Korie Little Edwards and Michelle Oyakawa
- Published in print:
- 2022
- Published Online:
- May 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781479808922
- eISBN:
- 9781479808939
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479808922.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Drawing on the case of Ohio black ministers and their voter-mobilization efforts leading up to President Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection, this book addresses when, how, and why black ministers engage ...
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Drawing on the case of Ohio black ministers and their voter-mobilization efforts leading up to President Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection, this book addresses when, how, and why black ministers engage in broad-based mobilization in the twenty-first-century United States. We learn they can indeed mobilize, and they can do so effectively and efficiently. Black religious leaders across Ohio mobilized the black vote in 2012. Their efforts, it seems, paid off. For the first time, we saw a greater proportion of the black electorate vote than the white electorate. The question begs: If black religious leaders could collectively mobilize on a broad scale for the black vote, why have they not done so for black lives? We propose four factors affecting contemporary black ministers’ engagement in mobilization: post-civil-rights-era racism, changes in the field of organizing, nostalgic reverence for the civil rights movement, and the structure of the black minister network. In many ways, the very thing that sustains the black religious leader community also constrains black ministers’ capacity to mobilize in today’s world.Less
Drawing on the case of Ohio black ministers and their voter-mobilization efforts leading up to President Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection, this book addresses when, how, and why black ministers engage in broad-based mobilization in the twenty-first-century United States. We learn they can indeed mobilize, and they can do so effectively and efficiently. Black religious leaders across Ohio mobilized the black vote in 2012. Their efforts, it seems, paid off. For the first time, we saw a greater proportion of the black electorate vote than the white electorate. The question begs: If black religious leaders could collectively mobilize on a broad scale for the black vote, why have they not done so for black lives? We propose four factors affecting contemporary black ministers’ engagement in mobilization: post-civil-rights-era racism, changes in the field of organizing, nostalgic reverence for the civil rights movement, and the structure of the black minister network. In many ways, the very thing that sustains the black religious leader community also constrains black ministers’ capacity to mobilize in today’s world.
Michael Fiddler, Theo Kindynis, and Travis Linnemann (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2022
- Published Online:
- May 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781479885725
- eISBN:
- 9781479870493
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479885725.001.0001
- Subject:
- Social Work, Crime and Justice
Bringing together prominent early contributions from this emergent perspective, the volume traces the origins, theory, and method of ghost criminology. From the powers of exorcism and erasure ...
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Bringing together prominent early contributions from this emergent perspective, the volume traces the origins, theory, and method of ghost criminology. From the powers of exorcism and erasure marshalled by state agents, street-level struggles over memorialization and memory, to the lingering violence of crime scenes and the ghostly traces of outlaw artists, Ghost Criminology is a volume attuned to that which is well-theorized in other disciplines—the spectral, hauntological, apparitional. Each of the writers assembled here shares, as Mark Fisher (2017) put it, a fascination for the outside, “that which lies beyond standard perception, cognition and experience.” Assembling an arsenal of cutting-edge social and cultural theory, the volume tangles with some of criminology’s most stubborn revenants—the politics of criminalization, the commodification of crime and violence, the haunting power of the image, as well as the unheard and disregarded cries of the dead.Less
Bringing together prominent early contributions from this emergent perspective, the volume traces the origins, theory, and method of ghost criminology. From the powers of exorcism and erasure marshalled by state agents, street-level struggles over memorialization and memory, to the lingering violence of crime scenes and the ghostly traces of outlaw artists, Ghost Criminology is a volume attuned to that which is well-theorized in other disciplines—the spectral, hauntological, apparitional. Each of the writers assembled here shares, as Mark Fisher (2017) put it, a fascination for the outside, “that which lies beyond standard perception, cognition and experience.” Assembling an arsenal of cutting-edge social and cultural theory, the volume tangles with some of criminology’s most stubborn revenants—the politics of criminalization, the commodification of crime and violence, the haunting power of the image, as well as the unheard and disregarded cries of the dead.
Darieck Scott
- Published in print:
- 2022
- Published Online:
- May 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781479840137
- eISBN:
- 9781479811694
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479840137.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics explores how fantasy—especially superhero comics, which are usually derided as naïve and childish—is a catalyst for engaging the black ...
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Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics explores how fantasy—especially superhero comics, which are usually derided as naïve and childish—is a catalyst for engaging the black radical imagination. Such engagements prompt “fantasy-acts” against antiblackness, a transgressive way of “reading” beyond the comic-book page to envision and to experience alternate, and potentially more just, realities. Fantasies about superhero characters are not just or even primarily forms of escape, Scott argues, but are active reshapings of readers and their worlds. Keeping It Unreal offers a rich meditation on the relationship between fantasy and reality and between the imagination and being, as it weaves Scott’s personal recollections of his encounters with superhero comics with interpretive readings of figures like the Black Panther, Luke Cage, Nubia, and Blade and theorists such as Frantz Fanon, Eve Sedgwick, Leo Bersani, Saidiya Hartman, and Gore Vidal. Keeping It Unreal represents an in-depth theoretical consideration of the intersections of superhero comics, blackness, and queerness, and draws on a variety of fields of inquiry, including African American and African diaspora studies, media studies, comics studies, queer theory, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and black feminism.Less
Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics explores how fantasy—especially superhero comics, which are usually derided as naïve and childish—is a catalyst for engaging the black radical imagination. Such engagements prompt “fantasy-acts” against antiblackness, a transgressive way of “reading” beyond the comic-book page to envision and to experience alternate, and potentially more just, realities. Fantasies about superhero characters are not just or even primarily forms of escape, Scott argues, but are active reshapings of readers and their worlds. Keeping It Unreal offers a rich meditation on the relationship between fantasy and reality and between the imagination and being, as it weaves Scott’s personal recollections of his encounters with superhero comics with interpretive readings of figures like the Black Panther, Luke Cage, Nubia, and Blade and theorists such as Frantz Fanon, Eve Sedgwick, Leo Bersani, Saidiya Hartman, and Gore Vidal. Keeping It Unreal represents an in-depth theoretical consideration of the intersections of superhero comics, blackness, and queerness, and draws on a variety of fields of inquiry, including African American and African diaspora studies, media studies, comics studies, queer theory, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and black feminism.
Erika D. Gault
- Published in print:
- 2022
- Published Online:
- May 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781479805815
- eISBN:
- 9781479805839
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479805815.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Through a digital ethnography of the lives of young adult Black Christians this book examines hip hop as a deeply spiritual practice. This work argues that digital Black Christians have created a new ...
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Through a digital ethnography of the lives of young adult Black Christians this book examines hip hop as a deeply spiritual practice. This work argues that digital Black Christians have created a new space in and beyond the Black Church, one that is linguistic and socio-temporal in design. In the process, they are changing physically located Black Churches, modes of church activism, communication practices around evangelism and Christian identity, and the transmission and consumption of Black Church cultural practices in popular culture. Digital Black Christians suggests a new direction in how we study people of faith in all ages and races, and in what constitutes “committed adherents.” The work examines the relationships, identity-formation, valuation, and visibility-seeking that occurs online, as these intimacies are intrinsic to many people’s religious experience. In outlining the intimacies that such technologies mediate and mediatize, this book implores us all—preachers, practitioners, and scholars alike—to catch up.Less
Through a digital ethnography of the lives of young adult Black Christians this book examines hip hop as a deeply spiritual practice. This work argues that digital Black Christians have created a new space in and beyond the Black Church, one that is linguistic and socio-temporal in design. In the process, they are changing physically located Black Churches, modes of church activism, communication practices around evangelism and Christian identity, and the transmission and consumption of Black Church cultural practices in popular culture. Digital Black Christians suggests a new direction in how we study people of faith in all ages and races, and in what constitutes “committed adherents.” The work examines the relationships, identity-formation, valuation, and visibility-seeking that occurs online, as these intimacies are intrinsic to many people’s religious experience. In outlining the intimacies that such technologies mediate and mediatize, this book implores us all—preachers, practitioners, and scholars alike—to catch up.
Simon Coleman
- Published in print:
- 2022
- Published Online:
- May 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780814717288
- eISBN:
- 9781479811953
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814717288.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
While pilgrimage often focuses on sacred shrines, it can also occur in apparently mundane places. Indeed, not everyone has the resources or mobility to take part in religiously inspired movement to ...
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While pilgrimage often focuses on sacred shrines, it can also occur in apparently mundane places. Indeed, not everyone has the resources or mobility to take part in religiously inspired movement to foreign lands, and some find meaning in religious movement closer to home and outside of officially sanctioned practices. This book argues that we must question the universality of Western assumptions of what religion is and where it should be located, including the notion that pilgrimage needs to be associated with discrete, formally recognized forms of religiosity. The volume makes the case for expanding our ethnographic and analytical gaze in reconsidering the salience, scope, and scale of contemporary forms of pilgrimage and pilgrimage-related activity. It argues for the need to reflect on how pilgrimage sites, journeys, rituals, stories, and metaphors are entangled with each other and with wider aspects of people’s lives, ranging from an action as trivial as a stroll down the street to the magnitude of forced migration to another country or continent. The book offers a new theoretical lexicon and framework for exploring human pilgrimage. It presents a broad overview of how we can understand pilgrimage activity and explores what happens at sites themselves as well as the preparations for, and the aftermath of, going on pilgrimage.Less
While pilgrimage often focuses on sacred shrines, it can also occur in apparently mundane places. Indeed, not everyone has the resources or mobility to take part in religiously inspired movement to foreign lands, and some find meaning in religious movement closer to home and outside of officially sanctioned practices. This book argues that we must question the universality of Western assumptions of what religion is and where it should be located, including the notion that pilgrimage needs to be associated with discrete, formally recognized forms of religiosity. The volume makes the case for expanding our ethnographic and analytical gaze in reconsidering the salience, scope, and scale of contemporary forms of pilgrimage and pilgrimage-related activity. It argues for the need to reflect on how pilgrimage sites, journeys, rituals, stories, and metaphors are entangled with each other and with wider aspects of people’s lives, ranging from an action as trivial as a stroll down the street to the magnitude of forced migration to another country or continent. The book offers a new theoretical lexicon and framework for exploring human pilgrimage. It presents a broad overview of how we can understand pilgrimage activity and explores what happens at sites themselves as well as the preparations for, and the aftermath of, going on pilgrimage.
Marita Sturken
- Published in print:
- 2022
- Published Online:
- May 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781479811670
- eISBN:
- 9781479811700
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479811670.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This book examines the role of cultural memory in the post-9/11 era of American culture, an era that begins with 9/11 memorialization and ends with battles over the memory of racial injustice. The ...
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This book examines the role of cultural memory in the post-9/11 era of American culture, an era that begins with 9/11 memorialization and ends with battles over the memory of racial injustice. The book argues that 9/11 was a shaping force in the two decades that followed and that the post-9/11 era came to a close in the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic and protests of 2020. The post-9/11 era thus begins with the numerous nationalistic memorial projects of 9/11 and ends with the radical intervention of the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, a project that dramatically rewrites the national script of American history. The book looks in depth at the proliferation of 9/11 memorials, with thousands of memorials built from the bent steel of the twin towers throughout the country, and situates the 9/11 museum in New York and the architectural rebuilding of lower Manhattan as an intermix of memorialization, securitization, commercialization, and starchitecture. It analyzes the erasure of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the memory projects that have aimed to render their human and economic costs visible. Finally, it examines the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery as a project of memory activism that aims to memorialize the legacies of slavery and lynching as a means to intervene into the consequences of mass incarceration in the present.Less
This book examines the role of cultural memory in the post-9/11 era of American culture, an era that begins with 9/11 memorialization and ends with battles over the memory of racial injustice. The book argues that 9/11 was a shaping force in the two decades that followed and that the post-9/11 era came to a close in the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic and protests of 2020. The post-9/11 era thus begins with the numerous nationalistic memorial projects of 9/11 and ends with the radical intervention of the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, a project that dramatically rewrites the national script of American history. The book looks in depth at the proliferation of 9/11 memorials, with thousands of memorials built from the bent steel of the twin towers throughout the country, and situates the 9/11 museum in New York and the architectural rebuilding of lower Manhattan as an intermix of memorialization, securitization, commercialization, and starchitecture. It analyzes the erasure of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the memory projects that have aimed to render their human and economic costs visible. Finally, it examines the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery as a project of memory activism that aims to memorialize the legacies of slavery and lynching as a means to intervene into the consequences of mass incarceration in the present.
Ellen S. More
- Published in print:
- 2022
- Published Online:
- May 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781479812042
- eISBN:
- 9781479812059
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479812042.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Part biography, part social history, The Transformation of American Sex Education tells the story of Americans’ struggle to come to terms with their fear of talking about human sexuality—especially ...
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Part biography, part social history, The Transformation of American Sex Education tells the story of Americans’ struggle to come to terms with their fear of talking about human sexuality—especially with their children—from the late 1940s to the present. Beginning with the life and career of Dr. Mary Steichen Calderone, known as the “Grandmother of Sex Education,” it explores the movement she launched that eventually yielded what is today known as “comprehensive sex education.” Calderone believed that sexuality is part of the total human personality and, as such, is something to be affirmed rather than denied; that one must make sexual decisions responsibly; that sex education must teach more than reproductive biology or the prevention of STIs; and that humans are sexual all their lives. The book examines the role of the organization she led, the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), as well as of Planned Parenthood, medical schools, public schools, and the liberal churches, in transforming attitudes to sexual health and sex education. It also analyzes the opposition to these efforts by right-wing politicians and conservative religious groups promoting abstinence-only sex education, and considers the concerns felt by parents on all sides of the issue. This book seeks to trace the origins of today’s conflicting approaches to sexual health and sex education.Less
Part biography, part social history, The Transformation of American Sex Education tells the story of Americans’ struggle to come to terms with their fear of talking about human sexuality—especially with their children—from the late 1940s to the present. Beginning with the life and career of Dr. Mary Steichen Calderone, known as the “Grandmother of Sex Education,” it explores the movement she launched that eventually yielded what is today known as “comprehensive sex education.” Calderone believed that sexuality is part of the total human personality and, as such, is something to be affirmed rather than denied; that one must make sexual decisions responsibly; that sex education must teach more than reproductive biology or the prevention of STIs; and that humans are sexual all their lives. The book examines the role of the organization she led, the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), as well as of Planned Parenthood, medical schools, public schools, and the liberal churches, in transforming attitudes to sexual health and sex education. It also analyzes the opposition to these efforts by right-wing politicians and conservative religious groups promoting abstinence-only sex education, and considers the concerns felt by parents on all sides of the issue. This book seeks to trace the origins of today’s conflicting approaches to sexual health and sex education.
Dana Fennel
- Published in print:
- 2022
- Published Online:
- May 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781479881406
- eISBN:
- 9781479869909
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479881406.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Health, Illness, and Medicine
In contemporary society one can hear people use the term “OCD” in a colloquial manner, saying that they are “a little bit OCD.” Instead, this book introduces readers to the actual lives of people ...
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In contemporary society one can hear people use the term “OCD” in a colloquial manner, saying that they are “a little bit OCD.” Instead, this book introduces readers to the actual lives of people with obsessive-compulsive disorder. It shows the diverse manifestations of the disorder, how people conceptualize their “obsessions” and “compulsions,” and the ways these self-perceived atypical thoughts and behaviors influence people’s sense of self and their interactions in society. It does so by considering the disorder from the time people first started to believe they had a problem, all the way to life after treatment—what can be termed the “illness career.” The book is based on interviews with those who have the disorder, some of their family members, and a few treatment providers. It explores what their experiences reveal to us regarding larger issues in society and mental health, notably stigma and trivialization. The book also considers what it means to live in today’s risk society and how that relates to OCD, including the relevance of being an informed consumer of healthcare. It concludes by considering how we can improve the lives of those with OCD, more specifically increasing mental health literacy regarding OCD without fomenting stigma—as reducing trivialization can potentially increase stigma.Less
In contemporary society one can hear people use the term “OCD” in a colloquial manner, saying that they are “a little bit OCD.” Instead, this book introduces readers to the actual lives of people with obsessive-compulsive disorder. It shows the diverse manifestations of the disorder, how people conceptualize their “obsessions” and “compulsions,” and the ways these self-perceived atypical thoughts and behaviors influence people’s sense of self and their interactions in society. It does so by considering the disorder from the time people first started to believe they had a problem, all the way to life after treatment—what can be termed the “illness career.” The book is based on interviews with those who have the disorder, some of their family members, and a few treatment providers. It explores what their experiences reveal to us regarding larger issues in society and mental health, notably stigma and trivialization. The book also considers what it means to live in today’s risk society and how that relates to OCD, including the relevance of being an informed consumer of healthcare. It concludes by considering how we can improve the lives of those with OCD, more specifically increasing mental health literacy regarding OCD without fomenting stigma—as reducing trivialization can potentially increase stigma.
Anthony C. Infanti
- Published in print:
- 2022
- Published Online:
- May 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781479800346
- eISBN:
- 9781479800414
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479800346.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Philosophy of Law
In daily life and in tax law, time is taken for granted as something that is ever present but beyond our control. Time moves endlessly and relentlessly forward, constantly slipping from our grasp. ...
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In daily life and in tax law, time is taken for granted as something that is ever present but beyond our control. Time moves endlessly and relentlessly forward, constantly slipping from our grasp. But what if life were more like science fiction? What if we could, at will, move through time to alter its course? Or what if we could harness time by turning it into an exchangeable commodity, truly using time as money? In fact, there is no need to open a novel or watch a film to experience time travel or to see time used as a medium of exchange. As Tax Time demonstrates through accessible explanation and analysis of examples drawn from the United States and other countries, we need look no further than our tax laws to see time manipulated in these—and many other—ways.
But Tax Time does more than just complicate and overturn prevailing views of how time operates in and through tax law. In asserting that time in tax law is the product of pure imagination, Tax Time calls into question the world beyond time that we have created for ourselves. Has the tax imagination been used to work toward a more just world, or merely to entrench and exacerbate existing injustices? Finding that the tax imagination is too often used to perpetrate or perpetuate injustice, Tax Time calls for a systematic reexamination and reworking of the relationship between time and tax law with the aim of using the power of the tax imagination as a tool for moving society toward a better and more just future.Less
In daily life and in tax law, time is taken for granted as something that is ever present but beyond our control. Time moves endlessly and relentlessly forward, constantly slipping from our grasp. But what if life were more like science fiction? What if we could, at will, move through time to alter its course? Or what if we could harness time by turning it into an exchangeable commodity, truly using time as money? In fact, there is no need to open a novel or watch a film to experience time travel or to see time used as a medium of exchange. As Tax Time demonstrates through accessible explanation and analysis of examples drawn from the United States and other countries, we need look no further than our tax laws to see time manipulated in these—and many other—ways.
But Tax Time does more than just complicate and overturn prevailing views of how time operates in and through tax law. In asserting that time in tax law is the product of pure imagination, Tax Time calls into question the world beyond time that we have created for ourselves. Has the tax imagination been used to work toward a more just world, or merely to entrench and exacerbate existing injustices? Finding that the tax imagination is too often used to perpetrate or perpetuate injustice, Tax Time calls for a systematic reexamination and reworking of the relationship between time and tax law with the aim of using the power of the tax imagination as a tool for moving society toward a better and more just future.
Charmaine Wijeyesinghe (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- May 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781479801404
- eISBN:
- 9781479801435
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479801404.001.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
This book analyzes and interrogates the complex ways that race, racial identity, racism, and racial justice are represented, experienced, and addressed in American society, politics, and culture. ...
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This book analyzes and interrogates the complex ways that race, racial identity, racism, and racial justice are represented, experienced, and addressed in American society, politics, and culture. Drawing from research, narratives, theory, institutional and governmental policies, and media stories, authors illustrate how centuries of racism and white privilege fuel the dynamics of racial inequality today, and created contemporary norms influencing narratives of identity, belonging, racism, and racial justice in rapidly changing contexts. Topics explored include the nature of racial choice, transracial adoption, the connections between the deaths of Black people from police violence and the deaths of economically disadvantaged whites due to despair, the conflation of race and nationality in census policies, white perceptions of wokeness and racial justice, and resistance to applying intersectionality to race and racism. The volume also examines Islamic ideologies in Black oral traditions and Hip Hop, and African cultural change and belonging through Black histories of racial mixture with Native Americans. Intersectionality receives significant attention in chapters centering the lives of GLBTQ People of Color and People of Color who belong to communities of faith marginalized in the United States. Throughout the volume, analyses are grounded in theoretical, historical, and where appropriate legal sources; however, these areas provide the context for the central focus on how race informs contemporary and emerging issues. In addition, authors use multiple specific examples and accessible language to illustrate how the experiences of people marginalized by race can inform new theories, policies, and practices related to identity, community, and social justice.Less
This book analyzes and interrogates the complex ways that race, racial identity, racism, and racial justice are represented, experienced, and addressed in American society, politics, and culture. Drawing from research, narratives, theory, institutional and governmental policies, and media stories, authors illustrate how centuries of racism and white privilege fuel the dynamics of racial inequality today, and created contemporary norms influencing narratives of identity, belonging, racism, and racial justice in rapidly changing contexts. Topics explored include the nature of racial choice, transracial adoption, the connections between the deaths of Black people from police violence and the deaths of economically disadvantaged whites due to despair, the conflation of race and nationality in census policies, white perceptions of wokeness and racial justice, and resistance to applying intersectionality to race and racism. The volume also examines Islamic ideologies in Black oral traditions and Hip Hop, and African cultural change and belonging through Black histories of racial mixture with Native Americans. Intersectionality receives significant attention in chapters centering the lives of GLBTQ People of Color and People of Color who belong to communities of faith marginalized in the United States. Throughout the volume, analyses are grounded in theoretical, historical, and where appropriate legal sources; however, these areas provide the context for the central focus on how race informs contemporary and emerging issues. In addition, authors use multiple specific examples and accessible language to illustrate how the experiences of people marginalized by race can inform new theories, policies, and practices related to identity, community, and social justice.
After Obama
The Business of Birth
Crisis Lawyering
Iraqi Refugees in the United States
The Making of American Catholicism
Still Straight
Unexpected
When the Medium Was the Mission
The World Is Our Classroom
