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Apocalypse Cinema

Rutgers University Press

Covering such films as MetropolisDr. StrangeloveContagion, and Avengers: Endgame, this book provides a lively overview of apocalypse cinema, including alien invasion movies, nuclear annihilation stories, and films where nature itself threatens humanity through climate change or deadly diseases.

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Precarity and Belonging

Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship

Rutgers University Press

Approaching mobility, precarity, and citizenship at once generates a critical exploration of the points of contact and friction and the potential politics of commonality between citizens and noncitizens. What does modern citizenship mean in a world of citizens, denizens, and noncitizens living under common conditions of labor and social precarity? Precarity and Belonging interrogates such binaries as citizen/noncitizen, and “legal”/“illegal” to explore the fluidity of the spectra of belonging.
 

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Precarity and Belonging

Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship

Rutgers University Press

Approaching mobility, precarity, and citizenship at once generates a critical exploration of the points of contact and friction and the potential politics of commonality between citizens and noncitizens. What does modern citizenship mean in a world of citizens, denizens, and noncitizens living under common conditions of labor and social precarity? Precarity and Belonging interrogates such binaries as citizen/noncitizen, and “legal”/“illegal” to explore the fluidity of the spectra of belonging.
 

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Martin Scorsese and the American Dream

Rutgers University Press

Exploring films as varied as Alice Doesn’t Live Here AnymoreTaxi DriverGoodfellasHugo, and The Wolf of Wall Street, this book is the first study of Martin Scorsese’s complex engagement with the American Dream—its charms, traps, and ambiguities.

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Mapping the Way from Teacher Preparation to edTPA® Completion

A Guide for Secondary Education Candidates

Rutgers University Press

This book is here to help teacher candidates not only survive the challenge of the edTPA®, but also thrive. Demystifying the language used in the performance assessment, it maps out precisely what steps aspiring secondary education teachers should take to ensure successful completion of the edTPA®
 

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Japan and American Children's Books

A Journey

By Sybille Jagusch; Foreword by Carla D. Hayden; Introduction by J. Thomas Rimer
Rutgers University Press

Drawing from the Library of Congress’s massive collection, this volume takes readers on a fascinating and informative journey through nearly 200 years of American children’s books and periodicals depicting life in Japan, from fanciful travelogues full of exotic stereotypes to serious works about wartime atrocities. Published by Rutgers University Press in association with the Library of Congress.

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Haunted Homes

Rutgers University Press

Looking at everything from classic movies like James Whale’s The Old Dark House to contemporary works like HereditaryThe Conjuring, and the Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House, Dahlia Schweitzer explores why haunted homes have become a prime stage for dramatizing anxieties about family, gender, race, and economic collapse.

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Haiti Fights Back

The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte

Rutgers University Press

Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte is the first US study of the politician and caco leader (guerrilla fighter) who fought against the US occupation of Haiti from 1915-1934. Alexis locates rare multilingual sources from both nations and documents Péralte’s political movement and citizens’ protests. The interdisciplinary work offers a new approach to studies of the US invasion period by documenting how Caribbean people fought back.

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Dying to Count

Post-Abortion Care and Global Reproductive Health Politics in Senegal

Rutgers University Press

Dying to Count explores how national and global population politics collide in Senegalese hospitals as health workers treat and document women who present with complications of abortion. Siri Suh’s ethnography illustrates political, economic, professional, and technological factors that jeopardize quality of and access to obstetric care in public hospitals despite national and global commitments to reproductive health.
 

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Dreams of Archives Unfolded

Absence and Caribbean Life Writing

Rutgers University Press

Dreams of Archives Unfolded: Absence and Caribbean Life Writing makes a significant contribution to studies of Caribbean literature by demonstrating that women’s autobiographical narratives published in the past twenty years are feminist epistemological projects that rework Caribbean studies’ longstanding commitment to creating counter-archives.

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