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SPRING 2018 Highlights ............................................................................. 2 Green Living & Environmental Studies ................... 74 Biographies ....................................................................... 8 Politics .................................................................................76 Health & Psychology ....................................................... 11 American History ..............................................................81 Parenting, Families & Relationships ..........................20 Military History ..................................................................83 Resources for Military Personnel & Families ..........23 World History ....................................................................84 Criminal Justice & Law ...................................................24 Religion & Philosophy ....................................................89 True Crime .........................................................................28 Anthropology & Sociology ...........................................93 Media Literacy & Internet Security ............................30 Demographics, Statistics & Business & Career Development ...............................31 Government Resources ...........................................96 Education & Professional Resources ........................33 Now in Paperback ...........................................................97 YA Resources ...................................................................36 Index ................................................................................... 110 Literature .......................................................................... 38 International Sales Representation .......................... 112 Film, Television & Popular Culture Ordering Information .............................42 ......................................................113 CONTENTS Theater, Dance & Art ......................................................50 Music ...................................................................................54 Food & Beverage ............................................................63 Sports ..................................................................................67 JACKIE HOGAN ROOTS QUEST SEE PAGE 2 UNDERSTANDING AMERICA’S GENEALOGYSEE BOOMPAGE 5 HIGHLIGHTS SEE PAGE 38 SEE PAGE 54 Rowman & Littlefield provides all of its frontlist and selected backlist—a stable of over 10,000 titles—as eBooks through partnerships with over 50 vendors. NEW! Purchase individual eBooks directly from our website. Ordering is simple, just look for the Buy eBook Now button next to all available titles and begin the ordering process. Or you can still order from your favorite eBook vendor. For more information, visit us at www.rowman.com/eBooks. SEE PAGE 6 SEE PAGE 12 SEE PAGE 20 SEE PAGE 25 SEE PAGE 67 SEE PAGE 76 SEE PAGE 89 SEE PAGE 93 2 HIGHLIGHTS FORTHCOMING FORTHCOMING Backlash Hamilton What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America An American Biography By George Yancy. Foreword by Cornel West By Tony Williams “George Yancy’s courageous appeal to White America ‘to confront the The award-winning, smash Broadway hit Hamilton: An American problem of whiteness; to cultivate a critical awareness of the specter Musical continues to captivate sold-out audiences and has sparked of whiteness and white privilege that each one of you inherits’ elicited unprecedented interest in its historical protagonist. a remarkable range of responses, some hideous beyond words, some welcoming what he rightly called a ‘gift.’ This eloquent meditation on In Hamilton: An American Biography, Tony Williams provides readers the events and their meaning calls on us, with piercing honesty, to think with a concise biography that traces the events and values that hard, and work hard, to excise the malignancy of white supremacy from enabled Hamilton to rise from his youth as a dispossessed orphan to our culture and our lives.” —Noam Chomsky Revolutionary War hero and Founding Father, a life uniquely shaped by America and who, in turn, contributed to the creation of the American “Backlash is a decisive intervention on a hugely important topic by a regime of liberty and self-government. He was one of key leaders in the very courageous thinker. Highly recommended.” American Revolution, a chief architect of America’s constitutional order —Simon Critchley, The New School for Social Research of self-government, and the key figure in Washington’s administration creating the institutions that governed America. When George Yancy penned a New York Times op-ed entitled “Dear White America” asking white Americans to confront the ways that they Williams expertly weaves together biography with historical events benefit from racism, he knew that his article would be controversial. But to place Hamilton as one of the most important founding fathers. he was unprepared for the flood of vitriol in response. The resulting For readers just discovering Hamilton for the first time or those with blowback played out in the national media, with critics attacking Yancy an insatiable appetite for books on the Founders and the American in every form possible—including death threats—and supporters rallying Founding, Hamilton: An American Biography will shed new light on this to his side. Despite the rhetoric of a “post-race” America, Yancy quickly American icon now experiencing a remarkable second act. discovered that racism is still alive, crude, and vicious in its expression. Tony Williams is author or coauthor of five books of colonial and In Backlash, Yancy expands upon the original article and chronicles the Revolutionary history. ensuing controversy as he seeks to understand what it was about the op-ed that created so much rage among so many white readers. He Rowman & Littlefield Publishers challenges white Americans to rise above the vitriol and to develop a April 2018 • 168 pages new empathy for the African American experience. 978-1-5381-0017-2 • $19.95 / £13.95 • Cloth 978-1-5381-0018-9 • $18.99 / £12.95 • eBook *Distributed to the trade by National Book Network. George Yancy is professor of philosophy at Emory University. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers April 2018 • 180 pages 978-1-5381-0405-7 • $19.95 / £13.95 • Cloth 978-1-5381-0406-4 • $18.99 / £12.95 • eBook *Distributed to the trade by National Book Network. www.rowman.com HIGHLIGHTS 3 FORTHCOMING FORTHCOMING The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee Excessive Use of Force The Forgotten Case against an American Icon One Mother’s Struggle Against Police Brutality and Misconduct By John Reeves By Loretta P. Prater History has been kind to Robert E. Lee. Woodrow Wilson believed “Loretta Prater[’s] struggle for justice is important and instructive.” General Lee was a “model to men who would be morally great.” Winston —Barry Scheck, cofounder, National Innocence Project Churchill called him “one of the noblest Americans who ever lived.” Until recently, there was even a stained glass window devoted to Lee’s life at “This is one mother’s vivid account of the death of her son to the the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. unfortunate outcome of police brutality in our society. The detail Prater gives in describing the death of her son is exceptionally riveting and Immediately after the Civil War, however, many northerners believed gets at the questions that all parents want to know when they lose their Lee should be hanged for treason and war crimes. Americans will be children to police violence…“What happened to my child?’.” surprised to learn that in June of 1865 Robert E. Lee was indicted for —Arrick Jackson, dean, College of Education and Human Services, treason by a Norfolk, Virginia grand jury. In his instructions to the grand Ferris State University jury, Judge John C. Underwood described treason as “wholesale murder,” and declared that the instigators of the rebellion had “hands The vast majority of the law enforcement officers in this country dripping with the blood of slaughtered innocents.” In early 1866, perform their very difficult jobs with respect for their communities and Lee decided against visiting friends while in Washington, D.C., for a in compliance with the law. Even so, there have been incidents in which congressional hearing, because he was conscious of being perceived this was not the case. Police brutality and misconduct has been under as a “monster” by citizens of the nation’s capital. Yet somehow, roughly the microscope for the last several years, and Loretta Prater brings fifty years after his trip to Washington, Lee had been transformed into these issues to light through research reports and numerous examples a venerable American hero, who was highly regarded by southerners of cases, including the personal case of her son. and northerners alike. Almost a century after Appomattox, Dwight D. Eisenhower had Lee’s portrait on the wall of his White House office. On January 2, 2004, Leslie Vaughn Prater, Loretta Prater’s unarmed son, was a homicide victim in Chattanooga, Tennessee. His death resulted The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee tells the story of the forgotten legal from an altercation with four police officers. Excessive Use of Force: and moral case that was made against the Confederate general after One Mother’s Struggle Against Police Brutality and Misconduct is the the Civil War. The actual indictment went missing for 72 years. Over account of an African American family’s personal experience with police