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Incorrigibles and Innocents
Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Comics
Rutgers University Press
Drawing from and building on histories and theories of childhood, comics, and Progressive Era conceptualizations of citizenship and nationhood, Lara Saguisag demonstrates that child characters in turn-of-the-century comic strips expressed and complicated contemporary notions of who had the right to claim membership in a modernizing, expanding nation.
The Patagonian Sublime
The Green Economy and Post-Neoliberal Politics
Rutgers University Press
The Patagonian Sublime provides a vivid and cutting-edge investigation of the green economy and New Left politics in Argentina. Based on extensive field research in Glaciers National Park and the mountain village of El Chaltén, Marcos Mendoza deftly examines the diverse social worlds of the many actors involved in the green economy.
Black New Jersey
1664 to the Present Day
Rutgers University Press
Black New Jersey brings to life generations of courageous men and women who fought for freedom during slavery days and later battled racial discrimination. Extensively researched, it shines a light on New Jersey’s unique African American history and reveals how the state’s black citizens helped to shape the nation.
Junctures in Women's Leadership: The Arts
By Judith K. Brodsky and Ferris Olin
Rutgers University Press
Brodsky and Olin profile female leaders in music, theater, dance, and visual art. The diverse women included in this volume have made their mark as arts leaders by serving as executives or founders of art organizations, by working as activists to support the arts, or by challenging stereotypes about women in the arts.
Pan–African American Literature
Signifyin(g) Immigrants in the Twenty-First Century
By Stephanie Li
Rutgers University Press
Pan-African American Literature charts the contours of literature by African born or identified authors centered around life in the United States. The texts examined here deliberately signify on the African American literary canon to encompass new experiences of immigration, assimilation and identification that challenge how blackness has been previously conceived.
The Grind
Black Women and Survival in the Inner City
Rutgers University Press
Few scholars have explored the collective experiences of women living in the inner city. The Grind illustrates the lived experiences of poor African American women and the creative strategies they develop to manage these events and survive in a community commonly exposed to violence.
Adventures in Shondaland
Identity Politics and the Power of Representation
Edited by Rachel Alicia Griffin and Michaela D.E. Meyer
Rutgers University Press
Shonda Rhimes is one of the most powerful players in contemporary American network television. Adventures in Shondaland critically explores Shonda Rhimes’s meteoric rise to stardom, her reign (or cultural appointment) as television’s diversity queen, and Shondaland’s almost-universally lauded melodramatic narratives.
Women of Valor
Orthodox Jewish Troll Fighters, Crime Writers, and Rock Stars in Contemporary Literature and Culture
Rutgers University Press
Media portrayals of Orthodox Jewish women frequently depict powerless, silent individuals who are at best naive to live an Orthodox lifestyle, and who are at worst, coerced into it. Skinazi delves beyond this stereotype to identify a powerful tradition of Jewish women's feminist portrayals of Orthodox women in literature, film, and music.
Schooling, Democracy, and the Quest for Wisdom
Partnerships and the Moral Dimensions of Teaching
Rutgers University Press
A tremendous amount of energy has been expended by organizations to coordinate “partner schools” for teacher education. Bullough and Rosenberg examine the concept of partnering through various lenses and they address what they think are the major issues that need to be, but rarely are, discussed by thousands of educators.
The Remembered and Forgotten Jewish World
Jewish Heritage in Europe and the United States
Rutgers University Press
Part travelogue, part social history, and part family saga, this book investigates the politics of heritage tourism and collective memory. Acclaimed historian Daniel J. Walkowitz visits key Jewish heritage sites from Berlin to Belgrade to Warsaw to New York to discover which stories of the Jewish experience get told and which get silenced.
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