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Haiti and the Uses of America
Post-U.S. Occupation Promises
Rutgers University Press
Contrary to popular notions, Haiti-U.S. relations have not only been about Haitian resistance to U.S. domination. In Haiti and the Uses of America, Chantalle F. Verna makes evident that there have been key moments of cooperation that contributed to nation-building in both countries.
Demanding Justice and Security
Indigenous Women and Legal Pluralities in Latin America
Edited by Rachel Sieder
Rutgers University Press
The contributors to this book analyze Latin American indigenous women’s engagements with different legal forums and language to secure greater justice and security, and aim to set out a series of key concepts and issues for analyzing these mobilizations, in order to present innovative, engaged research on constructions of justice and security.
Demanding Justice and Security
Indigenous Women and Legal Pluralities in Latin America
Edited by Rachel Sieder
Rutgers University Press
The contributors to this book analyze Latin American indigenous women’s engagements with different legal forums and language to secure greater justice and security, and aim to set out a series of key concepts and issues for analyzing these mobilizations, in order to present innovative, engaged research on constructions of justice and security.
In/visible War
The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America
Rutgers University Press
In/Visible War addresses a paradox of twenty-first century American warfare. The editors examine how the contemporary visual American experience of war is ubiquitous and utterly present in public, popular culture, and yet war is simultaneously invisible or absent; we lack a lived sense that “America” is at war.
In/visible War
The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America
Rutgers University Press
In/Visible War addresses a paradox of twenty-first century American warfare. The editors examine how the contemporary visual American experience of war is ubiquitous and utterly present in public, popular culture, and yet war is simultaneously invisible or absent; we lack a lived sense that “America” is at war.
Complicated Lives
Girls, Parents, Drugs, and Juvenile Justice
By Vera Lopez
Rutgers University Press
Complicated Lives focuses on the lives of sixty-five drug-using girls in the juvenile justice system who grew up in families characterized by parental drug use, violence, and child maltreatment. Vera Lopez’s work examines how these relationships with their parents contribute to the girls’ future drug use and involvement in the justice system.
Wonder Woman
New edition with full color illustrations
Rutgers University Press
William Marston was an unusual man—a psychologist, a soft-porn pulp novelist, more than a bit of a carny, and the (self-declared) inventor of the lie detector. He was also the creator of Wonder Woman, the comic where he expressed two of his greatest passions: feminism and women in bondage. Noah Berlatsky takes us on a wild ride through the Wonder Woman comics of the 1940s, showing how Marston and illustrator Harry Peter came together to create a fictional universe that celebrated female empowerment and queer sexualities.
Twelve-Cent Archie
New edition with full color illustrations
By Bart Beaty
Rutgers University Press
For over seventy-five years, Archie and the gang at Riverdale High have been America’s most iconic teenagers. Yet they have been relatively ignored by scholars—until now. Twelve-Cent Archie is both the first academic study of these comics and an innovative creative work in its own right. In a hundred short chapters, renowned comics scholar Bart Beaty takes us on a witty, eclectic tour of the Archie universe, addressing everything from the history of the American teenager to the mystery of Jughead’s hat.
Mothering by Degrees
Single Mothers and the Pursuit of Postsecondary Education
Rutgers University Press
In Mothering by Degrees, Jillian Duquaine-Watson shows how single mothers pursuing college degrees must navigate a difficult course as they attempt to reconcile their identities as single moms, college students, and in many cases, employees. They also negotiate a balance between what they think, and what society is telling them, and how that affects their choices to go to college.
Everyday Desistance
The Transition to Adulthood Among Formerly Incarcerated Youth
Rutgers University Press
In Everyday Desistance, the authors examine the transition to adulthood among twenty-five formerly incarcerated young men and women in Los Angeles, California. They describe their day-to-day experiences, focusing on their attempts to surmount the challenges of adulthood, resist the temptations of criminal activity, and formulate their long-term goals for a secure adult future.
Considering Watchmen: Poetics, Property, Politics
New edition with full color illustrations
Rutgers University Press
In this groundbreaking new study, Andrew Hoberek examines Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s landmark comic book series Watchmen from a variety of angles: as an artistic achievement, as a political statement, and as a self-conscious piece of intellectual property. He not only provides a historical context for appreciating how innovative Watchmen was in the 1980s, but also demonstrates the continued influence it has exerted on both comics and literature as a whole.
Ida Lupino, Director
Her Art and Resilience in Times of Transition
By Therese Grisham and Julie Grossman
Rutgers University Press
Ida Lupino, Director shines a long-awaited spotlight on one of our greatest filmmakers, one whose movies depicted the plights of postwar women and exposed the dark underside of American society. The authors show Lupino as a trailblazing feminist auteur who created a distinctive style in film and television that was both highly expressionistic and grittily realistic.
Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession
Global Perspectives
Edited by Sarah Lamb; Epilogue by Susan Reynolds Whyte
Rutgers University Press
Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession exposes and complicates contemporary readings of successful aging, questioning and defamiliarizing Western visions of the place of old age in the life course. This volume brings fresh insight and international perspectives that expand our collective imagination about what it is to age, and, by extension, to live.
Deconstructing the High Line
Postindustrial Urbanism and the Rise of the Elevated Park
Edited by Christoph Lindner and Brian Rosa
Rutgers University Press
The High Line, an innovative promenade created on a disused elevated railway in Manhattan, is a new “hot” iconic landmark, but is it a model of urban revitalization or a bellwether of gentrification? A diverse group, including planners and architects directly involved in its design, assess it critically, exploring its aesthetic, economic, ecological, symbolic, and social impacts.
Deconstructing the High Line
Postindustrial Urbanism and the Rise of the Elevated Park
Edited by Christoph Lindner and Brian Rosa
Rutgers University Press
The High Line, an innovative promenade created on a disused elevated railway in Manhattan, is a new “hot” iconic landmark, but is it a model of urban revitalization or a bellwether of gentrification? A diverse group, including planners and architects directly involved in its design, assess it critically, exploring its aesthetic, economic, ecological, symbolic, and social impacts.
Life after Guns
Reciprocity and Respect among Young Men in Liberia
Rutgers University Press
Life After Guns explores how ex-combatants and other post-war youth negotiated a depleted and difficult social and cultural landscape in the years following Liberia’s fourteen-year bloody civil war. Abby Hardgrove focuses on the structural constraints and household and family organizations that either helped or limited opportunities as these young men grew into adulthood.
Frederick Novy and the Development of Bacteriology in Medicine
Rutgers University Press
Medical historian, medical researcher, and clinician Powel H. Kazanjian uses Novy’s archived letters, laboratory notebooks, lecture notes, and published works to examine medical research and educational activities at the University of Michigan and other key medical schools during a formative period in modern U.S. medical science.
Black Movements
Performance and Cultural Politics
Rutgers University Press
Black Movements analyzes how artists and activists of recent decades reference earlier freedom movements in order to imagine and produce a more expansive and inclusive democracy. Through an exploration of the way that black movements create circuits connecting people across space and time, Colbert offers important interventions into performance, literary, diaspora, and American studies.
The Holocaust Averted
An Alternate History of American Jewry, 1938-1967
Rutgers University Press
In The Holocaust Averted: An Alternate History of American Jewry, 1938–1967, Jeffrey Gurock imagines what might have happened to the Jewish community in the United States if the Holocaust had never occurred and challenges readers to contemplate how the road to acceptance and empowerment for today’s American Jews would have been harder than it actually was. As Gurock tells his tale, he concludes every chapter with a short section that describes what actually happened and, thus, further educates the reader.
Discriminating Taste
How Class Anxiety Created the American Food Revolution
Rutgers University Press
A provocative look at contemporary food culture, Discriminating Taste critically examines cultural touchstones from Ratatouille to The Biggest Loser, identifying how “good food” is conflated with high status. Drawing historical parallels with the Gilded Age, Margot Finn argues that the rise of gourmet, ethnic, diet, and organic foods must be understood in tandem with the ever-widening income inequality gap.
Parkour and the City
Risk, Masculinity, and Meaning in a Postmodern Sport
Rutgers University Press
In the increasingly popular sport of parkour, athletes run, jump, climb, flip, and vault through city streetscapes. In Parkour and the City, Jeffrey L. Kidder examines the ways in which this internet-friendly twenty-first-century sport involves a creative appropriation of urban spaces as well as a method of everyday risk-taking by a youth culture that valorizes individuals who successfully manage danger.
Writing America
Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee (A Reader's Companion)
Rutgers University Press
Writing America takes readers on an eclectic tour of historic sites that have been pivotal to the making of American literature, reflecting the true diversity of the nation and its authors. Profusely illustrated, it is the literary gift book for 2015.
American Girls and Global Responsibility
A New Relation to the World during the Early Cold War
Rutgers University Press
American Girls and Global Responsibility brings together Cold War culture studies, girls’ studies, and the history of gender and militarization to shed new light on how age and gender work together to form categories of citizenship. Jennifer Helgren shows the particular ways that girls’ identities and roles were configured, thus shaping their sense of responsibilities as citizens.
New African Cinema
Rutgers University Press
New African Cinema examines the pressing social, cultural, economic, and historical issues explored by African filmmakers in the new millennium by offering an overview of the development of postcolonial African cinema as it has evolved since the 1960s into the new medium, known as “new African cinema,” it is today.
Digital Music Videos
Rutgers University Press
In Digital Music Videos, Steven Shaviro surveys a wide range of music videos, highlighting some of their most striking innovations. In sampling and reworking a century’s worth of movies and other pop culture artifacts, these videos create a whole new digital world for the music industry that offers a plethora of visions and sounds never before encountered.
My City Highrise Garden
Rutgers University Press
Nearly four decades ago, when best-selling author Susan Brownmiller first planted her garden in an apartment terrace twenty stories above street level in the borderland between Manhattan’s Greenwich Village and the Meatpacking District, she could little imagine the struggles and triumphs she and her plants would experience over the years. Filled with humor and candor, My City Highrise Garden tells the story of how she managed to carve out a little home for the natural world in a seemingly inhospitable big city.
Playing the Ponies and Other Medical Mysteries Solved
Rutgers University Press, Rutgers University Press Medicine
Master clinician Dr. Stuart Mushlin has cracked his share of medical mysteries. Recounting some of his most puzzling and illuminating cases, he reveals the challenges he’s faced in a suspenseful page-turner, filled with real-life enigmas you’ll have to read to believe. Playing the Ponies and Other Medical Mysteries Solved is a heartfelt reflection on forty years of patient care by one of America’s “Best Doctors.”
Teacher Education across Minority-Serving Institutions
Programs, Policies, and Social Justice
Edited by Emery Petchauer and Lynnette Mawhinney
Rutgers University Press
Teacher Education across Minority-Serving Institutions focuses on teacher education across a diverse array of institutions. It pushes for scholars to consider that racial diversity in teacher education is not simply an end in itself, but is rather, a means to accomplish other goals, such as developing justice-oriented and asset-based pedagogies.
Teacher Education across Minority-Serving Institutions
Programs, Policies, and Social Justice
Edited by Emery Petchauer and Lynnette Mawhinney
Rutgers University Press
Teacher Education across Minority-Serving Institutions focuses on teacher education across a diverse array of institutions. It pushes for scholars to consider that racial diversity in teacher education is not simply an end in itself, but is rather, a means to accomplish other goals, such as developing justice-oriented and asset-based pedagogies.
Zombie Cinema
By Ian Olney
Rutgers University Press
The zombie apocalypse is here! The living dead have been lurking in popular culture since the 1930s, but they are now ubiquitous. Presenting a historical overview of zombies in film and on television, Zombie Cinema also explores this globalized phenomenon, examining why the dead have captured the imagination of twenty-first-century audiences worldwide.
Disney Culture
By John Wills
Rutgers University Press
The Walt Disney Company has grown into a diversified global media giant, but is it still possible to identify a coherent Disney ethos? Examining everything from theme parks to merchandising to animation to live-action films, Disney Culture proposes that they all follow a core corporate philosophy dating back to the 1920s.
A Professor at the End of Time
The Work and Future of the Professoriate
By John Best
Rutgers University Press
A Professor at the End of Time tells one professor’s story in the context of the rapid reconfiguration of higher education going on now, and analyzes what the job included before the supernova of technological innovation, the general influx of less-well-prepared students, and the diminution of state and federal support wrought wholesale changes on the profession.
Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work
Edited by Parin Dossa and Cati Coe
Rutgers University Press
Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work documents the social and emotional contributions of older persons to their families in settings shaped by migration, their everyday lives in domestic and community spaces, and in the context of intergenerational relationships and diasporas.
Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work
Edited by Parin Dossa and Cati Coe
Rutgers University Press
Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work documents the social and emotional contributions of older persons to their families in settings shaped by migration, their everyday lives in domestic and community spaces, and in the context of intergenerational relationships and diasporas.
When Riot Cops Are Not Enough
The Policing and Repression of Occupy Oakland
By Mike King
Rutgers University Press
In When Riot Cops Are Not Enough, sociologist Mike King examines the policing, and broader political repression, of the Occupy Oakland movement. King’s active and daily participation in that movement provides a unique insider perspective to illustrate how the Oakland police and city administrators lost the ability to effectively control the movement.
Children as Caregivers
The Global Fight against Tuberculosis and HIV in Zambia
By Jean Hunleth
Rutgers University Press
Medical anthropologist Jean Hunleth chronicles the experiences of children living with parents and guardians who are suffering from these infectious diseases and shows how their perspectives matter in the global debates about health care. Children as Caregivers examines how well intentioned practitioners fail to realize how children take on active caregiving roles when their guardians become seriously ill.
The Three Axial Ages
Moral, Material, Mental
By John Torpey
Rutgers University Press
How can historical developments and discoveries be used to affect future outcomes? Sociologist and historian John Torpey proposes that the “Axial Age,” a period in the first millennium BCE when major religious and intellectual developments emerged, can be used to directly affect present social problems, from economic inequality to ecological destruction.
Hollywood's Hawaii
Race, Nation, and War
Rutgers University Press
Hollywood’s Hawaii is the first full-length study of the film industry’s intense engagement with Hawaii and the South Pacific from 1898 to the present. This book presents a history of cinema that examines Hawaii and the Pacific and its representation in film in the context of colonialism, war, Orientalism, occupation, military buildup, and entertainment.
Soft Corruption
How Unethical Conduct Undermines Good Government and What To Do About It
Rutgers University Press
New Jersey has long been a breeding ground for political corruption, much of it perfectly legal. In Soft Corruption, a former state senator recounts his fifty-year fight to expose such misconduct. William E. Schluter doesn’t simply wade through New Jersey’s muck, but provides concrete suggestions for how our political system might be reformed and how citizens can effect that change.
Superman
The Persistence of an American Icon
By Ian Gordon
Rutgers University Press
Superman is an icon of the American Way. Examining his many appearances over eighty years in comics, films, television series, and other media, Ian Gordon explores the dynamic process of mythmaking surrounding the character. Digging into comics archives, he reveals the prominent roles fans and collectors have played in remembering, interpreting, and reimagining Superman’s iconography.
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