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African American Studies

Danger and Desire: The Black Sporting Body

—Stanley I. Thangaraj
As athletes around the country take a knee to organize for justice and life, Stanley I. Thangaraj reflects on how race structures sports and everyday life in the United States.
Religion

A Climate Change Denier’s Perfect Storm

— Antony Alumkal
In the past few months, we have witnessed the devastation caused by climate change induced severe weather. Anthony Alumkal critiques the campaign of anti-environmentalism spearheaded by E. Calvin Beisner and his organization, the Cornwall Alliance, for it is one that the planet cannot afford.
Environmental Studies

Hurricane Harvey and a Market City’s response to disaster

—Michael Oluf Emerson and Kevin T. Smiley
Michael Emerson and Kevin Smiley reflect on Houston’s response to Hurricane Harvey and give a careful analysis of how Houston’s resilience to such a disaster was affected by it being a “Market City”.
Anthropology

Dove, How Do You Get So Clean and White? A Racist Trope Reemerges

—Carl Zimring
In light of the recent controversy over Dove’s body wash ad, Carl Zimring revisits the history of racist attitudes towards hygiene in order to better understand the roots of present-day inequalities
History

Marching for Cristoforo

—Paul Moses
Taking into account family ties to another Cristoforo from Italy, Paul Moses explains why Italian immigrants embraced Columbus, and why he’s marching in this year’s parade.

The Awkward Silence in the Wake of Jacob Neusner’s Passing

December 14, 2016 nyupressblog 0

—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.

Why the Golem Is a Perfect Metaphor for Donald Trump

November 15, 2016 nyupressblog 0

—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.

Jacob Neusner (1932–2016)

October 17, 2016 nyupressblog 0

—Aaron W. Hughes
Jacob Neusner, among the most published academics in history, passed away on October 8 at the age of 84. Neusner devoted his life to integrating the study of Judaism into the American Humanities. What, if anything, has changed in our post-Neusner world?

In a Pickle Shopping for Dad? Send Him Pastrami on Rye, the new Jewish Studies and Father’s Day classic book

June 10, 2016 nyupressblog 0

—Ted Merwin
Why is it so difficult to buy gifts for men? Ted Merwin on Father’s Day gifts, masculinity, Pastrami on Rye & pastrami on ties.

Are Jews Too Sexy for the Censors?

September 28, 2015 nyupressblog 0

—Jodi Eichler-Levine Jewish authors are tremendously popular when it comes to banned-books lists. Judy Blume, Lesléa Newman, and Anne Frank are all represented on the American Library Association’s 100 Most Banned Books of 1990-1999 and

The late trials of the Holocaust

February 19, 2015 nyupressblog 0

—Frank Tuerkheimer and Michael Bazyler Elizabeth Kolbert’s article in the February 16th issue of The New Yorker, “The Last Trial” is a wonderful summary of the belated and long overdue reaction of the German legal system to the atrocities committed by

How Katz’s Delicatessen became a New York icon

November 13, 2014 nyupressblog 2

—Ted Merwin When I was growing up on Long Island in the 1970s, school field trips meant being schlepped on a bus to the McGraw-Hill building on Sixth Avenue, to a multimedia film called the

NYU Press wins two National Jewish Book Awards

January 22, 2014 nyupressblog 0

NYU Press is thrilled to announce that two of our books are among the winners of the 2013 National Jewish Book Awards, selected by the Jewish Book Council! Congratulations to Hasia Diner and Gennady Estraikh, editors

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