Nyu Press: 1737 books
Citizens of Asian America
Democracy and Race during the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
During the Cold War, Soviet propaganda highlighted U.S. racism in order to undermine the credibility of U.S. democracy. In response, incorporating racial and ethnic minorities in order to affirm that America worked to ensure the rights of all and was superior to communist countries became a national...
Save the Bees!
Beekeepers on the Frontlines of New York’s Urban Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Grappling with the strange phenomenon of colony collapse disorder—the baffling disappearance of all bees from a hive that is often blamed for the honeybee’s increasingly endangered status—New York City’s hobbyist beekeeping communities have gone green. Lisa Jean Moore and Mary Kosut introduce...
by Paul Harris
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1997
In 1971, Paul Harris pioneered the modern version of the black rage defense when he successfully defended a young black man charged with armed bank robbery. Dubbed one of the most novel criminal defenses in American history by Vanity Fair, the black rage defense is enormously controversial, frequently...
Sells like Teen Spirit
Music, Youth Culture, and Social Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Music has always been central to the cultures that young people create, follow, and embrace. In the 1960s, young hippie kids sang along about peace with the likes of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez and tried to change the world. In the 1970s, many young people ended up coming home in body bags from Vietnam,...
Deadly Injustice
Trayvon Martin, Race, and the Criminal Justice System
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
The murder of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin and the subsequent trial and acquittal of his assailant, George Zimmerman, sparked a passionate national debate about race and criminal justice in America that involved everyone from bloggers to mayoral candidates to President Obama himself. With increased...
Dancing Tango
Passionate Encounters in a Globalizing World
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Argentinean
tango
is a global phenomenon. Since its origin among immigrants from the slums of
Buenos Aires and Montevideo, it has crossed and re-crossed many borders.Yet, never before has tango been danced by so
many people and in so many different places as today. Argentinean tango is more
than a...
The Epistle of Forgiveness
Volumes One and Two
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Known as “one of the most complex and unusual texts in Arabic literature” (Banipal Magazine), The Epistle of Forgiveness is the lengthy reply by the prolific Syrian poet and prose writer, Abu l-'Ala' al-Ma'arri (d. 449 H/1057 AD), to a letter by an obscure grammarian, Ibn al-Qari. With biting...
by Abu Bakr al-Suli, Beatrice Gruendler
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Abu Tammam (d. 231 or 232/845 or 846) is one of the most celebrated poets in the Arabic language. Born in Syria of Greek Christian background, he soon made his name as one of the premier Arabic poets in the caliphal court of Baghdad. Abu Tammam vigorously promoted a new style of poetry that merged...
Shout to the Lord
Making Worship Music in Evangelical America
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
How music makes worship and how worship makes music in Evangelical churches
Music is a nearly universal feature of congregational worship in American churches. Congregational singing is so ingrained in the experience of being at church that it is often misunderstood to be synonymous with worship....
Constructing Black Selves
Caribbean American Narratives and the Second Generation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
In 1965, the Hart-Cellar Immigration Reform Act ushered in a huge wave of immigrants from across the Caribbean—Jamaicans, Cubans, Haitians, and Dominicans, among others. How have these immigrants and their children negotiated languages of race and ethnicity in American social and cultural politics?...
Anthem
Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
For people of African descent, music constitutes a unique domain of expression. From traditional West African drumming to South African kwaito, from spirituals to hip-hop, Black life and history has been dynamically displayed and contested through sound. Shana Redmond excavates the sonic histories of...
America’s Forgotten Holiday
May Day and Nationalism, 1867-1960
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Though now a largely forgotten holiday in the United States, May Day was founded here in 1886 by an energized labor movement as a part of its struggle for the eight-hour day. In ensuing years, May Day took on new meaning, and by the early 1900s had become an annual rallying point for anarchists, socialists,...
Science for Segregation
Race, Law, and the Case against Brown v. Board of Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
In this fascinating examination of the intriguing but understudied period following the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, John Jackson examines the scientific case aimed at dismantling the legislation.
Offering a trenchant assessment of the so-called scientific evidence, Jackson focuses...
Irving Howe
A Life of Passionate Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
A New York Times “Books for Summer Reading” selection
Winner of the 2003 National Jewish Book Award for History
By the time he died in 1993 at the age of 73, Irving Howe was one of the twentieth century’s most important public thinkers. Deeply passionate, committed to social reform and secular...