November 2024 Trending Titles
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The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game by Nathan Kalman-Lamb , Derek Silva
“[A] compelling indictment of American collegiate football . . . . a serious examination of a sport that’s long avoided accountability.”—Booklist, Starred review
“A must read . . . . The genuinely critical and radical sociology that oozes throughout The End of College Football is desperately needed to shake up the status-quo of performance focused capitalist sport, and all the grotesqueness that comes with it.”—Critical Sociology
Black Girls and How We Fail Them by Aria S. Halliday
“In Black Girls and How We Fail Them, Aria Halliday eloquently and incisively captures the relationship between popular culture and the sociological realities that shape our collective understanding of race and gender in America. Halliday’s book is a penetrating examination of how depictions of Black girls and women in music, film, and politics both animate and reflect the way they are treated in society at large. This book is both an invitation and an opportunity. I am so grateful it exists.”—Clint Smith, author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery across America
“A timely and honest love letter to Black girls and an exploration of accountability for those who love and misunderstand them alike. A must-read for those inside and outside popular culture’s long reach.”—Regina N. Bradley, author of Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South
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’s] book achieves the promise of its title; it is a brisk read, yet a well-researched rundown of how North Carolina found its way into its purple status . . . . Along the way, Cooper introduces us to some true characters and shenanigans from the Old North State’s political history, as he details three trends roiling the state’s politics today — nationalization, competition and polarization.”—The Fayetteville Observer
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition,Revised and Updated Third Edition by Cedric J. Robinson With a new preface by Damien Sojoyner and Tiffany Willoughby-Herard and a new foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley
“A towering achievement. There is simply nothing like it in the history of black radical thought.”—Cornel West, Monthly Review
“Black Marxism has become an unlikely handbook for a new generation of radicals and activists.”—London Review of Books
“This is a text that should be read and reread and then read again.”—Angela Y. Davis
Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature by Janice A. Radway
2012 International Communication Association Fellows Book Award
“A consistently absorbing and often brilliant analysis of [romance novels] and their eager consumers.”—Sandra M. Gilbert, New York Times Book Review
“A superb analysis of a contemporary phenomenon and an intelligent and moving depiction of how the women who consume these novels see their lives.”—Journal of Communication