Nyu Press: 1737 books
Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left
A History of the Impossible
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Articulates the role black theatricality played in the radical energy of the sixties
Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left illustrates the black political ideas that radicalized the artistic endeavors of musicians, playwrights, and actors beginning in the 1960s. These ideas paved the...
Confronting the New Conservatism
The Rise of the Right in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
William Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice, George F. Will, and Dick Cheney. These are today’s neoconservatives“confident, clear-cut, and a political force to be reckoned with. But how should we define this new conservatism? What is new about it? In this volume, some of...
The Tender Cut
Inside the Hidden World of Self-Injury
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Cutting, burning, branding, and bone-breaking are all types of self-injury, or the deliberate, non-suicidal destruction of one’s own body tissue, a practice that emerged from obscurity in the 1990s and spread dramatically as a typical behavior among adolescents. Long considered a suicidal gesture,...
The Digital Edge
How Black and Latino Youth Navigate Digital Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
How black and Latino youth learn, create, and collaborate online
The Digital Edge examines how the digital and social-media lives of low-income youth, especially youth of color, have evolved amidst rapid social and technological change. While notions of the digital divide between the “technology...
The Presidents and the Constitution
A Living History
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Shines new light on America's brilliant constitutional and presidential history, from George Washington to Barack Obama.
In this sweepingly ambitious volume, the nation’s foremost experts on the American presidency and the U.S. Constitution join together to tell the intertwined stories of...
A Death at Crooked Creek
The Case of the Cowboy, the Cigarmaker, and the Love Letter
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
"This is an extraordinary and ground-breaking book, a wonderfully creative mix of fact and theory, imagination and drama…The startling origin of the complex 'intention exception' to the hearsay evidence rule becomes canvas on which a grand and marvelously detailed tale is told. This is modern narrative...
Heartland TV
Prime Time Television and the Struggle for U.S. Identity
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Winner of the 2009 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award
The Midwest of popular imagination is a "Heartland" characterized by traditional cultural values and mass market dispositions. Whether cast positively —; as authentic, pastoral, populist, hardworking,...
Global TV
Exporting Television and Culture in the World Market
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2008
A reporter for the Los Angeles Times once noted that “I Love Lucy is said to be on the air somewhere in the world 24 hours a day.” That Lucy’s madcap antics can be watched anywhere at any time is thanks to television syndication, a booming global marketplace that imports and exports TV shows....
by Marjorie Cohn, Kathleen Gilberd
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Rules of Disengagement examines the reasons men and women in the military have disobeyed orders and resisted the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It takes readers into the courtroom where sailors, soldiers, and Marines have argued that these wars are illegal under international law and unconstitutional...
Recovery from Addiction
A Practical Guide to Treatment, Self-Help, and Quitting on Your Own
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
Millions of people enter or seriously consider entering alcohol or drug treatment each year. In their understandable state of urgency, most first-time treatment seekers and their loved ones may rush to the first treatment option they encounter. They are unlikely to be aware of why one form of intervention...
Women of Steel
Female Bodybuilders and the Struggle for Self-Definition
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
"A lot of people in the general public think female bodybuilding is gross and freaky . . . that that's not what a woman is supposed to look like." So says Michelle, a national bodybuilding judge. In fact, athletic women, especially those in sports where strength, muscle, and sweat feature...
Words Made Flesh
Nineteenth-Century Deaf Education and the Growth of Deaf Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
During the early nineteenth century, schools for the deaf appeared in the United States for the first time. These schools were committed to the use of the sign language to educate deaf students. Manual education made the growth of the deaf community possible, for it gathered deaf people together in...
Afro-Fabulations
The Queer Drama of Black Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Argues for a conception of black cultural life that exceeds post-blackness and conditions of loss
In Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life, cultural critic and historian Tavia Nyong’o surveys the conditions of contemporary black artistic production in the era of post-blackness....
Death in the Shape of a Young Girl
Women's Political Violence in the Red Army Faction
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
In the early 1970s, a number of West German left-wing activists took up arms, believing that revolution would lead to social change. In the years to come, the bombings, shootings, kidnappings and bank robberies of the Red Army Faction (RAF) and Movement 2nd June dominated newspaper headlines and polarized...