Nyu Press: 1737 books
Diaspora Lobbies and the US Government
Convergence and Divergence in Making Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
As a nation of
immigrants, the United States has long accepted that citizens who identify with
an ancestral homeland may hold dual loyalties; yet Americans have at times
regarded the persistence of foreign ties with suspicion, seeing them as a sign of
potential disloyalty and a threat to national...
Animus
A Short Introduction to Bias in the Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
An introduction to the legal concept of unconstitutional bias.
If a town council denies a zoning permit for a group home for intellectually disabled persons because residents don’t want “those kinds of people” in the neighborhood, the town’s decision is motivated by the public’s dislike...
Priced Out
Stuyvesant Town and the Loss of Middle-Class Neighborhoods
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
On an average morning in the tree-lined parks, plazas, and play-areas of Manhattan’s Stuyvesant Town housing development, birds chirp as early risers dash off to work, elderly residents enjoy a peaceful morning stroll, and flocks of parents usher their children to school. It seems an unlikely location...
Satisfaction Not Guaranteed
Dilemmas of Progress in Modern Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, modern urban, industrial, affluent societies have made great strides towards fixing some of the problems that plagued other societies for centuries: food shortages are nearly eliminated, infant and maternal mortality has fallen dramatically, birth control...
Parental Incarceration and the Family
Psychological and Social Effects of Imprisonment on Children, Parents, and Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
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Justice for Kids
Keeping Kids Out of the Juvenile Justice System
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Children and youth become involved with the juvenile justice system at a significant rate. While some children move just as quickly out of the system and go on to live productive lives as adults, other children become enmeshed in the system, developing deeper problems and or transferring into the...
Evolution of the Judicial Opinion
Institutional and Individual Styles
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
In this sweeping study of the judicial opinion, William D. Popkin examines how judges' opinions have been presented from the early American Republic to the present. Throughout history, he maintains, judges have presented their opinions within political contexts that involve projecting judicial authority...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1998
The Constitution is the cornerstone of American government, hailed as one of the greatest contributions of the Western Enlightenment. While many seem content simply to celebrate it, those most familiar with the document invariably find it wanting in at least some aspects.
This unique volume brings...
Is Academic Feminism Dead?
Theory in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
What role does theory play in academia today? How can feminist theory be made more relevant to the very real struggles undertaken by women of all professions, races, and sexual orientation? How can it be directed into more effective social activism, and how is theory itself a form of practice?
Feminist...
Homeroom Security
School Discipline in an Age of Fear
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Police officers, armed security guards, surveillance cameras, and metal detectors are common features of the disturbing new landscape at many of today’s high schools. You will also find new and harsher disciplinary practices: zero-tolerance policies, random searches with drug-sniffing dogs, and...
Caring Across Generations
The Linked Lives of Korean American Families
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
More than 1.3 million Korean Americans live
in the United States, the majority of them foreign-born immigrants and their
children, the so-called 1.5 and second generations. While many sons and
daughters of Korean immigrants outwardly conform to the stereotyped image of
the upwardly mobile, highly...
Technomobility in China
Young Migrant Women and Mobile Phones
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
As unprecedented waves of young, rural women journey to cities in China, not only to work, but also to “see the world”and gain some autonomy, they regularly face significant institutional obstacles as well as deep-seated anti-rural prejudices. Based on immersive fieldwork, Cara Wallis provides...
After Race
Racism After Multiculturalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
After Race pushes us beyond the old "race vs. class" debates to delve deeper into the structural conditions that spawn racism. Darder and Torres place the study of racism forthrightly within the context of contemporary capitalism. While agreeing with those who have argued that the concept...
Authentic™
The Politics of Ambivalence in a Brand Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Brands are everywhere. Branding is central to political campaigns and political protest movements; the alchemy of social media and self-branding creates overnight celebrities; the self-proclaimed “greening” of institutions and merchant goods is nearly universal. But while the practice of branding...