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33 Simple Strategies for Faculty
A Week-by-Week Resource for Teaching First-Year and First-Generation Students
By Lisa M. Nunn
Rutgers University Press
33 Simple Strategies for Faculty is a guidebook filled with practical solutions on how to best help first-year and first-generation students who are struggling to adjust to college life. It gives faculty quick and efficient exercises they can use both inside and outside of the classroom to bolster their students’ academic success and wellbeing.
Lost
Miscarriage in Nineteenth-Century America
Rutgers University Press
In Lost, medical historian Shannon Withycombe weaves together women’s personal writings and doctors’ publications from the 1820s through the 1910s to investigate the transformative changes in how Americans conceptualized pregnancy, understood miscarriage, and interpreted fetal tissue over the course of the nineteenth century. What emerges from Withycombe’s work is unlike most medicalization narratives.
Incorrigibles and Innocents
Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Comics
Rutgers University Press
Drawing from and building on histories and theories of childhood, comics, and Progressive Era conceptualizations of citizenship and nationhood, Lara Saguisag demonstrates that child characters in turn-of-the-century comic strips expressed and complicated contemporary notions of who had the right to claim membership in a modernizing, expanding nation.
The Patagonian Sublime
The Green Economy and Post-Neoliberal Politics
Rutgers University Press
The Patagonian Sublime provides a vivid and cutting-edge investigation of the green economy and New Left politics in Argentina. Based on extensive field research in Glaciers National Park and the mountain village of El Chaltén, Marcos Mendoza deftly examines the diverse social worlds of the many actors involved in the green economy.
Black New Jersey
1664 to the Present Day
Rutgers University Press
Black New Jersey brings to life generations of courageous men and women who fought for freedom during slavery days and later battled racial discrimination. Extensively researched, it shines a light on New Jersey’s unique African American history and reveals how the state’s black citizens helped to shape the nation.
Ischemic Stroke
Diagnosis and Treatment
Rutgers University Press, Rutgers University Press Medicine
Stroke is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. Despite the frequency and morbidity of stroke, there is a relative paucity of “stroke experts” for these patients. Ischemic Stroke closes the gap in stroke care by providing a cogent and intuitive guide for all physicians caring for stroke patients.
Junctures in Women's Leadership: The Arts
By Judith K. Brodsky and Ferris Olin
Rutgers University Press
Brodsky and Olin profile female leaders in music, theater, dance, and visual art. The diverse women included in this volume have made their mark as arts leaders by serving as executives or founders of art organizations, by working as activists to support the arts, or by challenging stereotypes about women in the arts.
Pan–African American Literature
Signifyin(g) Immigrants in the Twenty-First Century
By Stephanie Li
Rutgers University Press
Pan-African American Literature charts the contours of literature by African born or identified authors centered around life in the United States. The texts examined here deliberately signify on the African American literary canon to encompass new experiences of immigration, assimilation and identification that challenge how blackness has been previously conceived.
The Grind
Black Women and Survival in the Inner City
Rutgers University Press
Few scholars have explored the collective experiences of women living in the inner city. The Grind illustrates the lived experiences of poor African American women and the creative strategies they develop to manage these events and survive in a community commonly exposed to violence.
Adventures in Shondaland
Identity Politics and the Power of Representation
Edited by Rachel Alicia Griffin and Michaela D.E. Meyer
Rutgers University Press
Shonda Rhimes is one of the most powerful players in contemporary American network television. Adventures in Shondaland critically explores Shonda Rhimes’s meteoric rise to stardom, her reign (or cultural appointment) as television’s diversity queen, and Shondaland’s almost-universally lauded melodramatic narratives.
Women of Valor
Orthodox Jewish Troll Fighters, Crime Writers, and Rock Stars in Contemporary Literature and Culture
Rutgers University Press
Media portrayals of Orthodox Jewish women frequently depict powerless, silent individuals who are at best naive to live an Orthodox lifestyle, and who are at worst, coerced into it. Skinazi delves beyond this stereotype to identify a powerful tradition of Jewish women's feminist portrayals of Orthodox women in literature, film, and music.
Schooling, Democracy, and the Quest for Wisdom
Partnerships and the Moral Dimensions of Teaching
Rutgers University Press
A tremendous amount of energy has been expended by organizations to coordinate “partner schools” for teacher education. Bullough and Rosenberg examine the concept of partnering through various lenses and they address what they think are the major issues that need to be, but rarely are, discussed by thousands of educators.
The Remembered and Forgotten Jewish World
Jewish Heritage in Europe and the United States
Rutgers University Press
Part travelogue, part social history, and part family saga, this book investigates the politics of heritage tourism and collective memory. Acclaimed historian Daniel J. Walkowitz visits key Jewish heritage sites from Berlin to Belgrade to Warsaw to New York to discover which stories of the Jewish experience get told and which get silenced.
Learning to Be Latino
How Colleges Shape Identity Politics
Rutgers University Press
In Learning to be Latino, Reyes paints a vivid picture of Latino student life, outlining students’ interactions with one another, with non-Latino peers, and with faculty, administrators, and the outside community. Reyes identifies the normative institutional arrangements that shape the social relationships relevant to Latino students’ lives on these campuses.
Crash Course
From the Good War to the Forever War
Rutgers University Press
In this gripping memoir, renowned historian former Air Force navigator and intelligence officer H. Bruce Franklin offers a unique firsthand look at the American Century’s darkest hours. Crash Course is essential reading for anyone who wonders how America ended up with a deeply divided and disillusioned populace, led by a dysfunctional government and mired in unwinnable wars.
Manhood Impossible
Men's Struggles to Control and Transform Their Bodies and Work
By Scott Melzer
Rutgers University Press
In Manhood Impossible, Scott Melzer strategically explores the lives of four groups of adult men struggling with contemporary body and breadwinner ideals. These case studies uncover men’s struggles to achieve and maintain manhood, and redefine what it means to be a man.
Kicking Center
Gender and the Selling of Women's Professional Soccer
Rutgers University Press
In Kicking Center, Rachel Allison investigates a women’s soccer league seeking to break into the male-dominated center of U.S. professional sport. Through an examination of the challenges and opportunities identified by those working for and with this league, she demonstrates how gender inequality is both constructed and contested in professional sport.
Kicking Center
Gender and the Selling of Women's Professional Soccer
Rutgers University Press
In Kicking Center, Rachel Allison investigates a women’s soccer league seeking to break into the male-dominated center of U.S. professional sport. Through an examination of the challenges and opportunities identified by those working for and with this league, she demonstrates how gender inequality is both constructed and contested in professional sport.
Others' Milk
The Potential of Exceptional Breastfeeding
Rutgers University Press
Breastfeeding rarely conforms to the idealized Madonna-and-baby image seen in old artwork, now re-cast in celebrity breastfeeding photo spreads and pro-breastfeeding ad campaigns. The personal accounts in Others’ Milk illustrate just how challenging and unpredictable it can be—an uncomfortable reality in the contemporary context of high-stakes motherhood in which “successful” breastfeeding proves one’s maternal mettle.
Disenchanted Lives
Apostasy and Ex-Mormonism among the Latter-day Saints
Rutgers University Press
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormons) once heralded as the fastest growing religion in American history, is facing a crisis of apostasy. Many members’ study of church history and scriptures has pushed them away from Mormonism and into a growing community of secular ex-Mormons. In Disenchanted Lives, Brooks provides an intimate, in-depth ethnography of religious disenchantment among Mormons in Utah.
You've Always Been There for Me
Understanding the Lives of Grandchildren Raised by Grandparents
Rutgers University Press
Today, approximately 1.6 million American children live in what social scientists call “grandfamilies”—households in which children are being raised by their grandparents. Drawing on data gathered from New York grandfamilies, Rachel Dunifon analyzes their unique strengths and distinct needs.
Global Cinema Networks
Edited by Elena Gorfinkel and Tami Williams
Rutgers University Press
Global Cinema Networks brings together internationally acclaimed film scholars to investigate the evolving forms, technological and industrial conditions, and social impacts of cinema in the twenty-first century. The collection examines shifting sites of global filmmaking in an era of digital reproduction, amidst new modes of circulation and aesthetic convergence.
Global Cinema Networks
Edited by Elena Gorfinkel and Tami Williams
Rutgers University Press
Global Cinema Networks brings together internationally acclaimed film scholars to investigate the evolving forms, technological and industrial conditions, and social impacts of cinema in the twenty-first century. The collection examines shifting sites of global filmmaking in an era of digital reproduction, amidst new modes of circulation and aesthetic convergence.
Beyond the City and the Bridge
East Asian Immigration in a New Jersey Suburb
Rutgers University Press
In recent decades, the American suburbs have become an important site for immigrant settlement. Beyond the City and the Bridge presents a case study of Fort Lee, New Jersey, which today has one of the largest concentrations of East Asians of any suburb on the East Coast.
Toxic Ivory Towers
The Consequences of Work Stress on Underrepresented Minority Faculty
Rutgers University Press
Toxic Ivory Towers documents the realities of social and economic inequalities in the work-life experiences of underrepresented minority (URM) faculty in U.S. higher education. It takes a look at the institutional factors impacting the professional ability and health of URM faculty to be successful at their jobs, and to flourish in academia.
Insight Philadelphia
Historical Essays Illustrated
Rutgers University Press
Each of the nearly 100 essays in Insight Philadelphia tells a succinct, compelling, and little-known tale of the city’s past. Lavishly illustrated with archival images, these stories bring to life histories that range from quirky to tragic, and give readers fascinating new insights into the City of Brotherly Love.
Writing in America
Edited by John Fischer and Robert B. Silvers
Rutgers University Press, Rutgers University Press Classics
In this newly released volume in the Rutgers University Press Classics Imprint, Writing in America proves to be as stimulating as it was in 1960, and offers a range of provocative topics by diverse writers. The essays in this collection showcase a first-rate and highly entertaining piece of reporting on the American literary scene that still resonate in 2017.
Writing in America
Edited by John Fischer and Robert B. Silvers
Rutgers University Press, Rutgers University Press Classics
In this newly released volume in the Rutgers University Press Classics Imprint, Writing in America proves to be as stimulating as it was in 1960, and offers a range of provocative topics by diverse writers. The essays in this collection showcase a first-rate and highly entertaining piece of reporting on the American literary scene that still resonate in 2017.
The New Black Middle Class in the Twenty-First Century
By Bart Landry
Rutgers University Press
The New Black Middle Class in the Twenty-First Century is a continuing study of black middle class life. Landry examines the changes that have occurred since the publication of his now-classic The New Black Middle Class, and conducts a comprehensive examination of black middle class American life in the early decades of the twenty-first century.
Familiar Perversions
The Racial, Sexual, and Economic Politics of LGBT Families
Rutgers University Press
Familiar Perversions evaluates the many successes of the family equality movement, while asking important questions about its place within neoliberalism, racial inequality, and the policing of sexual cultures. Liz Montegary investigates how queer family politics might strengthen the diverse networks of kinship, intimacy, and care on which people depend.
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