November 28, 2016
—Frank C. Thames and Margaret S. Williams
While Secretary Clinton didn’t break the glass ceiling for holding office, perhaps she broke the ceiling for women running for the presidency from a major party. The circumstances for women’s participation should be favorable in the U.S., perhaps even more so now that there is an example to follow.
November 22, 2016
—Barbara Katz Rothman
“I never believed in the American dream. How is it possible to mourn the loss of something you never believed existed?”
November 21, 2016
—Hector Amaya
Nativism and anti-Latino fervor among media and political voices in the United States paved the way for Trump’s ascendance by scapegoating Latinos for the economic difficulties of white working class people and the perceived failure of democracy.
November 17, 2016
—Andra Gillespie
When I reflect on the class debates that are often the subtext of politics in Newark, I see strong parallels between the black nationalist populism of Newark and white working class populism that ushered Donald Trump into the presidency.
November 15, 2016
—Maya Barzilai
Golems are created and animated in times of great despair. The golem as a metaphor for Trump and a master metaphor for our times.
November 14, 2016
—Sara Johnson
In honor of University Press Week, a collaborative effort by five New York/New Jersey Presses at this year’s Brooklyn Book Festival.
November 11, 2016
—Eric Zinner
In the wake of this traumatic election, and preparing for the onslaughts to come—against higher education, against the people and ideas we so ardently publish about and for—I thought it would he helpful to turn back to those same scholars for their thoughts, their ideas, for context, for perspective.