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Higher Education amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
Supporting Teaching and Learning through Turbulent Times
Edited by Jessica Ostrow Michel; By Jessica Ostrow Michel, Ron Legon, Bethany Simunich, Karla I. Loya, Amanda L. Mollet, Lisa Wolf-Wendel, Mary C. Banwart, Jennifer C. Ng, Alison Olcott, Nilou Vakil, Katalin Szelényi, Andrew Koricich, Sonja Ardoin, H. Kenny Nienhusser, Omar Romandia, Kiara Ruesta, Mirka Martel, Pablo Avila, Dominique Zino, Melissa Whatley, Carrie Billy, Al Kuslikis, Bradley Shreve, Regina Sievert, Mahauganee D. Shaw Bonds, Nadrea Njoku, Frank Czerniakowski, Edward Olson, Anita Phillips, Logan Phillips, Catherine R. Barber, Janet K. McCollum, Charles Blaich, Kathleen Wise, Glenn Geher, Mariana Souto-Manning, Kimberlee S. Mix, Alice Reznickova, Carmen Caya, Vicki L. Baker, Elizabeth Golden, Kimo Griggs, Richard Mohler, Tyler Sprague, Matt Saunders, Aurora Andrews, Jessica M. Parr, Cyndi Kernahan, Sharon Gorman, Donovan Livingston, Karl V. Bell, Ramon B. Goings, Sherella Cupid, Montia D. Gardner, Antione D. Tomlin, Jarett D. Haley, Damani White-Lewis, Román Liera, Morgan Anderson, and Sy Stokes
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.
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 updated and easily accessible textbook for high school and college students, as well as anyone who is interested in Asian American history.
Mary Climbs In
The Journeys of Bruce Springsteen's Women Fans
By Lorraine Mangione and Donna Luff
Rutgers University Press
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.
Unguarded Border
American Émigrés in Canada during the Vietnam War
Rutgers University Press
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.
Resilient Kitchens
American Immigrant Cooking in a Time of Crisis, Essays and Recipes
Edited by Philip Gleissner and Harry Eli Kashdan
Rutgers University Press
W. E. B. Du Bois Souls of Black Folk
A Graphic Interpretation
By W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) and Paul Peart-Smith; Edited by Paul Buhle and Herb Boyd; Introduction by Jonathan Scott Holloway
Rutgers University Press
Artist Paul Peart-Smith offers the first graphic adaptation of W.E.B. Du Bois’ influential 1903 work The Souls of Black Folk, providing historical and cultural contexts for his thoughts on the racial terror, sorrows, and hopes of the post-Reconstruction era. It vividly conveys the book’s continuing legacy, effectively updating it for the age of Black Lives Matter.
Notes from Home
Edited by Jonna McKone
Rutgers University Press
This beautifully illustrated volume weaves together personal stories, photographs, drawings, poems of students who have experienced insecurity during childhood into a tapestry of memories about the meaning of home.
Hero Me Not
The Containment of the Most Powerful Black, Female Superhero
By Chesya Burke
Rutgers University Press
Dying Green
A Journey through End-of-Life Medicine in Search of Sustainable Healthcare
Rutgers University Press
The Synchronized Society
Time and Control From Broadcasting to the Internet
Rutgers University Press
The Synchronized Society traces the history of the synchronous broadcast experience of the twentieth century and the transition to the asynchronous media that dominate in the twenty-first century, with particular attention to the rise and fall of the schedule and the “water cooler” conversations that accompanied it.
Arranged Marriage
The Politics of Tradition, Resistance, and Change
Edited by Péter Berta
Rutgers University Press
Arranged Marriage shows how arranged marriage practices have been undergoing transformation; how the gendered and intergenerational politics of agency, consent, and choice work in the contexts of partner choice and management of marriage; and how this type of marriage can be reshaped, reinvented, and reinterpreted flexibly in response to individual, family, religious, class, ethnic and other desires, needs, and constraints.
When Are You Coming Home?
How Young Children Cope When Parents Go to Jail
Rutgers University Press
When Are You Coming Home? answers questions about how young children cope when parents go to jail. Told through the real stories of children, caregivers, and parents navigating parental incarceration, this book delves into the nuances that comprise children’s well-being and family relationships. In doing so, it calls out contextual vulnerabilities while emphasizing resilience processes that shape how children make sense of being separated from parents and await their likely reunification.
Litcomix
Literary Theory and the Graphic Novel
By Adam Geczy and Jonathan McBurnie
Rutgers University Press
Drawing from literary critics like Georg Lukács and case studies from across the world of comics, Litcomix develops a theoretical approach for reading graphic novels as literature. Whether looking at Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s groundbreaking manga, graphic adaptations of Proust, or Jack Kirby’s Balzacian use of intertextuality, this book offers fresh perspectives on the graphic novel.
Elena, Princesa of the Periphery
Disney’s Flexible Latina Girl
Rutgers University Press
Princesa of the Periphery explores Disney’s Elena of Avalor. Focusing on girlhood and Latinidad, Leon-Boys studies the complex relationship between the U.S.’s largest ethnic minority and Disney as a global media conglomerate. The analysis demonstrates that Elena’s existence within the Disney universe is indicative of the overall presence of Latinxs in popular culture, media, and the nation.
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