam and the fourth Sunni Caliph. An acknowledg...
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The essence of reality
A groundbreaking exposition of Islamic mysticism The Essence of Reality was written over the course of just three days in 514/1120, by a scholar who was just twenty-four. The text, like its author ʿAyn al-Quḍāt, is remarkable for many reasons, not least of which that it is in all likelihood the e...
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Disability works
Winner, 2025 Midwest Modern Language Association Book AwardWinner, 2025 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Book AwardFinalist, 2025 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, given by American Society for Theatre ResearchWinner, 2025 Lilla A. Heston Award for Outsta...
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The tragedy of heterosexuality
Winner, 2021 PROSE Award in the Cultural Anthropology & Sociology CategoryFinalist, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ StudiesA troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeTooHeterosexuality is in crisis. Reports of sexual harassment, misconduct, and rape saturate the news in t...
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Conscience incorporated
Category Winner, 2025 PROSE Awards: Business, Finance, and Management CategoryA guide for business leaders working to create socially conscious, sustainable companies—while pursuing profitsAmid growing international concerns about income inequality, labor abuses, racial injustice, and disinformat...
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The politics of latino faith
Pundits and commentators are constantly striving to understand the political behavior of Latinos—the largest minority in the United States and a key voting block. As Catherine E. Wilson makes clear in The Politics of Latino Faith, not only are Latinos a religious community, but their religious in...
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The rise of wisdom moon
The Rise of Wisdom Moon was composed during the mid-eleventh century by Krishna•mishra, an otherwise unknown poet in the service of the Chandella dynasty, whose cultural and religious capital was Khajuraho. The early popularity of Krishna•mishra’s work led to its frequent translation into the ver...
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Centering families of color
Centers families of color in family law, revealing their pivotal role in shaping justice, equality, and social change and how their perspectives reframe the scope of family lawCentering Families of Color argues for the reframing of how we define “family law.” Centering the voices and perspectives...
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