NYU Press Classics

JULY 1, 1998 | HISTORY

272 PAGES | 6 X 9 | 2 B/W ILLUSTRATIONS PAPER | 9780814721162 | $29 NYUS (£23.99)

WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND WOMEN’S RIGHTS

Ellen Carol DuBois

"DuBois has written a powerful testament to the importance of being radical--of igniting revolutionary change with the social dynamite of claims to race and gender justice." - In These Times

An essential examination of the woman suffrage movement

In recent decades, the woman suffrage movement has taken on new significance for women's history. Ellen Carol DuBois has been a central figure in spurring renewed interest in woman suffrage and in realigning the debates which surround it. This highly original reconceptualization of women's rights provides an excellent overview of the movement in the context of women's broader concerns for social and political justice.

ELLEN CAROL DUBOIS is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author and editor of numerous books, including Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage.

AUGUST 1, 2001 | SOCIOLOGY

374 PAGES | 7 X 10 PAPER | 9780814774793 | $30 NYUS (£23.99)

IDENTITY POLITICS IN THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT

Edited by Barbara Ryan

"Critical examination of the role of identity in academic and activist feminism." - Women's Review of Books

An essential collection that constructs the arguments of similarity and difference dividing and uniting women

In a postmodern era of feminism, how do women come to identify, organize and mobilize themselves within a complex global network of relationships? Identity Politics in the Women's Movement offers critical examination of the inescapable role of identity in academic and activist feminism and the opportunities, challenges, and conflicts identity politics pose.

BARBARA RYAN is Professor of Sociology and Director of Women's Studies at Widener University.

BLACK IN LATIN AMERICA

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

"In approaching this vast topic, Gates displays disarming modesty and enthusiasm; his tone is that of a letter from a perceptive friend who can't wait to share what he's learned." - The New Yorker

The history of how six Latin American countries acknowledge— or deny—their African past

Twelve and a half million Africans were shipped to the New World during the Middle Passage. While just over eleven million survived the arduous journey, only about 450,000 of them arrived in the United States. The rest—over ten and a half million—were taken to the Caribbean and Latin America and created new and vibrant cultures with African, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish influences. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reveals how Africa and Europe combined to create the vibrant cultures of Latin America, with a rich legacy of thoughtful, articulate subjects whose stories are astonishingly moving and irresistibly compelling.

HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. is the Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research and holder of the distinguished title of Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University.

THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR

Edited and with an introduction by David W. Blight

"David Blight has done historians and literary critics a profound service by so expertly editing this germinal text. A must read for scholars of American and African American studies." - Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University

An 1797 publication of Enlightenment era thought, read by virtually every American schoolboy in the early 19th century

First published in 1797, The Columbian Orator helped shape the American mind for the next half century, going through some 23 editions and totaling 200,000 copies in sales. The book was read by virtually every American schoolboy in the first half of the 19th century. As a slave youth, Frederick Douglass owned just one book, and read it frequently, referring to it as a "gem" and his "rich treasure."

DAVID W. BLIGHT is the author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, which won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in History. He is also the author of Fredrick Douglass' Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee and editor of the Bedford Books editions of Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, An American Slave, and W. E. B. DuBois's The Souls of Black Folk.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012 | HISTORY

270 PAGES | 6 X 9 | 50 B/W ILLUSTRATIONS PAPER | 9780814738184 | $26 NYUS (£21.99)

FEBRUARY 1, 1998 | HISTORY

296 PAGES | 6 X 9 PAPER | 9780814713235 | $27 NYUS (£21.99)