Performing the Modern
Shirley Jennifer Lim
How Anna May Wong’s work shaped racial modernity and made her one of the most significant actresses of the twentieth century
262 pages
| 6 x 9
| 26 halftones
Black Queer Improvisations on Citizenship
Niels van Doorn
Mapping the political and personal stakes of Black queer lives in Baltimore
262 pages
| 6 x 9
Defining Philadelphia for the Twenty-First Century
Laura M. Holzman
How three important public artworks each helped create a new image for Philadelphia
214 pages
| 6 x 9
| 27 halftones, 3 maps
Legitimacy and Punishment in a Community Court
Christine Zozula
Exploring the practices and potential of criminal justice in community courts
218 pages
| 6 x 9
| 1 table, 1 line drawing
Law, Labor, and the Persistence of Primitive Accumulation
Sean Johnson Andrews
Examining the contemporary conceptualization of and debates over intellectual property rights
274 pages
| 6 x 9
Marketing Identity and Bodies on a New York City Street Corner
Carolyn Pinedo-Turnovsky
Examining the vulnerabilities, discrimination, and exploitation—as well as the sense of belonging and community—that day laborers experience on an NYC street corner
212 pages
| 6 x 9
The Educational Legacy of Lewis Mumford and Ian McHarg
William J. Cohen
Explores how the vision of ecohumanism was championed by Lewis Mumford and operationalized by Ian McHarg
318 pages
| 6 x 9
| 4 figures, 5 line drawings, 17 halftones
Resources, Violence, and Deprivation of Citizenship
Edited by Heather Smith-Cannoy
Understanding how emerging threats to human rights intersect with patterns of migration
288 pages
| 6 x 9
| 16 tables, 13 figures
Vacations and Identity
Karen Stein
Examines vacations as moments when people engage in voluntary identity shifts that both contrast and overlap with everyday life
254 pages
| 6 x 9
Political Economy, Social Change, and the Transnational Capitalist Class
Jeb Sprague
How global capitalism finds new ways to mutate and grow in the Caribbean
346 pages
| 6 x 9
| 12 tables, 36 figures, 3 maps
Demonization, Legalization, and the Evolution of U.S. Marijuana Policy
Clayton J. Mosher and Scott Akins
Tracing the history of marijuana policy from “reefer madness” to legalization
314 pages
| 6 x 9
| 3 tables
Improvisation and Accompaniment for Social Justice
Barbara Tomlinson and George Lipsitz
How contemporary activists, artists, and academics oppose oppressive structures of power and unjust social relations to create a more decent and democratic future
284 pages
| 6 x 9
| 10 halftones
Institutional Design and Performance for State Courts
Greg Goelzhauser
How should judges be selected?
216 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
| 23 tables, 9 figures, 1 map
A Life in Philadelphia Labor and Politics
Wendell W. Young III
A behind-the-scenes look at a legendary Philadelphia labor leader and how he shaped local and national politics in profound ways
296 pages
| 6 x 9
| 28 halftones
The Public Agenda in the Information Age
Jill A. Edy and Patrick C. Meirick
Evaluates how the lack of public consensus on issue priorities has affected the way public opinion is represented in U.S. democratic institutions
272 pages
| 6 x 9
| 15 tables, 21 figures, 3 line drawings