Nyu Press: 1737 books
Gowanus
Brooklyn’s Curious Canal
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
For more than 150 years, Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal has been called a cesspool, an industrial dumping ground, and a blemish on the face of the populous borough—as well as one of the most important waterways in the history of New York harbor. Yet its true origins, man-made character, and importance...
Jewish New York
The Remarkable Story of a City and a People
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The definitive history of Jews in New York and how they transformed the city
Based on the acclaimed multi-volume series, City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York, Jewish New York reveals the multifaceted world of one of the city’s most important ethnic and religious groups. Spanning...
Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville
Excavating Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Winner of the Publication Award for Popular Culture and Entertainment for 2009 from the Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America
Named to Pop Matters list of the Best Books of 2009 (Non-fiction)
From the lights that never go out on Broadway to its 24-hour subway system, New York City...
The Colorblind Screen
Television in Post-Racial America
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
The election of President Barack Obama signaled for many the realization of a post-racial America, a nation in which racism was no longer a defining social, cultural, and political issue. While many Americans espouse a “colorblind” racial ideology and publicly endorse the broad goals of integration...
The Poverty Industry
The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
The shocking truth about how state governments and their private industry partners are profiting from the social safety net
Government aid doesn’t always go where it’s supposed to. Foster care agencies team up with companies to take disability and survivor benefits from abused and neglected...
Servants of Allah
African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Illuminates how African Muslims drew on Islam while enslaved, and how their faith ultimately played a role in the African Disapora
Servants of Allah presents a history of African Muslims, following them from West Africa to the Americas. Although many assume that what Muslim faith they brought...
Muslim Cool
Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Interviews with young, black Muslims in Chicago explore the complexity of those with identities formed at the crossroads of Islam and hip hop
This groundbreaking study of race, religion and popular culture in the 21st century United States focuses on a new concept, “Muslim Cool.” Muslim...
Loving to Survive
Sexual Terror, Men's Violence, and Women's Lives
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1995
Have you wondered: Why women are more sympathetic than men toward O. J. Simpson? Why women were no more supportive of the Equal Rights Amendment than men? Why women are no more likely than men to support a female political candidate? Why women are no more likely than men to embrace feminism--a movement...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Born out of the Civil Rights and Third World Liberation movements of the 1960s and 1970s, Asian American Studies has grown significantly over the past four decades, both as a distinct field of inquiry and as a potent site of critique. Characterized by transnational, trans-Pacific, and trans-hemispheric...
The Slums of Aspen
Immigrants vs. the Environment in America’s Eden
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Winner, Allan Schnaiberg Outstanding Publication Award, presented by the Environment & Technology section of the American Sociological Association
Environmentalism usually calls to mind images of peace and serenity, a oneness with nature, and a shared sense of responsibility. But one town in...
Fake Geek Girls
Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Reveals the systematic marginalization of women within pop culture fan communities
When Ghostbusters returned to the screen in 2016, some male fans of the original film boycotted the all-female adaptation of the cult classic, turning to Twitter to express their disapproval and making it clear...
Loca Motion
The Travels of Chicana and Latina Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
2006 Honorable Mention for MLA Prize in US Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies
In the summer of 1995, El Vez, the “Mexican Elvis,“along with his backup singers and band, The Lovely Elvettes and the Memphis Mariachis, served as master of ceremony for a ground-breaking...
Weird and Wonderful
The Dime Museum in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
Dioramas and panoramas, freaks and magicians, waxworks and menageries, obscure relics and stuffed animals--a dazzling assortment of curiosities attracted the gaze of the nineteenth-century spectator at the dime museum. This distinctly American phenomenon was unprecedented in both the diversity of...
Cruising Utopia
The Then and There of Queer Futurity
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. It has been stifled by this myopic focus on the present, which is short-sighted and assimilationist.Cruising Utopia seeks to break the present stagnancy by cruising ahead. Drawing...