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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.
Memorializing Violence
Transnational Feminist Reflections
By Alison Crosby and Heather Evans
Rutgers University Press
This volume brings together feminist reflections on the transnational lives of memorializations to colonial, imperial, militarized, and state violence. It asks what’s at stake in memorializing amidst and against ongoing harm and injustice produced by white supremacist global capitalist empire.
Memorializing Violence
Transnational Feminist Reflections
By Alison Crosby and Heather Evans
Rutgers University Press
This volume brings together feminist reflections on the transnational lives of memorializations to colonial, imperial, militarized, and state violence. It asks what’s at stake in memorializing amidst and against ongoing harm and injustice produced by white supremacist global capitalist empire.
Labs of Our Own
Feminist Tinkerings with Science
Rutgers University Press
Labs of Our Own demonstrates the perils and possibilities that emerge from experiments in democratizing science. The book ultimately intervenes in stale debates for and against science by arguing against uncritical excitement for democratic science and instead for critical science literacy and feminist tinkering as third ways forward.
Dancing for Their Lives
The Pursuit of Meaningful Aging in Urban China
Rutgers University Press
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.
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.
Strength Through Diversity
Harlem Prep and the Rise of Multiculturalism
Rutgers University Press
In Strength Through Diversity, Barry M. Goldenberg traces the inspiring, uncharted history of Harlem Prep, a unique multicultural institution that became an educational phenomenon in the iconic Black neighborhood of Harlem and nationwide. From 1967 to 1974, Harlem Prep sent to college many hundreds of students who had previously been labeled as “dropouts,” demonstrating how a multicultural educational program centered on diversity can provide a blueprint for schools today.
Rewriting Television
Rutgers University Press
Rewriting Television suggests that it is time for a radical overhaul of television studies. It offers a new model for doing television (or film, or media) studies through the synthesis of production studies, screenwriting studies and “writing otherwise”. With a focus on form, story and voice, this book is an opportunity to imagine our work, and the work of others, differently.
Raritan on War
An Anthology
Edited by T.J. Jackson Lears and Karen Parker Lears
Rutgers University Press
On War gathers together some of the finest writing on that troubling subject published in Raritan between 2003 and 2022. The editors, Jackson Lears and Karen Parker Lears, have selected work that typifies Raritan’s wide-ranging sensibility--focusing on a topic that is aesthetically rich, intellectually challenging, and morally disturbing. It is also all too timely.
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.
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.
Moving Blackness
Black Circulation, Racism, and Relations of Homespace
Rutgers University Press
Moving Blackness explores the centrality of circulation within the framework of western modernity and the racially structured regulations of mobility. Storytelling emerges as the primary mode through which blackness is conveyed: it serves as a means of circulating the lived experiences of being Black while also functioning as acts of resistance and solidarity performed by blackened individuals who were (once) colonized and enslaved.
Icons Axed, Freedoms Lost
Russian Desecularization and a Ukrainian Alternative
Rutgers University Press
In the years between the Soviet collapse and the Russo-Ukrainian war, Russia went from persecuting believers to jailing irreligionists, while Ukraine solidified religious pluralism and tolerance. The book richly documents and explains the development of this contrast while offering an original theoretical and methodological perspective on desecularization (the resurgence of religion’s societal role).
Black Sporting Resistance
Diaspora, Transnationalism, and Internationalism
By Joseph N. Cooper; Foreword by Gerald Horne
Rutgers University Press
In this text, the Black Sporting Resistance Framework (BSRF) is introduced to examine how resistance actions in and through sport have contributed to the advancement of local and global racial justice efforts. Key concepts such as African (Black) diaspora, transnationalism, internationalism, sporting resistance typology, and sport activism typology are presented.
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.
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.
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.
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