“I’m Black and I’m Gay”: The everydayness of Jason Collins
April 30, 2013
—Mark Anthony Neal As a lifetime New York Mets fan, I rarely need to be reminded that spring training signaled the beginning of a new baseball season. Yet, for a… READ MORE
Month: April 2013
Book giveaways!
It finally feels like spring! We’re celebrating the season by hosting Goodreads giveaways for two new titles from our spring catalog. Check ’em out below, and enter to win a… READ MORE
Marathon bombers’ refugee roots shed light on trajectories
April 29, 2013
Silvia Domínguez, author of Getting Ahead (NYU Press, 2010), recently appeared on the Huffington Post with an excellent piece on the refugee roots of the Boston Marathon bombers. An excerpt appears below. Dzhokhar was… READ MORE
Capital of the (Cyber)world
April 26, 2013
The scope of Charlene Mires’s Capital of the World is huge. In tracking the race to find a home for the United Nations, the book travels across the United States,… READ MORE
Misunderstanding Miranda: A Miranda warning would not endanger the Boston prosecution
April 25, 2013
—David A. Harris [This article originally appeared in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Read it here.] Just hours after the second Boston bomber was taken alive, the government announced that it… READ MORE
Words do matter in the immigration debate
April 23, 2013
—Ediberto Román and Bobby Joe Bracy [This post originally appeared on the Latinovations blog. Read it here.] After decades of inaction, this week’s unveiling of the Senate’s “Gang of Eight”… READ MORE
All Tomorrow’s Parties
April 22, 2013
Peter Coviello’s new book, Tomorrow’s Parties, launches an innovative (and often unexpected) exploration of nineteenth-century American sexuality through the lens of literature. Here, we talk with him about Joseph Smith, the Velvet… READ MORE
Marriage equality and the law, 1967 and 2013
April 18, 2013
—Howard Ball In 1967, when a good cigar only cost five cents, a very different U.S. Supreme Court, led by a very different Chief Justice (Earl Warren), faced a choice… READ MORE