American Studies: NYU Press

62 books

“At This Defining Moment”

Barack Obama’s Presidential Candidacy and the New Politics of Race

By Enid Lynette Logan

Published: 2011

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: American Studies Politics Sociology

Crack Cocaine, Rap Music, and the War on Drugs

By Dimitri A. Bogazianos

Published: 2011

Open Access Since: 2023

Subjects: American Studies Criminology Sociology

A Republic of Men

The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics

By Mark E. Kann

Published: 1998

Open Access Since: 2016

Subjects: American Studies History Women's & Gender Studies

Affinity Online

How Connection and Shared Interest Fuel Learning

By Mizuko Ito, Crystle Martin, Rachel Cody Pfister, Matthew H. Rafalow, Katie Salen, and Amanda Wortman

Published: 2018

Open Access Since: 2019

Series: Connected Youth and Digital Futures

Subjects: American Studies Media & Technology

AfroAsian Encounters

Culture, History, Politics

Edited by Heike Raphael-Hernandez and Shannon Steen

Foreword by Vijay Prashad

Afterword by Gary Okihiro

Published: 2006

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: African American Studies American Studies Asian American Studies

Racism After Multiculturalism

By Antonia Darder and Rodolfo D. Torres

Published: 2004

Open Access Since: 2023

Subjects: American Studies Education Latino/a Studies

After the War on Crime

Race, Democracy, and a New Reconstruction

Edited by Mary Louise Frampton, Ian Haney Lopez, and Jonathan Simon

Published: 2008

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: African American Studies American Studies Asian American Studies History

After Whiteness

Unmaking an American Majority

By Mike Hill

Published: 2004

Open Access Since: 2023

Subjects: American Studies Literature & Literary Studies Politics

American Arabesque

Arabs and Islam in the Nineteenth Century Imaginary

By Jacob Rama Berman

Published: 2012

Open Access Since: 2023

Subjects: American Studies Literature & Literary Studies

Constructing a Twentieth-Century Emotional Style

By Peter N. Stearns

Published: 1994

Open Access Since: 2016

Subjects: American Studies Anthropology History

Race, Culture, and Identity in the Indian Diaspora

By Sunil Bhatia

Published: 2007

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: American Studies Psychology

An Imperialist Love Story

Desert Romances and the War on Terror

By Amira Jarmakani

Published: 2015

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: American Studies

Anti-Americanism

Edited by Andrew Ross and Kristin Ross

Published: 2004

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: American Studies History

Aztlán and Arcadia

Religion, Ethnicity, and the Creation of Place

By Roberto Ramón Lint Sagarena

Published: 2014

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: American Studies Latino/a Studies

Bending Over Backwards

Essays on Disability and the Body

By Lennard J. Davis

Foreword by Michael Bérubé

Published: 2002

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: American Studies Disability Studies

Beyond Hashtags

Racial Politics and Black Digital Networks

By Sarah Florini

Published: 2019

Open Access Since: 2019

Subjects: American Studies Media & Technology

Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture

By Frances Negrón-Muntaner

Published: 2004

Open Access Since: 2023

Subjects: American Studies Latino/a Studies Media & Technology

By Any Media Necessary

The New Youth Activism

By Henry Jenkins, Sangita Shresthova, Liana Gamber-Thompson, Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, and Arely Zimmerman

Published: 2016

Open Access Since: 2016

Series: Connected Youth and Digital Futures

Subjects: American Studies Media & Technology

Television and Masculinities in the 21st Century

By Amanda D. Lotz

Published: 2014

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: American Studies Media & Technology

Disability, Sexuality, and U.S. Media Cultures of Rehabilitation

By Julie Passanante Elman

Published: 2014

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: American Studies Media & Technology

Citizenship Excess

Latino/as, Media, and the Nation

By Hector Amaya

Published: 2013

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: American Studies Latino/a Studies Media & Technology

English Country Dance and the Politics of the Folk in Modern America

By Daniel J. Walkowitz

Published: 2010

Open Access Since: 2023

Subjects: American Studies History

Civil War Citizens

Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in America’s Bloodiest Conflict

Edited by Susannah J. Ural

Published: 2010

Open Access Since: 2023

Subjects: American Studies History

Undercover Investigations of American Work and Poverty from the Progressive Era to the Present

By Mark Pittenger

Published: 2012

Open Access Since: 2023

Subjects: American Studies Sociology

Critical Race Narratives

A Study of Race, Rhetoric and Injury

By Carl Gutierrez-Jones

Published: 2001

Open Access Since: 2023

Subjects: American Studies Criminology Literature & Literary Studies

Dangerous or Endangered?

Race and the Politics of Youth in Urban America

By Jennifer Tilton

Published: 2010

Open Access Since: 2023

Subjects: American Studies Anthropology Sociology

Between Identities and Places

By Brenda Jo Brueggemann

Published: 2009

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: American Studies Disability Studies

Deafening Modernism

Embodied Language and Visual Poetics in American Literature

By Rebecca Sanchez

Published: 2015

Open Access Since: 2023

Subjects: American Studies Disability Studies

Deconstruction Is/In America

A New Sense of the Political

By Anselm Haverkamp

Published: 1995

Open Access Since: 2016

Subjects: American Studies Politics

Disability Media Studies

Edited by Elizabeth Ellcessor and Bill Kirkpatrick

Published: 2017

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: American Studies Disability Studies Media & Technology

Distributed Blackness

African American Cybercultures

By André Brock, Jr.

Published: 2020

Open Access Since: 2022

Subjects: African American Studies American Studies Media & Technology

Empire’s Proxy

American Literature and U.S. Imperialism in the Philippines

By Meg Wesling

Published: 2011

Open Access Since: 2023

Subjects: American Studies Literature & Literary Studies

Ethnic Church Meets Megachurch

Indian American Christianity in Motion

By Prema A. Kurien

Published: 2017

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: American Studies Religion

Ethnology and Empire

Languages, Literature, and the Making of the North American Borderlands

By Robert Lawrence Gunn

Published: 2015

Open Access Since: 2023

Subjects: American Studies Literature & Literary Studies

Fantasies of Identification

Disability, Gender, Race

By Ellen Samuels

Published: 2014

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: American Studies Disability Studies

How the Left Can Win Arguments and Influence People

A Tactical Manual for Pragmatic Progressives

By John K. Wilson

Published: 2000

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: American Studies Politics

Bisexuals, Multiracials, and Other Misfits Under American Law

By Ruth Colker

Published: 1996

Open Access Since: 2016

Subjects: American Studies Law

Inner City Kids

Adolescents Confront Life and Violence in an Urban Community

By Alice Mcintyre

Published: 2000

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: American Studies Psychology Urban Studies

Lone Star Muslims

Transnational Lives and the South Asian Experience in Texas

By Ahmed Afzal

Published: 2014

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: American Studies Asian American Studies

Queers, Class, and Cultural Production

By Lisa Henderson

Published: 2013

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: American Studies LGBTQ & Sexuality Media & Technology

Legal Emotions in William Blackstone's England

By Kathryn D. Temple

Published: 2019

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: American Studies Law

Mixed Race Hollywood

Edited by Mary Beltrán and Camilla Fojas

Published: 2008

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: American Studies Literature & Literary Studies Media & Technology

Musical ImagiNation

U.S-Colombian Identity and the Latin Music Boom

By Maria Elena Cepeda

Published: 2010

Open Access Since: 2023

Subjects: American Studies Latino/a Studies Media & Technology

Netflix Nations

The Geography of Digital Distribution

By Ramon Lobato

Published: 2019

Open Access Since: 2019

Subjects: American Studies Media & Technology

Our Monica, Ourselves

The Clinton Affair and the National Interest

Edited by Lauren Berlant and Lisa A. Duggan

Published: 2001

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: American Studies LGBTQ & Sexuality

Military Video Games After 9/11

By Matthew Thomas Payne

Published: 2016

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: American Studies Media & Technology

Race for Citizenship

Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America

By Helen Heran Jun

Published: 2011

Open Access Since: 2023

Subjects: American Studies Asian American Studies Media & Technology

Race in Translation

Culture Wars around the Postcolonial Atlantic

By Ella Shohat and Robert Stam

Published: 2012

Open Access Since: 2023

Subjects: African American Studies American Studies Media & Technology

Signs of Disability

By Stephanie L. Kerschbaum

Published: 2022

Open Access Since: 2023

Subjects: American Studies Disability Studies Literature & Literary Studies

Sitting in Darkness

Mark Twain's Asia and Comparative Racialization

By Hsuan L. Hsu

Published: 2015

Open Access Since: 2023

Subjects: American Studies Literature & Literary Studies

Soft Soil, Black Grapes

The Birth of Italian Winemaking in California

By Simone Cinotto

Published: 2012

Open Access Since: 2023

Subjects: American Studies History

Surveillance Cinema

By Catherine Zimmer

Published: 2015

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: American Studies Media & Technology Politics

The Digital Edge

How Black and Latino Youth Navigate Digital Inequality

By S. Craig Watkins and Alexander Cho

With Andres Lombana-Bermudez, Vivian Shaw, Jacqueline Ryan Vickery, and Lauren Weinzimmer

Published: 2018

Open Access Since: 2018

Series: Connected Youth and Digital Futures

Subjects: American Studies Media & Technology

The Disarticulate

Language, Disability, and the Narratives of Modernity

By James Berger

Published: 2014

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: American Studies Disability Studies Literature & Literary Studies

The Impossible Jew

Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History

By Benjamin Schreier

Published: 2015

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: American Studies Jewish Studies Religion

The Lebanese Diaspora

The Arab Immigrant Experience in Montreal, New York, and Paris

By Dalia Abdelhady

Published: 2011

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: American Studies Anthropology Sociology

Romanticism, Capitalism, and the Internet

By Thomas Streeter

Published: 2010

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: American Studies Media & Technology Sociology

The Radical Lives of Helen Keller

By Kim E. Nielsen

Published: 2004

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: American Studies Disability Studies History

The Scar That Binds

American Culture and the Vietnam War

By Keith Beattie

Published: 1998

Open Access Since: 2016

Subjects: American Studies History

Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture

By Henry Jenkins

Published: 2006

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: American Studies Media & Technology

Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830-1940

By Nihad Farooq

Published: 2016

Open Access Since: 2023

Subjects: American Studies History

America’s Invisible Middle Eastern Minority

By John Tehranian

Published: 2008

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: American Studies