American Studies
- Conversations in Maine A New Edition Grace Lee Boggs, James Boggs, Freddy Paine and Lyman Paine 2018 Fall
- Meditations on activism following the turbulent 1960s—back in print
- Herlands Exploring the Women’s Land Movement in the United States Keridwen N. Luis 2018 Fall
- How women-only communities provide spaces for new forms of culture, sociality, gender, and sexuality
- Enduring Images A Future History of New Left Cinema Morgan Adamson 2018 Fall
- An integrated look at the political films of the 1960s and ’70s and how the New Left transformed cinema
- The Robotic Imaginary The Human and the Price of Dehumanized Labor Jennifer Rhee 2018 Fall
- Tracing the connections between human-like robots and AI at the site of dehumanization and exploited labor
- The Denial of Antiblackness Multiracial Redemption and Black Suffering João H. Costa Vargas 2018 Fall
- An incisive new look at the black diaspora, examining the true roots of antiblackness and its destructive effects on all of society
- Black Boys Apart Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schools Freeden Blume Oeur 2018 Fall
- How neoliberalism and the politics of respectability are transforming African American manhood
- Gay, Inc. The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics Myrl Beam 2018 Fall
- A bold and provocative look at how the nonprofit sphere’s expansion has helped—and hindered—the LGBT cause
- Power and Progress on the Prairie Governing People on Rosebud Reservation Thomas Biolsi 2018 Spring
- A critical exploration of how modernity and progress were imposed on the people and land of rural South Dakota
- With Stones in Our Hands Writings on Muslims, Racism, and Empire Sohail Daulatzai and Junaid Rana, Editors 2018 Spring
- Bringing together scholars and activists, With Stones in Our Hands confronts the rampant anti-Muslim racism and imperialism across the globe today
- Wild Mares My Lesbian Back-to-the-Land Life Dianna Hunter 2018 Spring
- A wry memoir of growing up, coming out, and going back to the land as a lesbian feminist in the rural Midwest of the 1960s and 70s
- The Undocumented Everyday Migrant Lives and the Politics of Visibility Rebecca M. Schreiber 2018 Spring
- Examining how undocumented migrants are using film, video, and other documentary media to challenge surveillance, detention, and deportation
- The Toxic Meritocracy of Video Games Why Gaming Culture Is the Worst Christopher Paul 2018 Spring
- An avid gamer and sharp media critic explains meritocracy’s negative contribution to video game culture—and what can be done about it
- The Modernist Corpse Posthumanism and the Posthumous Erin E. Edwards 2018 Spring
- An unconventional take on the corpse challenges traditional conceptions of who—and what—counts as human while offering bold insights into the modernist project
- Historic Capital Preservation, Race, and Real Estate in Washington, D.C. Cameron Logan 2017 Fall
- A chronicle of historic preservation’s profound impact on Washington, D.C., highlighting the major changes urban revitalization has made on American cities
- Black on Both Sides A Racial History of Trans Identity C. Riley Snorton 2017 Fall
- Uncovering the overlapping histories of blackness and trans identity from the nineteenth century to the present day
- The River Is in Us Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community Elizabeth Hoover 2017 Fall
- The riveting story of the Mohawk community that fought back against the contamination of its lands
- When the Hills Are Gone Frac Sand Mining and the Struggle for Community Thomas W. Pearson 2017 Fall
- An overlooked part of fracking’s environmental impact becomes a window into the activists and industrial interests fighting for the future of energy production—and the fate of rural communities
- Writing Human Rights The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color Crystal Parikh 2017 Fall
- Reading works by American writers of color through the lens of human rights
- Lewd Looks American Sexploitation Cinema in the 1960s Elena Gorfinkel 2017 Fall
- The untold story of the American sexploitation film—a major development in screen sex in the decade before “porno chic”
- Stomping the Blues Albert Murray 2017 Fall
- The 40th anniversary edition of a landmark study of blues and jazz by one of America’s premier essayists and novelists