SUNY Press

11/22/2025

How do tax holidays, financial services, and colonial legacies collide in the contemporary Caribbean? VIRGIN CAPITAL offers a powerful ethnographic examination of the U.S. Virgin Islands’ Economic Development Commission (EDC) and the racialized, gendered hierarchies embedded within neoliberal “development” regimes.

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11/22/2025

THE CONTEMPLATIVE FOUNDATIONS OF CLASSICAL DAOISM reshapes how we understand early Daoist thought.

Harold D. Roth brings nearly three decades of scholarship to bear in revealing classical Daoism’s contemplative roots, showing that the authors of the Daodejing and Zhuangzi were not abstract theorists but mystics engaged in deep self-cultivation.

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11/22/2025

How do popular Haitian films entertain and help communities in Haiti and the diaspora navigate migration, belonging, family, gender, sexuality & economic struggle?

BAY LODYANS analyzes films made with digital cameras and even cellphones, works rooted in everyday life and Haitian epistemologies. By centering concepts like jerans and kafou, and interviews with filmmakers, Cécile Accilien challenges Western academic lenses and uplifts Haitian storytelling traditions.

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11/22/2025

At a moment of intensifying culture wars and curriculum battles, ETHNIC STUDIES AND YOUTH LITERATURE examines the relationship between US imperialism and youth literature, illuminating how the field has long grappled with its entanglements with systemic racism and oppression.

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11/22/2025

How do texts speak with authority? THE LILY’S TONGUE offers a bold new answer through a nuanced reading of Kierkegaard’s four Lily Discourses—texts in which lilies are not merely metaphors but authoritative speakers.

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11/22/2025

From lone voices to global movements, FROM A WHISPER TO A MOVEMENT explores how whistleblowing and public protest collide to challenge power and defend human rights.

Join the conversation at the panel "Investigating the Shared Rhetorical Spaces of Whistleblowing and Social Protest"

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11/22/2025

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Don’t miss RELIGION IN MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE, the first full-volume look at Wesley J. Wildman’s remarkably creative work in religious studies.

From philosophy and theology to psychology, sociology, and anthropology, scholars weigh in on Wildman’s innovative, integrative approach to understanding religion today.

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11/21/2025

Information isn’t just something we read or use, it’s something we feel.

New in paperback in December, INFORMATION EXPERIENCE dives into how content, design, and strategy come together to create immersive, memorable interactions for users.

From app development to instructional design, Craig Baehr offers a practical framework for crafting information products that go beyond utility. Explore how user perception, cognition, environment design, strategic branding, and tactical design work together to shape holistic experiences.

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11/21/2025

Our sale continues through the end of the month. Browse over 100 sale titles at tinyurl.com/4fjajsr3.

11/21/2025

READING DU BOIS offers a bold Afrocentric reexamination of one of the most influential thinkers in American history.

W.E.B. Du Bois argued that the defining problem of his century was the color line, and this book shows how that insight remains powerfully relevant today. Aaron X. Smith & Molefi Kete Asante reveal how the “color line” illuminates the central role of African American experiences in shaping justice, democracy, and hope in our contemporary moment.

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11/21/2025

We are very sorry to hear of the passing of Kevin Cassidy, coeditor of Real Security many years ago and author of the new book Beyond the Good Friday Agreement, coming next summer.

View Kevin J. Cassidy's complete obituary, share memories, and explore 12 tribute posts from the community.

11/21/2025

Our most recent guest blog post is from Douglass Seaton, whose new book Romantic Voices: Listening to Nineteenth-Century Music, publishes in December. tinyurl.com/mrxy4twu