Nyu Press imprint: 1731 books
Delinquents and Debutantes
Twentieth-Century American Girls' Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
The contributors, including such leading scholars as Vicki L. Ruiz, Jennifer Scanlon, and Miriam Formanek-Brunell, examine myriad ways in which a variety of discourses and activities from popular girls' magazines and advertisements to babysitting and the Girl Scouts help form girls' experiences of...
Empires and Indigenes
Intercultural Alliance, Imperial Expansion, and Warfare in the Early Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
The early modern period (c. 1500–1800) of world history is characterized by the establishment and aggressive expansion of European empires, and warfare between imperial powers and indigenous peoples was a central component of the quest for global dominance. From the Portuguese in Africa to the...
Manifest Destinies, Second Edition
The Making of the Mexican American Race
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
An essential resource for understanding the complex history of Mexican Americans and racial classification in the United States
Manifest Destinies tells the story of the original Mexican Americans—the people living in northern Mexico in 1846 during the onset of the Mexican American War. The...
Whiteness on the Border
Mapping the US Racial Imagination in Brown and White
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
The many lenses of racism through which the white imagination sees Mexicans and Chicanos
Historically, ideas of whiteness and Americanness have been built on the backs of racialized communities. The legacy of anti-Mexican stereotypes stretches back to the early nineteenth century when Anglo-American...
Citizenship Excess
Latino/as, Media, and the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
Drawing on contemporary conflicts between Latino/as and anti-immigrant forces, Citizenship Excess illustrates the limitations of liberalism as expressed through U.S. media channels. Inspired by Latin American critical scholarship on the “coloniality of power,” Amaya demonstrates that nativists...
by Ibn Qutaybah, Peter Webb
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
The Excellence of the Arabs is a spirited defense of Arab identity—its merits, values, and origins—at a time of political unrest and fragmentation, written by one of the most important scholars of the early Abbasid era.
In the cosmopolitan milieu of Baghdad, the social prestige attached...
Defining the Family
Law, Technology, and Reproduction in An Uneasy Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
Defining the Family: Law, Technology, and Reproduction in an Uneasy Age provides a sweeping portrait of the family in American law from the nineteenth century to the present. The family today has come to be defined by individuality and choice. Pre-nuptial agreements, non-marital cohabitation, gay...
The Stonewall Riots
A Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
On the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, the most important moment in LGBTQ history—depicted by the people who influenced, recorded, and reacted to it.
June 28, 1969, Greenwich Village: The New York City Police Department, fueled by bigoted liquor licensing practices and an omnipresent...
Global Feminism
Transnational Women's Activism, Organizing, and Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Increasingly feminists around the world have successfully campaigned for recognition of women's full personhood and empowerment. Global Feminism explores the social and political developments that have energized this movement. Drawn from an international group of scholars and activists, the authors...
by Kevin W. Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
The First Amendment is vital to our political system, our cultural institutions, and our routine social interactions with others. In this provocative book, Kevin Saunders asserts that freedom of expression can be very harmful to our children, making it more likely that they will be the perpetrators...
A New Juvenile Justice System
Total Reform for a Broken System
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
A New Juvenile Justice System aims at nothing less than a complete reform of the existing system: not minor change or even significant overhaul, but the replacement of the existing system with a different vision. The authors in this volume—academics, activists, researchers, and those who serve in...
The Supreme Court in the Intimate Lives of Americans
Birth, Sex, Marriage, Childrearing, and Death
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2003
Personal rights, such as the right to procreate-or not-and the right to die generate endless debate. This book maps out the legal, political, and ethical issues swirling around personal rights. Howard Ball shows how the Supreme Court has grappled with the right...
The Evolution of the Juvenile Court
Race, Politics, and the Criminalizing of Juvenile Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
A major statement on the juvenile justice system by one of America’s leading experts
The juvenile court lies at the intersection of youth policy and crime policy. Its institutional practices reflect our changing ideas about children and crime control. The Evolution of the Juvenile Court provides...
Inner Lives
Voices of African American Women In Prison
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
The rate of women entering prison has increased nearly 400 percent since 1980, with African American women constituting the largest percentage of this population. However, despite their extremely disproportional representation in correctional institutions, little attention has been paid to their experiences...