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Streetwalking
LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic
Rutgers University Press
In Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic, Lara draws on ethnographic encounters, interviews, films, and videos to discuss the specific strategies employed by LGBTQ community leaders in the Dominican Republic in the exercise of streetwalker subjectivities as those who actively transform silence - verbal, bodily, spiritual - into power.
Drag Queens and Beauty Queens
Contesting Femininity in the World's Playground
Rutgers University Press
Drag Queens and Beauty Queens compares two events that take place every year in Atlantic City: the Miss America pageant and the Miss’d America drag pageant. Examining how femininity is performed at each, it also describes Miss’d America’s ongoing importance to the local gay community from the AIDS crisis to the Rupaul’s Drag Race era.
Caribbean Migrations
The Legacies of Colonialism
Rutgers University Press
The Caribbean has long been a key area for empires warring over influence spheres, and where migration waves from Africa, Europe, and Asia accompanied every political transformation. In this volume, an interdisciplinary group of scholars studies the Caribbean’s “unincorporated subjects”, and explores how against all odds, Caribbean artists, filmmakers, and writers have been resourceful at showcasing migration as the hallmark of our modern age.
Bio-Imperialism
Disease, Terror, and the Construction of National Fragility
Rutgers University Press
Bio-Imperialism critiques an understudied dimension of the war on terror—US focus on bioterror and germ threats. The book examines the post-9/11 mobilization of bioscience and public health fields to this effort, alongside narratives of Arab/Muslim terror, US vulnerability, white femininity, techno-scientific progress, and pandemic preparedness. The book argues that the US significantly advanced its global control over biological, medical, and health resources during the war on terror.
Alternative Realities
Rutgers University Press
Alternative Realities explores how the distinctions between cinematic fantasy and filmic realism are more porous than we might think by examining the emotional realism of superhero movies like Wonder Woman, the trickery of virtual reality movies like The Matrix, and the ironic gestures of mockumentaries like This is Spinal Tap.
Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland
Memory, Kinship, and Personhood
Rutgers University Press
In Poland, active aging programs both take on meanings associated with the country’s transition from socialism to capitalism and exceed such narratives of progress by resonating with older forms of activity in late life. Through intimate portrayals of a wide range of experiences of aging, Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland shows how everyday practices and shared ideas about the Polish nation offer possibilities for living a valued, meaningful life in old age.
Acts of Repair
Justice, Truth, and the Politics of Memory in Argentina
Rutgers University Press
Acts of Repair explores how ordinary people grapple with decades of political violence and genocide in Argentina--a history that includes the Holocaust, the political repression of the 1976-1983 dictatorship, and the 1994 AMIA bombing.
Stanley Kubrick Produces
Rutgers University Press
Stanley Kubrick Produces examines Kubrick’s role as a producer. With the use of neglected archival sources, the book makes the case for how Kubrick’s centralizing of power in his role as a producer became a self-defeating strategy by the 1980s and 1990s, one that led him to struggle to move projects out of development and into active production.
Unsettling
Jews, Whiteness, and Incest in American Popular Culture
By Eli Bromberg
Rutgers University Press
Unsettling illustrates how Jewish community protective politics impacted representations of white male Jewish masculinity in the 1990s. By analyzing how artists and media told stories about Jewish celebrities and incest, Unsettling demonstrates how white Jewish men alleged of incestuous behavior became improbably sympathetic figures representing supposed white male vulnerability.
Through Japanese Eyes
Thirty Years of Studying Aging in America
By Yohko Tsuji
Rutgers University Press
Through Japanese Eyes offers an ethnography of aging in America from a cross-cultural perspective based on a lengthy period of research. It illustrates how older Americans cope with the gap between the ideal (e.g., independence) and the real (e.g., needing assistance) of growing older, and the changes the author observed over thirty years of research.
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