CRWS Books

Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

Arlie R Hochschild
2016

By Arlie Russell Hochschild - When Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, a bewildered nation turned to Strangers in Their Own Land to understand what Trump voters were thinking when they cast their ballots. Arlie Hochschild, one of the most influential sociologists of her generation, had spent the preceding five years immersed in the community around Lake Charles, Louisiana, a Tea Party stronghold. As Jedediah Purdy put it in the New Republic, “Hochschild is fascinated by how people make sense of their lives. . . . [Her] attentive, detailed...

Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

Kathleen Belew
2018

Kathleen Belew - The white power movement in America wants a revolution. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but highly organized cadres motivated by a coherent and deeply troubling worldview made up of white supremacy, virulent anticommunism, and apocalyptic faith. In Bring the War Home, Kathleen Belew gives us the history of a movement that consolidated in the 1970s and 1980s around a potent sense of betrayal in the Vietnam War and made tragic headlines in Waco and Ruby Ridge and with the Oklahoma City bombing and is resurgent under President Trump.

Returning to an...

Remaking the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge: A Case of Shadowboxing with Nature

Karen Trapenberg Frick
2015

Karen Trapenberg Frick - On 17 October 1989, one of the largest earthquakes to occur in California since the San Francisco earthquake of April 1906 struck Northern California. Damage was extensive, none more so than the partial collapse of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge’s eastern span, a vital link used by hundreds of thousands of Californians every day.

The bridge was closed for a month for repairs and then reopened to traffic. But what ensued over the next 25 years is the extraordinary story that Karen Trapenberg Frick tells here. It is a cautionary tale to...

The Evolving Radical Right in the Early Twenty-First Century: Liberty Under Siege

Ken Fuchsman
Brigitte Demeure
2026

Edited By Ken Fuchsman and Brigitte Demeure:

This book investigates the dynamics of expansion and normalization of the radical right in the early twenty-first century.

The radical right’s popularity with voters dramatically increased, it even enabled twice the election of Trump as a chief executive in the United States. The main focus of this volume is on the forces in...

Fatema Mernissi for Our Times

Minoo Moallem
Paola Bacchetta
2026

Edited by Minoo Moallem and Paola Bacchetta

This volume pays tribute to the late Fatema Mernissi, a pioneering feminist sociologist and writer whose work profoundly influenced feminist and civic activism in Muslim and Arab societies and beyond. Bringing together an international group of scholars, the book explores pressing issues of women, gender, and sexuality in Muslim and Arab countries and their diasporas, engaging in a dynamic dialogue
with Mernissi’s work.

The collection examines Mernissi’s contributions through three...

Kahanism and the Algorithmic Interpretation of History

Neil Bar
2026

By Neil Bar

This book offers a systematic analysis of the ideology and enduring influence of Rabbi Meir Kahane in Israel, the American-born leader and thinker who rose to become one of the most radical far-right figures ever to hold political power in Israel.

It unveils the core of his doctrinal structure: the algorithmic interpretation of history, a rigid, deterministic system positing that Jewish fate is governed by an immutable, binary divine code wherein absolute separation between Jews and gentiles guarantees glory, while assimilation ensures catastrophe...

Co-Motion: Re-Thinking Power, Subjects, and Feminist and Queer Alliances

Paola Bacchetta
2026

By: Paola Bacchetta

In Co-Motion, theorist Paola Bacchetta proposes a new lexicon for analyzing power, subjects and alliances. Employing what she calls ‘theory-assemblages’ to describe how diverse theoretical and political approaches inspire movements and produce different kinds of alliances, Bacchetta engages the inseparability of power relations—such as colonialism, capitalism, racism, caste, misogyny, and speciesism—and how their combinations, operability, and the analyses they require, shift in different...

Divided by the Wall: Progressive and Conservative Immigration Politics at the U.S.-Mexico Border

Emine Fidan Elcioglu
2020

By: Emine Fidan Elcioglu

The construction of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border—whether to build it or not—has become a hot-button issue in contemporary America. A recent impasse over funding a wall caused the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, sharpening partisan divisions across the nation. In the Arizona borderlands, groups of predominantly white American citizens have been mobilizing for decades—some help undocumented immigrants bypass governmental detection, while others help law enforcement agents to apprehend immigrants. Activists...

After Dobbs: How the Supreme Court Ended Roe but Not Abortion

Carole Joffe
2025

By David Cohen and Carole Joffe:

How hard-working individuals have kept abortion afloat in the wake of Roe v. Wade’s destruction, and the continued help needed if we want to sustain it

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, many feared it meant the end of abortion access in the United States. Yet the courageous work of people on the ground has allowed abortion to survive post-Dobbs in ways that no one predicted.

In After Dobbs, law professor David Cohen and...

Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right

Arlie R Hochschild
2024

By Arlie Russell Hochschild: For all the attempts to understand the state of American politics and the blue/red divide, we’ve ignored what economic and cultural loss can do to pride. What happens, Arlie Russell Hochschild asks, when a proud people in a hard-hit region suffer the deep loss of pride and are confronted with a powerful political appeal that makes it feel “stolen”?

Hochschild’s research drew her to Pikeville, Kentucky, in the heart of Appalachia, within the whitest and second-poorest congressional district in the nation, where...