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The Road to Citizenship
What Naturalization Means for Immigrants and the United States
Rutgers University Press
In The Road to Citizenship, Sofya Aptekar analyzes what the process of becoming a citizen means for newly minted Americans and what it means for the United States as a whole. Examining the evolution of the discursive role of immigrants in the American society, immigrants’ own understandings of naturalization, and the growing inequality in who gets citizenship, Aptekar’s in-depth research uncovers considerable contradictions in the way naturalization works today. Aptekar contends that debates about immigration must be broadened beyond the current focus on borders and documentation to include larger questions about the definition of citizenship.
Shades of White Flight
Evangelical Congregations and Urban Departure
Rutgers University Press
In Shades of White Flight, sociologist Mark T. Mulder investigates a case of “white flight” where seven church congregations from one denomination, the Christian Reformed Church, left Chicago en masse in the 1960s and 70s and relocated their churches in nearby suburbs. Using a wealth of both archival and interview data, Mulder examines the migration of these Chicago church members, revealing how their churches not only failed to inhibit white flight, but actually facilitated the congregations’ departure.
Making Asian American Film and Video
History, Institutions, Movements
By Jun Okada
Rutgers University Press
Making Asian American Film and Video gives readers a unique behind-the-scenes look at the various institutions that have bankrolled and distributed the genre over the course of its fifty year evolution. Jun Okada explores how state-run media outlets like PBS served as crucial support for Asian American films, but also imposed limitations. In addition, she considers a number of Asian American filmmakers who have opted out of producing state-funded films, from Wayne Wang to Gregg Araki to Justin Lin.
Art Direction and Production Design
Edited by Lucy Fischer
Rutgers University Press
It is impossible to imagine filmmaking without an understanding of the contributions of art direction and production design. In Art Direction and Production Design, six outstanding scholars survey the careers of notable art directors, the influence of specific design styles, the key roles played by particular studios and films in shaping the field, the effect of technological changes on production design, and the shifts in industrial modes of organization.
The Things That Fly in the Night
Female Vampires in Literature of the Circum-Caribbean and African Diaspora
Rutgers University Press
The Things That Fly in the Night explores images of vampirism in Caribbean and African diasporic folk traditions and in contemporary fiction. Giselle Anatol considers the explosion of soucouyant and other vampire narratives among writers of Caribbean and African heritage who in the past twenty years have rejected the demonic image of the character and used her instead to urge for female mobility, racial and cultural empowerment, and anti colonial resistance.
Jewish Mad Men
Advertising and the Design of the American Jewish Experience
Rutgers University Press
Attractively illustrated and insightfully written, Jewish Mad Men looks at how advertising helped shape the evolution of American Jewish life and culture over the past one hundred years. Drawing on case studies of famous ad campaigns—from Levy’s Rye Bread to Hebrew National hot dogs—Kerri P. Steinberg uses the lens of advertising to illuminate the Jewish trajectory from outsider to insider, and the related arc of immigration, acculturation, upward mobility, and suburbanization.
Hiking the Road to Ruins
Daytrips and Camping Adventures to Iron Mines, Old Military Sites, and Things Abandoned in the New York City Area...and Beyond
Rutgers University Press
In this easy to use, informative, and occasionally eccentric guidebook, David A. Steinberg blazes the trail to more than twenty-five unusual landmarks and hard-to-find destinations that are mostly within a two-hour drive of New York City. Suitable for the experienced hiker or camping adventurer—as well as anyone that has the desire to explore—Hiking the Road to Ruins has been updated to include detailed directions and GPS coordinates to specific sites as well as many new hikes.
The Autobiography of Citizenship
Assimilation and Resistance in U.S. Education
By Tova Cooper
Rutgers University Press
At the turn of the twentieth century, America was faced with a radically mixed population, one with a disturbing new mix of races and religions. In The Autobiography of Citizenship, Tova Cooper looks at how citizen education programs tried to impose unity on this divergent population, and how the new citizens in turn often resisted these efforts, embracing their own view of what it means to be an American.
Our Aging Bodies
Rutgers University Press
Our Aging Bodies provides a clear, scientifically based explanation of what happens to all the major organ systems and bodily processes as people age. Throughout the book, Gary F. Merrill weaves in personal anecdotes and stories that help clarify and reinforce the facts and principles of the underlying scientific processes and explanations. Accessible to a general reader interested in the aging process, this book will also educate anyone wishing to have a more informed discussion with their physician.
It's Not Your Fault!
Strategies for Solving Toilet Training and Bedwetting Problems
Rutgers University Press
It’s Not Your Fault! offers evidence-based solutions for toilet training and to help parents of children suffering from delayed toilet training, bed wetting, and daytime urinary wetting. Using sound advice based on testing and research in a real world setting, Dr. Joseph Barone, M.D., educates parents who have been misguided by bad advice from friends, TV talk shows, the Internet, or parenting books. Easing the frustration and blame parents feel, It’s Not Your Fault! provides hope and guidance to parents desperate to help their children overcome urinary control and toilet training problems by enabling them to take charge of the situation.