Nyu Press imprint: 1731 books
America, As Seen on TV
How Television Shapes Immigrant Expectations around the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
The surprising effects of American TV on global viewers
As a dominant cultural export, American television is often the first exposure to American ideals and the English language for many people throughout the world. Yet, American television is flawed, and, it represents race, class, and gender...
Beyond the Nation
Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series
Beyond the Nation charts an expansive history of Filipino literature in the U.S., forged within the dual contexts of imperialism and migration, from the early twentieth century into the twenty-first. Martin Joseph Ponce theorizes and enacts...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
A toolkit for understanding how Asian Americans influence, consume and are reflected by mainstream media.
Asian Americans have long been the subject and object of popular culture in the U.S. The rapid circulation of cultural flashpoints—such as the American obsession with K-pop sensations,...
Planet Ocean
A Conversation with Paul Watson
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Veteran
environmental activist and Whale Wars host
Paul Watson offers in this interview a provocative and revolutionary view of
the state of an environment in crisis. The planet may survive our environmental
destruction, he argues, but humans may not. Focused on protecting oceans,
preventing the loss...
Theatrical Liberalism
Jews and Popular Entertainment in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Finalist for the 2013 National Jewish Book Award, American Jewish Studies
For centuries, Jews were one of the few European cultures without any official public theatrical tradition. Yet in the modern era, Jews were among the most important creators of popular theater and film–especially in...
The Material Gene
Gender, Race, and Heredity after the Human Genome Project
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
Winner of the 2014 Diamond Anniversary Book Award
Finalist for the 2014 National Communications Association Critical and Cultural Studies Division Book of the Year Award
In 2000, the National Human Genome Research Institute announced the completion of a “draft” of the human genome,...
Embracing the Other
Philosophical, Psychological, and Historical Perspectives on Altruism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1992
All but buried for most of the twentieth century, the concept of altruism has re-emerged in this last quarter as a focus of intense scholarly inquiry and general public interest. In the wake of increased consciousness of the human potential for destructiveness, both scholars and the general public...
Tropics of Desire
Interventions from Queer Latino America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
From its sweaty beats to the pulsating music on the streets, Latin/o America is perceived in the United States as the land of heat, the toy store for Western sex. It is the territory of magical fantasy and of revolutionary threat, where topography is the travel guide of desire, directing imperial...
Radio Fields
Anthropology and Wireless Sound in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Radio is the most widespread electronic medium in the world today. As a form of technology that is both durable and relatively cheap, radio remains central to the everyday lives of billions of people around the globe. It is used as a call for prayer in Argentina and Appalachia, to organize political...
by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
An indispensable collection that re-examines what it means to belong in the world.
"Where are you from?" The word cosmopolitan was first used as a way of evading exactly this question, when Diogenes the Cynic declared himself a “kosmo-polites,” or citizen of the world. Cosmopolitanism...
Family Secrets
Stories of Incest and Sexual Violence in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
“My breasts stopped growing when my grandfather touched them,” confides ‘Elisa’, a young woman who recounts the traumatic incest and sexual abuse she experienced in childhood. In Family Secrets, Gloria González-López tells the life stories of 60 men and women in Mexico who, like Elisa, saw...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
2018 Outstanding Academic Title, given by Choice Magazine
A vocabulary of Latina/o studies.
Keywords for Latina/o Studies is a generative text that enhances the ongoing dialogue within a rapidly growing and changing field. The keywords included in this collection represent established...
Saving Face
Disfigurement and the Politics of Appearance
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Winner, Body and Embodiment Award presented by the American Sociological Association
Imagine yourself without a face—the task
seems impossible. The face is a core feature of our physical identity. Our face
is how others identify us and how we think of our ‘self’. Yet, human faces are
also...
The Myth of Empowerment
Women and the Therapeutic Culture in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
The Myth of Empowerment surveys the ways in which women have been represented and influenced by the rapidly growing therapeutic culture-both popular and professional-from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The middle-class woman concerned about her health and her ability to care for others...