"Today, there is no community in America that can claim to be untouched by the twin regulatory forces of thin privilege and fat stigma."
Sabrina Strings, #author of FEARING THE BLACK BODY explores fat phobia on the blog
Sabrina Strings reflects on the racial roots of fat phobia
Check out Delanymania, a film series honoring TIMES SQUARE RED, TIMES SQUARE BLUE author at Metrograph - starting this Friday!
Metrograph is a new Manhattan movie theater devoted to screening archive-quality 35mm prints and new films in state-of-the-art digital projection.
From Harry Potter to the Hunger Games, the worlds of fantasy in fiction and film are mostly White. Read an excerpt from Ebony Elizabeth Thomas's #newbook THE DARK FANTASTIC to find out why this limitation is more influential than we may realize.
From Harry Potter to the Hunger Games, the worlds of fantasy in fiction and film are mostly White. This limitation is more influential than we may realize.
We recently read this article and thought "whoa, this is great!" https://buff.ly/2VfHELW. Our new book Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth by Dana-Ain Davis talks about just this!
Black women have higher rates of premature birth than other women in America. This cannot be simply explained by economic factors, with poorer women lacking resources or access to care. Even professional, middle-class black women are at a much higher risk of premature birth than low-income white women in the United States. Dána-Ain Davis looks into this phenomenon, placing racial differences in birth outcomes into a historical context, revealing that ideas about reproduction and race today have been influenced by the legacy of ideas which developed during the era of slavery. Read more at https://buff.ly/307MNtl.
Sen. Cory Booker and Rep. Ayanna Pressley are introducing legislation this week to expand Medicaid coverage for pregnant women and new mothers.
"The fiftieth anniversary of #Stonewall—the protests in Greenwich Village that kickstarted the modern LGBTQ+ movement—is coming up this summer, and this documentary history is the perfect way to celebrate the occasion."
Marc Stein's THE STONEWALL RIOTS is reviewed in Book Riot - check it out here: https://buff.ly/2Vathsx
"Now, thanks to experiments by entomologists such as Marcus Byrne, we know that dung beetles can navigate by the Milky Way. His collaboration with writer Helen Lunn, eye-catchingly illustrated, is a captivating compound of science, history and myth."
Check out DANCE OF THE DUNG BEETLES on Nature's list of the #TopScienceBooks of the week!
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the week’s best science picks.
From Harry Potter to the Hunger Games, the worlds of fantasy in fiction and film are mostly White. This limitation is more influential than we may realize... #NYUPress #author Ebony Elizabeth Thomas writes about just this in her #newbook THE DARK FANTASTIC, publishing 05/24/2019! Check out this excerpt:
From Harry Potter to the Hunger Games, the worlds of fantasy in fiction and film are mostly White. This limitation is more influential than we may realize.
We're proud to announce that Margaret Hagerman's WHITE KIDS: GROWING UP WITH PRIVILEGE IN A RACIALLY DIVIDED AMERICA is a finalist for the 2018 C. Wright Mills Award from the The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP)
2019 AM: 2018 C. Wright Mills Finalists
"Right now, the country is watching the number of measles cases increase each day, hitting a new high of 764 cases across 23 states since it was eradicated from the US in 2000. With 60 new cases in the past week, we can expect the outbreak will continue to spread. There is no disagreement that vaccine refusal is the cause of outbreaks."
Jennifer Reich explains why many parents resist vaccinating their children on Vox
How modern parenting culture is driving the anti-vaccination movement
"By reflecting upon several Black girl characters, Thomas explores stereotypes, barriers and exclusion in speculative media. She argues that an increase in radical Afrofuturism and Black feminism is needed to address these inequities and improve representation in literature."
THE DARK FANTASTIC by Ebony Thomas is recommended by Ms. Magazine!
These 20 books disrupt norms, tell stories at the intersections and lift up feminist perspectives. Which ones will you read?
"The issue is not simply a need for more female superhero films, but to acknowledge that women (whether they be characters, content producers, or consumers) are still required to go higher, further, faster than their counterparts, and even then can’t expect equal treatment. We need to demand more."
Suzanne Scott, author of FAKE GEEK GIRLS, explores the place of women in the #Marvel universe
Suzanne Scott on the exhausting (and sometimes toxic) burden of female representation in superhero movies
The New York Book Show just announced that we have two design winners: WHAT WOULD MRS. ASTOR DO? designed by Charles Hames and AFTER THE PARTY designed by Adam Bohannon. We are so delighted to be celebrating with such talented folks! https://buff.ly/2DTSJwG
Chinyere Osuji, author of BOUNDARIES OF LOVE, was interviewed about the ways couples navigate interracial marriage - watch the interview here
“The fact that we couldn't get married... just blows my mind".
It’s only been 52 years since interracial marriages were legalised in the US.
This week, we look at relationships that transcend racial and cultural differences and ask: Does love really conquer all?
#CutThroughTheNoise
Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the moment the first brick (or shot glass?) was thrown, THE STONEWALL RIOTS: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY allows readers to take stock of how LGBTQ life has changed in the US, and how it has stayed the same. It offers campy stories of queer resistance, courageous accounts of movements and protests, powerful narratives of police repression, and lesser-known stories otherwise buried in the historical record, from an account of ball culture in the mid-sixties to a letter by Black Panther Huey P. Newton addressed to his brothers and sisters in the resistance. For anyone committed to political activism and social justice, The Stonewall Riots provides a much-needed resource for renewal and empowerment.
Congrats to Marc Stein, whose new book THE STONEWALL RIOTS published today. Buy it now here:
On the occasion of its fiftiethanniversary, the most important moment in LGBTQ history—depicted by the people whoinfluenced, recorded, and reacted to i...
"As a sociologist with a rich understanding of social history and cultural studies, Sabrina Strings asks and answers new and immensely generative questions about the ways of thinking that rule the world. Her astute analyses reveal the ways in which seemingly innocent aesthetic judgments about women’s bodies register the effects of deep historical currents of thought and practice."—George Lipsitz, Author of How Racism Takes Place
Congrats to #NYUPres #author Sabrina Strings, whose new book FEARING THE BLACK BODY published today. Read and discover how the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years in this startling account, available now!
How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigma...
Marc Stein will be discussing his new book THE STONEWALL RIOTS at the GLBT Historical Society Museum on Thursday. If you're in San Francisco, don't miss this great opportunity to learn about the #Stonewall riots and the ways Golden State residents responded to the news from New York.
Location GLBT Historical Society Museum, 4127 18th St., San Francisco, CA 94114 Admission $5.00 | Free for members RSVP and purchase tickets here The 1969 Stonewall riots, when LGBTQ people fought back against police harassment at a New York bar, are often described as the starting
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the riots, Marc Stein offers a unique record of the lessons and legacies of #Stonewall https://buff.ly/2TVmX7F
"The history of Jim Crow does not begin in the South after the Civil War. It starts decades earlier in the North. We hope this book inspires historians to conduct more research on segregation and struggle in the North. And we hope scholars and students will grow more comfortable naming northern segregation and inequality for what it was: a Jim Crow system maintained by law, policy, policing, and everyday customs."
Brian Purnell and Jeanne Theoharis share insights from the new book THE STRANGE CAREERS OF THE JIM CROW NORTH on Black Perspectives
Jim Crow North: A New Book about Segregation and Struggle outside the South By J. T. Roane May 3, 2019 0 This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History and African Diaspora Studies. The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segr...
Discover the history of institutionalized racism in capital cases in the new book KILLING WITH PREJUDICE, available now https://buff.ly/2Vcnuau
We're excited to share that EIGHT STORIES by Erich Maria Remarque has been selected for the 2019 Association of University Presses Book, Jacket, & Journal Show!
2019 Scholarly Typographic selections Here are the 8 Scholarly Typographic selections from the 2019 AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show. See the selections in other categories. Sam Steele A BiographyRod MacleodUniversity of Alberta Press Designer: Alan Brownoff Interacting with PrintThe Multigr...
"AFTER MARRIAGE EQUALITY addresses the question of what is next now that marriage is attained. Its contributors, almost all of whom are academics who study social movements, sketch out future priorities for the LGBT movement. They are sensitive to the ways that marriage campaigns created not only new possibilities but also new constraints."—The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review
Congrats to Carlos A. Ball on the new in paperback publication of his amazing book AFTER MARRIAGE EQUALITY: The Future of LGBT Rights. Learn more about the book here:
What does marriage equality mean for the future of LGBT rights? In persuading the Supreme Court that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to mar...
“BLAMING MOTHERS is...filled with an incredible amount of diverse information in the form of facts and examples, tightly interrelating the fields of law, psychology, and sociology.”—PsycCritiques
Congrats to Linda C. Fentiman, whose book BLAMING MOTHERS was published today in paperback. Read a gripping explanation of the biases that lead to the blaming of pregnant women and mothers.
A gripping explanation of the biases that lead to the blaming of pregnant women and mothers. Are mothers truly a danger to their children’s heal...
"AFTER MARRIAGE EQUALITY addresses the question of what is next now that marriage is attained. Its contributors, almost all of whom are academics who study social movements, sketch out future priorities for the LGBT movement. They are sensitive to the ways that marriage campaigns created not only new possibilities but also new constraints."—The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review
Congrats to Carlos A. Ball on the new in paperback publication of his amazing book AFTER MARRIAGE EQUALITY: The Future of LGBT Rights. Learn more about the book here:
What does marriage equality mean for the future of LGBT rights? In persuading the Supreme Court that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to mar...
The U.S. went from measles-free in 2000 to the largest outbreak in 25 years. NPR talks to Jennifer Reich, #author of CALLING THE SHOTS: WHY PARENTS REJECT VACCINES - listen here:
The U.S. went from measles-free in 2000 to the largest outbreak in 25 years. NPR's David Greene talks to Jennifer Reich, author of Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines.
Get #newbook DANCE OF THE DUNG BEETLE: Their Role in Our Changing World by Marcus Byrne and Helen Lund from Wits University Press for less than $23 when you use promocode DANCE25-FM at nyupress.org. Read more and order here today: https://buff.ly/2F4Zexi
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Sports are all about real life. They show what we value. They reflect our political and social divisions. They indoctrinate us about what it means to be successful, to be American, to be a man.
Hear author Michael Serazio talk about THE POWER OF SPORTS on BYUradio
"When the taken-for-granted routines and accommodations that gays and lesbians had constructed to negotiate their daily lives suddenly came under threat, individuals became more willing to risk costly collective action."
Conor O'Dwyer, #author of COMING OUT OF COMMUNISM, explores how the backlash against Poland's #LGBT movement helped it grow in the Washington Post
As the right-wing governing party starts up more attacks, will that happen again?
If you don't know anything about the humble dung beetle, educate yourself with this TED Talk from #scientist and #author Marcus Byrne who has a new book out by the same name with Wits University Press
A dung beetle has a brain the size of a grain of rice, and yet it shows a tremendous amount of intelligence when it comes to rolling its food source -- animal excrement -- home. How? It all comes down to a dance.
Join #NYUPress #author Tanya Katerí Hernández on April 24th, 2019 at the Florida International University Law School in Miami, FL
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On the anniversary of its original publication, this edition includes two essays that extend and expand the project of CRUISING UTOPIA, as well as a new foreword by the current editors of Sexual Cultures, the book series he co-founded with Ann Pellegrini 20 years ago. This 10th anniversary edition celebrates the lasting impact that CRUISING UTOPIA has had on the decade of queer of color critique that followed and introduces a new generation of readers to a future not yet here.
Read the 10th anniversary edition of this field defining work—an intellectual inspiration for a generation of LGBTQ scholars
A 10th anniversary edition of this field defining work—an intellectual inspiration for a generation of LGBTQ scholars Cruising Utopia a...
“This is a powerful, intellectual, and vital contribution to our understanding of sports and sports culture. Michael Serazio walks the line between the scholarly and the popular with uncommon dexterity.”—Dave Zirin, Sports Editor, @TheNationMagazine
Congrats to Michael Serazio whose new book THE POWER OF SPORTS was published this month. Read a provocative, must-read investigation that both appreciates the importance of—and punctures the hype around—big-time contemporary American athletics.
A provocative, must-read investigation that both appreciates the importance of—and punctures the hype around—big-time contemporary American athle...
"Try to have a little bit of a broader world ... And try to see what people in different communities think might teach you something about how to do better in your job, how to do better in thinking about politics, and what music you should be listening to."
Cass Sunstein discusses his new book CONFORMITY: THE POWER OF SOCIAL INFLUENCES and offers ways we can escape these social pressures in GQ
Cass Sunstein’s new book “Conformity” explores the secret (and sometimes alarming) power of social influences.
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“If somebody would have said to me 45 years ago that I would have sat here today and really get to the end of slavery, I would not have believed them. But 45 years ago, I was sitting in my employer’s garage and I was organizing domestic workers. Today I’m here." Myrtle Witbooi is President of the International Domestic Worker Federation (IDWF), a membership-based global organization run by women that strives to protect and advance domestic workers’ rights everywhere. Here she is speaking about Jennifer Fish's new book, Domestic Workers of World Unite!, which explores the lives of the domestic workers and their struggle for international human and workers’ rights.
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