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Unequal Choices
How Social Class Shapes Where High-Achieving Students Apply to College
By Yang Va Lor
Rutgers University Press
In Unequal Choices, Yang Va Lor examines the college application choices of high-achieving students, looking closely at the ways the larger contexts of family, school, and community influence their decisions. Where students submit college applications are shaped not only by access to information but also the context in which such information is received and the life experiences students draw upon to make sense of higher education.
The Synchronized Society
Time and Control From Broadcasting to the Internet
Rutgers University Press
The Synchronized Society traces the history of the synchronous broadcast experience of the twentieth century and the transition to the asynchronous media that dominate in the twenty-first century, with particular attention to the rise and fall of the schedule and the “water cooler” conversations that accompanied it.
Speaking Yiddish to Chickens
Holocaust Survivors on South Jersey Poultry Farms
By Seth Stern
Rutgers University Press
Most of the roughly 140,000 Holocaust survivors who came to the United States in the first decade after World War II settled in big cities such as New York. But a few thousand chose an alternative way of life on American farms. More of these accidental farmers wound up raising chickens in southern New Jersey than anywhere else. Speaking Yiddish to Chickens is the first book to chronicle this little-known chapter in American Jewish history when these mostly Eastern European refugees – including the author’s grandparents - found an unlikely refuge and gateway to new lives in the US on poultry farms. They gravitated to a section of south Jersey anchored by Vineland, a small rural city where previous waves of Jewish immigrants had built a rich network of cultural and religious institutions. This book relies on interviews with dozens of these refugee farmers and their children, as well as oral histories and archival records to tell how they learned to farm while coping with unimaginable grief. This is their remarkable story of loss, renewal, and perseverance in the most unexpected of settings.
Navigating White News
Asian American Journalists at Work
By David C Oh and Seong Jae Min
Rutgers University Press
Navigating White News: Asian American Journalists at Work is the first book-length study of Asian American reporters. It documents the frustrations, challenges, desires, and hopes they face in predominantly White newsrooms. In a time of racial awakening with Black Lives Matter and COVID-19, the book offers critical insights to the workings of American newsrooms.
Litcomix
Literary Theory and the Graphic Novel
By Adam Geczy and Jonathan McBurnie
Rutgers University Press
Drawing from literary critics like Georg Lukács and case studies from across the world of comics, Litcomix develops a theoretical approach for reading graphic novels as literature. Whether looking at Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s groundbreaking manga, graphic adaptations of Proust, or Jack Kirby’s Balzacian use of intertextuality, this book offers fresh perspectives on the graphic novel.
Indigeneity in Real Time
The Digital Making of Oaxacalifornia
Rutgers University Press
By launching cutting-edge Internet radio stations and multimedia platforms and engaging as influencers, Zapotec and Ayuujk peoples paved their own paths to a transnational lifeway between Mexico and the United States during the Trump era. Their novel digital formats put into practice political visions concerning Indigenous communality across vast distances—in real time.
Fighting Invisibility
Asian Americans in the Midwest
Rutgers University Press
Fighting Invisibility examines how post-1950s Midwest Asian Americans navigate identity and belonging, racism, educational settings, resources within co-ethnic communities, and pan-ethnic cultural community. Through the lens of Midwest Asian America, this book aims to disrupt—and expand beyond—the existing privileged narratives in United States and Asian American history.
Ferryman of Memories
The Films of Rithy Panh
Rutgers University Press
Rithy Panh survived the Cambodian genocide and found his life work. Aesthetics and ethics inform all he does, whether he is directing Isabel Huppert in The Sea Wall, following laborers digging trenches or interrogating the infamous director of S-21 prison. Written for film lovers as well as scholars, Ferryman of Memories introduces Panh and his incomparable cinema.
Elena, Princesa of the Periphery
Disney’s Flexible Latina Girl
Rutgers University Press
Princesa of the Periphery explores Disney’s Elena of Avalor. Focusing on girlhood and Latinidad, Leon-Boys studies the complex relationship between the U.S.’s largest ethnic minority and Disney as a global media conglomerate. The analysis demonstrates that Elena’s existence within the Disney universe is indicative of the overall presence of Latinxs in popular culture, media, and the nation.
Arranged Marriage
The Politics of Tradition, Resistance, and Change
Edited by Péter Berta
Rutgers University Press
Arranged Marriage shows how arranged marriage practices have been undergoing transformation; how the gendered and intergenerational politics of agency, consent, and choice work in the contexts of partner choice and management of marriage; and how this type of marriage can be reshaped, reinvented, and reinterpreted flexibly in response to individual, family, religious, class, ethnic and other desires, needs, and constraints.
The Activist Collector
Lida Clanton Broner’s 1938 Journey from Newark to South Africa
Rutgers University Press
“After twenty-eight years of desire and determination, I have visited Africa, the land of my forefathers.” So wrote Lida Clanton Broner (1895–1982), an African American housekeeper and hairstylist from Newark, New Jersey, upon her return from an extraordinary nine-month journey to South Africa in 1938. This epic trip was motivated not only by Broner’s sense of ancestral heritage, but also a grassroots resolve to connect the socio-political concerns of African Americans with those of Black South Africans under the segregationist policies of the time. During her travels, this woman of modest means circulated among South Africa’s Black intellectual elite, including many leaders of South Africa’s freedom struggle. Her lectures at Black schools on “race consciousness and race pride” had a decidedly political bent, even as she was presented as an “American beauty specialist.”
Unsafe Words
Queering Consent in the #MeToo Era
Edited by Shantel Gabrieal Buggs and Trevor Hoppe
Rutgers University Press
Telling a queerer side of the #MeToo story, Unsafe Words brings together academics, activists, artists, and sex workers to tackle challenging questions about sex, power, consent, and harm. Resisting the heteronormative assumptions, class norms, and racial privilege underlying much #MeToo discourse, they explore how queer communities might better prevent and respond to sexual violence.
Seton Hall University
A History, 1856–2006
By Dermot Quinn
Rutgers University Press
In this vivid and elegantly written history, Dermot Quinn examines how Seton Hall University was able to develop as an institution while keeping faith with its founder’s vision. It also tells the stories of the people who shaped the university and were shaped by it: the presidents, the priests, the faculty, the staff, and of course, the students.
Poetries - Politics
A Celebration of Language, Art, and Learning
Edited by Jenevieve DeLosSantos; Foreword by Susan Lawrence
Rutgers University Press
Poetries – Politics: A Celebration of Language, Art, and Learning is a catalogue that celebrates the best of innovative humanities pedagogy and creative graphic design and that provides a platform for the incredible generative power of student-led work.
Matchmaking in the Archive
19 Conversations with the Dead and 3 Encounters with Ghosts
Rutgers University Press
To help preserve the legacies left by earlier generations, artist E.G. Crichton selected 19 innovative LGBTQ artists, writers, and musicians to pair with deceased person whose personal artifacts are part of the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society archive. Including 25 pages of vivid images, Matchmaking in the Archive documents this remarkable creative project.
Making Uncertainty
Tuberculosis, Substance Use, and Pathways to Health in South Africa
Rutgers University Press
Making Uncertainty: Tuberculosis, Substance Use, and Pathways to Health explores what happens when tuberculosis and substance use intersect in healthcare facilities in Cape Town, South Africa. Through a close look at life and care, this fine-grained hospital ethnography provides new perspectives on how sickness and health are made.
Building Financial Empowerment for Survivors of Domestic Violence
A Path to Hope and Freedom
Rutgers University Press
Little of the research on domestic violence has sought to either fully understand the impact of financial abuse or to determine which intervention strategies are most effective for the financial empowerment of survivors. Building Financial Empowerment for Survivors of Domestic Violence aims to address this critical knowledge gap by providing those who work with survivors of domestic violence with practical knowledge on how to empower the financial well-being and stability of survivors.
A Pill for Promiscuity
Gay Sex in an Age of Pharmaceuticals
Edited by Andrew R. Spieldenner and Jeffrey Escoffier
Rutgers University Press
This collection brings together academics, artists, and activists—from different generations, countries, ethnic backgrounds, and HIV statuses—to reflect on how gay sex has changed in a post-PrEP era, critique the role Big Pharma now plays in queer life, and argue for the value of sexual community, promiscuity, and pleasure.
A History of Horror, 2nd Edition
Rutgers University Press
A History of Horror, 2nd Edition, with rare stills from classic films, is the only book to offer a comprehensive survey of the ever-popular horror film genre. Chronologically examining over fifty horror films from key periods, this one-stop sourcebook unearths the historical origins of legendary characters and explores how the genre fits into the Hollywood studio system and how its enormous success in American and European culture expanded globally over time.
To Defend This Sunrise
Black Women’s Activism and the Authoritarian Turn in Nicaragua
Rutgers University Press
To Defend this Sunrise: Black Women’s Activism and the Geography of Race in Nicaragua examines how black women activists on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua have resisted historical and contemporary patterns of racialized state violence, economic exclusion, territorial dispossession, and political repression from the 19th century to the present.
To Defend This Sunrise
Black Women's Activism and the Authoritarian Turn in Nicaragua
Rutgers University Press
To Defend this Sunrise: Black Women’s Activism and the Geography of Race in Nicaragua examines how black women activists on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua have resisted historical and contemporary patterns of racialized state violence, economic exclusion, territorial dispossession, and political repression from the 19th century to the present.
Reversing the Gaze
What If the Other Were You?
By Geneviève Makaping; Translated by Giovanna Bellesia Contuzzi and Victoria Offredi Poletto; Edited by Simone Brioni
Rutgers University Press
Tired of being scrutinized, criticized, and fetishized for her black skin, Cameroon-born scholar Geneviève Makaping turns the tables on Italy’s white majority, regarding them through the same unsparing gaze to which minorities are subjected.Reversing the Gaze offers a unique perspective on otherness and the work we must do to create a truly inclusive society.
Perfect Copies
Reproduction and the Contemporary Comic
By Shiamin Kwa
Rutgers University Press
Perfect Copies examines comics as a literary art form that is explicitly made for reproduction. What does mechanical reproduction have to do with ideas of family and biological reproduction? Five chapters closely examine the connections between two types of reproduction through various works by five exciting contemporary comics artists.
My Language Is a Jealous Lover
By Adrián N. Bravi; Translated by Victoria Offredi Poletto and Giovanna Bellesia Contuzzi; Foreword by Shirin Ramzanali Fazel
Rutgers University Press
My Language Is a Jealous Lover bears witness to the frustrations, soul-searching, pain, and joys of embracing another tongue. Adrián N. Bravi weaves together his own experiences as an Argentinian-Italian with the stories of authors who lived and wrote between multiple languages, including Samuel Beckett, Vladimir Nabokov, Ágota Kristóf, and Joseph Brodsky.
In Praise of Disobedience
Clare of Assisi, A Novel
Rutgers University Press
An author receives a mysterious e-mail begging her to tell the story of Clare of Assisi, the thirteenth-century Italian saint. As she becomes captivated by this subversive figure, the author tells the inspirational story of Saint Claire, a visionary who liberated herself from the chains of materialism and patriarchy.
Gray Love
Stories About Dating and New Relationships After 60
Edited by Nan Bauer-Maglin and Daniel E. Hood
Rutgers University Press
Gray Love tells stories about the most common of themes: seeking and sometimes finding love. Forty-five men and women, 60 and 94, from diverse backgrounds write about dating, building a relationship or fashioning a life alone. The longing for connection in old age is palpable, with more senior singles than ever searching online and elsewhere.
Global Child
Children and Families Affected by War, Displacement, and Migration
Rutgers University Press
Global Child highlights the unique features of participatory, arts-based, and socio-ecological approaches to studying war-affected children and families, demonstrating the collective strength as well as the limitations and the ethical implications of such research. Building on work across the Global South and the Global North, this book aims to deepen an understanding of this tri-pillared approach, and the potential for this methodology to contribute to improved practices in working with war-affected children and their families.
A World of Many
Ontology and Child Development among the Maya of Southern Mexico
By Norbert Ross
Rutgers University Press
A World of Many explores the world-making efforts of Tzotzil Maya children from two different localities within the municipality of Chenalhó, Chiapas. It shows that as they create their worlds, children create themselves as distinct human beings, being differently in their world.
Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization
By Carol Bailey
Rutgers University Press
Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization analyzes creative works set in Boston, London, New York, Toronto, as well as Global South cities such as Accra, Kingston, and Lagos to theorize the city as a generative, “semicircular” social space, where the changes of globalization are most profoundly experienced.
Transnational Cultural Flow from Home
Korean Community in Greater New York
Rutgers University Press
Transnational Cultural Flow from Home examines New York Korean immigrants’ collective efforts to preserve their cultural traditions and cultural practices and their efforts to transmit and promote them to New Yorkers by focusing on the Korean cultural elements such as language, foods, cultural festivals, and traditional and contemporary performing arts. This publication was supported by the 2022 Korean Studies Grant Program of the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS-2022-P-009).
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