Radical Black Women, Reviewed
September 30, 2010
At H-Net, Antonio Lopez (University of Texas, El Paso) submits a glowing and thorough review of Want to Start a Revolution? Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle, edited by… READ MORE
Month: September 2010
The Daily Toilet
September 28, 2010
http://toiletbook.tumblr.com/ Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing, edited by Harvey Molotch and Laura Noren, will be published by next month. The editors, in cooperation with NYU Press, have… READ MORE
Faces of America, On Point
September 27, 2010
On Point, hosted by Tom Ashbrook, devoted a significant portion of its program to a long chat with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., discussing his latest book, Faces of America. They… READ MORE
New York Review of Books Reads The Guantanamo Lawyers
September 24, 2010
David Cole’s article “What to Do About Guantánamo?“, appearing now in the New York Review of Books, draws much of its insight from our groundbreaking book, The Guantanamo Lawyers, edited… READ MORE
The Anthropology of Girls Kissing Girls
September 22, 2010
Leila Rupp’s book, Sapphistries, has been getting an awful lot of attention online, even showing up at the livejournal of an “Evil Librarian.” But by far the biggest debate has… READ MORE
Latino Spin wins Latino Studies Award
September 21, 2010
Arlene Davila’s book, Latino Spin: Public Image and the Whitewashing of Race, has been selected as the 2010 best book in Latino Studies by the Latin American Studies Association. Congrats… READ MORE
A Heroic Act of Digital Treason?
September 20, 2010
Marjorie Cohn, Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and author of the forthcoming United States and Torture (NYU Press, December 2010) argues forcefully at the Huffington Post… READ MORE
New Series: North American Religions
September 17, 2010
NYU Press is seeking submissions to this pathbreaking new series. In recent years a cadre of industrious, imaginative, and highly intelligent scholars have focused their attention on North American Religions…. READ MORE