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To Defend This Sunrise
Black Women’s Activism and the Authoritarian Turn in Nicaragua
Rutgers University Press
To Defend this Sunrise: Black Women’s Activism and the Geography of Race in Nicaragua examines how black women activists on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua have resisted historical and contemporary patterns of racialized state violence, economic exclusion, territorial dispossession, and political repression from the 19th century to the present.
To Defend This Sunrise
Black Women's Activism and the Authoritarian Turn in Nicaragua
Rutgers University Press
To Defend this Sunrise: Black Women’s Activism and the Geography of Race in Nicaragua examines how black women activists on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua have resisted historical and contemporary patterns of racialized state violence, economic exclusion, territorial dispossession, and political repression from the 19th century to the present.
Reversing the Gaze
What If the Other Were You?
By Geneviève Makaping; Translated by Giovanna Bellesia Contuzzi and Victoria Offredi Poletto; Edited by Simone Brioni
Rutgers University Press
Tired of being scrutinized, criticized, and fetishized for her black skin, Cameroon-born scholar Geneviève Makaping turns the tables on Italy’s white majority, regarding them through the same unsparing gaze to which minorities are subjected.Reversing the Gaze offers a unique perspective on otherness and the work we must do to create a truly inclusive society.
Perfect Copies
Reproduction and the Contemporary Comic
By Shiamin Kwa
Rutgers University Press
Perfect Copies examines comics as a literary art form that is explicitly made for reproduction. What does mechanical reproduction have to do with ideas of family and biological reproduction? Five chapters closely examine the connections between two types of reproduction through various works by five exciting contemporary comics artists.
My Language Is a Jealous Lover
By Adrián N. Bravi; Translated by Victoria Offredi Poletto and Giovanna Bellesia Contuzzi; Foreword by Shirin Ramzanali Fazel
Rutgers University Press
My Language Is a Jealous Lover bears witness to the frustrations, soul-searching, pain, and joys of embracing another tongue. Adrián N. Bravi weaves together his own experiences as an Argentinian-Italian with the stories of authors who lived and wrote between multiple languages, including Samuel Beckett, Vladimir Nabokov, Ágota Kristóf, and Joseph Brodsky.
In Praise of Disobedience
Clare of Assisi, A Novel
Rutgers University Press
An author receives a mysterious e-mail begging her to tell the story of Clare of Assisi, the thirteenth-century Italian saint. As she becomes captivated by this subversive figure, the author tells the inspirational story of Saint Claire, a visionary who liberated herself from the chains of materialism and patriarchy.
Gray Love
Stories About Dating and New Relationships After 60
Edited by Nan Bauer-Maglin and Daniel E. Hood
Rutgers University Press
Gray Love tells stories about the most common of themes: seeking and sometimes finding love. Forty-five men and women, 60 and 94, from diverse backgrounds write about dating, building a relationship or fashioning a life alone. The longing for connection in old age is palpable, with more senior singles than ever searching online and elsewhere.
Global Child
Children and Families Affected by War, Displacement, and Migration
Rutgers University Press
Global Child highlights the unique features of participatory, arts-based, and socio-ecological approaches to studying war-affected children and families, demonstrating the collective strength as well as the limitations and the ethical implications of such research. Building on work across the Global South and the Global North, this book aims to deepen an understanding of this tri-pillared approach, and the potential for this methodology to contribute to improved practices in working with war-affected children and their families.
A World of Many
Ontology and Child Development among the Maya of Southern Mexico
By Norbert Ross
Rutgers University Press
A World of Many explores the world-making efforts of Tzotzil Maya children from two different localities within the municipality of Chenalhó, Chiapas. It shows that as they create their worlds, children create themselves as distinct human beings, being differently in their world.
Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization
By Carol Bailey
Rutgers University Press
Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization analyzes creative works set in Boston, London, New York, Toronto, as well as Global South cities such as Accra, Kingston, and Lagos to theorize the city as a generative, “semicircular” social space, where the changes of globalization are most profoundly experienced.
Transnational Cultural Flow from Home
Korean Community in Greater New York
Rutgers University Press
Transnational Cultural Flow from Home examines New York Korean immigrants’ collective efforts to preserve their cultural traditions and cultural practices and their efforts to transmit and promote them to New Yorkers by focusing on the Korean cultural elements such as language, foods, cultural festivals, and traditional and contemporary performing arts. This publication was supported by the 2022 Korean Studies Grant Program of the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS-2022-P-009).
Radical Hospitality
American Policy, Media, and Immigration
By Nour Halabi
Rutgers University Press
Radical Hospitality centers hospitality as a primary metaphor and ethical framework governing the relationship of the migrant to both the “native” population and the host nation. The book examines the history of US immigration policy and media coverage to evaluate hospitality or hostility towards immigrants, and the impact this may have for immigrants’ sense of home and belonging within the nation.
Just Like Us
Digital Debates on Feminism and Fame
Rutgers University Press
In Just Like Us: Digital Debates on Feminism and Fame, Caitlin E. Lawson examines the rise of celebrity feminism, its intersections with digital culture, and its complicated relationships with race, sexuality, capitalism, and misogyny. Through in-depth analyses of online debates, Lawson demonstrates how networked negotiations of celebrity culture and feminism are transforming popular engagements with the movement.
Global Visions of Violence
Agency and Persecution in World Christianity
Rutgers University Press
Global Visions of Violence argues that violence creates a lens, bridge, and method to examine Christianity worldwide. These chapters illuminate often hidden landscapes that have been shaped by global visions of violence, showing how Christians in Africa, Asia, and Latin America respond to violence as they express their Christian faith.
From Protest to President
A Social Justice Journey through the Emergence of Adult Education and the Birth of Distance Learning
By George A Pruitt, with Melissa A Maszczak
Rutgers University Press
In this remarkable memoir, former Thomas Edison State University president George A. Pruitt describes how his experiences growing up in Mississippi and the South Side of Chicago during the civil rights movement led him to become a trailblazer for access to higher education for adult learners.
From Popular to Insurgent Intellectuals
Peasant Catechists in the Salvadoran Revolution
Rutgers University Press
From Popular to Insurgent Intellectuals explains how a group of Catholic lay catechists educated in liberation theology became early regional protagonists in El Salvador’s revolutionary war (1980-92). The book chronicles the steps by which state violence led peacful men of God to join a revolutionary organization in which they came to play important roles for the duration of the twelve-year military conflict.
Digital Me
Trans Students Exploring Future Possible Selves Online
Rutgers University Press
The Internet is a potent site from which to theorize, but also imagine, invest in, and explore the prismatic possibilities for life. Digital Me explores how transgender people use the internet in myriad ways. The book explores online life--from cultivating identity to creating community and everything in between.
How Schools Meet Students' Needs
Inequality, School Reform, and Caring Labor
Rutgers University Press
Drawing on conversations with teachers and classroom observations in two elementary schools, How Schools Meet Students' Needs explores the factors that enable and constrain teachers in their efforts to meet students' needs and the consequences of how schools organize this work on teachers' labor and students' learning.
The "Puerto Rican Problem" in Postwar New York City
Rutgers University Press
This book presents the first comprehensive examination of the campaign and narrative of the "Puerto Rican problem" in New York City from 1945 to 1960. It looks at how this campaign influenced the incorporation of Puerto Ricans to the US, the policies of the governments of Puerto Rico and New York, and the ways Puerto Ricans were perceived by Americans for decades.
Spirits in the Consulting Room
Eight Tales of Healing
By Serge Bouznah and Catherine Lewertowski; Foreword by Jaswant Guzder; Translated by Carmella Abramowitz Moreau
Rutgers University Press
The book shows how trained transcultural mediators help to redress the power imbalance between doctors and the migrants they treat, providing patients with advocates who respect the authority of their experiences. Its groundbreaking insights can be applied to any medical situation where doctors and patients find themselves speaking different languages.
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