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Desegregating Comics
Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics
Edited by Qiana Whitted
Rutgers University Press
Desegregating Comics assembles a team of leading scholars to explore how debates about the representation of blackness shaped both the production and reception of Golden Age comics. It examines not only the racial stereotypes that predominated, but also the innovations of black comics artists and the activism of black fans.
Desegregating Comics
Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics
Edited by Qiana Whitted; By Qiana Whitted
Rutgers University Press
Desegregating Comics assembles a team of leading scholars to explore how debates about the representation of Blackness shaped both the production and reception of Golden Age comics. It examines not only the racial stereotypes that predominated, but also the innovations of Black comics artists and the activism of Black fans.
Black and Smart
How Black High-Achieving Women Experience College
Rutgers University Press
Even academically talented students face challenges in college. For high-achieving Black women, their racial, gender, and academic identities intensify those issues. Black and Smart reveals the ways institutional oppression functions at historically white institutions on and off campus. It also features strategies for educators to create more affirming and inclusive environments inside and outside the college classroom.
Toward a Healthier Garden State
Beyond Cancer Clusters and COVID
Rutgers University Press
This book uses the past fifty years of New Jersey history as a case study to illustrate just how much public policy decisions and other upstream factors can affect the health of a state’s citizens. It reveals New Jersey’s most detrimental decisions, but also considers how the state has developed some of the nation’s most innovative responses to public health challenges.
W. E. B. Du Bois Souls of Black Folk
A Graphic Interpretation
By W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) and Paul Peart-Smith; Edited by Paul Buhle and Herb Boyd; Introduction by Jonathan Scott Holloway
Rutgers University Press
Artist Paul Peart-Smith offers the first graphic adaptation of W.E.B. Du Bois’ influential 1903 work The Souls of Black Folk, providing historical and cultural contexts for his thoughts on the racial terror, sorrows, and hopes of the post-Reconstruction era. It vividly conveys the book’s continuing legacy, effectively updating it for the age of Black Lives Matter.
Undoing Motherhood
Collaborative Reproduction and the Deinstitutionalization of U.S. Maternity
Rutgers University Press
In 1978 the world’s first IVF baby was born, ushering in a paradigm shift in reproductive medicine. IVF and collaborative reproduction (egg/embryo donation, gestational surrogacy) create new opportunities and conflicts about reproduction and parentage. Undoing Motherhood examines the connected issues of fragmented and uncertain maternity in the post-IVF reproductive era.
Garbage in the Garden State
Rutgers University Press
New Jersey is sometimes imagined, particularly by non-New Jerseyans, as a giant garbage dump for New York and Philadelphia. But every place has had to struggle with the challenges of waste management. New Jersey's trash history is in fact more interesting and more important than most. New Jersey’s waste history includes intensive planning, deep-seated political conflict, organized crime, and literally every level of state and federal judiciary. It is a colorful history, to say the least, and one that includes a number of firsts with regard to recycling, comprehensive planning, and the challenging economics of trash.
Enduring Polygamy
Plural Marriage and Social Change in an African Metropolis
Rutgers University Press
Enduring Polygamy explores sweeping social changes in urban Africa through the lens of plural marriage. The book offers insights into gender dynamics and the cultural, economic, and political factors affecting how, when, and why people marry. The bookoffers an open-minded but unflinching perspective on a contested but resilient form of marriage.
Dying Green
A Journey through End-of-Life Medicine in Search of Sustainable Health Care
Rutgers University Press
Dying Green considers the environmental costs of common healthcare practices, raising an urgent question: in striving to improve the health outcomes of individual patients, are we damaging human health on a global scale? Offering a comparative analysis of the care provided to terminally ill patients in different settings, it envisions a more sustainable approach to healthcare.
Caribes 2.0
New Media, Globalization, and the Afterlives of Disaster
Rutgers University Press
Caribes 2.0 looks at the Caribbean mediasphere in the twenty-first century. It argues that we have seen a return to tropes such as blackface, cultural and ethnic stereotypes, and violent representations of the marginalized. The booklooks at these tropes and the work of Caribbean media figures and examines how they are challenging and negotiating these media representations.
Cancer Entangled
Anticipation, Acceleration, and the Danish State
Edited by Rikke Sand Andersen and Marie Louise Tørring
Rutgers University Press
This book explores the shifts that took place in Denmark around the millennium, when health promoters set out to minimize delays in cancer diagnoses in hope of improving cancer survival. Through rich ethnographic cases on the first cancer vaccine, cancer signs and symptoms, social class and care seeking, public discourses on delays, cancer suspicion in the clinic, and fast-track referral the authors situate cancer control in an ethical registrar involving attention to acceleration and time.
Cancer Entangled
Anticipation, Acceleration, and the Danish State
Edited by Rikke Sand Andersen and Marie Louise Tørring
Rutgers University Press
This book explores the shifts that took place in Denmark around the millennium, when health promoters set out to minimize delays in cancer diagnoses in hope of improving cancer survival. Through rich ethnographic cases on the first cancer vaccine, cancer signs and symptoms, social class and care seeking, public discourses on delays, cancer suspicion in the clinic, and fast-track referral the authors situate cancer control in an ethical registrar involving attention to acceleration and time.
Hero Me Not
The Containment of the Most Powerful Black, Female Superhero
By Chesya Burke
Rutgers University Press
Hero Me Not is the first academic study devoted to the superhero Storm and what she means to Black female comics fans. It examines how she is represented as racially exotic yet combines stereotypes of the Mammy and Magical Negro, almost always deploying her immense powers in the service of White characters.
Dying Green
A Journey through End-of-Life Medicine in Search of Sustainable Healthcare
Rutgers University Press
When Are You Coming Home?
How Young Children Cope When Parents Go to Jail
Rutgers University Press
When Are You Coming Home? answers questions about how young children cope when parents go to jail. Told through the real stories of children, caregivers, and parents navigating parental incarceration, this book delves into the nuances that comprise children’s well-being and family relationships. In doing so, it calls out contextual vulnerabilities while emphasizing resilience processes that shape how children make sense of being separated from parents and await their likely reunification.
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