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Intimate Geopolitics
Love, Territory, and the Future on India's Northern Threshold
By Sara Smith
Rutgers University Press
Intimate Geopolitics is the story of love and territory in the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in India’s Jammu and Kashmir State. This book takes on global processes of “demographic fever dreams,” which animate political movements, by understanding them in a deeply rooted local context and through the lives of ordinary people making decisions about love, babies, and the future.
Cultural Anxieties
Managing Migrant Suffering in France
Rutgers University Press
Cultural Anxieties is a compelling ethnography about Centre Minkowska, a transcultural psychiatry clinic in Paris, France. From her unique position as both observer and staff member, Stéphanie Larchanché explores the challenges of providing non-stigmatizing mental healthcare to migrants, and she identifies practical routes for improving caregiving practices.
Cinema '62
The Greatest Year at the Movies
Rutgers University Press
Challenging the common assumption that the early 1960s were a drab time for American film, this book makes the bold case that 1962 was a peak year for the movies, giving audiences a prime mix of adult, artistic, and uncompromising work from Hollywood veterans, hot young directors, and international auteurs.
A Mexican State of Mind
New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture
Rutgers University Press
A Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture is the story Mexican migrant creativity in New York City since 9/11 focusing on youth productions in hip hop, the arts and labor advocacy.
Citizen Power
A Citizen Leadership Manual Introducing the Art of No-Blame Problem Solving
Rutgers University Press
CITIZEN POWER gives all Americans the know how to become no-blame problem solvers and be part of what is emerging as a new model for a citizen driven national public service.
Hollywood Diplomacy
Film Regulation, Foreign Relations, and East Asian Representations
Rutgers University Press
While tracing both Hollywood’s internal foreign relations protocols and external regulatory interventions by the Chinese government, the U.S. State Department, the Office of War Information, and the Department of Defense, Hollywood Diplomacy contends that film regulation has played a key role in shaping images of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean ethnicities according to the political mandates of U.S. foreign policy.
Cleveland Jews and the Making of a Midwestern Community
Edited by Sean Martin and John J. Grabowski
Rutgers University Press
This volume gathers an array of voices to tell the stories of Cleveland’s twentieth century Jewish community. Strong and stable after an often turbulent century, the Jews of Cleveland had both deep ties in the region and an evolving and dynamic commitment to Jewish life.
Scarlet and Black, Volume Two
Constructing Race and Gender at Rutgers, 1865-1945
Rutgers University Press
Scarlet and Black, Volume Two continues the work of the Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Population in Rutgers History. This latest volume includes an introduction to the period from the end of the Civil War through WWII , a study of the first black students at Rutgers and New Brunswick Theological Seminary, and profiles of the earliest black women to matriculate at Douglass College.
Welcome to Wherever We Are
A Memoir of Family, Caregiving, and Redemption
Rutgers University Press
In this extraordinary memoir, Deborah Cohan shares her story of caring for her elderly father, a man who was often generous and loving, but who also subjected her to a lifetime of cruelty, rage, and controlling behavior. Trained as a sociologist and family violence counselor, Cohan reflects on how she healed from decades of emotional abuse.
The Great White Way
Race and the Broadway Musical
Rutgers University Press
The Great White Way reveals the racial politics, content, and subtexts that have haunted musicals for almost one hundred years from Show Boat (1927) to Hamilton (2015). It investigates the thematic content of the Broadway musical and considers how musicals work on a structural level, allowing them to simultaneously present and hide their racial agendas. New archival research will have theater fans and scholars forever rethinking how they view this popular American entertainment.
Rebuilding Jewish Life in Germany
Edited by Jay Howard Geller and Michael Meng
Rutgers University Press
Featuring essays by scholars of history, literature, television, and sociology, Rebuilding Jewish Life in Germany illuminates important aspects of Jewish life in Germany since 1949, including institution building, the internal dynamics and changing demographics of the Jewish community, and the central role of Jewish writers and public intellectuals.
Extraordinarily Ordinary
Us Weekly and the Rise of Reality Television Celebrity
Rutgers University Press
Extraordinarily Ordinary offers a critical analysis of the production of a distinct form of twenty-first century celebrity constructed through the exploding coverage of reality television cast members in Us Weekly magazine, unpacking the ways in which the magazine helped promote a broader intensification of discourses of ordinariness or “just being yourself” in the production of contemporary celebrity.
East of East
The Making of Greater El Monte
Rutgers University Press
East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte is an edited collection of thirty-one essays that trace the experience of a California community over three centuries. Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral history, and creative nonfiction, it provides a radical new history of El Monte and South El Monte.
East of East
The Making of Greater El Monte
Rutgers University Press
East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte is an edited collection of thirty-one essays that trace the experience of a California community over three centuries. Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral history, and creative nonfiction, it provides a radical new history of El Monte and South El Monte.
An Athletic Director’s Story and the Future of College Sports in America
Rutgers University Press
An Athletic Director’s Story is the story of Robert Mulcahy’s transforming decade as Rutgers University athletic director. His first-hand account describes the challenges awaiting him in 1998: To elevate the athletics program’s assets – coaches and staffs, student athletes, facilities, and school pride – from hardly known to national prominence and achievement in NCAA Division I sports.
After Authority
Global Art Cinema and Political Transition
By Kalling Heck
Rutgers University Press
After Authority contends that art cinema’s constitutive ambiguity is a product of its having been forged in and around moments of transition from authoritarianism or totalitarianism to democracy. Kalling Heck compares films from Italy, Hungary, South Korea, and the United States in order to explore the political potentials of ambiguity in art cinema.
Dialogues
Ilya Kabakov and Viktor Pivovarov, Stories about Ourselves
Edited by Ksenia Nouril
Rutgers University Press
This exhibition catalog brings together key works by Russian conceptualists Ilya Kabakov and Viktor Pivovarov, whose art depicted the absurdities of everyday life in the Soviet era. It not only includes nearly 100 pages of full-color illustrations, but also provides complete English translations of the texts that appear in the volume, plus new interviews with each artist. Published in partnership with the Zimmerli Museum.
Those Were the Days
Why All in the Family Still Matters
By Jim Cullen
Rutgers University Press
This is the first full-length study of All in the Family, a show that was remarkably popular even as it dared to address such taboo topics as rape, abortion, and racial prejudice. Through a close analysis of the sitcom’s main characters, Jim Cullen demonstrates how it was able to appeal to a broad spectrum of American viewers.
The Journey Before Us
First-Generation Pathways from Middle School to College
Rutgers University Press
Why is college completion so closely linked to social class? In The Journey Before Us, Laura Nichols looks at the experiences of aspiring first-generation college students from middle-school to young adulthood and shows what must change in order to improve college pathways and graduate more students.
The George Washington Bridge
Poetry in Steel
Rutgers University Press
Revised and expanded, Michael Rockland's rich narrative presents perspectives on the George Washington Bridge spanning history, architecture, engineering, transportation, design, the arts, politics, and even post-9/11 mentalities. This new edition brings new insight since its initial publication in 2008, including a new chapter on the infamous “Bridgegate” Chris Christie-era scandal of 2013.
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