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Precarious Democracy
Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil
Rutgers University Press
Precarious Democracy collects powerful and intimate political ethnographic writing on Brazil’s pivotal years, 2013-19, from the nation’s megacities to rural Amazonia. The volume demonstrates the necessity of ethnography for understanding social and political change, and provides crucial insights on one of the most epochal periods of change in Brazilian history.
Movie-Made Jews
An American Tradition
Rutgers University Press
Movie-Made Jews focuses on American Jewish cinematic tradition. This tradition includes fiction and documentary films that make Jews through antisemitism, Holocaust indirection, and discontent with assimilation, and through unapologetic assertion of Jewishness, queerness, and alliances across race and religion. While it’s a truism that Jews make movies, this book demonstrates how movies make Jews.
Junctures in Women's Leadership: Health Care and Public Health
Edited by Mary E. O'Dowd and Ruth Charbonneau
Rutgers University Press
Junctures in Women’s Leadership: Health Care and Public Health offers an eclectic compilation of case studies of women leaders in public health and health care over nearly 150 years. Extraordinarily relevant to current public discourse, topics include: the COVID-19 pandemic, health disparities, disease prevention and the Affordable Care Act. Their leadership lessons can be applied to a broad array of disciplines.
Junctures in Women's Leadership: Health Care and Public Health
Edited by Mary E. O'Dowd and Ruth Charbonneau
Rutgers University Press
Junctures in Women’s Leadership: Health Care and Public Health offers an eclectic compilation of case studies of women leaders in public health and health care over nearly 150 years. Extraordinarily relevant to current public discourse, topics include: the COVID-19 pandemic, health disparities, disease prevention and the Affordable Care Act. Their leadership lessons can be applied to a broad array of disciplines.
Jewish Childhood in Kraków
A Microhistory of the Holocaust
By Joanna Sliwa
Rutgers University Press
Jewish Childhood in Kraków plumbs the decisions and behaviors of ordinary people in extraordinary times. Author Joanna Sliwa illuminates the complex relations between Jews and non-Jews in response to the Holocaust in Kraków to understand the past and to reflect on the experiences of young people during humanitarian crises.
Free Spirit
A Biography of Mason Welch Gross
Rutgers University Press
This biography explores how Mason Welch Gross helped reshape Rutgers University from a sleepy college into a world-renowned public research university, while steering it through the tumult of the Red Scare, civil rights era, and the Vietnam War by taking principled stands in favor of both racial equality and academic freedom.
Everyday Violence
The Public Harassment of Women and LGBTQ People
Rutgers University Press
In Everyday Violence, Simone Kolysh analyzes interviews with initiators and recipients of catcalling and LGBTQ-directed aggression and recasts public harassment as everyday violence. They argue that gender and sexuality, shaped by race, class, and space, are violent processes reproduced through these interactions and demand an end to this pervasive social problem.
Broadcasting Hollywood
The Struggle over Feature Films on Early TV
Rutgers University Press
Broadcasting Hollywood uses extensive archival research to analyze the tensions and synergies between the film and television industries in the early years of television. It draws parallels to today and the introduction of digital media to highlight how history can play a key role in helping media industry scholars and practitioners understand and navigate contemporary industrial phenomena.
Writing the Caribbean in Magazine Time
Rutgers University Press
This book demonstrates the material, political, and aesthetic dimensions of Pan-Caribbean literary discourse in magazine texts by Suzanne and Aimé Césaire, Nicolás Guillén, José Lezama Lima, Alejo Carpentier, George Lamming, Derek Walcott and their contemporaries. Thus far, the canonical centrality of literary magazines to Caribbean literature, politics, and social theory has been obscured. Up against the global book industry, Caribbean literary magazines have waged a guerrilla pursuit for the terms of Caribbean representation.
Very Special Episodes
Televising Industrial and Social Change
Edited by Jonathan Cohn and Jennifer Porst
Rutgers University Press
Very Special Episodes explores various examples of the “very special episode” to chart the history of American television and its self-identified status as an arbiter of culture. Through the study of this unique television format, this anthology traces the history of television’s engagement with many of the most important political, aesthetic, economic, and social movements that continue to challenge our society today.
Very Special Episodes
Televising Industrial and Social Change
Edited by Jonathan Cohn and Jennifer Porst
Rutgers University Press
Very Special Episodes explores various examples of the “very special episode” to chart the history of American television and its self-identified status as an arbiter of culture. Through the study of this unique television format, this anthology traces the history of television’s engagement with many of the most important political, aesthetic, economic, and social movements that continue to challenge our society today.
Ties That Enable
Community Solidarity for People Living with Serious Mental Health Problems
By Teresa L. Scheid and S. Megan Smith
Rutgers University Press
Communities are the primary source of social solidarity, and given the diversity of communities, solutions to the problems faced by individuals living with severe mental health problems must start with community level initiatives. “Ties that Enable” examines the role of a faith-based community group in providing a sense of place and belonging as well as reinforcing a valued social identity.
The Reimagined PhD
Navigating 21st Century Humanities Education
Rutgers University Press
Long seen as proving grounds for professors, PhD programs have begun to shed this singular sense of mission. The Reimagined PhD normalizes the multiple career paths open to PhD students, while providing practical advice geared to help students, faculty, and administrators incorporate professional skills into graduate training, build career networks, and prepare PhDs for a range of careers.
Star Wars Multiverse
Rutgers University Press
Drawing from a full range of Star Wars media, including comics, television, children’s books, and fan films, Carmelo Esterrich explores how these stories set in a galaxy far far away reflect issues that hit closer to home on such topics as authoritarianism, colonialism, xenophobia, sexuality, and gender norms.
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.
U.S. Power in International Higher Education
Edited by Jenny J. Lee
Rutgers University Press
U.S. Power in International Higher Education demonstrates the advantage that the United States has in international higher education by presenting broad trends as well as in-depth accounts about how power is evident across a range of international activities.
U.S. Power in International Higher Education
Edited by Jenny J. Lee
Rutgers University Press
U.S. Power in International Higher Education demonstrates the advantage that the United States has in international higher education by presenting broad trends as well as in-depth accounts about how power is evident across a range of international activities.
The Red Thread
The Passaic Textile Strike
Rutgers University Press
This book tells the story of how the Passaic textile strike, the first time that the Communist Party led a mass workers’ struggle in the United States, captured the nation’s imagination, and came to symbolize the struggle of workers throughout the country when the labor movement as a whole was in decline during the conservative, pro-business 1920s. Although the strike was defeated, many of the methods and tactics of the Passaic strike presaged the struggles for industrial unions a decade later during the Great Depression.
The Philadelphia Irish
Nation, Culture, and the Rise of a Gaelic Public Sphere
Rutgers University Press
This monograph describes the flowering of the Irish American community and the 1890s growth of a Gaelic public sphere in Philadelphia, a movement inspired by the cultural awakening in native Ireland, transplanted in Philadelphia’s robust Irish community. The Philadelphia Irish embraced this export of cultural nationalism, reveled in Gaelic symbols, and endorsed the Gaelic language, political nationalism, Celtic paramilitarism, Gaelic sport and a broad ethnic culture.
The Cinema of Rithy Panh
Everything Has a Soul
Edited by Leslie Barnes and Joseph Mai
Rutgers University Press
The essays in this groundbreaking collection examine how celebrated Cambodian director Rithy Panh counters the abstraction of mass violence with a cinema anchored in the body, the physical trace, the direct testimony, and the living landscape. They explore his unique aesthetic sensibility, examining the dynamic and sensuous images through which he suggests that “everything has a soul.”
The Cinema of Rithy Panh
Everything Has a Soul
Edited by Leslie Barnes and Joseph Mai
Rutgers University Press
The essays in this groundbreaking collection examine how celebrated Cambodian director Rithy Panh counters the abstraction of mass violence with a cinema anchored in the body, the physical trace, the direct testimony, and the living landscape. They explore his unique aesthetic sensibility, examining the dynamic and sensuous images through which he suggests that “everything has a soul.”
Shades of Springsteen
Politics, Love, Sports, and Masculinity
By John Massaro
Rutgers University Press
In this unique blend of memoir and musical analysis, John Massaro focuses on five of Springsteen’s main themes: love, masculinity, sports, politics, and the power of music. He draws exciting connections between the Jersey rocker’s lyrics, his own life stories, and historical, literary, and musical figures ranging from James Joyce to Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Intimate Inequalities
Millennials' Romantic Relationships in Contemporary Times
Rutgers University Press
Though stereotypes abound, we know surprisingly little about how U.S. American millennials deal with social inequalities and differences in their private lives. Intimate Inequalities uses stories from millennials themselves to explore how they navigate gender, race, social class, sexuality, and age identities and expectations in their relationships.
Electric Mountains
Climate, Power, and Justice in an Energy Transition
Rutgers University Press
Electric Mountains examines opposition to wind energy in an environmentally progressive region. It contextualizes opposition within regional culture and political economy and uses environmental sociology to illuminate wind energy’s contested role in transitioning North America’s electricity grid away from fossil fuels.
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