Nyu Press: 1737 books
Sephardic Jews in America
A Diasporic History
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
A significant number of Sephardic Jews, tracing their remote origins to Spain and Portugal, immigrated to the United States from Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans from 1880 through the 1920s, joined by a smaller number of Mizrahi Jews arriving from Arab lands. Most Sephardim settled in New York, establishing...
Soundbitten
The Perils of Media-Centered Political Activism
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
There is an elaborate and often invisible carnival that emerges alongside presidential campaigns as innumerable activist groups attempt to press their issues into mainstream political discourse. Sarah Sobieraj’s fascinating ethnographic portrait of fifty diverse organizations over the course of...
Playing to the Crowd
Musicians, Audiences, and the Intimate Work of Connection
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Explains what happened to music—for both artists and fans—when music went online.
Playing to the Crowd explores and explains how the rise of digital communication platforms has transformed artist-fan relationships into something closer to friendship or family. Through in-depth interviews...
Women Doing Life
Gender, Punishment and the Struggle for Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
The carceral experiences of women serving life sentences.
2017 Michigan Notable Book Selection presented by The Detroit Free Press
How do women – mothers, daughters, aunts, nieces and grandmothers – make sense of judgment to a lifetime behind bars? In Women Doing Life, Lora Bex Lempert...
Under the Shadow of Napoleon
French Influence on the American Way of Warfare from Independence to the Eve of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
The way an army thinks about and understands warfare has a tremendous impact on its organization, training, and operations. The central ideas of that understanding form a nation's way of warfare that influences decisions on and off the battlefield. From the disasters of the War of 1812, Winfield Scott...
by Kim E. Nielsen
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Several decades after her death in 1968, Helen Keller remains one of the most widely recognized women of the twentieth century. But the fascinating story of her vivid political life—particularly her interest in radicalism and anti-capitalist activism—has been largely overwhelmed by the sentimentalized...
A Body, Undone
Living On After Great Pain
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
In the early evening on October 1, 2003, Christina Crosby was three miles into a seventeen mile bicycle ride, intent on reaching her goal of 1,000 miles for the riding season. She was a respected senior professor of English who had celebrated her fiftieth birthday a month before. As she crested a...
We Are Data
Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
What identity means in an algorithmic age: how it works, how our lives are controlled by it, and how we can resist it
Algorithms are everywhere, organizing the near limitless data that exists in our world. Derived from our every search, like, click, and purchase, algorithms determine the news...
Netflix Nations
The Geography of Digital Distribution
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
How streaming services and internet distribution have transformed global television culture.
Television, once a broadcast medium, now also travels through our telephone lines, fiber optic cables, and wireless networks. It is delivered to viewers via apps, screens large and small, and media...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studies
Keywords for Media Studies introduces and aims to advance the field of critical media studies by tracing, defining, and problematizing...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
Since its initial publication, scholars and students alike have turned to Keywords for American Cultural Studies as an invaluable resource for understanding key terms and debates in the fields of American studies and cultural studies. As scholarship has continued to evolve, this revised and expanded...
Algorithms of Oppression
How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
As seen in Wired and Time
A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms
Run a Google search for “black girls”—what will you find? “Big Booty” and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top...
The Gender Trap
Parents and the Pitfalls of Raising Boys and Girls
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
From the selection of toys, clothes, and activities to styles of play and emotional expression, the family is ground zero for where children learn about gender. Despite recent awareness that girls are not too fragile to play sports and that boys can benefit from learning to cook, we still find ourselves...
Brooklyn By Name
How the Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks, Bridges, and More Got Their Names
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Visit the blog for the book at www.brooklynbyname.comFrom Bedford-Stuyvesant to Williamsburg, Brooklyn's historic names are emblems of American culture and history. Uncovering the remarkable stories behind the landmarks, Brooklyn By Name takes readers on a stroll through the streets and places...