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Africana Studies at New York University is part of the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis (SCA).

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Africana Studies

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Unhitched: Love, Marriage, and Family Values from West Hollywood to Western China

Judith Stacey

Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity

Lisa Duggan

Abstractionist Aesthetics: Artistic Form and Social Critique in African American Culture

Phillip Brian Harper

Against Security: How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger

Harvey Molotch

The Twilight of Equality: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy

Lisa Duggan

Badges without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing

Stuart Schrader

Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed

Lisa Duggan

New York before Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882

John Kuo Wei Tchen

An Ethics of Betrayal: The Politics of Otherness in Emergent U.S. Literatures and Culture

Crystal Parikh

Dark Continent of Our Bodies: Black Feminism and the Politics of Respectability

E. Frances White

The Diaspora Strikes Back: Caribeno Tales of Learning and Turning

Juan Flores

The Trouble With Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity

Cristina Beltrán

Indian Given: Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States

María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo

These United States A Nation in the Making: 1890 to the Present

Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore and Thomas J. Sugrue

Reforming Jim Crow: Southern Politics and State in the Age Before Brown

Kimberley Johnson

Theatre and Postcolonial Desires

Awam Amkpa

El Mall: Spatial and Class Politics of Shopping Malls in Latin America

Arlene Davila

Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940-1955

Adam Green

Contagions of Empire: Scientific Racism, Sexuality, and Black Military Workers Abroad, 1898–1948

Khary Oronde Polk

A Nation on the Line: Call Centers as Postcolonial Predicaments in the Philippines

Jan Padios

Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of the Antebellum Expansion

Dawn Peterson (2011 Graduate)

Culture Works: Space, Value, and Mobility Across the Neoliberal Americas

Arlene Dávila

Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War

Ronak K. Kapadia

Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic

Julie Livingston

Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation, 2nd Edition

Mary Louise Pratt

Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures

Gayatri Gopinath

The Chasers

Renato Rosaldo

Shout to the Lord: Making Worship Music in Evangelical America

Ari Y. Berman

Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery

Jennifer L. Morgan

Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London

Caitlin Zaloom

Women and Migration: Responses in Art and History

Edited by Deborah Willis, Ellyn Toscano and Kalia Brooks Nelson

Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present

Deborah Willis

Creditocracy And The Case For Debt Refusal

Andrew Ross

Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora

Gayatri Gopinath

Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel

Andrew Ross

Enforcing Freedom: Drug Courts, Therapeutic Communities, and the Intimacies of the State

Kerwin Kaye

Private Affairs: Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations

Phillip Brian Harper

Where Stuff Comes From

Harvey Molotch

Race and America's Long War

Nikhil Pal Singh

Forensics of Capital

Michael Ralph

Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico

Marisol LeBrón

How Soon is Now?: Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time

Carolyn Dinshaw

The Day of Shelly's Death: The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief

Renato Rosaldo

Yellow Peril!: An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear

John Kuo Wei Tchen and Dylan Yeats

“You Can Tell Just by Looking”: And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People

Michael Bronski, Ann Pellegrini, and Michael Amico

London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a City

Sukhdev Sandhu

All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence

Emily L. Thuma

Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market

Walter Johnson

Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost

Caitlin Zaloom

Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, and Politics

Arlene Dávila

Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy

Nikhil Pal Singh

Climbin' Jacob's Ladder: The Black Freedom Movement Writings of Jack O'Dell

Jack O'Dell; Editor: Nikhil Singh

She Begat This: 20 Years of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Joan Morgan (Graduate)

Culture and Customs of Haiti

J. Michael Dash

Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film

Ed Guerrero

Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger

Julie Sze

City Folk: English Country Dance and the Politics of the Folk in Modern America

Daniel J. Walkowitz

The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development

Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo

The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion

Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu

Culture & Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis

Renato Rosaldo

Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa

Julie Livingston

Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad

Manu Karuka

Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai’i Statehood

Dean Saranillio

Writing Human Rights: The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color

Crystal Parikh

The Long Year: A 2020 Reader

Thomas J. Sugrue and Caitlin Zaloom

Cars and Jails: Freedom Dreams, Debt and Carcerality

Julie Livingston and Andrew Ross

Unhitched: Love, Marriage, and Family Values from West Hollywood to Western China

Judith Stacey

Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity

Lisa Duggan

Abstractionist Aesthetics: Artistic Form and Social Critique in African American Culture

Phillip Brian Harper

Against Security: How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger

Harvey Molotch

The Twilight of Equality: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy

Lisa Duggan

Badges without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing

Stuart Schrader

Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed

Lisa Duggan

New York before Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882

John Kuo Wei Tchen

An Ethics of Betrayal: The Politics of Otherness in Emergent U.S. Literatures and Culture

Crystal Parikh

Dark Continent of Our Bodies: Black Feminism and the Politics of Respectability

E. Frances White

The Long Year: A 2020 Reader

Thomas J. Sugrue and Caitlin Zaloom

The Diaspora Strikes Back: Caribeno Tales of Learning and Turning

Juan Flores

The Trouble With Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity

Cristina Beltrán

Indian Given: Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States

María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo

These United States A Nation in the Making: 1890 to the Present

Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore and Thomas J. Sugrue

Reforming Jim Crow: Southern Politics and State in the Age Before Brown

Kimberley Johnson

Theatre and Postcolonial Desires

Awam Amkpa

El Mall: Spatial and Class Politics of Shopping Malls in Latin America

Arlene Davila

Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940-1955

Adam Green

Contagions of Empire: Scientific Racism, Sexuality, and Black Military Workers Abroad, 1898–1948

Khary Oronde Polk

A Nation on the Line: Call Centers as Postcolonial Predicaments in the Philippines

Jan Padios

Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of the Antebellum Expansion

Dawn Peterson (2011 Graduate)

Culture Works: Space, Value, and Mobility Across the Neoliberal Americas

Arlene Dávila

Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War

Ronak K. Kapadia

Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic

Julie Livingston

Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation, 2nd Edition

Mary Louise Pratt

Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures

Gayatri Gopinath

The Chasers

Renato Rosaldo

Shout to the Lord: Making Worship Music in Evangelical America

Ari Y. Berman

Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery

Jennifer L. Morgan

Cars and Jails: Freedom Dreams, Debt and Carcerality

Julie Livingston and Andrew Ross

Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London

Caitlin Zaloom

Women and Migration: Responses in Art and History

Edited by Deborah Willis, Ellyn Toscano and Kalia Brooks Nelson

Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present

Deborah Willis

Creditocracy And The Case For Debt Refusal

Andrew Ross

Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora

Gayatri Gopinath

Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel

Andrew Ross

Enforcing Freedom: Drug Courts, Therapeutic Communities, and the Intimacies of the State

Kerwin Kaye

Private Affairs: Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations

Phillip Brian Harper

Where Stuff Comes From

Harvey Molotch

Race and America's Long War

Nikhil Pal Singh

Forensics of Capital

Michael Ralph

Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico

Marisol LeBrón

How Soon is Now?: Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time

Carolyn Dinshaw

The Day of Shelly's Death: The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief

Renato Rosaldo

Yellow Peril!: An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear

John Kuo Wei Tchen and Dylan Yeats

“You Can Tell Just by Looking”: And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People

Michael Bronski, Ann Pellegrini, and Michael Amico

London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a City

Sukhdev Sandhu

All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence

Emily L. Thuma

Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market

Walter Johnson

Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost

Caitlin Zaloom

Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, and Politics

Arlene Dávila

Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy

Nikhil Pal Singh

Climbin' Jacob's Ladder: The Black Freedom Movement Writings of Jack O'Dell

Jack O'Dell; Editor: Nikhil Singh

She Begat This: 20 Years of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Joan Morgan (Graduate)

Culture and Customs of Haiti

J. Michael Dash

Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film

Ed Guerrero

Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger

Julie Sze

City Folk: English Country Dance and the Politics of the Folk in Modern America

Daniel J. Walkowitz

The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development

Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo

The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion

Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu

Culture & Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis

Renato Rosaldo

Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa

Julie Livingston

Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad

Manu Karuka

Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai’i Statehood

Dean Saranillio

Writing Human Rights: The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color

Crystal Parikh

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