Nyu Press: 1737 books
Race for Citizenship
Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Helen Heran Jun explores how the history of U.S. citizenshiphas positioned Asian Americans and African Americans in interlocking socio-political relationships since the mid nineteenth century. Rejecting the conventional emphasis on ‘inter-racial prejudice,’ Jun demonstrates how a politics of inclusion...
Facing the Rising Sun
African Americans, Japan, and the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
The surprising alliance between Japan and pro-Tokyo African Americans during World War II
In November 1942 in East St. Louis, Illinois a group of African Americans engaged in military drills were eagerly awaiting a Japanese invasion of the U.S.— an invasion that they planned to join. Since...
We Skate Hardcore
Photographs from Brooklyn's Southside
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2004
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Published by New York University Press and Lyndhurst Books of the Center for Documentary Studies.
The stunning photographs of We Skate Hardcore reveal the determination, the dreams, and the rough and tumble story of urban Latino youth coming of age in New York City. Vincent Cianni spent...
Abandoned
Foundlings in Nineteenth-Century New York City
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Two interesting items:
The author's article in New York Archives
A letter regarding foundlings in The Riverdale Press
In the nineteenth century, foundlings-children abandoned by their desperately poor, typically unmarried mothers, usually shortly after birth-were commonplace in European society. There...
Staging Faith
Religion and African American Theater from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
In the years between the Harlem Renaissance and World War II, African American playwrights gave birth to a vital black theater movement in the U.S. It was a movement overwhelmingly concerned with the role of religion in black identity. In a time of profound social transformation fueled by a massive...
Italian Immigrant Radical Culture
The Idealism of the Sovversivi in the United States, 1890-1940
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Maligned by modern media and often stereotyped, Italian Americans possess a vibrant, if largely forgotten, radical past. In Italian Immigrant Radical Culture, Marcella Bencivenni delves into the history of the sovversivi, a transnational generation of social rebels, and offers a fascinating portrait...
To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race
The Story of the Only African-American WACS Stationed Overseas During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
I would have climbed up a mountain to get on the list [to serve overseas]. We were going to do our duty. Despite all the bad things that happened, America was our home. This is where I was born. It was where my mother and father were. There was a feeling of wanting to do your part.
--Gladys Carter,...
by Bertha Harris
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1993
A landmark work of lesbian literature, Lover was first published in 1972 by the now-defunct feminist press, Daughters, to tremendous critical acclaim. Emerging out of the women's and gay liberation movement alongside the early work of such writers as Rita Mae Brown and Jill Johnston, the novel features...
Bisexuality and the Challenge to Lesbian Politics
Sex, Loyalty, and Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1995
The subject of bisexuality continues to divide the lesbian and gay community. At pride marches, in films such as Go Fish, at academic conferences, the role and status of bisexuals is hotly contested.
Within lesbian communities, formed to support lesbians in a patriarchal and heterosexist society,...
by Ernest Nagel, James R. Newman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
In 1931 Kurt Gödel published his fundamental paper, "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems." This revolutionary paper challenged certain basic assumptions underlying much research in mathematics and logic. Gödel received public recognition of...
The Race Whisperer
Barack Obama and the Political Uses of Race
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Nearly a week after George Zimmerman was found not guilty of killing Trayvon Martin, President Obama walked into the press briefing room and shocked observers by saying that “Trayvon could have been me.” He talked personally and poignantly about his experiences and pointed to intra-racial violence...
Your Ad Here
The Cool Sell of Guerrilla Marketing
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
2015 Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Media Ecology Association
2013 Book of the Year, Visual Communication Division, National Communication Association
Amidst the profound upheavals in technology, economics, and culture that mark the contemporary moment, marketing strategies...
Freeing Speech
The Constitutional War over National Security
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
The United States is in the midst of a heated conversation over how the Constitution impacts national security. In a traditional reading of the document, America uses military force only after a full and informed national debate. However, modern presidents have had unparalleled access to the media...
Fight the Power
African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
A story of resistance, power and politics as revealed through New York City’s complex history of police brutality
The 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri was the catalyst for a national conversation about race, policing, and injustice. The subsequent killings of other black...