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Women and New Hollywood
Gender, Creative Labor, and 1970s American Cinema
Unguarded Border
American Émigrés in Canada during the Vietnam War
The Ultimate Guide to the Jersey Shore
Where to Eat, What to Do, and so Much More
The Counterfeit Coin
Videogames and Fantasies of Empowerment
Resilient Kitchens
American Immigrant Cooking in a Time of Crisis, Essays and Recipes
Global White Supremacy
Anti-Blackness and the University as Colonizer
George's Run
A Writer's Journey through the Twilight Zone
From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community Leaders
Migrating Women, Class, and Color
From Crisis to Catastrophe
Care, COVID, and Pathways to Change
Desegregating Comics
Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics
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.
Desegregating Comics
Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics
Black and Smart
How Black High-Achieving Women Experience College
Toward a Healthier Garden State
Beyond Cancer Clusters and COVID
W. E. B. Du Bois Souls of Black Folk
A Graphic Interpretation
Undoing Motherhood
Collaborative Reproduction and the Deinstitutionalization of U.S. Maternity
Garbage in the Garden State
Enduring Polygamy
Plural Marriage and Social Change in an African Metropolis
Enduring Polygamy explores sweeping social changes in urban Africa through the lens of plural marriage. The book offers insights into gender dynamics and the cultural, economic, and political factors affecting how, when, and why people marry. The bookoffers an open-minded but unflinching perspective on a contested but resilient form of marriage.
Dying Green
A Journey through End-of-Life Medicine in Search of Sustainable Health Care
Caribes 2.0
New Media, Globalization, and the Afterlives of Disaster
Cancer Entangled
Anticipation, Acceleration, and the Danish State
Cancer Entangled
Anticipation, Acceleration, and the Danish State
Hero Me Not
The Containment of the Most Powerful Black, Female Superhero
Dying Green
A Journey through End-of-Life Medicine in Search of Sustainable Healthcare
When Are You Coming Home?
How Young Children Cope When Parents Go to Jail
Unequal Choices
How Social Class Shapes Where High-Achieving Students Apply to College
The Synchronized Society
Time and Control From Broadcasting to the Internet
Speaking Yiddish to Chickens
Holocaust Survivors on South Jersey Poultry Farms
Navigating White News
Asian American Journalists at Work
Litcomix
Literary Theory and the Graphic Novel
Indigeneity in Real Time
The Digital Making of Oaxacalifornia
Fighting Invisibility
Asian Americans in the Midwest
Ferryman of Memories
The Films of Rithy Panh
Elena, Princesa of the Periphery
Disney’s Flexible Latina Girl
Arranged Marriage
The Politics of Tradition, Resistance, and Change
The Activist Collector
Lida Clanton Broner’s 1938 Journey from Newark to South Africa
Unsafe Words
Queering Consent in the #MeToo Era
Seton Hall University
A History, 1856–2006
In this vivid and elegantly written history, Dermot Quinn examines how Seton Hall University was able to develop as an institution while keeping faith with its founder’s vision. It also tells the stories of the people who shaped the university and were shaped by it: the presidents, the priests, the faculty, the staff, and of course, the students.