Nyu Press: 1737 books
Extravagant Abjection
Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Challenging the conception of empowerment associated with the Black Power Movement and its political and intellectual legacies in the present, Darieck Scott contends that power can be found not only in martial resistance, but, surprisingly, where the black body has been inflicted with harm or humiliation.
Theorizing...
The United States of the United Races
A Utopian History of Racial Mixing
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Barack Obama’s historic presidency has re-inserted mixed race into the national conversation. While the troubled and pejorative history of racial amalgamation throughout U.S. history is a familiar story, The United States of the United Races reconsiders an understudied optimist tradition, one which...
Just Trade
A New Covenant Linking Trade and Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Documents Annex: http://www.nyupress.org/justtradeannex/index.html
While modern trade law and human rights law constitute two of the most active spheres in international law, follow similar intellectual trajectories, and often feature the same key actors and arenas, neither field has actively engaged...
by Lisa Lowe
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Asian American Sporting Cultures delves into the American sports arena to explore the long history of Asian American sporting cultures and considers how identities and communities are negotiated on sporting fields.
Through a close examination of Asian American sporting cultures ranging from...
Two Arabic Travel Books
Accounts of China and India and Mission to the Volga
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Two Arabic Travel Books combines two exceptional exemplars of Arabic travel writing, penned in the same era but chronicling wildly divergent experiences. Accounts of China and India is a compilation of reports and anecdotes on the lands and peoples of the Indian Ocean, from the Somali headlands to...
The New Mutants
Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
How fantasy meets reality as popular culture evolves and ignites postwar gender, sexual, and race revolutions.
2017 The Association for the Studies of the Present Book Prize
Finalist Mention, 2017 Lora Romero First Book Award Presented by the American Studies Association
Winner...
Another Country
Queer Anti-Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The metropolis has been the near exclusive focus of queer scholars and queer cultures in America. Asking us to look beyond the cities on the coasts, Scott Herring draws a new map, tracking how rural queers have responded to this myopic mindset. Interweaving a wide range of disciplines—art, media,...
Cable Visions
Television Beyond Broadcasting
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Cable television, on the brink of a boom in the 1970s, promised audiences a new media frontier-an expansive new variety of entertainment and information choices. Music video, 24–hour news, 24-hour weather, movie channels, children's channels, home shopping, and channels targeting groups based on...
The Signifying Creator
Nontextual Sources of Meaning in Ancient Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
For centuries, Jews have been known as the "people of the book." It is commonly thought that Judaism in the first several centuries CE found meaning exclusively in textual sources. But there is another approach to meaning to be found in ancient Judaism, one that sees it in the natural world...
Sitting in Darkness
Mark Twain's Asia and Comparative Racialization
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Perhaps the most popular of all canonical
American authors, Mark Twain is famous for creating works that satirize
American formations of race and empire. While many scholars have explored
Twain’s work in African Americanist contexts, his writing on Asia and Asian
Americans remains largely in the...
Courting Kids
Inside an Experimental Youth Court
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Despite being labeled as adults, the approximately 200,000 youth under the age of 18 who are now prosecuted as adults each year in criminal court are still adolescents, and the contradiction of their legal labeling creates numerous problems and challenges. In Courting Kids Carla Barrett takes us behind...
Economics and Youth Violence
Crime, Disadvantage, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
How do economic conditions such as poverty, unemployment, inflation, and economic growth impact youth violence? Economics and Youth Violence provides a much-needed new perspective on this crucial issue. Pinpointing the economic factors that are most important, the editors and contributors in this...
Jury Decision Making
The State of the Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
While jury decision making has received considerable attention from social scientists, there have been few efforts to systematically pull together all the pieces of this research. In Jury Decision Making, Dennis J. Devine examines over 50 years of research on juries and offers a "big picture" overview of the field.
Not Guilty
Are the Acquitted Innocent?
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
As scores of death row inmates are exonerated by DNA evidence and innocence commissions are set up across the country, conviction of the innocent has become a well-recognized problem. But our justice system makes both kinds of errors—we acquit the guilty and convict the innocent—and exploring...