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Higher Education amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
Supporting Teaching and Learning through Turbulent Times
Edited by Jessica Ostrow Michel
Rutgers University Press
Higher Education amid the COVID-19 Pandemic documents first-hand experiences from faculty and students in order to help navigate the path to supporting teaching and learning in the wake of the pandemic, and beyond. With essays from a diverse range of experts, this volume will serve as a comprehensive guide to many affected higher education communities.
Notes from Home
Edited by Jonna McKone
Rutgers University Press
This beautifully illustrated volume weaves together personal stories, photographs, drawings, poems of students who have experienced insecurity during childhood into a tapestry of memories about the meaning of home.
Thrillers, Chillers, and Killers
Radio and Film Noir
Rutgers University Press
Thrillers, Chillers, and Killers is the first book to explore in detail noir storytelling in cinema and on radio. Arguing that radio’s noir dramas were a counterpart to, influence on, or a spin-off from the noir films, this scrupulously researched yet accessible study challenges conventional understandings of noir as well as shedding new light on a medium that was cinema’s major rival.
Imagining the Tropics
Women, Romance, and the Making of Modern Tourism
Rutgers University Press
Imagining the Tropics is a history of the development of tourism in the Caribbean across the twentieth century that focuses on the ways women’s labors of hospitality, writing, and advocacy built the industry and its ubiquitous imagery of tropical island relaxation, escape, and romance.
Citizen Bird
Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners, A Critical Edition
By Mabel Osgood Wright and Elliot Coues; Illustrated by Louis Agassiz Fuertes; Edited by Elizabeth Cherry and Meghan Freeman
Rutgers University Press
Likely the first birding guide for children, Citizen Bird (1897) was a tremendously influential text in Progressive-era America. With a contextualizing introduction, explanatory footnotes, and supplementary historical material, this teaching edition of Citizen Bird aims to celebrate its place in the history of birding and in nineteenth-century American culture and literature.
Back to Black
Jules Feiffer’s Noir Trilogy
Rutgers University Press
This book examines Jules Feiffer’s Kill My Mother trilogy of graphic novels as a body of work that pays homage to the iconography and themes of film noir. It reflects on Feiffer’s singular depiction of the central political issues of America from the Great Depression to the 1950s and on his unique storytelling voice, between drama and satire.
Always an Academic Immigrant
A Collective Memoir
By Dafna Lemish
Rutgers University Press
Always an Academic Immigrant: A Collective Memoir shares the voices of academic immigrants who moved from their home country to a host country for a position in a higher education institution. Dafna Lemish elevates the voices of academic immigrants through analyses of 81 in-depth interviews with academic immigrants from 37 countries around the world, who moved to 11 countries, highlighting the unique benefits they bring to the academic world in their scholarship, teaching, and leadership roles.
We Can Do Better
Feminist Manifestos for Media and Communication
Edited by Linda Steiner and Stine Eckert
Rutgers University Press
This book brings together evidence-based, feminist manifestos for media and communication. It offers real, actionable, practical solutions to media problems and deficiencies, and shows how feminist thinking can be usefully and effectively applied to a wide range of journalism, media, and communication practices. The book offers specific, feasible blueprints for restructuring media in ways that make them more equitable and more democratic.
We Can Do Better
Feminist Manifestos for Media and Communication
Edited by Linda Steiner and Stine Eckert
Rutgers University Press
This book brings together evidence-based, feminist manifestos for media and communication. It offers real, actionable, practical solutions to media problems and deficiencies, and shows how feminist thinking can be usefully and effectively applied to a wide range of journalism, media, and communication practices. The book offers specific, feasible blueprints for restructuring media in ways that make them more equitable and more democratic.
She's the Boss
The Rise of Women’s Entrepreneurship since World War II
Rutgers University Press
Producing Children
Critical Studies in Childhood Creativity
Edited by Peter C. Kunze and Victoria Ford Smith
Rutgers University Press
Children’s culture is not only culture for children; it’s culture by children — yet scholars of children’s culture overwhelmingly center work by adults for children. Producing Children acknowledges and theorizes children as cultural producers, underscoring how such creativity empowers children as active participants in their own culture, and helps us to reconceive our understandings of children themselves.
Producing Children
Critical Studies in Childhood Creativity
Edited by Peter C. Kunze and Victoria Ford Smith
Rutgers University Press
Children’s culture is not only culture for children; it’s culture by children — yet scholars of children’s culture overwhelmingly center work by adults for children. Producing Children acknowledges and theorizes children as cultural producers, underscoring how such creativity empowers children as active participants in their own culture, and helps us to reconceive our understandings of children themselves.
Organizing "Professionals"
Academic Employees Negotiating a New Academy
By Gary Rhoades
Rutgers University Press
Academic employees are organizing and negotiating for respect for workers, their work, and the public value of higher education. Scholar and labor activist Gary Rhoades analyzes how academic employees are shifting the imbalance of power between labor and management, reducing the internal professional stratification between segments of the academic workforce, and intersecting workplace issues with broader issues of equality, public value, and social justice, and in the process organizing and negotiating for a new, more progressive academy.
Leon Bibel
Forgotten Artist of the New Deal
By Richard Haw
Rutgers University Press
In Leon Bibel, historian Richard Haw recounts the life of the artist Leon Bibel from his birth in 1913, in Szczebrzeszyn, Poland to his death in New Jersey in 1995. The book situates Bibel in the context of his times and within his artist milieu, exploring themes such as American immigration, anti-fascism, social, economic, and racial injustice, public art, Jewish identity, New Deal policies and practices, and their influence on American culture.
Latinx Comics Studies
Critical and Creative Approaches
Edited by Fernanda Díaz-Basteris and Maite Urcaregui; Introduction by Fernanda Díaz-Basteris and Maite Urcaregui
Rutgers University Press
Latinx Comics Studies considers the role of comics and graphic narrative in picturing the rich realities of Latinx communities. It brings together groundbreaking critical essays, practical reflections, original and republished short comics to explore how comics by, for, and about Latinx peoples creatively and conceptually experiment with the very boundaries of “Latinx.”
Latinx Comics Studies
Critical and Creative Approaches
Edited by Fernanda Díaz-Basteris and Maite Urcaregui; Introduction by Fernanda Díaz-Basteris and Maite Urcaregui
Rutgers University Press
Latinx Comics Studies considers the role of comics and graphic narrative in picturing the rich realities of Latinx communities. It brings together groundbreaking critical essays, practical reflections, original and republished short comics to explore how comics by, for, and about Latinx peoples creatively and conceptually experiment with the very boundaries of “Latinx.”
Hustles for Humanists
Build a Business with Purpose
Rutgers University Press
Hustles for Humanists offers a roadmap to start or grow a business that aligns with your strengths and values. It positions entrepreneurship as a pathway for readers to clarify their worth, claim agency over their professional growth, pursue meaningful work and achieve economic stability on their own terms.
Faith and the Fragility of Justice
Responses to Gender-Based Violence in South Africa
Rutgers University Press
Faith and the Fragility of Justice illuminates the role of religion in the intersection of race, gender, and power by showing how South African Christian organizations’ responses to apartheid follow a clear path for their attention to gender-based violence in the democracy, arguing that theologies that promote racial justice can facilitate or constrain the pursuit of gender justice.
Crossings
Creative Ecologies of Cruising
Rutgers University Press
Crossings is a book about queer cruising. A creative dialogue between a queer artist and a queer academic, it hovers between artist book and scholarly work, between manifesto and sex memoir, shamelessly taking queer sex and sex cultures seriously as ways of knowing and of world-making.
Contested Curriculum
LGBTQ History Goes to School
Rutgers University Press
Historian Don Romesburg tells the story of the long struggle to make K-12 history education more LGBTQ-inclusive and why this matters even more in this era of anti-LGBTQ book bans, “Don’t Say Gay” legislation, and attempts to diminish the powerful role that inclusive and honest history education should play in our democratic nation.
The Twilight of Rome's Papal Nobility
The Life of Agnese Borghese Boncompagni Ludovisi
By Ugo Boncompagni Ludovisi (1856–1935); Translated by Carol Cofone; Foreword by T. Corey Brennan and Rita Boncompagni Ludovisi
Rutgers University Press
The Twilight of Rome's Papal Nobility details the life of Agnese Borghese Boncompagni Ludovisi (1836–1920), one of the last matriarchs of the Borghese Boncompagni Ludovisi clan, a family which, through marriage, combined two of the most powerful papal households in Italian history. The book, written by her eldest son Ugo and originally published in 1921, details Agnese's personal and public life, as well as the many historical events that shaped the future of her family and her country during the Italian risorgimento period.
The High School
Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903-2024
Rutgers University Press
Wrapped around a rich array of 270 photos from over a century of a high school’s yearbooks, The High School tells a vivid story of the unevenness of social change, including booms and busts in girls’ sports, the long-contested meanings of football, the gender dynamics of coaching, and dramatic ebbs and flows in the meanings of cheerleading.
Say Her Name
Centering Black Feminism and Black Women in Sport
Rutgers University Press
Say Her Name: Centering Black Feminism and Black Women in Sports offers an in-depth look into the lived experiences of Blackgirlwomen as athletes, activists, and everyday people through a Black feminist lens. With so much research on race centered on Black men and gender research focusing on white women, Say Her Name offers a necessary conversation that places Blackgirlwomen at the center of discussion.
Islamists in a Zionist Coalition
The Political and Religious Origins
By Uriya Shavit
Rutgers University Press
Islamists in a Zionist Coalition explores a political drama that shocked Israel and the world in 2021: the decision of an Islamist party to join a Zionist coalition, and its elevation to the position of "king-maker" in Israeli politics. Based on analyses of hundreds of texts and exclusive interviews, it uncovers the religious and political origins of a development that will greatly impact Israeli society in years to come.
Films That Spill
Beyond the Cinema of Transgression
Rutgers University Press
Films That Spill takes up a previously understudied moment in 1980s underground culture in New York City called Cinema of Transgression, offering both a microhistory of the intermingling art, music, performance, and film scenes of the time and a glimpse into their afterlives.
Fantasies of Hong Kong Disneyland
Attempted Indigenizations of Space, Labor, and Consumption
By Jenny Banh
Rutgers University Press
Jenny Banh examines the attempt to transplant Disney's "happiest place on earth" to Hong Kong, delving into the three-way dynamics of American culture-corporation intentions; Hong Kong, China government investment; and Hong Kong and Chinese audiences. The situation poses special challenges for Disney's efforts to manage space, labor, and consumption to achieve local adaptation and business success.
Climate Bridge
An International Perspective on How to Enact Climate Action at the Government Public Interface
Rutgers University Press
Climate Bridge compares New Jersey and the German Ruhr Region to build an international perspective on how to enact climate action at the government-public interface. The book grew from fifteen years of collaboration between scholars in New Jersey and Germany through summer programs, a landscape architecture design studio, internships for Rutgers students, and joint publications. Notably, settlement patterns and brownfield issues reveal similarities between the underserved in both regions.
At Home with the Holocaust
Postmemory, Domestic Space, and Second-Generation Holocaust Narratives
Rutgers University Press
Based on analyses of literature and oral histories of children of survivors, At Home with the Holocaust reveals how the material conditions of survivor-family homes, along with household practices and belongings, rendered these homes as archives of trauma that in turn traumatized the children of Holocaust survivors.
Apocalyptic Crimes
Why Nuclear Weapons Are Illegal and Must Be Abolished
Rutgers University Press
Caribbean Inhospitality
The Poetics of Strangers at Home
Rutgers University Press
Caribbean Inhospitality juxtaposes the Caribbean’s reputation for being hospitable to foreigners with the alienation of the Caribbean citizen-subject from nations they call home. Reading literary, cinematic, and digital texts, Natalie Lauren Belisle demonstrates that the inhospitality is institutionalized through the aesthetic, reproducing itself in the laws that condition belonging and membership in the Caribbean nation/state.
Memorializing Violence
Transnational Feminist Reflections
Edited by Alison Crosby and Heather Evans
Rutgers University Press
This volume brings together feminist reflections on the transnational lives of memorializations to colonial, imperial, militarized, and state violence. It asks what’s at stake in memorializing amidst and against ongoing harm and injustice produced by white supremacist global capitalist empire.
Memorializing Violence
Transnational Feminist Reflections
Edited by Alison Crosby and Heather Evans
Rutgers University Press
This volume brings together feminist reflections on the transnational lives of memorializations to colonial, imperial, militarized, and state violence. It asks what’s at stake in memorializing amidst and against ongoing harm and injustice produced by white supremacist global capitalist empire.
Labs of Our Own
Feminist Tinkerings with Science
Rutgers University Press
Labs of Our Own demonstrates the perils and possibilities that emerge from experiments in democratizing science. The book ultimately intervenes in stale debates for and against science by arguing against uncritical excitement for democratic science and instead for critical science literacy and feminist tinkering as third ways forward.
Dancing for their Lives
The Pursuit of Meaningful Aging in Urban China
Rutgers University Press
The Dressing Room
Backstage Lives and American Film
Rutgers University Press
A recurrent and popular setting in American cinema, the dressing room has captured the imagination of audiences for over a century. In the only book-length study of the space, Desirée J. Garcia explores how dressing rooms are dynamic realms in which a diverse cast of performers are made and exposed.
Supervillains
The Significance of Evil in Superhero Comics
Rutgers University Press
This book provides a savvy investigation of the supervillains that appear in superhero comics. Exploring villainous archetypes and Otherness in relation to the notion of evil, the book investigates how supervillains uphold and solidify but also trouble hegemonic ideals expressed by the heroism of superheroes.
Strength through Diversity
Harlem Prep and the Rise of Multiculturalism
Rutgers University Press
In Strength Through Diversity, Barry M. Goldenberg traces the inspiring, uncharted history of Harlem Prep, a unique multicultural institution that became an educational phenomenon in the iconic Black neighborhood of Harlem and nationwide. From 1967 to 1974, Harlem Prep sent to college many hundreds of students who had previously been labeled as “dropouts,” demonstrating how a multicultural educational program centered on diversity can provide a blueprint for schools today.
Rewriting Television
Rutgers University Press
Rewriting Television suggests that it is time for a radical overhaul of television studies. It offers a new model for doing television (or film, or media) studies through the synthesis of production studies, screenwriting studies and “writing otherwise”. With a focus on form, story and voice, this book is an opportunity to imagine our work, and the work of others, differently.
Raritan on War
An Anthology
Edited by Jackson Lears and Karen Parker Lears
Rutgers University Press
On War gathers together some of the finest writing on that troubling subject published in Raritan between 2003 and 2022. The editors, Jackson Lears and Karen Parker Lears, have selected work that typifies Raritan’s wide-ranging sensibility--focusing on a topic that is aesthetically rich, intellectually challenging, and morally disturbing. It is also all too timely.
Public Catastrophes, Private Losses
Rutgers University Press
The essays in this collection expand the definition of catastrophe to include not only events like pandemics, hurricanes, and wildfires but also slower-moving phenomena that have equally disastrous long-term consequences—like environmental degradation and structural racism. This book is a feminist intervention that challenges the binary between public and private, personal and political.
Public Catastrophes, Private Losses
Rutgers University Press
The essays in this collection expand the definition of catastrophe to include not only events like pandemics, hurricanes, and wildfires but also slower-moving phenomena that have equally disastrous long-term consequences—like environmental degradation and structural racism. This book is a feminist intervention that challenges the binary between public and private, personal and political.
Moving Blackness
Black Circulation, Racism, and Relations of Homespace
Rutgers University Press
Moving Blackness explores the centrality of circulation within the framework of western modernity and the racially structured regulations of mobility. Storytelling emerges as the primary mode through which blackness is conveyed: it serves as a means of circulating the lived experiences of being Black while also functioning as acts of resistance and solidarity performed by blackened individuals who were (once) colonized and enslaved.
Icons Axed, Freedoms Lost
Russian Desecularization and a Ukrainian Alternative
Rutgers University Press
In the years between the Soviet collapse and the Russo-Ukrainian war, Russia went from persecuting believers to jailing irreligionists, while Ukraine solidified religious pluralism and tolerance. The book richly documents and explains the development of this contrast while offering an original theoretical and methodological perspective on desecularization (the resurgence of religion’s societal role).
Black Sporting Resistance
Diaspora, Transnationalism, and Internationalism
By Joseph N. Cooper; Foreword by Gerald Horne
Rutgers University Press
In this text, the Black Sporting Resistance Framework (BSRF) is introduced to examine how resistance actions in and through sport have contributed to the advancement of local and global racial justice efforts. Key concepts such as African (Black) diaspora, transnationalism, internationalism, sporting resistance typology, and sport activism typology are presented.
Ben Hecht's Theatre of Jewish Protest
Rutgers University Press
A critical and historical study of Ben Hecht’s forgotten controversial plays championing Jewish causes during the World War II era. Includes the full texts of four works - We Will Never Die (1943), A Jewish Fairy Tale (1944), A Flag is Born (1946), and The Terrorist (1947) - which are republished here for the first time along with production details and full performance histories.
Transmedia Geographies
Decoloniality, Democratization, Cultural Citizenship, and Media Convergence
By Kevin Glynn and Julie Cupples
Rutgers University Press
Looking at the US, New Zealand, and Central America, this book considers how cultural politics has been deeply reworked in our contemporary media environment. The authors analyze how rampant technological convergence has allowed stories to spill across media platforms as well as geographical borders, and how those stories re-emerge as transmediated events.
The Future of Youth Violence Prevention
A Mixtape for Practice, Policy, and Research
Edited by Paul Boxer and Raphael Travis, Jr.
Rutgers University Press
The Future of Youth Violence Prevention: A Mixtape for Practice, Policy, and Research focuses on innovative approaches to youth violence prevention that utilize consistent principles found within existing best practices but are dynamic and adaptable across settings – and the socio-historical and cultural realities of those settings.
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