Nyu Press: 1737 books
Border Politics
Social Movements, Collective Identities, and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
In the current historical moment borders have taken on heightened material and symbolic significance, shaping identities and the social and political landscape. “Borders”—defined broadly to include territorial dividing lines as well as sociocultural boundaries—have become increasingly salient...
Asian/Pacific Islander American Women
A Historical Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
Asian/Pacific Islander American Women is the first collection devoted to the historical study of A/PI women's diverse experiences in America. Covering a broad terrain from pre-large scale Asian emigration and Hawaii in its pre-Western contact period to the continental United States, the Philippines,...
Beyond Monogamy
Polyamory and the Future of Polyqueer Sexualities
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
A man and woman are in an open relationship. They have agreed that having sexual partners outside of their relationship is permissible. One night, when her partner is in another city, the woman has sex with the man’s best friend. What does this mean for their relationship? More importantly, why...
Brown Boys and Rice Queens
Spellbinding Performance in the Asias
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Honorable Mention for the 2015 Cultural Studies Best Book presented by the Association of Asian American Studies
Winner of the 2013 CLAGS Fellowship Award for Best First Book Project in LGBT Studies
A transnational study of Asian performance shaped by the homoerotics of orientalism,...
Migrant Imaginaries
Latino Cultural Politics in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2008
Winner of the 2009 Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association
2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Migrant Imaginaries explores the transnational movements of Mexican migrants in pursuit of labor and civil rights in the United States from the 1920s onward. Working through...
Chicano Nations
The Hemispheric Origins of Mexican American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series
Chicano Nations argues that the transnationalism that is central to Chicano identity originated in the global, postcolonial moment at the turn of the nineteenth century rather than as an effect of contemporary economic conditions, which began...
Environment and Society
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Environment and Society connects the core themes of environmental studies to the urgent issues and debates of the twenty-first century.
In an era marked by climate change, rapid urbanization, and resource scarcity, environmental studies has emerged as a crucial arena of study.
Assembling...
Gender, Violence, and Human Security
Critical Feminist Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
The nature of human security is changing globally: interstate conflict and even intrastate conflict may be diminishing worldwide, yet threats to individuals and communities persist. Large-scale violence by formal and informal armed forces intersects with interpersonal and domestic forms of violence...
Contemporary Asian America (third edition)
A Multidisciplinary Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Who are Asian Americans? Moving beyond popular stereotypes of the “model minority” or “forever foreigner,” most Americans know surprisingly little of the nation’s fastest growing minority population. Since the 1960s, when different Asian immigrant groups came together under the “Asian...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016
Investigates the causes, conduct, and consequences of the recent American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Understanding the United States’ wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is essential to understanding the United States in the first decade of the...
by Kathleen L. Barry
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1996
In 1979, Kathleen Barry's landmark book, Female Sexual Slavery, pulled back the curtain on a world of abuse prostitution that shocked the world. Documenting in devastating detail the lives of street prostitutes and the international traffic in women, Barry's work was called powerful and compassionate...
The Lavender Vote
Lesbians, Gay Men, and Bisexuals in American Electoral Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1996
In the quarter century since the Stonewall riots in New York City's Greenwich Village launched the national gay-rights movement in earnest, LGB voters have steadily expanded their political influence. The Lavender Vote is the first full- length examination of lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals as a...
Entitled to Nothing
The Struggle for Immigrant Health Care in the Age of Welfare Reform
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
In Entitled to Nothing, Lisa Sun-Hee Park investigates how the politics of immigration, health care, and welfare are intertwined. Documenting the formal return of the immigrant as a “public charge,” or a burden upon the State, the author shows how the concept has been revived as states adopt punitive...
From the Ground Up
Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
When Bill Clinton signed an Executive Order on Environmental Justice in 1994, the phenomenon of environmental racism--the disproportionate impact of environmental hazards, particularly toxic waste dumps and polluting factories, on people of color and low-income communities--gained unprecedented recognition....