Muslim Cool: The Playlist
December 16, 2016
—Su’ad Abdul Khabeer
What does Muslim Cool sound like? What are the rhythms and rhymes that fortify and carry young Muslims forward in the work of challenging anti-Blackness and all forms of inequality?
Year: 2016
The Awkward Silence in the Wake of Jacob Neusner’s Passing
December 14, 2016
—Laura S. Levitt
In the weeks since Jacob Neusner died earlier this fall, there has been a deafening silence from all of those whose lives he took into his hands, from those whose careers he crafted, whose books he published, whose lives he so fully encompassed.
NYU Press Celebrates 100 Years
December 7, 2016
Join our celebration and journey across a century of great ideas.
Big Biomedicine
December 6, 2016
—Joseph E. Davis
The time is ripe for a redirection of biomedical research funding and a larger re-balancing between reductionistic “fixing” and holistic “healing,” requiring a deeper understanding of the “old-fashioned” social and environmental determinants of health and illness and a renewed commitment to addressing them.
The 9/11 Generation: Life in the Surveillance State
December 5, 2016
—Sunaina Marr Maira
Since the attacks of 9/11, the banner of national security has led to intense monitoring of the politics of Muslim and Arab Americans. Young people from these communities have come of age in a time when the question of political engagement is both urgent and fraught.
The glass ceiling and the future of women in office
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.
A Cynic Mourns
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?”
Trump and the Scapegoating of Latinos
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.