Nyu Press: 1737 books
by Don Judson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1996
"When BooBoo stabs Morris Boyle I am reading a news magazine that someone has smuggled into the wing."
Thus, the protagonist of this novella introduces us to prison, one of the several worlds he inhabits, worlds most of us would rather ignore but which inexorably, through what we see and...
Creole Religions of the Caribbean
An Introduction from Vodou and Santeria to Obeah and Espiritismo
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
Creolization—the coming together of diverse beliefs and practices to form new beliefs and practices-is one of the most significant phenomena in Caribbean religious history. Brought together in the crucible of the sugar plantation, Caribbean peoples drew on the variants of Christianity brought by...
A Rich Brew
How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Finalist, 2018 National Jewish Book Award for Modern Jewish Thought and Experience, presented by the Jewish Book Council
A fascinating glimpse into the world of the coffeehouse and its role in shaping modern Jewish culture
Unlike the synagogue, the house of study, the community center,...
Pranksters
Making Mischief in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
From Benjamin
Franklin's newspaper hoax that faked the death of his rival to Abbie Hoffman’s
attempt to levitate the Pentagon, pranksters, hoaxers, and con artists have caused
confusion, disorder, and laughter in Western society for centuries. Profiling
the most notorious mischief makers from the...
Looking for Leroy
Illegible Black Masculinities
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Mark Anthony Neal’s Looking for Leroy is an engaging and provocative analysis of the complex ways in which black masculinity has been read and misread through contemporary American popular culture. Neal argues that black men and boys are bound, in profound ways, to and by their legibility. The most...
Noise and Spirit
The Religious and Spiritual Sensibilities of Rap Music
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
Rap music is often seen as a Black secular response to pressing issues of our time. Yet, like spirituals, the blues, and gospel music, rap has deep connections to African American religious traditions.
Noise and Spirit explores the diverse religious dimensions of rap stemming from Islam (including...
Stripped
Inside the Lives of Exotic Dancers
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
What kind of woman dances naked for money? Bernadette Barton takes us inside countless strip bars and clubs, from upscale to back road as well as those that specialize in lapdancing, table dancing, topless only, or peep shows, to reveal the startling lives of exotic dancers.
Based on over five years...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Understandings of “nature” have expanded and changed, but the word has not lost importance at any level of discourse: it continues to hold a key place in conversations surrounding thought, ethics, and aesthetics. Nowhere is this more evident than in the interdisciplinary field of environmental...
Policy Drift
Shared Powers and the Making of U.S. Law and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
The role of formal and informal institutional forces in changing three areas of U.S. public policy: privacy rights, civil rights and climate policy
There is no finality to the public policy process. Although it’s often assumed that once a law is enacted it is implemented faithfully, even...
Immigration and American Popular Culture
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2006
How does a 'national' popular culture form and grow over time in a nation comprised of immigrants? How have immigrants used popular culture in America, and how has it used them?
Immigration and American Popular Culture looks at the relationship between American immigrants and the popular culture industry...
Traces of the Spirit
The Religious Dimensions of Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
"Sylvan's thesis furnishes far more of the same valued experiences than is usually realized: ritual activity, communal ceremony, a philosophy and worldview, a code for living one's life, a cultural identity, a social structure, a sense of belonging, and crucially, Sylvan argues encounters with...
Authentically Black and Truly Catholic
The Rise of Black Catholicism in the Great Migration
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Explores the contentious debates among Black Catholics about the proper relationship between religious practice and racial identity
Chicago has been known as the Black Metropolis. But before the Great Migration, Chicago could have been called the Catholic Metropolis, with its skyline defined...
by Roger S. Bagnall, Nicola Aravecchia, Raffaella Cribiore
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Scattered through the vast expanse of stone and sand that makes up Egypt’s Western Desert are several oases. These islands of green in the midst of the Sahara owe their existence to springs and wells drawing on ancient aquifers. In antiquity, as today, they supported agricultural communities, going...
Revolutionary Medicine
The Founding Fathers and Mothers in Sickness and in Health
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
An engaging history of the role that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin played in the origins of public health in America
Before the advent of modern antibiotics, one’s life could be
abruptly shattered by contagion and death, and debility from infectious
diseases and...