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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Fall 2016 FALL 2016 Trade 1 Food & Wine 12 New in Paperback 15 Anthropology 20 Sociology 25 Art 38 Cinema 39 Music 41 History 45 Ancient World 55 Religion 56 Science 58 Sales Info 61 Index of titles and authors 63 Right: detail from “Wildlife”, a map from Non- Stop Metropolis (page 1). Art by Tino Rodriguez. Nonstop Metropolis A New York City Atlas REBECCA SOLNIT AND JOSHUA JELLY-SCHAPIRO OCTOBER Nonstop Metropolis, the culminating volume in a trilogy of atlases, conveys innumerable, 232 pp. 7 x 12 unbound experiences of New York City through twenty-six imaginative maps and Illustrations: 60 color images informative essays. Bringing together the insights of dozens of experts, from linguists Art to historians of music, urbanism, and ethnography to environmental journalists, amplified by cartographers, artists, and photographers, it explores all five boroughs WORLD of New York City and parts of nearby New Jersey. We are invited to travel through $49.95T | £37.95 | C$69.95 Cloth Manhattan’s playgrounds, from polyglot Queens to many-faceted Brooklyn, and ISBN 978-0-520-28594-1 from the resilient Bronx to the mystical kung fu hip-hop mecca of Staten Island. The contributors to this exquisitely designed and gorgeously illustrated volume $29.95T | £22.95 | C$41.95 Paper celebrate New York City’s unique vitality, its incubation of the avant-garde, and its ISBN 978-0-520-28595-8 literary history, but they also critique its racial and economic inequality, environmental impact, and erasure of its past. Nonstop Metropolis allows us to excavate New York’s buried layers, to scrutinize its political heft, and to discover the unexpected in one of the most iconic cities in the world. It is both a challenge and homage to how New Yorkers think of their city, and how the world sees this capital of capitalism, culture, immigration, and more. Rebecca Solnit is a prolific journalist and commentator, and the author of many books including Savage Dreams, Storming the Gates of Paradise, as well as the bestselling atlases Infinite City and Unfathomable City, all from UC Press. She received the Corlis Benefideo Award for Imaginative Cartography from the North American Cartographic Information Society for her work on previous atlases. Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is a geographer and writer who lives in California and the Caribbean. His work has appeared in The Believer, The Nation, Harper’s, New York, and the New York Review of Books, among many other publications. ALSO AVAILABLE Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas ISBN 978-0-520-27404-4 $29.95T | £19.95 | C$37.95 Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas ISBN 978-0-520-26250-8 $29.95T | £19.95 | C$37.95 Making Roots A Nation Captivated MATTHEW F. DELMONT AUGUST “Long before over-the-counter DNA testing and hashtag history 264 pp. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 lessons, Roots was the connective tissue between America’s racial past Illustrations: 22 b/w images and its hopes for post-racial future. Roots also gave rise to one of the History seminal cultural moments of 20th Century America, which Matthew Delmont deftly excavates and illuminates in Making “Roots,” a must- WORLD read book which demands a reevaluation of Roots and its conjuror Alex $26.95T | £19.95 | C$37.95 Cloth Haley.”—Mark Anthony Neal, author of Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black ISBN 978-0-520-29132-4 Masculinities “In Making “Roots,” Matthew Delmont gives us a terrific and highly readable account of the making of Alex Haley’s book-cum-TV miniseries, which had a major impact on television and on the ways Americans imagined slavery and its legacies. This is a hugely welcome study, both for its detailed look at the history of Roots and its many smart insights about race, representation, and visual media.”—Gayle Wald, author of It’s Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power Television When Alex Haley’s book Roots was published by Doubleday in 1976, it became an immediate bestseller. The television series, broadcast by ABC in 1977, became the most popular miniseries of all time, captivating over a hundred million Americans. For the first time, Americans saw slavery as an integral part of the nation’s history. With a remake of the series in 2016 by A&E Networks, Roots has again entered the national conversation. In Making “Roots,” Matthew F. Delmont looks at the importance, UNCORRECTED contradictions, and limitations of mass culture and examines how Roots pushed the boundaries of history. Delmont investigates the decisions that led Alex Haley, PROOF Doubleday, and ABC to invest in the story of Kunta Kinte, uncovering how Haley’s original, modest book proposal developed into an unprecedented cultural phenomenon. Matthew F. Delmont is Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University and author of Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation and The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock ’n’ Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia, both published by UC Press. 2 | University of California Press Black Elephants in the Room The Unexpected Politics of African American Republicans COREY D. FIELDS OCTOBER 271 pp. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 What do you think of when you hear about an African American Republican? Are Illustrations: 1 line illustration they heroes fighting against the expectation that all blacks must vote democratic? Are Sociology they “Uncle Toms” or “sellouts,” serving as traitors to their race? What is it really like WORLD to be a black person in the Republican Party? $85.00tx | £62.95 | C$118.95 Cloth ISBN 978-0-520-29189-8 Black Elephants in the Room considers how race structures the political behavior of African American Republicans and discusses the dynamic relationship between race $29.95sc | £22.95 | C$41.95 Paper and political behavior in the purported “post-racial” context of US politics. Drawing ISBN 978-0-520-29190-4 on vivid first-person accounts, the book sheds light on the different ways black identity structures African Americans’ membership in the Republican Party. Moving past rhetoric and politics, we begin to see the everyday people working to reconcile their commitment to black identity with their belief in Republican principles. And at the end, we learn the importance of understanding both the meanings African Americans attach to racial identity and the political contexts in which those meanings are developed and expressed. Corey D. Fields is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Stanford University. He is also Faculty Affiliate at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. www.ucpress.edu | 3 Making All Black Lives Matter Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century BARBARA RANSBY FEBRUARY 148 pp. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 In the wake of the murder of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012 and the History exoneration of his killer, three black women activists launched a hashtag and social media platform, Black Lives Matter, which would become the rubric for a larger WORLD movement. To many, especially those in the media, Black Lives Matter appeared to burst onto the national political landscape out of thin air. $85.00tx | £62.95 | C$118.95 Cloth ISBN 978-0-520-29270-3 However, as Making All Black Lives Matter shows, the movement has roots in prison $18.95sc | £14.95 | C$26.95 Paper abolition, anti-police violence, black youth movements, and radical mobilizations ISBN 978-0-520-29271-0 across the country dating back for at least a decade. Barbara Ransby interviewed more than a dozen of the principal organizers and activists in the movement and provides a detailed review of its extensive coverage in mainstream and social media. Making All Black Lives Matter offers one of the first overviews of Black Lives Matter and explores the challenges and possible future for this growing and influential movement. This book is a part of the American Studies Now series, an ebook-first series aimed to meet the need for critical histories of the present, that connect significant political debates and cultural phenomena to cutting edge critical concepts and methods. Barbara Ransby is a historian, author and longtime activist. She is author of the acclaimed biography, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement. Barbara was one of the founders of African American Women in Defense of Ourselves in 1991 and the Black Radical Congress in 1998. She is Editor of the journal, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, and Professor and Director of the Social Justice Initiative at the University of Illinois at Chicago. UNCORRECTED PROOF American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present 4 | University of California Press Trans* We Demand A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability The University and Student Protests JACK HALBERSTAM RODERICK A. FERGUSON In the last decade, public discussions of transgender issues have increased In the post World War II period, student movements rebelled against the exponentially. However, with this increased visibility has comes not just archaic university. They fought for the new kinds of public the university power, but regulation, both in favor of and against trans people. What was needed to serve—women, minorities, immigrants, indigenous people, and once regarded as an unusual or even unfortunate disorder has become an more—with success that had a profound impact on the intellectual accepted articulation of gendered embodiment as well as a new site for landscape of the twentieth century. Because of their efforts, ethnic studies, political activism. What happened in the last few decades to prompt such Women’s studies, and American studies itself were born, and minority an extensive rethinking of our understanding of gendered embodiment? communities have become more visible and important to academic debate.

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