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Challenges of Diversity
Essays on America
Rutgers University Press
What unites and what divides Americans as a nation? Opening with a survey of American literature through the vantage point of ethnicity, Werner Sollors examines the changing self-understanding of the United States from an Anglo-American to a multicultural country and the role writing has played in that process.
Food Across Borders
Rutgers University Press
The act of eating defines and redefines borders. The stories told in Food Across Borders highlight the contiguity between the intimate decisions we make as individuals concerning what we eat and the social and geopolitical processes we enact to secure nourishment, territory, and belonging.
Food Across Borders
Rutgers University Press
The act of eating defines and redefines borders. The stories told in Food Across Borders highlight the contiguity between the intimate decisions we make as individuals concerning what we eat and the social and geopolitical processes we enact to secure nourishment, territory, and belonging.
Voices of Mental Health
Medicine, Politics, and American Culture, 1970-2000
Rutgers University Press
Halliwell examines the cultural history of modern American medicine and psychiatry focusing on the late twentieth century. He pays particular attention to the politics of the post-Watergate, bicentennial-era American nation and brings into conversation a diverse cast of writers, filmmakers, physicians, policy-makers, social critics, and public figures.
Making Whole What Has Been Smashed
On Reparations Politics
By John Torpey
Rutgers University Press
Exploring recent political efforts to rectify injustices handed down from the past, John Torpey argues that there are major differences between reparations for the living victims of past wrongdoing and reparations for the descendants of such victims. This reprint edition contains a new preface by the author.
Blood on Their Hands
How Greedy Companies, Inept Bureaucracy, and Bad Science Killed Thousands of Hemophiliacs
By Eric Weinberg and Donna Shaw
Rutgers University Press
By the mid-1980s, over half the hemophiliacs in the United States had become infected with HIV. Blood on Their Hands reveals the toxic combination of corporate greed, governmental complacency, and medical negligence that exacerbated this public health disaster.
Sovereign Acts
Performing Race, Space, and Belonging in Panama and the Canal Zone
Rutgers University Press
Sovereign Acts explores how artists, activists, and audiences performed and interpreted sovereignty struggles in the Panama Canal Zone over the last century. By demonstrating the place of performance in the legal landscape of U.S. Empire, Zien transforms our understanding of U.S. imperialism in the Panama Canal Zone and the Caribbean.
When Women Rule the Court
Gender, Race, and Japanese American Basketball
Rutgers University Press
In When Women Rule the Court, Nicole Willms tells the story of women who became Asian American sport icons by tracing their beginnings in the Japanese American basketball leagues of California. Using data from interviews and observations, Willms explores the interplay of social forces and community dynamics that have shaped this unique context of female athletic empowerment.
Textual Silence
Unreadability and the Holocaust
By Jessica Lang
Rutgers University Press
In Textual Silence, literary scholar Jessica Lang asserts that language itself forms barriers between the author and the reader in Holocaust texts—and that these barriers, or silences, are not a lack of substance, but an essential characteristic of the genre.
Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People
Rutgers University Press
In Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People, award-winning writer and cultural critic Margaret Morganroth Gullette raises urgent legal, economic, educational, esthetic, and ethical issues to show why anti-ageism should be the next social movement of our time.
Dwelling in Resistance
Living with Alternative Technologies in America
Rutgers University Press
Chelsea Schelly uses ethnographic research, participant observation, and numerous in-depth interviews to examine four alternative U.S. communities where individuals use electricity, water, heat, waste, food, and transportation technologies that differ markedly from those used by the vast majority of modern American residential dwellers.
Imperial Affects
Sensational Melodrama and the Attractions of American Cinema
By Jonna Eagle
Rutgers University Press
Imperial Affects is the first sustained account of American action-based cinema as melodrama. From the earliest war films through the Hollywood Western and the late-century action cinema, imperialist violence and mobility have been produced as sites of both visceral pleasure and moral virtue.
Killing Poetry
Blackness and the Making of Slam and Spoken Word Communities
Rutgers University Press
Killing Poetry examines the performance of race as it relates to gender, sexuality, and class in the spoken word communities of Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York. Javon Johnson, a renowned slam poet himself, focuses on how slam poets navigate the diverse poetry scenes in which they perform, as part of the larger world they encounter as Black Americans.
Making Believe
Screen Performance and Special Effects in Popular Cinema
By Lisa Bode
Rutgers University Press
With the rise of digital effects in cinema the human performer is increasingly the only “real” element on screen. Making Believe sheds new light on screen performance by historicizing it within the context of visual and special effects cinema and technological change in filmmaking, through the silent, early sound, and current digital eras.
Red and Yellow, Black and Brown
Decentering Whiteness in Mixed Race Studies
Rutgers University Press
This book gathers together life stories and analysis by twelve contributors who express and seek to understand the often very different dynamics that exist for mixed race people who are not part white. Chapters focus on the social, psychological, and political issues and identities for people who are in dual or multiple minority situations.
Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat
The Origins of School Lunch in the United States
Rutgers University Press
Historian A. R. Ruis explores the origins of American school meal initiatives to explain why it has been so difficult to establish meal programs that satisfy the often competing interests of children, parents, schools, health authorities, politicians, and the food industry.
Addicted to Rehab
Race, Gender, and Drugs in the Era of Mass Incarceration
Rutgers University Press
Sociologist Allison McKim gives an in-depth and innovative ethnographic account of two women’s rehab programs, one located in the criminal justice system and one located in the private healthcare system—two very different ways of defining and treating addiction. Her study ultimately reveals a two-tiered system, bifurcated by race and class.
Youth in Postwar Guatemala
Education and Civic Identity in Transition
Rutgers University Press
Through rich ethnographic accounts, Youth in Postwar Guatemala, traces youth experiences in schools, homes, and communities, examining how knowledge and attitudes toward historical injustice develop through formal and informal educational interactions. Michelle J. Bellino shows how a new generation struggles to unlearn authoritarianism and develop new democratic civic identities.
In Lady Liberty's Shadow
The Politics of Race and Immigration in New Jersey
Rutgers University Press
Robyn Magalit Rodriguez explores the impact of anti-immigrant municipal ordinances on a range of immigrant groups living in different types of suburban communities. Although it is a case study of New Jersey, In Lady Liberty’s Shadow offers crucial insights that can shed fresh light on the national immigration debate.
Haiti and the Uses of America
Post-U.S. Occupation Promises
Rutgers University Press
Contrary to popular notions, Haiti-U.S. relations have not only been about Haitian resistance to U.S. domination. In Haiti and the Uses of America, Chantalle F. Verna makes evident that there have been key moments of cooperation that contributed to nation-building in both countries.
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