Award-Winning Books: Community Organizing and Social Movements

Allies and obstacles

Allies and Obstacles

Disability Activism and Parents of Children with Disabilities

Allison C. Carey, Pamela Block, and Richard K. Scotch

348 pages
6 x 9
2 tables

PB: 978-1-4399-1633-9 $34.95 Jun 20
HC: 978-1-4399-1632-2 $109.50 Jun 20
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1634-6 $34.95 Jun 20

Scholarly Achievement Award for a Book, North Central Sociological Association, 2021
Allison Carey, recipient of the 2021 Outstanding Career in the Sociology of Disability from the Disability and Society section of the American Sociological Association

2264 reg

Architectures of Revolt

The Cinematic City circa 1968

Edited by Mark Shiel

262 pages
6 x 9
34 halftones

PB: 978-1-4399-1004-7 $36.95 Jun 18
HC: 978-1-4399-1003-0 $99.50 Jun 18
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1005-4 $36.95 Jun 18

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2019

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Challenging Beijing's Mandate of Heaven

Taiwan's Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement

Ming-sho Ho

288 pages
6 x 9
5 tables, 6 figures, 2 maps

PB: 978-1-4399-1707-7 $39.95 Jan 19
HC: 978-1-4399-1706-0 $104.50 Jan 19
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1708-4 $39.95 Jan 19

Named one of the "Best Books" of 2019 by Foreign Affairs
Taiwan's Academica Sinica Book Award, 2019

2265 reg

Citizenship and Governance in a Changing City

Somerville, MA

Susan Ostrander

190 pages
6 x 9
3 figures, 5 maps

PB: 978-1-4399-1013-9 $29.95 Mar 13
HC: 978-1-4399-1012-2 $81.50 Mar 13
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1014-6 $29.95 Mar 13

Susan Ostrander is the 2019 recipient of the ARNOVA Distinguished Achievement and Leadership in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research Award

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The Disability Rights Movement

From Charity to Confrontation
Updated Edition

Doris Zames Fleischer and Frieda Zames

360 pages
7 x 10


PB: 978-1-4399-0744-3 $35.95 Jun 11
HC: 978-1-4399-0743-6 $91.50 Jun 11
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0745-0 $35.95 Jun 11

Frieda Zames is the recipient of the Eileen Healy Public Service Award, 2003

997 reg

The First Suburban Chinatown

The Remaking of Monterey Park, California

Timothy P. Fong

240 pages
6 x 9
14 tables, 2 figs., 8 halftones

PB: 978-1-56639-262-4 $35.95 Jul 94
HC: 978-1-56639-123-8 $85.50 Jan 94
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0463-3 $35.95

Donald H. Pflueger Local History Award, Historical Society of Southern California, 1999
Outstanding Book Award in the Social Sciences, Association for Asian American Studies, 1995

Good reasons to run

Good Reasons to Run

Women and Political Candidacy

Edited by Shauna L. Shames, Rachel I. Bernhard, Mirya R. Holman, and Dawn Langan Teele

324 pages
6 x 9
8 tables, 32 figures, 2 maps

PB: 978-1-4399-1956-9 $37.95 May 20
HC: 978-1-4399-1955-2 $109.50 May 20
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1957-6 $37.95 May 20

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2020
Mirya Holman, recipient Erika Fairchild Award from the Southern Political Science Association's Women's Caucus, 2022

1013 reg

It Comes from the People

Community Development and Local Theology

Mary Ann Hinsdale, Helen M. Lewis and S. Maxine Waller

400 pages
6 x 9
3 figs., 25 halftones, 1 maps

PB: 978-1-56639-212-9 $34.95 May 95
HC: 978-1-56639-211-2 $83.50 Jun 95

Co-winner for the Transformational Politics Book Award, American Political Science Association, 1996

542 reg

A Life in the Struggle

Ivory Perry and the Culture of Opposition

George Lipsitz

320 pages
6 x 9


PB: 978-1-56639-321-8 $32.95 May 89
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0775-7 $32.95 Feb 95

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Race Relations, 1989

2274 reg

Mobilizing Gay Singapore

Rights and Resistance in an Authoritarian State

Lynette Chua

228 pages
6 x 9
4 tables, 1 map

PB: 978-1-4399-1032-0 $30.95 Jul 15
HC: 978-1-4399-1031-3 $70.50 Apr 14
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1033-7 $30.95 Apr 14

Distinguished Book Award from the Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association, 2015
Awarded a certificate from the International Convention of Asia Scholar's Book Prize acknowledging it as Ground-Breaking Matter in the Social Sciences category by the 2015 Reading Committee, 2015

1898 reg

Model City Blues

Urban Space and Organized Resistance in New Haven

Mandi Isaacs Jackson

296 pages
6 x 9
1 tables, 5 figs., 45 halftones

PB: 978-1-59213-604-9 $31.95 Apr 08
HC: 978-1-59213-603-2 $81.50 Apr 08
Ebook: 978-1-59213-605-6 $31.95 Apr 08

Urban Communication Foundation Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Publication Award, 2008

1194 reg

Money for Change

Social Movement Philanthropy at the Haymarket People's Fund

Susan Ostrander

256 pages
5.5 x 8.25


PB: 978-1-56639-364-5 $36.95 Mar 97
HC: 978-1-56639-363-8 $80.50 Nov 95
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0545-6 $35.95 Mar 97

Susan Ostrander is the 2019 recipient of the ARNOVA Distinguished Achievement and Leadership in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research Award

2339 reg

Movements in Times of Democratic Transition

Edited by Bert Klandermans and Cornelis van Stralen

390 pages
6 x 9
34 tables, 16 figures

PB: 978-1-4399-1181-5 $35.95 Jan 15
HC: 978-1-4399-1180-8 $95.50 Jan 15
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1182-2 $35.95

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2015

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The New York Young Lords and the Struggle for Liberation

Darrel Wanzer-Serrano

248 pages
6 x 9
11 figures, 6 halftones

PB: 978-1-4399-1203-4 $30.95 Jul 15
HC: 978-1-4399-1202-7 $85.50 Jul 15
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1204-1 $30.95 Jul 15

National Communication Association Critical and Cultural Division Book of the Year 2017

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Power, Participation, and Protest in Flint, Michigan

Unpacking the Policy Paradox of Municipal Takeovers

Ashley E. Nickels

272 pages
5.25 x 8.5
11 tables, 4 figures, 5 halftones, 1 map

PB: 978-1-4399-1567-7 $32.95 Oct 19
HC: 978-1-4399-1566-0 $94.50 Oct 19
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1568-4 $32.95 Oct 19

American Society for Public Administration Section on Democracy and Social Justice Book Award, 2019
American Political Science Association Robert A. Dahl Award, 2020
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2020