The New Press
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The New Press is a not-for-profit, United States-based publishing house that operates in the public interest. It was established in 1990 as a major alternative to large commercial publishers, and is supported financially by various foundations, groups and corporations including the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation the Renco Group and the Center for Justice and International Law.
The New Press publishes about eighty mostly non-fiction titles each year with an emphasis on race relations; women's issues; immigration; human rights; labor and popular economics; media issues; education reform and alternative teaching materials; cultural criticism; art and art education; international literature; and law and legal studies. Across these disciplines, The Press has also taken a leading role in publishing a wide range of new work in African American, Asian American, Latino, gay and lesbian, and Native American studies, as well as work by and about other minority groups. Books are selected for their intellectual, political or cultural value rather than for their likely profitability.
The New Press's books are distributed to bookstores nationwide by W.W. Norton & Company.
Beyond publishing books, The New Press seeks to bring the ideas in them to new and diverse audiences and to use the books to support organizations doing advocacy work in the areas the Press publishes about. To this end, the Press operates an ambitious outreach program that works with libraries, museums, radio and television stations, historical societies, theater groups, and a wide range of other politica, arts and media organizations to generate public discussion and debate on the major issues confronting American society today.
