Nyu Press: 1737 books
America's Death Penalty
Between Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Over the past three decades, the United States has embraced the death penalty with tenacious enthusiasm. While most of those countries whose legal systems and cultures are normally compared to the United States have abolished capital punishment, the United States continues to employ this ultimate...
“At This Defining Moment”
Barack Obama’s Presidential Candidacy and the New Politics of Race
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
In January 2009, Barack Obama became the 44th president of the United States. In the weeks and months following the election, as in those that preceded it, countless social observers from across the ideological spectrum commented upon the cultural, social and political significance of “the Obama...
Fair Trade and Social Justice
Global Ethnographies
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
By 2008, total Fair Trade purchases in the developed world reached nearly $3 billion, a five-fold increase in four years. Consumers pay a “fair price” for Fair Trade items, which are meant to generate greater earnings for family farmers, cover the costs of production, and support socially just...
22 Ideas to Fix the World
Conversations with the World's Foremost Thinkers
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
The aftershocks of the 2008 financial crisis still reverberate throughout the globe. Markets are down, unemployment is up, and nations from Greece to Ireland find their very infrastructure on the brink of collapse. There is also a crisis in the management of global affairs, with the institutions of global...
by Nancy E. Dowd
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
Single-parent families succeed. Within these families children thrive, develop, and grow, just as they do in a variety of family structures. Tragically, they must do so in the face of powerful legal and social stigma that works to undermine them.
As Nancy E. Dowd argues in this bold and original book,...
Caring Democracy
Markets, Equality, and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Americans
now face a caring deficit: there are simply too many demands on people’s time
for us to care adequately for our children, elderly people, and ourselves.At the same time, political involvement in
the United States is at an all-time low, and although political life should
help us to care...
The Case for the Corporate Death Penalty
Restoring Law and Order on Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
A critical examination of the wrongdoing underlying the 2008 financial crisis
An unprecedented breakdown in the rule of law occurred in the United States after the 2008 financial collapse. Bank of America, JPMorgan, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and other large banks settled securities fraud claims...
The Sun Never Sets
South Asian Migrants in an Age of U.S. Power
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
The Sun Never Sets collects the work of a generation of scholars who are enacting a shift in the orientation of the field of South Asian American studies. By focusing upon the lives, work, and activism of specific, often unacknowledged, migrant populations, the contributors present a more comprehensive...
Smoke and Mirrors
The Politics and Culture of Air Pollution
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
Who gets to breathe clean air? Who benefits from the cheaper products produced with dirty air? The answers, as the contributors to Smoke and Mirrors tell us, are sometimes as gray as the air itself.
From the coal factory chimneys in Manchester in the late nineteenth century to the smog hanging over...
Making Legal History
Essays in Honor of William E. Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
One of the academy’s leading legal historians, William E. Nelson is the Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. For more than four decades, Nelson has produced some of the most original and creative work on American constitutional and legal history. His prize-winning...
After the Rebellion
Black Youth, Social Movement Activism, and the Post-Civil Rights Generation
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
What happened to black youth in the post-civil rights generation? What kind of causes did they rally around and were they even rallying in the first place? After the Rebellion takes a close look at a variety of key civil rights groups across the country over the last 40 years to provide a broad...
Local Democracy Under Siege
Activism, Public Interests, and Private Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2007
2007 Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) Book Award
Complete List of Authors:Dorothy Holland, Donald M. Nonini, Catherine Lutz, Lesley Bartlett, Marla Frederick-McGlathery, Thaddeus C. Guldbrandsen, and Enrique G. Murillo, Jr.
What is the state of democracy at the turn of the twenty-first...
Not Working
Latina Immigrants, Low-Wage Jobs, and the Failure of Welfare Reform
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
Not Working chronicles the devastating effects of the 1996 welfare reform legislation that ended welfare as we know it. For those who now receive public assistance, “work” means pleading with supervisors for full-time hours, juggling ever-changing work schedules, and shuffling between dead-end...
Against Health
How Health Became the New Morality
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
You see someone smoking a cigarette and say,“Smoking is bad for your health,” when what you mean is, “You are a bad person because you smoke.” You encounter someone whose body size you deem excessive, and say, “Obesity is bad for your health,” when what you mean is, “You are lazy, unsightly,...