Nyu Press imprint: 1731 books
Fat Gay Men
Girth, Mirth, and the Politics of Stigma
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
To be fat in a thin-obsessed gay culture
can be difficult. Despite affectionate in-group monikers for big gay men–chubs,
bears, cubs–the anti-fat stigma that persists in American culture at large
still haunts these individuals who often exist at the margins of gay
communities. In Fat Gay Men,...
To the Break of Dawn
A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
2007 Arts Club of Washington’s National Award for Arts Writing - Finalist
**SEE ALSO: Pimps Up, Ho’s Down: Hip Hop’s Hold on Young Black Women by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting.**With roots that stretch from West Africa through the black pulpit, hip-hop emerged in the streets of the South Bronx...
by David K. Holbrook
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1993
How successful is Dickens in his portrayal of women? Dickens has been represented (along with William Blake and D.H. Lawrence) as one who championed the life of the emotions often associated with the "feminine." Yet some of his most important heroines are totally submissive and docile.
Dickens,...
1929
Mapping the Jewish World
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Winner of the 2013 National Jewish Book Award, Anthologies and Collections
The year 1929 represents a major turning point in interwar Jewish society, proving to be a year when Jews, regardless of where they lived, saw themselves affected by developments that took place around the world, as...
We Remember with Reverence and Love
American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Winner of the 2009 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies
Recipient of the 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship in Humanities-Intellectual & Cultural History
It has become an accepted truth: after World War II, American Jews chose to be silent about the mass murder of millions of their European...
Intercultural Couples
Crossing Boundaries, Negotiating Difference
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
Despite the growing presence of intercultural couples in the United States and worldwide, their stories often go untold. In Intercultural Couples, Jill Bystydzienski provides a rare and comprehensive understanding of the multidimensional experiences of intercultural couples, drawing mainly upon in-depth...
Race Consciousness
Reinterpretations for the New Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
Bringing together an impressive range of new scholarship deeply informed both by the legacies of the past and current intellectual trends, Race Consciousness is a veritable Who's Who of the next generation of scholars of African-American studies. This collection of original essays, representing the...
Picture Freedom
Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
In the decades leading up to the end of U.S. slavery, many free Blacks sat for daguerreotypes decorated in fine garments to document their self-possession. People pictured in these early photographs used portraiture to seize control over representation of the free Black body and reimagine Black visuality...
Business as Usual
The Roots of the Global Financial Meltdown
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Situates the current crisis in the historical trajectory of the capitalist world-system, showing how the crisis was made possible not only by neoliberal financial reforms but by a massive turn away from manufacturing things of value towards seeking profit from financial exchange and credit. Much more...
The Post-Secular in Question
Religion in Contemporary Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
The Post-Secular in Question considers whether there has in fact been a religious resurgence of global dimensions in recent decades. This collection of original essays by leading academics represents an interdisciplinary intervention in the continuing and ever-transforming discussion of the role of...
Immigrant Faith
Patterns of Immigrant Religion in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Immigrant Faith examines trends and patterns relating to religion in the lives of
immigrants. The volume moves beyond specific studies of particular faiths in
particular immigrant destinations to present the religious lives of immigrants
in the United States, Canada, and Europe on a broad scale.
Religion...
The Crisis of Connection
Roots, Consequences, and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
As seen in The New York Times
Illuminates the roots and consequences of and offers solutions to the widespread alienation and disconnection that beset modern society
Since the beginning of the 21st century, people have become increasingly disconnected from themselves, each other, and...
Failing Our Veterans
The G.I. Bill and the Vietnam Generation
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
The original 1944 G.I. Bill holds a special place in the American imagination. In popular mythology, it stands as the capstone of the Greatest Generation narrative of World War II, a fitting reward for the nation’s heroes. Given the almost universal acclaim afforded the bill, future generations...
Culture Jamming
Activism and the Art of Cultural Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
A collaboration of political activism and participatory culture seeking to upend consumer capitalism, including interviews with The Yes Men, The Guerrilla Girls, among others.
Coined in the 1980s, “culture jamming” refers to an array of tactics deployed by activists to critique, subvert,...