Nyu Press: 1737 books
Red Seas
Ferdinand Smith and Radical Black Sailors in the United States and Jamaica
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
During the heyday of the U.S. and international labor movements in the 1930s and 1940s, Ferdinand Smith, the Jamaican-born co-founder and second-in-command of the National Maritime Union (NMU), stands out as one of the most—if not the most—powerful black labor leaders in the United States. Smith’s...
Race Woman
The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2002
One of the most intriguing activists and artists of the twentieth century, Shirley Graham Du Bois also remains one of the least studied and understood. In Race Woman, Gerald Horne draws a revealing portrait of this controvertial figure who championed the civil rights movement in America, the liberation...
Black and Brown
African Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Winner of a 2005 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (Honorable Mention)
The Mexican Revolution was a defining moment in the history of race relations, impacting both Mexican and African Americans. For black Westerners, 19101920 did not represent the clear-cut promise of populist power, but a...
Dreaming Blackness
Black Nationalism and African American Public Opinion
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Black Nationalism is one of the oldest and most enduring ideological constructs developed by African Americans to make sense of their social and political worlds. In Dreaming Blackness, Melanye T. Price explores the current understandings of Black Nationalism among African Americans, providing a balanced...
Social Scientists for Social Justice
Making the Case against Segregation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
In one of the twentieth century's landmark Supreme Court cases, Brown v. Board of Education, social scientists such as Kenneth Clark helped to convince the Supreme Court Justices of the debilitating psychological effects of racism and segregation. John P. Jackson, Jr., examines the well-known studies...
The Ground Has Shifted
The Future of the Black Church in Post-Racial America
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
A powerful insight into the historical and cultural roles of the black church, the dilemmas it faces, and the roadmap for an ethical path forward.
Honorable Mention, Theology and Religious Studies PROSE Award
If we are in a post-racial era, then what is the future of the Black Church?...
American Secularism
Cultural Contours of Nonreligious Belief Systems
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Honorable Mention, American Sociological Association Section on Religion Distinguished Book Award
A rapidly growing number of Americans are embracing life outside the bounds of organized religion. Although America has long been viewed as a fervently religious Christian nation, survey data shows...
American Collegiate Populations
A Test of the Traditional View
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1982
American Collegiate Populations is an exhaustive and definitive study of the membership of American colleges and universities in the nineteenth century. Colin B. Burke explores the questions of who went, who stayed and where they came from, presenting as answers to these questions a mass of new data...
The Ugly Laws
Disability in Public
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, municipallaws targeting "unsightly beggars" sprang up in cities across America. Seeming to criminalize disability and thus offering a visceral example of discrimination, these “ugly laws” have become a sort of shorthand for oppression...
Fantasies of Identification
Disability, Gender, Race
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
In the mid-nineteenth-century United States, as it became increasingly difficult to distinguish between bodies understood as black, white, or Indian; able-bodied or disabled; and male or female, intense efforts emerged to define these identities as biologically distinct and scientifically verifiable...
How the Vote Was Won
Woman Suffrage in the Western United States, 1868-1914
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
By the end of 1914, almost every Western state and territory had enfranchised its female citizens in the greatest innovation in participatory democracy since Reconstruction. These Western successes stand in profound contrast to the East, where few women voted until after the ratification of the Nineteenth...
The Notorious Elizabeth Tuttle
Marriage, Murder, and Madness in the Family of Jonathan Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Who was Elizabeth Tuttle?
In most histories, she is a footnote, a blip. At best, she is a minor villain in the story of Jonathan Edwards, perhaps the greatest American theologian of the colonial era. Many historians consider Jonathan Edwards a theological genius, wildly ahead of his time, a...
Middle East Studies for the New Millennium
Infrastructures of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Few world regions today are of more pressing social and political interest than the Middle East: hardly a day has passed in the last decade without events there making global news. Understanding the region has never been more important, yet the field of Middle East studies in the United States is...
by Theodore Sasson
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
In The New American Zionism, Theodore Sasson challenges the conventional view of waning American Jewish support for Israel. Instead, he shows that we are in the midst of a shift from a "mobilization" approach, which first emerged with the new state and focused on supporting Israel through...