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 Just Queer Folks
Gender and Sexuality in Rural America
Colin R. Johnson
"Just Queer Folks is a superb work of scholarship—an extraordinary achievement. An exciting, path-breaking book on the history of gender and sexuality in the United States, it opens new analytical ground in spaces often overlooked, during a period previously understudied. Colin Johnson mines a broad range of primary documents to interrogate the invention of sexuality in nonmetropolitan America over the first half of the twentieth century. His prose is elegant, lively, and engaging; the scholarship is rigorous; and the theoretical interventions are important. This book will be discussed and consulted for years to come."
—John Howard, Professor of American Studies at King's College London and author of Men like That: A Southern Queer History
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 "We Live in the Shadow"
Inner-City Kids Tell Their Stories through Photographs
Elaine Bell Kaplan
"Kaplan gives a group of preteens from South Central L.A. the chance to document their lives in this moving work. After telling them to 'take pictures of anything you want to show me about your experiences,' Kaplan uses the results to assemble a well-researched narrative examining how the subjects 'experience and react to the social problems associated with South Central,' their reflections on living there, and how they deal with daily challenges, including gang violence and drug warfare.... [Kaplan] interweaves her subjects’ stories and pieces from their photo essays with her research, reflections, and observations, confronting issues of class, race, and identity. Even casual anecdotes point to larger problems—teachers who don’t care and schools that don’t work."
—Publishers Weekly
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 Social Justice in Diverse Suburbs
History, Politics, and Prospects
edited by Christopher Niedt
"Social Justice in Diverse Suburbs addresses the history and evolution of suburbs, suburban racial and ethnic discrimination and efforts to combat it, metropolitan sprawl, differentiation among suburbs, and the emerging problems of the inner suburbs. Niedt’s excellent introduction covers several engaging and interesting stories of organizing and conflict, and the essays illustrate the changing diversity of suburbs—from Latino issues, which deserve more attention, to resistance to housing mobility for the poor amidst the foreclosure crisis. This book makes a valuable contribution to the literature on suburbs."
—W. Dennis Keating, Professor of Urban Studies at Cleveland State University
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 Intimacy across Borders
Race, Religion, and Migration in the U.S. Midwest
Jane Juffer
"Intimacy across Borders is a stimulating, original, and nuanced understanding of immigration, desire, and encounter. Juffer’s book has both a tone of urgency and a contemporary relevance that are compelling. She deftly uses the frameworks of personal experience and cultural studies to bring together theories of encounter with actual lived experience. Her anchoring the text in the Reformed Church communities of Iowa is sophisticated, and the religious and cultural material is well integrated. Intimacy across Borders will advance the understanding of intercultural encounters from a theological and philosophical as well as a sociological perspective."
—Ann Hostetler, Professor of English at Goshen College
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 "Building Like Moses with Jacobs in Mind"
Contemporary Planning in New York City
Scott Larson
"In ‘Building Like Moses with Jacobs in Mind’ is a critical book because the Bloomberg administration's slick public relations have given him support and consensus across the political spectrum for his hugely unfair and unsustainable growth strategy. Larson unravels Bloomberg's skillful manipulation of the myths surrounding Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs."
—Tom Angotti, author of New York for Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate and The New Century of the Metropolis: Urban Enclaves and Orientalism
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 Disability and Passing
Blurring the Lines of Identity
edited by Jeffrey A. Brune and Daniel J. Wilson
"Disability and Passing, cuts to the heart of disability identity, revealing as never before the centrality of passing to how disabled people think about themselves. Brune and Wilson’s collection demands a spot on everyone's bookshelf."
—Tobin Siebers, University of Michigan
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