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The Round Dance
A Novel
The Brodsky Center at Rutgers University
Three Decades, 1986-2017
The Brodsky Center at Rutgers: Three Decades, 1986-2017, chronicles the history and artists involved with an internationally acclaimed print and papermaking studio at Rutgers University. Judith K. Brodsky conceived, founded, and directed the atelier, which, from its onset, provided state-of-the-arts technology and expertise for under-represented contemporary artists — women, Indigenous, and from diasporas of the African, Eastern European, Latin and Asian communities — to make innovative works on paper. These artistic creations presented new narratives to American and global visual arts from voices previously not heard or seen.
Playful Frames
Styles of Widescreen Cinema
Home Girls, 40th Anniversary Edition
A Black Feminist Anthology
Bridge and Tunnel Boys
Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, and the Metropolitan Sound of the American Century
AntoloGaia
Queering the Seventies, A Radical Trans Memoir
AntoloGaia offers a vivid first-hand account of the rise of the gay liberation movement in Italy, revealing how it was intimately intertwined with other forms of left-wing activism. Porpora Marcasciano conveys both the heartbreak of living through an era of institutionalized homophobia and the queer joy of encountering Italy’s unique gay and trans communities.
An Age of Accountability
How Standardized Testing Came to Dominate American Schools and Compromise Education
An Age of Accountability highlights the role of test-based accountability as a policy framework in American education. Even after very clear disappointments no other policy framework has emerged to challenge its hegemony, and many Americans continue to believe that accountability remains a vital necessity, even if educators and policy scholars disagree.
Staging a Comeback
Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance
Race and Police
The Origin of Our Peculiar Institutions
Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital
Centering the Periphery
This book highlights the modernity of Polish Jewish culture through its literature, poetry, film, cabaret, theater, architecture, the visual arts, and music in urban centers large and small. The contributors expertly reassert the belonging of Jews in Polish lands and showcase the multivalent texture of Polish Jewish cultural production before World War II.
Policing Victimhood
Human Trafficking, Frontline Work, and the Carceral State
On the Turtle's Back
Stories the Lenape Told Their Grandchildren
Migrants Who Care
West Africans Working and Building Lives in U.S. Health Care
As the U.S. population ages, and as health care needs become more complex, demand for paid care workers in home and institutional settings has increased. Migrants Who Care draws attention to the reserve of immigrant labor that is called upon to meet this need, telling the little-known story of a group of English-speaking West African immigrants who have become central to the U.S. health and long-term care systems.
Metamorphosis
Who We Become after Facial Paralysis
Mainstreaming Gays
Critical Convergences of Queer Media, Fan Cultures, and Commercial Television
Ideal Beauty
The Life and Times of Greta Garbo
Chinese Marriages in Transition
From Patriarchy to New Familism
Chinese Marriages in Transition documents the nuanced and multidirectional nature of the transformations in Chinese marriage, gender roles, and family. Using complex and large-scale historical national data as well as comprehensive data from multiple countries, Xiaoling Shu and Jingjing Chen demonstrate that Chinese new familism consists of values both old and new.