Nyu Press imprint: 1731 books
Corridor Cultures
Mapping Student Resistance at an Urban School
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
For many students, the classroom is not the central focus of school. The school's corridors and doorways are areas largely given over to student control, and it is here that they negotiate their cultural identities and status among their peer groups. The flavor of this “corridor culture” tends...
When Mothers Kill
Interviews from Prison
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Winner of the 2008 Outstanding Book Award by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
Michelle Oberman and Cheryl L. Meyer don’t write for news magazines or prime-time investigative television shows, but the stories they tell hold the same fascination. When Mothers Kill is compelling. In a clear,...
African American Literature Beyond Race
An Alternative Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
It is widely accepted that the canon of African American literature has racial realism at its core: African American protagonists, social settings, cultural symbols, and racial-political discourse. As a result, writings that are not preoccupied with race have long been invisible—unpublished, out...
Rough Writing
Ethnic Authorship in Theodore Roosevelt’s America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
As the United States struggled to absorb a massive influx of ethnically diverse immigrants at the turn of the twentieth century, the question of who and what an American is took on urgent intensity. It seemed more critical than ever to establish a definition by which Americanness could be established,...
Before Chicano
Citizenship and the Making of Mexican American Manhood, 1848-1959
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Uncovers the long history of how Latino manhood was integral to the formation of Latino identity
In the first ever book-length study of Latino manhood before the Civil Rights Movement, Before Chicano examines Mexican American print culture to explore how conceptions of citizenship and manhood...
The Shock of the News
Media Coverage and the Making of 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
How did the events of September 11, 2001 come to be thought of as 9/11? The Shock of the News is an authoritative account of post-9/11 political and social processes, offering an in-depth analysis of the media coverage of this momentous event. Brian Monahan demonstrates how 9/11 has been transformed...
Women, Love, and Power
Literary and Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1991
Elaine Baruch is not only among the most quiet-voiced and fair-minded of feminist writers. She is also among the most far-ranging in her scholarship, equally at ease with the writers of the Renaissance and Freud, the medieval troubadours, and our contemporary polemicists. . . instructive, absorbing,...
by Kaja Silverman, Harun Farocki
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
Probably the most prominent living filmmaker, and one of the foremost directors of the postwar era, Jean Luc-Godard has received astonishingly little critical attention in the United States. With Speaking about Godard, leading film theorist Kaja Silverman and filmmaker Harun Farocki have made one...
Snitching
Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Winner of the 2010 American Bar Association Honorable Mention for BooksAlbert Burrell spent thirteen years on death row for a murder he did not commit. Atlanta police killed 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston during a misguided raid on her home. After being released by Chicago prosecutors, Darryl...
Aztlán and Arcadia
Religion, Ethnicity, and the Creation of Place
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
In the
wake of the Mexican-American War, competing narratives of religious conquest
and re-conquest were employed by Anglo American and ethnic Mexican Californians
to make sense of their place in North America. These “invented traditions” had
a profound impact on North American religious and ethnic...
The Emergence of Mexican America
Recovering Stories of Mexican Peoplehood in U.S. Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Winner of the 2006 Thomas J. Lyon Book Award in Western American Literary Studies, presented by the Western Literature Association
In The Emergence of Mexican America, John-Michael Rivera examines the cultural, political, and legal representations of Mexican Americans and the development of US capitalism...
Becoming Bicultural
Risk, Resilience, and Latino Youth
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Although the United States has always been a nation of immigrants, the recent demographic shifts resulting in burgeoning young Latino and Asian populations have literally changed the face of the nation. This wave of massive immigration has led to a nationwide struggle with the need to become bicultural,...
Latina Girls
Voices of Adolescent Strength in the U.S.
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Latinas are now the largest minority group of girls in the country. Yet the research about this group is sparse, and there is a lack of information to guide studies, services or education for the rapidly growing Latino population across the U.S. The existing research has focused on stereotypical perceptions...
Faith and War
How Christians Debated the Cold and Vietnam Wars
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Throughout American history, Christianity has shaped public opinion, guided leaders in their decision making, and stood at the center of countless issues. To gain complete knowledge of an era, historians must investigate the religious context of what transpired, why it happened, and how. Yet too little...