Nyu Press: 1737 books
What's Gone Wrong?
South Africa on the Brink of Failed Statehood
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
This is the book that Alex Boraine never wanted to write. As a native South African and a witness to the worst years of apartheid, he has known many of the leaders of the African National Congress in exile. He shared the jubilation of millions of South Africans when the ANC won the first democratic...
Habitats
Private Lives in the Big City
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
There may be eight million stories in the Naked City, but there are also nearly three million dwelling places, ranging from Park Avenue palaces to Dickensian garrets and encompassing much in between. The doorways to these residences are tantalizing portals opening onto largely invisible lives. Habitats...
New York Stories
The Best of the City Section of the New York Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
“There are eight million stories in the Naked City.” This famous line from the 1948 film The Naked City has become an emblem of New York City itself. One publication cultivating many of New York City's greatest stories is the City section in The New York Times. Each Sunday, this section of The...
LGBTQ Politics
A Critical Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
A definitive collection of original essays on queer politics
From Harvey Milk to ACT UP to Proposition 8, no political change in the last two decades has been as rapid as the advancement of civil rights for LGBTQ people. As we face a critical juncture in progressive activism, political science,...
God Hates Fags
The Rhetorics of Religious Violence
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
At the funeral of Matthew Shepard—the young Wyoming man brutally murdered for being gay—the Reverend Fred Phelps led his parishioners in protest, displaying signs with slogans like “Matt Shepard rots in Hell,” “Fags Die God Laughs,” and “God Hates...
Dear Tiny Heart
The Letters of Jane Heap and Florence Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
Writer, artist, Manhattan gallery owner, and co-editor of the Little Review, Jane Heap was one of the most dynamic figures of the international avant garde, creating a life that defined the "modernist experience" as a syncretic one. Deliberately seeking a low profile throughout her life,...
Difficult Diasporas
The Transnational Feminist Aesthetic of the Black Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Winner of the 2013 Modern Language Association's William Sanders Scarborough Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Study of Black American Literature
In this comparative study of contemporary Black Atlantic women writers, Samantha Pinto demonstrates the crucial role of aesthetics in defining the...
AfroAsian Encounters
Culture, History, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
With a Foreword by Vijay Prashad and an Afterword by Gary Okihiro
How might we understand yellowface performances by African Americans in 1930s swing adaptations of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, Paul Robeson's support of Asian and Asian American struggles, or the absorption of hip hop by Asian...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
The theological problems facing those trying to respond to the Holocaust remain monumental. Both Jewish and Christian post-Auschwitz religious thought must grapple with profound questions, from how God allowed it to happen to the nature of evil.
The Impact of the Holocaust on Jewish Theology brings...
The End of the American Avant Garde
American Social Experience Series
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1997
"By 1966, the composer Virgil Thomson would write, "Truth is, there is no avant-garde today." How did the avant garde dissolve, and why? In this thought-provoking work, Stuart D. Hobbs traces the avant garde from its origins to its eventual appropriation by a conservative political agenda, consumer culture, and the institutional world of art.
Embodied Avatars
Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
How black women have personified art,expression,identity, and freedom through performance
Winner, 2016 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, presented by the Modern Language Association for an outstanding scholarly study of African American literature or culture
Winner, 2016 Barnard Hewitt...
Abstractionist Aesthetics
Artistic Form and Social Critique in African American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2015
An artistic discussion on the critical potential of African American expressive culture
In a major reassessment of African American culture, Phillip Brian Harper intervenes in the ongoing debate about the “proper” depiction of black people. He advocates for African American aesthetic abstractionism—a...
Highway under the Hudson
A History of the Holland Tunnel
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013
"There is no comparable book on this tunnel. Highly recommended."—Choice Reviews
Every year, more than thirty-three million vehicles traverse the Holland Tunnel, making their way to and from Jersey City and Lower Manhattan. From...
Fueling the Gilded Age
Railroads, Miners, and Disorder in Pennsylvania Coal Country
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
If the railroads won the Gilded Age, the coal industry lost it. Railroads epitomized modern management, high technology, and vast economies of scale. By comparison, the coal industry was embarrassingly primitive. Miners and operators dug coal, bought it, and sold it in 1900 in the same ways that they...