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HIGHLIGHTS CRITICAL DIALOGUES IN LATINX STUDIES
THE MOVEMENT FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE
A Reader
Edited by ANA RAMOS-ZAYAS and MÉRIDA RÚA
Empowering Women of Color through Social Activism
Introduces new approaches, theoretical trends, and understudied topics in Latinx Studies
592 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-0521-1 • $45.00
PATRICIA ZAVELLA
Shows how reproductive justice organizations’ collaborative work across racial lines provides a model for other groups to successfully influence change 320 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-1270-7 • $32.00 In Social Transformations in American Anthropology
THE TROUBLE WITH SNACK TIME
SPACES OF SECURITY
Ethnographies of Securityscapes, Surveillance, and Control
Children’s Food and the Politics of Parenting
Edited by SETHA LOW and MARK MAGUIRE
JENNIFER PATICO
Explores the tensions between parents’ concerns about their children’s food and their liberal politics 256 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-4598-9 • $30.00
“Shows brilliantly how the concern with security both excludes and includes, exacerbating existing racial, gendered, and economic inequalities.”—Sally Engle Merry, New York University 280 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-7006-6 • $32.00
FREEZING FERTILITY
FRONT OF THE HOUSE, BACK OF THE HOUSE
Oocyte Cryopreservation and the Gender Politics of Aging LUCY VAN DE WIEL
Race and Inequality in the Lives of Restaurant Workers
Analyzes how the possibility of egg freezing changes what it means to be fertile and to age in the 21st century 368 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-1790-0 • $35.00 In Biopolitics
ELI REVELLE YANO WILSON
How workers navigate race, gender, and class in the food service industry
224 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-0062-9 • $28.00 In Latina/o Sociology
LIFEBLOOD OF THE PARISH
THE KIDS ARE IN CHARGE
Men and Catholic Devotion in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Activism and Power in Peru’s Movement of Working Children
ALYSSA MALDONADOESTRADA
JESSICA K. TAFT
“A powerful account of children refusing to settle for a hierarchical, paternalistic status quo.”—Allison J. Pugh, author of The Tumbleweed Society
A New York City ethnography that explores men’s unique approaches to Catholic devotion 304 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-3049-7 • $32.00 In North American Religions
272 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-5450-9 • $30.00 In Critical Perspectives on Youth
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ANTHROPOLOGIES OF AMERICAN MEDICINE Finalist, 2020 PROSE Award in the Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology category, Association of American Publishers | Honorable Mention, 2020 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing
REPRODUCTIVE INJUSTICE
Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth DÁNA-AIN DAVIS
Reveals how medical racism contributes to premature and low birth weight outcomes for black women
272 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-5357-1 • $30.00 In Anthropologies of American Medicine
ADVERSE EVENTS
Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals
WAR AND HEALTH
The Medical Consequences of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan Edited by CATHERINE LUTZ and ANDREA MAZZARINO
“Clearly and powerfully conveys the complex and multifaceted impacts of the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq on health.”—Janelle Taylor, University of Washington 288 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-9461-1 • $30.00 In Anthropologies of American Medicine
LIVING ON THE SPECTRUM
Autism and Youth in Community
JILL A. FISHER
ELIZABETH FEIN
An unprecedented exploration of the intersection between US racial inequalities and pharmaceutical testing
Explores how youth on the spectrum negotiate the contested meanings of neurodiversity
336 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-6216-0 • $30.00 In Anthropologies of American Medicine
THE NEW AMERICAN SERVITUDE
304 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-8906-8 • $30.00 In Anthropologies of American Medicine
INEQUALITIES OF AGING
Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers
Paradoxes of Independence in American Home Care
CATI COE
“A brilliantly told story of precarious and unequal lives.” —Carol Stack, author of Call to Home
Examines why African care workers feel politically excluded from the United States
304 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-0883-0 • $32.00 In Anthropologies of American Medicine
ELANA D. BUCH
288 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-0717-8 • $30.00 In Anthropologies of American Medicine
THE ANTHROPOLOGIES OF AMERICAN MEDICINE: CULTURE, POWER, AND PRACTICE SERIES This series features US-based ethnographic research into the relations between health, culture, power and knowledge. While focused on the US, the series also explores the place of US institutions in the world-wide reach of biomedicine through migration, transnationalism, corporate influence and other global processes.
GENERAL EDITORS
Paul Brodwin | Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Michele Rivkin-Fish | Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Susan Shaw | Associate Professor of Community Health Education, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
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RELIGION MUSLIM AMERICAN CITY
ARK ENCOUNTER
The Making of a Creationist Theme Park
Gender and Religion in Metro Detroit
JAMES S. BIELO
“Because each chapter deals with a discrete aspect of Ark Encounter’s project and engages different bodies of literature, it is ideal for classroom use.” —American Ethnologist
ALISA PERKINS
Explores how Muslim Americans test the boundaries of American pluralism 256 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-4598-9 • $30.00
240 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-4279-7 • $28.00
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WOMEN IN BUDDHIST TRADITIONS
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THEORY OF WOMEN IN RELIGIONS
KARMA LEKSHE TSOMO
CATHERINE WESSINGER
A new history of Buddhism that highlights the insights and experiences of women from diverse communities and traditions around the world
An introduction to the study of women in diverse religious cultures 224 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0946-2 • $22.00 In Women in Religions • Instructor’s Guide and Additional Resources Available
224 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0342-2 • $22.00 In Women in Religions • Instructor’s Guide and Additional Resources Available
IMMIGRATION ILLEGAL ENCOUNTERS
2019 Inaugural Outstanding Ethnography Book Award, Ethnography in Education Research Forum | 2019 Outstanding Book Award, Council on Anthropology and Education
MOTHERHOOD ACROSS BORDERS
The Effect of Detention and Deportation on Young People
Immigrants and Their Children in Mexico and New York
Edited by DEBORAH A. BOEHM and SUSAN J. TERRIO
GABRIELLE OLIVEIRA
“A must-read for anyone interested in how young people manage the perilous journey across borders and the US legal system.”—Leo R. Chavez, author of The Latino Threat 256 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-6107-1 • $30.00
“An intimate portrayal of the ways that motherhood, and caregiving more generally, is shifting in transnational context.”—Deborah A. Boehm, author of Returned 272 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-6646-5 • $30.00
KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILIES IN IMMIGRANT AMERICA
S TAY C O N N E C T E D
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How Teens and Parents Navigate Race SUMIE OKAZAKI and NANCY ABELMANN
“This riveting book powerfully turns the Model Minority Stereotype on its head!” —Gilberto Conchas, UC Irvine 272 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-3668-0 • $32.00
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GENDER & SEXUALITY OUTLAW WOMEN
QUEERING FAMILY TREES
Prison, Rural Violence, and Poverty on the New American Frontier
Race, Reproductive Justice, and Lesbian Motherhood
SUSAN DEWEY, RHETT EPLER, CATHERINE CONNOLLY, BONNIE ZARE, and ROSEMARY BRATTON
SANDRA PATTON-IMANI
Argues that legal marriage has not made family-making equal for lesbian mothers of color in the US
Examines the forces which shape women’s experiences of incarceration in rural areas
336 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-1486-2 • $30.00
272 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-8743-9 • $30.00
2017 Margaret Mead Award, AAA and SFAA | Honorable Mention, 2015 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize, Society for Medical Anthropology
THE VIOLENCE OF CARE
Rape Victims, Forensic Nurses, and Sexual Assault Intervention SAMEENA MULLA
Challenges the uncritical adoption of forensic practice in sexual assault intervention and post-rape care 288 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-6721-9 • $26.00
SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGY SERIES This series aims to explore not only social movements but the undercurrents of excitement that may be seen as the precursors of social transformation—highlighting the engaged approach to anthropology that has re-emerged in recent years.
GENERAL EDITOR
Ida Susser | CUNY Graduate Center
RACE & ETHNICITY 2019 William J. Goode Book Award, Family Section of the American Sociological Association | Finalist, 2019 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems
WHITE KIDS
Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America MARGARET A. HAGERMAN
“Margaret Hagerman’s White Kids brings to mind two words: must read.” —STARRED, Foreword Reviews 280 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0245-6 • $18.95 In Critical Perspectives on Youth
2020 Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award, Children and Youth Section of the American Sociological Association
KIDS AT WORK
Latinx Families Selling Food on the Streets of Los Angeles EMIR ESTRADA
“Reveals the complexity of the household economy of undocumented and mixed status families in Los Angeles.” —Zulema Valdez, author of Entrepreneurs and the Search for the American Dream 224 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-7370-8 • $28.00 In Latina/o Sociology
BOUNDARIES OF LOVE
Interracial Marriage and the Meaning of Race
CLEAN AND WHITE
A History of Environmental Racism in the United States
CHINYERE K. OSUJI
CARL A. ZIMRING
“This nuanced and pathbreaking study is sure to challenge previous notions of interracial marriage.” —Edward Telles, author of Pigmentocracies
“Shows that American notions of clean environments and healthy landscapes are the products of a racist past.” —Journal of American History
320 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-3145-6 • $32.00
288 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-7437-8 • $24.00
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GREAT FOR COURSES INSTRUCTOR’S GUIDE AVAILABLE
SHARING OUR WORLDS, third edition
ANTHROPOLOGY AND LAW
An Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology
A Critical Introduction
MARK GOODALE Foreword by SALLY ENGLE MERRY
JOY HENDRY
“A highly engaging and vividly rendered introduction to social and cultural anthropology for new students and general readers alike.”—William W. Kelly, Yale University
“Paint[s] a vivid and accessible account of what contemporary anthropologists have to say about law as meaning, regulation and identity.” —David Nelken, King’s College London
350 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-8368-4 • $35.00
320 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-9551-9 • $35.00
THE ENVIRONMENT IN ANTHROPOLOGY,
FIGHT LIKE A GIRL, second edition How to Be a Fearless Feminist
second edition A Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living
MEGAN SEELY
Feeling angry about how women are treated? This new edition is perfect for women of all ages, with thoughtful analysis, helpful advice, and useful resources 384 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-1010-9 • $28.00
Edited by NORA HAENN, ALLISON HARNISH, and RICHARD WILK
“Reads like a ‘Greatest Hits’ of environmental anthropology in recent years.”—Rebecca Hardin, University of Michigan 592 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-7676-1 • $35.00
SOCIETY WITHOUT GOD, second edition
IMAGINING QUEER METHODS
What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us about Contentment
Edited by AMIN GHAZIANI and MATT BRIM
“Provocative, timely, and fierce, Imagining Queer Methods is both a case study and manifesto for why methods matter.” —Robyn Wiegman, author of Object Lessons
PHIL ZUCKERMAN
Showcases the social health of the least religious nations on the planet 304 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-7808-6 • $30.00
336 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-2948-4 • $30.00
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PARANORMAL AMERICA, second edition
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Ghost Encounters, UFO Sightings, Bigfoot Hunts, and Other Curiosities in Religion and Culture
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CHRISTOPHER D. BADER, JOSEPH O. BAKER, and F. CARSON MENCKEN
“An engaging and eyeopening book.”—Roger Finke, Pennsylvania State University 304 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-1528-9 • $28.00
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How a City’s Heart Connects Us All MINDY THOMPSON FULLILOVE
Traverses the central thoroughfares of our cities to uncover the ways they bring together our communities
352 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-6133-2126-3 • $21.95 Published by New Village Press
MY LIFE IN 100 OBJECTS MARGARET RANDALL
This renowned activist poet uses talismanic objects and photographs to evoke personal narratives on cultures and social upheavals she engaged with in dozens of countries 250 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-6133-2114-0 • $24.00 Published by New Village Press
SUCH A PRETTY GIRL
A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride NADINA LASPINA
“From pity to empowerment, a woman born with polio illuminates her personal changes in attitude and accomplishment.” —STARRED Kirkus Reviews 352 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-6133-2099-0 • $19.95 Published by New Village Press
THE EARTH, THE CITY, AND THE HIDDEN NARRATIVE OF RACE CARL C. ANTHONY
An African American environmental justice leader connects the struggles for social and racial equality to the universe’s story
362 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-6133-2021-1 • $21.95 Published by New Village Press
NEW VILLAGE PRESS ROOT SHOCK
How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do about It MINDY THOMPSON FULLILOVE
Examines three different US cities to unmask the crippling results of decades-old disinvestment in communities of color 304 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-6133-2019-8 • $19.95 Published by New Village Press
A MAN OF THE THEATER
Survival as an Artist in Iran NASSER RAHMANINEJAD
Explores life in Iran as an artist under the Shah and during the Iranian Revolution 320 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-6133-2110-2 • $21.95 Published by New Village Press
PLACEMAKING WITH CHILDREN AND YOUTH
Participatory Practices for Planning Sustainable Communities
VICTORIA DERR, LOUISE CHAWLA and MARA MINTZER
Offers an illustrated, essential guide to engaging children and teens in the process of urban design 416 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-6133-2100-3 • $40.00 Published by New Village Press
New Village Press has been a publisher in the humanities and social sciences since 2005, best known for transdisciplinary books in urban sociology, community cultural development, and healthy city design.
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CLEARING THE PLAINS, NEW EDITION
NO SURRENDER
The Land Remains Indigenous SHELDON KRASOWSKI
Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Indigenous Life
“[A] very important, fresh, and valuable work.”—Sarah Carter, author of Imperial Plots
JAMES DASCHUK
This award-winning book shows how the Canadian government implemented policies that starved Indigenous peoples on the Plains to clear the way for settlement in the 19th century
368 PAGES • PAPER 978-0-8897-7596-1 • $22.95 Published by University of Regina Press
386 PAGES • PAPER • 978-0-8897-7622-7 • $27.95 Published by University of Regina Press
BEAVER, BISON, HORSE
GENOCIDAL LOVE
The Traditional Knowledge and Ecology of the Northern Great Plains
A Life after Residential School BEVANN FOX
Delves into the long-term effects of childhood trauma on those who attended residential school and demonstrates the power of story to help in recovery and healing
R. GRACE MORGAN
An interdisciplinary account of the ecological relationships the Indigenous nations of the Plains had to the beaver, bison, horse, and their habitat prior to contact
256 PAGES • PAPER 978-0-8897-7741-5 • $17.95 Published by University of Regina Press
292 PAGES • PAPER • 978-0-8897-7788-0 • $29.95 Published by University of Regina Press
A DIGITAL BUNDLE
PERFORMING TURTLE ISLAND
Protecting and Promoting Indigenous Knowledge Online
Indigenous Theatre on the World Stage
JENNIFER WEMIGWANS
Demonstrates the great potential for digital technology to contribute to selfdetermination, resurgence, revitalization, and the rebuilding of nations
Edited by JESSE RAE ARCHIBALDBARBER, KATHLEEN IRWIN, and MOIRA J. DAY
Considers theatre as a tool for community engagement, education, and resistance 256 PAGES • PAPER • 978-0-8897-7656-2 • $24.95 Published by University of Regina Press
224 PAGES • PAPER • 978-0-8897-7551-0 • $24.95 Published by University of Regina Press
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PrEP, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Barebacking Edited by RICKY VARGHESE Afterword by TIM DEAN
“Significantly broadens the field of scholarship on bareback.” —Oliver Davis, author of Jacques Rancière
288 PAGES • PAPER • 978-0-8897-7683-8 • $29.95 In Exquisite Corpse Published by University of Regina Press
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distributed by NYU Press BECOMING MEN
Black Masculinities in a South African township MALOSE LANGA
This vivid evocation of the lives of 32 boys from a Johannesburg township is essential reading for anybody wishing to understand black masculinity in South Africa 202 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-7761-4567-6 • $20.00 Published by Wits University Press
TIES THAT BIND
Race and the Politics of Friendship in South Africa Edited by SHANNON WALSH and JON SOSKE
Shows how intimacies of friendship create vital spaces for practices of power and resistance within the histories of apartheid and colonialism 304 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-8681-4968-1 • $35.00 Published by Wits University Press
I WANT TO GO HOME FOREVER
Stories of Becoming and Belonging in South Africa’s Great Metropolis
Edited by LOREN B LANDAU and TANYA PAMPALONE
Thirteen true stories about xenophobia and belonging in Johannesburg
WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION IN AFRICA Edited by DEBORAH POSEL and ILANA VAN WYK
Revisiting Thorstein Veblen’s concept, this volume grapples with contemporary conspicuous consumption in Africa, its history and how it relates to the project of African modernity 304 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-7761-4364-1 • $35.00 Published by Wits University Press
DRESS AS SOCIAL RELATIONS
An Interpretation of Bushman Dress VIBEKE MARIA VIESTAD
Challenges the myth of the nearly naked Bushman 208 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-7761-4191-3 • $80.00 Published by Wits University Press
THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT OF ARCHIE MAFEJE BONGANI NYOKA
A Pan-African social scientist ahead of his time 288 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-7761-4594-2 • $30.00 Published by Wits University Press
260 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-7761-4221-7 • $35.00 Published by Wits University Press
A LONG WAY HOME
Migrant worker worlds 1800–2014
Edited by PETER DELIUS, LAURA PHILLIPS, and FIONA RANKINSMITH
A three-hundred-year history beginning with the exportation of slave labour from Mozambique in the eighteenth century and ending with the strikes and tensions on the platinum belt in recent years 288 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-8681-4767-0 • $35.00 Published by Wits University Press
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