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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.