New Books in November by Ideas on Fire Authors

by Cathy Hannabach | Nov 1, 2025

Join us in congratulating these Ideas on Fire authors for their new books! We are honored to have worked on these books as well as support this type of groundbreaking interdisciplinary research.

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Cover of Racial Care, with people moving through hilly terrain toward a portal/doorway

Racial Care: On Asian American Suffering and Survival

James McMaster

Duke University Press

A transformative exploration of racialized care sustaining Asian American life under capitalism and white supremacy.

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Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession

Jodi A. Byrd

Duke University Press

A powerful critique of the settler colonial logics at work in video games alongside Indigenous resistance to erasure.

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Sweatshop Capital: Profit, Violence, and Solidarity Movements in the Long Twentieth Century

Beth Robinson

Duke University Press

An incisive labor history of sweatshop capitalism's violence and the activist movements fighting it over the 20th century.

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Democracy's Foot Soldiers: World War I and the Politics of Empire in the Greater Caribbean

Reena N. Goldthree

Princeton University Press

The compelling story of WWI racial equality campaigns by Afro-Caribbean troops serving the British Empire.

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Basketball Trafficking: Stolen Black Panamanian Dreams

Javier Wallace

Duke University Press

An insightful read of the role of Black labor exploitation and student visa politics in the global athletic industrial complex.

Cover of The Almond Paradox, with two almonds on a blue background

The Almond Paradox: Cracking Open the Politics of What Plants Need

Emily Reisman

University of California Press

A fascinating analysis of the almond industry's water politics, agronomic knowledge, and capitalism-shaped agriculture.

Dr. Cathy Hannabach is the founder and CEO of Ideas on Fire where she helps interdisciplinary academics transform vibrant ideas into powerful books and public projects that can spark meaningful social change.

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