Nyu Press: 1737 books
Ireland
Contested Ideas of Nationalism and History
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
What is the Irish nation? Who is included in it? Are its borders delimited by religion, ethnicity, language, or civic commitment? And how should we teach its history? These and other questions are carefully considered by distinguished historian Hugh F. Kearney in Ireland: Contested Ideas of Nationalism...
Genders 22
Postcommunism and the Body Politic
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1995
The epidemic of mass rape in the former Yugoslavia has illustrated once again, and in particularly brutal fashion, the inextricable relationship between national politics, sexual politics, and body politics. The nexus of these three forces is highly charged in any culture, at any time in history,...
by Julian Agyeman
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
Popularized in the movies Erin Brockovich and A Civil Action, “environmental justice” refers to any local response to a threat against community health. In this book, Julian Agyeman argues that environmental justice and the sustainable communities movement are compatible in practical ways. Yet...
Immigration and Women
Understanding the American Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
The popular debate around contemporary U.S. immigration tends to conjure images of men waiting on the side of the road for construction jobs, working in kitchens or delis, driving taxis, and sending money to their wives and families in their home countries, while women are often left out of these...
Who You Claim
Performing Gang Identity in School and on the Streets
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
The color of clothing, the width of shoe laces, a pierced ear, certain brands of sneakers, the braiding of hair and many other features have long been seen as indicators of gang involvement. But it’s not just what is worn, it’s how: a hat tilted to the left or right, creases in pants, an ironed...
Punished
Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Honorable Mention, 2014 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award presented by the Society for the Study of Social Problems
2012 Best Book Award, Latino/a Sociology Section, presented by the American Sociological Association
2012 Finalist, C. Wright Mills Book Award presented by the...
The Epistle of Forgiveness
Volume One: A Vision of Heaven and Hell
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
One of the most unusual books in classical Arabic literature, The Epistle of Forgiveness is the lengthy reply by the prolific Syrian poet and prose writer Abu l-?Ala? al-Ma?arri (d. 449 H/1057 AD), to a letter written by an obscure grammarian, Ibn al-Qarih. With biting irony, The Epistle of Forgiveness...
The Epistle of Forgiveness
Volume Two: Hypocrites, Heretics, and Other Sinners
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
One of the
most unusual books in classical Arabic literature, The Epistle of Forgiveness is the lengthy reply by the prolific
Syrian poet and prose writer, Abu l-?Ala? al-Ma?arri (d. 449 H/1057 AD), to a
letter by an obscure grammarian, Ibn al-Qarih. With biting irony, The Epistle of Forgiveness mocks...
God and Blackness
Race, Gender, and Identity in a Middle Class Afrocentric Church
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Blackness, as a concept, is extremely fluid: it can refer to cultural and ethnic identity, socio-political status, an aesthetic and embodied way of being, a social and political consciousness, or a diasporic kinship. It is used as a description of skin color ranging from the palest cream to the richest...
Privilege Revealed
How Invisible Preference Undermines America
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1996
Affirmative action remains a hotly contested issue on our political landscape, yet the institutionalized systems of privilege which uphold the status quo remain unchallenged. Many Americans who advocate a merit-based, race-free worldview do not acknowledge the systems of privilege which benefit them....
At Work in the Iron Cage
The Prison as Gendered Organization
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
When most people think of prisons, they imagine chaos, violence, and fundamentally, an atmosphere of overwhelming brute masculinity. But real prisons rarely fit the “Big House” stereotype of popular film and literature. One fifth of all correctional officers are women, and the rate at which women...
Gangsters
50 Years of Madness, Drugs, and Death on the Streets of America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1997
The effects of gang violence are witnessed every day on the streets, in the news, and on the movie screen. In all these forums, gangs of young adults are associated with drugs and violence. Yet what is it that prompts young people to participate in violent behavior? And what can be done to extract...
Dot-Com Design
The Rise of a Usable, Social, Commercial Web
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
From dial-up to wi-fi, an engaging cultural history of the commercial web industry
In the 1990s, the World Wide Web helped transform the Internet from the domain of computer scientists to a playground for mass audiences. As URLs leapt off computer screens and onto cereal boxes, billboards,...
The Net Effect
Romanticism, Capitalism, and the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2010
This book about America's romance with computer communication looks at the internet, not as harbinger of the future or the next big thing, but as an expression of the times. Streeter demonstrates that our ideas about what connected computers are for have been in constant flux since their invention....