New Sociology Titles from Penguin Random House

By Spenser Stevens | February 12 2024 | Sociology

Browse these new and notable titles for use in your Sociology courses. To request complimentary exam copies for course-use consideration, click here. 

Coming Out as Dalit
Coming Out as Dalit
A Memoir of Surviving India's Caste System (Updated Edition)
Yashica Dutt
9780807045282

Born into a “formerly untouchable manual-scavenging family in small-town India,” Yashica Dutt was taught from a young age to not appear “Dalit looking.” Although prejudice against Dalits, who compose 25% of the population, has been illegal since 1950, caste-ism in India is alive and well. Blending her personal history with extensive research and reporting, Dutt provides an incriminating analysis of caste’s influence in India over everything from entertainment to judicial systems and how this discrimination has carried over to US institutions.

$29.95 US
Feb 06, 2024
Hardcover
264 Pages
Beacon Press
A Map of Future Ruins
A Map of Future Ruins
On Borders and Belonging
Lauren Markham
9780593545577
A provocative, virtuosic inquiry that reveals how the valorization of migrations past is intimately linked to the exclusion and demonization of migrants today.
$28.00 US
Feb 13, 2024
Hardcover
272 Pages
Riverhead Books
If Love Could Kill
If Love Could Kill
The Myths and Truths of Women Who Commit Violence
Anna Motz
9780593534151
A groundbreaking work by an internationally acclaimed forensic psychotherapist that looks at women who commit extreme acts of violence and cruelty and at the underlying oppression and abuse often at the heart of these crimes.
$30.00 US
Feb 06, 2024
Hardcover
272 Pages
Knopf
The Patriarchs
The Patriarchs
The Origins of Inequality
Angela Saini
9780807093337
From the author of  Superior, a groundbreaking exploration of gendered oppression—its origins, its histories, our attempts to understand it, and our efforts to combat it.
$17.95 US
Feb 27, 2024
Paperback
256 Pages
Beacon Press
Attack from Within
Attack from Within
How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America
Barbara McQuade
9781644213636

An urgent, comprehensive explanation of the ways disinformation is impacting democracy, and practical solutions that can be pursued to strengthen the public, media, and truth-based politics.

$35.00 US
Feb 27, 2024
Hardcover
384 Pages
Seven Stories Press
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