Nyu Press: 1737 books
Discrimination by Default
How Racism Becomes Routine
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2006
Much as we “select” computer settings by default-reflexively, without thinking, and sometimes without realizing there are other options—we often discriminate by default as well. And just as default computer settings tend to become locked in or entrenched as the standard, discrimination by default...
Pride in the Projects
Teens Building Identities in Urban Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2008
Teens in America’s inner cities grow up and construct identities amidst a landscape of relationships and violence, support and discrimination, games and gangs. In such contexts, local environments such as after-school programs may help youth to mediate between social stereotypes and daily experience,...
Reimagining Equality
A New Deal for Children of Color
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
2018 Outstanding Academic Title, given by Choice Magazine
A comprehensive examination of developmental inequality among children
Developmental equality–whether every child has an equal opportunity to reach their fullest potential–is essential for children’s future growth and access...
The Wrong Complexion for Protection
How the Government Response to Disaster Endangers African American Communities
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
When the images of desperate, hungry, thirsty, sick, mostly black people circulated in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it became apparent to the whole country that race did indeed matter when it came to government assistance. In The Wrong Complexion for Protection, Robert D. Bullard and Beverly...
The Racial Mundane
Asian American Performance and the Embodied Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Winner, Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize presented by the New England American Studies Association
Across the twentieth century, national controversies involving Asian Americans have drawn attention to such seemingly unremarkable activities as eating rice, greeting customers, and studying for exams....
by Th. Emil Homerin, 'A'ishah al-Ba'uniyyah
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
'A'ishah al-Ba'uniyyah (d. 923 H/1517 AD) of Damascus was one of the
great women scholars in Islamic history. A mystic and prolific poet and writer, 'A'ishah composed more works in
Arabic than any other woman before the twentieth century. Yet despite her
extraordinary literary and religious achievements,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1997
As we approach the 21st century, we also approach the third decade of the AIDS epidemic. Mental health care providers must face the crucial fact that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the condition it causes, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is the leading cause of death among Americans...
Getting Ahead
Social Mobility, Public Housing, and Immigrant Networks
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Getting Ahead tells the compelling stories of Latin-American immigrant women living in public housing in two Boston-area neighborhoods. Silvia Domínguez argues that these immigrant women parlay social ties that provide support and leverage to develop networks and achieve social positioning to get...
The New Arab Urban
Gulf Cities of Wealth, Ambition, and Distress
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Cities of the Arabian Peninsula reveal contradictions of contemporary urbanization
The fast-growing cities of the Persian Gulf are, whatever else they may be, indisputably sensational. The world’s tallest building is in Dubai; the 2022 World Cup in soccer will be played in fantastic Qatar...
An Unlikely Union
The Love-Hate Story of New York's Irish and Italians
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
An Unlikely Union tells the dramatic story of how two of America’s largest ethnic groups learned to love and laugh with each other after decades of animosity.
They came from the poorest parts of Ireland and Italy and met as rivals on the sidewalks of New York. Beginning in the nineteenth...
Blood and Fire
Godly Love in a Pentecostal Emerging Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
What does it mean to live out the theology presented in the Great Commandment to “love God above all and to love your neighbor as yourself”? In Blood and Fire, Poloma and Hood explore how understandings of godly love function to empower believers. Though godly love may begin as a perceived relationship...
Warriors and Peacemakers
How Third Parties Shape Violence
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998
Why do some conflicts escalate into violence while others dissipate harmlessly? Under what circumstances will people kill, and why?
While homicide has been viewed largely in the pathological terms of "crime" and "deviance," violence, Mark Cooney contends, is a naturally-occurring...
After Life Imprisonment
Reentry in the Era of Mass Incarceration
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
One out of every ten prisoners in the United States is serving a life sentence—roughly 130,000 people. While some have been sentenced to life in prison without parole, the majority of prisoners serving ‘life’ will be released back into society. But what becomes of those people who reenter the...
by Abu Zayd al-Sirafi
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
The ninth and tenth centuries witnessed the establishment of a substantial network of maritime trade across the Indian Ocean, providing the real-life background to the Sinbad tales.
An exceptional exemplar of Arabic travel writing, Accounts of China and India is a compilation of reports and...