Nyu Press: 1737 books
Not Gay
Sex between Straight White Men
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
A straight white girl can kiss a girl, like it, and still call herself straight—her boyfriend may even encourage her. But can straight white guys experience the same easy sexual fluidity, or would kissing a guy just mean that they are really gay? Not Gay thrusts deep into a world where straight...
Dangerous Curves
Latina Bodies in the Media
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
With images of Jennifer Lopez’s butt and America Ferrera’s smile saturating national and global culture, Latina bodies have become an ubiquitous presence. Dangerous Curves traces the visibility of the Latina body in the media and popular culture by analyzing a broad range of popular media including...
Writers Under Siege
Voices of Freedom from Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
The freedom to write is under threat today throughout the world, with more than 1,000 writers, journalists, and publishers known to be imprisoned or persecuted in more than 100 countries. Writers Under Siege bears witness to the power and danger of the pen, and to the powerful longing for the right...
Unfreedom
Slavery and Dependence in Eighteenth-Century Boston
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016
In Unfreedom, Jared Ross Hardesty examines the lived experience of slaves in eighteenth-century Boston.
Instead of relying on the traditional dichotomy of slavery and freedom, Hardesty argues we should understand slavery in Boston as part of...
From Congregation Town to Industrial City
Culture and Social Change in a Southern Community
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1994
In 1835, Winston and Salem was a well-ordered, bucolic, and attractive North Carolina town. A visitor could walk up Main Street from the village square and get a sense of the quiet Moravian community that had settled here. Yet, over the next half-century, this idyllic village was to experience dramatic...
China, The United States, and the Future of Southeast Asia
U.S.-China Relations, Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Distinguished experts explain the economic trends and varied political goals at work in Southeast Asia.
With China’s emergence as a powerful entity in Southeast Asia, the region has become an unlikely site of conflict between two of the world’s great powers. The United States, historically...
The Third Asiatic Invasion
Migration and Empire in Filipino America, 1898-1946
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
The first half of the twentieth century witnessed a wave of Filipino immigration to the United States, following in the footsteps of earlier Chinese and Japanese immigrants, the first and second “Asiatic invasions.” Perceived as alien because of their Asian ethnicity yet legally defined as American...
Vietnam's Forgotten Army
Heroism and Betrayal in the ARVN
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
2009 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award for Biography
Vietnam’s Forgotten Army: Heroism and Betrayal in the ARVN chronicles the lives of Pham Van Dinh and Tran Ngoc Hue, two of the brightest young stars in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). Both men fought with valor...
The Chrysanthemum and the Eagle
The Future of U.S.-Japan Relations
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1994
Whether in the form of the ongoing automotive wars, books and films such as Michael Crichton's Rising Sun, or George Bush's ill-fated trip to Japan in 1991, frictions between the United States and Japan have been steadily on the rise. Americans are bombarded with images of Japan's fundamental difference;...
Contemporary Latina/o Media
Production, Circulation, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
The cultural politics creating and consuming Latina/o mass media.
Just ten years ago, discussions of
Latina/o media could be safely reduced to a handful of TV channels, dominated
by Univision and Telemundo. Today, dramatic changes in the global political
economy have resulted in an unprecedented...
by Harold J Krent
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Framed in Article II of the Constitution, presidential powers are dictated today by judicial as well as historical precedent. To understand the ways the president wields power as well as how this power is kept in check by other branches of government, Harold J. Krent presents three overlapping determinants...
Ctrl + Z
The Right to Be Forgotten
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
A gripping insight into the digital debate over data ownership, permanence and policy
“This is going on your permanent record!” is a threat that has never held more weight than it does in the Internet Age, when information lasts indefinitely. The ability to make good on that threat is as...
A Republic of Men
The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998
What role did manhood play in early American Politics? In A Republic of Men, Mark E. Kann argues that the American founders aspired to create a "republic of men" but feared that "disorderly men" threatened its birth, health, and longevity. Kann demonstrates how hegemonic norms...
Permanent Waves
The Making of the American Beauty Shop
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2000
Throughout the twentieth century, beauty shops have been places where women could enjoy the company of other women, exchange information, and share secrets. The female equivalent of barbershops, they have been institutions vital to community formation and social change.
But while the beauty shop created...