A gigantic congratulations to all of our Ideas on Fire clients who published books this year! We truly loved working on these. If you’re looking for some awesome books to add to your spring syllabi or winter break reading list, check these out.
Barcelos, Chris A. Distributing Condoms and Hope: The Racialized Politics of youth Sexual Health. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020.
Ben-Moshe, Liat. Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020.
Biagioli, Mario, and Alexandra Lippman, eds. Gaming the Metrics: Misconduct and Manipulation in Academic Research. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020.
Brock, André. Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures. New York: NYU Press, 2020.
Chess, Shira. Play Like a Feminist. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020.
Costanza-Chock, Sasha. Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020.
Cote, Amanda. Gaming Sexism: Gender and Identity in the Era of Casual Video Games. New York: NYU Press, 2020.
Dan-Cohen, Talia. A Simpler Life: Synthetic Biologists in the Lab. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020.
Davis, Alexander. Bathroom Battlegrounds: How Public Restrooms Shape the Gender Order. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020.
Foster, Travis M. Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Funkenstein, Susan. Marking Modern Movement: Dance and Gender in the Visual Imagery of the Weimar Republic. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020.
Galarte, Francisco. Brown Trans Figurations: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2020.
Gallon, Kim. Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2020.
Good, Katie Day. Bring the World to the Child: Technologies of Global Citizenship in American Education. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020.
Gray, Kishonna. Intersectional Tech: Black Users in Digital Gaming. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2020.
Guerlac, Suzanne. Proust, Photography and the Time of Life: Ravaisson, Bergson and Simmel. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Henderson, Aneeka Ayanna. Veil and Vow: Marriage Matters in Contemporary African American Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
Hernandez, Jillian. Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020.
Higgins, Jeanmarie, ed. Teaching Critical Performance Theory in Today’s Theatre Classroom, Studio, and Communities. New York: Routledge, 2020.
Jackson, Zakiyyah Iman. Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World. New York: NYU Press, 2020.
Kedhar, Anusha. Flexible Bodies: British South Asian Dancers in an Age of Neoliberalism. New York: Oxford, 2020.
Lee, Jamie A. Producing the Archival Body. New York: Routledge, 2020.
Lingel, Jessa. An Internet for the People: The Politics and Promise of craigslist. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020.
Magaña, Maurice Rafael. Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020.
Maitra, Ani. Identity, Mediation, and the Cunning of Capital. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2020.
Mitchell, Koritha. From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2020.
Mani, Bakirathi. Unseeing Empire: Photography, Representation, South Asian America. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020.
Moussawi, Ghassan. Disruptive Situations: Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2020.
Pahwa, Sonali. Theaters of Citizenship: Aesthetics and Politics of Avant-Garde Performance in Egypt. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2020.
Preissner, Paul. Kind of Boring: Canonical Work and Other Vsiible Things Meant to be Viewed as Architecture.New York: Actar, 2020.
Robinson, Brandon Andrew. Coming Out to the Streets: LGBTQ Youth Experiencing Homelessness. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020.
Ruberg, Bonnie, ed. The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020.
Sharma, Nandita. Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020.
Underman, Kelly. Feeling Medicine: How the Pelvic Exam Shapes Medical Training. New York: NYU Press, 2020.
Wanzo, Rebecca. The Content of our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging. New York: NYU Press, 2020.
Ward, Jane. The Tragedy of Heterosexuality. New York: NYU Press, 2020.