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A publisher of original scholarship since its founding in 1916, New York University Press is a department of the New York University Division of Libraries. Working across the humanities and social sciences, NYU Press has award-winning lists in sociology, law, cultural and American studies, religion, American history, anthropology, politics, criminology, media and communication, literary studies, and psychology. |
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Pub Date 03 Jan 2017
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Surviving Poverty
Joan Maya Mazelis
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Pub Date 21 Nov 2017
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Death Makes the News
Jessica M. Fishman
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The Rise of Big Data Policing
Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement
by Andrew Guthrie Ferguson
Pub Date 03 Oct 2017
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The Rise of Big Data Policing
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson
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The Art of Confession
The Performance of Self from Robert Lowell to Reality TV
by Christopher Grobe
Pub Date 07 Nov 2017
What do midcentury “confessional” poets have in common with today’s reality TV stars? They share an inexplicable urge to make their lives an open book, and also a sense that this book can never be finished. Christopher Grobe argues that, in postwar America, artists...
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The Art of Confession
Christopher Grobe
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Pub Date 07 Nov 2017
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Langston's Salvation
Wallace D. Best
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Pub Date 19 Sep 2017
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Hollywood’s Spies
The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles
by Laura B. Rosenzweig
Pub Date 19 Sep 2017
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Hollywood’s Spies
Laura B. Rosenzweig
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Gilded Suffragists
The New York Socialites who Fought for Women's Right to Vote
by Johanna Neuman
Pub Date 05 Sep 2017
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Gilded Suffragists
Johanna Neuman
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Pub Date 08 Aug 2017
At the turn of the twentieth century, women famously organized to demand greater social and political freedoms like gaining the right to vote. However, few realize that the Progressive Era also witnessed the birth of the women’s self-defense movement.
It is nearly...
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Pub Date 06 Jun 2017
Beyond Trans pushes the conversation on gender identity to its limits: questioning the need for gender categories in the first place. Whether on birth certificates or college admissions applications or on bathroom doors, why do we need to mark people and places with sex categories? Do...
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Confronting and combating Islamophobia in America.
Islamophobia has long been a part of the problem of racism in the United States, and it has only gotten worse in the wake of shocking terror attacks, the ongoing refugee crisis, and calls from public figures like Donald Trump for drastic action. As a result, the number of hate crimes committed against Middle...
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Islamophobia and Racism in America
Erik Love
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Pub Date 15 Aug 2017
Many people believe that gangs are made up of violent thugs who are in and out of jail, and who are hyper-masculine and heterosexual. In The Gang’s All Queer Vanessa Panfil introduces us to a different world. Meet gay gang members – sometimes referred to in popular culture as “homo thugs” – whose gay identity...
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The Gang's All Queer
Vanessa R. Panfil
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Pub Date 02 May 2017
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We Are Data
John Cheney-Lippold
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LGBTQ Politics
A Critical Reader
by Marla Brettschneider, Susan Burgess, and Christine Keating
Pub Date 05 Sep 2017
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LGBTQ Politics
Marla Brettschneider, Susan Burgess, and Christine Keating
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Pub Date 23 May 2017
For decades, the Christian Right’s high-profile clashes with science have made national headlines. From attempts to ban the teaching of evolution in public schools to climate change denial, efforts to “cure” gay people...
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Paranoid Science
Antony Alumkal
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Documentaries like Making a Murderer, the first season of Serial and the cause célèbre that was the West Memphis Three captured the attention of millions and focused the national discussion on wrongful convictions. This interest is warranted: more than 1,800 people have been set free...
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Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel Invisible Man provides an unforgettable metaphor for what it means to be disregarded in society. While the term “invisibility” has become shorthand for all forms of marginalization, Ellison was primarily concerned with racial identity. M. Cooper Harriss argues...
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Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Theology
M. Cooper Harriss
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Pub Date 28 Mar 2017
Humans take more than their geological share of water, but they do not benefit from it equally. This imbalance has created an era of intense water scarcity that affects the security of individuals, states, and...
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Pub Date 28 Mar 2017
Ever since the revelations of whistleblower Edward Snowden, we think about surveillance as the data-tracking digital technologies used by the likes of Google, the National Security Administration, and the military. But in reality, the state and allied institutions have a much...
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Pub Date 28 Feb 2017
In the digital age, technology has shrunk the physical world into a “global village,” where we all seem to be connected as an online community as information travels to the farthest reaches of the planet with the click of a mouse. Yet while we think of platforms such as Twitter and Facebook as open and accessible to all, in reality, these are commercial...
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Whose Global Village?
Ramesh Srinivasan
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Pub Date 07 Mar 2017
What is it like to be a woman growing older in a culture where you cannot go to the doctor, open a magazine, watch television, or surf the internet without encountering products and procedures that are designed to make you look younger? What do women have to say...
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The Ways Women Age
Abigail T. Brooks
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Out of the Running
Why Millennials Reject Political Careers and Why It Matters
by Shauna L. Shames
Pub Date 31 Jan 2017
Millennials are often publically criticized for being apathetic about the American political process and their lack of interest in political careers. But what do millennials themselves have to say about the prospect of holding political office? Are they as disinterested in political issues and the future of the American political system as the media...
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Out of the Running
Shauna L. Shames
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Are Racists Crazy?
How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity
by Sander L. Gilman, James M. Thomas
Pub Date 20 Dec 2016
In 2012, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at the University of Oxford reported that - based on their clinical experiment - the beta-blocker drug, Propranolol, could reduce implicit racial bias among its users. Shortly after the experiment, an article in Time Magazine cited the study, posing the question: Is racism becoming a mental illness? In Are...
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Are Racists Crazy?
Sander L. Gilman, James M. Thomas
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New World A-Coming
Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration
by Judith Weisenfeld
Pub Date 07 Feb 2017
When Joseph Nathaniel Beckles registered for the draft in the 1942, he rejected the racial categories presented to him and persuaded the registrar to cross out the check mark she had placed next to Negro and substitute “Ethiopian Hebrew.” “God did not make us Negroes,” declared religious leaders in black communities of the early twentieth-century urban...
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New World A-Coming
Judith Weisenfeld
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Stripped
More Stories from Exotic Dancers, Completely Revised and Updated
by Bernadette Barton
Pub Date 17 Jan 2017
What
kind of woman dances naked for money? Bernadette Barton takes us inside
countless strip bars and clubs, from upscale to back road as well as those that
specialize in lap dancing, table dancing, topless only, and peep shows, to
reveal the startling lives of exotic dancers.
Originally published in 2006, the product of years of first-hand research in...
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A publisher of original scholarship since its founding in 1916, New York University Press is a department of the New York University Division of Libraries. Working across the humanities and social sciences, NYU Press has award-winning lists in sociology, law, cultural and American studies, religion, American history, anthropology, politics, criminology, media and communication, literary studies, and psychology.
