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Higher Education amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
Supporting Teaching and Learning through Turbulent Times
Edited by Jessica Ostrow Michel
Rutgers University Press
Higher Education amid the COVID-19 Pandemic documents first-hand experiences from faculty and students in order to help navigate the path to supporting teaching and learning in the wake of the pandemic, and beyond. With essays from a diverse range of experts, this volume will serve as a comprehensive guide to many affected higher education communities.
- Copyright year: 2024
The Dressing Room
Backstage Lives and American Film
Rutgers University Press
A recurrent and popular setting in American cinema, the dressing room has captured the imagination of audiences for over a century. In the only book-length study of the space, Desirée J. Garcia explores how dressing rooms are dynamic realms in which a diverse cast of performers are made and exposed.
- Copyright year: 2025
Supervillains
The Significance of Evil in Superhero Comics
Rutgers University Press
This book provides a savvy investigation of the supervillains that appear in superhero comics. Exploring villainous archetypes and Otherness in relation to the notion of evil, the book investigates how supervillains uphold and solidify but also trouble hegemonic ideals expressed by the heroism of superheroes.
- Copyright year: 2025
Public Catastrophes, Private Losses
Rutgers University Press
This collection of feminist essays examines how public catastrophes imprint themselves on private lives, how individuals narrate, process, and grapple with legacies of loss, and how, though a combination of attention and neglect, governments and nonprofits frequently exacerbate preexisting vulnerabilities.
- Copyright year: 2025
Public Catastrophes, Private Losses
Rutgers University Press
This collection of feminist essays examines how public catastrophes imprint themselves on private lives, how individuals narrate, process, and grapple with legacies of loss, and how, though a combination of attention and neglect, governments and nonprofits frequently exacerbate preexisting vulnerabilities.
- Copyright year: 2025
Ben Hecht's Theatre of Jewish Protest
Rutgers University Press
A critical and historical study of Ben Hecht’s forgotten controversial plays championing Jewish causes during the World War II era. Includes the full texts of four works - We Will Never Die (1943), A Jewish Fairy Tale (1944), A Flag is Born (1946), and The Terrorist (1947) - which are republished here for the first time along with production details and full performance histories.
- Copyright year: 2025
Transmedia Geographies
Decoloniality, Democratization, Cultural Citizenship, and Media Convergence
By Kevin Glynn and Julie Cupples
Rutgers University Press
Looking at the US, New Zealand, and Central America, this book considers how cultural politics has been deeply reworked in our contemporary media environment. The authors analyze how rampant technological convergence has allowed stories to spill across media platforms as well as geographical borders, and how those stories re-emerge as transmediated events.
- Copyright year: 2025
The Future of Youth Violence Prevention
A Mixtape for Practice, Policy, and Research
Edited by Paul Boxer and Raphael Travis, Jr.
Rutgers University Press
The Future of Youth Violence Prevention: A Mixtape for Practice, Policy, and Research focuses on innovative approaches to youth violence prevention that utilize consistent principles found within existing best practices but are dynamic and adaptable across settings – and the socio-historical and cultural realities of those settings.
Reclaiming Haiti's Futures
Returned Intellectuals, Placemaking, and Radical Imagination
Rutgers University Press
Reclaiming Haiti’s Futures traces the experiences of two generations of Haitian returned scholars who envisioned and sought to enact new worlds after crisis. An ethnography of the future, the book pursues concerns of home, belonging, and emplacement beyond coloniality’s fractures and displacements. These concerns ever more pressing amid overlapping crises that are displacing and enclosing the prospects of many, especially those living in post-colonial (outer) peripheries like Haiti.
- Copyright year: 2025
Metagraffiti
Graffiti Art and the Urban Image in Latin America
Rutgers University Press
This innovative visual ethnography examines diverse forms of self-reference and metareference that appear in Latin American graffiti art. Focusing on graffiti scenes from São Paulo, Brazil and Santiago de Chile, Chandra Morrison Ariyo shows how practitioners use metagraffiti features to influence public perceptions about this artform and its effect on the urban environment.
Imprisoned Minds
Lost Boys, Trapped Men, and Solutions from Within the Prison
Rutgers University Press
Imprisoned Minds tells the stories of men in prison that few people ever hear. Six gripping, first-person narratives of unimaginable childhood trauma and neglect set the men on a pathway for prison or death. We finally hear their stories because the author is in prison alongside them—incarcerated for life at the age of 21.
- Copyright year: 2024
Hollywood Unions
Edited by Kate Fortmueller and Luci Marzola
Rutgers University Press
Who makes films and television shows? How do those people make a living in Hollywood? Hollywood Unions tells the stories of the unions and guilds that have organized and negotiate on behalf of motion picture and television labor: the DGA, IATSE, SAG-AFTRA, and WGA.
- Copyright year: 2025
Hollywood Unions
Edited by Kate Fortmueller and Luci Marzola
Rutgers University Press
Who makes films and television shows? How do those people make a living in Hollywood? Hollywood Unions tells the stories of the unions and guilds that have organized and negotiate on behalf of motion picture and television labor: the DGA, IATSE, SAG-AFTRA, and WGA.
- Copyright year: 2025
Grieving Pregnancy
Memorializing Loss in Japanese Buddhism and American Catholicism
Rutgers University Press
Grieving Pregnancy compares contemporary American Catholic and Japanese Buddhist memorial practices focused on miscarriage, stillbirth, and abortion. Maureen L. Walsh demonstrates that while the memorial practices confront the same basic problem—that is, pregnancy loss—they conceive of the problem in different terms, and as a result, propose distinct responses to it.
- Copyright year: 2024
Caribbean Inhospitality
The Poetics of Strangers at Home
Rutgers University Press
Caribbean Inhospitality juxtaposes the Caribbean’s reputation for being hospitable to foreigners with the alienation of the Caribbean citizen-subject from nations they call home. Reading literary, cinematic, and digital texts, Natalie Lauren Belisle demonstrates that the inhospitality is institutionalized through the aesthetic, reproducing itself in the laws that condition belonging and membership in the Caribbean nation/state.
- Copyright year: 2025
Becoming an Expert Caregiver
How Structural Flaws Shape Autism Carework and Community
Rutgers University Press
This book features the voices of 50 primary caregivers of autistic and neurodivergent children who illuminate the process through which lay women become expert caregivers to provide the best care for their children. Expert caregiving captures an intensification of traditional family carework – meeting dependents’ financial, emotional, and physical needs – that transcends the walls of one’s private home and family and challenges the strict boundaries between many worlds: lay and professional, family and work, private and public, medical and social, and individual and society.
- Copyright year: 2025
Rutgers Then and Now
Two Centuries of Campus Development, A Historical and Photographic Odyssey
By James W. Hughes, David Listokin, and Richard L. Edwards; Foreword by Jonathan Scott Holloway and Micah L. McCreary
Rutgers University Press
Rutgers, Then and Now tells the story of how the university grew from a humble six-acre campus overlooking the Raritan River to a sprawling set of campuses extending beyond the New Brunswick city limits. Providing photographic and pictorial documentation of the university’s stunning expansion, it reveals the sacrifices and gifts that transformed Rutgers into a major world university.
Post-Crisis Leadership
Resilience, Renewal, and Reinvention in the Aftermath of Disruption
Rutgers University Press
Crisis leadership—which takes account of leading before, during, and after crisis—is an imperative for leaders at all levels. Often relegated as an afterthought in crisis scholarship and practice, the ability to navigate the post-crisis period can distinguish highly effective leaders and organizations. This book introduces a research-informed framework for this critical, and often neglected, phase of crisis leadership.
Persisting Pandemics
Syphilis, AIDS, and COVID
Rutgers University Press
Syphilis, AIDS, and COVID disprove any belief that scientific discoveries have ended the period of acute epidemic diseases that once defined 19th century life and replaced them with chronic cardiovascular diseases and cancers. Today, we cope with a greater array of epidemics than those who lived during the 19th century, even though we have the biomedical means to control them. Our cumulative experience with epidemic diseases, together with our attempts to eliminate them, remains a continued component of our existence.
Making the Human
Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans
Rutgers University Press
Making the Human grapples with the interactions between narrative, materiality, and Asian American racialization. Examining contemporary debates over the role of Asian Americans in affirmative action, media representation, police brutality, and public health discourses, Sugino argues media and cultural narratives about Asian Americans shape contemporary ideas about humanity, justice, family, and nation in ways that naturalize hierarchy.
Lifting the Shadow
Reshaping Memory, Race, and Slavery in U.S. Museums
By Amy Sodaro
Rutgers University Press
Lifting the Shadow examines how the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Montgomery’s Legacy Museum and Tulsa’s Greenwood Rising are challenging the national narrative on slavery and race by placing racial oppression at the center of American history and linking historical slavery to contemporary racial injustice.
Inside Tenement Time
Suss, Spirit, and Surveillance
By Kezia Page
Rutgers University Press
Inside Tenement Time is a study of Jamaican literary and cultural texts presenting surveillance in the Caribbean. The project introduces two Afro-Indigenous variations on surveillance--sussveillance and spiritveillance--as exemplars of vernacular arts and shows that Caribbean hegemonies are flexible. The book reads the Smile Jamaica concert (1976) and the Tivoli Incursion (2010) as states of high surveillance emergency.
Cinema under National Reconstruction
State Censorship and South Korea’s Cold War Film Culture
Rutgers University Press
Drawing upon primary documents from the Korean Film Archive’s digitized database and framing South Korean film censorship from a transnational perspective, Cinema Under National Reconstruction redefines censorship as a productive feedback system where both state regulators and filmmakers played active roles in shaping the new narrative or sentiment of the nation on the big screen.
Cinema under National Reconstruction
State Censorship and South Korea's Cold War Film Culture
Rutgers University Press
Drawing upon primary documents from the Korean Film Archive’s digitized database and framing South Korean film censorship from a transnational perspective, Cinema Under National Reconstruction redefines censorship as a productive feedback system where both state regulators and filmmakers played active roles in shaping the new narrative or sentiment of the nation on the big screen.
Children as Social Butterflies
Navigating Belonging in a Diverse Swiss Kindergarten
Rutgers University Press
Children as Social Butterflies offers an analysis of how children negotiate social belonging. Ursina Jaeger followed the children of a kindergarten class in a stigmatized and diverse neighborhood for several years, both inside and outside of school. Along the vivid insights into the children's everyday lives, she examines how social differentiation is learned in diverse societies.
Walking East Harlem
A Neighborhood Experience
Rutgers University Press
This book comprises three walking tours that inform the visitor about East Harlem's cultural centers, institutions, and landmark buildings. Walking East Harlem also pays homage to the Latino residents who called Spanish Harlem/El Barrio home and acknowledges the contribution of Black, Italian, Jewish, and other ethnic groups who have lived in the neighborhood.
- Copyright year: 2025
Pandemonium Logs
Sioux Falls, South Dakota 2020-2022
By Ben Miller
Rutgers University Press
In 2015, Ben Miller moved from New York City to Sioux Falls, South Dakota to focus on his writing. Working a day job in a hospital, he had a front-row seat to the Covid-19 pandemic. His book gives voice to the doctors, nurses, staff, and patients he observed.
Making It
Success in the Commercial Kitchen
Rutgers University Press
The restaurant industry is one of the few places in America where workers from lower-class backgrounds can rise to positions of power and prestige. But what determines who succeeds or fails in this pressure-cooker environment? Through extensive interviews and fieldwork, sociologist Ellen Meiser discovers how status in the kitchen is tied to knowledge, interpersonal skills, and emotional labor.
- Copyright year: 2025
Genocide Studies
Pathways Ahead
Edited by Jeffrey S. Bachman
Rutgers University Press
In recent years, the world has been shaken by numerous events that have caused and continue to cause massive human suffering, from the COVID-19 pandemic to intrastate and interstate armed conflicts. These crises confound definition and label, but now is the time to think about current manifestations of genocide and those likely to emerge in the future
Genocide Studies
Pathways Ahead
Edited by Jeffrey S. Bachman
Rutgers University Press
In recent years, the world has been shaken by numerous events that have caused and continue to cause massive human suffering, from the COVID-19 pandemic to intrastate and interstate armed conflicts. These crises confound definition and label, but now is the time to think about current manifestations of genocide and those likely to emerge in the future
Finding God in All the Black Places
Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture
Rutgers University Press
Using a media studies lens of television, film, music, and digital culture, Finding God in All the Black Places argues that Black spirituality and church religiosity bolster audiences' understanding of and cultural competence with Black popular culture.
Embracing Queer Students’ Diverse Identities at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
A Primer for Presidents, Administrators, and Faculty
Edited by Steve D. Mobley, Nadrea Njoku, Jennifer M. Johnson, and Lori D. Patton; Foreword by Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Rutgers University Press
Embracing Queer Students’ Diverse Identities at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: A Primer for Presidents, Administrators, and Faculty serves as a resource for Historically Black College and University (HBCU) stakeholders and highlights fundamental concerns and urgent topics regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) HBCU constituents.
- Copyright year: 2025
Embracing Queer Students’ Diverse Identities at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
A Primer for Presidents, Administrators, and Faculty
Edited by Steve D. Mobley, Nadrea Njoku, Jennifer M. Johnson, and Lori D. Patton; Foreword by Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Rutgers University Press
Embracing Queer Students’ Diverse Identities at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: A Primer for Presidents, Administrators, and Faculty serves as a resource for Historically Black College and University (HBCU) stakeholders and highlights fundamental concerns and urgent topics regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) HBCU constituents.
- Copyright year: 2025
Background Artist
The Life and Work of Tyrus Wong
By Karen Fang
Rutgers University Press
The true story of how an illegal immigrant shaped some of America’s best-loved imagery, and what his life tells us about the unifying power of art.
Bruce Songs
The Music of Bruce Springsteen, Album-by-Album, Song-by-Song
Rutgers University Press
Bruce Songs: The Music of Bruce Springsteen, Album-by-Album, Song-by-Song is an authoritative guide by Kenneth Womack and Kenneth L. Campbell, delving into Bruce Springsteen's entire musical catalog, offering detailed album analysis, historical context, and song-by-song exploration. Packed with contemporary insights and rich visuals, it's an essential companion for Springsteen fans and music enthusiasts.
We Take Care of Our Own
Faith, Class, and Politics in the Art of Bruce Springsteen
By June Skinner Sawyers; Afterword by Andre Dubus III
Rutgers University Press
We Take Care of Our Own traces the evolution of Bruce Springsteen’s beliefs, beginning with his New Jersey childhood and ending with his most recent works from Springsteen on Broadway to Letter to You. The author follows the singer’s life, examining his albums and a variety of influences (both musical and non-musical), especially his Catholic upbringing and his family life, to show how he became an outspoken icon for working-class America; indeed for working class life throughout the world.
- Copyright year: 2024
The Bravest Pets of Gotham
Tales of Four-Legged Firefighters of Old New York
By Peggy Gavan
Rutgers University Press
The Bravest Mascots of Gotham takes readers on a fun historical tour of the FDNY and firefighting in New York City via more than 100 amazing, emotive, and oftentimes hilariously absurd stories of the FDNY horses and mascots of Old New York whose acts of bravery, extraordinary intelligence, and funny antics deserve to be told and preserved.
- Copyright year: 2024
Singular Sensations
A Cultural History of One-Panel Comics in the United States
Rutgers University Press
The Far Side. Ziggy. The Family Circus. Many of the most popular, influential, and acclaimed comics series in the United States have used the single-panel form. Singular Sensations is the first full-length critical study to examine this important, but long neglected, mode of cartoon art.
- Copyright year: 2024
Performing the News
Identity, Authority, and the Myth of Neutrality
By Elia Powers
Rutgers University Press
Performing The News: Identity, Authority, & the Myth of Neutrality explores how journalists from historically marginalized groups have felt pressure to conform when performing for audiences and are increasingly challenging restrictive, supposedly neutral forms of self-presentation. Through in-depth interviews, this book suggests ways to make journalism more inclusive and representative of diverse audiences
- Copyright year: 2024
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