A new group of books by Ideas on Fire authors arrives this May, offering incisive engagements with race, politics, law, sexuality, and the environment.
Spanning classrooms, courtrooms, community movements, and ecological landscapes, these projects examine how power is organized and contested—from grassroots political mobilization to global governance, from national identity to the material traces of extraction. Together, they reflect the depth and breadth of contemporary scholarship attuned to both structural inequality and collective transformation.
We’re proud to have supported these authors in shaping work that speaks across disciplines while remaining grounded in local and global communities.
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Fear of Queer Taiwan: Anti-LGBTQ Movements Between Taiwan and the US Religious Right
Ying-Chao Kao
A sharp cultural study of how queer politics provoke national anxieties, reshaping identity, democracy, and belonging in contemporary Taiwan.
Good Sediment: Black Ecologies and the Politics of Restoration in Coastal Louisiana
Monica Patrice Barra
University of Washington Press
A lyrical environmental history exploring extraction, Black resistance, and ecological change through sediment’s transformations.
Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Studies: Decolonial Love, Knowledge, and Revolution
Carlos Manuel Salomon, Jocyl Sacramento, Jennifer Kim-Anh Tran, and Nicholas L. Baham, III
A foundational textbook introducing comparative ethnic studies through decolonial theory, activism, and intersectional analysis of race, power, and liberation movements.
Politics in Our Veins: The Rise of Dominican American Political Power in the United States
Yalidy Matos, Domingo Morel, and Michelle Bueno Vásquez
A compelling analysis of how Dominican American communities mobilized to become a cornerstone of progressive US politics.
The Borders of Responsibility: Migration Control in the Mediterranean Sea
Kiri Olivia Santer
A probing analysis of how legal and moral responsibility are negotiated across borders, exposing inequalities within global governance.
