New This Week: October 15th

Another week, another batch of new books publishing. Today we have books spanning topics on segregation scholarships in the US south, teen pop culture at the turn of the twenty-first-century, and North Carolina Politics. Find your next favorite read among these new titles or browse our Hot Off The Press page to see everything new this month.

A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs by Crystal R. Sanders

“This book is essential reading for all who have both the curiosity and courage to wade deeply into the troubled waters of this nation’s history relative to the education of Black Americans. Well researched, gracefully written, and urgently needed, do yourself a favor and read this book!”—Noliwe Rooks, author of Cutting School: The Segrenomics of American Education

“This book nobly moves beyond the barbarity of racism to penetrate an unsettling part of the past that desperately needs to be highlighted. Audiences throughout the nation will devour this narrative.”—Stefan M. Bradley, author of Upending the Ivory Tower: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League

Anatomy of a Purple State: A North Carolina Politics Primer by Christopher A. Cooper

“Analysis of the curious politics of North Carolina, a definitively purple state . . . . A useful handbook for students of political trends throughout the U.S. in a turbulent election year.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Cooper deftly explains how North Carolina grew from a one-party state of the Old South into the purple state we have today. As a primer on North Carolina state politics, this is as good as it gets.”—Jim Morrill, former political reporter for the Charlotte Observer

The Abercrombie Age: Millennial Aspiration and the Promise of Consumer Culture by Myles Ethan Lascity

“Lascity’s penetrating cultural analysis takes stock of how commercialism distracted a generation from the need for political change until it was too late. It’s an unusually empathetic and rigorous inquiry into the plight of millennials.”—​Publishers Weekly

“The Abercrombie Age is an informed and timely investigation of early 2000s teen culture. Through thoughtful analyses of nostalgic media texts—from A&F Quarterly to Clueless—Lascity argues convincingly that millennials were sold a false promise of affluence that has not come to fruition. It will surely resonate with readers interested in pop culture, media, fashion, and their impacts on American culture.”—Lauren Downing Peters, author of Fashion Before Plus-Size: Bodies, Bias, and the Birth of an Industry