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Contemporary theory is full of references to the modern and the postmodern. How useful are these terms? What exactly do they mean? And how is our sense of th...| NYU Press
Contemporary theory is full of references to the modern and the postmodern. How useful are these terms? What exactly do they mean? And how is our sense of th...| NYU Press
Investigates how the Christian fundamentalist movement brings Creationism into the mainstream through a Kentucky museum In Creating the Creation Museum, Kath...| NYU Press
The American South before the Civil War was the site of an unprecedented social experiment in women's education. The South offered women an education explici...| NYU Press
How the thirteen colonies deployed the power of taxation to support, promote, and perpetuate the institution of slaveryThe Human Toll documents how the Ameri...| NYU Press
How tax law perpetuates injustice but might instead be used as a powerful force for creating a more just and equitable society The relationship between tax l...| NYU Press
The contemporary meaning of Latino fatherhood What does fatherhood mean in the lives of Latino men? In Latino Fathers, Fatima Suarez shifts the attention fro...| NYU Press
New York City is constantly experiencing construction and renewal. Every day, offices and apartments vibrate with the sound of perpetual surgery as spades and jackhammers expose and stitch up the... READ MORE| NYU Press
What inspired you to analyze the rhetorical strategies of far-right political reactionaries? Can you define how the concept of “reactionary entrenchment” damages honest political debate, and explain why we should... READ MORE| NYU Press
In November 2018, New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal issued an executive directive called the Immigrant Trust Directive which adopted much of the language from sanctuary state laws of other... READ MORE| NYU Press
Javier’s home smelled like a home-cooked meal. His wife, Marisela, had made chicken tinga, refried beans, and arroz rojo with corn tortillas for dinner. Javier was sitting at the cherry... READ MORE| NYU Press
Common sense solutions for affordable housing that is truly affordableGentrification and displacement of low-income communities of color are major issues i...| NYU Press
Charts racialized and class-based exclusion in Morningside Heights and its surrounding area by elite institutionsNew York City’s storied diversity has also...| NYU Press
How housing policy failed the people it was designed to help — and how to fix itAs the US struggles to provide affordable housing, millions of Americans li...| NYU Press
Explores the daily, lived effects of gentrification for neighborhood residentsWilliamsburg, Brooklyn, a prominent neighborhood in New York City, has undergon...| NYU Press
A history of design that is often overlooked—until we need itHave you ever hit the big blue button to activate automatic doors? Have you ever used an ergon...| NYU Press
Before and After the 2020 Homicide Spike by James Tuttle, author of Crime Wave| NYU Press
In 2020, the homicide rate spiked by its largest margin in recorded history. The FBI estimated an increase of 27%. The CDC recorded 5,434 excess deaths due to assault in... READ MORE| NYU Press
The fight for human rights is more relevant than ever — but what about the rights of our furry friends? This week, we’re considering the question of animal autonomy: what... READ MORE| NYU Press
Deaf World: A Historical Reader and Primary Sourcebook is an essential anthology of Deaf perspectives, edited by Lois Bragg. The following excerpt is from an essay by contributor Karl Jaekel.... READ MORE| NYU Press
Fifteen-year-old Slick, a Latino kid born and raised in Oakland, showed me the “hotspots”: street intersections and sidewalks where life-altering experiences linger, shaping young people’s perspectives of the area. As... READ MORE| NYU Press
Who is a city for? The obvious answer is “its residents,” but American urban design reveals conflicted priorities. If the city is for the people, why can so few afford... READ MORE| NYU Press
Frames restorative justice as a form of moral and spiritual practice with the capacity to transform injusticeIn the United States “restorative justice” t...| NYU Press
Image Credit: Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago Trump’s threats of ICE sweeps, geared to Mexican Independence Day, aren’t new. Back on September 16, 1954, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) unleashed “Operation Wetback”... READ MORE| NYU Press
For Frederick Douglass, education was emancipation. In his words, education was “the uplifting of the soul into the glorious light of truth, the light only by which men can be... READ MORE| NYU Press
What identity means in an algorithmic age: how it works, how our lives are controlled by it, and how we can resist itAlgorithms are everywhere, organizing th...| NYU Press
A deep dive into food and Asian American cultureAsian American-inspired foods are everywhere—or so it seems. A decade ago, chop suey, sushi, curry, adobo, ...| NYU Press
Trauma is a universal human experience. While each person responds differently to trauma, its presence in our lives nonetheless marks a continual thread thro...| NYU Press
We know more about the physical body—how it begins, how it responds to illness, even how it decomposes—than ever before. Yet not all bodies are c...| NYU Press
Monica J. Casper and Eric Wertheimer are the editors of Critical Trauma Studies: Understanding Violence, Conflict, and Memory in Everyday Life. MJC: With the reelection of Donald Trump, it feels... READ MORE| NYU Press
A harrowing political history of Kurdish Iraq told through the extraordinary rags-to-riches story of a childhood refugeeIn the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, Ir...| NYU Press
As a legal academic, I feel lucky to have a job that allows me to spend my time in the pursuit of knowledge, truth, and lifelong learning. My latest book,... READ MORE| NYU Press
Following up on the influential Eating Asian America, Eating More Asian America explores how this subfield of food studies changed in the last ten years. Below is an excerpt of... READ MORE| NYU Press
Ten days after NYU Press published my new book, Republic of Dreams, I arrived in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq carrying an ancient black duffle bag that – tipping the... READ MORE| NYU Press
A 10th anniversary edition of this field defining work—an intellectual inspiration for a generation of LGBTQ scholars Cruising Utopia arrived in 2009 to in...| NYU Press
History is messy. We try to grant the people in our own present-day lives the space to be complicated, but we sometimes forget that people in the past were complicated,... READ MORE| NYU Press
A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms Run a Google search for “Black girls”...| NYU Press
In October of 2022, two environmental activists walked into room 43 of The National Gallery in London and threw tomato soup over Van Gogh’s 1888 painting Sunflowers. As the yellow... READ MORE| NYU Press
Cheryl Troupe and Doris Jeanne MacKinnon are co-editors of Métis Matriarchs: Agents of Transition, published by University of Regina Press Metis women, generally of advanced age, hold a place of... READ MORE| NYU Press
In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, we want to acknowledge how the oppression of Indigenous populations shaped the United States and what can be done to remediate it. Each... READ MORE| NYU Press
Let’s start with the very questions with which you open To Be a Jewish State, and some basic definitions of the terms you employ. Can you explain the differences between “Judaism” and... READ MORE| NYU Press
Originally Published by Slixa In the ever-changing world of sex work, the newly released book Sex Work Today edited by Bernadette Barton, Barbara G. Brents, and Angela Jones offers a groundbreaking... READ MORE| NYU Press
Vincent Collette is co-author of Nakón-wico’i’e né uspénic’iciyac / Practising Nakoda: A Thematic Dictionary, published by University of Regina Press. Like many Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains, the Nakoda... READ MORE| NYU Press
This October, you joined NYU Press as our Director. What drew you to NYU, and how has your professional background informed your new role? When asked in my interview why... READ MORE| NYU Press
You begin the book with your own personal “hair story,” and describe how hair care connected you to your mother by giving you all quality time spent together. How did... READ MORE| NYU Press
Winner, 2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationHonorable Mention, 2020 Sociology of Sex and Gender Di...| NYU Press
