Once You Go Black
Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual
Robert Reid-Pharr
"In bold and beautifully crafted close readings, Reid-Pharr challenges many of the structuring absences that have shaped the fields of African-American literary studies, queer studies, and American Studies. His provocative arguments about sexuality, race, and masculinity are unsettling, in the best sense of that word."
—Siobhan B. Somerville, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The Latino Body
Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory
Lázaro Lima
"Through a bricolage of carefully crafted textual readings, Lima has produced a text that traces the relationship between corporeality and citizenship by marking the process by which the Latino body has become historical. Drawing on texts central to third world feminism, queer studies, and Latin and Latino American literatures, this work is as central to rethinking the American literary canon as it is to an invigorating remapping of Latino Studies."
—Juana María Rodríguez, author of Queer Latinidad
God Hates Fags
The Rhetorics of Religious Voilence
Michael Cobb
"Cobb raises questions of both ethics and effectiveness that are deeply urgent. If you, too, want to know how the rhetorics of voilence that swirl around queer people work, then read this book."
—Janet R. Jakobsen, co-author of Love the Sin
In a Queer Time and Place
Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives
Judith Halberstam
"Halberstam's marvelous new book combines fierce argumentation, vivid description, and astute as well as hilarious commentary. The author not only provides a powerful critique of common defenses and dismissals of 'postmodernism,' but offers a redefinition of 'identity politics' for the new millennium as well."
—Lisa Duggan, author of Twilight of Equality: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy
Immigration and American Popular Culture
An Introduction
Rachel Rubin and Jeffrey Melnick
"The authors give us the skinny on pop's melting pot. The cauldron does not burn off immigrant character, creating American sameness, but intensifies its many tastes."
—W.T. Lhamon, Jr., author of Jump Jim Crow
Transnational Adoption
A Cultural Economy of Race, Gender, Kinship
Sara K. Dorow
"Provides an original and exciting global framework for understanding the political economy of international adoption."
—Catherine Ceniza Choy, author of Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History
Crip Theory
Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability
Robert McRuer
Foreword by Michael Bérubé
"A compelling case that is queer and disabled identities, politics, and cultural logics are inexorably intertwined, and that queer and disability theory need one another."
—Elizabeth Freeman, author of The Wedding Complex
After Whiteness
Unmaking an American Majority
Mike Hill
"Sets new directions in American literary and cultural studies, and will become a landmark."
—Sacvan Becovitch, Harvard University
Edited by Sarah Banet-Weiser, Cynthia Chris, and Anthony Freitas
"Through a series of highly original and carefully researched essays, Cable Visions offers a lively and comprehensive survey of the contemporary multichannel television landscape in the United States."
—William Boddy, author of New Media and Popular Imagination: Launching Radio, Television, and Digital Media in the United States
Fandom
Identities and Communities in a Mediated World
Edited by Jonathan Gray, Cornel Sandvoss,
and C. Lee Harrington
With an Afterword by Henry Jenkins
"Fandom pushes the boundaries of fan studies in bold directions, incorporating high culture fandoms, global fan cultures, fan technologies, and antagonistic anti-fandom, while rethinking the core tenets of fan studies concerning aesthetics, place, intellectual property, and interpretive communities — all presented with a lively, accessible, and engaging writing style."
—Jason Mittell, Middlebury College
"A treasure trove of Helen Keller's letters, speeches, and other writings that provide a glimpse into Keller's friendships; her views about disability, politics, and social justice; and her affection and respect for her teacher, Ann Sullivan Macy."
—Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness
Mental Retardation in America
A Historical Reader
Edited by Steven Noll and James W. Trent
"Deserves perusal by anyone interested in mental retardation. The plot is powerful, and the questions profound."
—New England Journal of Medicine
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The Chicana/o Cultural Studies Forum
Critical and Ethnographic Practices
Edited by Angie Chabram-Dernersesian
"The Chicana/o Cultural Studies Forum conveys all the lucidity, passion, dynamism, and insightfulness of the field over several generations of scholars. The book captures the deeply collective character that Chicana/o cultural studies has exemplified since its beginnings."
—Mary Louise Pratt, New York University
Children of a New World
Society, Culture, and Globalization
Paul S. Fass
"In this remarkable volume, Paula S. Fass, a pioneer and pace-setter in the burgeoning field of children's history, demonstrates that a knowledge of history is essential to understanding contemporary controversies over child protection, the commercialization of childhood, multiculturalism in public schools, and the impact of globalization."
—Steven Mintz, author of Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood
Newark
A History of Race, Rights, and Riots in America
Kevin Mumford
"Mumford explores the devastating effect of the riots and how the city police, state police, and National Guard escalated the violence. He also discusses such divisive personalities as Anthony Imperiale of the Citizens Council, with his anti-black sentiments, and the poet Amiri Baraka, who melded black nationalism with anti-white and, occasionally, anti- Semitic rhetoric."
—New Jersey Star Ledger
Long Before Stonewall
Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America
Edited by Thomas A. Foster
Afterword by John D'Emilio
"A treasure trove of Helen Keller's letters, speeches, and other writings that provide a glimpse into Keller's friendships; her views about disability, politics, and social justice; and her affection and respect for her teacher, Ann Sullivan Macy."
—Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness
They Know Us Better Than We Know Ourselves
The History and Politics of Alien Abduction
Bridget Brown
"Brown argues convincingly that alien abduction stories speak to several key issues in our culture, from environmentalism to changing ideas about reproduction. Extending far beyond textual readings, she instead tells the stories of individual people, treating them with respect, but with a critical lens as well. Her analysis of the role of 'experts' in alien abduction-their power and the misuses of that power-is utterly compelling."
—Melani McAlister, George Washington University
Pregnancy and Power
A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America
Rickie Solinger
"A treasure trove of Helen Keller's letters, speeches, and other writings that provide a glimpse into Keller's friendships; her views about disability, politics, and social justice; and her affection and respect for her teacher, Ann Sullivan Macy."
—Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness
Provincetown
From Pilgrim Landing to Gay Resort
Karen Christel Krahulik
"Krahulik offers a fascinating and lively account of how Provincetown, Massachusetts, became America's most famous gay resort. The book is both a celebration of the community's embrace of freedom and a reminder that Provincetown—despite its vaunted tolerance for sexual nonconformity—faced problems of racism, sexism, and economic exploitation. . . . this important book also reveals that being a gay resort did not protect Provincetown from class, racial, ethnic, or gender conflicts."
—American Historical Review
To the Break of Dawn
A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic
William Jelani Cobb
To the Break of Dawn marks a crucial turning point in hip-hop writing. . . . By opening the discourse on hip-hops aesthetic, Cobb spearheads a new sub-genre, and perhaps a return or revolution in hip-hop aesthetics.
—Black Issues Book Review
Pimps Up, Ho's Down
Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
"Sharpley-Whiting's book does not suffer from the sort of cowardice one too often hears from black academics who genuflect to hip hop in order to stay current with the tastes of the students who provide them with whatever power they have on college campuses. Sharpley-Whiting calls them as she sees them and wisely quotes the offensive material when necessary. Her book is high level in its research and its thought, and those looking for adult ideas about the subject should look it up."
—Stanley Crouch, New York Daily News
The Television Will Be Revolutionized
Amanda D. Lotz
"American television is undergoing profound transitions in the digital age, transforming both the television industry and our viewing experiences. Lotz has written the definitive guidebook to the medium in transition, offering a road map to where weve been, where were going, and why it matters. Anyone with an interest in televisions present and future will find The Television Will Be Revolutionized required reading and an indispensable reference in the coming years."
—Jason Mittell, Middlebury College
Boricua Power
A Political History of Puerto Ricans in the United States
José Ramón Sánchez
"A well-written, historically informed, and original treatment of the Puerto Rican cultural and ethno-class struggle in America. Boricua Power is scholarly yet heartfelt and recommended to anyone interested in ethnicity and social power."
—Michael Parenti, author of The Culture Struggle
Children At Play
An American History
Howard P. Chudacoff
"The tension between how children spend their free time and how adults want them to spend it runs through Chudacoffs book like a yellow line smack down the middle of a highway. His critique is increasingly echoed today by parents, educators and childrens advocates who warn that organized activities, overscheduling and excessive amounts of homework are crowding out free time and constricting childrens imaginations and social skills."
—The New York Times
The Deepest South
The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade
Gerald Horne
"A well-researched, skillfully-written, and carefully-argued diplomatic history examining connections between the United States, Brazil, Africa, and Europe as they relate to the transatlantic slave trade. Horne...makes a valuable and important contribution to our knowledge and understanding of (American) hemispheric relations and trajectories, both eventual and potential."
—Michael A. Gomez, editor of Diasporic Africa: A Reader
The Color of Fascism
Lawrence Dennis, Racial Passing, and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism in the United States
Gerald Horne
"With his characteristic verve, Professor Gerald Horne has written an excellent book about the fascinating and mysterious Lawrence Dennis. This pairing of the leftist black intellectual Horne and the racially-closeted fascist Dennis makes for an exciting exploration of obscure terrain that warrants more notice. Professor Horne has performed an important service by revealing so vividly Dennis's strange but instructive career."
—Randall Kennedy, Harvard Law School
Sperm Counts
Overcome by Man's Most Precious Fluid
Lisa Jean Moore
"Sperm Counts is a serious book, and the first on its subject. But it also includes anecdotes from Moores life, lending it a more conversational tone than most academic works. The books margins are even squiggled with sketches of sperm—flip the pages and they swim around. (This is a subject matter, after all, that requires a certain degree of levity.) Moore happily lists spermatic nicknames...before skewering, in a later chapter, the burgeoning home sperm-test industry (sample ad slogan: I dont know how that semen got in my underwear!)."
—Salon.com
