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Beneath the Surface
Understanding Nature in the Mullica Valley Estuary
Rutgers University Press
The Mullica Valley estuary benefits from a combination of protected watershed, low human population density, and lack of extensive development, making it the cleanest estuary in the northeastern U.S. In Beneath the Surface, Ken Able helps the reader gain insights into the kinds of habitats, the animals, and plants that live there.
The Persistence of Violence
Colombian Popular Culture
By Toby Miller
Rutgers University Press
Why is Colombia so violent? Beyond even the horrors of the conflict between the guerrilla, the paramilitary, and the government, the history of the nation is scarred by acts of violence. It has also been marked by resistance to that history—by moments of hope.The Persistence of Violence transcends the obvious places as sources and indices of this story, delving into the complex and conflicted world of popular culture, from football to television to tourism to the environment.
The Love Surgeon
A Story of Trust, Harm, and the Limits of Medical Regulation
Rutgers University Press
From the 1950s to 1980s, Ohio obstetrician gynecologist James Burt performed a bizarre procedure that he termed “love surgery” on hundreds of new mothers, not bothering to get their informed consent. The Love Surgeon asks tough questions about Burt’s heinous acts and what they reveal about the failures of the medical establishment.
The Films of Denys Arcand
By Jim Leach
Rutgers University Press
Denys Arcand has been making films in Quebec for nearly sixty years. The Films of Denys Arcand illuminates his films in the context of the massive changes in Quebec society during that period. It explores the work of a major director who has achieved international success and some key issues in film studies and Canadian studies.
Taste of Control
Food and the Filipino Colonial Mentality under American Rule
Rutgers University Press
Taste of Control tells what happened when American colonizers began to influence what Filipinos ate, how they cooked, and how they perceived their national cuisine. Drawing from a rich variety of sources including letters, advertisements, textbooks, menus, and cookbooks, it reveals how food culture served as a battleground over Filipino identity.
Making a Mass Institution
Indianapolis and the American High School
Rutgers University Press
Indianapolis began its secondary system with a singular, decidedly academic high school, but ended the 1960s with multiple high schools with numerous paths to graduation. Making a Mass Institution describes how this process created both a distinct youth culture and a divided and unjust system, one that effectively sorted students geographically, economically, and racially.
Hebrew Infusion
Language and Community at American Jewish Summer Camps
Rutgers University Press
“Let’s hear some ruach (spirit) in this chadar ochel (dining hall)!” Sentences like this abound at Jewish summer camps around North America, alongside Hebrew songs, games, and signs. Through insightful analysis and engaging writing, Hebrew Infusion explains the origins of this phenomenon and what it says about Jewishness in America.
Easy Living
The Rise of the Home Office
Rutgers University Press
Easy Living traces changing concepts about what it meant to work in the home through the analysis of national magazines and newspapers, television and film, and marketing and advertising materials from the housing, telecommunications, and office technology industries. These ideas reflected larger social, political-economic, and technological trends of the times.
Deportes
The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora
Rutgers University Press
Deportes uncovers the hidden experiences of Mexican male and female athletes, teams and leagues and their supporters who fought for a more level playing field on both sides of the border. They proved that they could compete in a wide variety of sports at amateur, semiprofessional, Olympic and professional levels.
Abusing Religion
Literary Persecution, Sex Scandals, and American Minority Religions
Rutgers University Press
Why do Americans presume to know “what’s really going on” in marginal religions? Sex abuse happens in all communities, but American religious outsiders often face disproportionate allegations of sexual abuse. Abusing Religion argues that sex abuse in minority religious communities is an American problem, not (merely) a religious one.
Leading for Tomorrow
A Primer for Succeeding in Higher Education Leadership
Rutgers University Press
Using an engaging case study approach, Leading for Tomorrow provides new and emerging college and university administrators with real-world examples that will help them reflect on their own management and communication styles. It also offers practical solutions for how to deal with escalating challenges in the field of higher education, from decreasing state funding to political controversies on campus.
Beyond the Black and White TV
Asian and Latin American Spectacle in Cold War America
Rutgers University Press
Beyond the Black and White TV argues that depictions of racial harmony on variety shows between their white hosts and ethnic guests aimed to shape a new perception of the United States as an exemplary nation of democracy, equality, and globalism during the Cold War.
Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy
Love, Friendship, and Sex in Queer Mexico City
Rutgers University Press
Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy: Love, Friendship, and Sex in Queer Mexico City is the first ethnography in English to focus primarily on women’s sexual and intimate cultures in Mexico. The book shows the transformation of intimacy in the lives of three generations of women in queer spaces in contemporary Mexico City, as their sexual citizenship changes, including references to same-sex marriage and anti-discrimination laws. The book shows how these individuals reconfigure relationships through marriage, polyamory, friendship, and sex.
Rebuilding Story Worlds
The Obscure Cities by Schuiten and Peeters
By Jan Baetens
Rutgers University Press
Set in a parallel world, full of architecturally distinctive city-states, the comics series The Obscure Cities represents one of literature’s most impressive pieces of world-building. Rebuilding Story Worlds explores both the artistic traditions from which the series emerges and the innovative ways it plays with genre, gender, and urban space.
New Jersey State of Mind
Rutgers University Press
New Jersey State of Mind takes us on a journey to over twenty-five places that reveal the Garden State’s gritty charms and hidden wonders. It also introduces us to the colorful characters who live and work there, including a female craft brewer, a demolition derby driver, a Portuguese pig breeder, mural artists, and Pine Barrens guides.
Macbeth in Harlem
Black Theater in America from the Beginning to Raisin in the Sun
Rutgers University Press
Macbeth in Harlem tells the story of African American actors, playwrights, directors, and producers who worked to carve out a space for authentic black voices onstage and in every venue from the early 19th century to the dawn of the Civil Rights era. Above all, it is a testament to black artistry thriving in spite of the odds and in the face of the harshest adversity.
Lakota Hoops
Life and Basketball on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
By Alan Klein
Rutgers University Press
In Lakota Hoops, anthropologist Alan Klein looks at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to provide a vivid portrait of how the community uses basketball to assert its tribal identity. He reveals the ways that the game is a filter for traditions, pride, hopes, and tribulations that people experience daily, as well as how it bridges Lakota past, present, and future.
Desired States
Sex, Gender, and Political Culture in Chile
Rutgers University Press
Situates the state, using Chile as a case study, in a rich and changing context of transnational and localized movements, imperialist interests, geo-political conflicts, and market forces to explore the broader struggles of desiring subjects, especially in those dimensions of life that are explicitly sexual and amorous: free love movements, marriage, the sixties’ sexual revolution in Cold War contexts, prostitution policies, ideas about men’s gratification, leaders’ charisma, and sexual/domestic violence.
Becoming Philadelphia
How an Old American City Made Itself New Again
By Inga Saffron
Rutgers University Press
Over the past two decades, Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Inga Saffron has served as the premier chronicler of Philadelphia’s transformation as it emerged from a half century of decline. Becoming Philadelphia collects the best of Saffron’s work, as she explores the tangled intersections of design, politics, and money at the heart of the city’s resurgence.
An Open Secret
The History of Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion in Modern Bolivia
Rutgers University Press
An Open Secret traces the history of women’s experiences with unwanted pregnancy and abortion in La Paz and El Alto, Bolivia between the early 1950s and 2010. It finds that women’s personal reproductive experiences contributed to shaping policies and services in reproductive health care.
The Social Life of Biometrics
Rutgers University Press
Biometrics is a technology of identification that associates physical features with a legal identity, yet as a mode of determining one truth, it creates many more that mediate how individuals exist. The Social Life of Biometrics examines human experiences of biometrics and considers their histories, effects, and futures.
Talking Therapy
Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing
By Kylie Smith
Rutgers University Press
Talking Therapy traces the rise of modern psychiatric nursing in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s. Through an analysis of the relationship between nurses and other mental health professions, with an emphasis on nursing scholarship, this book highlights the role of nurses in challenging, and complying with, modern approaches to psychiatry.
Social Justice
Theories, Issues, and Movements (Revised and Expanded Edition)
Rutgers University Press
Drawing on contemporary issues ranging from globalization and neoliberalism to the environment, this essential textbook - ideal for course use - encourages readers to question the limits of the law in its present state in order to develop fairer systems at the local, national, and global levels.
Projecting the Nation
History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen
By Eran Kaplan
Rutgers University Press
Projecting the Nation: History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen is a wide-ranging history of over seven decades of Israeli cinema. By analyzing Israeli films which address such issues as the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Ashkenazi-Mizrahi divide, the kibbutz, the rise of religion in Israel, the book explores the way cinema has represented and shaped our understanding of the Israeli history as it evolved from a collectivist society to a society where individualism and adherence to local identities is the dominant ideology.
Post-Communist Malaise
Cinematic Responses to European Integration
Rutgers University Press
Post-Communist Malaise examines political modernism within the context of post-communist Eastern Europe and the Balkans. It focuses on how select cinemas from the regions critique European unification and how they represent related issues like the transition from communism to free-market capitalism, the Euro crisis and austerity, and the rise of nationalism and right-wing politics.
Planet Auschwitz
Holocaust Representation in Science Fiction and Horror Film and Television
Rutgers University Press
Planet Auschwitz explores how the Holocaust has influenced science fiction and horror film and television. These genres explore important Holocaust themes - trauma, guilt, grief, ideological fervor and perversion, industrialized killing, and the dangerous afterlife of Nazism after World War II.
Mediating the Uprising
Narratives of Gender and Marriage in Syrian Television Drama
Rutgers University Press
Based on intensive fieldwork in Damascus and Beirut, Mediating the Uprising shows how gender and marriage metaphors inform Syrian television drama with various forms of cultural and political critique. The emergence of these suppressed narratives attests to the survival of the genre despite instability, war, and bloodshed.
Losing Culture
Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times
By David Berliner; Translated by Dominic Horsfall
Rutgers University Press
Around the world, you will hear complaints that people are losing their culture and their heritage. This study explores what is triggering this sense of cultural loss, to what ends this rhetoric gets deployed, and how anthropologists deal with their own feelings of nostalgia.
Diversity Regimes
Why Talk Is Not Enough to Fix Racial Inequality at Universities
Rutgers University Press
In Diversity Regimes, James M. Thomas uncovers a complex combination of meanings, practices, and actions that work to institutionalize universities’ commitments to diversity, but in doing so obscure, entrench, and even magnify existing racial inequalities. Drawing on two years of ethnographic field work at so-called “Diversity University,” Thomas provides new insights into the social organization of multicultural principles and practices.
Chronicles of a Radical Criminologist
Working the Margins of Law, Power, and Justice
By Gregg Barak
Rutgers University Press
Prominent criminologist Gregg Barak's new book, Chronicles of a Radical Criminologist, while remaining scholarly in its intent, departs from the typical academic format. This book is a a first-person account that examines the linkages between one scholar's experiences as a criminologist from the late 1960s to the present and the emergence and evolution of radical criminology as a challenge to developments in mainstream criminology.
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