American Studies Association Virtual Exhibit

Welcome to the UNC Press Virtual Exhibit for the American Studies Association.

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We’re hoping to see you at the conference. But, if you won’t be traveling this year, we’re bringing our book exhibit to you.

From virtually anywhere, you can browse our list of new and recent titles, or chat with our acquisition editors Dawn Durante or Andreina Fernandez, and more.

Dawn Durante,
Wyndham Robertson Editorial Director
Andreina Fernandez
Andreina Fernandez,
Acquisitions Editor

“We would love to hear from you.
One of the things editors love doing at conferences is meeting with new and prospective authors and talking about their work.

We are eager to hear from authors who have new promising proposals and projects.”

Have questions about whether UNC Press is the right publisher for you, or how to submit a proposal? Visit our For Prospective Authors page.


You can learn about our new books just published in these great book series:


Congratulations to our most recent ASA Book Award Winners!

2024 John Hope Franklin Prize, American Studies Association
Honorable Mention,
2024 John Hope Franklin Prize, American Studies Association
               
Honorable Mention, 2024 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize, American Studies Association
Honorable Mention, 2024 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize, American Studies Association

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Thanks to Life

Thanks to Life

A Biography of Violeta Parra

Ericka Kim Verba

Awaiting Their Feast

Awaiting Their Feast

Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID-19

Lori A. Flores

No Country for Old Age

No Country for Old Age

America's War on Aging from Valley Forge to Silicon Valley

Mischa Honeck

Fighting for Control

Fighting for Control

Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands

Lina-Maria Murillo

Carceral Apartheid

Carceral Apartheid

How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons

Brittany Friedman

Music, Muscle, and Masterful Arts

Music, Muscle, and Masterful Arts

Black and Indigenous Performers of the Circus Age

Sakina M. Hughes

Money Isn't Everything

Money Isn't Everything

Buying and Selling Sex in Twentieth-Century Argentina

Patricio Simonetto, Sarah Booker

The Women of Rendezvous

The Women of Rendezvous

A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery

Jenny Shaw

The End of College Football

The End of College Football

On the Human Cost of an All-American Game

Nathan Kalman-Lamb, Derek Silva

Blacks against Brown

Blacks against Brown

The Intra-racial Struggle over Segregated Schools in Topeka, Kansas

Charise L. Cheney

All Y'all

All Y'all

Queering Southernness in US Fiction, 1980–2020

Heidi Siegrist

Truffles and Trash

Truffles and Trash

Recirculating Food in a Social Welfare State

Kelly Alexander

Another Throat

Another Throat

Twenty-First-Century Black US Persona Poetry and the Archive

Ryan Sharp

Indiscipline

Indiscipline

Reading Collaboratively Written Native American Autobiography

Alicia Carroll

The Life and Death of Ryan White

The Life and Death of Ryan White

AIDS and Inequality in America

Paul M. Renfro

A Forgotten Migration

A Forgotten Migration

Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs

Crystal R. Sanders

The Abercrombie Age

The Abercrombie Age

Millennial Aspiration and the Promise of Consumer Culture

Myles Ethan Lascity

Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement, Second Edition

Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement, Second Edition

A Radical Democratic Vision

Barbara Ransby, Robin D. G. Kelley

Inscribing Sovereignties

Inscribing Sovereignties

Writing Community in Native North America

Phillip H. Round

Brown Women Have Everything

Brown Women Have Everything

Essays on (Dis)comfort and Delight

Sayantani Dasgupta

Tangled Journeys

Tangled Journeys

One Family's Story and the Making of American History

Lori D. Ginzberg

Sass

Sass

Black Women's Humor and Humanity

J Finley

What Side Are You On?

What Side Are You On?

A Tohono O'odham Life across Borders

Michael Steven Wilson, José Antonio Lucero

Making Never-Never Land

Making Never-Never Land

Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico

Mónica A. Jiménez

Remembering Conquest

Remembering Conquest

Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship

Omar Valerio-Jiménez

Published by the Author

Published by the Author

Self-Publication in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature

Bryan Sinche

What Jane Knew

What Jane Knew

Anishinaabe Stories and American Imperialism, 1815–1845

Maureen Konkle

Vital Relations

Vital Relations

How the Osage Nation Moves Indigenous Nationhood into the Future

Jean Dennison

Sexual Violence and American Slavery

Sexual Violence and American Slavery

The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South

Shannon Eaves

Shirley Chisholm

Shirley Chisholm

Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics

Anastasia C. Curwood

Rap and Redemption on Death Row

Rap and Redemption on Death Row

Seeking Justice and Finding Purpose behind Bars

Alim Braxton, Mark Katz

DARE to Say No

DARE to Say No

Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools

Max Felker-Kantor

Cold War Country

Cold War Country

How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism

Joseph M. Thompson

American Literary Misfits

American Literary Misfits

The Alternative Democracies of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Print Cultures

D. Berton Emerson

The Rich Earth between Us

The Rich Earth between Us

The Intimate Grounds of Race and Sexuality in the Atlantic World, 1770–1840

Shelby Johnson

Being Black in the Ivory

Being Black in the Ivory

Truth-Telling about Racism in Higher Education

Shardé M. Davis

Arise Africa, Roar China

Arise Africa, Roar China

Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century

Yunxiang Gao

The Birth Certificate

The Birth Certificate

An American History

Susan J. Pearson

Co-conspirator for Justice

Co-conspirator for Justice

The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman

Susan M. Reverby

Divided by Terror

Divided by Terror

American Patriotism after 9/11

John Bodnar

The Politics of Safety

The Politics of Safety

The Black Struggle for Police Accountability in La Guardia's New York

Shannon King

Live from the Underground

Live from the Underground

A History of College Radio

Katherine Rye Jewell

Bundok

Bundok

A Hinterland History of Filipino America

Adrian De Leon

White Man’s Work

White Man’s Work

Race and Middle-Class Mobility into the Progressive Era

Joseph O. Jewell

Magic City

Magic City

How the Birmingham Jazz Tradition Shaped the Sound of America

Burgin Mathews

Prison Capital

Prison Capital

Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana

Lydia Pelot-Hobbs

Surgery and Salvation

Surgery and Salvation

The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940

Elizabeth O'Brien

This Is Our Home

This Is Our Home

Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations

Whitney Nell Stewart

Beyond Norma Rae

Beyond Norma Rae

How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class

Aimee Loiselle

Boardinghouse Women

Boardinghouse Women

How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America

Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt

Encyclopédie noire

Encyclopédie noire

The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World

Sara E. Johnson

Sound-Blind

Sound-Blind

American Literature and the Politics of Transcription

Alex Benson

Precarious Constructions

Precarious Constructions

Race, Class, and Urban Revitalization in Toronto

Vanessa A. Rosa

Gun Country

Gun Country

Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America

Andrew C. McKevitt

Awakening the Ashes

Awakening the Ashes

An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution

Marlene L. Daut

Ambivalent Affinities

Ambivalent Affinities

A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality after World War II

Jennifer Dominique Jones

The Vice President's Black Wife

The Vice President's Black Wife

The Untold Life of Julia Chinn

Amrita Chakrabarti Myers

The Race for America

The Race for America

Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny

R. J. Boutelle

High Bias

High Bias

The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape

Marc Masters

Wondrous Transformations

Wondrous Transformations

A Maverick Physician, the Science of Hormones, and the Birth of the Transgender Revolution

Alison Li

Making the Latino South

Making the Latino South

A History of Racial Formation

Cecilia Márquez

The Famous Lady Lovers

The Famous Lady Lovers

Black Women and Queer Desire before Stonewall

Cookie Woolner

We Pursue Our Magic

We Pursue Our Magic

A Spiritual History of Black Feminism

Marina Magloire

Food Power Politics

Food Power Politics

The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement

Bobby J. Smith II

Urban Specters

Urban Specters

The Everyday Harms of Racial Capitalism

Sarah Mayorga

Rendered Obsolete

Rendered Obsolete

Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling

Jamie L. Jones

The Afro-Latino Memoir

The Afro-Latino Memoir

Race, Ethnicity, and Literary Interculturalism

Trent Masiki

Resistance from the Right

Resistance from the Right

Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America

Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

Public Confessions

Public Confessions

The Religious Conversions That Changed American Politics

Rebecca L. Davis

Vodou en Vogue

Vodou en Vogue

Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States

Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha

Landscapes of Care

Landscapes of Care

Immigration and Health in Rural America

Thurka Sangaramoorthy

Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe

Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe

Complicity and Conscience in America's World War II Concentration Camps

Eric L. Muller

A City without Care

A City without Care

300 Years of Racism, Health Disparities, and Health Care Activism in New Orleans

Kevin McQueeney

Teaching Public History

Teaching Public History

Julia Brock, Evan Faulkenbury

The Future of Rock and Roll

The Future of Rock and Roll

97X WOXY and the Fight for True Independence

Robin James

Ybor City

Ybor City

Crucible of the Latina South

Sarah McNamara

White Gloves, Black Nation

White Gloves, Black Nation

Women, Citizenship, and Political Wayfaring in Haiti

Grace Sanders Johnson

Fit Citizens

Fit Citizens

A History of Black Women's Exercise from Post-Reconstruction to Postwar America

Ava Purkiss

Solidarity across the Americas

Solidarity across the Americas

The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Anti-imperialism

Margaret M. Power

Reading Territory

Reading Territory

Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century State

Kathryn Walkiewicz

Seattle in Coalition

Seattle in Coalition

Multiracial Alliances, Labor Politics, and Transnational Activism in the Pacific Northwest, 1970–1999

Diana K. Johnson

The Multiracial Promise

The Multiracial Promise

Harold Washington's Chicago and the Democratic Struggle in Reagan's America

Gordon K. Mantler

Cross-Border Cosmopolitans

Cross-Border Cosmopolitans

The Making of a Pan-African North America

Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey

Consent in the Presence of Force

Consent in the Presence of Force

Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans

Emily A. Owens

The Strikers of Coachella

The Strikers of Coachella

A Rank-and-File History of the UFW Movement

Christian O. Paiz

Shirley Chisholm

Shirley Chisholm

Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics

Anastasia C. Curwood

The Southern Way of Life

The Southern Way of Life

Meanings of Culture and Civilization in the American South

Charles Reagan Wilson

Unmoored

Unmoored

The Search for Sincerity in Colonial America

Ana Schwartz

Before Equiano

Before Equiano

A Prehistory of the North American Slave Narrative

Zachary McLeod Hutchins

Drastic Dykes and Accidental Activists

Drastic Dykes and Accidental Activists

Queer Women in the Urban South

La Shonda Mims

Free Joan Little

Free Joan Little

The Politics of Race, Sexual Violence, and Imprisonment

Christina Greene

Making Our Future

Making Our Future

Visionary Folklore and Everyday Culture in Appalachia

Emily Hilliard

Culture in the Clinic

Culture in the Clinic

Miami and the Making of Modern Medicine

Catherine Mas

American Dreams, American Nightmares

American Dreams, American Nightmares

Culture and Crisis in Residential Real Estate from the Great Recession to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Daniel Horowitz

Indigenuity

Indigenuity

Native Craftwork and the Art of American Literatures

Caroline Wigginton

Global Faith, Worldly Power

Global Faith, Worldly Power

Evangelical Internationalism and U.S. Empire

John Corrigan, Melani McAlister, Axel R. Schäfer

Detention Empire

Detention Empire

Reagan's War on Immigrants and the Seeds of Resistance

Kristina Shull

C. Vann Woodward

C. Vann Woodward

America's Historian

James C. Cobb

State of Disaster

State of Disaster

The Failure of U.S. Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change

Maria Cristina Garcia

Agrotopias

Agrotopias

An American Literary History of Sustainability

Abby L. Goode

Oriental, Black, and White

Oriental, Black, and White

The Formation of Racial Habits in American Theater

Josephine Lee

From Here to Equality, Second Edition

From Here to Equality, Second Edition

Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century

William A. Darity Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen

We the Dead

We the Dead

Preserving Data at the End of the World

Brian Michael Murphy

Eating While Black

Eating While Black

Food Shaming and Race in America

Psyche A. Williams-Forson

American Lucifers

American Lucifers

The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750–1865

Jeremy Zallen

The First Reconstruction

The First Reconstruction

Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War

Van Gosse

Transpacific Convergences

Transpacific Convergences

Race, Migration, and Japanese American Film Culture before World War II

Denise Khor

These Ragged Edges

These Ragged Edges

Histories of Violence along the U.S.-Mexico Border

Andrew J. Torget, Gerardo Gurza-Lavalle

Suffer the Little Children

Suffer the Little Children

Child Migration and the Geopolitics of Compassion in the United States

Anita Casavantes Bradford

The Unfinished Business of Unsettled Things

The Unfinished Business of Unsettled Things

Art from an African American South

Bernard L. Herman

Border Bodies

Border Bodies

Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Borderlands

Bernadine Marie Hernández

Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination

Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination

An Artist's Reckoning with the South

Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore

Edible North Carolina

Edible North Carolina

A Journey across a State of Flavor

Marcie Cohen Ferris, Katherine Hysmith, Baxter Miller, Vivian Howard

Toxic Debt

Toxic Debt

An Environmental Justice History of Detroit

Josiah Rector

Dreaming the Present

Dreaming the Present

Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement

Irvin J. Hunt

Rude Citizenship

Rude Citizenship

Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Power

Larisa Kingston Mann

Citizens and Rulers of the World

Citizens and Rulers of the World

The American Child and the Cartographic Pedagogies of Empire

Mahshid Mayar

The Streets Belong to Us

The Streets Belong to Us

Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification

Anne Gray Fischer

Placental Politics

Placental Politics

CHamoru Women, White Womanhood, and Indigeneity under U.S. Colonialism in Guam

Christine Taitano DeLisle

We Are Not Slaves

We Are Not Slaves

State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners' Rights in Postwar America

Robert T. Chase

A South You Never Ate

A South You Never Ate

Savoring Flavors and Stories from the Eastern Shore of Virginia

Bernard L. Herman

Game of Privilege

Game of Privilege

An African American History of Golf

Lane Demas

Class Interruptions

Class Interruptions

Inequality and Division in African Diasporic Women's Fiction

Robin Brooks