"Tracing Ma’di Roots and Connections" is a brief scholarly survey of the history, culture, and branching influence of Western Africa’s Ma’di people. An academic monograph on the Ma’di people of West Africa and their diaspora... Read More

Covering urban theory, global politics, and ecological urgency, "Citizen One" is a compelling—and personal—social science survey. "Citizen One", Douglas Stuart McDaniel’s ambitious memoir–cum–social science survey, reckons with... Read More

"High Desert Blood" covers the 1980 New Mexico prison riot and two brothers with the unfortunate luck of getting caught in the middle. After a failed arson attempt in service of his father’s insurance fraud scheme, Gary Williams... Read More

In "Law and Order Leviathan", David Garland advocates for a holistic approach to understanding and fixing American penal policy. Garland begins his measured and stinging analysis of American penal policy with an overview of the police... Read More

In Get It Out, Andréa Becker investigates the consequences of cultural ignorance about one of the least-studied organs of the human body and the multilayered experiences of those who seek to remove it. Because of the uterus’s... Read More

Philip Kadish’s "The Great White Hoax" is a fresh history of American racial discourse centered on the cynical ways in which fraudulent narratives and outright hoaxes have manipulated public perceptions of race. Told through a series... Read More

Joelle Kidd’s cultural critique "Jesusland" surveys the charming and perilous cultural artifacts and attitudes that defined evangelical Christianity in the early twenty-first century. Kitschy aspects of Christian youth culture... Read More

Framed as a resistance manual for critical thinking amid rising neofascism, Annette Wannamaker’s "How to Read Like an Anti-Fascist" calls for deeper levels of attention and engagement from readers of all ages. The book begins by... Read More