Böcker utgivna av New York University Press

The relationship between religion and the law is a hot-button topic in America, with the courts, Congress, journalists, and others engaging in animated debates on what influence, if any, the former should have on the latter. This book includes faiths that had an impact on American law, and immigrant faiths that have a growing influence.

Explores a range of cultural representations of incest, from the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley to mother-daughter incest in contemporary true crime novels, to Oprah Winfrey's television special Scared Silent, in order to examine expressions of survivorship.

Taking as its starting point the existing canon of international law and conventions governing actions during war, this title represents examination of the conduct of the Serbian authorities and the individual responsibility of senior members of its leadership for war crimes.

Charting the history of English jurisprudence through its key figures - William Blackstone, Jeremy Bentham, John Austin, Henry Maine, Thomas Erskine Holland, and H L A Hart, this book argues that jurisprudence must return to its interdisciplinary roots and draw upon economics, politics, and sociology.

Does "Asian American" denote an ethnic or racial identification? Is a person of mixed ancestry, the child of Euro- and Asian American parents, Asian American? What does it mean to refer to first generation Hmong refugees and fifth generation Chinese Americans both as Asian American? This book examines the discourse on race and law.

Offers a collection of teachings and traditions that contains within it the intellectual output of hundreds of Jewish sages who considered all aspects of an entire people's life from the Hellenistic period in Palestine (c 315 BCE) until the end of the Sassanian era in Babylonia (615 CE).

Detailing the events of the Progressive Era and World War I (1901-20), this book contains the results of research into primary sources a decent scholarship with an emphasis on leading personalities and anecdotes about them. It provides an assessment of the contributions of the titans - political, scientific, and industrial.

How did a "black sport," plagued by drug scandal and decimated by white flight, come to achieve such prominence? What are the subtle and not-so-subtle racial codes that define how the game is played and perceived, and the reception of its high-profile stars? This title deals with these questions.

What role do emotions ranging from disgust to compassion play in the decision-making processes of judges, lawyers, juries, and clients? What emotions belong in which legal contexts? Is there a hierarchy of emotions, and, if so, through what sources do we identify it? This title deals with these questions.

For more than forty years, Western policymakers defined communism as the central threat to international peace and stability. This book offers clear and direct recommendations to guide both interested citizens and national policymakers as they attempt to grapple with the complexities of ethnic and nationalist politics in Europe.

Max Yergan (1892-1975) traveled on more ground - both literally and figuratively - than any of his impressive contemporaries, which included Adam Clayton Powell, Paul Robeson, and A Phillip Randolph. Yergan rose through the ranks of the colored work department of the YMCA, and was among the first black YMCA missionaries in South Africa.

On February 10, 1906, Alice Ruth Moore, estranged wife of renowned early twentieth-century poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, boarded a streetcar, settled comfortably into her seat, and opened her newspaper to learn of her husband's death the day before. This book traces the tempestuous romance of America's most noted African-American literary couple.

Tackling the secret of unconscious racism in American society, this book provides specific solutions to counter this entrenched phenomenon.

What is it that makes language powerful? This book uses the psychoanalytic concepts of narcissism and libidinal investment to explain how rhetoric compels us and how it can effect change. It shows how the production of literary texts begins and ends with narcissistic self-love.

Features an array of scholars of Jewish history, 1929 surveys the Jewish world in one year offering clear examples of the transnational connections which linked Jews to each other-from politics, diplomacy, and philanthropy to literature, culture, and the fate of Yiddish-regardless of where they lived.

Illuminates how Latino men recover from gang life through involvement in urban, faith-based organizations.

Advances a rethinking of law as capacious rhetorics of citizenship, justice, equality, and freedom.

Investigates the meaning of American citizenship and the place of Islam in a global age.

Critically examines phantom limb pain and its relationship to prosthetic innovation, tracing the major shifts in knowledge of the causes and characteristics of the phenomenon.

Traces the evolution of "Irish" as a race-based identity in the U.S. from the 19th century to the present day.

Investigating the cultural and political history of US Spanish-language broadcasts throughout the twentieth century, this book reveals how these changes have helped Spanish-language radio secure its dominance in the major US radio markets.

Uses a queer, anti-racist feminist approach to explore the diversity of girlhoods in contemporary popular culture.

Showcases how - and on what terms - the women come to re-author identity, community, and meaning post-injury.

Represents a major achievement in the fields of education and immigration studies.

Addresses the critical paradox of this entrenched relationship that resides even within queer theory itself by formulating critical interventions around "Asian performance."

Looks at news not as a type of media but instead as a commodity bought and sold on the market, comparing unique measures of news content to survey data from a wide variety of sources.

Argentinean tango is a global phenomenon. Through interviews and ethnographical research in Amsterdam and Buenos Aires, this book shows why a dance from another era and another place appeals to men and women from different parts of the world and what happens to them as they become caught up in the tango salon culture.

Brings together an innovative archive of twentieth-century texts marked by their break with conventional literary structures.

Investigating how the particular, and changing, urban contexts of New York City and Amsterdam have shaped immigrant and second generation experiences.

Articulates a fresh understanding of how the Chicano movement contributed to the social and political currents of postwar America, and how the movement remains meaningful today.