New year, new books! A bunch of new books by Ideas on Fire authors come out this month, and we're jazzed to celebrate these wonderful scholars. We are honored to have edited and indexed these books as well as support this type of groundbreaking interdisciplinary research.
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The Violence of Love: Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States
Kit Myers
University of California Press
A nuanced critique of the racial politics of adoption and normative framings of kinship as solely about love.
Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons
Brittany Friedman
University of North Carolina Press
A no-holds-barred indictment of the anti-Black racism and genocidal logics at the heart of the US prison-industrial complex.
Indenture Aesthetics: Afro-Indian Femininities and the Queer Limits of South African Blackness
Jordache A. Ellapen
A multisensory exploration of the Afro-Indian visual and performance art reimagining race in post-apartheid South Africa.
How We Make Each Other: Trans Life at the Edge of the University
Perry Zurn
A beautifully poetic tribute to trans worldmaking and community building at the edges of the university.
We Tried to Tell Y'all: Black Twitter and the Rise of Digital Counternarratives
Meredith D. Clark
An incisive read of the power and legacy of Black Twitter as a vital resistance strategy and journalistic contribution.
Hip-Hop Civics: Connected Learning in the Rap Classroom
Jabari M. Evans
An insightful ethnography of how hip hop-based K–12 education fosters civic engagement and world-building for Black youth.
Intersectional Listening: Gentrification and Black Sonic Life in Washington, DC
Allie Martin
A Black feminist audio-analysis of gentrification's sounds and silences in the nation's capital.
