Nyu Press: 1737 books
Italian American
The Racializing of an Ethnic Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1999
When southern Italians began emigrating to the U.S. in large numbers in the 1870s-part of the "new immigration" from southern and eastern rather than northern Europe-they were seen as racially inferior, what David A. J. Richards terms "nonvisibly" black.
The first study of its...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Patterns of migration and the forces of globalization have brought the issues of mixed race to the public in far more visible, far more dramatic ways than ever before. Global Mixed Race examines the contemporary experiences of people of mixed descent in nations around the world, moving beyond US borders...
Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow
The Tragic Courtship and Marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
A New York Times Notable Book of 2002!
Sexism, racism, self-hatred, and romantic love: all figure in prominently in this scholarly-but nicely hard-boiled-discussion of the bond between the famous Paul Laurence Dunbar and his wife Alice. Eleanor Alexander's analysis of turn-of-the-twentieth-century...
Spinsters and Lesbians
Independent Womanhood in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
Americans have long held fast to a rigid definition of womanhood, revolving around husband, home, and children. Women who rebelled against this definition and carved out independent lives for themselves have often been rendered invisible in U.S. history.In this unusual comparative study, Trisha Franzen...
Emergent U.S. Literatures
From Multiculturalism to Cosmopolitanism in the Late Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Emergent U.S. Literatures introduces readers to the foundational writers and texts produced by four literary traditions associated with late-twentieth-century US multiculturalism. Examining writing by Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, and gay and lesbian Americans after 1968,...
The Crime of All Crimes
Toward a Criminology of Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Cambodia. Rwanda. Armenia. Nazi Germany. History remembers these places as the sites of unspeakable crimes against humanity, and indisputably, of genocide. Yet, throughout the twentieth century, the world has seen many instances of violence committed by states against certain groups within their borders—from...
The Constitution Goes to College
Five Constitutional Ideas That Have Shaped the American University
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
American college campuses, where ideas are freely exchanged, contested, and above all uncensored, are historical hotbeds of political and social turmoil. In the past decade alone, the media has carefully tracked the controversy surrounding the speech of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Columbia,...
Up Against a Wall
Rape Reform and the Failure of Success
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Rape law reform has long been hailed as one of the most successful projects of second-wave feminism. Yet forty years after the anti-rape movement emerged, legal and medical institutions continue to resist implementing reforms intended to provide more just and compassionate legal and medical responses...
by Tracy A. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Thomas Byers Memorial Outstanding Publication Award from the University of Akron Law Alumni Association
Much has been written about women’s rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Historians have written her biography, detailed her campaign for woman’s suffrage, documented her partnership...
Obama's Guantánamo
Stories from an Enduring Prison
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
The U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay has become the symbol of an unprecedented detention system of global reach and immense power. Since the 9/11 attacks, the news has on an almost daily basis headlined stories of prisoners held indefinitely at Guantánamo without charge or trial, many of...
by Owen Fiss
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
The Law As It Could Be gathers Fiss’s most important work on procedure, adjudication and public reason, introduced by the author and including contextual introductions for each piece—some of which are among the most cited in Twentieth Century legal studies. Fiss surveys the legal terrain between...
Child, Family and State
NOMOS XLIV
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2003
In an era in which our conception of what constitutes a “normal” family has undergone remarkable changes, questions have arisen regarding the role of the state in “normalizing” families through public policy. In what ways should the law seek to facilitate, or oppose, parenting and child-rearing...
Legal Feminism
Activism, Lawyering, and Legal Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2006
In the late 1970s, feminist scholars and activists joined together to build a movement aimed at bringing feminist theory and experiences to the practice and teaching of American law. Since then, the feminist jurisprudence movement has taken root, with courts and legislatures addressing matters of...
Playing it Safe
How the Supreme Court Sidesteps Hard Cases and Stunts the Development of Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
It is one of the unspoken truths of the American judicial system that courts go out of their way to avoid having to decide important and controversial issues. Even the Supreme Courtfrom which the entire nation seeks guidancefrequently engages in transparent tactics to avoid difficult, politically...