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Latino Spin: Public Image and the Whitewashing of Race
Arlene Davila

NYU Press, 2008

?The finest, fiercest and most piercing of our public intellectuals . . . Dávila is a force of nature. In Latino Spin Dávila elegantly unravels the media driven sleight-of-hand that simultaneously celebrates an uber-American (and almost entirely manufactured) Latino middle class while demonizing recent Latino immigrants and the poor folks who resemble them. On a line by line, idea by idea basis Dávila is simply without peer, her scholarship ...

Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide

12 reviews
Henry Jenkins

NYU Press, 2008

Focused on Media, Art, Culture, Less So on Social Networks
I come late to this book, published in 2006. I do not regret it. It is a bit too focused on media, art, and "culture" for me, but I cannot penalize the author for being a master of arcane tid-bits. This book is a collection of previously published articles reworked into a book--for me, that is a good thing, as I do not cover the sources that originally carried the pieces. The book comes ...

Times Square Red, Times Square Blue

6 reviews
Samuel Delany, Samuel R. Delany

NYU Press, 2001

Prelude and fugue
Samuel Delaney has done the near imposible - he has written a book that is both titillating and informing. Dividing his cogent 21st Century social philosophy into two parts is at first disconcerting: Why are we reading (buying) a book that lets us in on the gossip of firsthand observation of Times Square New York, then in a page turn becomes a sophisticated academic treatise on our current ...

Society without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment
Phil Zuckerman

NYU Press, 2008

?Most Americans are convinced that faith in God is the foundation of civil society. Society Without God reveals this to be nothing more than a well-subscribed, and strangely American, delusion. Even atheists living in the United States will be astonished to discover how unencumbered by religion most Danes and Swedes currently are. This glimpse of an alternate, secular reality is at once humbling and profoundly inspiring ? and it comes not a ...

Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race
Laura Gomez

NYU Press, 2008

View the Table of Contents Read the Introduction We Know We?re Not White: Author Interview on San Diego Weekly Reader “Gómez sets out to write ‘an antidote to historical amnesia about the key nineteenth-century events that produced the first Mexican Americans.’ A law professor at the University of New Mexico, Gómez takes a three-pronged approach: she looks at Chicano history via sociology, history, and law, using New Mexico as a case study. At ...

The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology

10 reviews
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke

NYU Press, 1993

The Occult Roots of Nazism.
_The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology_ by Nicholas Goodrick-Clark is an intriguing academic study on the pre-Nazi occult scene in Germany. The cover features a rather threatening Thule Gesellschaft symbol: a sword and swastika wrapped in laurels and a halo of emanating light. Many of the occult practices described in this book--palmistry, crystals, ...

The Houses of History: A Criticial Reader in Twentieth-Century History and Theory

9 reviews
Anna Green, Kathleen Troup

NYU Press, 1999

Great intro text - which Jay obviously couldn't handle
Great book. Before I read it, I had been confused by the various historiographical 'houses.' Now I know what's what. Anyone who's doing a historiography course at university should read this book because it (a) explains most things well and (b) makes it clear that there is a lot of conscious consideration behind how historians approach the past, which I think anyone who plans to study the past ...

Godel's Proof

34 reviews
Ernest Nagel, James R. Newman

NYU Press, 2001

Godel's incompleteness theorems explained in non-technical language
There is no question in my mind that the most misunderstood mathematical theorems of all time are Godel's incompleteness theorems. In essence, they state that no system powerful enough to do basic arithmetic is complete. Meaning that there will always be statements that are true in the system but that can never be proven in that system. These results have been seized upon by people with many ...

Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers

2 reviews
Richard Newman

NYU Press, 2008

The Definitive Biography of a Black Founding Father
Who was Richard Allen? Among other things, he was the founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, first black author to be granted federal copyright and spiritual leader of early black America. Richard Newman has delivered a compelling account of Allen's ascension to leadership, his symbolic representation of black religion and his personal sacrifice to the cause of justice. Through ...

In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (Sexual Cultures)

2 reviews
Judith Halberstam

NYU Press, 2005

oh, jack!
it's impossible for me to be entirely fair because i absolutely LOVE judith halberstam... as a student of gender and queer history, i find dr. halberstam's work so compelling because not only does it utilize pathbreaking and up-to-date theoretical schema, but the lovely doctor also writes with wit and ease, making her new book a very pleasurable read. her use, as always, of visual texts to ...

Migrant Imaginaries: Latino Cultural Politics in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (Nation of Newcomers Series) ...
Alicia Schmidt Camacho

NYU Press, 2008

Â?In this beautiful study, Schmidt Camacho demonstrates that Mexican migrant imaginaries affirm in songs, manifestos, poetry, novels, and testimonies visions of justice that exceed the limits of the nation-form and the logics of capital accumulationÂ? Â?Lisa Lowe, author of Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics Migrant Imaginaries explores the transnational movements of Mexican migrants in pursuit of labor and civil rights in ...

Fight Like a Girl: How to be a Fearless Feminist

2 reviews
Megan Seely

NYU Press, 2007

great intro/refrence book
a well written book about feminism, particularity as it pertains to younger feminists. a great choice for girls and women (or men) who would like to further their knowledge about and/or participation in feminism. along with plenty of solid content in each chapter, the author includes lists of books, films, websites, etc., which make the book a valuable resource even after the first read-through.

Keywords for American Cultural Studies
Bruce Burgett, Glenn Hendler

NYU Press, 2007

Explore the Keywords Collaborative interactive website at keywords.nyupress.org View the Table of Contents Read the Introduction ? Keywords for American Cultural Studies can and should be used as an essential handbook, but it really is more like a treasury of the intellect, bulging with sharp insights and lasting revelations.? ?Andrew Ross, author of Fast Boat to China ?Filled with lively and incisive contributions from leading scholars ...

White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America

4 reviews
Don Jordan, Michael Walsh

NYU Press, 2008

A Work Long Overdue
The plight of millions of American slaves has been overlooked by historians for far too long. Slavery in the Americas was not limited to black Africans nor were the depredations inflicted on non-African slaves. This well-documented, scholarly expose of white slavery is a must-read for historians and civil-rights advocates, many of whom will be surprised by how widespread this practice was. The ...

How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation (Cultural Front)

5 reviews
Marc Bousquet

NYU Press, 2008

A Substantial Book, not a Hard Read
Marc Bousquet has written quite a book that deserves to be widely distributed not only in academia but to any organization involved in labor issues. The University (capitalized as generic) may be the main topic but the background and consequences apply to general labor-management relations. It's a very dense book that weaves social theory, labor relations history and contemporary academic labor ...

The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age

15 reviews
Daniel Solove

NYU Press, 2006

taken from Journal of Law, Economics & Policy Volume 1, Number 2 (Winter 2005)
"The knowledge which can be gained from the study of this text is found in the placement that Solove's topic has within the broader debate surrounding the role of knowledge in society. Solove's points chime in right around the time we recognize that computers have great potential for advancing the spread and use of productive information. Computers provide tools capable of tapping into ...

The Television Will be Revolutionized
Amanda Lotz

NYU Press, 2007

View the Table of Contents Read the Introduction ?American television is undergoing profound transitions in the digital age, transforming both the television industry and our viewing experiences. Lotz has written the definitive guidebook to the medium in transition, offering a road map to where we?ve been, where we?re going, and why it matters. Anyone with an interest in television?s present and future will find The Television Will Be ...

Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

4 reviews
Thomas Cushman, Simon Cottee, ...

NYU Press, 2008

Well balanced and researched
This book is refreshingly frank and important. It brings together most of the key writing from the 'battle' which has been raging between Hitchens and his critics from the left since September 11th. The juxtaposition in views is prescient - oftentimes squaring off some of the greatest polemicists of our time.

Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Media Consumers in a Digital Age

2 reviews
Henry Jenkins

NYU Press, 2006

All together now
Henry Jenkins provides an excellent step away from our normal expectations of media philosophers. Coming in between the doom-and-gloom media affect tradition and the corporate schlock Jenkins writes (and speaks!) for the fans. The book is a collection of articles set in three chapters: In the first, Jenkins lets us into the world of fandom (if you aren't there already) and more specifically ...

The Antonio Gramsci Reader: Selected Writings 1916-1935
Antonio Gramsci

NYU Press, 2000

with a new introduction by ERIC J. HOBSBAWM "Very usefully pulls the key passages from Gramsci's writings into one volume, which allows English-language readers an overall view of his work. Particularly valuable are the connections it draws across his work and the insights which the introduction and glossary provide into the origin and development of some key Gramscian concepts." --Stuart Hall, Professor of Sociology, Open University The ...

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