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Beyond the City and the Bridge
East Asian Immigration in a New Jersey Suburb
Rutgers University Press
In recent decades, the American suburbs have become an important site for immigrant settlement. Beyond the City and the Bridge presents a case study of Fort Lee, New Jersey, which today has one of the largest concentrations of East Asians of any suburb on the East Coast.
Toxic Ivory Towers
The Consequences of Work Stress on Underrepresented Minority Faculty
Rutgers University Press
Toxic Ivory Towers documents the realities of social and economic inequalities in the work-life experiences of underrepresented minority (URM) faculty in U.S. higher education. It takes a look at the institutional factors impacting the professional ability and health of URM faculty to be successful at their jobs, and to flourish in academia.
Insight Philadelphia
Historical Essays Illustrated
Rutgers University Press
Each of the nearly 100 essays in Insight Philadelphia tells a succinct, compelling, and little-known tale of the city’s past. Lavishly illustrated with archival images, these stories bring to life histories that range from quirky to tragic, and give readers fascinating new insights into the City of Brotherly Love.
The New Black Middle Class in the Twenty-First Century
By Bart Landry
Rutgers University Press
The New Black Middle Class in the Twenty-First Century is a continuing study of black middle class life. Landry examines the changes that have occurred since the publication of his now-classic The New Black Middle Class, and conducts a comprehensive examination of black middle class American life in the early decades of the twenty-first century.
Familiar Perversions
The Racial, Sexual, and Economic Politics of LGBT Families
Rutgers University Press
Familiar Perversions evaluates the many successes of the family equality movement, while asking important questions about its place within neoliberalism, racial inequality, and the policing of sexual cultures. Liz Montegary investigates how queer family politics might strengthen the diverse networks of kinship, intimacy, and care on which people depend.
Village of Immigrants
Latinos in an Emerging America
Rutgers University Press
A timely contribution to the national dialogue on immigration, Village of Immigrants illustrates the revitalization of American small towns by waves of immigrants no longer settling in big coastal cities. The book documents the contributions the Hispanic immigrants have made to the life of Greenport, New York, even as it explores the dark realities that shape the immigrant experience.
Hoodlum Movies
Seriality and the Outlaw Biker Film Cycle, 1966-1972
Rutgers University Press
Hoodlum Movies focuses on why and how these films were made, who they were made for, and how the cycle developed through the second half of the 1960s. Despised by critics, but welcomed by exhibitors denied first-run films, these cheaply and quickly produced movies were produced to appeal to audiences of mobile youths until 1972.
Turning the Page
Storytelling as Activism in Queer Film and Media
Rutgers University Press
Turning the Page introduces readers to three nonprofit organizations that have each positively transformed the queer media landscape, helping to produce and distribute authentic stories while nurturing the next generation of LGBTQ filmmakers. It demonstrates how this queer media has the potential to empower individuals, strengthen communities, and motivate social justice activism.
Landscapes of Activism
Civil Society, HIV and AIDS Care in Northern Mozambique
Rutgers University Press
AIDS activists are often romanticized as extremely noble and selfless. However, the relationships among HIV support group members highlighted in Landscapes of Activism are hardly utopian or ideal. Reed shows that in Africa, superimposing a Western idea of what activism should look like actually hampers the success of these groups.
Constituting Central American–Americans
Transnational Identities and the Politics of Dislocation
Rutgers University Press
Central Americans are the third largest and fastest growing Latino population in the United States. And yet, despite their demographic presence, there has been little scholarship focused on this group. Constituting Central American-Americans is an exploration of the historical and disciplinary conditions that have structured U.S. Central American identity.
Querying Consent
Beyond Permission and Refusal
Rutgers University Press
Querying Consent examines the ways in which the concept of consent is used to map and regulate sexual desire, gender relationships, global positions, technological interfaces, relationships of production and consumption, and literary and artistic interactions. From philosophy to literature, psychoanalysis to the art world, the contributors address the most uncomfortable questions about consent today.
Cultures of War in Graphic Novels
Violence, Trauma, and Memory
Edited by Tatiana Prorokova and Nimrod Tal
Rutgers University Press
Cultures of War in Graphic Novels examines the representation of small-scale and often less acknowledged conflicts from around the world and throughout history in graphic novels. The book explores the multi-layered relation between the graphic novel as a popular medium and war as a pivotal recurring experience in human history.
Transforming Contagion
Risky Contacts among Bodies, Disciplines, and Nations
Rutgers University Press
Moving from viruses, vaccines, and copycat murder to gay panics, xenophobia, and psychopaths, Transforming Contagion energetically fuses critical humanities and social science perspectives into a boundary-smashing interdisciplinary collection on contagion. The contributors provocatively expose contagion to be as full of possibilities for revolution and resistance as it is for the descent into madness, malice, and extensive state control.
Transforming Contagion
Risky Contacts among Bodies, Disciplines, and Nations
Rutgers University Press
Moving from viruses, vaccines, and copycat murder to gay panics, xenophobia, and psychopaths, Transforming Contagion energetically fuses critical humanities and social science perspectives into a boundary-smashing interdisciplinary collection on contagion. The contributors provocatively expose contagion to be as full of possibilities for revolution and resistance as it is for the descent into madness, malice, and extensive state control.
Visual Encounters in the Study of Rural Childhoods
Rutgers University Press
Visual Encounters in the Study of Rural Childhoods brings together visual studies and childhood studies to explore images of childhood in the study rurality and rural life. The volume highlights how the voices of children themselves remain central to investigations of rural childhoods and rural life.
Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil
Black Women's Perspectives on Love, Respect, and Kinship
Rutgers University Press
This book explores rural, working-class, black Brazilian women’s perceptions and experiences of courtship, marriage and divorce. In this book, women’s narratives of marriage dissolution demonstrate the ways in which changing gender roles and marriage expectations associated with modernization and globalization influence the intimate lives and the health and well being of women in Northeast Brazil.
Tough Ain't Enough
New Perspectives on the Films of Clint Eastwood
Edited by Lester D. Friedman and David Desser
Rutgers University Press
Clint Eastwood has appeared in virtually every major film genre and, at this late point in his career, has emerged as one of America’s most popular and respected—though controversial—filmmakers. Tough Ain’t Enough offers readers a series of original essays by prominent cinema scholars who explore the actor-director’s extensive career.
Tough Ain't Enough
New Perspectives on the Films of Clint Eastwood
Edited by Lester D. Friedman and David Desser
Rutgers University Press
Clint Eastwood has appeared in virtually every major film genre and, at this late point in his career, has emerged as one of America’s most popular and respected—though controversial—filmmakers. Tough Ain’t Enough offers readers a series of original essays by prominent cinema scholars who explore the actor-director’s extensive career.
Soundies Jukebox Films and the Shift to Small-Screen Culture
Rutgers University Press
This is the first and only book to position what are called “Soundies” within the broader cultural and technological milieu of the 1940s. Examining the dynamics between Soundies’ short musical films, the Panoram’s film-jukebox technology, their screening spaces and their popular discourse, Kelley provides an integrative approach to historic media exhibition.
Forever Suspect
Racialized Surveillance of Muslim Americans in the War on Terror
By Saher Selod
Rutgers University Press
Saher Selod shows how a specific American religious identity has acquired racial meanings, resulting in the hyper surveillance of Muslim citizens. Drawing on in-depth interviews with South Asian and Arab Muslim Americans, she investigates how Muslim Americans are subjected to racialized surveillance in both an institutional and social context.
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