American Studies

Beyond Complicity: Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems

• by Francine Banner (Author)
• January 2024
• Paperback $29.95, £25.00|
  Hardcover $85.00,  £71.00|
  eBook $29.95,  £25.00

Making Stereo Fit: The History of a Disquieting Film Technology

• by Eric Dienstfrey (Author)
• January 2024
• Paperback $29.95, £25.00|
  Hardcover $85.00,  £71.00|
  eBook $29.95,  £25.00

Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State

• by Moon-Ho Jung (Author)
• December 2023
• Paperback $29.95, £25.00|
  Hardcover $29.95,  £25.00|
  eBook $29.95,  £25.00

OPEN ACCESS

Maverick Movies: New Line Cinema and the Transformation of American Film

• by Daniel Herbert (Author)
• November 2023
• Paperback $34.95, £30.00
• Read a free ebook version at luminosoa.org

OPEN ACCESS

Lived Refuge: Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience

• by Vinh Nguyen (Author)
• November 2023
• Paperback $34.95, £30.00
• Read a free ebook version at luminosoa.org

An Eternal Pitch: Bishop G. E. Patterson, Broadcast Religion, and the Afterlives of Ecstasy

• by Braxton D. Shelley (Author)
• November 2023
• Paperback $29.95, £25.00|
  Hardcover $85.00,  £71.00|
  eBook $29.95,  £25.00

A People's Guide to Richmond and Central Virginia

• by Melissa Dawn Ooten (Author), Jason Michael Sawyer (Author)
• November 2023
• Paperback $24.95, £21.00|
  eBook $24.95,  £21.00

Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt

• by Orisanmi Burton (Author)
• October 2023
• Paperback $29.95, £25.00|
  Hardcover $85.00,  £71.00|
  eBook $29.95,  £25.00

Amazing Grace: A Cultural History of the Beloved Hymn

• by James Walvin (Author)
• October 2023
• Hardcover $19.95,  £16.99|
  eBook $19.95,  £16.99

Indian Wars Everywhere: Colonial Violence and the Shadow Doctrines of Empire

• by Stefan Aune (Author)
• September 2023
• Paperback $29.95, £25.00|
  Hardcover $85.00,  £71.00|
  eBook $29.95,  £25.00

OPEN ACCESS

How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop: Radio, Rap, and Race

• by Amy Coddington (Author)
• September 2023
• Paperback $34.95, £30.00
• Read a free ebook version at luminosoa.org

America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice

• by Treva B. Lindsey (Author)
• August 2023
• Paperback $24.95, £21.00|
  Hardcover $24.95,  £21.00|
  eBook $24.95,  £21.00

In Her Hands: Women's Fight against AIDS in the United States

• by Emma Day (Author)
• August 2023
• Paperback $29.95, £25.00|
  Hardcover $85.00,  £71.00|
  eBook $29.95,  £25.00

A Wider Type of Freedom: How Struggles for Racial Justice Liberate Everyone

• by Daniel Martinez HoSang (Author)
• July 2023
• Paperback $29.95, £25.00|
  Hardcover $29.95,  £25.00|
  eBook $29.95,  £25.00

Love's Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture

• by Aaron Lecklider (Author)
• May 2023
• Paperback $26.95, £23.00|
  Hardcover $29.95,  £25.00|
  eBook $29.95,  £25.00

The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America

• by David A. Banks (Author)
• April 2023
• Paperback $26.95, £23.00|
  Hardcover $85.00,  £71.00|
  eBook $26.95,  £23.00

White Power and American Neoliberal Culture

• by Patricia Ventura (Author), Edward K Chan (Author)
• April 2023
• Hardcover $22.95,  £20.00|
  eBook $22.95,  £20.00

OPEN ACCESS

Beyond the Movie Theater: Sites, Sponsors, Uses, Audiences

• by Gregory A. Waller (Author)
• April 2023
• Paperback $34.95, £30.00
• Read a free ebook version at luminosoa.org

Stuck Moving: Or, How I Learned to Love (and Lament) Anthropology

• by Peter Benson (Author)
• April 2023
• Paperback $29.95, £25.00|
  Hardcover $85.00,  £71.00|
  eBook $29.95,  £25.00

Manufacturing Freedom: Sex Work, Anti-Trafficking Rehab, and the Racial Wages of Rescue

• by Elena Shih (Author)
• April 2023
• Paperback $29.95, £25.00|
  Hardcover $85.00,  £71.00|
  eBook $29.95,  £25.00

Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America

• by Helena Hansen (Author), Jules Netherland (Author), David Herzberg (Author)
• March 2023
• Hardcover $29.95,  £25.00|
  eBook $29.95,  £25.00

Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves: America and the Indian Ocean in the Age of Abolition and Empire

• by Gunja SenGupta (Author), Awam Amkpa (Author)
• February 2023
• Hardcover $49.95,  £42.00|
  eBook $49.95,  £42.00

Dancing Down the Barricades: Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era

• by Matthew Frye Jacobson (Author)
• February 2023
• Hardcover $29.95,  £25.00|
  eBook $29.95,  £25.00

OPEN ACCESS

Possible Histories: Arab Americans and the Queer Ecology of Peddling

• by Charlotte Karem Albrecht (Author)
• February 2023
• Paperback $34.95, £30.00
• Read a free ebook version at luminosoa.org

The Holy Vote: Inequality and Anxiety among White Evangelicals

• by Sarah Diefendorf (Author)
• February 2023
• Paperback $29.95, £25.00|
  Hardcover $85.00,  £71.00|
  eBook $29.95,  £25.00

Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography

• by Gail Levin (Author)
• January 2023
• Paperback $29.95, £25.00|
  eBook $29.95,  £25.00

Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society

• by Michael K. Brown (Author), Martin Carnoy (Author), Elliott Currie (Author), Troy Duster (Author)
• January 2023
• Paperback $28.95, £25.00|
  eBook $28.95,  £25.00

Pacific Confluence: Fighting over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i

• by Christen T. Sasaki (Author)
• November 2022
• Paperback $29.95, £25.00|
  Hardcover $85.00,  £71.00|
  eBook $29.95,  £25.00

Sculpture at the Ends of Slavery

• by Caitlin Meehye Beach (Author)
• November 2022
• Hardcover $60.00,  £50.00|
  eBook $60.00,  £50.00

Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums

• by Damien M. Sojoyner (Author)
• November 2022
• Paperback $26.95, £23.00|
  Hardcover $85.00,  £71.00|
  eBook $26.95,  £23.00

Gordon Matta-Clark: An Archival Sourcebook

• by Gordon Matta-Clark (Author), Gwendolyn Owens (Editor), Philip Ursprung (Editor)
• October 2022
• Paperback $45.00, £38.00

Picking Presidents: How to Make the Most Consequential Decision in the World

• by Gautam Mukunda (Author)
• October 2022
• Hardcover $27.95,  £24.00|
  eBook $27.95,  £24.00

Transborder Los Angeles: An Unknown Transpacific History of Japanese-Mexican Relations

• by Yu Tokunaga (Author)
• October 2022
• Paperback $29.95, £25.00|
  Hardcover $85.00,  £71.00|
  eBook $29.95,  £25.00

Resisting Change in Suburbia: Asian Immigrants and Frontier Nostalgia in L.A.

• by James Zarsadiaz (Author)
• October 2022
• Paperback $29.95, £25.00|
  Hardcover $85.00,  £71.00|
  eBook $29.95,  £25.00

Racial Uncertainties: Mexican Americans, School Desegregation, and the Making of Race in Post–Civil Rights America

• by Danielle R. Olden (Author)
• October 2022
• Paperback $29.95, £25.00|
  Hardcover $85.00,  £71.00|
  eBook $29.95,  £25.00

Delinquent: Inside America's Debt Machine

• by Elena Botella (Author)
• October 2022
• Hardcover $26.95,  £23.00|
  eBook $26.95,  £23.00

Pinelandia: An Anthropology and Field Poetics of War and Empire

• by Nomi Stone (Author)
• October 2022
• Paperback $29.95, £25.00|
  Hardcover $85.00,  £71.00|
  eBook $29.95,  £25.00

Who Hears Here?: On Black Music, Pasts and Present

• by Guthrie P. Ramsey (Author)
• October 2022
• Paperback $29.95, £25.00|
  Hardcover $85.00,  £71.00|
  eBook $29.95,  £25.00

William Harnett’s Curious Objects: Still-Life Painting after the American Civil War

• by Nika Elder (Author)
• October 2022
• Hardcover $60.00,  £50.00

Departures: An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies

• by Yen Le Espiritu (Author), Lan Duong (Author), Ma Vang (Author), Victor Bascara (Author)
• October 2022
• Paperback $24.95, £21.00|
  Hardcover $85.00,  £71.00|
  eBook $24.95,  £21.00

Arise!: Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution

• by Christina Heatherton (Author)
• October 2022
• Hardcover $29.95,  £25.00|
  eBook $29.95,  £25.00

Trash Talk: Anti-Obama Lore and Race in the Twenty-First Century

• by Patricia A. Turner (Author)
• September 2022
• Paperback $29.95, £25.00|
  Hardcover $85.00,  £71.00|
  eBook $29.95,  £25.00

Driving While Brown: Sheriff Joe Arpaio versus the Latino Resistance

• by Terry Greene Sterling (Author), Jude Joffe-Block (Author)
• September 2022
• Paperback $24.95, £21.00|
  Hardcover $27.95,  £24.00|
  eBook $27.95,  £24.00

Living Genres in Late Modernity: American Music of the Long 1970s

• by Charles Kronengold (Author)
• August 2022
• Paperback $29.95, £25.00|
  Hardcover $85.00,  £71.00|
  eBook $29.95,  £25.00

Speculative Landscapes: American Art and Real Estate in the Nineteenth Century

• by Ross Barrett (Author)
• August 2022
• Hardcover $65.00,  £55.00|
  eBook $65.00,  £55.00

Road Trip to Nowhere: Hollywood Encounters the Counterculture

• by Jon Lewis (Author)
• July 2022
• Paperback $24.95, £21.00|
  Hardcover $85.00,  £71.00|
  eBook $24.95,  £21.00

Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy

• by George J. Sánchez (Author)
• July 2022
• Paperback $24.95, £21.00|
  Hardcover $29.95,  £25.00|
  eBook $29.95,  £25.00

Imagining the Heartland: White Supremacy and the American Midwest

• by Britt E. Halvorson (Author), Joshua O. Reno (Author)
• June 2022
• Paperback $29.95, £25.00|
  Hardcover $85.00,  £71.00|
  eBook $29.95,  £25.00

Democracy’s Chief Executive: Interpreting the Constitution and Defining the Future of the Presidency

• by Peter M Shane (Author)
• May 2022
• Hardcover $29.95,  £25.00|
  eBook $29.95,  £25.00

That's Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them

• by Matt Sienkiewicz (Author), Nick Marx (Author)
• May 2022
• Hardcover $24.95,  £21.00|
  eBook $24.95,  £21.00