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Poison in the Ivy
Race Relations and the Reproduction of Inequality on Elite College Campuses
Rutgers University Press
Poison in the Ivy examines college students in the U.S.’s upper-echelon of higher education to identify how young elites interact with one another, how these social interactions influence their views of race and inequality, and how these views and interactions may contribute to broader racial inequalities in society.
A Dream of Resistance
The Cinema of Kobayashi Masaki
Rutgers University Press
A Dream of Resistance is the first book in English to explore Kobayashi Masaki’s entire career. Drawing from rare archives, including the young director’s wartime diary, Stephen Prince illuminates the political and religious dimensions of Kobayashi’s films and examines how their values were shaped by his intellectual history and upbringing.
In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills
Latino Suburbanization in Postwar Los Angeles
Rutgers University Press
In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills examines the multilayered process by which Mexican Americans moved out of the barrios and emerged as a majority population in the San Gabriel Valley, and the impact that movement had on collective racial and class identity.
A Queerly Joyful Noise
Choral Musicking for Social Justice
Rutgers University Press
A Queerly Joyful Noise investigates why so many LGBTIQ people are drawn to choral music and how queer chorus members create an experience that is beautiful and politically impactful. Julia “Jules” Balén vividly conveys how queer choruses can collectively empower their singers and serve as progressive rallying calls for their listeners.
Directing
Edited by Virginia Wright Wexman
Rutgers University Press
Directing examines a diverse range of classic and contemporary directors, including Orson Welles, Tim Burton, Cecil B. DeMille, Steven Soderbergh, Spike Lee, and Ida Lupino, and demonstrates how a century’s worth of Hollywood directors have negotiated changing film industry practices while harnessing the creative contributions of many collaborators.
Directing
Edited by Virginia Wright Wexman
Rutgers University Press
Directing examines a diverse range of classic and contemporary directors, including Orson Welles, Tim Burton, Cecil B. DeMille, Steven Soderbergh, Spike Lee, and Ida Lupino, and demonstrates how a century’s worth of Hollywood directors have negotiated changing film industry practices while harnessing the creative contributions of many collaborators.
Gangsters to Governors
The New Bosses of Gambling in America
By David Clary
Rutgers University Press
Gambling was once illegal and controlled by gangsters. But today, gambling is legal in forty-eight states. Are states now addicted to revenue from casinos, lotteries, and online gaming? Clary’s history of American gambling introduces us to the industry’s colorful kingpins while asking tough questions about the pros and cons of legal gambling.
Shadow Bodies
Black Women, Ideology, Representation, and Politics
Rutgers University Press
Grounded in Black feminist thought, Julia S. Jordan-Zachery looks at the functioning of scripts ascribed to Black women’s bodies in the framing of HIV/AIDS, domestic abuse, and mental illness and how such functioning renders some black female bodies invisible in Black politics in general and Black women’s politics specifically.
Challenges of Diversity
Essays on America
Rutgers University Press
What unites and what divides Americans as a nation? Opening with a survey of American literature through the vantage point of ethnicity, Werner Sollors examines the changing self-understanding of the United States from an Anglo-American to a multicultural country and the role writing has played in that process.
Food Across Borders
Rutgers University Press
The act of eating defines and redefines borders. The stories told in Food Across Borders highlight the contiguity between the intimate decisions we make as individuals concerning what we eat and the social and geopolitical processes we enact to secure nourishment, territory, and belonging.