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Children as Caregivers
The Global Fight against Tuberculosis and HIV in Zambia
By Jean Hunleth
Rutgers University Press
Medical anthropologist Jean Hunleth chronicles the experiences of children living with parents and guardians who are suffering from these infectious diseases and shows how their perspectives matter in the global debates about health care. Children as Caregivers examines how well intentioned practitioners fail to realize how children take on active caregiving roles when their guardians become seriously ill.
The Three Axial Ages
Moral, Material, Mental
By John Torpey
Rutgers University Press
How can historical developments and discoveries be used to affect future outcomes? Sociologist and historian John Torpey proposes that the “Axial Age,” a period in the first millennium BCE when major religious and intellectual developments emerged, can be used to directly affect present social problems, from economic inequality to ecological destruction.
Hollywood's Hawaii
Race, Nation, and War
Rutgers University Press
Hollywood’s Hawaii is the first full-length study of the film industry’s intense engagement with Hawaii and the South Pacific from 1898 to the present. This book presents a history of cinema that examines Hawaii and the Pacific and its representation in film in the context of colonialism, war, Orientalism, occupation, military buildup, and entertainment.
Soft Corruption
How Unethical Conduct Undermines Good Government and What To Do About It
Rutgers University Press
New Jersey has long been a breeding ground for political corruption, much of it perfectly legal. In Soft Corruption, a former state senator recounts his fifty-year fight to expose such misconduct. William E. Schluter doesn’t simply wade through New Jersey’s muck, but provides concrete suggestions for how our political system might be reformed and how citizens can effect that change.
Superman
The Persistence of an American Icon
By Ian Gordon
Rutgers University Press
Superman is an icon of the American Way. Examining his many appearances over eighty years in comics, films, television series, and other media, Ian Gordon explores the dynamic process of mythmaking surrounding the character. Digging into comics archives, he reveals the prominent roles fans and collectors have played in remembering, interpreting, and reimagining Superman’s iconography.
Republic on the Wire
Cable Television, Pluralism, and the Politics of New Technologies, 1948-1984
Rutgers University Press
The history of cable television in America is far older than MTV, ESPN, and HBO. Tracing the origins of cable back to the late 1940s, media scholar John McMurria also locates the roots of many current debates about premium television, taste hierarchies, minority programming, content restriction, and corporate ownership. Drawing from rare archives, Republic on the Wire reconstructs the pivotal moments when elite policymakers and disenfranchised viewers clashed over the future of cable television and the meaning of American democracy.
College in Prison
Reading in an Age of Mass Incarceration
Rutgers University Press
This book tells the story of the Bard Prison Initiative—a unique example of academic excellence achieved inside high-security prisons across New York State. The rigor of how students learn, and the careers they go on to pursue once released, force us to rethink our beliefs about who is in prison, reimagine the way forward out of mass incarceration, and renew our faith in the relevance of liberal learning.
U.S. Women's History
Untangling the Threads of Sisterhood
Edited by Leslie Brown, Jacqueline Castledine, and Anne Valk; Foreword by Deborah Gray White; Preface by Nancy A. Hewitt
Rutgers University Press
Spanning the antebellum era to the present day, the ten original essays in U.S. Women's History represent a cross-section of current scholarship, examining both the causes that have united American women and the conflicts that have divided them. The book offers a fresh take on familiar events and figures, from Rosa Parks to Take Back the Night marches, while vividly conveying the multi-textured and multi-hued tapestry that is U.S. women’s history.
Redefining Japaneseness
Japanese Americans in the Ancestral Homeland
Rutgers University Press
Redefining Japaneseness chronicles how Japanese American migrants to Japan experience both racial inclusion and cultural dislocation while negotiating between the categories of Japanese and “foreigner.” Drawing from extensive observations and interviews with Japanese Americans who are geographically, culturally, and linguistically diverse, Jane H. Yamashiro reveals wide variations in how Japanese Americans perceive both Japaneseness and Americanness. Her findings have major implications for both Asian American studies and scholarship on transnational migration and global diasporic identity.
Jew
Rutgers University Press
This book offers a wide-ranging exploration of the key word Jew—charting the past meanings, present usages, and possible futures of a term that lies not only at the heart of Jewish experience, but at the core of how Western civilization has imagined the Other. Tracing the word’s evolution, Cynthia M. Baker also interrogates the contested categories of “ethnicity,” “race,” and “religion,” while providing a glimpse of what Jew is coming to mean in an era of Internet cultures, genetic sequencing, and uncertain identities.