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Reclaiming Indigenous Research in Higher Education

Rutgers University Press

This book highlights the current scholarship emerging from Native American scholars in higher education. From understanding how Indigenous students make their way through school, to tracking tribal college and university transfer students, this book allows Native scholars to take center stage, and shines the light squarely on those least represented among us.  

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Reclaiming Indigenous Research in Higher Education

Rutgers University Press

This book highlights the current scholarship emerging from Native American scholars in higher education. From understanding how Indigenous students make their way through school, to tracking tribal college and university transfer students, this book allows Native scholars to take center stage, and shines the light squarely on those least represented among us.  

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Technology and Engagement

Making Technology Work for First Generation College Students

Rutgers University Press

Technology and Engagement explores how first generation college students use social media, aimed at improving their transition to and engagement with their university. This ‘ecology of transition’ is important in keeping them focused on why they were in college, and helped them become more integrated into the university setting.  

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Film Remakes and Franchises

Rutgers University Press

Are the remakes, sequels, reboots, and franchises flooding Hollywood simply crass commercial products, or do they offer filmmakers a unique opportunity to inject timely social commentary, imaginative twists, and diversity into established media properties? Herbert examines the long history of remakes and identifies what’s distinctive about our current franchise-heavy era.  

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From Single to Serious

Relationships, Gender, and Sexuality on American Evangelical Campuses

Rutgers University Press

Malone shines a light on friendship, dating, and sexuality, in both the ideals and the practical experiences of heterosexual students at U. S. evangelical colleges. She examines the struggles they have in balancing their gendered presentations of self, the expectations of their religious campus community, and their desire to find meaningful romantic relationships.  

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Between Foreign and Family

Return Migration and Identity Construction among Korean Americans and Korean Chinese

Rutgers University Press

This book explores the impact of inconsistent rules of ethnic inclusion and exclusion on the economic and social lives of Korean Americans and Korean Chinese living in Seoul. Lee highlights the “logics of transnationalism” that shape the relationships between these return migrants and their employers, co-workers, friends, family, and the South Korean state.  

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Trapped in a Vice

The Consequences of Confinement for Young People

Rutgers University Press

Trapped in a Vice explores the lives of the young people in the criminal justice system, revealing the ways that they struggle to manage the expectations of that system; these stories from the ground level of the justice system demonstrate the complex exchange of policy and practice.  

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Liberal Christianity and Women's Global Activism

The YWCA of the USA and the Maryknoll Sisters

Rutgers University Press

Religiously influenced social movements tend to be characterized as products of the conservative turn of the late twentieth century. Izzo argues that contrary to this view, the liberal wings of Christian churches have remained an instrumental presence in U.S. and transnational politics, and that women make up a large proportion of these activists.  

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Diet and the Disease of Civilization

Rutgers University Press

Diet books have been some of the bestselling books of the 20th century and, upon close reading, reveal new philosophies depicting civilization itself as a disease and diet as the cure. Bitar shows how diet books serve as utopian manifestos for a better body, a healthier society, and a more perfect world. 

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Sport and the Neoliberal University

Profit, Politics, and Pedagogy

Edited by Ryan King-White
Rutgers University Press

Focusing on current issues, including the NCAA, Title IX, recruitment of high school athletes, and the Penn State scandal, among others, Sport and the Neoliberal University shows the different ways institutions, individuals, and corporations are interacting with university athletics in ways that are profoundly shaped by neoliberal ideologies.  

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Sport and the Neoliberal University

Profit, Politics, and Pedagogy

Edited by Ryan King-White
Rutgers University Press

Focusing on current issues, including the NCAA, Title IX, recruitment of high school athletes, and the Penn State scandal, among others, Sport and the Neoliberal University shows the different ways institutions, individuals, and corporations are interacting with university athletics in ways that are profoundly shaped by neoliberal ideologies.  

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Exhibiting Atrocity

Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence

Rutgers University Press

Exhibiting Atrocity documents the emergence of the memorial museum as a new cultural form of commemoration. Amy Sodaro uses in-depth case studies of five exemplary memorial museums around the world to analyze their use in efforts to come to terms with past political violence and to promote democracy and human rights.   

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The Resilient Self

Gender, Immigration, and Taiwanese Americans

Rutgers University Press

This book explores how international migration re-shapes women’s senses of themselves. Gu uses life-history interviews and ethnographic observations to illustrate how immigration creates gendered work and family contexts for middle-class Taiwanese American women who negotiate and resist the social and psychological effects of the processes of immigration and settlement.   

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Neuropharmacotherapy in Critical Illness

Edited by Gretchen Brophy
Rutgers University Press, Rutgers University Press Medicine

Neuropharmacology in Critical Illness is the first book that provides information on the treatment of neurocritical disease states in a high-yield format for the busy care provider. Edited and authored by leading experts in the field, this book provides practitioners with clinical pearls on neuropharmacology, dosing strategies, monitoring, adverse events, drug interactions, and evidence-based pharmacotherapy.  

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Unveiling Desire

Fallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the East

Edited by Devaleena Das and Colette Morrow; Foreword by Nawal El-Saadawi
Rutgers University Press

Unveiling Desire shows that the duality of the fallen/saved woman is as prevalent in Eastern culture as it is in the West, specifically in literature and films. Using examples from the Middle to Far East, the contributors examine how the struggle for women’s liberation is truly global. 

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Unveiling Desire

Fallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the East

Edited by Devaleena Das and Colette Morrow; Foreword by Nawal El-Saadawi
Rutgers University Press

Unveiling Desire shows that the duality of the fallen/saved woman is as prevalent in Eastern culture as it is in the West, specifically in literature and films. Using examples from the Middle to Far East, the contributors examine how the struggle for women’s liberation is truly global. 

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Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine

Selling HPV and Cervical Cancer

Rutgers University Press

In Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine, medical anthropologist S.D. Gottlieb explores how the vaccine Gardasil—developed against the most common sexually-transmitted infection, human papillomavirus (HPV)—was marketed primarily as a cervical cancer vaccine. Gardasil quickly became implicated in two pre-existing debates—about adolescent sexuality and pediatric vaccinations more generally.

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Thieving Three-Fingered Jack

Transatlantic Tales of a Jamaican Outlaw, 1780-2015

Rutgers University Press

Botkin has compiled and analyzed plays, novels, and folklore about Three-Fingered Jack in order to show how the story of this hero-villain has evolved as it traveled from the Caribbean to England and the United States, returning to Jamaica as a tale of heroic resistance.

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Narrating Love and Violence

Women Contesting Caste, Tribe, and State in Lahaul, India

Rutgers University Press

Narrating Love and Violence is an ethnographic exploration of women’s stories from the Himalayan valley of Lahaul, in the region of Himachal Pradesh, India, focusing on how violence is produced at the intersection of gender, tribe, caste, and the state in India, while demonstrating how love operates as a politic.
 

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Demographic Angst

Cultural Narratives and American Films of the 1950s

Rutgers University Press

Alan Nadel explores influential non-fiction books, magazine articles, and public documents to demonstrate how films such as Singin’ in the Rain, On the Waterfront, Sunset Boulevard, Roman Holiday, North by Northwest, and Sayonara, negotiated anxieties over the changes impelled by postwar America’s radically reconfigured population. 

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