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Black Space

Negotiating Race, Diversity, and Belonging in the Ivory Tower

By Sherry L. Deckman

Rutgers University Press

Protests against systemic racism have swept across elite colleges and universities, raising questions about what it means for Black students to belong on these campuses. Sherry L. Deckman takes us into the lives of students in the Kuumba Singers, a Black student organization with racially diverse members and a self-proclaimed safe space for anyone but particularly Black students, as a case study in exploring race, diversity, and safe space.

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Residues

Thinking Through Chemical Environments

By Soraya Boudia, Angela N. H. Creager, Scott Frickel, Emmanuel Henry, Nathalie Jas, Carsten Reinhardt, and Jody A. Roberts

Rutgers University Press

Residues offers readers a new approach for conceptualizing the environmental impacts of chemicals production, consumption, disposal, and regulation. With detailed stories that span the globe, we introduce “residual materialism” as a way to track the, often invisible, impacts of chemicals through time and space and for explaining their world-making powers.

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Screen Decades Complete 12 Volume Set

Edited by Murray Pomerance and Lester D. Friedman

Rutgers University Press

The Screen Decades: American Culture/American Cinema series is now available as an twelve-volume set: American Cinema from the 1890s to the 2010s. Each volume presents a group of original essays analyzing the impact of cultural issues on the cinema and the impact of the cinema on society. Every chapter explores a spectrum of particularly significant motion pictures and the broad range of historical events to provide a continuing sense of the decade as it came to be depicted on movie screens across the nation.

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Painting in Excess

Kyiv's Art Revival, 1985-1993

Edited by Olena Martynyuk

Rutgers University Press

The upheavals of glasnost and perestroika followed by the collapse of the Soviet Union remarkably transformed the art scene in Kyiv, launching Ukrainian contemporary art as a global phenomenon. This exhibition catalogue traces and documents the diverse artistic manifestations of these transitional and exhilarating years while providing historical artworks for context.

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Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships

Housing, Memory, and Daily Life in Haiti

By Vincent Joos

Rutgers University Press

Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships explores the failed international reconstruction of Port-au-Prince after the devastating 2010 earthquake. It describes how, in the meantime, people from various backgrounds use, transform, and create vibrant urban spaces and economies that enable them to rebuild their lives. By exploring how the state, international organizations, and everyday people transform the environment,the book reflects on the possibilities of dwelling in post-disaster landscapes.

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The Politics of International Marriage in Japan

By Viktoriya Kim, Nelia G. Balgoa, and Beverley Anne Yamamoto

Rutgers University Press

Focusing on three cultural/ethnic groups in terms of empirical data - women from the former Soviet Union countries, the Philippines, and Western countries - this book highlights the complex interplay between national, cultural, gender, and ethnicity boundary maintenance that constructs international marriages in Japan at multiple levels, providing a comprehensive account of international marriage in the contemporary Japanese context.

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The Marion Thompson Wright Reader

Edited and with a Biographical Introduction by Graham Russell Gao Hodges

Edited by Graham Russell Gao Hodges

Rutgers University Press

In The Marion Thompson Wright Reader, acclaimed historian Graham Russell Hodges provides a scholarly, accessible introduction to a modern edition of Marion Thompson Wright’s classic book, The Education of Negroes in New Jersey and to her full body of scholarly work. Thompson’s work and her life are highly significant to the history of New Jersey, African Americans, women’s, and education history. Drawing upon Wright's work, existing scholarship, and new archival research, this new landmark scholarly edition, which includes an all-new biography of this pioneering scholar, underscores the continued relevance of Marion Thompson Wright.

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The Life and Comics of Howard Cruse

Taking Risks in the Service of Truth

By Andrew J. Kunka

Rutgers University Press

This book tells the remarkable story of how a preacher’s kid from Birmingham, Alabama became the so-called “Godfather of Gay Comics.” Lavishly illustrated with a broad selection of comics from Howard Cruse’s fifty-year career, this study showcases his critical role as a satirist and commentator on his times.

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The Great Disappearing Act

Germans in New York City, 1880-1930

By Christina A. Ziegler-McPherson

Rutgers University Press

Where did all the Germans go? How does a community of several hundred thousand people become invisible within a generation? This study examines these questions in relation to the German immigrant community in New York City between 1880-1930, and seeks to understand how German-American New Yorkers assimilated into the larger American society in the early twentieth century.

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Intimate Connections

Love and Marriage in Pakistan’s High Mountains

By Anna-Maria Walter

Rutgers University Press

Intimate Connections dissects changing ideas, feelings, and practices around love, marriage, and respectability in the remote high mountains of northern Pakistan. It offers deep insights into the affective lives of local Shia women, gender practices, and young couples’ mobile phone relationships in South Asia as well as in the wider Muslim world.

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