We are excited to unveil our Fall 2024 catalog, which is full of fantastic new books and journal issues that will be published between July 2024 and January 2025. Many of these titles are available for preorder on our website now. Here are just a few highlights.
The cover image is from Six Paintings from Papunya: A Conversation by Fred R. Myers and Terry Smith. It is entitled The Trial and is by Charlie Tjaruru (Tarawa) Tjungurrayi. In the book anthropologist Myers and art critic Smith discuss six paintings by Indigenous Australian artists featured in a 2022 exhibition in New York.
Other art titles include A Sense of Arrival by Kevin Adonis Browne, which blends literary, visual, and material forms to present a narrative of Caribbean Blackness and Grime, Glitter, and Glass, in which Nikki A. Greene examines the sonic elements of Black art. In Heavyweight, Jordana Moore Saggese closely examines depictions of Black boxers at the turn of the twentieth century in order to reveal the racist stereotypes implicit in them that continue to structure ideas of Black men. Both The Politics of Collecting by Eunsong Kim and Paloma Checa-Gismero’s Biennial Boom contribute to the study of museums and exhibitions. And Your History with Me by Sarah Nuttall is a comprehensive look at the short films of South African artist Penny Siopis.
Duke basketball fans will be thrilled by New York Times-bestselling-author John Feinstein’s Five Banners: Inside the Duke Basketball Dynasty, which tells the inside history of Coach Mike Krzyzewski’s forty-two-year career at Duke and the five NCAA championships the team won during his tenure. Feinstein, a Duke alum and award-winning sportswriter, tells the story as no one else could.
When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader, showcases the work of the foundational figures in trans studies, from the 1990s to the present. It’s edited and introduced by McKenzie Wark. We are also publishing The Essential Jill Johnston Reader, edited by Clare Croft, which collects the work of the influential Village Voice dance columnist and lesbian activist, along with Croft’s study of Johnston, Jill Johnston in Motion. Other titles of LGBTQ interest include Blood Loss by Keiko Lane, which tells the story of her queer and AIDS activism with the Los Angeles chapters of Queer Nation and ACT UP; Indie Porn, by queer activist Zahra Stardust; Left Turns in Brown Study by Sandra Ruiz; Survival of a Perverse Nation by Tamar Shirinian; and a book of poetry by trans writer Miller Oberman, Impossible Things.
We’re offering several new titles in Latinx studies. In Learning to Lead, Jennifer R. Nájera explores the intersections of education and activism among undocumented college students, showing how they build political consciousness and learn to become leaders. In Excited Delirium, Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús examines the emergence of a fabricated medical diagnosis used to justify and erase police violence against Black and Brown communities in the United States. We’ve also got Fitness Fiesta! in which Petra R. Rivera-Rideau analyzes how Zumba uses Latin music and dance to create and sell a vision of Latinness that’s tropical, hypersexual, and party-loving, and Made in NuYoRico, Marisol Negrón’s cultural history of salsa music.
Other notable music titles include Bangtan Remixed, the first academic book on the K-pop band BTS; Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters by Masi Asare, which explores the explores the singing practice of Black women singers in US musical theatre in the twentieth century; and Fantasies of Nina Simone, in which Jordan Alexander Stein uses an archive of Simone’s performances, images, and writings to examine the space between our collective and individual fantasies about Simone the performer, Civil Rights activist, and icon, and her own fantasies about herself.
We’re excited to be collecting fifty years of writing by Puerto Rican Jewish feminist and radical thinker Aurora Levins Morales in her new book The Story of What Is Broken Is Whole. We also have a new addition to the Stuart Hall: Selected Writings series, Selected Writings on Visual Arts and Culture, edited by Gilane Tawadros. Another cultural studies pioneer, Lawrence Grossberg, introduces the major ways of thinking that provide the backstory for contemporary Western theory in his new book, On the Way to Theory.
In feminist studies, check out Shadow of My Shadow by Jennifer Doyle, a searing account of her experience with harassment complaints on college campuses, showing how harassment profoundly reshaped her relationship to her work, writing, and ultimately to herself. In How We Write Now Jennifer C. Nash examines how Black feminists use beautiful writing to allow writers and readers to stay close to the field’s central object and preoccupation: loss. And in Open Admissions Danica Savonick traces the largely untold story of the teaching experience of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich at the City University of New York (CUNY) in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
There’s so much more! Read and download the catalog to find all of our new fall books and journal issues in a variety of disciplines.
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