2021 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting

We hope you’ll visit our virtual booth for the 2021 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting!


A Message from Senior Editor Lucas Church:

Welcome to our virtual exhibit! Normally, I’d be there to greet you in-person, show you our wonderful titles, and to talk about your own book project. I do hope we can all see each other next year. In the meantime, please take a look at our recent titles in the social sciences.

At UNC Press, we look for sociology projects that examine race, place, sexuality, and class in the United States and beyond. We’re looking for books that tell peoples’ stories in incredible detail—like Karida Brown’s Gone Home­Karla Slocum’s Black Towns, Black Futures, and Brandi Thompson Summers’s Black in Place—or offer deeper ways to think about issues like racism and cultural appropriation, such as in B. Brian Foster’s I Don’t Like the Blues. We’re also known for publishing books that explore prejudice and sexuality, as in Jonathan S. Coley’s Gay on God’s Campus. We’re interested in books that speak to the current moment, while also offering valuable scholarship for future readers, using a variety of methods and approaches. 

If you have a manuscript that looks like it would fit with any of the aforementioned books, please contact me at lucas.church@uncpress.org. I’ll be happy to schedule a meeting with you to discuss your work.

New Sociology Titles from UNC Press

Afropolitan Projects: Redefining Blackness, Sexualities, and Culture from Houston to Accra

Anima Adjepong

Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism

Heather Berg

Cuban Memory Wars: Retrospective Politics in Revolution and Exile

Michael J. Bustamante

White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America

Anthea Butler

Tainted Tap: Flint’s Journey from Crisis to Recovery

Katrinell M. Davis

Caribeños at the Table: How Migration, Health, and Race Intersect in New York City

Melissa Fuster

White Philanthropy: Carnegie Corporation’s An American Dilemma and the Making of a White World Order

Maribel Morey

Meatpacking America: How Migration, Work, and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland

Kristy Nabhan-Warren

Spiritual Entrepreneurs: Florida’s Faith-Based Prisons and the American Carceral State

Brad Stoddard

Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery: A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World

Dale W. Tomich, Rafael de Bivar Marquese, Reinaldo Funes Monzote, and Carlos Venegas Fornias

Now in paperback (and perfect for course adoption)!

Gone Home: Race and Roots through Appalachia

Karida L. Brown

Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement

Monica M. White

To browse these titles and more, please be sure to visit our American Sociological Association virtual booth. Use promo code 01DAH40 at checkout to receive a 40% discount. And if your order totals over $75, domestic U.S. shipping is Free