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In Plenty and in Time of Need
Popular Culture and the Remapping of Barbadian Identity
Rutgers University Press
In Plenty and in Time of Need uses music and performance as sites of analysis for the competing ideals and realities of Barbadian national culture. The book demonstrates complex relations between national, gendered, and sexual identities in Barbados, and how these identities are represented and interpreted on a global stage.
Healthcare and Human Dignity
Law Matters
Rutgers University Press
The biases that permeate the American healthcare system are nearly invisible; invisible to all but those they handicap. In Healthcare and Human Dignity, law professor Frank McClellan recounts the experiences of some such individuals and highlights the importance of establishing a healthcare system that prioritizes human dignity.
Conditionally Accepted
Christians' Perspectives on Sexuality and Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights
Rutgers University Press
This book explores Mississippi Christians’ beliefs about homosexuality and gay and lesbian civil rights and whether having a gay or lesbian friend or family member influences those beliefs. Beliefs vary widely based on religious affiliation. Overall, conservative Christian identity overshadows the positive benefits of relationships with gay and lesbian friends or family.
Best Actress
The History of Oscar®-Winning Women
By Stephen Tapert; Foreword by Roxane Gay
Rutgers University Press
Showcasing a dazzling collection of 200 photographs, many of which have never before been seen, this lavishly illustrated book offers a captivating historical, social, and political examination of the first 75 women – from Janet Gaynor to Emma Stone – to have won the coveted and legendary Academy Award for Best Actress.
Irina Nakhova
Museum on the Edge
Edited by Jane A. Sharp and Julia Tulovsky
Rutgers University Press
Released in conjunction with Russian conceptual artist Irina Nakhova’s first museum retrospective exhibition in the United States, this book includes many full-color illustrations of her work—spanning the entirety of her forty-year career and demonstrating her facility with a variety of media—plus essays by world-renowned curators and an interview with the artist herself. Published in partnership with the Zimmerli Museum.
Music Is Power
Popular Songs, Social Justice, and the Will to Change
Rutgers University Press
Music Is Power takes us on a guided tour through the past 100 years of politically-conscious popular music, from Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie to Green Day and NWA. Covering a wide variety of genres, including reggae, country, metal, and soul, Brad Schreiber tells fascinating stories about the origins and impact of dozens of world-changing songs.
War Games
By Jonna Eagle
Rutgers University Press
Covering everything from chess to football, from Saving Private Ryan to American Sniper, and from Call of Duty to drone interfaces, War Games is an essential guide for anyone seeking to understand the militarization of American culture, offering a compact yet comprehensive look at how we play with images of war.
Reluctant Interveners
America's Failed Responses to Genocide from Bosnia to Darfur
By Eyal Mayroz
Rutgers University Press
Why do we allow our governments to get away with “bystanding” to genocide? Focusing on the relationships between citizens, political elites, and U.S. institutions in the most powerful nation in the world, Reluctant Interveners offers a sobering account of the interplays between values and interests, words and deeds, which transformed the pledge of “never again” to a recurring reality of ever again.
I Wonder U
How Prince Went beyond Race and Back
By Adilifu Nama
Rutgers University Press
I Wonder U examines the entirety of Prince’s diverse career as a singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, record label mogul, movie star, and director, revealing how he refused to be typecast by the music industry’s limiting definitions of masculinity and femininity, of straightness and queerness, or of black music and white music.
I Wonder U
How Prince Went beyond Race and Back
By Adilifu Nama
Rutgers University Press
I Wonder U examines the entirety of Prince’s diverse career as a singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, record label mogul, movie star, and director, revealing how he refused to be typecast by the music industry’s limiting definitions of masculinity and femininity, of straightness and queerness, or of black music and white music.
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