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Queer Newark

Queer Newark

Stories of Resistance, Love, and Community

Edited by Whitney Strub; Epilogue by Zenzele Isoke

Rutgers University Press

Queer Newark charts an alternate history of LGBTQ life in America where working-class people of color are the central actors. Uncovering the sites and people of Newark’s queer past in bars, discos, ballrooms, and churches, these essays reveal how violence, poverty, and homophobia could never suppress joy, resistance, love, and desire.

Queer Newark

Queer Newark

Stories of Resistance, Love, and Community

Edited by Whitney Strub; Epilogue by Zenzele Isoke

Rutgers University Press

Queer Newark charts an alternate history of LGBTQ life in America where working-class people of color are the central actors. Uncovering the sites and people of Newark’s queer past in bars, discos, ballrooms, and churches, these essays reveal how violence, poverty, and homophobia could never suppress joy, resistance, love, and desire.

Korea Letters in the William Elliot Griffis Collection

Korea Letters in the William Elliot Griffis Collection

An Annotated Selection

Edited by Young-mee Yu Cho and Sungmin Park; By William Eilliot Griffis

Rutgers University Press

The Korean materials in the Griffis Collection at Rutgers University consist of journals, correspondence, articles, maps, prints, photos, postcards, manuscripts, scrapbooks, and ephemera. These papers reflect Griffis's interests and activities in relation to Korea as a historian, scholar, and theologian. They provide a rare window into the turbulent period of late 19th and 20th century Korea, witnessed and evaluated by Griffis and early American missionaries in East Asia. The Korea Letters in the William Elliot Griffis Collection are divided into two parts: letters from missionaries and letters from Japanese and Korean political figures. Newly available and accessible through this collection, these letters develop a multifaceted history of early American missionaries in Korea, the Korean independence movement, and Griffis's views on Korean culture.

Destroy Them Gradually

Destroy Them Gradually

Displacement as Atrocity

By Andrew R. Basso

Rutgers University Press

Destroy Them Gradually reframes forced displacement as an annihilatory process, rather than as an event that precedes an atrocity. Displacement crimes are defined as the unique fusion of forced displacement with systemic deprivations of vital daily needs to destroy populations.

Designing Gardens with Flora of the American East, Revised and Expanded

Designing Gardens with Flora of the American East, Revised and Expanded

By Carolyn Summers and Kate Brittenham

Rutgers University Press

In this fully revised second edition of the classic guide, mother and daughter landscape designers Carolyn Summers and Kate Brittenham draw upon the most recent research on sustainability to help you plant gardens that are both chic and eco-friendly. Both home gardeners and professionals will appreciate their detailed descriptions of indigenous plants that nurture native insects and birds.

Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence

Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence

By Keja L. Valens

Rutgers University Press

Culinary Colonialism is the first book-length analysis of Caribbean cookbooks, tracing the multitude of ways they represent national identity, creolization, and working-class women’s food culture. Including full recipes from Cuban, Puerto Rican, Jamaican, Barbadian, Haitian, Dominican, and Antillean cookbooks, this groundbreaking work of scholarship doubles as a delicious cookbook.

The Politics of Potential

The Politics of Potential

Global Health and Gendered Futures in South Africa

By Michelle Pentecost

Rutgers University Press

In The Politics of Potential, physician-anthropologist Michelle Pentecost investigates The First 1000 Days, an early life intervention project that seeks to end child malnutrition in South Africa, the ways in which this program has been adopted, and how it impacts child-bearing women in South Africa in powerfully gendered and racialized ways.

Strictly Observant

Strictly Observant

Amish and Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women Negotiating Media

By Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar

Rutgers University Press

Strictly Observant presents a compelling ethnographic study of the complex dynamic between women in both the Pennsylvanian Old Order Amish and Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities and contemporary media technologies. These women exhibit a deep awareness of how to manage their usage of media as tools to increase their social and religious capital.

Reflections on the Pandemic

Reflections on the Pandemic

COVID and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed

Edited by Teresa Politano

Rutgers University Press

Reflections on the Pandemic: COVID and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed is a collection of essays, poems, and artwork that captures the raw energy and emotion of 2020 from the perspective of the Rutgers University community. This book, through its rich and imaginative storytelling at the intersection of scholarly expertise and personal narrative brings readers into the hearts and minds of not just the Rutgers community, but the world.

Reflections on the Pandemic

Reflections on the Pandemic

COVID and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed

Edited by Teresa Politano

Rutgers University Press

Reflections on the Pandemic: COVID and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed is a collection of essays, poems, and artwork that captures the raw energy and emotion of 2020 from the perspective of the Rutgers University community. This book, through its rich and imaginative storytelling at the intersection of scholarly expertise and personal narrative brings readers into the hearts and minds of not just the Rutgers community, but the world.

Happy Days

Happy Days

Images of the Pre-Sixties Past in Seventies America

By Benjamin L. Alpers

Rutgers University Press

Happy Days investigates how 1970s popular culture was obsessed with America’s past, but offered radically different interpretations of the same historical events and icons. Looking at representations of 1950s teenagers, the noir detective, America’s bicentennial, and neo-slave narratives, Benjamin Alpers examines how American history provoked both nostalgia and deep soul searching.

Forbes Burnham

Forbes Burnham

The Life and Times of the Comrade Leader

By Linden F. Lewis

Rutgers University Press

As Premier of British Guiana, Forbes Burnham led the country to independence in 1966 and spent two decades as its head of state. This biography examines how he rose to power by combining nationalist rhetoric, socialist policies, and Pan-Africanist philosophies, leading to a rule that was frequently dictatorial and corrupt, yet also sometimes surprisingly progressive.

Checkbook Zionism

Checkbook Zionism

Philanthropy and Power in the Israel-Diaspora Relationship

By Eric Fleisch

Rutgers University Press

Through their approximately $2.5 billion in donations each year to Israel, American Jews have profoundly impacted the direction of Israeli society. Checkbook Zionism uncovers how tensions over potential influence have been mediated and offers a new paradigm for evaluating philanthropic power sharing today.

Being Human

Being Human

Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq

By Fazil Moradi

Rutgers University Press

Being Human: Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq is a unique work of anthropological hospitality that draws on historical sources, eyewitness testimonies, perpetrator testimony, archival documents, trial records, artwork, novels, and poetry, to engage with one of political modernity’s acts of genocide in Iraq under the Iraqi Baʿth state.

Transpacific Cartographies

Transpacific Cartographies

Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the United States

By Melody Yunzi Li

Rutgers University Press

Transpacific Cartographies examines how contemporary Chinese diasporic narratives address the existential loss of home for immigrant communities at a time of global precarity and amid rising Sino-US tensions. Melody Li argues that the characters in these stories create multilayered maps that transcend the territorial boundaries that make finding a home in foreign land a seemingly impossible task.

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