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Ways of Belonging
Undocumented Youth in the Shadow of Illegality
The Truth That Never Hurts 25th anniversary edition
Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom
The Sounds of Furious Living
Everyday Unorthodoxies in an Era of AIDS
The Sounds of Furious Living seeks to understand the AIDS activist tradition, identifying the historical currents out of which it arose. Embracing a patient-centered, social historical lens, it traces historic shifts in popular understanding of health and perceptions of biomedicine through the 19th and 20th centuries to explain the lasting appeal of unorthodox health activism into the modern era. In asking how unorthodox health activism flourished during the 20th century’s last major pandemic, Kelly also seeks to inform our understanding of resistance to biomedical authority in the setting of the 21st century’s first major pandemic: COVID-19. As a deeply researched portrait of distrust and disenchantment, The Sounds of Furious Living helps explain the persistence of movements that challenge biomedicine’s authority well into a century marked by biomedical innovation, while simultaneously posing important questions regarding the meaning and metrics of patient empowerment in clinical practice.
The Round Dance
A Novel
The Brodsky Center at Rutgers University
Three Decades, 1986-2017
Playful Frames
Styles of Widescreen Cinema
Home Girls, 40th Anniversary Edition
A Black Feminist Anthology
Home Girls, 40th Anniversary Edition
A Black Feminist Anthology
Bridge and Tunnel Boys
Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, and the Metropolitan Sound of the American Century
AntoloGaia
Queering the Seventies, A Radical Trans Memoir
AntoloGaia offers a vivid first-hand account of the rise of the gay liberation movement in Italy, revealing how it was intimately intertwined with other forms of left-wing activism. Porpora Marcasciano conveys both the heartbreak of living through an era of institutionalized homophobia and the queer joy of encountering Italy’s unique gay and trans communities.
An Age of Accountability
How Standardized Testing Came to Dominate American Schools and Compromise Education
Staging a Comeback
Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance
Race and Police
The Origin of Our Peculiar Institutions
Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital
Centering the Periphery
Policing Victimhood
Human Trafficking, Frontline Work, and the Carceral State
On the Turtle's Back
Stories the Lenape Told Their Grandchildren
Migrants Who Care
West Africans Working and Building Lives in U.S. Health Care
Metamorphosis
Who We Become after Facial Paralysis
Mainstreaming Gays
Critical Convergences of Queer Media, Fan Cultures, and Commercial Television
Ideal Beauty
The Life and Times of Greta Garbo
Chinese Marriages in Transition
From Patriarchy to New Familism
The Prism of Human Rights
Seeking Justice amid Gender Violence in Rural Ecuador
The Outcast
A Novel
The Cyborg Caribbean
Techno-Dominance in Twenty-First-Century Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican Science Fiction
Oh, Serafina!
A Fable of Ecology, Lunacy, and Love
Maid for Television
Race, Class, Gender, and a Representational Economy
Islam and Me
Narrating a Diaspora
City of Men
Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport
Calling Family
Digital Technologies and the Making of Transnational Care Collectives
Black Women in Latin America and the Caribbean
Critical Research and Perspectives
Asian American History
Stepping Away
Returning to the Faculty After Senior Academic Leadership
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
Defiant Bodies
Making Queer Community in the Anglophone Caribbean
Bishops and Bodies
Reproductive Care in American Catholic Hospitals
Between Self and Community
Children’s Personhood in a Globalized South Korea
Aspiring in Later Life
Movements across Time, Space, and Generations
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