Fordham University Press: 585 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2010
Children have a fundamental right to education, and to the protection that schools uniquely provide in the chaos that characterizes life for refugees and internally displaced persons. This book is grounded in the personal experiences of children, aid workers, and national leaders involved in post-conflict...
Scandalize My Name
Black Feminist Practice and the Making of Black Social Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
From sapphire, mammy, and jezebel, to the angry black woman, baby mama, and nappy-headed ho, black female iconography has had a long and tortured history in public culture. The telling of this history has long occupied the work of black female theorists—much of which has been foundational in situating...
City of Gods
Religious Freedom, Immigration, and Pluralism in Flushing, Queens
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Known locally as the birthplace of American religious freedom, Flushing, Queens, in New York City is now so diverse and densely populated that it has become a microcosm of world religions. City of Gods explores the history of Flushing from the colonial period to the aftermath of September 11, 2001,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
A groundbreaking new book, Still the Same Hawk: Reflections on Nature and New York brings into conversation diverse and intriguing perspectives on the relationship between nature and America's most prominent city. The volume's title derives from a telling observation in Robert Sullivan's contribution...
The Accidental Playground
Brooklyn Waterfront Narratives of the Undesigned and Unplanned
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
The Accidental Playground explores the remarkable landscape created by individuals and small groups who occupied and rebuilt an abandoned Brooklyn waterfront. While local residents, activists, garbage haulers, real estate developers, speculators, and two city administrations fought over the fate of...
by Colin Davey
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Contains a detailed "tour" through the old Hayden Planetarium (demolished in 1997 to make way for the Rose Center), painstakingly recreated through archival research and richly illustrated with period photos
Experiments in Exile
C. L. R. James, Hélio Oiticica, and the Aesthetic Sociality of Blackness
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Explores political possibilities for defining the common outside the bounds of citizenship and conventional liberal identity categories.
From a Nickel to a Token
The Journey from Board of Transportation to MTA
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
A fascinating micro-history of NYC’s subway system from LaGuardia’s public works achievements in 1940 to the creation of the MTA in 1968.
In 1940, New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia realized an ambitious plan to modernize the city’s public transit. He eliminated streetcars, demolished...
A Worldly Affair
New York, the United Nations, and the Story Behind Their Unlikely Bond
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The tumultuous, entertaining true story of how the city has welcomed the world’s leaders and diplomats . . . or not.
For over seven decades, New York City and the United Nations have shared the island of Manhattan, coexisting in a bond likened to a long marriage—tempestuous and supportive,...
The Forgiveness to Come
The Holocaust and the Hyper-Ethical
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
This book is concerned with the aporias, or impasses, of forgiveness, especially in relation to the legacy of the crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II. Banki argues that, while forgiveness of the Holocaust is and will remain impossible, we cannot...
Still the Same Hawk
Reflections on Nature and New York
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
This essay collection draws on natural history, urban ecology, and environmental politics to consider New York City’s complex relationship to nature.
How can a hawk nesting above Fifth Avenue become a citywide phenomenon? Why does a sudden butterfly migration at Coney Island energize the...