American Studies Brochure 2022-23

Life Writing and Movement Politics from Palestine to Mauna Kea

Cynthia Franklin

In Narrating Humanity, Cynthia G. Franklin makes a critical intervention into practices of life writing and contemporary crises in the United States about who counts as human. To enable this intervention,...

Group Works

Art, Politics, and Collective Ambivalence

Ethan Philbrick

An exciting new reflection on the role of artistic collaboration, collectivism, and the politics of group formation in the neoliberal era.The artist and author Ethan Philbrick’s Group Works re-imagines...

Against the Carceral Archive

The Art of Black Liberatory Practice

Damien Sojoyner

Against the Carceral Archive is a meditation upon what author Damien M. Sojoyner calls the “carceral archival project,” offering a distillation of critical, theoretical, and activist work of prison...

Allergic Intimacies

Food, Disability, Desire, and Risk

Michael Gill

The first book to explore food allergies in the United States from the perspective of disability and raceAre food allergies disabilities? What structures and systems ensure the survival of some with...

Obscene Gestures

Counter-Narratives of Sex and Race in the Twentieth Century

Patrick Lawrence

Drawing on sources as diverse as Supreme Court decisions, nightclub comedy, congressional records, and cultural theory, Obscene Gestures explores the many contradictory vectors of twentieth-century...

Filipinx American Studies

Reckoning, Reclamation, Transformation

Rick Bonus, Antonio Tiongson Jr., Karin Aguilar-San Juan, Angelica Allen, Gina Apostol, Nerissa Balce, Joi Barrios-LeBlanc, Victor Bascara, Jody Blanco, Alana Bock, Sony Coranez Bolton, Rick Bonus, Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns, Richard Chu, Gary Colmenar, Kim Compoc, Denise Cruz, Reuben Deleon, Josen Diaz, Robert Diaz, Kale Fajardo, Vernadette Gonzales, Theodore Gonzalves, Anna Guevarra, Allan Punzalan Isaac, Martin Manalansan, Dina Maramba, Cynthia Marasigan, Edward Nadurata, JoAnna Poblete, Anthony Bayani Rodriguez, Dylan Rodríguez, Evelyn Rodriguez, Robyn Rodriguez, J. A. Ruanto-Ramirez, Jeff Santa Ana, Dean Saranillo, Michael Schulze-Oechtering, Sarita Echavez-See, Roy Taggueg, Antonio Tiongson Jr.

This volume spotlights the unique suitability and situatedness of Filipinx American studies both as a site for reckoning with the work of historicizing U.S. empire in all of its entanglements, as well...

The Corpse in the Kitchen

Enclosure, Extraction, and the Afterlives of the Black Hawk War

Adam John Waterman

Reassessing the archive of the Black Hawk War, The Corpse in the Kitchen explores relationships between the enclosure of Indigenous land, histories of resource extraction, and the literary culture of...

Filipino Time

Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor

Allan Punzalan Isaac

This book examines how a variety of immaterial labor performed by Filipinos in the Philippines and around the world generate and explore vital affects, multiple networks, and other worlds. These forms of living capture life-making capacities within the capitalist world of disruptions and circulations of bodies and time.

Totality Inside Out

Rethinking Crisis and Conflict under Capital

Kevin Floyd, Jen Hedler Phillis, Sarika Chandra, Brent Ryan Bellamy, Sarah Brouillette, Sarika Chandra, Chris Chen, Joshua Clover, Tim Kreiner, Jen Hedler Phillis, Arthur Scarritt, Zoe Sutherland, Marina Vishmidt

However divergent their analyses may be in other ways, some prominent anti-capitalist critics have remained critical of contemporary debates over reparative justice for groups historically oppressed...

Shell-Shocked

Feminist Criticism after Trump

Bonnie Honig

A biting, funny, up-to-the-minute collection of essays by a major political thinker that gets to the heart of what feminist criticism can do in the face of everyday politics.Stormy Daniels offered...

Kubrick's Men

Richard Rambuss

A provocative re-reading of Stanley Kubrick’s work and its focus on masculine desireThe work of Stanley Kubrick amounts to a sustained reflection on the male condition: past, present, and future....

Why the Assembly Disbanded

Roberto Tejada

Pushing the boundaries of Latinx literature and what constitutes a borderlands poetics.Throughout Roberto Tejada’s body of work, the renowned poet and celebrated critic has explored themes of Latinx...

Now What?

Quandaries of Art and the Radical Past

Rachel Weiss

A profound and affecting meditation on art and revolution

Cold War Reckonings

Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization

Jini Kim Watson

Cold War Reckonings shows how the Cold War shaped culture and political power in the decolonizing world and gave rise, paradoxically, to authoritarian regimes of the so-called free world.

What Is Extinction?

A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals

Joshua Schuster

FINALIST, 25th ANNUAL SUSANNE M. GLASSCOCK BOOK PRIZELife on Earth is facing a mass extinction event of our own making. Human activity is changing the biology and the meaning of extinction. What Is...

Our Shared Storm

A Novel of Five Climate Futures

Andrew Dana Hudson

Through speculative fiction, five interlocking novelettes explore the possible realities of our climate future.What is the future of our climate? Given that our summers now regularly feature Arctic...

Gasoline Dreams

Waking Up from Petroculture

Simon Orpana, Imre Szeman, Mark Simpson

A graphic novel that confronts our habits, narratives, and fantasies head-on to helpbreak our petroleum dependencyWhat if the biggest barriers to responding to climate change are not technological or...

Best Minds

How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness

Stevan M. Weine

A revelatory look at how poet Allen Ginsberg transformed experiences of mental illness and madness into some of the most powerful and widely read poems of the twentieth century.Allen Ginsberg’s 1956...

Caged

A Teacher's Journey Through Rikers, or How I Beheaded the Minotaur

Brandon Dean Lamson

An honest and gripping memoir of one man’s life-altering experience teaching at Rikers Island.When Brandon Dean Lamson first accepted the teaching position at Horizon Academy, a court-mandated academic...

Boy with the Bullhorn

A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York

Ron Goldberg

Winner, "Gold" Independent Publishing Award (IPPY) for LGBTQ+ NonfictionWinner, The Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, 34th Annual Triangle Awards2023 Lammy Finalist, Gay Memoir/BiographyA coming-of-age...

Our Laundry, Our Town

My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond

Alvin Eng

With humor and grace, the memoir of a first-generation Chinese American in New York City.Our Laundry, Our Town is a memoir that decodes and processes the fractured urban oracle bones of Alvin Eng’s...

Africans in Harlem

An Untold New York Story

Boukary Sawadogo

The untold story of African-born migrants and their vibrant African influence in Harlem.From the 1920s to the early 1960s, Harlem was the intellectual and cultural center of the Black world. The Harlem...

South Bronx Rising

The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of an American City

Jill Jonnes, Nilka Martell

Thirty-five years after this landmark of urban history first captured the rise, fall, and rebirth of a once-thriving New York City borough—ravaged in the 1970s and ’80s by disinvestment and fires,...

The Ghetto, and Other Poems

An Annotated Edition

Lola Ridge, Lawrence Kramer

At last recovered in this enriching annotated edition, this important but neglected work of American modernism offers a unique poetic encounter with the Jewish communities in New York’s Lower East Side.

Shimmer

Sarah Schulman

A revelatory portrait of McCarthy-era Manhattan—back in print!It is 1948 in Manhattan. Aspiring reporter Sylvia Golubowsky pays her dues in the steno pool at the tabloid New York Star, along with...

I Am Elijah Thrush

James Purdy, Robert J. Corber

On its surface, I Am Elijah Thrush is the story of Millicent De Frayne and her sensational half-century campaign to win the love of Elijah Thrush. Elijah, after ruining the lives of countless men and...

Out with the Stars

James Purdy, Robert J. Corber

Following the discovery of an anonymous libretto, Abner Blossom comes out of retirement to write an opera based on the life of infamous novelist-turned-photographer Cyril Vane. But those who knew Vane...

The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket

John Weir

Before the onset of his irreversible decline, Eddie Socket always suspected he was on the verge of something. Now that “something” has arrived in the form of Merrit Mather, an attractive older gentleman...

What I Did Wrong

John Weir

Set in a rapidly gentrifying New York City determined to move beyond the decimation of a generation a decade earlier, What I Did Wrong is a day in the life of Tom, a forty-two-year-old English professor,...

Reimagining the Republic

Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the Literary Work of Albion W. Tourgée

Sandra M. Gustafson, Robert Levine, Molly Ball, Nancy Bentley, Tess Chakkalakal, Sarah E. Chinn, Mark Elliott, John Ernest, Annemarie Mott Ewing, Jennifer Rae Greeson, Sandra M. Gustafson, Mary Hale, DeLisa D. Hawkes, Christine Holbo, Carolyn Karcher, Almas Khan, Gregory Laski, Alex Zweber Leslie, Robert Levine, Brook Thomas, Kenneth Warren

Albion W. Tourgée (1838–1905) was a major force for social, legal, and literary transformation in the second half of the nineteenth century. Best known for his Reconstruction novels A Fool’s Errand...

Reconstruction and Empire

The Legacies of Abolition and Union Victory for an Imperial Age

David Prior, Adrian Brettle, Christina C. Davidson, Rebecca Edwards, Mark Elliott, Andre Fleche, Gregg French, Lawrence B. Glickman, Reilly Ben Hatch, David V. Holtby, Justin F. Jackson, DJ Polite, David Prior, Brian Shott

This volume examines the historical connections between the United States’ Reconstruction and the country’s emergence as a geopolitical power a few decades later. It shows how the processes at work...

Freedoms Gained and Lost

Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later

Adam H. Domby, Simon Lewis, Bruce E. Baker, Adam H. Domby, Don H. Doyle, Brian K. Fennessy, Michael Fitzgerald, Hilary N. Green, Ethan Kytle, Simon Lewis, Holly Pinheiro, Sergio Pinto-Handler, Shannon Smith, Felicity Turner, Samuel Watts

Reconstruction is one of the most complex, overlooked, and misunderstood periods of American history. The thirteen essays in this volume address the multiple struggles to make good on President Abraham...

The Book of Negroes

African Americans in Exile after the American Revolution

Graham Russell Gao Hodges, Alan Edward Brown

Since publication of The Black Loyalist Directory in 1996, the primary component, The Book of Negroes, has become one of the most-cited of American Revolutionary primary sources. This new edition salutes...

Resounding Events

Adventures of an Academic from the Working Class

William E. Connolly

In Resounding Events, one of the world’s preeminent political theorists reflects on a career as an academic hailing from the working class. Connolly explores how diverse events jolt and animate thinking, and he enunciates the tasks of engaged intellectuals today.

Concrete Utopianism

The Politics of Temporality and Solidarity

Gary Wilder

Through a critique of Left realism, culturalism, and pessimism from the standpoint of heterodox Marxism and Black radicalism, Gary Wilder insists that we place questions of solidarity and temporality at the center of Left political thinking. He makes a bold case for embracing a concrete utopian politics of the possible-impossible adequate to current planetary crises.

The Livable and the Unlivable

Judith Butler, Frédéric Worms

At once profound, accessible, and utterly essential—an animated conversation between two eminent thinkers illuminating what we mean when we talk about living.

Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence

Adriana Cavarero, Judith Butler, Bonnie Honig, Timothy J. Huzar, Clare Woodford, Olivia Guaraldo, Christine Battersby, Lorenzo Bernini, Mark Devenney, Simona Forti, Timothy J. Huzar, Clare Woodford

Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence brings together major feminist thinkers to debate Cavarero’s call for a postural ethics of nonviolence and a sociality rooted in bodily interdependence.Toward...

Homo Psyche

On Queer Theory and Erotophobia

Gila Ashtor

Winner, Alan Bray Memorial Book Award2022 Lammy Finalist, LGBTQ StudiesCan queer theory be erotophobic? This book proceeds from the perplexing observation that for all of its political agita, rhetorical...

Medicine at the Margins

EMS Workers in Urban America

Christopher Prener

Presents a unique view of social problems and conflicts over urban space from the cab of an ambulance.While we imagine ambulances as a site for critical care, the reality is far more complicated. Social...

Between Heaven and Russia

Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia

Sarah Riccardi-Swartz

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Appalachia, this book examines conversion to Russian Orthodoxy and political alignment with Russian conservative politics by contemporary rural American citizens.

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