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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).

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Radical Hospitality

American Policy, Media, and Immigration

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.

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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.

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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. 
 

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From Protest to President

A Social Justice Journey through the Emergence of Adult Education and the Birth of Distance Learning

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.


 

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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.

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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.

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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.
 

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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.
 

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Spirits in the Consulting Room

Eight Tales of Healing

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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