One of five forthcoming publications from Duke University Press we have recently indexed at Southwest Humanities, Marlon Ross’s Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness is a fascinating study of the figure of the sissy as a means to examine the construction of manliness in the U.S. from the late nineteenth century to the present. “Rather than collapsing sissiness into homosexuality, Ross shows how sissiness constitutes a historically fluid range of gender practices that are expressed as a physical manifestation, discursive epithet, social identity, and political phenomenon.” Through lucid and revealing studies of the lives and work of Black American men like James Baldwin, Booker T. Washington, Wilt Chamberlain, George Washington Carver, Little Richard, and Amiri Baraka, among others, Ross examines “American gender norms … [and] racialized patriarchy” and analyzes the multiple ways that “sissiness constitutes a central element in modern understandings of race and gender.” Sissy Insurgencies will be available in March 2022. More information is available at the Duke University Press website.