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Asian American History
By Huping Ling
Rutgers University Press
A comprehensive survey, Asian American History places Asian immigration to America in international and domestic contexts, and explores the significant elements that define Asian America: imperialism and global capitalist expansion, labor and capital, race and ethnicity, immigration and exclusion, family and work, community and gender roles, assimilation and multiculturalism, panethnicity and identity, transnationalism and globalization, and new challenges and opportunities. It is an up-to-date and easily accessible resource for high school and college students, as well as anyone who is interested in Asian American history.
Stepping Away
Returning to the Faculty After Senior Academic Leadership
By Lisa Jasinski; Foreword by Leo M. Lambert
Rutgers University Press
Senior leadership transitions in higher education are inevitable. Given their ubiquity, those who work in colleges and universities share the responsibility to make these changing of the guard moments beneficial both for institutions and leaders. Moving beyond the well-worn cliché of "stepping down," Stepping Away identifies policies that institutions, administrators, chairs, and members of governing boards can enact as leaders assume a new place in the social architecture of their campus.
Murder Town, USA
Homicide, Structural Violence, and Activism in Wilmington
Rutgers University Press
Far too many poor Black communities struggle with gun violence and homicide. The result has been the unnatural contortion of Black families and the inter-generational perpetuation of social chaos and untimely death. Young people are repeatedly ripped away from life by violence, while many men are locked away in prisons. In neighborhoods like those of Wilmington, Delaware, residents routinely face the pressures of violence, death, and incarceration. Murder Town, USA is thus a timely ethnography with an innovative structure: the authors helped organize fifteen residents formerly involved with the streets and/or the criminal justice system to document the relationship between structural opportunity and experiences with violence in Wilmington's Eastside and Southbridge neighborhoods.
Defiant Bodies
Making Queer Community in the Anglophone Caribbean
Rutgers University Press
Defiant Bodies: Making Queer Community in the Anglophone extends the discourse on Caribbean sexuality, queerness, and trans experiences by focusing on several moments of community-making across the Anglophone Caribbean -- Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago -- including legal challenges against Caribbean laws, drag pageantry, kinship formations, and a co-opting of mainstream urban nightclubs and bars. These offer readers new ways to understand the creative and complicated ways that queer Caribbean people are responding to the dominant sexual politics in the region. They also reveal how queer people are envisioning transgressive ways of existing despite the various forms of violence that they face.
Bishops and Bodies
Reproductive Care in American Catholic Hospitals
By Lori Freedman; Foreword by Debra Stulberg
Rutgers University Press
Four out of the ten largest U.S. health care systems follow the policies of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops that forbid abortion, sterilization, and related treatments in their hospitals. Drawing on rich interviews with patients and providers, Bishops and Bodies shows how these opaque restrictions conflict with medical standards, producing unjust and unequal reproductive care.
Between Self and Community
Children’s Personhood in a Globalized South Korea
By Junehui Ahn
Rutgers University Press
Between Self and Community investigates the early childhood socialization process in a rapidly changing, globalizing South Korea. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in a South Korean preschool, it examines how both children and teachers interactively navigate, construct, and reconstruct their own multifaceted and sometimes conflicting models of “a good child” amid Korea’s shifting educational and social contexts.
Aspiring in Later Life
Movements across Time, Space, and Generations
Rutgers University Press
While aspirations are most often connected to younger people, this volume argues that people do not stop aspiring in older age. Aspiring in Later Life brings together rich ethnographic cases from different regions of the world, offering original insights into how aspirations are pursued over the course of life and in contexts of globalization and mobility.
This book is also freely available online as an open-access digital edition.
This book is also freely available online as an open-access digital edition.
Aloha Compadre
Latinxs in Hawai'i
Rutgers University Press
Aloha Compadre is the first study to examine the collective history and contemporary experiences of the Latinx population of Hawaiʻi. It reveals that contrary to popular discourse, Latinx migration to Hawaiʻi is not a recent event. From the early 1830s to the present, Latinx communities have been a part of the cultural landscape of Hawaiʻi prior to annexation, territorial status, and statehood.
Dead Funny
The Humor of American Horror
Rutgers University Press
Covering everything from the use of slapstick in Final Destination to the comedy of awkwardness in Get Out, Dead Funny locates humor as a key element in the American horror film. It explores how the genre uses physical comedy, parody, satire, and camp to comment on gender, sexuality, and racial politics.
Rockin' in the Ivory Tower
Rock Music on Campus in the Sixties
Rutgers University Press
Historian James Carter takes a close look at how the rock music of the 1960s played an integral role in the lives of American college students. He traces connections between rock fandom and the civil rights protests, free speech activism, radical ideas, lifestyle transformations, and anti-war movements that revolutionized universities.
Risk and Adaptation in a Cancer Cluster Town
By Laura Hart
Rutgers University Press
Risk and Adaptation in a Cancer Cluster Town examines the role of emotion and its relationship to community experiences of social belonging and inequality. Using a cancer cluster community in Northwest Ohio as a case study, Laura Hart advances an approach to risk that grapples with the complexities of community belonging in the wake of suspected industrial pollution. Her research points to a fear driven not only by economic anxiety, but also by a fear of losing security within the community—a sort of pride that is not only about status, but connectedness. Hart reveals the importance of this social form of risk—the desire for belonging and the risk of not belonging—ultimately arguing that this is consequential to how people make judgements and respond to issues. Within this context, affected families experience psychosocial and practical conflicts as they adapt to cancer as a way of life. Hart ultimately presents possibilities for the democratization of risk management and underscores the need for transformative approaches to environmental justice.
Race and Role
The Mixed-Race Asian Experience in American Drama
Rutgers University Press
Race and Role: The Mixed-Race Asian Experience in American Drama explores the shifting identities of multiracial Asian figures in theater, and through theater’s generative power, exposes the absurd tenacity with which society clings to a tenuous racial scaffolding.
Mary Climbs In
The Journeys of Bruce Springsteen's Women Fans
By Lorraine Mangione and Donna Luff
Rutgers University Press
Mammography Wars
Analyzing Attention in Cultural and Medical Disputes
Rutgers University Press
Mammography is a routine health screening performed 40 million times each year in the United States, yet it remains one of the most deeply contested topics in medicine. In Mammography Wars, sociologist Asia Friedman uses the sociology of attention to map the cognitive structure of the “mammography wars.”
Inside the Circle
Queer Culture and Activism in Northwest China
Rutgers University Press
Drawing on over a decade of fieldwork, Inside the Circle: Queer Culture and Activism in Northwest China explores how everyday queer Chinese people are courageously taking part in both local and global expressions of queer culture and activism while also striving to lead traditionally moral lives in a rapidly changing society.
Coastal Landscapes
South Jersey from the Air
By Kenneth W. Able; By (photographer) Kenneth W. Able
Rutgers University Press
Based on numerous aerial images from helicopter and drone flights between 2015 and 2021, this book provides extensive photographs and maps of the New Jersey coast, accompanied by expert analysis by marine scientist Kenneth Able describing each site’s natural features, ecology, history, and possible futures in an era of rising sea levels.
Coastal Landscapes
South Jersey from the Air
By Kenneth W. Able; By (photographer) Kenneth W. Able
Rutgers University Press
Based on numerous aerial images from helicopter and drone flights between 2015 and 2021, this book provides extensive photographs and maps of the New Jersey coast, accompanied by expert analysis by marine scientist Kenneth Able describing each site’s natural features, ecology, history, and possible futures in an era of rising sea levels.
Children of the Rainforest
Shaping the Future in Amazonia
Rutgers University Press
Children of the Rainforest explores the lives of Matses children growing up in a time of radical change in Amazonia. Using visual and participatory methods, the book explores ethnographically how children’s imaginations, play, and shifting desires are powerful catalysts of social change, which shape the future of their society and of Amazonia at large.
Children of the Rainforest
Shaping the Future in Amazonia
Rutgers University Press
Children of the Rainforest explores the lives of Matses children growing up in a time of radical change in Amazonia. Using visual and participatory methods, the book explores ethnographically how children’s imaginations, play, and shifting desires are powerful catalysts of social change, which shape the future of their society and of Amazonia at large.
Borderless Fashion Practice
Contemporary Fashion in the Metamodern Age
Rutgers University Press
Twenty-first century fashion practice has become increasingly borderless and diverse in the digital era, calling into question the very boundaries that define fashion in the Western cultural context. Borderless Fashion Practice engages the work of fashion designers whose work intersects with other creative disciplines such as art, technology, science, architecture, and graphic design.
Women and New Hollywood
Gender, Creative Labor, and 1970s American Cinema
Edited by Aaron Hunter and Martha Shearer
Rutgers University Press
Women and New Hollywood revises our understanding of 1970s American film by examining the contributions that women made not only as directors, but also as screenwriters, editors, actors, producers, and critics. Considering both women working within and beyond the Hollywood film industry, this collection showcases the rich and varied cinematic products of women’s creative labor.
Unguarded Border
American Émigrés in Canada during the Vietnam War
Rutgers University Press
Unguarded Border tells the stories of the 50,000 Americans who fled across the border to Canada in the 1960s and 1970s, a migrant experience that does not fit the usual paradigms. Historian Donald W. Maxwell explores how these Americans in exile forged cosmopolitan identities, permanently changing perceptions of military service, nation, and citizenship.
The Ultimate Guide to the Jersey Shore
Where to Eat, What to Do, and so Much More
Rutgers University Press
The Ultimate Guide to the Jersey Shore delivers just what it promises—the best and most complete guide to New Jersey’s most treasured asset. There have been dozens of books published about the Shore—on its history, culture, landmarks, etc.—but none until now have covered the Shore in its entirety—where to eat; where to stay; landmarks and attractions; special events and festivals; beaches and boardwalks; what to do with the kids; scenic drives, etc. The reporter and writer who knows New Jersey best captures the Shore in all its wonder, charm and diversity.
The Counterfeit Coin
Videogames and Fantasies of Empowerment
Rutgers University Press
The Counterfeit Coin argues that games and related entertainment media have become almost inseparable from fantasy. In turn, these media are making fantasy itself visible in new ways. Though apparently asocial and egocentric, fantasy has become a key term in social contestations of the emerging medium. At issue is whose fantasies are catered to, who feels powerful and gets their way, and who is left out.
Resilient Kitchens
American Immigrant Cooking in a Time of Crisis, Essays and Recipes
Edited by Philip Gleissner and Harry Eli Kashdan
Rutgers University Press
Global White Supremacy
Anti-Blackness and the University as Colonizer
Rutgers University Press
Global White supremacy is deeply historical and contemporary—a transnational and imperial phenomenon that is maintained through academic constructions of anti-Blackness. Collins, Newman, and Jun offer context, history, and perspective that disrupt how the curriculum, statues, architectures, and other aspects of the university serve as sites of colonial and White supremacist preservation—as well as sites of resistance.
George's Run
A Writer's Journey through the Twilight Zone
Rutgers University Press
This vividly illustrated graphic biography recounts the amazing life and career of George Clayton Johnson, who wrote memorable episodes of The Twilight Zone and Star Trek, while cowriting such films as Ocean’s Eleven and Logan’s Run. Drawn from intimate chats with artist Henry Chamberlain, it shares stories of his friendships with such luminaries as Ray Bradbury and Theodore Sturgeon.
From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community Leaders
Migrating Women, Class, and Color
Rutgers University Press
From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community Leaders compares the immigration and integration experiences of Dominican and Mexican women in New York City. The book documents the significance of women-led migration within an increasingly racialized context and underscores the contributions women make to their communities of origin and of settlement. Fuentes-Mayorga’s research is timely, especially against the backdrop of policy debates about the future of family reunification laws and the unprecedented immigration of women and minors from Latin America.
From Crisis to Catastrophe
Care, COVID, and Pathways to Change
Rutgers University Press
The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the material and social foundations of the world more than any event in recent history and has highlighted and exacerbated a longstanding crisis of care. While these challenges may be freshly visible to the public, they are not new. Over the last three decades, a growing body of care scholarship has documented the inadequacy of the social organization of care around the world, and the effect of the devaluation of care on workers, families, and communities. In this volume, a diverse group of care scholars bring their expertise to bear on this recent crisis. In doing so, they consider the ways in which the existing social organization of care in different countries around the globe amplified or mitigated the impact of COVID-19. They also explore the impact of the global pandemic on the conditions of care and its role in exacerbating deeply rooted gender, race, migration, disability, and other forms of inequality.
Desegregating Comics
Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics
Edited by Qiana Whitted
Rutgers University Press
Desegregating Comics assembles a team of leading scholars to explore how debates about the representation of blackness shaped both the production and reception of Golden Age comics. It examines not only the racial stereotypes that predominated, but also the innovations of black comics artists and the activism of black fans.
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