‘Unskilled’ immigrants help to ease the pain of dying American
July 3, 2019
—Cati Coe
Discover the rise of unskilled immigrant care workers helping Americans die peacefully in their homes instead of in nursing homes.
Category: American Studies
Discover the Other Founding Fathers: An eBook Special
July 2, 2019
Discover the stories of overlooked figures from history who shaped the development of early America in select eBooks—each $1.99 through July 15!
Capt. Marvel and the Cultural Exhaustion of Higher, Further, Faster
May 7, 2019
—Suzanne Scott
Captain Marvel as the latest show of just how exhausting (and toxic) female representation in superhero media can be
On the Many Lives of Pocahontas, and Others ‘Caught Between’
April 2, 2019
—Eileen Reynolds, NYU News
A new book from NYU Press tells intertwined stories of Algonquian and English youths pressed into service as cross-cultural emissaries in colonial Virginia.
Sex and Love in the Digital Age
February 13, 2019
—Deana A. Rohlinger
Digital technologies aren’t all bad. But, they’ve certainly changed how Millennials explore their sexual selves and connect with one another.
Banned: Two Years Later
January 30, 2019
—Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia
Reflections from two years after the American Muslim travel ban set in place in 2017 by Donald Trump
Should We Own Our Data? The Limits of Privacy as Information Control
January 29, 2019
—Nora A. Draper
When our world is becoming more and more like Black Mirror, privacy as information control becomes more prevalent and begs the question: who should own what?
Move Fast and Make Things
January 25, 2019
—David Craig and Stuart Cunningham
From Netflix’s Black Mirror to Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade, social media representation in our media abounds. See what two media and communications scholars think of being “woke” in the wake of this techlash.