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Cover of Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader

Flyboy 2:
The Greg Tate Reader

Greg Tate

Greg Tate (1957–2021) is the recipient of a 2024 Pulitzer Price Special Citation

Greg Tate is the recipient of the 2022 Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism Award, presented by the Jazz Journalists Association

  

Cover of Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds by Arseli Dokumaci. The top half of the cover is black with white text, and the bottom is a photo of a hand holding a spoon in an improvised grip, with a blurred background of a torso in a striped shirt.

Activist Affordances:
How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds

Arseli Dokumacı

Winner of the 2024 Gertrude J. Robinson Book Prize, presented by the Canadian Communication Association

Winner of the 2023 Alison Piepmeier Prize, presented by the National Women’s Studies Association

  

Cover of Plastic Matter by Heather Davis. The cover is a photo of a reindeer in a field. Nylon rope and plastic debris is wadded around the reindeer's head.

Plastic Matter

Heather Davis

Winner of the 2024 Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize, presented by the Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada

Honorable Mention for the 2023 Kendrick Prize, presented by the Society of Literature, Arts, and the Arts

Finalist, 2023 Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Ecocritical Book Award

  

Cover of Trafficking in Antiblackness: Modern-Day Slavery, White Indemnity, and Racial Justice by Lyndsey P. Beutin. Cover is a photo of abstract sculptures that resemble black marble semi-circles, with a triangle cut out of the middle. There are two semi-circles on a gray plane, with part of a third circle seen on the edge of the photo.

Trafficking in Antiblackness:
Modern-Day Slavery, White Indemnity, and Racial Justice

Lindsey P. Beutin

Winner of the 2024 Emerging Scholar Book Prize, presented by the Canadian Communication Association

  

Cover of Scales of Resistance: Indigenous Women’s Transborder Activism by Maylei Blackwell. The cover features a color image of women gathered around a circular installation made of flowers and plants. There is smoke partially obscuring people on the far side of the installation and some baskets at the feet of some of the people.

Scales of Resistance:
Indigenous Women’s Transborder Activism

Maylei Blackwell

Winner of the 2024 Best Subsequent Book Award, presented by the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association

  

Cover of Queer African Cinemas by Lindsey B. Green-Simms. Cover features a still from Wanuri Kahiu’s 2018 film "Rafiki." Two Black individuals sit side-by-side smiling at each other, one with hair braids wrapped in multicolored thread and the other in a backwards pink cap.

Queer African Cinemas

Lindsey B. Green-Simms

Winner of the 2024 African Literature Association Best Scholarly Book Award

  

Cover of Capitalist Humanitarianism by Lucia Hulsether. Cover image is of a wall with black and white grafitti on it. The title and author name are arranged vertically in small pink and green letter on the far right of the cover.

Capitalist Humanitarianism

Lucia Hulsether

Winner of the 2024 Cultural Studies Association Best First Book Award

  

Cover of Gaza on Screen by Nadia Yaqub. Cover is a bird's eye view of a road lined by dirt and a series of colorful chalk drawings on the road with people laying or sitting next to them. All text is in white and the title is in the bottom left corner and editor's name at the top.

Gaza on Screen

Nadia Yaqub, editor

Longlisted for the 2024 Kraszna Krausz Moving Image Book Award

  

Cover of Changing the Subject: Queer Politics in Neoliberal India by Srila Roy. Cover features drawing of a woman in bottom left in front of a red background, yellow sun, and tan plants. Author name is top left and subtitle is bottom left with both text in yellow. Title in left-middle in white.

Changing the Subject:
Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India

Srila Roy

Winner of the 2024 Best Book Prize, presented by the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies section of the International Studies Association

Winner of the 2023 Distinguished Book Award, presented by the Sociology of Sexualities Section of the American Sociological Association

  

Cover of Deathlife: Hip Hop and Thanatological Narrations of Blackness by Anthony B. Pinn. Cover background is solid white. A figure in a hoodie, sweatpants, and Nike sneakers is in the center of the cover. The figure's clothes are varied shades of gray and black. The figure appears to be in motion, either running or stepping forward as they look over their shoulder behind them.

Deathlife:
Hip Hop and Thanatological Narrations of Blackness

Anthony B. Pinn

Co-Winner of the 2024 Gold Medal in the Performing Arts category of the 2024 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards

  

Cover of In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua by Sophie Chao. Cover is grey, pink and light green with palm fronds on it.

In the Shadow of the Palms:
More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua

Sophie Chao

Winner of the 2024 Gold Medal in the Ecology and Environment category of the Nautilus Book Awards, as well as Special Honors: Best in Large Press

Winner of the 2023 Sharon Stephens Book Prize, presented by the American Ethnological Society

Honorable Mention, 2023 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology, presented by the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology

Winner of the 2024 Early Career Book Prize, presented by the Asian Studies Association of Australia
  

Cover of Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin by Joseph Plaster. Cover is a faded photo of Rob Bennett and friends at a phone booth at Polk and Geary, San Francisco, CA. early 1980s. They are dressed in bright colors, including yellow, red, and purple.

Kids on the Street:
Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin

Joseph Plaster

Winner of the 2024 Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, presented by The Publishing Triangle

  

Cover of Revolutionary Feminists: The Women’s Liberation Movement in Seattle by Barbara Winslow. Cover is a black and white photo of a women's protest, where a parade of women walk behind a car, one holding a banner that says Radical Women.

Revolutionary Feminists:
The Women’s Liberation Movement in Seattle

Barbara Winslow

Awarded a Silver Medal in the Women’s Issues category of the 2024 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards

  

Cover of Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine by Amanda Lock Swarr. Cover is purple, with a gold circle in the center. The bottom of the circle is somewhat opaque.

Envisioning African Intersex:
Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine

Amanda Lock Swarr

Honorable Mention, 2024 Distinguished Book Award, presented by the American Sociological Association Section on Sexualities

  

Cover of Brown Saviors and Their Others: Race, Caste, Labor, and the Global Politics of Help in India by Arjun Shankar. Cover is a photo of a beige wall with some of its paint chipped off. The light from an open window can be seen on the wall, along with the shadow of the photographer as they hold up the camera to take the photo.

Brown Saviors and Their Others:
Race, Caste, Labor, and the Global Politics of Help in India

Arjun Shankar

Honorable Mention, 2024 Cultural Studies Association Best First Book Award

  

Cover of Haunting Biology: Science and Indigeneity in Australia by Emma Kowal. Cover features an abstract work of art atop a light beige background. There are three faded and distorted black and white photographs. A block of uneven red lines extend through the center of the work, partially covering one of the photos. Abstract orange brushstrokes are scattered across the cover.

Haunting Biology:
Science and Indigeneity in Australia

Emma Kowal

Honorable Mention, 2024 Ludwik Fleck Prize (presented by the Society for Social Studies of Science)

  

Making Women Pay:
Microfinance in Urban India

Smitha Radhakrishnan

Honorable Mention, 2024 Alice Amsden Book Award (presented by the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics)

Honorable Mention, 2023 American Sociological Association Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award

  

Cover of Radical Play: Revolutionizing Children's Toys in 1960s and 1970s America by Rob Goldberg. Cover is a photo of dolls: a black baby in a plaid dress, a white baby in a blue shirt, a soldier, a black man in a leather jacket, and a white Barbie in a biker outfit. In the background are cutouts of other Barbies.

Radical Play:
Revolutionizing Children’s Toys in 1960s and 1970s America

Rob Goldberg

Winner of the 2024 Lawrence W. Levine Award, presented by the Organization of American Historians

Winner of the 2024 Ray and Pat Browne Award, presented by the Popular Culture Association
  

Cover of A Nimble Arc: James Van Der Zee and Photography by Emilie Boone. Cover is white with a single black and white photograph in the center. Photograph depicts James Van Der Zee standing in the doorway of his photography studio. He leans against the studio window and has one hand on his hip. The studio window-cases feature a variety of framed photographs. Fringed curtains adorn the top of the studio windows.

A Nimble Arc:
James Van Der Zee and Photography

Emilie Boone

Finalist, 2023 National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize

  

Cover of Nimrods: a fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir by Kawika Guillermo. Cover is an abstract collage of the same topless man in burgundy lighting, three times in a row, superimposed over a larger image of the same topless man in yellow lighting three times in a row. Over the man's face are smiley faces in yellow marker. The title info is represented through tape and stickers on the art.

Nimrods:
a fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir

Kawika Guillermo

Finalist, 2024 Lambda Literary Awards in the Bisexual Nonfiction category

  

Cover of Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China by Travis S. K. Kong. Cover is a photo of a 3D-printed sculpture against a white background. The sculpture is a mass of bodies all interconnected, so that it resembles a crowd of heads, a tangle of arms, one large torso, and a tangle of legs. The 3D-printing makes the sculpture resemble a pixelated image.

Sexuality and the Rise of China:
The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China

Travis S. K. Kong

Finalist, 2024 Lambda Literary Awards in the LGBTQ+ Studies Category

  

Cover of Brutalism by Achille Mbembe. Cover is a textured grey-green. BRUTALISM is spelled out in white in all-caps, with the word split into two lines. The author's name is below in orange.

Brutalism

Achille Mbembe

Achille Mbembe is the Winner of the 2024 Holberg Prize, presented by the University of Bergen on behalf of the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research.

  

Cover of Feels Right: Black Queer Women and the Politics of Partying in Chicago by Kemi Adeyemi. Cover has picture of people dancing in the background. Transparent circles of pink, blue, and turqoise fall over the picture along the left side. Bold white title in top right with pink and blue line under each word. Bold white subtitle in center-right and author name in pink bottom right. Both texts are tilted.

Feels Right:
Black Queer Women and the Politics of Partying in Chicago

Kemi Adeyemi

Winner of the 2023 de la Torre Bueno© Prize, presented by the Dance Studies Association

Co-Winner of the 2023 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize, presented by the National Women’s Studies Association

  

Cover of Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic by Matthew Francis Rarey. Cover features an open book on a black background. The book is made with old, stained paper, and features handwriting in ink. The handwriting is cursive, and written in neat lines. There is a piece of brown fabric in between the pages. The page is marked 21.

Insignificant Things:
Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic

Matthew Francis Rarey

Winner of the 2024 Charles Rufus Morey Award, presented by the College Art Association

  

Cover of Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures by Gabrielle Hecht. Cover portrays a sandy and rocky landscape. In the foreground, a shirtless man, wearing blue pants and a black hat, chips away at the ground with a pick ax.

Residual Governance:
How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures

Gabrielle Hecht

Winner of the 2024 Prose Award for Excellence in Social Sciences

  

Cover of City after Property: Abandonment and Repair in Postindustrial Detroit. Cover is a series of faded pink and light blue pictures of city blue prints or pictures of urban landscapes with title in bold going vertically down the center and subtitle/author in black on bottom center in a box.

The City After Property:
Abandonment and Repair in Postindustrial Detroit

Sara Safransky

Honorable Mention, 2024 Association of American Geographers Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work

  

Cover of Dreams in Double Time: On Race, Freedom, and Bebop by Jonathan Leal. Cover is a black and white photo of the face and trumpets of two trumpet players. The leftmost wears glasses and the other player stands closely next to him, with his eyes in shadow. The faces and trumpets take up the top half of the cover, while the bottom half is black and contains the title text in white, orange, and blue.

Dreams in Double Time:
On Race, Freedom, and Bebop

Jonathan Leal

Honorable Mention, 2023 Jazz Journalists Association Book Award

  

Cover of The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment by Cameron Awkward-Rich. Cover features the title in pink font running vertically from the bottom against a black background.

The Terrible We:
Thinking with Trans Maladjustment

Cameron Awkward-Rich

Winner of the 2023 Alan Bray Memorial Book Award, presented by the GLQ Caucus of the Modern Language Association and the Q/T Caucus of the American Studies Association

Finalist, 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction
  

Cover of At the Limits of Cure by Bharat Jayram Venkat. Cover image is a collage featuring a map, mountains, and a historical photograph.

At the Limits of Cure

Bharat Jayram Venkat

Winner of the 2022 Wellcome Medal, presented by the Royal Anthropological Institute

Co-Winner of the 2023 Edie Turner Prize, presented by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology

Named to the Shortlist for the 2023 British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS) Book Prize

  

Cover of Making Peace with Nature: Ecological Encounters along the Korean DMZ by Eleana J. Kim. Cover is a photograph of DMZ wetlands, photographed by Kim Seung in 2005. Photo shows a border fence next to a field of brown grass.

Making Peace with Nature:
Ecological Encounters along the Korean DMZ

Eleana J. Kim

Winner of the 2024 James B. Palais Prize, presented by Association for Asian Studies / Northeast Asia Council

  

Cover of Vulgar Beauty: Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium by Mila Zuo. Cover is black, with a blurry photograph in its center. Photo features a Chinese woman looking at a mirror and applying red lipstick, with a backdrop of red curtains.

Vulgar Beauty:
Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium

Mila Zuo

Winner, 2024 AAAS Book Award in the Media, Performance, and Visual Studies Category

  

Cover of Unintended Lessons of Revolution features a photo of a rural normal school in the background, colored yellow. In the foreground is a photo of a mural found at a separate rural normal school, depicting a student wearing a sombrero and carrying books.

Unintended Lessons of Revolution:
Student Teachers and Political Radicalism in Twentieth-Century Mexico

Tanalís Padilla

Winner of the 2024 María Elena Martínez Prize in Mexican History, presented by The Conference on Latin American History

  

Cover of No Machos or Pop Stars: When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk by Gavin Butt. Cover features a group of young people dressed up for a punk showing laughing together.

No Machos or Pop Stars:
When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk

Gavin Butt

Winner, 2024 Historians of British Art Book Prize for a single-authored book on a contemporary subject

  

Cover of Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin by Donovan O. Schaefer. Cover is an acrylic painting of shifting blue, white, and gray that resembles an atmosphere.

Wild Experiment:
Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin

Donovan O. Schaefer

Winner of the 2023 Ludwick Fleck Prize, presented by the Society for the Social Studies of Science

Winner of the 2023 International Society for Science and Religion Book Prize in the Books for Professionals and Educators category

Shortlisted Finalist for the 2023 AAR Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Analytical-Descriptive Studies

  

Cover of Settler Garrison: Debt Imperialism, Militarism, and Transpacific Imaginaries by Jodi Kim. Cover is an aerial photograph of the US Naval Base Guam on Apra Harbor.

Settler Garrison:
Debt Imperialism, Militarism, and Transpacific Imaginaries

Jodi Kim

Honorable Mention, 2024 AAAS Book Award in the Multidisciplinary/Interdisciplinary Studies Category

  

Cover of When Forests Run Amok: War and Its Afterlives in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Territories by Daniel Ruiz-Serna. The top half of the cover is pale green, the bottom is a photo of a man in a red shirt sitting on a wooden boat racing down the river. The trees in the background of the photo are blurred to convey the motion of the boat.

When Forests Run Amok:
War and Its Afterlives in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Territories

Daniel Ruiz-Serna

Co-Winner of the 2023 Julian Steward Award, presented by the Anthropology and Environment Section of the American Anthropological Association

Honorable Mention for the 2023 PEACE Best Global South Scholar Book Award, presented by the Peace Studies Section of the International Studies Association

  

Cover of Bad Education: Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing by Lee Edelman. Cover is bright yellow with lettering in red and black and features an image of a marionette in black professor's garb, holding a pointer.

Bad Education:
Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing

Lee Edelman

Honorable Mention for the 2023 James Russell Lowell Award, presented by the Modern Language Association

  

Cover of Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City by Darren Byler. Cover features a piece from Maxime Matthys's 2019 art project, 2091: The Ministry of Privacy. The image depicts a man by a building, with facial recognition software homing in on his face.

Terror Capitalism:
Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City

Darren Byler

Winner of the 2023 Margaret Mead Award, presented by the Society for Applied Anthropology

Co-Winner of the 2023 Gregory Bateson Book Prize, presented by the Society for Cultural Anthropology

  

Cover of A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa by Robyn d′Avignon. Cover features a black and white photograph of a man digging a hole in the desert in order to establish a mine.

A Ritual Geology:
Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa

Robyn d'Avignon

Winner of the 2023 President's Book Award, presented by the Social Science History Association

Winner of the 2023 Pfizer Book Award, presented by the History of Science Society

Co-Winner of the 2023 Julian Steward Award, presented by the Anthropology and Environment Section of the American Anthropological Association

  

Cover of Remaindered Life by Neferti X. M. Tadiar. Cover is After Amorsolo’s Planting Rice by Lyra Garcellano, an abstract representation of women planting rice, using beige and green tones.

Remaindered Life

Neferti X. M. Tadiar

Winner of the 2023 John Hope Franklin Book Prize, presented by the American Studies Association

  

Cover of Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle by Shannen Dee Williams. Cover is yellow, orange and fuschia with a black and white photo of a Black nun in front of a microphone.

Subversive Habits:
Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle

Shannen Dee Williams

Winner of the 2023 Wesley-Logan Prize, presented by the American Historical Association Association

Winner of the 2022 Letitia Woods Brown Prize for the Best Book in African American Women's History, presented by the Association of Black Women Historians

  

Cover of Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media by micha cárdenas. Cover is blue with 7 people on it, and a center person is pointing.

Poetic Operations:
Trans of Color Art in Digital Media

micha cárdenas

Honorable Mention for the 2023 American Studies Association Digital Humanities Caucus Book Prize

  

Cover of Ugly Freedoms by Elisabeth R. Anker. Cover is white featuring the silhouettes of various bird shapes in different shades of gray, black and brown.

Ugly Freedoms

Elizabeth R. Anker

Honorable Mention, 2023 John Hope Franklin Prize, presented by the American Studies Association

  

Cover has black outline of Iran behind drawling of roses with flowers in red on white background. Title in capital red is at the top with subtitle in capital, black letters below. A thick red border along the bottom has word "within" in capital white at top-right of border. Author's name in white is bottom left.

This Flame Within:
Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States

Manijeh Moradian

Honorable Mention, 2023 Nikki Keddie Book Award, presented by the Middle East Studies Association

  

Cover of Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa by Jovan Scott Lewis. Cover features a grayscale photograph of a man walking underneath an overpass. The cover above and below this photo is black, with the subtitle and author name in white. The title appears in bold, neon yellow type.

Violent Utopia:
Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa

Jovan Scott Lewis

Honorable Mention, 2023 John Hope Franklin Book Prize, presented by the American Studies Association

Finalist for the 2022 C. Wright Mills Award, presented by the Society for the Study of Social Problems

  

Cover of Unsettled Borders: The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land by Felicity Amaya Schaeffer. Cover shows low lit cactus in front of a wooden wall with an evening sky. Author’s name is in white on the bottom left. The title is in bold white in the center with the subtitle italicized in green below. Large triangles with transparent yellow and blue run vertically down the page and overlap.

Unsettled Borders:
The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land

Felicity Amaya Schaeffer

Honorable Mention, 2023 John Hope Franklin Prize, presented by the American Studies Association

  

Cover of Hard Luck and Heavy Rain: The Ecology of Stories in Southeast Texas by Joseph C. Russo. Cover is an outside photo of a factory, where large machinery made of brown rusted metal sits behind a fence, and is contrasted against the backdrop of a pale blue sky. There is a slight tint of brown to the photo from industrial smog.

Hard Luck and Heavy Rain:
The Ecology of Stories in Southeast Texas

Joseph C. Russo

Co-Winner of the 2023 Edie Turner Prize, presented by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology

Honorable Mention, 2023 Ruth Benedict Prize, presented by the Association for Queer Anthropology

  

Cover of Legal Spectatorship: Slavery and the Visual Culture of Domestic Violence by Kelli Moore. Cover is black, with the title oriented around a tilted Polaroid picture. The picture is blank and black.

Legal Spectatorship:
Slavery and the Visual Culture of Domestic Violence

Kelli Moore

Honorable Mention, 2023 Lora Romero First Book Prize, presented by the American Studies Association

  

Cover of Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment by Hi'ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart. White title centered and transparent with "the" centered left and transparent white subtitle to the right. Background features a blue tinged picture of girl eating ice cream in front of light blue, purple, pink, and orange/yellow blended background. Author name in all caps in blue along bottom.

Cooling the Tropics:
Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment

Hi'ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart

Honorable Mention, 2023 Lora Romero First Book Prize, presented by the American Studies Association

Co-Winner of the 2023 Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) First Book Award

  

Cover of River Life and the Upspring of Nature by Naveeda Khan. The cover is deep blue with the text in white. In the upper right and lower left corners are patterns of small white seeds, as if they are floating.

River Life and the Uprising of Nature

Naveeda Khan

Second Place, 2023 Victor Turner Writing Prize, presented by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology

  

The Genealogical Imagination:
Two Studies of Life over Time

Michael Jackson

Third Place, 2023 Victor Turner Writing Prize, presented by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology

  

Cover of Dreams of Flight: The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West. Cover art is a 2018 photograph by C. Zheng. It is a grayscale, grainy image of people at an airport gazing out of the window.

Dreams of Flight:
The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West

Fran Martin

Honorable Mention, 2023 Francis L. K. Hsu Book Prize, presented by the Society for East Asian Anthropology

  

Cover of Markets of Civilization: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria by Muriam Haleh Davis. The cover features an image of a French-Algerian stamp advertising the "Plan Quadriennal" for the industrialization of Algeria from 1974-1977.

Markets of Civilization:
Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria

Muriam Haleh Davis

Honorable Mention, 2023 L. Carl Brown Book Prize, presented by the American Institute for Maghrib Studies

  

Cover of Intersectionality As Critical Social Theory by Patricia Hill Collins. Cover is black. Text is turned at an angle, with author name in blue at top, Intersectionality larger in bolded white, and As Critical Social Theory below in grey. Lines in red, purple, and blue bisect the text.

Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory

Patricia Hill Collins

Patricia Hill Collins is the winner of the 2023 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture

  

Cover of Gridiron Capital by Lisa Uperesa. The cover features a black and white image of a man's tattooed arm holding an American football.

Gridiron Capital:
How American Football Became a Samoan Game

Lisa Uperesa

Winner of the 2023 Outstanding Book Award from the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport

Honorable Mention, 2023 Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) First Book Award

  

Cover of Emancipation's Daughters

Emancipation’s Daughters:
Reimagining Black Femininity and the National Body

Riché Richardson

Winner of the 2022 C. Hugh Holman Award, presented by the Society for the Study of Southern Literature

  

Sentient Flesh:
Thinking in Disorder, Poiesis in Black

R.A. Judy

Winner of the 2023 Truman Capote Literary Trust Award for Literary Criticism

  

Cover of Ruderal City: Ecologies of Migration, Race, and Urban Nature in Berlin by Bettina Stoetzer. Cover is a photograph focused on a small patch of a yellow flower bush. In the background past the bush is an out of focus bridge with a yellow train on it. The sky is blue.

Ruderal City:
Ecologies of Migration, Race, and Urban Nature in Berlin

Bettina Stoetzer

Winner of the 2023 Best Book Award from the German Studies Association

Winner of the 2023 Diana Forsythe Prize, presented by the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology and Computing

  

Cover of A Kiss across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad by Richard T. Rodríguez. Cover features the title in white gothic font above a black-and-white portrait of Siouxsie Sioux against a black background.

A Kiss across the Ocean:
Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad

Richard T. Rodríguez

Honorable Mention, 2023 International Latino Book Awards, LBGTQ+ themed nonfiction section

  

Cover features Jim Chuchu's 2014 art piece titled “Pagans IX” from the Pagans series. This is a black-and-white, digitally manipulated photograph of a man leaning sideways, arms raised, with specks of light around him.

There's a Disco Ball Between Us:
A Theory of Black Gay Life

Jafari S. Allen

Co-Winner of the 2023 Gregory Bateson Book Prize, presented by the Society for Cultural Anthropology

Finalist, 2023 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Studies

Honorable Mention, 2022 Ruth Benedict Prize, presented by the Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA)

  

Cover of Dub: Finding Ceremony by alexis pauline gumbs

Dub:
Finding Ceremony

Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a recipient of the 2023 Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Prize for Poetry. The award acknowledges Gumbs's full body of work, which includes Dub, M Archive, and Spill (all published by Duke University Press).

  

over of Soundscapes of Liberation: African American Music in Postwar France by Celeste Day Moore. Cover features a historical photo of 3 African American musicians seen on stage from the wings.

Soundscapes of Liberation:
African American Music in Postwar France

Celeste Day Moore

Winner of the 2023 Woody Guthrie First Book Award, presented by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM)

Winner of the 2022 Award for the Best Historical Research on Recorded Jazz category, presented by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence in Historical Sound Research

Winner of the 2022 Gilbert Chinard Book Prize, presented by the Society for French Historical Studies

  

The cover of The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom by Thulani Davis features a map of the southeastern United States, drawn by county. The bottom half of the map is in orange tone while the top half is in blue-green tones. The title, subtitle, and author are overlayed on top.

The Emancipation Circuit:
Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom

Thulani Davis

Winner of the 2023 MAAH Stone Book Award, presented by the Museum of African American History Boston | Nantucket

Finalist, 2023 Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) Book Prize

  

Cover of Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment by Jonathan Sterne. Cover features a photograph of a dork-o-phone in its faux-leather case, with lanyard attached. Colors are a hazy blue, red, and green.

Diminished Faculties:
A Political Phenomenology of Impairment

Jonathan Sterne

Winner of the 2023 Gertrude J. Robinson Book Prize, presented by the Canadian Communication Association

  

Cover of Climate Lyricism by Min Hyoung Song. Cover has a black background, with Ed Hawkin's Warming Stripes for globe from 1850–2019 coloring the letters of the title.

Climate Lyricism

Min Hyoung Song

Winner of the 2023 Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Book Award for Scholarly Ecocriticism

  

Cover of Ain't But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Stories by Willard Jenkins. Cover features pink spotted border on left with purple background to the right. Various sized rectangles across the center feature pictures of hands, someone writing, and instruments. Orange subtitle is bottom-right of images, white title is above, and word US in captial pink. Author's name is below-right images in yellow.

Ain't But a Few of Us:
Black Music Writers Tell Their Story

Willard Jenkins

Willard Jenkins is the 2024 recipient of the A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship for Jazz Advocacy, presented to those who have made major contributions to the appreciation, knowledge, and advancement of the American jazz art form.

Winner of the 2023 Jazz Journalists Association Book of the Year Award in Jazz History, Criticism, and Culture.

  

Cover of Indirect Subjects by Matthew H. Brown

Indirect Subjects:
Nollywood's Local Address

Matthew H. Brown

Winner of the 2023 African Literature Association First Book Award

  

Cover of Trading Futures: A Theological Critique of Financialized Capitalism by Filipe Maia. There is a thick strip of yellow across the right edge of the cover, containing the title and author name in red. The rest of the cover's background features two designs that alternate red and white in straight lines or zigzags. A large, red hog's head with open mouth extends from the top left corner, with yellow highlights.

Trading Futures:
A Theological Critique of Financialized Capitalism

Filipe Maia

Honorable Mention, 2023 Paul Sweezy Outstanding Book Award, presented by the Marxist Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association

  

Cover of the Borders of Dominicanidad

The Borders of Dominicanidad:
Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction

Lorgia García Peña

Winner of the 2023 Barbara T. Christian Literary Book Award, presented by the Caribbean Studies Association

  

Cover of Colonial Pathologies by Warwick Anderson

Colonial Pathologies:
American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines

Warwick Anderson

Warwick Anderson is a recipient of the 2023 John Desmond Bernal Award from the Society of Social Studies of Science. Anderson is author and editor of many books, including The Cultivation of Whiteness and Unconscious Dominions.

  

Cover of The Doctor Who Would Be King by Guillaume Lachenal. Translated by Cheryl Smeall. The title is superimposed over a sheaf of medical documents written in French.

The Doctor Who Would Be King

Guillaume Lachenal

Honorable Mention for the 2023 Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize,presented by the French Colonial Historical Society

  

Cover of Myriad Intimacies by Lata Mani. Cover is black, featuring a photograph of a piece of art. This art piece is a beige rectangle, with a smaller teal rectangle within. The teal rectangle has four rows of downward facing red triangles at its center.

Myriad Intimacies

Lata Mani

2023 Silver Award Winner in the Lyric Prose or Hybrid Works Category, presented by the Nautilus Book Awards

  

Cover of Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective by Lorgia García Peña. The word Translating is in white and Blackness is in black, upside down like a mirror image. The cover features fine art of a sunset over a beach with a rock feature.

Translating Blackness:
Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective

Lorgia García Peña

Winner of the 2023 Isis Duarte Book Prize from the Haiti-Dominican Republic Section of the Latin American Studies Association

  

Cover of Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness. Cover shows Little Richard posing for an early portrait, circa 1952, in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photograph by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images.)

Sissy Insurgencies:
A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness

Marlon B. Ross

Finalist, 2023 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Studies

  

Cover of Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability by Vivian L. Huang. Cover is bright yellow with green and pink lettering. On the lower part of the book there is a green drawing of a person sitting down and cutting off their long black hair with scissors.

Surface Relations:
Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability

Vivian L. Huang

Finalist, 2023 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Studies

  

Cover of African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics by Cajetan Iheka. Cover features an artwork by Fabrice Monteiro, “Female figure, trees, and fire,” from The Prophecy.

African Ecomedia:
Network Forms, Planetary Politics

Cajetan Iheka

Winner, 2023 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for the Best Book in Environmental Studies, presented by the International Studies Association

Winner, 2022 African Studies Association Best Book Prize

Winner, 2022 Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Ecocritical Book Award

Honorable Mention, 2022 Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) Book Prize

  

Return Engagements:
Contemporary Art's Traumas of Modernity and History in Sài Gòn and Phnom Penh

Viet Lê

Outstanding Achievement, 2023 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award in Humanities & Cultural Studies: Media, Performance, and Visual Studies

  

Minor China:
Method, Materialisms, and the Aesthetic

Hentyle Yapp

Honorable Mention, 2023 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award in Humanities & Cultural Studies: Media, Performance, and Visual Studies

  

Cover of Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper features a photograph (in blue tones) of Cooper seated, facing the camera with hands in her lap.

Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper

Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez

Honorable Mention, 2023 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award in Humanities & Cultural Studies: History

  

History on the Run:
Secrecy, Fugitivity, and Hmong Refugee Epistemologies

Ma Vang

Honorable Mention, 2023 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award in Humanities & Cultural Studies: Multidisciplinary/Interdisciplinary

  

Cover of Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam by Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu. It is pink, with an Asian woman's face above the text. There are words on her face. There is a blurry photo of a man in a hat in the foreground.

Experiments in Skin:
Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam

Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu

Honorable Mention, 2023 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award in Humanities & Cultural Studies: Social Sciences

  

Cover image is a black and white portrait of Natsume Sōseki wearing a suit and tie.

A Fictional Commons:
Natsume Soseki and the Properties of Modern Literature

Michael K. Bourdaghs

Honorable Mention, 2023 John Whitney Hall Prize, presented by the Association for Asian Studies

  

Cover is a photograph of an Indonesian landscape, featuring blue sky with clouds in the top portion of the image, and dead palm trees below. Between the trees is a dirt road, with a person walking towards the camera.

Plantation Life:
Corporate Occupation in Indonesia's Oil Palm Zone

Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi

Honorable Mention, 2023 George McT. Kahin Prize, presented by the Association for Asian Studies

  

Cover of Warring Visions: Photography and Vietnam byThy Phu. Cover features a historical color photo of a woman in a bathing suit with a camera, two men looking on and 2 in the background, on a beach.

Warring Visions:
Photography and Vietnam

Thy Phu

Finalist, 2023 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, presented by the College Art Association

  

Cover of Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt by Jessica Barnes. Cover is a close-up photograph of pita bread in a public setting.

Staple Security:
Bread and Wheat in Egypt

Jessica Barnes

Finalist, 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences (Cultural Anthropology and Sociology), presented by the Association of American Publishers

Honorable Mention, 2022 Meridian Book Award, presented by the American Association of Geographers
  

Cover of Dreadful Desires: The Uses of Love in Neoliberal China. The cover features an image of a grey sculpture of a human heart set against a black background.

Dreadful Desires:
The Uses of Love in Neoliberal China

Charlie Yi Zhang

Winner of the 2023 SEC-AAS Book Prize, presented by the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies

  

Cover of Black Bodies, White Gold features a black and white photo of a cotton boll (framed by a white border, against a black background).

Black Bodies, White Gold:
Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World

Anna Arabindan-Kesson

Winner of the 2023 Historians of British Art Award for a single-authored book with a subject between 1800–1960

Named to the Shortlist for for the R. L. Shep Award, presented by the Textile Society of America

  

Cover of To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship by Elizabeth McHenry. Cover is aqua and features a background image of a historical photo of an exhibition of books.

To Make Negro Literature:
Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship

Elizabeth McHenry

Honorable Mention, 2022 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, presented by the Modern Language Association

Winner of the 2022 DeLong Book History Prize, presented by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP)

Co-Winner of the 2023 St. Louis Mercantile Library Prize, awarded by the Bibliographical Society of America

  

Cover of Animate Planet by Kath Weston

Animate Planet:
Making Visceral Sense of Living in a High-Tech Ecologically Damaged World

Kath Weston

Kath Weston is the recipient of the Association for Queer Anthropology's 2022 Distinguished Achievement Award, which honors outstanding contributions to LGBTQ+ anthropology.

  
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