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American Anthropological Association 2026

November 18, 2026 / St. Louis, MO

We look forward to celebrating authors, editors, and friends of the press at AAA 2026!

Editors Gisela Fosado and Ken Wissoker are joining you in person in St. Louis. Come find us in the exhibit hall at booth 101. Check out highlights of new and forthcoming anthropology titles below, or browse our complete list in the field here.

Use coupon code AAA26 to save 40% on books and journal issues when you order on our website through December 30, 2026. Customers in the UK and Europe can order books with this code from Mare Nostrum Group.

If you are looking to connect with any of our editors about your book project, see our editors’ specialties and contact information. To submit a book proposal, consult our submissions guidelines and submission portal.

Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture cover image
Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture

Lee D. Baker

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Winner of the 2026 President’s Award, AAA

Cover of Beautiful Mystery features an image of the author and her daughter treated with a colorful gradient, giving it a blueish tone. The beach and a house are visible in the background.
Beautiful Mystery

Living in a Wordless World

Danilyn Rutherford

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Winner of the 2026 AES Senior Book Prize, American Ethnological Society

Cover of Rhetorics of Value features two photographs. The photograph on the left depicts a young Black girl inspecting a sign, while the one on the right shows a Black woman reading some informational literature.
Rhetorics of Value

Exhibition Design and Communication in Museums and Beyond

Corinne A. Kratz

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Winner of the 2026 Council for Museum Anthropology Book Prize

Cover of The Absent Stone features a photograph of part of the Piedra de los Tecomates, a large stone monument. The photo shows three holes in the stone in a horizontal line as well as the letters 'EM' and 'D' carved into the stone.
The Absent Stone

Mexican Patrimony and the Aftershocks of State Theft

Sandra Rozental

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Honorable Mention, 2026 E. Ohnuki-Tierney Book Award for Historical Anthropology, AAA; Honorable Mention, 2026 Council for Museum Anthropology Book Prize

Cover of Survival of a Perverse Nation features a minimalist black ink drawing of a neighborhood; a satellite dish foregrounds a townhouse-like structure.
Survival of a Perverse Nation

Morality and Queer Possibility in Armenia

Tamar R. Shirinian

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Winner of the 2026 Ruth Benedict Prize, Association for Queer Anthropology

Cover of The Borders of America features a red tinted photograph taken from ground level of people walking from behind with light shining through. Layered over the feet of one individual on the left is a red and yellow gradient that the title appears
The Borders of America

Migration, Control, and Resistance Across Latin America and the Caribbean

Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Nicholas De Genova, Gustavo Dias, and Eduardo Domenech, editors

Book

Cover of Co-Motion features abstract designs resembling paint splatters, cut up paper, and undulating lines appear on a dark background. Dots of paint vary in size, reminiscent of the solar system.
Co-Motion

Re-Thinking Power, Subjects, and Feminist and Queer Alliances

Paola Bacchetta

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Cover of Seeking Justice for Gendered Violence features a painting of an Indigenous women with a serious expression with blurred silhouettes behind her against a maroon background.
Seeking Justice for Gendered Violence

Courts, Communities, and Care in Guatemala

Erin Beck and Lynn Stephen

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Cover of Notes from the Sex Worker Left features a watercolor painting of three individuals holding their faces close together with eyes closed. The central figure’s mouth is open showing teeth and bright red lips.
Notes from the Sex Worker Left

Lumpen Theory

Heather Berg

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Cover of Homeplaces shows a person dressed warmly swinging an axe overhead while in the process of chopping wood. There is a building with boarded up windows and wooden housing debris laying around.
Homeplaces

Dwelling and Habitability in Critical Times

João Biehl and Federico Neiburg, editors

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Cover of Forms of Blackness is cream with a painting of a person from the shoulders up wearing a white head wrap. The figure is made using black paint and an impasto technique.
Forms of Blackness

Race and Visibility in the French-Speaking World

Cécile Bishop

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Cover of Indigenous Archives features a photograph of two young Mayan women wearing traditional clothing sitting on steps.
Indigenous Archives

The Maya Diaspora and Mobile Cultural Production

Floridalma Boj Lopez

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Cover of Occupied Refuge features a black-and-white photograph of a refugee camp with small structures that have corrugated metal roofs. In the foreground, a dirt ground stretches across the image with people walking, sitting, and standing near a veh
Occupied Refuge

Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya

Hanno Brankamp

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Cover photo on Media Rurality depicts mountains in the far background, behind a city, and winding roads leading to rural fields in the foreground.
Media Rurality

Patrick Brodie and Darin Barney, editors

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Cover of The Future of Totality is a solid grey teal with a photograph of Fredric Jameson standing at a lectern in front of a chalkboard that says ‘IDEOLOGY’.
The Future of Totality

Fredric Jameson and the Prospects of Critical Theory

Nicholas Brown, Maria Elisa Cevasco, Fabio Akcelrud Durão, and Robert T. Tally, editors

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Cover of Black Undertow is an expressionist styled painting using thick paint strokes and high contrast colors such as whites, grey blues, and a crimson. The paint features a group of black figures wearing long white garments.
Black Undertow

Hugo ka Canham

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Cover of Worlds Beyond Bios features a photograph of a sandy beach with a city skyline stretched out in the distance. The foreground shows wet sand, footprints, and a large pile of organic material.
Worlds Beyond Bios

The Life of Matter and the Matter of Life

Sophie Chao, Christine J. Winter, and David Schlosberg, editors

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Cover of Raising the Bottom features a black & white photograph is at the top of the cover featuring three Black individuals in movement. One person is standing with arms out, another is in the air, and the third is on the ground with their botto
Raising the Bottom

Bounce Music and Black Queer Performance in Post-Katrina New Orleans

Alix Chapman

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Cover of Alien Encounters features an illustration of cabbages and a woman pushing a shopping cart on a bright yellow background, with lime green and red strips.
Alien Forms and Minor Genres

A Speculative Handbook of Academic Labor

Tina Chen

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The top half of the cover is a photograph of a sewing room featuring an industrial looking space, industrial grade sewing machines, and many garments. The bottom half of the cover is a gradient from black to indigo.
Precarious Accumulation

Fast Fashion Bosses in Transnational Guangzhou

Nellie Chu

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Cover of Into the Loop features the book’s title and subtitle repeated in concentric spirals, creating a hypnotic, looping visual effect. The text varies in color—white, red, and teal—against a dark green background.
Into the Loop

An Ethnography of Compulsive Repetition

Samuele Collu

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Cover of Doing Nothing by James Currie. Cover is light gray. The main title is in the middle in the same script and the author's signature is at the bottom.
Doing Nothing

James Currie

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Cover of Learning from the High Priestess is a collage like drawing featuring bright colors against mostly black, using different shapes to create patterns and designs.
Learning from the High Priestess

Affect, Femme Care, and Somatic Practice

Ann Cvetkovich

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Cover of Faculties has bold white, orange, and pink typography against a deep purple background, with the title centered. The author's names are on the top left and the subtitle is on the bottom left.
Faculties

A Dialogue on Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive Times

Cathy N. Davidson and Jody Greene

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Cover of Visualizing Latinx shows a model wearing a light grey deconstructed suit. She is standing on a podium with a full-length mirror behind her.
Visualizing Latinx

Creative Practices in Fashion, Film, and Beyond

Arlene Dávila

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Cover of Toward Border Abolition shows three silhouetted figures climbing over a tall wired fence at dusk against a gradient blue sky.
Toward Border Abolition

Migrant Struggles and the Law

Nicholas De Genova and Daniel I. Morales, editors

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Cover of Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans is brown featuring a print of a person huddled at a desk with their arms covering their face. Owls, bats, and other creatures surround them.
Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans

Critical Theories of Decolonization

Nikita Dhawan

Book

The title is in large white and yellow letters against a background featuring the Puerto Rican flag colors. An illustration of Bad Bunny wearing a yellow outfit and a large straw hat, holding a microphone with yellow lightning bolts emanating from it
P FKN R

How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance

Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau

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The cover is a coral to sage gradient with a grainy texture featuring a white fine line illustration. The illustration is abstract featuring plant-like objects and scissors.
unrest in the nebulae

Gitan Djeli

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Cover of Inventing Nadar features a sepia colored old photograph of Paris from above showing a landscape of buildings and a fading horizon. Landmarks such as the “Arc de Triomphe” and “Les Ternes” are marked in a red script.
Inventing Nadar

A History of Photographic Firsts

Emily Doucet

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Cover of Surviving the State a solid forest green. The bottom half of the cover features a photograph of an individual walking down a path in a field.
Surviving the State

Land and Democracy in Myanmar

Hilary Oliva Faxon

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Marfa, Marfa

Rasquachismo and Minimalism in Far West Texas

Josh T Franco

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The cover photograph depicts two people dressed simply in black and white seated at a metal table and chairs in the courtyard of a glass and concrete building.
In the Mood for Texture

The Revival of Bangkok as a Chinese City

Arnika Fuhrmann

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Cover of Archives of the Anthropocene is a mixed media graphic featuring different textures and colors such as maps, photographs, text, and images.
Archives of the Anthropocene

Visual Grammars of Deep Time

Yuriko Furuhata

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Cover of The Sound of Feathers features an image of multicolored iridescent feathers fills the entire design. The title is in a white serif font at the top with the subtitle in yellow below it.
The Sound of Feathers

Attentive Living in a World Beyond Ourselves

Kathryn Gillespie

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Cover of Imperial Entanglements of Policing. The bright red cover features a black chain-link fence with a section of the wire bent and tangled on the left. The text is in white.
Imperial Entanglements of Policing

Julian Go and Stuart Schrader, editors

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Cover of Hidden Empire of Finance features a concrete apartment building in disrepair. Six of the balconies have life size photos that feature people on balconies at nicer residences.
Hidden Empire of Finance

How Wall Street Profits from Our Cities and Fuels Global Inequality

Michael Goldman

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Cover of Feminist Making, Doing, and Sensing is white with a light pink spray-painted area at the top. Below are five hands in different art styles all reaching towards a central heart sculpture that is made from cut out hands.
Feminist Making, Doing, and Sensing

Experiments in Philosophy

Lauren Guilmette and Ada S. Jaarsma, editors

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Cover of Floating Power is a solid navy blue with a line drawing resembling a ship in white. The line drawing also features a plug.
Floating Power

Energy, Infrastructure, and South-South Relations

Gökçe Günel

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The cover is a a blue and coral pink duotone of a woman wearing a leotard that depicts a mushroom cloud. She is posing with her hands up and her mouth open in joy. The blue and pink are inverted to create circles around her.
Atomic Bombshells

How Plastics Shaped Postwar Bodies

Isabelle Held

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Enter the Lion

The 1966 State Visit of Emperor Haile Selassie I to the Caribbean

John P. Homiak, Giulia Bonacci, and Jahlani A. Niaah

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Cover ofThe Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. The cover features a multicolored gradient overlaid on a photograph of modern glass-and-steel skyscrapers.
The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

The Postmodernism Essay

Fredric Jameson

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Cover of Radicalizing Men has a dark black background with bold, white, capitalized  text.
Radicalizing Men

Fascist Desires, Great Replacement Propaganda, and Political Violence

Jessica Johnson

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Cover of The New Politics of Online Feminism is dark purple. The title text is in a modern, geometric serif typeface in gradient shades ranging from light purple to orange. The author's name is below in green, in a smaller font.
The New Politics of Online Feminism

Akane Kanai

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Flight Lines cover image
Flight Lines

A Poetics of Black Space

Elleza Kelley

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Cover of Mosquito Work features an image of a white container with 7 mosquitos on it. A metal handle extends from the container. 
Mosquito Work

Vectors of Global Health

Ann H. Kelly and Javier Lezaun

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Asylum

The Concept and the Practice

Khanna, Ranjana

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We See with the Skin

On Zora Neale Hurston's Methodology

Kheshti, Roshanak

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Cover of Medicines That Feed Us features a vibrant, detailed illustration of various plants and flowers in shades of green, yellow, orange, blue, and red.
Medicines That Feed Us

Plants, Healing, and Sovereignty in a Toxic World

Stacey A. Langwick

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Cover of Revolutions of Capitalism features a grainy color gradient of purple, orange, and a warm grey. The title appears at the top of the cover in white.
Revolutions of Capitalism

The Politics of the Event

Maurizio Lazzarato

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Cover of The Urban Grotesque in coral red with black serif text. A surreal black line drawing shows a large distorted figure holding a smaller figure upside down, standing on a black ground.
The Urban Grotesque

Life and Debt in Jakarta

Doreen Lee

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The cover is a duotone of teal green and a berry red. A crowd is gathered with their arms wrapped around each other. In the background hung on a building is an art piece showing two figures and text in Korean.
The Minjung Art Movement

Decolonization and Democracy in South Korea

Sohl Lee

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Cover of We Live with the Sea features a photograph of a town in the mountains next to the sea. There are tall concrete walls that are sloped on the sea facing side and separate the town from the water.
We Live with the Sea

Ecologizing Safety in Post-Tsunami Japan

Andrew Littlejohn

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Cover of Loving Black Boys features a purple and orange color overlay depicting two young boys walking together on a street, one with an arm around the other's shoulder.
Loving Black Boys

A Black Feminist Bible on Racism and Revolutionary Mothering

Tamura Lomax

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Cover of The Upright Farmer shows a photograph of individuals loading cotton onto an orange truck in a rural field covered in cotton.
The Upright Farmer

Racial Capitalism and Agricultural Modernization in Burkina Faso

Jessie K. Luna

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Cover of Climbing is a grayish purple color. At the top of the cover the word Practices is centered in a handwritten script. The main title is in the middle in the same script and the author's hand printed name is at the bottom.
Climbing

Hil Malatino

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Cover of The Good Road. The cover features a mural of a red truck carrying a group of people with two people behind it pushing. The title is in white serif letters across the center. A red background fades upward into the photograph.
The Good Road

A K’iche’ Revolutionary Theopolitics

Carlota McAllister

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Cover artwork of Transpacific Nonencounters depicts human and insect figures in blue on a background of yellow irregular squares edged in red.
Transpacific Nonencounters

Racial Disconnects Across Twentieth-Century Japan and Mexico

Andrea Mendoza

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Cover of The Connector has a black background featuring a white, abstract illustration resembling two branching, neuron‑like forms connected by a web of fine filaments.
The Connector

Living with Experimental Neuroprosthetics

Alexandra Middleton

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Cover of Ninety-Nine features a flower like kaleidoscopic design made by the repetition of stylized Arabic scripts in a radial pattern in colors that range from yellow to orange to a berry red. The background is a deep purple brown.
Ninety-Nine

A Kaleidoscopic Portrait of Allah

Mittermaier, Amira

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Cover of Shelter for the Night is a semi abstract painted landscape. The sky features paint drops of light blue. The foreground is mixed greens and browns separated by a curve of coral orange.
Shelter for the Night

On Afghanistan, Language, and Detours

Fatima Mojaddedi

Book

Cover of How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent features an aerial shot of a large smoke cloud billowing upwards from the forest below. A brown river snakes its way through the trees. The smoke cloud reaches the clouds in the sky.
How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent

Timothy Neale

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Cover of Forms of Worship is purple with two photographs at the bottom. The left photograph is of a parade of people wearing colorful clothing and playing music. The smaller photo is of people in white looking up at a window.
Forms of Worship

How Orisa Worship Became Religion in Nigeria and Brazil

Ayodeji Ogunnaike

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Cover of Love in the Time of Zika features a red photograph of an individual wearing a hazmat suit, gas mask, and boots and carrying an insecticide sprayer.
Love in the Time of Zika

Environmental Crisis and the Future of Reproduction

Paige Marie Patchin

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Cover of Private Subjects features layered family photographs against a colorful textured background. One photograh is in black-and-white in a gold frame, while the other is in color with a white border.
Private Subjects

Family Photography in South Africa and the Right to Opacity

John Peffer

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Cover of Inside the Body of Black Feminism features a piece of art made with paint and oil pastels. There is a black figure against a deep red circle which is outlined in multiple colors.
Inside the Body of Black Feminism

Science, Race, Culture

Samantha Pinto

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Cover of When Home Is a Photograph features a silver iridescent couch on a hardwood floor surrounded by a gallery wall of framed artwork and photographs on a white wall. The art is arranged by color to create a rainbow.
When Home Is a Photograph

Blackness and Belonging in the World

Leigh Raiford

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Cover of Smaddification is warm red, orange, and muted beige. Features 2 grainy photos of Jamaican choreographer Rex Nettleford dancing, his arms across his body. 
Smaddification

Dance and Decolonization in Jamaica

Amanda Michelle Reid

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Sick Work

Exhaustion, Labor, and Invisible Illness

Emily Lim Rogers

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Cover of Resurgency is a grainy photograph of red crumpled paper planes stuck into the ground nose down. The land is beige and the sky is grey.
Resurgency

Outlasting the War on Terror in Iraq

Kali Rubaii

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Cover of The Borders of Responsibility is black and features two boats at night on a dark sea. The larger white boat has lights on and reads “GUARDIA COSTIERA”. The smaller blue boat is full of people.
The Borders of Responsibility

Migration Control in the Mediterranean Sea

Kiri Olivia Santer

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Cover of The Essential Senghor is a textured beige with the title in a teal serif font. Partially overlapping the very bottom of the title is a sepia colored photograph of<BR /> L&eacute;opold S&eacute;dar Senghor.
The Essential Senghor

African Philosophy and Black Aesthetics

Léopold Sédar Senghor

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Cover of Insufferable Tools features an emoji face on the body of a man in a suit. The emoji is wearing sunglasses and laughing.
Insufferable Tools

Feminism Against Big Tech

Sarah Sharma

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Cover of Tension is a saturated image featuring fog in a valley between mountains in shades of yellow oranges and peachy reds. The trees and mountains peak through in purple. The title is centered on the cover in all caps.
Tension

Mental Distress and Embodied Inequality in the Western Himalayas

Nikita Kaur Simpson

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Cover of Naturalization features dried stems woven with text on paper against a blue background. The titles and author&#39;s name appear below in a capitalized font.
Naturalization

A Queer Genealogy of US Citizenship, Race, and Sexuality

Siobhan B. Somerville

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Cover of Without Masters features a faded cropped print in the background with a stippling texture overlayed all in greyscale.
Without Masters

Autogestión, Anarchist Ethics, and Mexico City Punk

Livia K. Stone

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Cover of Everyday Erotics features a black-and-white cover illustration on a blue background depicts the backs of two women with short hair, one turned slightly towards the other with an arm across her back.
Everyday Erotics

Older Chinese Women and Same-Sex Desire

Denise Tse-Shang Tang

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Cover of From Hate to Hallows features an orange and red sky scattered with dark flecks above a black silhouetted church with a cross. The title appears in large white letters across the upper half.
From Hate to Hallows

Reframing Black Church Arson

Todne Thomas

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Cover of Predatory Welfare features a Black person in an orange shirt holding a bright green debit card covering their card number with their finger.
Predatory Welfare

Debt, Race, and Cash Transfers

Erin Torkelson

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Cover of Sex Isn&#39;t Real features a mesh grid pattern in an off white against a black background.
Sex Isn′t Real

The Invention of an Incoherent Binary

Beans Velocci

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Cover of The Climate Trial features a photograph of a person looking out at icy mountains and a bright icy blue lake. The individual wears dark pants, a navy blue jacket, and a tan hat.
The Climate Trial

Law and Justice on a Melting Planet

Noah Walker-Crawford

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Cover of Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures features rectangles and other geometric shapes overlapping each other in red, pink, and black.
Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures

Kathi Weeks

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Cover of The Gloria Wekker Reader has a sepia photograph of Gloria Wekker. The title appears to the left of Wekker&#39;s face in a cream sans-serif font. A dotted line is under the title.
The Gloria Wekker Reader

Gloria Wekker

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The cover art is a detail from the installation &quot;Biography of a thought&quot; by Tenzing Rigdol, a vibrant, colorful piece with stylized waves in various shades of blue and swirling, multicolored clouds.
Ocean, as Much as Rain

Stories, Lyrical Prose, and Poems from Tibet

Tsering Woeser

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Cover of Sonorous Passages features a sculpture of three black ceramic torsos expanding vertically, linked by bead-like orbs of glossy black and gold leaf.&#160;
Sonorous Passages

Black Maternal Soundings and the Liberation Imaginary

Meina Yates-Richard

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Cover of Cisgender is a teal blue with navy blue loops and curls tangled across it. They have the texture of brush strokes.
Cisgender

Disorienting a Category

Perry Zurn

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Anthropocene History

Susanna Lidström and Sverker Sörlin, editors

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Critical AI

Lauren M. E. Goodlad, editor

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Climate Crisis Politics

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Demography

Hedwig (Hedy) Lee, M. Giovanna Merli, and Marcos A. Rangel, editors

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Transnational Plant Studies

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Environmental Humanities

Marianna R. Dudley and Colin Hoag, editors

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Ethnohistory

Denise I. Bossy and Robert C. Schwaller, editors

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Recent special issue: "Indigenous Responses to Disease: Ethnohistory inspired by COVID"

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Queer Apocalypse

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Journal of Asian Studies

Joseph S. Alter, editor

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The flagship journal of the Association for Asian Studies

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Labor

Studies in Working-Class History

Julie Greene, editor

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Theory in the Flesh

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Comics, Politics, and Gender in the Arab World and Turkey

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the minnesota review

a journal of creative and critical writing

Janell Watson, editor

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Cover of <I>New Political Science: A Journal of Politics &amp; Culture</I>, Volume 47, Number 1, March 2025. The background is a solid maroon color with the journal title in large, bold, light orange text aligned top-left. The subtitle and issue info
New Political Science

A Journal of Politics and Culture

Andy Scerri and Gregory P. Williams, editors

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Public Culture

Brian T. Edwards and Vyjayanthi Rao, editors

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QTR

A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion

Joseph A. Marchal and Thelathia Nikki Young, editors

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South Atlantic Quarterly

Michael Hardt, editor

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Cover of Social Text 167 featuring sculptural arrangement of curved metal tools against a white gallery wall and wooden floor
Sylvia Wynter and the Question of Technology

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Trans Philosophy

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