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New Jersey Fan Club
Artists and Writers Celebrate the Garden State
Edited by Kerri Sullivan; Illustrated by Alex Flannery, Haley Simone, Jonathan Conner (LANK), Emily Thompson, Joy Velasco, Kasey Bohnert, Julie Benbassat, Sean Rynkewicz, Mikhaila Leid, Veronica Casson, Dan Misdea, Kristen Broderick, and Tori Wehringer; By (photographer) Lauren H. Adams, Katie Reynolds, Kate Watt, Tim Kauger, Brian Scully, Jaclyn Sovern, Donovan Myers, R Justin McNeill, Dan Schenker, and Christopher Smith
Rutgers University Press
New Jersey Fan Club is an eclectic anthology featuring personal essays, interviews, photographs, and comics from a diverse group of writers and artists. An exploration of how the same locale can shape people in different ways, it will inspire readers to look at the Garden State with fresh eyes.
Importing Care, Faithful Service
Filipino and Indian American Nurses at a Veterans Hospital
Rutgers University Press
Drawing on rich ethnographic and survey data collected over a four-year period, Cherry’s study explores the role Catholicism plays in shaping the professional and community lives of foreign-born Filipino and Indian American nurses. Their stories provide unique insights into the often-unseen roles race, religion, and gender play in the daily lives of new immigrants employed in American healthcare. Seeing nursing as a religious calling, they care for their patients with a sense of divine purpose but must also confront the cultural tensions and disconnects between how they were raised and trained in another country and the legal separation of church and state. How they cope with and engage these tensions plays an important role in not only shaping how they see themselves as Catholic nurses, but their place in the new American story.
Human Rights at Risk
Global Governance, American Power, and the Future of Dignity
Edited by Salvador Santino F. Regilme and Irene Hadiprayitno
Rutgers University Press
Human Rights at Risk brings together social scientists, legal scholars, and humanities scholars to analyze the policy challenges of human rights protection in the twenty-first century. The book focuses on international institutions, thematic blind spots in policy-making, and the role of the United States as a global and domestic actor in human rights protection.
Human Rights at Risk
Global Governance, American Power, and the Future of Dignity
Edited by Salvador Santino F. Regilme and Irene Hadiprayitno
Rutgers University Press
Human Rights at Risk brings together social scientists, legal scholars, and humanities scholars to analyze the policy challenges of human rights protection in the twenty-first century. The book focuses on international institutions, thematic blind spots in policy-making, and the role of the United States as a global and domestic actor in human rights protection.
Cultures of Resistance
Collective Action and Rationality in the Anti-Terror Age
Rutgers University Press
Cultures of Resistance brings new insight to a key question: do government efforts to repress social movements effectively repress dissent, or do they spur mobilization? Through analyses of activists’ experiences of repression and resistance, the book uncovers processes that shape how individuals understand the risks of participating in collective action. Reynolds-Stenson demonstrates how individual rationality is collectively constructed.
Citizens against Crime and Violence
Societal Responses in Mexico
Edited by Trevor Stack
Rutgers University Press
Citizens Against Crime and Violence considers societal responses to crime and violence in six contrasting localities of one of Mexico’s most affected regions, the state of Michoacán. The comparative ethnographic approach offers insights that are sensitive to local specifics but generalizable to other parts of the world affected by crime and violence.
Branding Black Womanhood
Media Citizenship from Black Power to Black Girl Magic
Rutgers University Press
Branding Black Womanhood: Media Citizenship from Black Power to Black Girl Magic examines how corporate brands and media companies appropriated Black women's empowerment as a business enterprise. Beginning with the emergence of Essence magazine and continuing into the 2010s, Timeka N. Tounsel considers the affordances and limitations of media visibility and corporate attention.
Between Brown and Black
Anti-Racist Activism in Brazil
Rutgers University Press
Afro-Brazilians are presented with a whole range of identity choices, from how to classify oneself to whether one votes for political candidates based on shared racial experiences. Between Black and Brown argues that Afro-Brazilian activists’ continued exploration of blackness confronts anti-blackness while complicating understandings of what it means to be black. This book raises complex questions about current black struggles in Brazil and beyond, including the black movements’ political initiatives and antiracist agenda.
Activist Media
Documenting Movements and Networked Solidarity
By Gino Canella
Rutgers University Press
Drawing from his experiences as a documentary filmmaker with Black Lives Matter 5280 and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 105 in Denver, Colorado, Gino Canella details how collaborative media projects can help activists mobilize supporters, amplify their campaigns for social justice, and foster solidarity among grassroots organizers.
The Cancer Within
Reproduction, Cultural Transformation, and Health Care in Romania
Rutgers University Press
The Cancer Within examines cervical cancer in Romania as a point of entry into an anthropological reflection on contemporary health care. Fashioned by patriarchal relations, lived religion, and the historical trauma of pronatalism, Romanian women’s responses to reproductive medicine and cervical cancer prevention are complicated by neoliberal reforms to medical care.
Stories That Bind
Political Economy and Culture in New India
Rutgers University Press
The book studies stories about India told through film, advertising, journalism, and popular non-fiction along with the stories narrated by political and corporate leaders to argue that Hindu nationalism and neoliberalism are conjoined in popular culture and that consent for this political economic project is crucially won in the domain of popular culture.
Single Lives
Modern Women in Literature, Culture, and Film
Rutgers University Press
Inspired by the current public fascination with single women, Single Lives traces the relationship between modern and contemporary representations of single women. The original essays collected here analyze a broad range of texts that examine the ways films, cookbooks, archives, popular literature, and other British and American texts express norms, ideals, and challenges for single women and their relationship to dominant ideals of marriage and the family. This volume looks backwards to constellate existing scholarship, constituent fields, and unrecognized single voices and forward to consider new methods for interdisciplinary singles studies.
New Deal Radio
The Educational Radio Project
By David Goodman and Joy Elizabeth Hayes
Rutgers University Press
New Deal Radio examines the federal government's involvement in broadcasting during the New Deal period, looking at the U.S. Office of Education's Educational Radio Project. The book argues that this distinctive government commercial partnership amounted to a critical intervention in US broadcasting and an important chapter in the evolution of public radio in America.
Janelle Monáe's Queer Afrofuturism
Defying Every Label
Rutgers University Press
This study of singer, actress, activist, and queer icon Janelle Monáe considers her as an intersectional figure who is actively reshaping discourses around race, gender, sexuality, and capitalism. Janelle Monáe’s Queer Afrofuturism is an exciting introduction to an audacious innovator whose work offers us fresh ways to talk about identity, desire, and power.
High-Risk Feminism in Colombia
Women's Mobilization in Violent Contexts
Rutgers University Press
High-Risk Feminism in Colombia documents the experiences of four grassroots women’s organizations that united to demand gender justice during and in the aftermath of Colombia’s armed conflict. In doing so, the book illustrates a little-studied phenomenon: women whose experiences with violence catalyze them to mobilize and resist as feminists, even in the face of grave danger.
Embodied Politics
Indigenous Migrant Activism, Cultural Competency, and Health Promotion in California
Rutgers University Press
Arguing for a structurally competent approach to migrant health, Embodied Politics shows how efforts to promote indigenous health may actually reinforce the same social and political economic forces, namely structural racism and neoliberalism, that are undermining the health of indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico and the United States.
Embodied Economies
Diaspora and Transcultural Capital in Latinx Caribbean Fiction and Theater
By Israel Reyes
Rutgers University Press
Embodied Economies compares works of Latinx Caribbean fiction and theater that explore the pitfalls and successes of economic upward mobility in diasporic communities. Each chapter compares two works in a counterpoint analysis that reveals the contradictions of using Latinx Caribbean culture to get ahead in the competitive fields of education, business, entertainment, and finance.
Buyers Beware
Insurgency and Consumption in Caribbean Popular Culture
Rutgers University Press
Buyers Beware treats Caribbean pop cultural texts with the same critical attention as dominant mass cultural representations of the region to read them against the grain and consider how, and whether, their “pulp” preoccupation with contemporary fashion, music, sex, fast food, and television, is instructive for how race, class, gender, sexuality, and national politics are disseminated and consumed within the Caribbean.
Cultivating Justice in the Garden State
My Life in the Colorful World of New Jersey Politics
By Raymond Lesniak; Foreword by Bill Clinton
Rutgers University Press
In this remarkable memoir, Raymond Lesniak reflects upon his life and career fighting for social justice in the Garden State. A must-read for anyone seeking to understand the inner workings of our political system, it offers a unique insider’s perspective on the past fifty years of New Jersey politics.
The Holocaust & the Exile of Yiddish
A History of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye
Rutgers University Press
This book tells the saga of the Yiddish-language general encyclopedia Algemeyne entsiklopedye (1932-1966) and the editors who continued to publish it even as they were sent into repeated exile and their world was utterly transformed by the Holocaust. It is not a story only about destruction and trauma, but also one of tenacity and continuity, as the encyclopedia’s compilers strove to preserve the heritage of Yiddish culture, to document its near-total extermination in the Holocaust, and to chart its path into the future.
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