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Looking for America on the New Jersey Turnpike, Second Edition

Looking for America on the New Jersey Turnpike, Second Edition

By Angus Kress Gillespie and Michael Aaron Rockland
Rutgers University Press

This classic work reveals the fascinating history, iconography, and people behind the twelve-lane behemoth we call the New Jersey Turnpike. Now a special updated and expanded edition examines how the road has changed in the past thirty-five years yet still epitomizes America at its very best and very worst. 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Laboring in the Shadow of Empire

Laboring in the Shadow of Empire

Race, Gender, and Care Work in Portugal

By Celeste Vaughan Curington
Rutgers University Press

Laboring in the Shadow of Empire: Race, Gender and Care Work in Portugal examines the everyday lives of an African descendant care service workforce that labors in an ostensibly “anti-racial” Europe and against the backdrop of the Portuguese colonial empire. While much of the literature on global care work has focused on Asian and Latine migrant care workers, there is comparatively less research that explicitly examines African care workers and their migration histories to Europe. Sociologist Celeste V. Curington focuses on Portugal—a European setting with comparatively liberal policies around family settlement and naturalization for migrants. In this setting, rapid urbanization in the late twentieth century, along with a national push to reconcile work and family, have shaped the growth of paid home care and cleaning service industries.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Isle of Rum

Isle of Rum

Havana Club, Cultural Mediation, and the Fight for Cuban Authenticity

By Christopher Chávez
Rutgers University Press

Focusing on Havana Club rum as a case study, Isle of Rum examines the ways in which western cultural producers, working in collaboration with the Cuban state, have assumed responsibility for representing Cuba to the outside world. Christopher Chávez focuses specifically on the role of advertising practitioners, musicians, filmmakers, and visual artists, who stand to benefit economically by selling an image of Cuba to consumers who desperately crave authentic experiences that exist outside of the purview of the marketplace.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Decentering Epistemologies and Challenging Privilege

Decentering Epistemologies and Challenging Privilege

Critical Care Ethics Perspectives

Edited by Sophie Bourgault, Maggie FitzGerald, and Fiona Robinson
Rutgers University Press

This book discusses the ways care ethics contributes to the decentering of dominant epistemologies and to the challenging of privilege, and considers how to decenter care ethics itself via an encounter with non-Western philosophical traditions and alternative epistemologies. Written by scholars from different countries, disciplines and intellectual traditions, the volume offers original care ethics contributions on epistemic injustice, privileged irresponsibility, ecofeminism, settler colonialism, social movements such as BLM, and on various racialized and gendered inequities tied to care work.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Decentering Epistemologies and Challenging Privilege

Decentering Epistemologies and Challenging Privilege

Critical Care Ethics Perspectives

Edited by Sophie Bourgault, Maggie FitzGerald, and Fiona Robinson
Rutgers University Press

This book discusses the ways care ethics contributes to the decentering of dominant epistemologies and to the challenging of privilege, and considers how to decenter care ethics itself via an encounter with non-Western philosophical traditions and alternative epistemologies. Written by scholars from different countries, disciplines and intellectual traditions, the volume offers original care ethics contributions on epistemic injustice, privileged irresponsibility, ecofeminism, settler colonialism, social movements such as BLM, and on various racialized and gendered inequities tied to care work.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Blessings Beyond the Binary

Blessings Beyond the Binary

Transparent and the Queer Jewish Family

Edited by Nora Rubel and Brett Krutzsch
Rutgers University Press

Blessings Beyond the Binary: Transparent and the Queer Jewish Family brings together leading scholars to analyze and offer commentary on the groundbreaking streaming series Transparent. The book explores the show’s depiction of Jewish life, religion, and history, as well as Transparent’s scandals, criticisms, and how it fits and diverges from today’s transgender and queer politics. 

 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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My Race Is My Gender

My Race Is My Gender

Portraits of Nonbinary People of Color

Edited by Stephanie Hsu and Ka-Man Tse
Rutgers University Press

My Race is My Gender is the first anthology by nonbinary writers of color to include photography and visual portraits, centering their everyday experiences of negotiating intersectional identities. Bringing together Black, Indigenous, Latine, and Asian perspectives, its six contributors share their personal stories of working for racial justice and the recognition of queer gender identities. 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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My Race Is My Gender

My Race Is My Gender

Portraits of Nonbinary People of Color

Edited by Stephanie Hsu and Ka-Man Tse
Rutgers University Press

My Race is My Gender is the first anthology by nonbinary writers of color to include photography and visual portraits, centering their everyday experiences of negotiating intersectional identities. Bringing together Black, Indigenous, Latine, and Asian perspectives, its six contributors share their personal stories of working for racial justice and the recognition of queer gender identities. 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Locker Room Talk

Locker Room Talk

A Woman’s Struggle to Get Inside

By Melissa Ludtke
Rutgers University Press

Melissa Ludtke offers a compelling account of her courtroom quest to do what her male sportswriter colleagues took for granted: to talk with players in Major League Baseball’s locker rooms. She reveals how, as a 26-year-old woman, she took MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn to federal court—and won. 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Alien Soil

Oral Histories of Great Migration Newark

By Katie Singer
Rutgers University Press

Alien Soil: Oral Histories of Great Migration Newark looks at Newark, New Jersey’s once proposed Krueger-Scott African-American Cultural Center and the oral history collection generated to be a part of the Center. The narrators in this oral history collection recount their lives in Newark, painting pictures of everyday urbanity while also providing insight into 20th century Black urban life more generally.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Georgia of the North

Black Women and the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey

By Hettie V. Williams
Rutgers University Press

The Georgia of the North is a compelling narrative about the little-known struggles that African American women, and their community, faced when they arrived in the Garden State by way of the Great Migration to 1954 as they laid the foundations of the American civil rights movement in the North in the process.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Soviet-Born

Soviet-Born

The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction

By Karolina Krasuska
Rutgers University Press

How does being Soviet-born inflect one’s grasp of Jewishness in North America? Reading across the many English-language works by Soviet-born writers, Soviet-Born: The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction demonstrates how these diasporic authors recast such pivotal literary themes as Eastern Europe, the Holocaust, communism, gender and intimacy, and migrant solidarities.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Latin* Students in Engineering

An Intentional Focus on a Growing Population

Edited by Lara Perez-Felkner, Sarah L. Rodriguez, and Ciera Fluker; Foreword by Michelle M Camacho
Rutgers University Press

Latin* Students in Engineering examines the state of Latin* engineering education at present as well as considerations for policy and practice regarding engineering education aimed at enhancing opportunity and better serving Latin* students. The essays in this volume first consider, theoretically and empirically, the experiences of Latin* students in engineering education and then expand beyond the student level to focus on institutional and social structures that challenge Latin* students' success and retention.
 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Film Noir and the Arts of Lighting

By Patrick Keating
Rutgers University Press

More than any other films from the classical era, the Hollywood film noir is known for its lighting. Film Noir and the Arts of Lighting offers a new account of this craft, grounded in a larger theory of cinematography as emotionally engaging storytelling. Featuring analyses of The Asphalt Jungle, Touch of Evil, and more.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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An Ordinary Landscape of Violence

Women Loving Women in Guyana

By Preity R. Kumar
Rutgers University Press

An Ordinary Landscape of Violence focuses on the intertwining layers of violence experienced by women loving women in Guyana. This book offers readers insights into the complicated ways that violence as an affect is enacted, experienced, and used by several constituencies in the country, including women loving women in the forms of self-harm and intimate partner violence against their partners. It illustrates how women respond to violence in the Guyana and calls for a politics of collective healing.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Smoothing the Jew

"Abie the Agent" and Ethnic Caricature in the Progressive Era

By Jeffrey A. Marx
Rutgers University Press

Both the object of admiration and anxiety, Jewish immigrants to the United States at the turn of the nineteenth century were often depicted in derogatory caricatures. Smoothing the Jew investigates how Jewish artists of the time attempted to “smooth over” these demeaning images, focusing on the first Jewish comic strip published in English, Harry Hershfield’s Abie the Agent.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Intelligent Action

Intelligent Action

A History of Artistic Research, Aesthetic Experience, and Artists in Academia

By Timothy Ridlen
Rutgers University Press

Intelligent Action: A History of Artistic Research, Aesthetic Experience, and Artists in Academia explores how conceptual and performance artists of the long 1960s developed oppositional practices within and alongside the American university, an institution that registers the priorities of capitalism, technological change, and social justice movements in intensified ways.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Home Is Where Your Politics Are

Home Is Where Your Politics Are

Queer Activism in the U.S. South and South Africa

By Jessica A. Scott
Rutgers University Press

Home Is Where Your Politics Are is a vivid consideration of queer and trans activism in the US South and South Africa, situated in their own contexts and international narratives about those contexts. The book traverses international borders as boldly as the activists present in the text declare these spaces home.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Get Involved!

Get Involved!

Stories of Bahamian Civil Society

By Kim Williams-Pulfer
Rutgers University Press

Using the Caribbean as a rich site of observance and concentrating on the island nation-state of The Bahamas, Get Involved! uncovers the hidden and under-documented practices of “philanthropy from below.” Williams-Pulfer shows the long history and continued significance of civil society and philanthropic engagement in The Bahamas, the circum-Caribbean, and the wider African Diaspora.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Feeling Democracy

Feeling Democracy

Emotional Politics in the New Millennium

Edited by Sarah Tobias and Arlene Stein
Rutgers University Press

The contributors to Feeling Democracy examine how both reactionary and progressive politics in the twenty-first century are driven largely by emotional appeals to the public. These essays cover everything from immigrants’ rights movements to white nationalist rallies to show how solidarities forged around gender, race, and sexuality become catalysts for a passionate democratic politics.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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