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Haiti Fights Back
The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte
Rutgers University Press
Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte is the first US study of the politician and caco leader (guerrilla fighter) who fought against the US occupation of Haiti from 1915-1934. Alexis locates rare multilingual sources from both nations and documents Péralte’s political movement and citizens’ protests. The interdisciplinary work offers a new approach to studies of the US invasion period by documenting how Caribbean people fought back.
Dying to Count
Post-Abortion Care and Global Reproductive Health Politics in Senegal
By Siri Suh
Rutgers University Press
Dying to Count explores how national and global population politics collide in Senegalese hospitals as health workers treat and document women who present with complications of abortion. Siri Suh’s ethnography illustrates political, economic, professional, and technological factors that jeopardize quality of and access to obstetric care in public hospitals despite national and global commitments to reproductive health.
Dreams of Archives Unfolded
Absence and Caribbean Life Writing
Rutgers University Press
Dreams of Archives Unfolded: Absence and Caribbean Life Writing makes a significant contribution to studies of Caribbean literature by demonstrating that women’s autobiographical narratives published in the past twenty years are feminist epistemological projects that rework Caribbean studies’ longstanding commitment to creating counter-archives.
Bollywood’s New Woman
Liberalization, Liberation, and Contested Bodies
Edited by Megha Anwer and Anupama Arora
Rutgers University Press
Bollywood’s New Woman examines the cinematic representations of the New Indian Woman in post-1990s Bollywood. The essays in this book explore the various dimensions and many avatars of this elusive and eternally transmuting figure that dominates post-liberalization popular Hindi cinema.
Scarlet and Black, Volume Three
Making Black Lives Matter at Rutgers, 1945-2020
Rutgers University Press
The 250th anniversary of the founding of Rutgers University is a perfect moment for the Rutgers community to reconcile its past, and acknowledge its role in the enslavement and debasement of African Americans and the disfranchisement and elimination of Native American people and culture.
Scarlet and Black (3 volume set)
Rutgers University Press
The 250th anniversary of the founding of Rutgers University is a perfect moment for the Rutgers community to reconcile its past, and acknowledge its role in the enslavement and debasement of African Americans and the disfranchisement and elimination of Native American people and culture.
Scarlet and Black documents the history of Rutgers’s connection to slavery, which was neither casual nor accidental—nor unusual. Like most early American colleges, Rutgers depended on slaves to build its campuses and serve its students and faculty; it depended on the sale of black people to fund its very existence.
Scarlet and Black documents the history of Rutgers’s connection to slavery, which was neither casual nor accidental—nor unusual. Like most early American colleges, Rutgers depended on slaves to build its campuses and serve its students and faculty; it depended on the sale of black people to fund its very existence.
A COVID Charter, A Better World
By Toby Miller
Rutgers University Press
Using the examples of how the U.S., Britain, Mexico, and Colombia have responded to the COVID-19 crisis, Toby Miller investigates corporate, scientific, and governmental decision-making and their effects on disadvantaged local communities. He proposes a COVID charter calling for a new world, placing human lives above corporate profits.
Folk Stories from the Hills of Puerto Rico / Cuentos folklóricos de las montañas de Puerto Rico
Edited by Rafael Ocasio
Rutgers University Press
This exciting new bilingual anthology gathers Puerto Rican folktales that were passed down orally for generations before being transcribed beginning in 1914 by the team of famous anthropologist Franz Boas. It includes stories about historical figures like pirate Roberto Cofresí, unique twists on “Snow White” and “Cinderella,” and beloved local characters like the kind cockroach Cucarachita Martina.
Esta nueva y emocionante antología bilingüe reúne cuentos populares puertorriqueños que se transmitieron oralmente durante generaciones antes de ser transcritos comenzando en 1914 por el equipo del famoso antropólogo Franz Boas. La colección incluye historias sobre personajes históricos como el pirata Roberto Cofresí, versiones criollas de “Blanca Nieves” y “Cenicienta” y otros queridos personajes locales como la amable cucaracha Cucarachita Martina.
Esta nueva y emocionante antología bilingüe reúne cuentos populares puertorriqueños que se transmitieron oralmente durante generaciones antes de ser transcritos comenzando en 1914 por el equipo del famoso antropólogo Franz Boas. La colección incluye historias sobre personajes históricos como el pirata Roberto Cofresí, versiones criollas de “Blanca Nieves” y “Cenicienta” y otros queridos personajes locales como la amable cucaracha Cucarachita Martina.
The Street
A Photographic Field Guide to American Inequality
Rutgers University Press
Using MacArthur fellow Camilo José Vergara’s intimate street photographs of Camden, New Jersey as reference points, the essays in this collection address everything from law enforcement to health care in order to analyze these images within the context of troubled histories and misguided policies that have exacerbated racial and economic inequalities.
The Latinx Files
Race, Migration, and Space Aliens
By Matthew David Goodwin; Foreword by Frederick Luis Aldama
Rutgers University Press
The Latinx Files: Race, Migration, and Space Aliens traces how Latinx science fiction writers are reclaiming the space alien from its xenophobic legacy in science fiction. It argues that the space alien is a vital Latinx figure preserving Latinx cultures by activating the myriad possible constructions of the space alien to represent race and migration.
Playing with History
American Identities and Children’s Consumer Culture
By Molly Rosner
Rutgers University Press
Examining cultural products geared towards teaching children American cultural identity, Playing With History highlights the changes and constancies in depictions of American identity since the advent of modern consumer society. The book examines political and ideological messages sold to children throughout the twentieth century through toys, dolls, books, and amusement parks.
Pink and Blue
Gender, Culture, and the Health of Children
Rutgers University Press
In modern pediatric practice, gender matters. This volume seeks to understand the dialectical relationship between gender and the medical care of children by combining a historical perspective on gender and pediatrics with analyses of current debates and controversies in pediatric practice such as pediatric transgender medicine, HPV, neonatal intensive care, and more.
Marriage, Gender and Refugee Migration
Spousal Relationships among Somali Muslims in the United Kingdom
Rutgers University Press
This ethical and poetical ethnography analyzes the upheavals to gender roles and marital relationships brought about by refugee migration to the UK. Unmoored from the socio-cultural norms that made them men and women, Somali migrants find "everything" to be "different, mixed up, upside down." The book finds that the most significant catalysts for challenging harmful gender practices are a combination of the welfare system and Islamic praxis.
Life in a Cambodian Orphanage
A Childhood Journey for New Opportunities
Rutgers University Press
Combining detailed observations of children's daily life in a Cambodian orphanage with follow-up interviews of the same children after they have grown and left, this book shows how orphanages can be configured to meet children's developmental needs, providing evidence that they are not always bleak sites of deprivation and despair.
Branding Brazil
Transforming Citizenship on Screen
Rutgers University Press
Branding Brazil examines a panorama of contemporary cultural productions including film, television, photography, and alternative media to explore the transformation of citizenship in Brazil. The book takes a multi-faceted approach, weaving media studies with politics and cinema studies to reveal that more than a marketing term or project emanating from the state, branding was a cultural phenomenon.
Back to the Roots
Memory, Inequality, and Urban Agriculture
By Sara Shostak
Rutgers University Press
Urban agriculture has become a critical domain for explorations of, and challenges to, the long standing and systemic inequalities that shape cities, neighborhoods, and the lives and life chances of their residents. Back to the Roots describes how urban farmers and gardeners reckon with the cultural meanings and material legacies of the past as they seek to create more just and equitable futures.
American Hotel
The Waldorf-Astoria and the Making of a Century
Rutgers University Press
David Freeland explores how the Waldorf-Astoria hotel became an internationally recognized symbol of elegance and luxury while playing an essential role in New York’s rise as a world capital. Featuring such famous guests as Frank Sinatra, Martin Luther King, and Eleanor Roosevelt, the book examines how the hotel dealt with challenges like Prohibition, the Red Scare, and battles over social equality.
All My Friends Live in My Computer
Trauma, Tactical Media, and Meaning
Rutgers University Press
All My Friends Live in my Computer combines personal stories, media studies, and interdisciplinary theories to examine case studies from unique segments of society. When people are traumatized, their worlds stop making sense, and this book explores how everyday people use social media to try and make a new world for themselves and others who are suffering.
Securitizing Youth
Young People’s Roles in the Global Peace and Security Agenda
Edited by Marisa O. Ensor
Rutgers University Press
Securitizing Youth offers new insights on young people’s engagement in a wide range of contexts related to the peace and security field. It examines the challenges and opportunities faced by young women and men in their efforts to build more peaceful, inclusive, and environmentally secure societies.
Securitizing Youth
Young People's Roles in the Global Peace and Security Agenda
Edited by Marisa O. Ensor
Rutgers University Press
Securitizing Youth offers new insights on young people’s engagement in a wide range of contexts related to the peace and security field. It examines the challenges and opportunities faced by young women and men in their efforts to build more peaceful, inclusive, and environmentally secure societies.
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