Nyu Press: 1737 books
This Muslim American Life
Dispatches from the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Read Moustafa's Op-ed on Trump's Executive Order Against Muslims in The Guardian
Winner of the 2016 Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Arab American Book Award
Over the last few years, Moustafa Bayoumi has been an extra in Sex and the City 2 playing a generic Arab, a terrorist suspect (or at...
Pride Parades
How a Parade Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
On June 28, 1970, two thousand gay and lesbian activists in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago paraded down the streets of their cities in a new kind of social protest, one marked by celebration, fun, and unashamed declaration of a stigmatized identity. Forty-five years later, over six million people...
by 'A'ishah al-Ba'uniyyah
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
'A'ishah al-Ba'uniyyah of Damascus was one of the great women scholars in Islamic history. Born into a prominent family of pious scholars and Sufi devotees, 'A'ishah received a thorough religious education and memorized the Quran at age eight. A mystic and a prolific poet and writer, she composed...
The Synagogue in America
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
In 1789, when George Washington was elected the first president of the United States, laymen from all six Jewish congregations in the new nation sent him congratulatory letters. He replied to all six. Thus, after more than a century of Jewish life in colonial America the small communities of Jews...
The Soul of Judaism
Jews of African Descent in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
A glimpse into the diverse stories of Black Jews in the United States
What makes a Jew? This book traces the history of Jews of African descent in America and the counter-narratives they have put forward as they stake their claims to Jewishness.
The Soul of Judaism offers the first exploration...
Leonard Wood
Rough Rider, Surgeon, Architect of American Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
One of the most fascinating but least remembered figures in modern American history, Major General Leonard Wood (1860-1927) was, with his close friend Theodore Roosevelt, an icon of U.S. imperialism as the nation evolved into a global power at the dawn of the twentieth century. The myriad of roles...
Is There Life After Football?
Surviving the NFL
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2014
A human face on the realities of professional football, from the challenges players face after leaving the NFL to the factors that can enable them to continue to find success
2016 Best Book Award, North American Society for the Sociology of Sport
Is There Life After Football?draws upon the experiences...
Collateral Language
A User's Guide to America's New War
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Terrorism, jihad, fundamentalism, blowback. These and other highly charged terms have saturated news broadcasts and everyday conversation since September 11th. But to keen ears their meanings change depending upon who's doing the talking. So what do these words really mean? And what are people trying...
Long Before Stonewall
Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Although the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City symbolically mark the start of the gay rights movement, individuals came together long before the modern era to express their same-sex romantic and sexual attraction toward one another, and in a myriad of ways....
The Gay Baby Boom
The Psychology of Gay Parenthood
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
The gay and lesbian community is experiencing a baby boom. Advances in gay rights coupled with increased availability of alternative reproduction techniques have led to an unprecedented number of openly gay and lesbian parents. Estimates are that between 6 and 14 million children in the United States...
In Black and White
Race and Sports in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1996
From the days of the Negro Leagues in baseball up to the present when collegiate basketball factories entice and then fail to educate young black men, sports in America have long served as a barometer of the country's racial climate. Just as blacks are generally absent from the upper echelons of corporate...
Faithful to Fenway
Believing in Boston, Baseball, and America’s Most Beloved Ballpark
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Read the review at MLB.com
The Green Monster. Pesky's Pole. The Lone Red Seat. Yawkey Way. To baseball fans this list of bizarre phrases evokes only one place: Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox. Built in 1912, Fenway Park is Americas oldest major league ballpark still in use. In Faithful to...
Suspect Freedoms
The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Beginning in the early nineteenth century, Cubans migrated to New York City to organize and protest against Spanish colonial rule. While revolutionary wars raged in Cuba, expatriates envisioned, dissected, and redefined meanings of independence and nationhood. An underlying element was the concept...
That Pride of Race and Character
The Roots of Jewish Benevolence in the Jim Crow South
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
“It
has ever been the boast of the Jewish people, that they support their own poor,”
declared Kentucky attorney Benjamin Franklin Jonas in 1856. “Their reasons are
partly founded in religious necessity, and partly in that pride of race and
character which has supported them through so many ages...