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Holocaust Graphic Narratives
Generation, Trauma, and Memory
Rutgers University Press
Holocaust Graphic Narratives examines Holocaust graphic novels and memoirs, analyzing the genre as one that enables intergenerational transmission of trauma and memory. Here, the graphic novel becomes a medium uniquely positioned to create a sense of felt immediacy, urgency, and authenticity at the intersection of history and the imagination.
Under Quarantine
Immigrants and Disease at Israel’s Gate
Rutgers University Press
Under Quarantine is the riveting story of Shaar Ha’aliya, Israel’s central immigration camp. Focusing on the conflicts surrounding the camp’s medical quarantine, this book brings the history of this place and the remarkable experiences of the immigrants who went through it to life.
Transnational Korean Cinema
Cultural Politics, Film Genres, and Digital Technologies
By Dal Yong Jin
Rutgers University Press
In Transnational Korean Cinema author Dal Yong Jin explores the interactions of local and global politics, economics, and culture to contextualize the development of Korean cinema and its current place in an era of neoliberal globalization and convergent digital technologies.
The Superhero Symbol
Media, Culture, and Politics
Rutgers University Press
Bringing together superhero scholars and key industry figures The Superhero Symbol unmasks how superheroes have become so pervasive in media, culture, and politics. This timely collection explores how these powerful icons are among the entertainment industry’s most valuable intellectual properties, yet can be appropriated for everything from activism to cosplay and real-life vigilantism.
The Superhero Symbol
Media, Culture, and Politics
Rutgers University Press
Bringing together superhero scholars and key industry figures The Superhero Symbol unmasks how superheroes have become so pervasive in media, culture, and politics. This timely collection explores how these powerful icons are among the entertainment industry’s most valuable intellectual properties, yet can be appropriated for everything from activism to cosplay and real-life vigilantism.
Putting Their Hands on Race
Irish Immigrant and Southern Black Domestic Workers
Rutgers University Press
Putting Their Hands on Race is an intersectional and comparative labor history of southern African American and Irish immigrant women who labored as domestic workers after migrating to northeastern cities during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Point of Sale
Analyzing Media Retail
Edited by Daniel Herbert and Derek Johnson
Rutgers University Press
Point of Sale examines media retail as a vital component in the study of popular culture. It brings together fifteen essays by top media scholars that show how retail matters as a site of significance to culture industries as well as a crucial locus of meaning and participation for consumers.
Point of Sale
Analyzing Media Retail
Edited by Daniel Herbert and Derek Johnson
Rutgers University Press
Point of Sale examines media retail as a vital component in the study of popular culture. It brings together fifteen essays by top media scholars that show how retail matters as a site of significance to culture industries as well as a crucial locus of meaning and participation for consumers.
Only at Comic-Con
Hollywood, Fans, and the Limits of Exclusivity
By Erin Hanna
Rutgers University Press
Only at Comic-Con examines the relationship between exclusivity and the proliferation of media industry promotion at the San Diego Comic-Con, from the convention’s founding in 1970 to its current status as a destination for hundreds of thousands of pop culture fans and a hub of Hollywood hype and buzz.
In Plenty and in Time of Need
Popular Culture and the Remapping of Barbadian Identity
Rutgers University Press
In Plenty and in Time of Need uses music and performance as sites of analysis for the competing ideals and realities of Barbadian national culture. The book demonstrates complex relations between national, gendered, and sexual identities in Barbados, and how these identities are represented and interpreted on a global stage.
Healthcare and Human Dignity
Law Matters
Rutgers University Press
The biases that permeate the American healthcare system are nearly invisible; invisible to all but those they handicap. In Healthcare and Human Dignity, law professor Frank McClellan recounts the experiences of some such individuals and highlights the importance of establishing a healthcare system that prioritizes human dignity.
Conditionally Accepted
Christians' Perspectives on Sexuality and Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights
Rutgers University Press
This book explores Mississippi Christians’ beliefs about homosexuality and gay and lesbian civil rights and whether having a gay or lesbian friend or family member influences those beliefs. Beliefs vary widely based on religious affiliation. Overall, conservative Christian identity overshadows the positive benefits of relationships with gay and lesbian friends or family.
Best Actress
The History of Oscar®-Winning Women
By Stephen Tapert; Foreword by Roxane Gay
Rutgers University Press
Showcasing a dazzling collection of 200 photographs, many of which have never before been seen, this lavishly illustrated book offers a captivating historical, social, and political examination of the first 75 women – from Janet Gaynor to Emma Stone – to have won the coveted and legendary Academy Award for Best Actress.
Irina Nakhova
Museum on the Edge
Edited by Jane A. Sharp and Julia Tulovsky
Rutgers University Press
Released in conjunction with Russian conceptual artist Irina Nakhova’s first museum retrospective exhibition in the United States, this book includes many full-color illustrations of her work—spanning the entirety of her forty-year career and demonstrating her facility with a variety of media—plus essays by world-renowned curators and an interview with the artist herself. Published in partnership with the Zimmerli Museum.
Music Is Power
Popular Songs, Social Justice, and the Will to Change
Rutgers University Press
Music Is Power takes us on a guided tour through the past 100 years of politically-conscious popular music, from Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie to Green Day and NWA. Covering a wide variety of genres, including reggae, country, metal, and soul, Brad Schreiber tells fascinating stories about the origins and impact of dozens of world-changing songs.
War Games
By Jonna Eagle
Rutgers University Press
Covering everything from chess to football, from Saving Private Ryan to American Sniper, and from Call of Duty to drone interfaces, War Games is an essential guide for anyone seeking to understand the militarization of American culture, offering a compact yet comprehensive look at how we play with images of war.
Reluctant Interveners
America's Failed Responses to Genocide from Bosnia to Darfur
By Eyal Mayroz
Rutgers University Press
Why do we allow our governments to get away with “bystanding” to genocide? Focusing on the relationships between citizens, political elites, and U.S. institutions in the most powerful nation in the world, Reluctant Interveners offers a sobering account of the interplays between values and interests, words and deeds, which transformed the pledge of “never again” to a recurring reality of ever again.
I Wonder U
How Prince Went beyond Race and Back
By Adilifu Nama
Rutgers University Press
I Wonder U examines the entirety of Prince’s diverse career as a singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, record label mogul, movie star, and director, revealing how he refused to be typecast by the music industry’s limiting definitions of masculinity and femininity, of straightness and queerness, or of black music and white music.
I Wonder U
How Prince Went beyond Race and Back
By Adilifu Nama
Rutgers University Press
I Wonder U examines the entirety of Prince’s diverse career as a singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, record label mogul, movie star, and director, revealing how he refused to be typecast by the music industry’s limiting definitions of masculinity and femininity, of straightness and queerness, or of black music and white music.
Honor and the Political Economy of Marriage
Violence against Women in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
By Joanne Payton; Foreword by Deeyah Khan
Rutgers University Press
‘Honor' crimes target women and girls for transgressions against the moral code of the community, punishing female sexual autonomy in particular. This book argues that ‘honor’ represents women’s conformity to culturally-enforced standards of marriageability and underpins family and marital connections which form a primary method of organization within the community.
Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity
Edited by Delia Malia Caparoso Konzett
Rutgers University Press
This collection of essays examines intersectional identities of race/ethnicity, gender/sexuality, class, and nationality in Hollywood cinema. Intersectionality, traditionally associated with social activism, is used here more liberally as a critical and analytic tool to explore films, expressing multiple points of views and multiple ways of looking at films.
Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity
Edited by Delia Malia Caparoso Konzett
Rutgers University Press
This collection of essays examines intersectional identities of race/ethnicity, gender/sexuality, class, and nationality in Hollywood cinema. Intersectionality, traditionally associated with social activism, is used here more liberally as a critical and analytic tool to explore films, expressing multiple points of views and multiple ways of looking at films.
Chronic Failures
Kidneys, Regimes of Care, and the Mexican State
Rutgers University Press
Chronic Failures: Kidneys, Regimes of Care and the Mexican State is about Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and the relentless search for care within a context of poverty, inequality and uneven welfare arrangements. Documenting the routes taken to access care, the practices of patients without entitlement offer critical perspectives on state-market-healthcare relations.
Belonging and Becoming in a Multicultural World
Refugee Youth and the Pursuit of Identity
By Laura Moran
Rutgers University Press
Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Brisbane, Australia, Belonging and Becoming in a Multicultural World provides a critical analysis of the shortcomings and underpinning contradictions of modern multicultural inclusion. It demonstrates how creating a sense of identity among young Sudanese and Karen refugees is a continual process shaped by powerful social forces.
A Mayor for All the People
Kenneth Gibson's Newark
Rutgers University Press
This book offers a balanced assessment of the leadership and legacy of Kenneth Gibson, Newark’s first African-American mayor, who took office at a time when the city was plagued by dying industries and soaring crime rates. Weaving together accounts by city employees, politicians, activists, journalists, and educators, it provides a compelling inside look at a city in crisis.
The Queer Aesthetics of Childhood
Asymmetries of Innocence and the Cultural Politics of Child Development
By Hannah Dyer
Rutgers University Press
In The Queer Aesthetics of Childhood, Hannah Dyer offers a study of how children’s art and art about childhood can forecast new models of social life that redistribute care, belonging, and political value. She asserts that in the aesthetics of childhood, a more just future can be conjured.
San Francisco Year Zero
Political Upheaval, Punk Rock and a Third-Place Baseball Team
Rutgers University Press
In San Francisco Year Zero, San Francisco native Lincoln Mitchell deftly weaves together the personal and the political, tracing the city’s current state back to three key events that all occurred in 1978: the assassination of George Moscone and Harvey Milk occurring fewer than two weeks after the massacre of Peoples Temple members in Jonestown, Guyana, the explosion of the city’s punk rock scene, and a breakthrough season for the San Francisco Giants.
Diversifying STEM
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Race and Gender
Edited by Ebony O. McGee and William H. Robinson
Rutgers University Press
Research frequently neglects the important ways that race and gender intersect within the complex structural dynamics of STEM. Diversifying STEM fills this void, bringing together a wide array of perspectives and the voices of a number of multidisciplinary scholars.
Diversifying STEM
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Race and Gender
Edited by Ebony O. McGee and William H. Robinson
Rutgers University Press
Research frequently neglects the important ways that race and gender intersect within the complex structural dynamics of STEM. Diversifying STEM fills this void, bringing together a wide array of perspectives and the voices of a number of multidisciplinary scholars.
Medical Entanglements
Rethinking Feminist Debates about Healthcare
Rutgers University Press
Medical Entanglements uses intersectional feminist, queer, and crip theory to move beyond “for or against” approaches to medicine. Drawing on case studies, the book argues that most medical interventions will simultaneously reinforce inequality and alleviate individual suffering. Thus, the book argues that feminists should allow individuals choice in regards to medical intervention, while working to dismantle systems of oppression.
Indigenous Communalism
Belonging, Healthy Communities, and Decolonizing the Collective
Rutgers University Press
Indigenous Communalism is a study of community building in Native communities, and considers what models might be drawn from the strategies of Indigenous groups for post-colonial communalism and native self-determination in contemporary global society. Drawing on her ethnographic work among the Akimel O'odham and the Wiradjuri, Carolyn Smith-Morris shows how communal work and culture help these communities form distinctive indigenous bonds.
American Community
Radical Experiments in Intentional Living
Rutgers University Press
American Community takes us inside forty of our nation’s most interesting experiments in collective living, from the colonial era to the present day. By shining a light on these forgotten histories, it shows that far from being foreign concepts, communitarianism and socialism have always been vital parts of the American experience.
Fight the Tower
Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy
Edited by Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis
Rutgers University Press
Asian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the ways they are marginalized by intersectionalities of race and gender in academia. Fight the Tower shows that Asian American women stand up for their rights and work for positive change for all within academic institutions. The essays provide powerful portraits, reflections, and analyses of a population often rendered invisible by the lies sustaining intersectional injustices to operate an oppressive system.
Fight the Tower
Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy
Edited by Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis
Rutgers University Press
Asian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the ways they are marginalized by intersectionalities of race and gender in academia. Fight the Tower shows that Asian American women stand up for their rights and work for positive change for all within academic institutions. The essays provide powerful portraits, reflections, and analyses of a population often rendered invisible by the lies sustaining intersectional injustices to operate an oppressive system.
Crisis Leadership in Higher Education
Theory and Practice
Rutgers University Press
There was a time when crises on college and university campuses were relatively rare and episodic. Much has changed, and it has changed quite rapidly. Drawing upon original research, Crisis Leadership in Higher Education presents a theory-informed framework for academic and administrative leaders who must navigate the institutional and environmental crises that are most germane to institutions of higher education.
Becoming Rwandan
Education, Reconciliation, and the Making of a Post-Genocide Citizen
Rutgers University Press
Drawing on extensive survey data, interviews, and observations carried out with teachers and students in fifteen schools across Rwanda, Becoming Rwandan is a thought-provoking study of the power and the limitations of education as a peacebuilding and state-building tool.
Women Artists on the Leading Edge
Visual Arts at Douglass College
Rutgers University Press
This book explores the achievements of a group of young women artists who learned about the New Art through an extraordinary faculty of innovators at Douglass College. New Art rejected the dominance of Abstract Expressionism, advocating that art should be based on everyday life and that “anything can be art.”
Long Walk Home
Reflections on Bruce Springsteen
Edited by Jonathan D. Cohen and June Skinner Sawyers
Rutgers University Press
In this unique collection, critics, musicians, scholars, and fans describe how they have been moved, shaped, and challenged by Bruce Springsteen’s music. A diverse array of contributors reflect on their personal connections to Springsteen’s songs, illustrating the meaning of his music and its resonance for listeners over the course of nearly five decades.
Time to Get Real!
Turning Uncertainty into an Action Plan for Personal and Professional Success
By Alex J. Plinio and Melissa Smith
Rutgers University Press
This book is a unique guide to life and career planning providing you with a step-by-step approach to create your intentional life. It is market and time-tested, filled with instructive case studies, inspiration, and interactive exercises, enabling you to unlock those things within that lead to personal satisfaction and success.
Colonialism Is Crime
By Marianne Nielsen and Linda M. Robyn
Rutgers University Press
There is powerful evidence that the colonization of Indigenous people was and is a crime, and that that crime is on-going. In this book Nielsen and Robyn present an analysis of the relationship between these colonial crimes and their continuing criminal and socially injurious consequences that exist today.
Speech and Song at the Margins of Global Health
Zulu Tradition, HIV Stigma, and AIDS Activism in South Africa
Rutgers University Press
Speech and Song at the Margins of Global Health tells the story of a unique Zulu gospel choir comprised of people living with HIV in South Africa, and how they maintained healthy, productive lives amid globalized inequality, international aid, and the stigma that often comes with having HIV.
Science by the People
Participation, Power, and the Politics of Environmental Knowledge
By Aya H. Kimura and Abby Kinchy
Rutgers University Press
Studies show that citizen science projects—projects involving nonprofessionals—face dilemmas ranging from austerity to presumed boundaries between science and activism. By unpacking the politics of citizen science, this book aims to help people negotiate a complex political landscape and choose paths moving toward social change and environmental sustainability.
Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People
Colonialism, Nature, and Social Action
Rutgers University Press
Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People: Colonialism, Nature and Social Action draws upon nearly two decades of examples and insight from Karuk experiences on the Klamath River to illustrate how the ecological dynamics of settler-colonialism are essential for theorizing gender, race and social power today.
Refugees in America
Stories of Courage, Resilience, and Hope in Their Own Words
Rutgers University Press
In this book, eleven men and women share their extraordinary stories of fleeing life-threatening hardship in their home countries in search of a better life in the United States. Giving a voice to refugees from such far-flung locations as Eritrea, Guatemala, Poland, Syria, and Vietnam, it weaves together a rich tapestry of human resilience, suffering, and determination.
Precision Medicine Oncology
A Primer
Edited by Lorna Rodriguez-Rodriguez
Rutgers University Press
Precision medicine is rapidly becoming the standard-of-care for the treatment of cancer patients. Precision Medicine Oncology: A Primer is a concise review of the fundamental principles and applications of precision medicine, and intended for clinicians, particularly those working in the field of oncology.
Medicine over Mind
Mental Health Practice in the Biomedical Era
Rutgers University Press
In an era in which the medicalization of mental health troubles and treatment has been settled for several decades, little is known about how this biomedical framework affects practitioners’ experiences. This book explores how practitioners make sense of a field that has shifted rapidly in just a few decades.
For the Birds
Protecting Wildlife through the Naturalist Gaze
Rutgers University Press
Offering readers a glimpse behind the binoculars, For the Birds reveals birders to be important allies in the larger environmental conservation movement. Drawn from extensive interviews and field observations, it shows birders participating in citizen science projects, witnessing the devastating effects of climate change, and discovering small pockets of biodiversity in unexpected places.
Dangerous Masculinity
Fatherhood, Race, and Security Inside America's Prisons
By Anna Curtis
Rutgers University Press
For incarcerated fathers, prison rather than work mediates access to their families. Incarcerated men negotiate expectations of gender performance and their relationships with the mothers of their children during incarceration.These negotiations around masculinity and fatherhood inside prison provide insight into gender inequity, racism, and ideological underpinnings of security practices.
Studying Hasidism
Sources, Methods, Perspectives
Edited by Marcin Wodzinski
Rutgers University Press
Studying Hasidism, edited by internationally recognized historian of Hasidism Marcin Wodziński, introduces previously untapped sources, such as folklore, music, or material culture and shows how they can be employed to answer new questions in the history of Hasidism.
Obsessed
The Cultural Critic’s Life in the Kitchen
By Elisabeth Bronfen; Translated by Elisabeth Bronfen
Rutgers University Press
In this unique culinary memoir and cookbook, renowned cultural critic Elisabeth Bronfen tells of her lifelong love affair with cooking and reveals what she has learned about creating delicious home meals. As she shares her personal stories, and over 250 recipes, she also offers practical advice about tweaking recipes, reusing leftovers, and cooking for one.
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