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Something Ain't Kosher Here
The Rise of the 'Jewish' Sitcom
In Something Ain’t Kosher Here, Vincent Brook asks two key questions: Why has this trend appeared at this particular historical moment and what is the significance of this phenomenon for Jews and non-Jews alike? He takes readers through three key phases of the Jewish sitcom trend: The early years of television before and after the first Jewish sitcom, The Goldbergs’, appeared; the second phase in which America found itself “Under the Sign of Seinfeld”; and the current era of what Brook calls “Post- Jewishness.”
Mestizo Modernism
Race, Nation, and Identity in Latin American Culture, 1900-1940
Messy Beginnings
Postcoloniality and Early American Studies
Intersex and Identity
The Contested Self
A Nation at Work
The Heldrich Guide to the American Workforce
Key Texts in American Jewish Culture
Imagining Robert
My Brother, Madness, and Survival, A Memoir
Jay Neugeboren and his brother, Robert, grew up in Brooklyn in the years following World War II. Both brothers—smart, talented, and popular—seemed well on the way to successful lives when, for reasons that remain ultimately mysterious to this day, Robert had a mental breakdown at age nineteen. For the past forty years Jay has been not only his brother’s friend and confidant, but his sole advocate, as Robert continues to suffer from the ravages of the illness that has kept him institutionalized for most of his adult life. Imagining Robert tells the story of these two brothers and how their love for one another has enabled both to survive, and to thrive in miraculous, surprising ways.
Race in the Schoolyard
Negotiating the Color Line in Classrooms and Communities
Race in the Schoolyard takes us to a place most of us seldom get to see in action¾ our children's classrooms¾ and reveals the lessons about race that are communicated there. Amanda E. Lewis spent a year observing classes at three elementary schools, two multiracial urban and one white suburban. While race of course is not officially taught like multiplication and punctuation, she finds that it nonetheless insinuates itself into everyday life in schools.
The Cinematic ImagiNation
Indian Popular Films as Social History
A Guide to Green New Jersey
Nature Walks in the Garden State
Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality, and Transnational Media
Trading Gazes
Euro-American Women Photographers and Native North Americans, 1880-1940
Millicent Fenwick
Her Way
Plants, Patients, and the Historian
(Re)membering in the Age of Genetic Engineering
Bridges Over the Delaware River
A History of Crossings
When Washington made his famous crossing of the Delaware River, it is a shame he couldn't have invited local historian Frank T. Dale along for the ride. Dale could have suggested the easiest crossing points. Fortunately for contemporary readers, Dale has written a fascinating book chronicling thirty-five of the most historic bridges crossing the Delaware, some of which have served the residents of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York for almost two centuries. Many of us take these bridges for granted as we speed across, impatient to reach our destination, but their histories are too interesting to ignore.
Black Victorians / Black Victoriana
The Emperor's New Clothes
Biological Theories of Race at the Millennium
English Society
1580-1680
Modernizing Islam
Religion in the Public Sphere in the Middle East and Europe
Modernizing Islam speaks to the significance, origins, influences, and implications of Islam’s changes, and thus to the various ways in which this religion is becoming a truly global force, shaping such realms as law, politics, education, and ethics, among many others.
Crossing the Gods
World Religions and Worldly Politics
Eminent sociologist of religion Jay Demerath traveled to Brazil, China, Egypt, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Northern Ireland, Pakistan, Poland, Sweden, Turkey, and Thailand to explore the history and current relationship of religion, politics, and the state in each country. In the first part of this wide-ranging book, he asks, What are the basic fault lines along which current tensions and conflicts have formed? What are the trajectories of change from past to present, and how do they help predict the future?