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"The authors' understanding and mastery of this topic is on display with this original, excellent work of scholarship."⏤Debbie Collier, Centre for Transformative Regulation of Work at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa "This book is an essential handbook for those invested in gender equality law and policy."⏤Catherine Fisk, Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law "An inspirational title to further the advancement of comprehensive gender equality, which goes beyond formal and protective equality to substantive equality that underpins transformative laws, policies, and, above all, results on the ground."--Virginia Bras Gomes, Former Chairperson of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights "Equality within Our Lifetimes makes a compelling case, based on both quantitative and qualitative data, on how and why gender equality benefits everyone. It demonstrates how a strong commitment to equality at all levels of government, evidenced by gender equal laws and policies with robust enforcement, can bring about behavior change that greatly benefits people and economies. Governments would be wise to heed this lesson and stop using culture as an excuse for lack of gender equal laws."--Yasmeen Hassan, Global Executive Director, Equality Now

"Disrupting the Patrón tells a story of the underrepresented peoples of Paraguay, of their endurance under multiple cycles of dispossession that threaten their existence, and of the various forms that their resistance takes."--Gabriela Valdivia, coauthor of Oil, Revolution, and Indigenous Citizenship in Ecuadorian Amazonia "By focusing on the racial and cultural implications of land and labor in Indigenous struggles in Paraguay, Joel E. Correia expands our focus on environmental concerns to include human rights, cultural rights, and the need for legal and political justice."--Nancy Postero, author of The Indigenous State: Race, Politics, and Performance in Plurinational Bolivia "In the Paraguayan Chaco, missionaries, settlers, and officials turned stolen Indigenous land into ranches where cattle is valued more than Indigenous people. Correia's vivid ethnography of the interstitial strategies and land reoccupations through which Enxet and Sanapaná people carry out a 'dialectics of disruption' makes a crucial and incisive contribution to our understanding of racialized geographies, settler capitalism, and environmental and Indigenous justice."--Gastón R. Gordillo, author of Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction

"This is undoubtedly a work of major importance. Sure to form the indispensable basis for future research, whether on the conversion of the Mongols or even on conversion more generally, Brack's persuasive work lies at the cutting edge of current scholarship on the accommodation of the Mongols of the faiths of those they ruled."--Peter Jackson, author of The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion "Afterlife for the Khan is a scholarly work of the first importance that makes a major contribution to our understanding of Islam and Muslim kingship in the post-caliphal era. It is especially commendable for its interdisciplinarity. Brack reads deeply across Islamic and Inner Asian history, philosophy, art history, Sufism, and Buddhism."--A. Azfar Moin, author of The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam

"Amalia Mesa-Bains gathers the cherished items of a woman's life and transforms them into the sacred. In doing so, she confirms we are shamanas, visionaries, creators, culture keepers. Amalia Mesa-Bains's artistry is an alchemy of love."--Sandra Cisneros, author of Woman without Shame

New York Times Notable Book Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist Wall Street Journal--One of Five Best Artist Biographies "A nearly flawless account of a remarkable artist.... It is a compelling and accessible narrative for anyone even remotely interested in modern American art."--Michael Kammen, New York Times Book Review "Gail Levin has given us, with obvious erudition and admiration, Hopper the 'creative artist' and Hopper the reclusive, cranky, brilliantly thoughtful, impossibly egoistic, highly industrious man.... In this engaging instructive biography, we meet him and his wife Jo, learn of their emotionally intense time together, follow their careers, and, no small feat on the part of their biographer, are left with respect for those two, respect for what they separately and jointly accomplished--a tribute to them and the one who hands them over to us."--Robert Coles, Washington Post Book World "This biography is a masterpiece of its genre, magnificently well researched, scrupulous, exact, balanced, objective and providing cumulatively a real sense of daily life with Hopper and his wife, in the context of social, political, and artistic events of their time."--Bryan Robertson, Modern Painters "Few [late paintings] have the power of Hopper's Two Comedians (1966). The tremendous virtue of Gail Levin's 'intimate biography' is that it prepares us to feel that power."--Arthur Danto, The Nation "A definitive biography."--Robert Hughes, Time

"A monograph of paintings and films by Mike Henderson accompanying the artist's major retrospective exhibition "Mike Henderson: Before the Fire, 1965-1985"--

"It is a pleasure to see a scholarly anthology dedicated to the legendary Self Help Graphics & Art printmaking workshop. Highlighting the individuals, neighborhoods, and institutions who kept it thriving for decades, this thoroughly researched social history of art offers readers a refreshing view of art-centered community making, emphasizing cross-cultural, feminist, and queer perspectives."--Jennifer A. Gonzalez, coeditor of Chicano and Chicana Art: A Critical Anthology "An amazing collection of insightful essays on the critical role played by Self Help Graphics & Art over its fifty-year history in creating and nurturing an artistic community in East Los Angeles. By explaining the origins; networks of support; reach of art education; feminist, queer, and Central American collaborations; and reach of its art around the world, the editors have established the centrality of this institution of creativity and experimentation."--George J. Sánchez, author of Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy

"This timely and compelling history underscores the critical, enduring importance of New York Times v. Sullivan for not only freedom of expression but also racial justice and other equal rights movements."--Nadine Strossen, author of Hate: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship and past National President, American Civil Liberties Union "New York Times v. Sullivan is the most important Supreme Court decision about freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Samantha Barbas's terrific, riveting book shows that it also must be understood as a crucial decision about civil rights at a crucial moment of the civil rights movement."--Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law

"Drag: A British History is a foundational work. It tells a great story, commands a wide array of sources, and maintains a clear sense of purpose. Drag is of significant value to theater history, British studies, and cultural studies of drag."--Lisa Sigel, author of The People's Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America "This first sustained and systematic academic history of drag in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain is written with a clear sense of how drag's nature, reception, and regulation have changed radically over time and have varied dramatically depending on its content and location. A wonderful read that has the potential to make a real impact on academic and nonacademic audiences alike."--Matt Houlbrook, author of Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957 "Erudite and extraordinarily informative, this is also an incredible read. Jacob Bloomfield's deep dive into the unfolding cavalcade of nineteenth- and twentieth-century theatrical history, queer cultures, evolving understandings of sex and gender, and the emotional thrill of masquerade is intellectually vibrant and compelling. A must-read for fans of drag, queer historians, and mavens of popular culture."--Michael Bronski, author of A Queer History of the United States "Bloomfield's meticulously researched and beautifully written history of British drag is a joy to read, illuminating, contextualizing, and, indeed, rescuing this neglected strand of sexual and cultural history."--Neil McKenna, author of Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England

"In Textures of Terror, Victoria Sanford brilliantly unravels complex and widespread gender-based violence in Guatemala and how the very institutions created to combat it perpetuate violence and impunity. Above all, she tells the love story of a father's ceaseless quest for justice for the murder of his beloved daughter."--Kerry Kennedy, President of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights "How can anyone convey Guatemala's descent into ultra-violence following a US-backed coup decades ago? Sanford does it beautifully by telling a single poignant story and placing it against the country's dazzling political and cultural background. Harrowing but deeply insightful, Textures of Terror shows how ordinary people react and resist as a society decomposes."--Stephen Kinzer, Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University, and world affairs columnist for the Boston Globe "This book is simultaneously one book and many. One chronicles the murder of a young female law student. The others explore the layers of systemic horror that remind us that to be a woman in twenty-first-century Guatemala is to live in danger, in the shadow of violence, impunity, and historical oppression."--Carolina Escobar Sarti, National Director, La Alianza Guatemala "In Textures of Terror, Sanford illuminates the way violence and impunity continue to destroy lives, especially women's lives, in postwar Guatemala. She focuses on the 2005 feminicide of Claudina Isabel and her father's efforts to bring the perpetrators to justice, weaving a story rooted in Guatemalan history, but with universal resonance."--Jo-Marie Burt, Associate Professor, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University

"Emancipation critically interrogates the impact of sculpture in public life, centering around ideas of agency and emancipation in historical and contemporary expression. The fulcrum of the book will be the Amon Carter Museum of American Art's copy of John Quincy Adams Ward's bronze sculpture The Freedman (1863). Unlike conventional depictions of enslaved African Americans at this time, which showed them as powerless, this heroic figure has broken his chains. The catalogue begins with an introduction to Civil War-era works contextualizing The Freedman, then examines the work of six contemporary Black artists whose respective practices engage the mediums of sculpture and installation connected to themes of freedom or imprisonment, the long legacy of the Civil War in the United States, body, and personhood. Featuring the work of Sadie Barnette, Maya Freelon, Hugh Hayden, Letitia Huckaby, Jeffrey Meris, and Sable Elyse Smith, as well as a reprinted short story by N.K. Jemisin, Emancipation brings contemporary issues of racial inequities, the legacy of war and conflict, and issues of freedom-or lack thereof-for Black Americans to the fore"--

"Dancing Down the Barricades reintroduces readers to Sammy Davis Jr., showing how he fashioned his world-renowned star performances in dance, music, stage drama, film, and television within complex and painfully exclusionary racially defined circumstances not of his own making. Matthew Frye Jacobson brilliantly illuminates the shape-shifting meanings of Davis's multiple performance strategies over the course of the 'long civil rights era, ' from the desegregation 1940s to the Black Power 1970s. Davis deployed his extraordinary talents as a weapon, in tandem with his contradictory public stances--from 'donating' celebrity support to Martin Luther King Jr.'s hard-fought campaigns to standing with Richard Nixon at the 1972 Republican National Convention. This is twentieth-century cultural history of the highest order."--Judith E. Smith, author of Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist, Public Radical "With Dancing Down the Barricades, Jacobson, one of our most astute historians, provides an extraordinary interpretation of the life and career of Sammy Davis Jr. In this extensive meditation on the cultural politics of the entertainment industry, Jacobson demonstrates how Davis's unparalleled talent and rise to stardom provide a lens through which to better understand twentieth-century American liberalism and its troubling relationship with race and racism. Jacobson's laser-sharp analysis yields new insight into the life of this complicated and compelling artist and public figure; in so doing, he makes Davis relevant to a whole new generation and some of the most urgent social and political challenges they face."--Farah Jasmine Griffin, author of Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature "Dancing Down the Barricades sheds new light on one of the most iconic twentieth-century American entertainers. Who but Jacobson could so adroitly and elegantly frame Sammy Davis Jr. within the 'contending forces' of American history while using this history to surface Davis's own human complexities? As Jacobson shows, we still have much to learn from Davis's redoubtable and confounding brilliance."--Gayle Wald, author of It's Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power Television "A rigorous, original, and bracing look at the complexities of Sammy Davis Jr.'s life and career. While Davis's legacy has often been maligned and misunderstood, Jacobson offers clear-eyed insights and correctives that reposition Davis as a key figure for understanding the racial fault lines and foundations of the US entertainment industry."--Josh Kun, author of The Autograph Book of L.A.: Improvements on the Page of the City "Dancing Down the Barricades is a virtuoso performance: a gimlet-eyed, wide-angled history of race, celebrity, and politics by one of the most talented historians of our day, focusing on one of the most enigmatic stars of stage and screen, on Hollywood and the entertainment industry, and on the tumultuous postwar era. This is the kind of big-hearted, ambitious history we should all be writing--and reading."--Matthew Pratt Guterl, author of Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe "Jacobson has taken a deep dive into the life and work, dreams and demons of the enigmatic Sammy Davis Jr. and surfaces with a political history of race and popular culture for our time. By following Davis from the brightest stages to the darkest places, Dancing Down the Barricades shifts the underbelly of American culture from sideshow to center stage, casting new light on its dancing, smiling star. Turns out Mr. Show Business was the spoonful of sugar who helped ground glass go down, but he went down too. Superb."--Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original

"Ursula Parrott longed to be a hard-boiled city reporter, but when the sexism of the newspaper industry thwarted her ambitions, she found her voice--and made her fortune--by turning to fiction. She scandalized readers with her nuanced, world-weary stories of women who discovered that the sexual revolution of the Jazz Age wasn't always the great gift to women that it was cracked up to be. With her sharp wit, rebellious ambition, and tragic love life, Ursula Parrott deserves to be celebrated alongside greats like Dawn Powell and Dorothy Parker. A pleasure to read."--Debby Applegate, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age "An incisive portrait of a thoroughly modern woman careening through a meteoric literary career and a reckless personal life, from the Jazz Age to the postwar era. Ursula Parrott's massive output of popular fiction, says Marsha Gordon, 'pulled back the curtain on women's debased circumstances in a permissive age'--which is precisely what Gordon does here, to devastating effect, with Parrott herself."--Thomas Schatz, author of The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era "Ursula Parrott finally gets her due in Gordon's revelatory book. Drawing upon exhaustive archival research, Gordon tells the fascinating story of the best-selling novelist whose tumultuous personal life eventually eclipsed her literary career. But Gordon does more than shine a light on an unjustly forgotten writer--she asks us to consider why she was forgotten. In her work and her life, Parrott explored the paradoxes of modernity for American women--what she saw as the illusory nature of equality for 'leftover ladies, ' divorcees or unmarried career women whose lives did not unfold according to the conventional marriage plot. Parrott's trenchant observations arose from her own life but were ahead of her time. Thanks to Gordon's masterful biography, her moment has finally arrived."--Cara Robertson, author of The Trial of Lizzie Borden "Becoming the Ex-Wife is just the kind of book I love to read--remarkably well researched and entertaining. Gordon deftly shows why Ursula Parrott more than deserves a place on the shelf."--Cari Beauchamp, author of Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood "In her sparklingly clear and vital new biography, Gordon recovers the story of a singular writer and unhappy woman, who shot to fame with a novel called Ex-Wife and carried that tag around with her for the rest of her life. Although she warns that it is not 'an inspirational feminist story, ' Gordon's colorful account is salutary all the same, exposing the ways in which even the most successful women's writing can be dismissed and forgotten, and restoring Ursula Parrott to our attention with sympathy and warmth."--Joanna Scutts, author of Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club That Sparked Modern Feminism "What a fascinating history Gordon charts! Long before Betty Friedan and Helen Gurley Brown, Ursula Parrott voiced the entanglements of modern femininity for educated white women of her generation. Gordon's account of Parrott's life and work--at once typical and utterly astonishing--is smart, witty, and engaging."--Shelley Stamp, author of Lois Weber in Early Hollywood

"Access Bengal's secret heart through this wondrous book. Travel deep into the forest and peek beyond the delta's edge: balancing scholarly rigor with storytelling elan, Tony Stewart's tidal tales with their fantastic cast of boundary-crossing characters shed unexpected and much-needed light on the relationship between Bengal, Islam, and the Indian Ocean world."--Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Infosys Prize winner and author, Partition's Post-Amnesias: 1947, 1971, and Modern South Asia "These subtly analyzed and beautifully translated tales represent a major accomplishment, revealing a sophisticated understanding of interreligious and intercaste relations in the register of the marvelous."--Faisal Devji, Professor of Indian History, University of Oxford

"The complexity and nuance of the South Asian imagination and the prowess of its traditional storytellers are vivid in these translations. These six qissas are extraordinarily rich with poetry, significance, and symbolism. A treat for any reader and a real gift for scholars."--Annie Zaidi, author of City of Incident: A Novel in Twelve Parts "Whenever you see the words 'translated by Musharraf Ali Farooqi' on the cover of a book, you should grab it and rejoice. Farooqi is a master storyteller, translator, and author who will transport you so beautifully to realms you never knew existed, you'll be reluctant to return."--Daisy Rockwell, International Booker Prize-winning translator

"Black people on drugs get police, prison, and methadone; white folks get therapy, sympathy, and buprenorphine. Meanwhile, the biggest dealers, pharmaceutical companies, get fines and wrist slaps, but continue to profit by creating addicts and then selling drugs promising a cure. Why? The answers are all here in Whiteout, by far the boldest, most important, most illuminating book ever written on the opioid epidemic. The authors trace the crisis to racial capitalism, the source of a world where white lives matter and Black, Brown, and Indigenous lives don't; where white deaths are tragic and Black, Brown, and Indigenous deaths routine. They show that legalization is not enough. We must desegregate and decommodify drugs and treatment. And if we are to truly save lives, racial capitalism has to die."--Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination "Whiteout brilliantly exposes how drug policy, biocapital, and addiction science have historically segregated narcotics by race, shielding white drug users from the stigma and policing targeted at Black and Brown communities. With diverse disciplinary expertise and personal stories, Hansen, Netherland, and Herzberg compellingly show that only by grappling with this medicalized whitewashing can we fully understand both the racist war on drugs and the opioid crisis--and collectively end their widespread devastation."--Dorothy Roberts, University of Pennsylvania, author of Killing the Black Body "Whiteout is the most clear-eyed and comprehensive study of America's overdose crisis to date. The authors' electric scholarship reveals how Whiteness determines the boundaries of categories we often think of as being derived scientifically and rationally. When it comes to drugs, America seems to suffer from a peculiar sort of historical amnesia. Whiteout shows us what we forget, what we choose to remember, and what's kept hidden."⏤Zachary Siegel, writer and drug policy journalist for Harper's Magazine, the New York Times Magazine, and the New Republic "A fascinating, well-written, and important look at how racism shapes drug policy and what to do about it."⏤Maia Szalavitz, author of Undoing Drugs: How Harm Reduction Is Changing the Future of Drugs and Addiction and contributing Opinion writer for the New York Times "Hansen, Netherland, and Herzberg's Whiteout is a dramatic and much-needed challenge to our outdated ways of understanding addiction. They bravely place our drug policies in the context of the devastating and universal apartheid within which we all suffer. This book will change you and change us!"--Mindy Thompson Fullilove, author of Main Street: How a City's Heart Connects Us All "Whiteout compellingly recruits sociopolitical development and persistent etiological mythologies such as blaming the victim, biological dimorphism, and malingering to buttress the authors' claim that systemic racial disdain fuels the heavily punitive measures deployed against African American opiate dependence, casting it as a moral failure. The authors' insights, leavened with cultural sensitivity, contrast this approach with the empathic medical model adopted for whites and help illuminate for us the ethical path forward."--Harriet A. Washington, author of Infectious Madness and Medical Apartheid

"This book will challenge and delight anyone interested in ancient Israel and the Bible. Thanks to its accessible and engaging introduction and its thoughtful translation, it will also be an essential tool for teaching."--Annette Yoshiko Reed, author of Jewish-Christianity and the History of Judaism "Liane Feldman has provided students and scholars with a valuable resource for critically evaluating the Priestly Source. This volume will empower readers to draw their own conclusions."--Yitzhaq Feder, author of Purity and Pollution in the Hebrew Bible "Feldman makes accessible a work of ancient Israelite literature that has been hiding in plain sight-one of the most important voices from the Bible, now available to everyone in all its literary and theological beauty. This book is a masterful piece of scholarship."--Joel Baden, Professor of Hebrew Bible, Yale University

"Excellent scholarship that is at once thorough and accessible. This volume painstakingly connects the justification for and the implementation of reparations across the various facets of life, from housing to education and health."--Rhonda V. Sharpe, founder and President of the Women's Institute for Science, Equity, and Race "A magnificent achievement and a sterling work of interdisciplinary scholarship, grounded in the assumption that readers share fundamental values of fairness and equity that transcend time, place, and political affiliation."--Paul Ortiz, author of An African American and Latinx History of the United States"The must-read works assembled by Darity, Mullen, and Hubbard illuminate the insidious consequences of white supremacy that are manifest throughout our country's history and permeate our society today. This handbook sets forth the compelling need for a comprehensive program of black reparations and is an indispensable guide for navigating ground-game complexities to achieve social equity and justice for all."--Susan H. Kamei, author of When Can We Go Back to America? Voices of Japanese American Incarceration during World War II "How do you put a price on the atrocity of slavery, generations of stolen labor, and centuries of lost freedom? Shutting down critics who dismiss any dollar amount as 'just a check, ' Darity and his colleagues deftly show how reparations would be powerfully transformative for Black Americans and lay the foundation for a racially just, equitable society."--Jennifer Lee, Julian Clarence Levi Professor of Social Sciences, Columbia University

"Combining expert qualitative craft with quantitative evidence, Moving the Needle provides ideas, insights, and answers regarding how and why high-pressure labor markets reduce joblessness--and how social policy can prolong those benefits even when the pressure abates."--David Autor, Ford Professor of Economics, MIT "One of the few accounts of what happens when jobs are ample and wages are rising. The authors show us how tight labor markets create benefits for all workers, including those often excluded from policymaking. This book is a call to enact policy that builds a stable and fair economy."--Mary Kay Henry, President, Service Employees International Union "Moving the Needle makes the case--through exhaustive interviews with employers, intermediaries, and workers in two communities--for a set of urgent policy actions in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic to provide low-wage workers with ladders of opportunity that lead to self-sufficiency."--Alicia Sasser Modestino, Professor of Economics at the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University "Moving the Needle explores the actual institutions of the labor market, providing crucial insight into how job hunting, hiring, training, and retention work for low-income people. By bridging the chasm between macroeconomics and poverty, this book lays to rest decades of ill-conceived efforts to rectify behavior and instead focuses attention where it is needed: on the ready availability of good jobs for improving the lives of workers and their families."--Michael Ash, author of Shadow Networks: Financial Disorder and the System that Caused Crisis

"Weed Rules is a highly entertaining and user-friendly guide to the complex world of cannabis policy. Jay Wexler combines compelling stories with data and legal analysis to make a persuasive case the way only a marijuana-law professor could. This book will change the cannabis debate."--Shaleen Title, former Commissioner, Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission, and founder, Parabola Center for Law and Policy "Weed Rules is an engaging, thoughtful, and accessible guide for anyone interested in reshaping marijuana policy."--Robert A. Mikos, author of Marijuana Law, Policy, and Authority "Wexler believes deeply in the potential of legal weed to improve the human condition--but he's also a keen realist about how legalization, if implemented wrong, can easily fail to achieve its central justice and welfare goals. This book casts light on several key policy flaws that have often been baked into legalization bills around America and helped keep legal weed from blossoming as hoped. Wexler proposes and enthusiastically defends a set of clear, practical policy alternatives that could help state and federal legalization achieve their higher goals of reducing human suffering and increasing human joy."--Robin Goldstein, coauthor of Can Legal Weed Win?: The Blunt Realities of Cannabis Economics