An extensive investigation of the rally-round-the-flag phenomenon of public opinion in the United States during wars and security crises. The "rally-round-the-flag" phenomenon in the United States is characterized by a sudden and sharp increase in the public approval rating of the sitting US president in response to a war or security crisis. While relatively uncommon, these moments can have a serious impact on policymaking as politicians might escalate a conflict abroad or restrict civil liberties at home. What, then, are the conditions and processes through which rallies have emerged? In Rally 'round the Flag, Yuval Feinstein revisits the phenomenon to answer this question. He examines both the conditions under which rally periods have emerged in the US and the processes that have generated these rallies to introduce a novel rally theory. Drawing on an original data set of conflicts covering 1950 to 2020 and survey data, Feinstein shows that the rally-round-the-flag effect is not an automatic public reaction to international conflicts. Rather, it is a rare event that emerges only under circumstances that lead most Americans to believe it is necessary to take military action to maintain or restore collective honor and gain the respect of other nations. He further attributes public opinion shifts during rally periods to nationalist emotions that people experience when they believe that the president's actions effectively protect the nation's honor and international prestige. Identifying the unique sets of conditions for the emergence of rallies, Rally 'round the Flag offers the most extensive investigation of this public opinion phenomenon and proposes future directions to research the topic for both the United States and other countries.

Americans are under the spell of a distorted and polarizing story about their country’s future―the majority-minority narrative―which contends that inevitable demographic changes will create a society with a majority made up of minorities for the first time in the United States’s history. The Great Demographic Illusion reveals that this narrative obscures a more transformative development: the rising numbers of young Americans from ethno-racially mixed families, consisting of one white and one nonwhite parent. Examining the unprecedented significance of mixed parentage in the twenty-first-century United States, Richard Alba looks at how young Americans with this background will play pivotal roles in the country’s demographic future.
Assembling a vast body of evidence, Alba explores where individuals of mixed parentage fit in American society. Most participate in and reshape the mainstream, as seen in their high levels of integration into social milieus that were previously white dominated. Yet, racism is evident in the very different experiences of individuals with black-white heritage. Alba’s portrait squares in key ways with the history of immigrant-group assimilation, and indicates that, once again, mainstream American society is expanding and becoming more inclusive.
Nevertheless, there are also major limitations to mainstream expansion today, especially in its more modest magnitude and selective nature, which hinder the participation of black Americans and some other people of color. Alba calls for social policies to further open up the mainstream by correcting the restrictions imposed by intensifying economic inequality, shape-shifting racism, and the impaired legal status of many immigrant families.
Countering rigid demographic beliefs and predictions, The Great Demographic Illusion offers a new way of understanding American society and its coming transformation.

Drawing from an activist research project spanning Loja, Santo Domingo, New York, New Jersey, and Barcelona, this book offers a feminist intersectional analysis of the impact of migration on health and well-being. It assesses how social inequalities and migration and health policies, in Ecuador and destination countries, shape the experiences of migrants. The author also explores how individual and collective action challenges health, geopolitical, gender, sexual, ethnoracial, and economic disparities, and empowers communities. This is a thorough analysis of interpersonal, institutional, and structural mechanisms of marginalization and resistance. It will inform policy and research for better responses to migration’s negative effects on health, and progress towards greater equality and social justice.

How the misuses of Martin Luther King’s legacy divide us and undermine democracy

In the post–civil rights era, wide-ranging groups have made civil rights claims that echo those made by Black civil rights activists of the 1960s, from people with disabilities to women’s rights activists and LGBTQ coalitions. Increasingly since the 1980s, white, right-wing social movements, from family values coalitions to the alt-right, now claim the collective memory of civil rights to portray themselves as the newly oppressed minorities. The Struggle for the People’s King reveals how, as these powerful groups remake collective memory toward competing political ends, they generate offshoots of remembrance that distort history and threaten the very foundations of multicultural democracy.

In the revisionist memories of white conservatives, gun rights activists are the new Rosa Parks, antiabortion activists are freedom riders, and antigay groups are the defenders of Martin Luther King’s Christian vision. Drawing on a wealth of evidence ranging from newspaper articles and organizational documents to television transcripts, press releases, and focus groups, Hajar Yazdiha documents the consequential reimagining of the civil rights movement in American political culture from 1980 to today. She shows how the public memory of King and civil rights has transformed into a vacated, sanitized collective memory that evades social reality and perpetuates racial inequality.

Powerful and persuasive, The Struggle for the People’s King demonstrates that these oppositional uses of memory fracture our collective understanding of who we are, how we got here, and where we go next.

"From famously humble origins in founder Jeff Bezos's garage, Amazon has grown to become one of the most successful businesses in history, able to deliver virtually anything to virtually anywhere thanks to its vast worldwide network of fulfillment centers. Unsustainable looks inside the company's warehouses to reveal that the rise of Amazon, and warehousing more generally, is made possible by the exploitation of workers' labor and communities' resources, including the natural environment. Juliann Emmons Allison and Ellen Reese expose the real-world repurcussions of these pernicious practices through a chilling case study of the socioeconomic and environmental harms associated with the largely unchecked growth of warehousing within Inland Southern California, one of the nation's largest logistics hubs, where Amazon is the largest private-sector employer. Tracing the rise of grassroots resistance to Amazon and the warehouse industry by workers and communities across this region, the country, and the globe, Unsustainable provides fresh insight into one of the most important and far-reaching struggles of our time"--

Every place has its quirky attributes, cultural reputation, and distinctive flair. But when we travel across America, do we also experience distinct gender norms and expectations? In his groundbreaking Gendered Places, William Scarborough examines metropolitan commuting zones to see how each region’s local culture reflects gender roles and gender equity. He uses surveys and social media data to measure multiple dimensions of gender norms, including expectations toward women in leadership, attitudes toward working mothers, as well as the division of household labor. Gendered Places reveals that different locations, even within the same region of the country, such as Milwaukee and Madison Wisconsin, have distinct gender norms and highly influential cultural environments. Scarboroughshows how these local norms shape the attitudes and behaviors of residents with implications on patterns of inequality such as the gender wage gap. His findings offer valuable insight for community leaders and organizers making efforts to promote equality in their region. Scarboroughrecognizes local culture as not value-neutral, but highly crucial to the gender structure that perpetuates, or challenges, gender inequality. Gendered Places questions how these gender norms are sustained and their social consequences.

"How do women claim rights against violence in India and with what consequences? By observing how survivors navigate the Indian criminal justice system, Roychowdhury provides a unique lens on rights negotiations in the world's largest democracy. She finds that women interact with the law not by following legal procedure or abiding by the rules, but by deploying collective threats and doing the work of the state themselves. They do so because law enforcement personnel are incapacitated and unwilling to enforce the law. As a result, rights negotiations do not necessarily lead to more woman-friendly outcomes or better legal enforcement. Instead, they allow some women to make gains outside the law: repossess property and children, negotiate cash settlements, join women's groups, access paid employment, develop a sense of self-assurance, and become members of the public sphere. Capable Women, Incapable States shows how the Indian criminal justice system governs violence against women not by protecting them from harm, but by forcing them to become "capable": to take the law into their own hands and complete the hard work that incapable and unwilling state officials refuse to complete. Roychowdhury's book houses implications for how we understand gender inequality and governance not just in India, but large parts of the world where political mobilization for rights confronts negligent criminal justice systems"--

Some people facing violence and persecution flee. Others stay. How do households in danger decide who should go, where to relocate, and whether to keep moving? What are the conditions in countries of origin, transit, and reception that shape people's options? This incisive book tells the story of how one Syrian family, spread across several countries, tried to survive the civil war and live in dignity. This story forms a backdrop to explore and explain the refugee system. Departing from studies that create siloes of knowledge about just one setting or ""solution"" to displacement, the book's sociological approach describes a global system that shapes refugee movements. Changes in one part of the system reverberate elsewhere. Feedback mechanisms change processes across time and place. Earlier migrations shape later movements. Immobility on one path redirects migration along others. Past policies, laws, population movements, and regional responses all contribute to shape states’ responses in the present. As Arar and FitzGerald illustrate, all these processes are forged by deep inequalities of economic, political, military, and ideological power. Presenting a sharp analysis of refugee structures worldwide, this book offers invaluable insights for students and scholars of international migration and refugee studies across the social sciences, as well as policy makers and those involved in refugee and asylum work.

China’s breathtaking economic development has been driven by bureaucrats. Even as the country transitioned away from socialist planning toward a market economy, the economic bureaucracy retained a striking degree of influence and control over crafting and implementing policy. Yet bureaucrats are often dismissed as faceless and inconsequential, their role neglected in favor of party leaders’ top-down rule or bottom-up initiatives.

Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics offers a new account of economic policy making in China over the past four decades that reveals how bureaucrats have spurred large-scale transformations from within. Yingyao Wang demonstrates how competition among bureaucrats motivated by careerism has led to the emergence of new policy approaches. Second-tier economic bureaucrats instituted distinctive—and often conflicting—“policy paradigms” aimed at securing their standing and rewriting China’s long-term development plans for their own benefit. Emerging from the middle levels of the bureaucracy, these policy paradigms ultimately reorganized the Chinese economy and reshaped state-market relations. Drawing on fine-grained biographical and interview data, Wang traces how officials coalesced around shared career trajectories, generational experiences, and social networks to create new alliances and rivalries. Shedding new light on the making and trajectory of China’s ambitious economic reforms, this book also provides keen sociological insight into the relations among bureaucracy, states, and markets.

經歷1949江與海的離散與創傷，從記憶與書寫探尋外省移民的在地群體認同感。
1949年前後，蔣介石政權遷移至臺灣，百萬人流離失所、飄洋過海，引發被迫流亡的「外省人」與被迫接納的「本省人」，雙方各自歧異卻又彼此相連的衝突與動盪。
本書運用三大理論支柱──創傷、記憶與離散，闡述近代最龐大卻也最不被理解的一段東亞人口大遷徙，但並非深究國共內戰的勝敗，而是藉由書寫平民百姓逃難的苦難回憶，說明他們如何受到影響。作者透過口述訪談及文獻檔案，探討這段歷史軌跡所衍生的四種社會創傷──逃離中國的社會創傷、希望消散的社會創傷、中國返鄉的社會創傷、返回臺灣的社會創傷，以及事件四十年後，他們的後代如何以家族親身經驗為中心，利用共享記憶復原且創造出懷舊文化產物，進而建構一套與離散完全相反的臺灣外省群體在地化與認同感。最終希望讀者由此體會「同理、和解與正義」。

「每一天發生的每樣事對我來說都是全新的。資訊不斷轟炸著我，經驗不斷轟炸著我……而我衰微的精神狀態幾乎要失控了。」
「你感覺自己將參與這歷史性一刻；在一區域中，整體生活模式裡很深刻的某項東西即將要轉變……你正在……創造……歷史。從某些方面來看是全然無私無我的，但（你）也同時發現了自我。」
「它讓我欣喜若狂……第一次這些片段碎塊嵌合在一塊……感覺像我自己……我認為透過它,我們不但成就了些事，也是實現我個人的救贖。」
「它是我人生中最長的夢魘：三個月──一九六四年的六月、七月、八月。」
本書即是詳述這個撼動美國六○年代，歷時不到三個月的「自由之夏」運動（Freedom Summer）。這段期間，超過一千人聚集至美國密西西比州，共同居住在「自由之家」，或寄住在當地不懼種族隔離主義者威脅的黑人家庭中。計劃期間，難以緩解的恐懼、令人苦惱的貧困，以及間或發生的暴力事件，都困擾計劃的進行，最後造成四位自願者被毆打致死、八十位自願者受傷、一百位自願者被逮捕，並有六十七間教堂、房屋及商店被砸毀或焚燒。這個夏天是每位參與者心中難以磨滅的經驗，他們的生命被改變，進而撼動整個世代。
「自由之夏」是美國社運的重要轉捩點，透過它所引發的文化與政治效應，孕生了日後其他重要運動，包括女權運動、反戰運動、學生運動等。自由之夏不僅為六○年代眾多行動主義的嘗試提供了組織基礎，同時也關鍵性地推動這個時代茁生的反文化思潮發展。

Stories of teen sexting scandals, cyberbullying, and image-based sexual abuse have become commonplace fixtures of the digital age, with many adults struggling to identify ways to monitor young people's digital engagement. In When Rape Goes Viral, Anna Gjika argues that rather than focusing on surveillance, we should examine such incidents for what they tell us about youth peer cultures and the gender norms and sexual ethics governing their interactions. Drawing from interviews with teens and high-profile cases of mediated juvenile sexual assault, Gjika exposes the deeply unequal and heteronormative power dynamics informing teens' intimate relationships and online practices, and she critically interrogates the role of digital cultures and broader social values in sanctioning abuse. The book also explores the consequences of social media and digital evidence for young victim-survivors and perpetrators of sexual assault, detailing the paradoxical capacities of technology for social and legal responses to gender-based violence.

露思．貝哈透過揭露自身的生命故事，深刻反思在西班牙、古巴及美國的田野工作，她讓民族誌與回憶錄巧妙交織成這部《傷心人類學》。本書的寫作旨趣融合了反身人類學、女性主義自傳性書寫，以及多元文化與離散論述。即使受傷累累仍無懼地穿越漫長的隧道、雖然步履維艱仍勇敢地跨過各藩籬邊界，由此露思．貝哈向世人宣告：「不讓你傷心的人類學就不值得從事！」

In Borderland Dreams June Hee Kwon explores the trajectory of the “Korean dream” that has fueled the massive migration of Korean Chinese workers from the Korean Autonomous Prefecture of Yanbian in northeast China to South Korea since the early 1990s. Charting the interplay of bodies, money, and time, the ethnography reveals how these migrant workers, in the course of pursuing their borderland dreams, are transformed into a transnational ethnicized class. Kwon analyzes the persistent desire of Korean Chinese to “leave to live better” at the intersection between the neoliberalizing regimes of post-socialist China and of post–Cold War South Korea. Scrutinizing the tensions and affinities among the Korean Chinese, North and South Koreans, and Han Chinese whose lives intertwine in the borderland, Kwon captures the diverse and multifaceted aspirations of Korean Chinese workers caught between the ascendant Chinese dream and the waning Korean dream.

技术示能在技术的特征和结果之间起着媒介作用。唐纳德·诺曼在1988年将“示能”这一概念引入了设计领域，自此，“示能”成为技术研究的重要分析工具。然而，珍妮·L.戴维斯在本书中指出，“示能”仍然需要概念上的更新。她引入了机制和条件框架，重新定义了示能分析，并为其提供了必要的批判性视角。
机制和条件框架将问题从“对象提供什么”转移到“对象如何提供”“为谁提供”，以及“在什么情况下提供”。戴维斯指出，这个框架能够解释技术制品所具备的力量。她将该框架置于一种批判性的方法中，解释了包括请求、要求、鼓励、劝阻、拒绝和允许在内的几种示能机制，并展示了这些机制如何通过不同的条件（知觉、灵活性、文化和制度合法性）形成。
戴维斯将该框架付诸实践，并阐述了与之相辅相成的方法论，包括批判性技术文化话语分析、应用程序功能分析和对抗性设计。在快速变化的社会技术环境中，戴维斯的机制和条件框架及时地重启了示能分析理论，为设计与分析的关键任务提供了工具。

要辱罵一位男性，最髒的字眼就是「娘」。
這個現象不只反映出陽剛至上的父權制度，
更是幫助我們省思性別不平等的起跑點。
—— 本書拆解陽剛氣質的形塑與認同，從另一個角度重新理解性別平權，
讓每一個玫瑰少年，都能擁有自由自在的未來。 ——
★美國教育研究協會（AERA）年度書籍獎
★美國社會學協會（ASA）性別研究書籍榮譽獎
★中山大學社會系教授、巷仔口社會學發起人王宏仁專文推薦
「娘炮」是不陽剛的，是陰柔的，
就像一塊燙手山芋，每個男孩都不想要落在自己手上。
男孩在成長過程中，學會了將它烙印在別人身上，藉此證明自己是陽剛的，
於是無數的悲劇發生了，男孩也終於學會了如何壓迫他者。
► 為什麼我們動不動就愛講哪個男生很「娘」？為什麼性霸凌事件層出不窮？
► 我們的教育過程裡，不斷被教導「男生要陽剛，女生要陰柔」，這是怎麼發生的？
► 為什麼男性總愛開一些自以為幽默的「異男玩笑」，騷擾女性而樂此不疲？
► 男孩天天在「想色色的事」，這件事如何變成培養陽剛氣質的一大重點？
► 為什麼在學校裡，陽剛女孩大多比陰柔男孩讓人容易接受，甚至會廣受愛戴？
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「小學的時候，大家就開始叫我娘炮。」高三生瑞奇（化名）這麼說著。
他身材纖細，笑容靦腆，喜歡打扮也熱愛跳舞，本該有一段快樂的高中生活，卻只因為氣質陰柔，每天在學校必須不斷忍受同學的欺侮與羞辱……
這則故事絕非虛構，而且你我都不陌生，但我們從未真正理解，一個又一個的瑞奇為什麼被他人冠上「娘炮」之名，以及這個詞如何變成負面標籤，讓人傷痕累累，彷彿帶刺的玫瑰……
在青少年養成性別認同的過程中，學校是最關鍵的社會化機構。
長年研究性別認同的作者C．J．帕斯科教授，以陽剛氣質為核心概念，在本書描繪出一幅動態的性別認同過程，不但具有學識的原創性，也有助於我們省思以下重要議題：
◆如何避免在日常生活中不自覺地助長陽剛霸權，導致性別不平等的延續。
◆如何在家庭、校園等組織中建立一套性別友善的制度與文化，擴展性別的多元認識。
*****
在這部得獎著作中，作者以一所美國中學為研究田野，耗時十八個月，深入參與學生生活，用生動又嚴謹的文字記錄了青少年是如何崇尚陽剛氣質，又是如何將之化為每日一再上演的羞辱戲碼。
帕斯科指出，陽剛氣質是由一整套的制度章程、文化規範，與人際互動所構成的動態過程。陽剛氣質的形成即是一場一場「拒斥」與「確認」的日常儀式：男孩拒斥陰柔的一切，例如羞辱陰柔的男同學，避免娘炮標籤落到自己身上；以及確認陽剛的自我，像是以「把妹」衡量男性的陽剛程度，並將女性貶為男性的附屬品。
藉著拒絕陰柔、擁抱陽剛，男孩確保自己能長成「合乎社會期望的男性」，但在這過程裡，他們不僅造成了傷害，更將性別不平等的現狀，不斷再製、流傳。
本書特色
★出版即獲美國教育研究協會（AERA）年度書籍獎、美國社會學協會（ASA）性別研究書籍榮譽獎。
★一本嚴謹、專業，又充滿生動細節的田野研究，帶領讀者剖析陽剛文化的運作與互動。
★中山大學社會系教授、巷仔口社會學發起人王宏仁專文推薦。
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王宏仁【專文推薦】／中山大學社會系教授、巷仔口社會學發起人
吳曉樂（作家）
張亦絢（作家）
畢恆達（臺大城鄉所教授）
盛浩偉（作家）
陳思宏（作家）
陳嘉行（知性藝人）
番紅花（親職╱飲食作家）
藍佩嘉（臺大社會系教授、《拚教養》作者）
顏擇雅（出版人、作家）
蘇致亨（《毋甘願的電影史》作者）
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各界好評
大家可以把這本書當成一部異國民族誌來閱讀，作者文筆非常流暢，許多場景描述就好像活生生的電影在眼前播映。透過美國文化的他者，對照我們自身對於身體、性與男子氣概的理解，我們將可以更知道台灣性別文化的特色在哪裡。──王宏仁，中山大學社會學系教授
作者透過生動而吸引人的美國高中校園田野故事，揭露了陽剛特質、強迫異性戀機制、性別不平等是如何透過日常互動、嘲弄、體育、遊戲等建構起來。男學生、女學生、老師都共同參與其中。這是一本精采的社會科普之作，讀者沉浸在故事情節之中的同時，理論名詞也在腦中吸收消化。然後呢，就會反思自己的校園生活又是怎麼回事呢？──畢恆達，臺灣大學建築與城鄉研究所教授
這本書兼具故事的動人魅力與研究的犀利眼光，讓人能夠很具體而微地瞭解性別氣質的各個面向，並深刻體會到：性別並非只是理論，在那背後，都是一個個鮮活的生命。──盛浩偉，作家
高中時，有同學對我說：「你有七個姊姊？難怪這麼娘。」
「娘」是指責，但我一直不懂，像姊姊不好嗎？
我活下來了，接受了自己的身體，為自己的踰矩鼓掌。
但，其他受壓迫的同學呢？
本書作者的田野精采，拆解校園的性別養成，質問父權社會的掐人陽剛。
拋出問號，回到成長現場，把掐住我們的手，一指，一指，慢慢，堅定，撥開。──陳思宏，作家
本書訴說了發人深省的高中生活故事，奠基於民族誌觀察與學生訪談，以此延展了性別與性相理論的深度。──麥可．梅斯納（Michael Messner），社會學家、《Taking the Field: Women, Men, and Sports》作者
突破盲點的原創研究，重新處理了校園的階級、性別、族群，以及「娘炮」的標籤。本書將恐同心態置於研究要點，是一本容易讀的必讀之作。──肯．普倫莫爾（Ken Plummer），著名期刊《Sexualities》編者。
要不是帕斯科這本細心且充滿熱情的民族誌，我們永遠不會了解「性別一致」（gender comformity）是如何從羞辱、恐懼與焦慮的一灘爛泥中淬鍊而成的。男孩必須透過（實體的與隱性的）暴力，才能成為「男孩」。真是一本引發思考、處處洞見的書。──麥可．基莫（Michael Kimmel），社會學家、《Manhood in America: A Cultural History》作者
帕斯科為陽剛氣質、恐同心態、性相，與身體的交互作用帶來了全新觀點，促使我們重新思索性別認同的形構、集體的性別實作，以及性別不平等的再製。──艾米．貝斯特（Amy Best），社會學家、《Prom Night: Youth, Schools, and Popular Culture》作者

本书是作者爱丽丝•戈夫曼深入美国费城一个黑人聚居区6年，调研了“第六街区”的217个家庭，最终形成的田野调查成果。全书以民族志的方法深入描写了贫民社区中黑人青年的生活，以及他们与警察和法庭等权威机构之间的互动关系，向我们揭露了美国黑人青年真实的生存现状：在美国实施对犯罪零容忍的高压政策下，黑人青年遭受着白人警察的误解、拘役、搜查和拘捕，而拘捕的罪名大部分是轻微过失。在恐慌之中，贫民区的黑人青年长期处于“半合法”的边缘，游离于正常生活之外。
本书反映了美国种族问题在司法高压下对社区的生态与生活的深刻影响，揭示出美国社会治理中存在的一个重大失败：花费大量财力、物力、人力去监控、拘捕，而不是帮助黑人走出困境，造成“种族隔阂”越来越深。

A gripping, in-depth account of the 2011 Egyptian revolution, through the eyes of its youthful vanguard

January 25, 2011, was a watershed moment for Egypt and a transformative experience for the young men and women who changed the course of their nation’s history. Tahrir’s Youth tells the story of the organized youth behind the mass uprising that brought about the spectacular collapse of the Mubarak regime. Who were these activists? What did they want? How did the movement they unleashed shape them as it unfolded, and why did it ultimately fall short of its goals?

Rusha Latif follows the trajectory of the movement from the perspective of the Revolutionary Youth Coalition (RYC), a key front forged in Tahrir Square during the early days of the revolt. Drawing on firsthand testimonies and her own direct experience, she offers insight into the motives, hopes, strategies, successes, failures, and disillusionments of the movement’s leaders. Her account details the challenges these activists faced as they attempted to steer the movement they had set in motion and highlights the factors leading to their struggle’s defeat, despite its initial promise.

Tahrir’s Youth questions the belief that Egypt’s revolution was spontaneous and leaderless. Timely and necessary, this study not only illuminates the uprising’s leadership dynamics but also demonstrates the need for imagining new modes of revolutionary organizing for the twenty-first century.

The labor–climate movement in the U.S. laid the groundwork for the Green New Deal by building a base within labor for supporting climate protection as a vehicle for good jobs. But as we confront the climate crisis and seek environmental justice, a “jobs vs. environment” discourse often pits workers against climate activists. How can we make a “just transition” moving away from fossil fuels, while also compensating for the human cost when jobs are lost or displaced?

In his timely book, Clean Air and Good Jobs, Todd Vachon examines the labor–climate movement and demonstrates what can be envisioned and accomplished when climate justice is on labor’s agenda and unions work together with other social movements to formulate bold solutions to the climate crisis. Vachon profiles the workers and union leaders who have been waging a slow, but steadily growing revolution within their unions to make labor as a whole an active and progressive champion for both workers and the environment. Clean Air and Good Jobs examines the “movement within the movement” offering useful solutions to the dual crises of climate and inequality.

Gay bars have been closing by the hundreds. The story goes that increasing mainstream acceptance of LGBTQ+ people, plus dating apps like Grindr and Tinder, have rendered these spaces obsolete. Beyond that, rampant gentrification in big cities has pushed gay bars out of the neighborhoods they helped make hip. Who Needs Gay Bars? considers these narratives, accepting that the answer for some might be: maybe nobody. And yet... Jarred by the closing of his favorite local watering hole in Cleveland, Ohio, Greggor Mattson embarks on a journey across the country to paint a much more complex picture of the cultural significance of these spaces, inside "big four" gay cities, but also beyond them. No longer the only places for their patrons to socialize openly, Mattson finds in them instead a continuously evolving symbol; a physical place for feeling and challenging the beating pulse of sexual progress. From the historical archives of Seattle's Garden of Allah, to the outpost bars in Texas, Missouri or Florida that serve as community hubs for queer youth--these are places of celebration, where the next drag superstar from Alaska or Oklahoma may be discovered. They are also fraught grounds for confronting the racial and gender politics within and without the LGBTQ+ community. The question that frames this story is not asking whether these spaces are needed, but for whom, earnestly exploring the diversity of folks and purposes they serve today. Loosely informed by the Damron Guide, the so-called "Green Book" of gay travel, Mattson logged 10,000 miles on the road to all corners of the United States. His destinations are sometimes thriving, sometimes struggling, but all offering intimate views of the wide range of gay experience in America: POC, white, trans, cis; past, present, and future.