Diane Rehm Tackles the Recession
April 14, 2009
Andrew Ross, author of Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times appeared yesterday on the Diane Rehm show. Listen to the podcast here! Unemployment… READ MORE
Category: Politics
The Pictograms of Migrants
March 17, 2009
Migrations and Mobilities: Citizenship, Borders, and Gender, edited by Judith Resnik and Seyla Benhabib, features a pictogram by the artist group kollektiv migrantas, made up of four migrant women, Irma,… READ MORE
Maids, Neo-Slavery and NGOs
February 27, 2009
By Aihwa Ong; from Migrations and Mobilities: Citizenship, Borders and Genders, edited by Seyla Benhabib and Judith Resnik. The underpaid, starved and battered foreign maid, while not the statistical norm,… READ MORE
The Dissenting Podcast
January 30, 2009
Michael Avery talks about dissenting with the Supreme Court on KERA’s Think.
Forgotten Foot Soldiers in the Civil Rights Struggle
January 21, 2009
By Hasan Kwame Jeffries Author of Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt, forthcoming from NYU Press in June 2009 On Inauguration Day, the Southern Christian… READ MORE
Still Climbing, 10 Years Later
January 6, 2009
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the publication of Still Lifting, Still Climbing: African American Women’s Contemporary Activism, edited by Kimberly Springer. Prof. Springer was kind enough to offer… READ MORE
Podcasts Potpourri! Lopate, Lehrer and More!
December 19, 2008
A lot of excellent interviews online for NYU Press authors this week: Editor Julia Mickenberg and contributors Charlotte Pomerantz and Joe Molner talk about their anthology of radical children’s literature,… READ MORE
Bananas & Terrorism
November 24, 2008
Corporate Social Irresponsibility in Bananaland Marcelo Bucheli (author of Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899-2000. New York: New York University Press, 2005) After extended efforts to… READ MORE
