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Special Admission
How College Sports Recruitment Favors White Suburban Athletes
Rutgers University Press
Special Admission contradicts the national belief that college sports provide an avenue for upward mobility. Kirsten Hextrum reveals the dynamic relationship between the state, elite groups, private entities, educational institutions, and athletic organizations that concentrate opportunities in white suburban communities. Thus, college sports allow white, middle-class athletes to accelerate their advantages through admission to elite universities.
Robin and the Making of American Adolescence
Rutgers University Press
Holy adolescence, Batman! This book offers the first character history and analysis of the most famous superhero sidekick, Robin. It partners up comics studies and adolescent studies as a new Dynamic Duo, revealing the Boy (and sometimes Girl!) Wonder as a complex figure through whom mainstream culture has addressed anxieties about American teens.
Movie Minorities
Transnational Rights Advocacy and South Korean Cinema
Rutgers University Press
Rights advocacy has become a prominent facet of South Korea’s increasingly transnational motion picture output, and today films about political prisoners, undocumented workers, and people with disabilities attract mainstream attention. Movie Minorities offers the first English-language study of Korean cinema’s role in helping to galvanize activist social movements across these and other identity-based categories.
Micro Media Industries
Hmong American Media Innovation in the Diaspora
Rutgers University Press
Micro Media Industries explores the media of Hmong Americans, showing how an extremely small population can maintain a robust and thriving media ecology in spite of resource limitations and an inability to scale up. It argues that micro media industries provide models of media innovation that can counter the increasing power of mainstream media.
Memories before the State
Postwar Peru and the Place of Memory, Tolerance, and Social Inclusion
Rutgers University Press
Memories before the State examines the discussions and debates surrounding the creation of the Place of Memory, Tolerance, and Social Inclusion, a national museum in Peru that memorializes the country’s internal armed conflict of the 1980s and 1990s. Joseph P. Feldman analyzes forms of authority that emerge as an official institution seeks to incorporate and manage diverse perspectives on recent violence.
Indigenous Peoples Rise Up
The Global Ascendency of Social Media Activism
Edited by Bronwyn Carlson and Jeff Berglund
Rutgers University Press
Indigenous Peoples Rise Up: The Global Ascendency of Social Media Activism illustrates the impact of social media in expanding the nature of Indigenous communities and social movements. Social media has bridged distance, time, and nation states to mobilize Indigenous peoples to build coalitions across the globe and to stand in solidarity with one another. Including examples like Idle No More in Canada, Australian Recognise!, and social media campaigns to maintain Maori language, Indigenous Peoples Rise Up serves as one of the first studies of Indigenous social media use and activism.
Embracing Age
How Catholic Nuns Became Models of Aging Well
Rutgers University Press
Embracing Age reveals that aging is not only a biological process, but is also shaped by what the process of growing older means to us. By examining Catholic nuns, a group that experiences positive health outcomes in older age, Anna I. Corwin reveals the connections between culture, language, and the experience of aging.
Apparition of Splendor
Marianne Moore Performing Democracy through Celebrity, 1952–1970
University of Delaware Press
Apparition of Splendor looks in depth at Marianne Moore's elaborately constructed, multi-dimensional poems of her 1950s-60s celebrity phase, in which, cross-dressed as George Washington, she presented her poetry as part of a comedic performance. This biography shows how her poems challenge the highbrow hierarchy of art and invite the readers into the process of making meaning out of their daily lives.
Anthony Cerami
A Life in Translational Medicine
Rutgers University Press, Rutgers University Press Medicine
Anthony Cerami’s story and that of the evolution of translation are intimately entwined: the contours of Cerami’s career shaped by developments in translation, and in exchange, the field itself molded by Cerami’s work. To understand one is to understand the other. By examining the life of this often overlooked biochemist it is possible to intimately focus on the ideas and thought processes of a scientist who has helped to define the great acceleration in translational research over the past half century – research that, knowingly or otherwise, has most likely affected the life of almost everyone on the planet.
William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll
By Casey Rae
University of Texas Press
The little-known history of William S. Burroughs's impact on some of the biggest names in music, from the Beatles to Bowie, and his role as a secret architect of the rock 'n' roll genre itself.
The Pluto System After New Horizons
By S. Alan Stern; Edited by Jeffrey M. Moore, William M. Grundy, Leslie A. Young, and Richard P. Binzel
The University of Arizona Press
Once perceived as distant, cold, dark, and seemingly unknowable, Pluto had long been marked as the farthest and most unreachable frontier for solar system exploration. The Pluto System After New Horizons is the benchmark research compendium for synthesizing our understanding of the Pluto system. This volume reviews the work of researchers who have spent the last five years assimilating the data returned from New Horizons and the first full scientific synthesis of this fascinating system.
The Citizenship Education Program and Black Women's Political Culture
University Press of Florida
This book details how African American women used lessons in basic literacy to crack the foundation of white supremacy and sow seeds for collective action during the civil rights movement.
The Archaeology of New Netherland
A World Built on Trade
Edited by Craig Lukezic and John P. McCarthy
University Press of Florida
This volume illuminates the influence of the Dutch empire in North America, assembling evidence from seventeenth-century settlements located in present-day New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.
Teaching Haiti
Strategies for Creating New Narratives
Edited by Cécile Accilien and Valérie K. Orlando
University of Florida Press
Orphic Bend
Music and Innovative Poetics
University of Alabama Press
Restages fundamental debates about the relationship between poetry and music
Letras y Limpias
Decolonial Medicine and Holistic Healing in Mexican American Literature
The University of Arizona Press
Letras y Limpias is the first book to explore the literary significance of the curandera. It offers critical new insights about how traditional medicine and folk healing underwrite Mexican American literature. Amanda Ellis traces the significance of the curandera and her evolution across a variety of genres written by Mexican American authors such as Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Manuel Munoz, ire’ne lara silva, and more.
Forgotten Veterans, Invisible Memorials
How American Women Commemorated the Great War, 1917–1945
University of Alabama Press
Investigates the groundbreaking role American women played in commemorating those who served and sacrificed in World War I.
The Ecology of the Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines of Northern Florida
University Press of Florida
This book is a compendium of ecological information on 244 species of trees, shrubs, and woody vines found in the northern half of the Florida peninsula and in the Florida panhandle.
Rewriting Joyce's Europe
The Politics of Language and Visual Design
University Press of Florida
This book sheds light on how the text and physical design of James Joyce’s two most challenging works, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, reflect changes that transformed Europe between World War I and II.
Guitar King
Michael Bloomfield's Life in the Blues
By David Dann
University of Texas Press
This first comprehensive biography of the late, great Michael Bloomfield brings to life a dazzling electric-guitar virtuoso who transformed rock ’n’ roll in the 1960s and made a lasting impact on the blues genre.
Corporal Rhetoric
Regulating Reproduction in the Progressive Era
University of Alabama Press
Examines public discourse from the Progressive Era over the state’s right to regulate women’s bodies and their reproduction
Reading and Writing Instruction in the Twenty-First Century
Recovering and Transforming the Pedagogy of Robert Scholes
Edited by Ellen C. Carillo
Utah State University Press
In Reading and Writing Instruction in the Twenty-First Century contemporary scholars explore and extend the continued relevance of Scholes’s work for those in English and writing studies.
Identity Politics of Difference
The Mixed-Race American Indian Experience
University Press of Colorado
Effective Teaching of Technical Communication
Theory, Practice, and Application
Edited by Michael J. Klein
The WAC Clearinghouse
Patrick Mehaffy
SF Design, llc / FrescoBooks
Exploring the pathos and promise of the human experience, New Mexico artist Patrick Mehaffy creates sculptures, drawings, and, more recently, paintings that harken back to the timelessness of cultures past while affirming human relevance in a precarious world.
On Dark and Bloody Ground
An Oral History of the West Virginia Mine Wars
By Anne T. Lawrence; Foreword by Catherine Venable Moore
West Virginia University Press
An oral history of the West Virginia Mine Wars published to coincide with the centennial of the Battle of Blair Mountain.
La Charte / The Charter
La loi 101 et les Québécois d'expression anglaise / Bill 101 and English-Speaking Quebec
Les Presses de l'Université Laval, Laval University Press
Cannel Coal Oil Days
A Novel
By Theophile Maher; Edited by Edward Watts
West Virginia University Press
A newly discovered nineteenth-century novel about West Virginia breaking away from Virginia, set amid the cannel coal boom and featuring an interracial abolitionist movement.
The Survival of Māori as a People
By Whatarangi Winiata and Daphne Luke
HUIA, HUIA Publishers
The Poetry Demon
Song-Dynasty Monks on Verse and the Way
By Jason Protass; Series edited by Robert E. Buswell, Jr.
University of Hawaii Press
Surviving Imperial Intrigues
Korea’s Struggle for Neutrality amid Empires, 1882–1907
By Sangpil Jin
University of Hawaii Press
Qigong Journey
Nine-Five Maintenance of Qi, Protect Your Life with Nine Palaces Daoist Qigong
By Wu Baolin
Three Pines Press
He Kupu Taurangi
Treaty Settlements and the Future of Aotearoa New Zealand
By Chris Finlayson and James Christmas
HUIA, HUIA Publishers
Vicious Infants
Dangerous Childhoods in Antebellum U.S. Literature
University of Massachusetts Press
Revolutions at Home
The Origin of Modern Childhood and the German Middle Class
University of Massachusetts Press
Managing the River Commons
Fishing and New England's Rural Economy
By Erik Reardon
University of Massachusetts Press
Feeling Godly
Religious Affections and Christian Contact in Early North America
Edited by Caroline Wigginton and Abram Van Engen
University of Massachusetts Press
The Comics World
Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics
Edited by Benjamin Woo and Jeremy Stoll
University Press of Mississippi
A thoroughly researched collection designed to engage with the social sciences in order to expand comics studies as a field
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