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Amheida IIAnna Lucille Boozer • page 47

SEPTEMBER

The 9/11 GenerationSunaina Marr Maira • page 42

After Life ImprisonmentMarieke Liem • page 26

Brown Bodies, White BabiesLaura Harrison • page 18

Ending Zero ToleranceDerek W. Black • page 1

Jacob Neusner Aaron W. Hughes • page 11

Japanese American EthnicityTakeyuki Tsuda • page 28

Sharing Our Worlds, 3eJoy Hendry • page 28

The Criminal Brain, 2eNicole Rafter, Chad Posick, andMichael Rocque • page 24

The Cultural Politics of USImmigrationLeah Perry • page 42

Transnational ReproductionDaisy Deomampo • page 27

LIBRARY OF ARABIC LITERATUREA Hundred and One NightsTranslated by Bruce Fudge • page 49

NEW IN PAPERBACKThe Counter-Revolution of 1776Gerald Horne • page 36

MONTHLY REVIEW PRESSFacing the AnthropoceneIan Angus • page 52

OCTOBER

Atlas of the Irish RevolutionEdited by John Crowley, MikeMurphy, and Donal Ó Drisceoil •

page 13

The Color of KinkAriane Cruz • page 44

DrawdownEdited by Jason W. Warren • page 34

From Deportation to PrisonPatrisia Macías-Rojas • page 16

GolemMaya Barzilai • page 38

How the Wise Men Got to ChelmRuth von Bernuth • page 7

Jews of HarlemJeffrey S. Gurock • page 6

Pride ParadesKatherine McFarland Bruce • page 14

Stop and FriskMichael D. White and Henry F.Fradella • page 2

The Landmarks of New YorkBarbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel• page 9

LIBRARY OF ARABIC LITERATURERisible RhymesTranslated by Humphrey Davies •page 49

LIBRARY OF ARABIC LITERATURENEW IN PAPERBACKA Treasury of VirtuesTranslated by Tahera Qutbuddin •page 48

The Life of Ibn HanbalTranslated by Michael Cooperson• page 48

NEW IN PAPERBACKThe Price of ParadiseDavid Dante Troutt • page 17

NEW IN PAPERBACKRag RaceAdam D. Mendelsohn • page 37

NOVEMBER

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and theFeminist Foundations of FamilyLawTracy A. Thomas • page 32

The Ground Has ShiftedWalter Earl Fluker • page 3

HackedKevin F. Steinmetz • page 25

Latino Nineteenth CenturyEdited by Rodrigo Lazo and JesseAlemán • page 46

Make Art Not War Edited by Ralph Young • page 4

Middle East Studies for the NewMillenniumEdited by Cynthia Miller-Idriss andSeteny Shami • page 21

The Sonic Color LineJennifer Lynn Stoever • page 45

Televised RedemptionCarolyn Moxley Rouse, John L.

Jackson, and Marla F. Frederick •page 40

Women as Wartime RapistsLaura Sjoberg • page 24

LIBRARY OF ARABIC LITERATURELight in the HeavensTranslated by Tahera Qutbuddin •page 49

NEW IN PAPERBACKCut It OutTheresa Morris • page 20

NEW IN PAPERBACKPluckedRebecca M. Herzig • page 18

MONTHLY REVIEW PRESS

Educational JusticeHoward Ryan • page 54

DECEMBER

Archives of FleshRobert Reid-Pharr • page 41

Are Racists Crazy?Sander L. Gilman and James M.Thomas • page 15

Discretionary JusticeCarolyn Strange • page 32

How to Read African AmericanLiteratureAida Levy-Hussen • page 44

Meth WarsTravis Linnemann • page 26

Moments of SilenceEdited by Arta Khakpour,Shouleh Vatanabadi and MohammadMehdi Khorrami • page 47 Muslim CoolSu’ad Abdul Khabeer • page 29

Vaccine CourtAnna Kirkland • page 31

Whiteness on the Border Lee Bebout • page 46

NEW IN PAPERBACKMy Soul is in HaitiBertin M. Louis, Jr. • page 40

MONTHLY REVIEW PRESSRethinking Revolution

Leo Panitch and Greg Albo • page 57

JANUARY

Botox Nation

Dana Berkowitz • page 14The Case for the Corporate DeathPenaltyMary Kreiner Ramirez and Steven A.Ramirez • page 8

Health of NewcomersPatricia Illingworth, Wendy E. Parmet• page 31

The Holocaust AcrossGenerationsJanet Jacobs • page 39

Immigration, Emigration, andMigrationEdited by Jack Knight • page 22

The Mary Daly Reader Edited by Jennifer Rycenga and LindaBarufaldi • page 39

NeocitizenshipEva Cherniavsky • page 43

Out of the RunningShauna Shames • page 23

Race and the Politics ofDeceptionChristopher Mele • page 16

Strange Fruit of the Black PacificVincent Schleitwiler • page 43

StrippedBernadette C. Barton • page 19

Surviving PovertyJoan Maya Mazelis • page 17

Suspect FreedomsNancy Raquel Mirabal • page 34

NEW IN PAPERBACKA Great Conspiracy against OurRacePeter G. Vellon • page 37

NEW IN PAPERBACKManaging Inequality

Karen R. Miller • page 35MONTHLY REVIEW PRESS Syriza WaveHelena Sheehan • page 56

FEBRUARY

Civil Society, Second EditionEdited by John R. Ehrenberg •page 29

Creativity without LawEdited by Aaron Perzanowski andKate Darling • page 33

Culture JammingMarilyn DeLaure and Moritz Fink• page 20

Fast Food KidsAmy L. Best • page 20

The Utopia Reader, 2eEdited by Gregory Claeys and LymanTower Sargent • page 21

Whose Global Village?Ramesh Srinivasan • page 30

Women of the StreetSusan Dewey and Tonia St. Germain• page 27

NEW IN PAPERBACKBrooklyn’s Promised LandJudith Wellman • page 35

NEW IN PAPERBACKFighting over the FoundersAndrew M. Schocket • page 36

MONTHLY REVIEW PRESSCreating an Ecological SocietyFred Magdoff and Chris Williams• page 53

MONTHLY REVIEW PRESSUnion Power James Young • page 55

CONTENTS

GENERAL INTEREST ........................1–13

SOCIAL SCIENCE.............................14-28

MEDIA STUDIES..............................29-30

LAW ...............................................31-33

HISTORY ........................................34-37

RELIGION .......................................38-40AMERICAN STUDIES .......................41-46

CULTURAL STUDIES .............................47

ARCHAEOLOGY ....................................47

MONTHLY REVIEW PRESS ...............42–47

LIBRARY OF ARABIC LITERATURE ....48-49

CLAY SANSKRIT ..............................50-51

MONTHLY REVIEW PRESS ................52-57

AWARD-WINNING BACKLIST .................58

INDEX .................................................59

SALES INFORMATION ...........................60

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A call to end an intolerable policy

Ending Zero ToleranceThe Crisis of Absolute School Discipline

Derek W. Black

In the era of zero tolerance, we are flooded with

stories about schools issuing draconian punishments

for relatively innocent behavior. One student was

suspended for chewing a Pop-Tart into the shape of

a gun. Another was expelled for cursing on social

media from home. Suspension and expulsion rates

have doubled over the past three decades as zero

tolerance policies have become the normal response

to a host of minor infractions. Students from alldemographic groups have suffered, but minority and

special needs students have suffered the most. On

average, middle and high schools suspend one out of

four African American students at least once a year.

The effects of these policies are devastating. Just one

suspension in the ninth grade doubles the likelihood

that a student will drop out. Fifty percent of students

who drop out are subsequently unemployed. Eighty

percent of prisoners are high school drop outs. Therisks associated with suspension and expulsion are

so high that, as a practical matter, they amount

to educational death penalties, not behavioral

correction tools.

Ending Zero Tolerance answers the calls of grassroots

communities pressing for integration and increased

education funding with a complete rethinking of

school discipline. Derek Black weaves stories about

individual students, lessons from social science, and

the outcomes of court cases to unearth a shockingly

irrational system of punishment. While schools and

legislatures have proven unable and unwilling to

amend their failing policies, Ending Zero Tolerance

argues for constitutional protections to check abuses

in school discipline and lays out ways in which courts

should re-engage to enforce students’ rights and

support broader reforms.

DEREK W. BLACK is Professor of Law at theUniversity of South Carolina School of Law.

He is a former attorney with the Lawyers

Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

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In the Families, Law, and Society series

CURRENT AFFAIRS

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STOP AND FRISK

The possible future of a flawed policy

Stop and FriskThe Use and Abuse of a Controversial

Policing TacticMichael D. White and Henry F. Fradella

No policing tactic has been more controversial

than “stop and frisk,” whereby police officers stop,

question and frisk ordinary citizens, who they

may view as potential suspects, on the streets. As

Michael White and Henry Fradella show in the first

authoritative history and analysis of this tactic, thereis a disconnect between our everyday understanding

and the historical and legal foundations for this

policing strategy. First ruled constitutional in 1963,

stop and frisk would go on to become a central tactic

of modern day policing, particularly by the New York

City Police Department. By 2011 the NYPD recorded

685,000 ‘stop-question-and-frisk’ interactions with

citizens; yet, in 2013, a landmark decision ruled

that the police had over- and mis-used this tactic.

Stop and Frisk tells the story of how and why thishappened, and offers ways that police departments

can better serve their citizens.

While much of the book focuses on the NYPD’s use

of stop and frisk, examples are also shown from

police departments around the country, including

Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago, Newark and

Detroit. White and Fradella argue that not only does

stop and frisk have a legal place in 21st-century

policing but also that it can be judiciously used tohelp deter crime in a way that respects the rights

and needs of citizens. They also offer insight into the

history of racial injustice that has all too often been

a feature of American policing’s history and propose

concrete strategies that every police department can

follow to improve the way they police. A hard-hitting

yet nuanced analysis, Stop and Frisk shows how the

tactic can be a just act of policing and, in turn,

shows how to police in the best interest of citizens.

MICHAEL D. WHITE is Professor in theSchool of Criminology and Criminal Justice

at Arizona State University and the Associate

Director of ASU’s Center for Violence

Prevention and Community Safety. His

publications include Jammed Up: Bad Cops,

Police Misconduct, and the New York CityPolice Department (NYU Press, 2012).

HENRY F. FRADELLA is Professor andAssociate Director in the School of

Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona

State University. His publications include

America’s Courts and the Criminal Justice

System.

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CURRENT AFFAIRS • CRIMINOLOGY

“The most comprehensive discussion of thetopic to date….White and Fradella offer plausiblerecommendations for reining in this contentiouspolice practice that promises public safety, but insome communities, has replaced fear of crime withfear of the police.”

Delores Jones-Brown, co-author of Policing andMinority Communities

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What lies ahead for the Black Church

The Ground HasShiftedThe Future of the Black Church in Post-Racial America

Walter Earl Fluker

If we are in a post-racial era, then what is the future

of the Black Church? If the U.S. will at some time in

the future be free from discrimination and prejudices

that are based on race, how will that affect the

church’s very identity?

In The Ground Has Shifted , Walter Earl Fluker

passionately and thoroughly discusses the historical

and current role of the Black Church and argues

that older race-based language and metaphors of

religious discourse have outlived their utility. He

offers instead a larger, global vision for the Black

Church that focuses on young black men and other

disenfranchised groups who have been left behind in

a world of globalized capital.

With a compelling and lyrical writing style, Fluker

argues that the church must find new ways to use

race as an emancipatory instrument if it is to remain

central in black life, and he points the way for a new

generation of church leaders, scholars and activists

to reclaim the black church’s historical identity and

to turn to the task of infusing character, civility, and

a sense of community among its congregants.WALTER EARL FLUKER is the Martin LutherKing, Jr. Professor of Ethical Leadership,

the editor of the Howard Thurman

Papers Project, and the Director of theMartin Luther King, Jr. Initiative for the

Development of Ethical Leadership (MLK-

IDEAL) at Boston University School of

Theology and the Graduate School of Arts

and Sciences.

NOVEMBER

304 PAGESCLOTH • 978-1-4798-1038-3 • $35.00A (£26.99)

In the Religion, Race, and Ethnicity series

RELIGION • AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

“This is the most decisive statement on post-racialism, the American dilemma, and blackchurch positive agency. On each page, Fluker’s

writing moans and wails us out of southernAfrican American religiosity, up north into thefragmentation of black urban life, and into anethical world of hope for an America becoming. Adefining direction and persuasive proposal on howto get us to healthy community.”

Dwight N. Hopkins, author of Being Human: Race,Culture, and Religion

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When a single image captures a movement

Make Art Not WarPolitical Protest Posters from theTwentieth Century

Edited by Ralph Young

GENERAL INERES

RALPH YOUNG is Professor of Historyat Temple University. He is the author of

Dissent: The History of an American Idea (NYU

Press, 2015) and Dissent in America: The

Voices That Shaped a Nation, a compilation

of primary documents of 400 years of

American dissenters.

NOVEMBER

128 PAGES • 87 color illustrationsPAPER • 978-1-4798-1367-4 • $29.95T (£22.99)

A Washington Mews title

POLITICS • HISTORY

Two of the most recognizable images of twentieth-

century art are Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica” and

the rather modest mass-produced poster by an

unassuming illustrator, Lorraine Schneider “War is

Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things.”

From Picasso’s masterpiece to a humble piece

of poster art, artists have used their talents to

express dissent and to protest against injustice and

immorality.

As the face of many political movements, posters

are essential for fueling recruitment, spreading

propaganda, and sustaining morale. Disseminated

by governments, political parties, labor unions and

other organizations, political posters transcend time

and span the entire spectrum of political affiliations

and philosophies.

Drawing on the celebrated collection in the Tamiment

Library’s Poster and Broadside Collection at New

York University, Ralph Young has compiled an

extraordinarily visceral collection of posters that

represent the progressive protest movements of the

twentieth century: labor, civil rights, the Vietnam

War, LGBT rights, feminism, and other minority

rights.

Make Art Not War can be enjoyed on aestheticgrounds alone, and also offers fascinating and

revealing insights into twentieth century cultural,

social, and political history.

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The changing face of a historic neighborhood

The Jews of HarlemThe Rise, Decline, and Revival of a

Jewish Community

Jeffrey S. Gurock

JEFFREY S. GUROCK is Libby M. KlapermanProfessor of Jewish History at Yeshiva

University (NY). He is the author or editor ofeighteen books, including the prize-winning

Jews in Gotham: New York Jews in a Changing

City , 1920-2010 (NYU Press, 2013).


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HISTORY • NEW YORK CITY

New York Times columnist David W. Dunlap wrote a

decade ago that “on the map of the Jewish Diaspora,

Harlem is Atlantis...A vibrant hub of industry, artistry

and wealth is all but forgotten. It is as if Jewish

Harlem sank 70 years ago beneath waves of memory

beyond recall.” During World War I, Harlem washome to the second largest Jewish community in

America. But in the 1920s Jewish residents began

to scatter to other parts of Manhattan, to the outer

boroughs, and to other cities. Now nearly a century

later, Jews are returning uptown to a gentrified

Harlem.

The Jews of Harlem follows Jews into, out of, and

back into this renowned metropolitan neighborhood

over the course of a century and a half. It analyzes

the complex set of forces that brought several

generations of central European, eastern European,

and Sephardic Jews to settle there. It explains the

dynamics that led Jews to exit this part of Gotham

and explores the enduring Jewish presence uptown

after Harlem became overwhelmingly black and

decidedly poor. And it looks at the beginnings of

Jewish return as part of the transformation of New

York City in our present era. The Jews of Harlem

contributes much to our understanding of Jewish

and African American history in the metropolis as

it highlights the ever-changing story of America’s

largest city.

With The Jews of Harlem, the beginning of Dunlap’s

hoped-for resurfacing of this neighborhood’s history

is underway. Its contemporary story merits telling

even as the memories of what Jewish Harlem once

was warrants recall.

JANUARY 2015368 PAGES

PAPER • 978-1-4798-7846-8 • $24.00S

Also of interest:

Jews in GothamNew York Jews in a

Changing City,

1920-2010

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GENERAL INERES

Visit a village of foolish souls

How the Wise Men Gotto ChelmThe Life and Times of a Yiddish FolkTradition

Ruth von Bernuth

When God created the world, so it is said, he sent out

an angel with a bag of foolish souls with instructions

to distribute them equally all over the world—one

fool per town. But the angel’s bag broke and all the

souls spilled out onto the same spot. They built a

settlement where they landed: the town is known asChelm.

The collected tales of these fools, or “wise men,” of

Chelm constitute the best-known folktale tradition of

the Jews of eastern Europe. This tradition includes

a sprawling repertoire of stories about the alleged

intellectual limitations of the members of this old

and important Jewish community. Chelm did not

make its debut in the role of the foolish shtetl par

excellence until late in the nineteenth century. Since

then, however, the town has led a double life—as a

real city in eastern Poland and as an imaginary place

onto which questions of Jewish identity, community,

and history have been projected.

How the Wise Men Got to Chelm is the first in-depth

study of Chelm literature and its relationship to its

literary precursors. By placing literary Chelm and its

“foolish” antecedents in a broader historical context,

it shows how they have functioned for over three

hundred years as models of society, somewhere

between utopia and dystopia. These imaginary

foolish towns have enabled writers both to entertain

and highlight a variety of societal problems, a

function that literary Chelm continues to fulfill in

Jewish literature to this day.

RUTH VON BERNUTH is Associate Professorin the Department of Germanic and Slavic

Languages and Literatures and Director of

the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies at the

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.


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LITERATURE • JEWISH STUDIES

“Using the example of ‘foolish’ culture,von Bernuth shows that Jews shared theassumptions, themes, and expressions of

the general German culture, while lendingthat culture a Jewish inflection. Yet, socialbarriers persisted. Von Bernuth illuminatesthis paradoxical combination of culturalpartnership and social alienation, showcasingthe relationship between minority andmajority groups. Her book is a milestone inboth literary history and cultural studies.”

Moshe Rosman, author ofHow Jewish Is Jewish History?

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Because someone should have to pay

The Case for theCorporate DeathPenaltyRestoring Law and Order on Wall Street

Mary Kreiner Ramirez and Steven A.Ramirez

MARY KREINER RAMIREZ is professorof law at Washburn University School of

Law. She is a former prosecutor for the

Department of Justice Antitrust Division,

where she prosecuted white collar criminals.

STEVEN A. RAMIREZ is a Professor of Lawand Associate Dean at Loyola University of

Chicago, where he also serves as Director

of the Business Law Center. He previously

served as an Enforcement Attorney for the

Securities and Exchange Commission and

a Senior Attorney for the Federal Deposit

Insurance Corporation. He is the author of

Lawless Capitalism (NYU Press, 2012).

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An unprecedented breakdown in the rule of law

occurred in the United States after the 2008

financial collapse. Bank of America, JPMorgan,

Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and other large banks

settled securities fraud claims with the Securities

and Exchange Commission for failing to disclose

the risks of subprime mortgages they sold to the

investing public. But a corporation cannot commit

fraud except through human beings working at

and managing the firm. Rather than breaking up

these powerful megabanks, essentially imposing

a corporate death penalty, the government simply

accepted fines that essentially punished innocent

shareholders instead of senior leaders at the

megabanks. It allowed the real wrongdoers to walkaway from criminal responsibility.

In The Case for the Corporate Death Penalty , Mary

Kreiner Ramirez and Steven A. Ramirez examine

the best available evidence about the wrongdoing

underlying the financial crisis. They reveal that the

government failed to use its most powerful law

enforcement tools despite overwhelming proof of

wide-ranging and large-scale fraud on Wall Street

before, during, and after the crisis.

The pattern of criminal indulgences exposes the

onset of a new degree of crony capitalism in which

the most economically and political powerful can

commit financial crimes of vast scale with criminal

and regulatory immunity. The Case for the Corporate

Death Penalty shows that this new lawlessness poses

a profound threat that urgently demands political

action and proposes attainable measures to restore

the rule of law in the financial sector.

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An Illustrated, Comprehensive

Record of New York City’s

Historic Buildings

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Honoring New York’s past

The Landmarks of

New YorkAn Illustrated, Comprehensive Record ofNew York City’s Historic Buildings,Sixth Edition

Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel

As the definitive resource on the architectural

history of New York City, The Landmarks of New York

documents and illustrates the 1,352 individual

landmarks and 135 historic districts that have

been accorded landmark status by the New York

City Landmarks Preservation Commission since its

establishment in 1965. Arranged chronologically by

date of construction, the book offers a sequential

overview of the city’s architectural history and

richness, presenting a broad range of styles and

building types: colonial farmhouses, Gilded Age

mansions, churches, schools, libraries, museums,

and the great twentieth-century skyscrapers that are

recognized throughout the world.

That so many of these structures have endured is

due, in large measure, to the efforts of the New York

City Landmarks Preservation Commission. Since

the commission was established, New York City has

become the leader of the preservation movement in

the United States.

The Landmarks of New York includes such iconic

structures as Grand Central Station, the Chrysler

Building, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, andCarnegie Hall, as well as those that may be less

well known: the Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House in

Brooklyn, the oldest structure in New York City; the

Bowne House in Queens, the birthplace of American

religious freedom; the Watchtower in Harlem; the

New York Botanical Garden; and Sailors Snug Harbor.

The sixth edition adds 106 new individual landmarks,

two special addenda on the hotly-contested “back-

log” and resultant 30 pending designations, over 150

new photographs, and new historic district maps.

BARBARALEE DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGELis the founder and chair of the New York

Landmarks50 Alliance, chairperson of the

Historic Landmarks Preservation Center and

vice-chair of the New York State Council on

the Arts. She is also a commissioner of the

American Battle Monuments Commission,

and a director of the Trust for the National

Mall. She served as the first director of the

Office of Cultural Affairs of New York City,and is the longest-serving commissioner of

the New York City Landmarks Preservation

Commission.

OCTOBER

912 PAGES • black & white illustrations throughoutCLOTH • 978-1-4798-8301-1 • $75.00A (£58.00)

A Washington Mews title

HISTORY • ARCHITECTURE • NEW YORK CITY

Praise for the Fifth Edition:

“A spectacular book….Diamonstein-Spielvogelhas proven that New York City cares deeply aboutits past and its connections to the present andfuture.”

Gotham Magazine

“To read this book from cover to cover is to rereadthe past 400 years of New York history.…Highlyrecommended.”

Library Journal

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GENERAL INERES

Black Religion and Racial Identity

During the Great Migration

Showcasing how religion and race are boundtogether in black new religious movements

New World A-ComingBlack Religion and Racial IdentityDuring the Great Migration

Judith Weisenfeld

When Joseph Nathaniel Beckles registered for the

draft in 1942, he rejected the racial categories

presented to him and persuaded the registrar to

cross out the check mark she had placed next to

Negro and substitute “Ethiopian Hebrew.” “God did

not make us Negroes,” declared religious leaders

in black communities of the early twentieth-century

urban North. They insisted that so-called Negroes

are, in reality, Ethiopian Hebrews, Asiatic Muslims,

or raceless children of God. Rejecting conventional

American racial classification, many black southern

migrants and immigrants from the Caribbean

embraced these alternative visions of black history,

racial identity, and collective future, thereby

reshaping the black religious and racial landscape.

Focusing on the Moorish Science Temple, the Nation

of Islam, Father Divine’s Peace Mission Movement,

and a number of congregations of Ethiopian

Hebrews, Judith Weisenfeld contends that the appeal

of these groups lay not only in the new religious

opportunities membership provided, but also in the

novel ways they formulated a religio-racial identity.

Arguing that members of these groups understood

their religious and racial identities as divinely-

ordained and inseparable, the book examines how

this sense of self shaped their conceptions of theirbodies, families, religious and social communities,

space and place, and political sensibilities.

Weisenfeld draws on extensive archival research and

incorporates a rich array of sources to highlight

the experiences of average members. The book

demonstrates that the efforts by members of

these movements to contest conventional racial

categorization contributed to broader discussions

in black America about the nature of racial identityand the collective future of black people that still

resonate today.

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HISTORY • RELIGION • AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

JUDITH WEISENFELD is Agate Brown andGeorge L. Collord Professor in the Depart-

ment of Religion at Princeton University.

She is the author of Hollywood Be Thy Name:

African American Religion in American Film,

1929-1949 and African American Women and

Christian Activism: New York’s Black YWCA,

1905-1945.

“I have long been fascinated by the black

religious movements of the Great Migration,

whose members rejected Christianity and

Negro identity as false. In changing theirnames, adopting colorful dress, and taking

up novel religious practices, they broke with

the past and preached new possibilities for

blacks in America. My book examines the

religious worlds, family lives, community

formations, and political perspectives of

the earliest members of these groups.

Readers will gain fresh insight into the

power of both race and religion in African

American history by following the path such

women and men took to remake themselves

through embrace of new religious and racial

identities.” --Judith Weisenfeld

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An intimate portrait of a towering figure

Jacob NeusnerAn American Jewish Iconoclast

Aaron W. Hughes

Jacob Neusner (born 1932) is one of the most

important figures in the shaping of modern American

Judaism. He was pivotal in transforming the study of

Judaism from an insular project only conducted by—

and of interest to—religious adherents to one which

now flourishes in the secular setting of the university.

He is also one of the most colorful, creative, and

difficult figures in the American academy. But

even those who disagree with Neusner’s academic

approach to ancient rabbinic texts have to engage

with his pioneering methods.

In this comprehensive biography, Aaron W. Hughes

shows Neusner to be much more than a scholar

of rabbinics. He is a social commentator, a post-

Holocaust theologian, and an outspoken political

figure active in public debates especially during the

height of the cultural wars of the 1980s. Neusner’s

life reflects the story of what happened as Jews

migrated to the suburbs in the late 1940s, daring to

imagine new lives for themselves as they successfully

integrated into the fabric of American society. It

is also the story of how American Jews tried to

make sense of the world in the aftermath of the

extermination of European Jewry and the subsequent

creation of the State of Israel in 1948, and how they

sought to define what it meant to be an AmericanJew.

Unlike other great American Jewish thinkers, Neusner

was born in the U.S., and his Judaism was informed

by an American ethos. It is an American Judaism,

one that has enabled American Jews—the freest in

history—to be fully American and fully Jewish.

AARON W. HUGHES holds the Philip S.Bernstein Chair of Jewish Studies at the

University of Rochester.

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“Aaron Hughes has written a comprehensive,compelling, and candid intellectual portrait ofJacob Neusner and his unparalleled lifetime of

achievements…Hughes has succeeded brilliantlyin highlighting the singular significance Neusnerholds as an academic, as a religious thinker, and asa public intellectual. Hughes has given his readersa captivating intellectual biography to savor!”

David Ellenson, Chancellor Emeritus and formerPresident of Hebrew Union

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GENERAL INERES

Protecting the marketplace of ideas

Free Speech BeyondWordsThe Surprising Reach of the FirstAmendment

Mark V. Tushnet, Alan K. Chen and JosephBlocher

The Supreme Court has unanimously held that

Jackson Pollock’s paintings, Arnold Schöenberg’s

music, and Lewis Carroll’s poem “Jabberwocky” are

“unquestionably shielded” by the First Amendment.

Nonrepresentational art, instrumental music, andnonsense: all receive constitutional coverage under

an amendment protecting “the freedom of speech,”

even though none involves what we typically think of

as speech—the use of words to convey meaning.

As a legal matter, the Court’s conclusion is

clearly correct, but its premises are murky,

and they raise difficult questions about the

possibilities and limitations of law and expression.

Nonrepresentational art, instrumental music, and

nonsense do not employ language in any traditional

sense, and sometimes do not even involve the

transmission of articulable ideas. How, then, can

they be treated as “speech” for constitutional

purposes? What does the difficulty of that question

suggest for First Amendment law and theory? And

can law resolve such inquiries without relying on

aesthetics, ethics, and philosophy?

Comprehensive and compelling, this book represents

a sustained effort to account, constitutionally, for

these modes of “speech.” While it is firmly centered

in debates about First Amendment issues, it

addresses them in a novel way, using subject matter

that is uniquely well suited to the task, and whose

constitutional salience has been under-explored.

Drawing on existing legal doctrine, aesthetics, and

analytical philosophy, three celebrated law scholars

show us how and why speech beyond words should

be fundamental to our understanding of the First

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POLITICS • LAW

MARK V. TUSHNET is William Nelson Crom-well Professor of Law at Harvard Univer-

sity and the author of Why the Constitution

Matters.

ALAN K. CHEN is William M. Beaney Me-morial Research Chair & Professor of Law

at the University of Denver Sturm College

of Law. He is the co-author of Public Interest

Lawyering: A Contemporary Perspective.

JOSEPH BLOCHER is Professor of Law atDuke University School of Law.

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GENERAL INERES

Commemorating 100 years of Irish resistance

Atlas of the Irish

RevolutionEdited by John Crowley, Mike Murphy andDonal Ó Drisceoil.

JOHN CROWLEY is Lecturer in theDepartment of Geography, University

College Cork. He is co-editor of Atlas of the

Great Irish Famine, the Atlas of Cork City and

co-author of The Iveragh Peninsula: A Cultural

Atlas of the Ring of Kerry with John Sheehan.

MIKE MURPHY has been cartographer atthe Department of Geography, University

College Cork for over twenty-five years. He

has worked on the Atlas of the Great Irish

Famine, Atlas of Cork City and The Iveragh

Peninsula: A Cultural Atlas of the Ring of Kerry.

DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL is a lecturer in Historyat University College Cork.

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HISTORY • REFERENCE

The Atlas of the Irish Revolution is a definitive resource

that brings to life this pivotal moment in Irish history

and nation-building. Published to coincide with the

centenary of the Easter Rising, this comprehensive

and visually compelling volume brings together all ofthe current research on the revolutionary period, with

contributions from leading scholars from around the

world and from many disciplines.

A chronological and thematically organized

treatment of the period serves as the core of the

Atlas, enhanced by over 400 color illustrations,

maps and photographs. This academic tour de

force illuminates the effects of the Revolution on

Irish culture and politics, both past and present, and

animates the period for anyone with a connection to

or interest in Irish history.

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“An indispensable referencework...”

Times Literary Supplement

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SOCIAL SCIENCE

“Pride is at the heart of mostsocial movements, and nothingembodies it better than ajoyous public parade. This is acharming, stirring book, one ofthe best yet about the modernLGBT movement.”

James M. Jasper , author ofProtest: A Cultural Introduction to

Social Movements

On June 28, 1970, twothousand gay and lesbian

activists in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicagoparaded down the streets of their cities in a newkind of social protest, one marked by celebration,fun, and unashamed declaration of a stigmatizedidentity. Forty-five years later, over six millionpeople annually participate in 115 Pride paradesacross the United States. They march with churchcongregations and college gay-straight alliancegroups, perform dance routines and marching bandnumbers, and gather with friends to cheer from thesidelines.

With vivid imagery, and showcasing the voices of

these participants, Pride Parades tells the story ofPride from its beginning in 1970 to 2010. Thoughoften dismissed as frivolous spectacles, the authorbuilds a convincing case for the importance ofPride parades as cultural protests at the heartof lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)community. Weaving together interviews, archivalreports, quantitative data, and ethnographicobservations at six diverse contemporary parades inNew York City, Salt Lake City, San Diego, Burlington,Fargo, and Atlanta, Bruce describes how Prideparades are a venue for participants to challengethe everyday cultural stigma of being queer in

America, all with a flair and sense of fun absentfrom typical protests. Unlike political protests thataim to change government laws and policies, Prideparades are coordinated, concerted attempts toimprove the standing of LGBT people in Americanculture.

KATHERINE MCFARLAND BRUCE is Assistant Professorof Sociology at Salem College in Winston-Salem, North

Carolina.

HOW A PARADE CHANGED THE WORLD

KATHERINE McFARLAND BRUCE

Pride ParadesHow a Parade Changed the World

Katherine McFarland Bruce

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LGBT STUDIES • SOCIOLOGY

The American Societyfor Aesthetic PlasticSurgery estimates thereare about two-and-a-halfmillion Botox proceduresperformed annually, andthat number continues toincrease. The procedureis used as a preventivemeasure against aging anda means by which bodies,particularly women’s,

can be transformed and “improved” through the

appearance of youth. But why is Botox so popular,and why is aging such a terrifying concept?

Botox Nation draws from engaging, in-depthinterviews with Botox users and providers as wellas Dana Berkowitz’s own experiences receivingthe injections. The interviews reveal the personalmotivations for using Botox and help unpackhow anti-aging practices are conceived by, andresonate with, everyday people. Berkowitz isparticularly interested in how Botox is now beingtargeted to younger women; since Botox is aprocedure that must be continually administeredto work, the strategic choice to market to youngerwomen, Berkowitz argues, aims to create lifetimeconsumers.

Berkowitz also analyzes magazine articles,advertisements, and even medical documents toconsider how narratives of aging are depicted.The first in-depth social investigation into thedevelopment of Botox as a phenomenon, BotoxNation is a captivating and critical story of hownorms about bodies, gender, and aging areconstructed and reproduced on both cultural and

individual levels.

DANA BERKOWITZ is Associate Professor of Sociology andWomen’s and Gender Studies at Louisiana State University.

Botox NationChanging the Face of America

Dana Berkowitz

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BOTOX

NATION

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In 2012, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at

the University of Oxford reported that — based on

their clinical experiment — the beta-blocker drug,

Propranolol, could reduce implicit racial bias among

its users. Shortly after the experiment, an article in

Time Magazine cited the study, posing the question:

Is racism becoming a mental illness? In Are Racists

Crazy? Sander Gilman and James Thomas trace

the idea of race and racism as psychopathological

categories, from mid-nineteenth century Europe, to

contemporary America, up to the aforementioned

clinical experiment at the University of Oxford, and

ask a slightly different question than that posed by

Time: How did racism become a mental illness?

Using historical, archival, and content analysis, the

authors provide a rich account of how the nineteenth

century ‘Sciences of Man’—including anthropology,medicine, and biology—used race as a means

of defining psychopathology and how assertions

about race and madness became embedded within

disciplines that deal with mental health and illness.

An illuminating and riveting history of the discourse

on racism, antisemitism, and psychopathology, Are

Racists Crazy? connects past and present claims

about race and racism, showing the dangerous

implications of this specious line of thought fortoday.

SOCIAL SCIENCE

Is prejudice a disease?

Are Racists Crazy?How Prejudice, Racism, andAntisemitism Became Markers ofInsanity

Sander L. Gilman and James M. Thomas

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PSYCHOLOGY

Sander L. Gilman& James M. Tomas

SANDER L. GILMAN is DistinguishedProfessor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences,

and Professor of Psychiatry, at Emory

University. He is the author or editor ofmore than ninety books, including Seeing the

Insane.

JAMES M. THOMAS is Assistant Professorof Sociology at the University of Mississippi.

He is the author of Working to Laugh:

Assembling Difference in American Stand-Up

Comedy Venues and Affective Labour: (Dis)

Assembling Distance and Difference.

“Sander Gilman and James Thomas have provideda unique intellectual and political history of racialtheorizing – and have generated a virtual ‘cognitiveroad map’ of how anti-Semitism as leitmotif hasplayed such a powerful, even dominant role in theway scholars and researchers have approachedthe subject matter, whether in Europe, the UnitedStates, or South Africa. Few works even attemptto piece together so much material, while pulling aconvincing thread through a sustained argument.”

Troy Duster , author ofBackdoor to Eugenics

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What is the relationshipbetween race and space,and how do racial politicsinform the organizationand development of urbanlocales? In Race andthe Politics of Deception,Christopher Mele unpacksAmerica’s history of dealingwith racial problemsthrough the inequitableuse of public space. Mele

focuses on Chester, Pennsylvania—a small citycomprised of primarily low-income, black residents,roughly twenty miles south of Philadelphia.Like many cities throughout the United States,Chester is experiencing post-industrial decline. Adevelopment plan touted as a way to “save” thecity, proposes to turn one section into a desirablewaterfront destination, while leaving the rest ofthe struggling residents in fractured communities.Dividing the city into spaces of tourism andconsumption versus the everyday spaces of low-

income residents, Mele argues, segregates thecommunity by creating a racialized divide. Whilethese development plans are described as sociallyinclusive and economically revitalizing, Mele assertsthat political leaders and real estate developersintentionally exclude certain types of people—mostoften, low-income people of color.

Race and the Politics of Deception provides arevealing look at how our ever-changing landscapeis being strategically divided along lines of classand race.

CHRISTOPHER MELE is an urban sociologist at theUniversity at Buffalo. He is the author or editor of several

books, including Selling the Lower East Side: Culture, Real

Estate, and Resistance in New York City.

SOCIAL SCIENCE

AFTERMARRIAGEEQUALITY

THE FUTURE OF

LGBT RIGHTS

E D I T E D B Y

CARLOS A. BALL

Race and the Politics ofDeceptionThe Making of an American City

Christopher Mele

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From Deportation to PrisonThe Politics of Immigration Enforcement in

Post-Civil Rights America

Patrisia Macías-Rojas

“Patrisia Macias-Rojas’commanding book narratesthe profound restructuring ofimmigration policies in theUS. Using rich ethnographicdata and sharp policy analyses,she shows how the merging ofenforcement and deportationpolicies with the rigid structuresof the criminal justice systemresult in a vicious punishmentregime...essential reading for

scholars, activists and policymakers.”

Beth E. Richie, author of Arrested Justice: BlackWomen, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation

Criminal prosecutions for immigration offenseshave more than doubled over the last two decades,as national debates about immigration rights andreforms became headline topics. What lies behindthis unprecedented increase? Why are immigrationviolations treated as criminal offenses? How dodeportation, detention, and criminal prosecutionactually operate, and how do enforcement priorities

that target “felons” and “criminals” work in policyand practice?

Today’s border policing and immigration lawenforcement practices are less concerned withdistinguishing immigrants from citizens thanwith classifying people as either deserving orundeserving of rights: as “victims” or “criminals.”The distinction has serious implications formigrants and residents of predominantly Latina/oborder communities, and Patrisia Macías-Rojasshows how, within this new regime, such strategicdivisions serve to justify aggressive punishment

for those branded as criminals. Overall, FromDeportation to Prison presents a thorough andcaptivating exploration of how mass incarcerationand law and order policies of the past fortyyears have transformed immigration and borderenforcement in unexpected and important ways.

PATRISIA MACÍAS-ROJAS is Assistant Professor ofSociology and Latin American and Latino Studies at the

University of Illinois at Chicago.

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SOCIAL SCIENCE

The Price of ParadiseThe Costs of Inequality and a Vision for a

More Equitable America

David Dante Troutt

“A forcefully presentedeye-opener sure to provokecontroversy as well as interest.”

Kirkus Reviews

American communities arefacing chronic problems:fiscal stress, urban decline,environmental sprawl, massincarceration, politicalisolation, disproportionate

foreclosures and severepublic health risks. In The

Price of Paradise, David Troutt argues that it is alack of mutuality in our local decision making thathas led to this looming crisis facing cities and localgovernments.

Arguing that there are structural flaws in theAmerican dream, Troutt investigates the rolethat place plays in our thinking and how we haveorganized our communities to create or denyopportunity. Legal rules and policies that promotedmobility for most citizens simultaneously stifledand segregated a growing minority by race, classand—most importantly—place.

A conversation about America at the crossroads,The Price of Paradise is a multilayered explorationof the legal, economic and cultural forces thatcontribute to the squeeze on the middle class,the hidden dangers of growing income andwealth inequality and the literature on how growthand consumption patterns are environmentallyunsustainable.

DAVID DANTE TROUTT is Professor of Law and JusticeJohn J. Francis Scholar at the Rutgers University-NewarkLaw School. He also serves as Director of the Center on

Law in Metropolitan Equity at Rutgers Law School.

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OCTOBER

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SOCIOLOGY • LAW

AFTERMARRIAGEEQUALITY

THE FUTURE OF

LGBT RIGHTS

E D I T E D B Y

CARLOS A. BALL

Surviving PovertyCreating Sustainable Ties among the Poor

Joan Maya Mazelis

Surviving Poverty carefullyexamines the experiencesof people living below thepoverty level, looking inparticular at the tensionbetween social isolation andsocial ties among the poor.Joan Maya Mazelis drawson in-depth interviews withpoor people in Philadelphiato explore how they surviveand the benefits they gain

by being connected to one another. Half of thestudy participants are members of the KensingtonWelfare Rights Union, a distinctive organizationthat brings poor people together in the struggleto survive. The mutually supportive relationshipsthe members create, which last for years, evendecades, contrast dramatically with the experiencesof participants without such affiliation.

In interviews, participants discuss their strugglesand hardships, and their responses highlight the

importance of cultivating relationships amongpeople living in poverty. Surviving Poverty documentsthe ways in which social ties become beneficialand sustainable, allowing members to share theirskills and resources and providing those livingin similar situations a space to unite and speakcollectively to the growing and deepening povertyin the United States. The study concludes thatproductive, sustainable ties between poor peoplehave an enduring and valuable impact. Groundingher study in current debates about the importanceof alleviating poverty, Mazelis proposes new modesof improving the lives of the poor. Surviving Poverty

is invested in both structural and social change anddemonstrates the power that support services canhave to foster relationships and build sustainablesocial ties for those living in poverty.

JOAN MAYA MAZELIS is Assistant Professor of Sociologyin the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal

Justice at Rutgers University, Camden, and an affiliated

scholar at Rutgers-Camden’s Center for Urban Research

and Education.

Joan Maya Mazel is

SURVIVING POVERTY

Creating Sustainable Ties among the Poor

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“Brown Bodies, White Babiesreveals fresh insights on thepolitics of reproduction in theUnited States and globally byinvestigating the racialized andgendered meanings of kinshipin the context of cross-racialgestational surrogacy...Animportant and provocativecontribution to critical analysesof assisted reproduction.”

Dorothy Roberts, author of

Killing the Black Body:Race, Reproduction, andThe Meaning of Liberty

Brown Bodies, White Babies focuses on the practiceof cross-racial gestational surrogacy, in which awoman—through in-vitro fertilization using thesperm and egg of intended parents or donors— carries a pregnancy for intended parents of adifferent race. Focusing on the racial differencesbetween parents and surrogates, this book isinterested in how reproductive technologiesintersect with race, particularly when brown

bodies produce white babies. While the potentialof reproductive technologies is far from pre-determined, the ways in which these technologiesare currently deployed often serve the interests ofdominant groups, through the creation of white,middle-class, heteronormative families. Laura Harrison, providing an importantunderstanding of the work of women of coloras surrogates, connects this labor to the historyof racialized reproduction in the United States.Joining the ongoing feminist debates surroundingreproduction, motherhood, race, and the body,

Brown Bodies, White Babies ultimately critiques thenew potentials for parenthood that put the verycontours of kinship into question.

LAURA HARRISON is an Assistant Professor in theDepartment of Gender and Women’s Studies at Minnesota

State University, Mankato.

L A U R A H A R R I S O N

SOCIAL SCIENCE

Brown Bodies, White BabiesThe Politics of Cross-Racial Surrogacy

Laura Harrison

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SOCIOLOGY

PluckedA History of Hair Removal

Rebecca M. Herzig

“Humanity has used animpressive array of tools toremove hair. This is, biologicallyspeaking, pretty strange. Mostof earth’s mammals possessluxuriant fur. Only one seeksto remove it. Rebecca Herzig’sdelightful history explainswhy: smooth skin is a culturalimperative.”

The Economist

From the clamshell razorsand homemade lye depilatories used in colonialAmerica to the diode lasers and prescriptionpharmaceuticals available today, Americans haveused a staggering array of tools to remove hairdeemed unsightly, unnatural, or excessive. How andwhen does hair become a problem—what makessome growth “excessive”? Who or what separatesthe necessary from the superfluous?

In Plucked , Rebecca Herzig shows how, over time,dominant American beliefs about visible hair

changed: where once elective hair removal wasconsidered a “mutilation” practiced primarily by“savage” men, by the turn of the twentieth century,hair-free faces and limbs were expected for women.Herzig’s extraordinary account also reveals someof the collateral damage of the intensifying pursuitof hair-free skin. Moving beyond the experiencesof particular patients or clients, Herzig describesthe surprising histories of race, science, industry,and medicine behind today’s hair-removing tools.Plucked is an unsettling, gripping, and original taleof the lengths to which Americans will go to removehair.

REBECCA M. HERZIG is Christian A. Johnson Professorof Interdisciplinary Studies at Bates College. Her previous

work includes Suffering for Science: Reason and Sacrifice in

Modern America.

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SOCIOLOGY • SCIENCE

New in Paperback

Named one of the best books of 2015 by Te Economist

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SOCIAL SCIENCE

STRIPPEDMORE STORIES FROM

EXOTIC DANCERS

BERNADETTE C. BARTON

The everyday lives of exotic dancers

StrippedMore Stories from Exotic Dancers,

Completely Revised and Updated Edition

Bernadette C. Barton

What kind of woman dances naked for money?

Bernadette Barton takes us inside countless strip

bars and clubs, from upscale to back road as well as

those that specialize in lap dancing, table dancing,

topless only, and peep shows, to reveal the startling

lives of exotic dancers.

Originally published in 2006, the product of years of

first-hand research in strip clubs around the country,

Stripped is a classic portrait of what it’s like for those

who choose to strip as a profession. Barton explores

why women begin stripping, the initial excitement

and financial rewards of the work, the dangers of the

life—namely, drugs and prostitution—and, inevitably,

the difficulties in staying in the business over time,

especially for their relationships, sexuality and self-

esteem.

In this completely revised and updated edition,

Barton returns to the strip clubs she originally

studied to observe the major changes in the

industry that have occurred over the last decade.

She examines how “raunch culture” affects exotic

dancers’ treatment by their clientele, who are

now accustomed to seeing nudity and sexualized

performance in accessible, R and X -rated media

from a variety of outlets, particularly the Internet.

Barton explores how new media has transformedexotic dancing, allowing dancers to build an

online brand, but also introducing possibilities

for customers to take unauthorized nude photos

and videos of the entertainers.. And finally, Barton

speaks to new dancers as well as dancers she

interviewed in the previous edition, examining how

the toll of stripping still impacts the lives of exotic

dancers in a changing industry.

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BERNADETTE C. BARTON is ProfessorSociology and Gender Studies at Morehead

State University in Kentucky. She is the

author of Pray the Gay Away: The Extraordinary

Lives of Bible Belt Gays (NYU Press, 2014).

“Compelling. . . . This accessibly written, matter-

of-fact book makes important contributions towhat is known about the lives and experiencesof the growing number of women who ‘dance’naked for money... Throughout, the author listensattentively to the shifting, insightful, diverse voicesof women with whom she has a palpably respectfulconnection. Barton uses the complex picture thatemerges to engage longstanding debates overthe meanings of commodified femininity andsexuality.”

Choice

“Stripped is a revealing book about a revealing (andcontroversial) trade that focuses on a philosophicalclash between old—and new—school feminism.”

Courier-Journal

Praise for the original edition:

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In recent years, questionssuch as “what are kidseating?” and “who’s feedingour kids?” have sparked atorrent of public and policydebates as we increasinglyfocus our attention on theissue of childhood obesity.The Centers for DiseaseControl and Prevention

estimates that while 1 in3 American children are

either overweight or obese, that number is higherfor children living in concentrated poverty. Enduringinequalities in communities, schools, and homesaffect young people’s access to different typesof food, with real consequences in life choicesand health outcomes. Fast Food Kids sheds lighton the social contexts in which kids eat, and thebroader backdrop of social change in Americanlife, demonstrating why attention to food’s socialmeaning is important to effective public healthpolicy, particularly actions that focus on behavioral

change and school food reforms.

Through in-depth interviews and observationwith high school and college students, Amy Bestprovides rich narratives of the everyday life ofyouth, highlighting young people’s voices andperspectives and the places where they eat. FastFood Kids examines the complex relationshipbetween youth identity and food consumption,offering answers to those straightforward questionsthat require crucial and comprehensive solutions.

AMY L. BEST is Professor of the Sociology at GeorgeMason University. She is author of Prom Night: Youth,

Schools and Popular Culture, which was selected for the

2002 American Educational Studies Association Critics’

Choice Award, and Fast Cars, Cool Rides: The Accelerating

World of Youth and Their Cars (NYU Press, 2005).

SOCIAL SCIENCE

fast

food

kids

French Fries,Lunch Lines,and Social Ties

AMY L.

BEST

Fast Food KidsFrench Fries, Lunch Lines, and Social Ties

Amy L. Best

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SOCIOLOGY

“Must Read! Anyone riveted byRicki Lake’s documentary TheBusiness of Being Born shouldsnag a copy of Cut It Out.”

Fit Pregnancy “In Cut It Out, [Morris]refreshingly steers clear of thehome-birthing-good, hospitals-bad dogma that tends todominate this conversation,

instead encouraging empathywith all involved...Morris’s

impressive research, as well as the solutions she offers towomen, providers and policy planners, makes the book animportant contribution to the C-section debate.”

The New York Times Book Review

Cut It Out examines the exponential increase inthe United States of the most technological formof birth that exists: the cesarean section. Whilec-section births pose a higher risk of maternaldeath and medical complications, can have negativefuture reproductive consequences for the mother,increase the recovery time for mothers after birth,and cost almost twice as much as vaginal deliveries,the 2011 cesarean section rate of 33 percent is oneof the highest recorded rates in U.S. history, and anincrease of 50 percent over the past decade.

How did this happen? Theresa Morris challengesmost existing explanations of the unprecedentedrise in c-section rates, arguing that there is anew culture within medicine that avoids risk orunpredictable outcomes and instead embracesplanning and conservative choices. Based on130 in-depth interviews with women who had

just given birth, obstetricians, midwives, andlabor and delivery nurses, Cut It Out provides acomprehensive, riveting look at a little-knownepidemic that greatly affects the lives, health, andfamilies of each and every woman in America.

THERESA MORRIS is Associate Professor of Sociology atTexas A&M.

Cut It OutThe C-Section Epidemic in America

Theresa Morris

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Utopianism is defined as thevarious ways of imagining,creating, or analyzing anideal or alternative society.Prominent writers andscholars across historyhave explored how or whyto envision different waysof life. The Utopia Readercompiles primary texts from

a variety of authors andmovements in the history of

theorizing utopias. The volume includes texts fromclassical Greek literature, the Old Testament, andPlato’s Republic, to Sir Thomas More’s Utopia, toGeorge Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and beyond.By balancing well-known and obscure examples,the text provides a comprehensive and definitivecollection of the various ways Utopias have beenconceived throughout history and how Utopianideals have served as criticisms of existingsociocultural conditions.

This new edition includes many historically well-known works, little known but influential texts,and contemporary writings, providing even moreexpansive coverage of the varieties of approachesand responses to the concept of utopia in the past,present, and even the future. In particular, thevolume now includes feminist writings and workby authors of color, and contends with currentconcerns, such as the exploration of the ecologicalideals of Utopia. Furthermore, Claeys and Sargenthighlight twenty-first century trends and popularnarrative explorations of Utopias through thegenres of young adult dystopias, survivalist

dystopias, and non-print utopias.

GREGORY CLAEYS is Professor of the History of PoliticalThought at the University of London.

LYMAN TOWER SARGENT is Professor Emeritus ofPolitical Science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He

was the Founding Editor of the journal Utopian Studies.

The Utopia ReaderSecond Edition

Edited by Gregory Claeys and Lyman TowerSargent

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POLITCIAL SCIENCE

Few world regions todayare of more pressing socialand political interest thanthe Middle East: hardlya day has passed in thelast decade without eventsthere making global news.Understanding the regionhas never been moreimportant, yet the field

of Middle East studiesin the United States is in

flux, enmeshed in ongoing controversies about therelationship between knowledge and power, the roleof the federal government at universities, and waysof knowing “other” cultures and places.

Assembling a wide range of scholars, MiddleEast Studies for the New Millennium explores thebig-picture issues affecting the field, from thegeopolitics of knowledge production to structuralchanges in the university to broader political andpublic contexts. Tracing the development of the

field from the early days of the American universityto the “Islamophobia” of the present day, this bookexplores Middle East studies as a discipline and,more generally, its impact on the social sciencesand academia. Topics include how differentdisciplines engage with Middle East scholars, howAmerican universities teach Middle East studiesand related fields, and the relationship betweenscholarship and U.S.-Arab relations, among others.Middle East Studies for the New Millennium presentsa comprehensive, authoritative overview of how thiscrucial field of academic inquiry came to be andwhere it is going next.

SETENEY SHAMI is founding director of the Arab Councilfor the Social Sciences and also program director at the

Social Science Research Council where she directs the

InterAsia program.

CYNTHIA MILLER-IDRISS is Associate Professor ofEducation and Sociology at American University, where

she also directs the International Training and Education

Program.

SOCIAL SCIENCE

Utopiareader

the

edited by

Gregory Claeys and

Lyman Tower Sargent

second edition

Middle East Studies for theNew MillenniumInfrastructures of Knowledge

Edited by Seteny Shami and CynthiaMiller-Idriss

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SOCIAL SCIENCE

In the absence of noblepublic goals, admiredleaders, and compellingissues, many warn ofa dangerous erosionof civil society, whichincludes families, religiousorganizations, and all otherNGOs. Are they right? Howcan public life be enrichedin a period marked byfraying communities,

widespread apathy, and unprecedented levels ofcontempt for politics? How should we be thinkingabout civil society?

Civil Society: The Critical History of an Idea providesa comprehensive discussion and analysis of twoand a half millennia of Western political theory, aswell as how civil society might be understood in thefuture. John Ehrenberg analyzes both the usefulnessand the limitations of civil society and maps thepolitical and theoretical evolution of the conceptand its employment in academic and publicdiscourse. From Aristotle and the Enlightenmentphilosophers to Black Lives Matter and the Occupymovement, Ehrenberg provides an indispensableanalysis of the possibilities of what this importantidea can, and cannot, offer to contemporarypolitical affairs.

In this new, second edition Ehrenberg brings thehistorical overview up to present day, specificallyconsidering how major events alter and shapeour relationship to contemporary civil society.Civic engagement, political participation, andvolunteerism in contemporary life has faded, he

argues, and in order to bring civil society backto the fore, we need to counter the suffocatinginequality that has taken hold in recent years.Thorough and accessible, Civil Society gives asweeping overview of a foundational part ofpolitical life.

JOHN EHRENBERG is a Senior Professor of PoliticalScience and Department Chair at the Brooklyn Campus

of Long Island University. He is the winner of the 1999

Michael J. Harrington Prize from the American Political

Science Association.

CivilSociety, Second EditionTe Critical History of an IdeaJohn Ehrenberg

CivilSociety Second Edition

John Ehrenberg

THE CRITICAL HISTORY

OF AN IDEA

Civil SocietyThe Critical History of an Idea, Second

Edition

John Ehrenberg

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Questions of immigrationand border enforcementpractices are particularlysalient in contemporarypublic discourse, andexaminations of policy andpractice bring forth newphilosophical quandaries.Why the commonassumption that eachcountry has the right tocontrol its own borders?

How are laws that restrict or regulate migrationcreated and justified? Why has the criminalizationof migration increased? How can migration bebetter considered through the point of view of themigrants themselves? What are the differences ininternational and national institutional migratorypolicy?

Immigration, Emigration and Migration consists ofessays written by distinguished scholars across thefields of law, political science, and philosophy thatexamine questions of travel and migration acrossnational borders. The volume explores questions ofborder control and enforcement, criminalization ofborders, and how to address current debates andchanges in regards to migration and immigration.The intersection of analysis and prescriptionprovides both an assessment of current forms ofthought or regulation and suggestion of alterationsto address the flaws or failures of presentapproaches. The eight essays in this volume reflecta variety of considerations and explorations acrossinterdisciplinary lines, and provide a new andthought-provoking discussion of policy, practice,and philosophy of migratory and border practices.

JACK KNIGHT is Frederic Cleaveland Professor of Lawand Political Science at Duke University. His publications

include Institutions and Social Conflict, The Choices Justices

Make, with Lee Epstein, and The Priority of Democracy , with

James Johnson.

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Edited by Jack Knight

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Outof theRunning

SHAUNA L. SHAMES

WHY MILLENNIALS

REJECT POLITICAL

CAREERS AND

WHY IT MATTERS

What does a political revolution look like if youngpeople don’t run for office?

Out of the RunningWhy Millennials Reject Political Careersand Why It Matters

Shauna L. Shames

Millennials are often publicly criticized for being

apathetic about the American political process

and their lack of interest in political careers. But

what do millennials themselves have to say about

the prospect of holding political office? Are they as

disinterested in political issues and the future of the

American political system as the media suggests?

Out of the Running goes directly to the source and

draws from extensive research, including over 50

interviews, with graduate students in elite institutions

that have historically been a direct link into state

or federal elected office: Harvard Law, Harvard’s

Kennedy School of Government, and Boston’s Suffolk

University Law School. Shauna Shames, herself a

young graduate of Harvard University, suggests that

millennials are not disinterested; rather, they don’t

believe that a career in politics is the best way to

create change. Millennials view the system as corrupt

or inefficient and are particularly skeptical about the

fundraising, frenzied media attention, and loss of

privacy that have become staples of the American

electoral process. They are clear about their desire

to make a difference in the world but feel that the

“broken” political system is not the best way to do

so—a belief held particularly by millennial women

and women of color.

The implications of Shames’ argument are crucial

for the future of the American political system—how

can a system adapt and grow if qualified, intelligent

leaders are not involved? An engaging and accessible

resource for anyone who follows American politics,

Out of the Running highlights the urgent need to fix

the American political system, as an absence of

diverse millennial candidates leaves its future in a

truly precarious position.

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SHAUNA L. SHAMES is Assistant Professorof Political Science at Rutgers University-

Camden. Prior to entering academia, she

worked with several nonprofit and feminist

organizations, including the National

Organization for Women (NOW) and The

White House Project.

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What is the relationshipbetween criminality andbiology? Nineteenth-centuryphrenologists insisted thatcriminality was innate,inherent in the offender’sbrain matter. While theywere eventually repudiatedas pseudo-scientists, todaythe pendulum has swung

back. Both criminologistsand biologists have begunto speak of a tantalizing but disturbing possibility:that criminality may be inherited as a set of geneticdeficits that place one at risk to commit theft,violence, or acts of sexual deviance. But whatdo these new theories really assert? How can weprepare for a future in which leaders may proposecrime-control programs based on biology?

In this second edition of The Criminal Brain, theauthors describe early biological theories ofcrime and provide a lively, up-to-date overview

of the newest research in biosocial criminology.New chapters introduce the theories of the latterpart of the 20th century and provide a vision forthe future of criminology and crime policy froma biosocial perspective. The book is a careful,critical examination of each research approachand conclusion. Both compiling and analyzing thebody of scholarship devoted to understanding thecriminal brain, this volume serves as a condensed,accessible, and contemporary exploration ofbiological theories of crime and their everydayrelevance.

The late NICOLE RAFTER was Professor Emeritus ofCriminology at Northeastern University.

CHAD POSICK is Assistant Professor in the Departmentof Criminal Justice and Criminology at Georgia Southern

University.

MICHAEL ROCQUE is Assistant Professor in theDepartment of Sociology at Bates College, and the Senior

Research Advisor for the Maine Department of Corrections.

The Criminal BrainUnderstanding Biological Theories of Crime,

Second Edition

Nicole Rafter, Chad Posick and Michael

Rocque

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Very few women arewartime rapists. Very fewwomen issue commandsto commit sexual violence.Very few women play arole in making war plansthat feature the intentionalsexual violation of otherwomen. This book is aboutthose very few women.

Women as Wartime Rapistsreveals the stories of femaleperpetrators of sexual violence and their place inwartime conflict, legal policy, and the punishmentof sexual violence. More broadly, Laura Sjobergasks, what do the actions and perceptions offemale perpetrators of sexual violence reveal aboutour broader conceptions of war, violence, sexualassault, and gender?

This book explores specific historical case studies,such as Nazi Germany, Serbia, the contemporarycase of ISIS, and others, to understand how and

why women participate in rape during war andconflict. Sjoberg examines the contrast betweenthe visibility of female victims and the invisibilityof female perpetrators, as well as the distinctionbetween rape and genocidal rape, which is used asa weapon against a particular ethnic or nationalgroup. Further, she explores women’s engagementwith genocidal rape and how some orchestrated theethnic cleansing of entire regions. A provocativeapproach to a sensationalized topic, Women asWartime Rapists offers important insights into notonly the topic of female perpetrators of wartimesexual violence, but also into larger notions of

gender and violence with crucial cultural, legal, andpolitical implications.

LAURA SJOBERG is Associate Professor of PoliticalScience at the University of Florida. She is the author of

several books, including Gendering Global Conflict and, with

Caron Gentry, Beyond Mothers, Monsters, and Whores.

Women as Wartime RapistsBeyond Sensation and Stereotyping

Laura Sjoberg

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The Matrix is real

HackedA Radical Approach to Hacker Culture and

Crime

Kevin F. Steinmetz

Public discourse, from pop culture to political

rhetoric, portrays hackers as deceptive, digital

villains. But what do we actually know about them?

In Hacked , Kevin F. Steinmetz explores what it

means to be a hacker and the nuances of hacker

culture. Through extensive interviews with hackers,

observations of hacker communities, and analyses

of hacker cultural products, Steinmetz demystifies

the figure of the hacker and situates the practice

of hacking within the larger political and economic

structures of capitalism, crime, and control. This

captivating book challenges many of the common

narratives of hackers, suggesting that not all forms

of hacking are criminal and, contrary to popular

opinion, the broader hacker community actually

plays a vital role in our information economy. Hacked thus explores how governments, corporations,

and other institutions attempt to manage hacker

culture through the creation of ideologies and

laws that protect powerful economic interests. Not

content to simply critique the situation, Steinmetz

ends his work by providing actionable policy

recommendations that aim to redirect the focus from

the individual to corporations, governments, and

broader social issues.

A compelling study, Hacked helps us understand not

just the figure of the hacker, but also digital crime

and social control in our high-tech society.

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CRIMINOLOGY

KEVIN F. STEINMETZ is AssistantProfessor in the Department of Sociology,

Anthropology and Social Work at Kansas

State University

“A highly original, insightful, carefully researchedand elegantly written study of hacker culture.Through an impressive synthesis of insights from

critical and cultural criminology, classical andcontemporary social theory, politics and politicaleconomy, Kevin Steinmetz delivers a new andprovocative understanding of hacking and its placein contemporary information capitalism. A ‘mustread’ for students and scholars of crime, newmedia and digital culture.”

Majid Yar , author ofCybercrime and Society

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“Considering the enormity ofthe sanction, it is remarkablehow little we know about thelives of those who survivelife imprisonment. With thepowerful narratives in thisground-breaking book, MariekeLiem brings their perspectivesinto new light and asks ‘whenis enough, enough?’ in terms ofthe punitive state.”

Shadd Maruna, co-author of Making Good: How Ex-Convicts

Reform and Rebuild Their Lives

One out of every ten prisoners in the United Statesis serving a life sentence—roughly 130,000 people.While some have been sentenced to life in prisonwithout parole, the majority of prisoners serving‘life’ will be released back into society. But whatbecomes of those people who reenter the everydayworld after serving life in prison?

In After Life Imprisonment , Marieke Liem carefullyexamines the experiences of “lifers” upon release.Through interviews with over sixty homicide

offenders sentenced to life but granted parole, Liemtracks those able to build a new life on the outsideand those who were re-incarcerated. The interviewsreveal prisoners’ reflections on being sentencedto life, as well as the challenges of employment,housing, and interpersonal relationships uponrelease. Liem explores the increase in handing outof life sentences, and specifically provides a basisfor discussions of the goals, costs, and effects oflong-term imprisonment. A profound criminologicalexamination, After Life Imprisonment reveals theuntold, lived experiences of prisoners before andafter their life sentences.

MARIEKE LIEM is Senior Researcher and chair of theViolence Research Initiative at Leiden University and a

Marie Curie Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School.

ROBERT J. SAMPSON is Henry Ford II Professor of theSocial Sciences at Harvard University and Director of the

Boston Area Research Initiative. He is the author of several

books, including Great American City:

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