Nyu Press: 1737 books
Cotton Capitalists
American Jewish Entrepreneurship in the Reconstruction Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Honorable Mention, 2019 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical Society
A vivid history of the American Jewish merchants who concentrated in the nation’s most important economic sector
In the nineteenth century, Jewish merchants created a thriving niche economy...
The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm
The Life and Writings of a Pan-Africanist Pioneer, 1799-1851
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
“If I know my own heart, I can truly say, that I have not a selfish wish in placing myself under the patronage of the [American Colonization] Society; usefulness in my day and generation, is what I principally court.”
“Sensible then, as all are of the disadvantages under which we at present...
Becoming Rasta
Origins of Rastafari Identity in Jamaica
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
So much has been written about the Rastafari, yet we know so little about why and how people join the Rastafari movement. Although popular understandings evoke images of dreadlocks, reggae, and marijuana, Rastafarians were persecuted in their country, becoming a people seeking social justice. Yet...
Modernity's Ear
Listening to Race and Gender in World Music
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Inside the global music industry and the racialized and gendered assumptions we make about what we hear
Fearing the rapid disappearance of indigenous cultures, twentieth-century American ethnographers turned to the phonograph to salvage native languages and musical practices. Prominent among...
Jews in Gotham
New York Jews in a Changing City, 1920-2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Jews in Gotham follows the Jewish saga in ever-changing New York City from the end of the First World War into the first decade of the new millennium. This lively portrait details the complex dynamics that caused Jews to persist, abandon, or be left behind in their neighborhoods during critical moments...
Emerging Metropolis
New York Jews in the Age of Immigration, 1840-1920
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Emerging Metropolis tells the story of New York’s emergence as the greatest Jewish city of all time. It explores the Central European and East European Jews’ encounter with New York City, tracing immigrants’ economic, social, religious, political, and cultural adaptation between 1840 and 1920....
City of Promises
A History of the Jews of New York, 3-volume box set
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
New York Jews, so visible and integral to the culture, economy and politics of America’s greatest city, has eluded the grasp of historians for decades. Surprisingly, no comprehensive history of New York Jews has ever been written. City of Promises: The History of the Jews in New York, a three volume...
Racial Innocence
Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
2013 Book Award Winner from the International Research Society in Children's Literature
2012 Outstanding Book Award Winner from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education
2012 Winner of the Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize presented by the New England American Studies Association
2012...
Pimps Up, Ho's Down
Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
2007 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Emily Toth AwardPimps Up, Ho’s Down pulls at the threads of the intricately knotted issues surrounding young black women and hip hop culture. What unravels for Tracy D. Sharpley-Whiting is a new, and problematic, politics of...
by Carol Rittner, Sondra Myers
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1986
The extraordinary story of a few non-Jews who risked their lives to rescue and protect Jews from Nazi persecution in Europe during World War II is told in The Courage to Care. It features the first person accounts of rescuers and of survivors whose stories address the basic issue of individual responsibility:...
More New York Stories
The Best of the City Section of The New York Times
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
What do Francine Prose, Suketu Mehta, and Edwidge Danticat have in common? Each suffers from an incurable love affair with the Big Apple, and each contributed to the canon of writing New York has inspired by way of the New York Times City Section, a part of the paper that once defined Sunday afternoon...
Sophia Parnok
The Life and Work of Russia's Sappho
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1994
The weather in Moscow is good, there's no cholera, there's also no lesbian love...Brrr! Remembering those persons of whom you write me makes me nauseous as if I'd eaten a rotten sardine. Moscow doesn't have them--and that's marvellous."
-Anton Chekhov, writing to his publisher in 1895
Chekhov's...
Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific
Imperialism’s Racial Justice and Its Fugitives
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Set between the rise of the U.S. and Japan as Pacific imperial powers in the 1890s and the aftermath of the latter’s defeat in World War II, Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific traces the interrelated migrations of African Americans, Japanese Americans, and Filipinos across U.S. domains.
Offering...
Satire TV
Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Satirical TV has become mandatory viewing for citizens wishing to make sense of the bizarre contemporary state of political life. Shifts in industry economics and audience tastes have re-made television comedy, once considered a wasteland of escapist humor, into what is arguably the most popular source...