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To Keep the Republic
Thinking, Talking, and Acting Like a Democratic Citizen
By Elizabeth C. Matto; Foreword by Governor Christine Todd Whitman
Rutgers University Press
American democracy has reached an inflection point. This book is a wake-up call about the heavy responsibilities that come with being a citizen in a participatory democracy. It describes the many ways that individuals can make a difference on both local and national levels—and explains why they matter.
The Cinema of Yakov Protazanov
Rutgers University Press
Yakov Protazanov was the most prolific Russian director of the silent era whose works enjoyed consistent popularity with audiences as he adapted to the Russian Revolution and, later, the transition to sound. This first career-length study in English argues that he pursued a unique artistic vision that reflected his ambivalent position within Soviet culture of the revolutionary era.
Life, Brazen and Garish
A Tale of Three Women
Rutgers University Press
This fresh take on the epistolary novel tells the story of a family through the disparate perspectives of a teenage daughter writing in her diary, a mother composing letters, and a grandmother speaking into a recorder. In turns heartbreaking and laugh-out-loud funny, it is a triumph of voice and style from one of Italy’s most renowned writers.
Creating the Hudson River Park
Environmental and Community Activism, Politics, and Greed
By Tom Fox
Rutgers University Press
Former Hudson River Park Conservancy president Tom Fox offers an insider’s look at the park’s expansion and the conflicts it has spawned among community activists, local politicians, and private developers. Explaining how the park’s current problems might be surmounted, he provides a model for future urban planners.
China's Left-Behind Children
Caretaking, Parenting, and Struggles
By Xiaojin Chen
Rutgers University Press
Paying special attention to the seventy million children left behind by internal migrants in rural China, this book investigates the role of parental migration and the left-behind status of their children in shaping family dynamics and the children’s general wellbeing, including school performance, delinquency, resilience, feelings of ambiguous loss, and other psychological problems.
Born of War in Colombia
Reproductive Violence and Memories of Absence
Rutgers University Press
Born of War in Colombia examines how a past-oriented and harm-centered model of transitional justice has converged with a restricted notion of gendered victimhood and the patriarchal politics of reproduction to render the bodies of people born of conflict-related sexual violence unintelligible to those seeking to understand and address the consequences of war in Colombia.
A Nation of Family and Friends?
Sport and the Leisure Cultures of British Asian Girls and Women
By Aarti Ratna
Rutgers University Press
In A Nation of Family and Friends sociologist Aarti Ratna interrogates sport and leisure cultures as a site of common culture. Ratna portrays and analyses the vagaries of British Asian-ness and examines the intersections of class, caste, age, generation, gender, and sexuality, providing a rich and critical exploration of British Asian women's sport and leisure choices, pleasures, and lived realities.
Politicizing Islam in Austria
The Far-Right Impact in the Twenty-First Century
By Farid Hafez and Reinhard Heinisch
Rutgers University Press
Politicizing Islam in Austria is a comprehensive examination of the influence of the far right on the Austrian political landscape and the impact its anti-Muslim agenda has had in a country whose longstanding state recognition of the Muslim community dates to as early as 1912.
Glory
The Gospel of Judas, A Novel
Rutgers University Press
In Glory, Judas Iscariot finally tells his side of the story. From his perspective, Jesus is the betrayer, while Judas himself brought humanity a chance at redemption. Through Judas’s searing tortured monologues, this late masterpiece from one of Italy’s greatest writers investigates deep questions about the nature of faith, rebellion, fate, and free will.
Messianic Zionism in the Digital Age
Jews, Noahides, and the Third Temple Imaginary
Rutgers University Press
In this groundbreaking ethnographic study of the transnational Third Temple and Children of Noah movements, Messianic Zionism in the Digital Age highlights the intimate effects of political theologies in motion, new forms of digital missionizing, and the birth of a new Judaic faith.
Making History Move
Five Principles of the Historical Film
By Kim Nelson
Rutgers University Press
Making History Move builds upon decades of scholarship investigating history in visual culture, proposing a methodology of five principles to analyze history in moving images in the digital age, charting a path to understand the form of history with the most significant impact on public perceptions of the past.
Funny Boy
The Richard Hunt Biography
Rutgers University Press
This biography tells the story of Muppet performer Richard Hunt, who created a colorful range of characters on The Muppet Show, Sesame Street and Fraggle Rock, and crammed an extraordinary career into only 40 years of life. Funny Boy is about a man who used humor, joy and resilience to adapt to life’s surprises while entertaining millions.
Christianity and Comics
Stories We Tell about Heaven and Hell
By Blair Davis
Rutgers University Press
This book presents an 80-year history of how the comics industry has drawn inspiration from biblical imagery, stories, and themes. Charting how comics have both reflected and influenced Americans’ changing attitudes towards religion, it includes underground comix, books from Christian publishers, and a vast array of DC, Marvel, and Dark Horse titles, from Hellboy to Preacher.
Born in the U.S.A.
Bruce Springsteen in American Life, 3rd edition, Revised and Expanded
By Jim Cullen
Rutgers University Press
Pioneering the field of Springsteen scholarship when it first appeared in 1997, Born in the U.S.A. remains one of the definitive studies of Springsteen’s work and its impact on American culture. This fully revised third edition addresses Springsteen’s evolving attitudes toward politics, religion, masculinity, and racial justice in the 21st century.
Queer Newark
Stories of Resistance, Love, and Community
Edited by Whitney Strub; Epilogue by Zenzele Isoke
Rutgers University Press
Queer Newark charts an alternate history of LGBTQ life in America where working-class people of color are the central actors. Uncovering the sites and people of Newark’s queer past in bars, discos, ballrooms, and churches, these essays reveal how violence, poverty, and homophobia could never suppress joy, resistance, love, and desire.
Queer Newark
Stories of Resistance, Love, and Community
Edited by Whitney Strub; Epilogue by Zenzele Isoke
Rutgers University Press
Queer Newark charts an alternate history of LGBTQ life in America where working-class people of color are the central actors. Uncovering the sites and people of Newark’s queer past in bars, discos, ballrooms, and churches, these essays reveal how violence, poverty, and homophobia could never suppress joy, resistance, love, and desire.
Korea Letters in the William Elliot Griffis Collection
An Annotated Selection
Rutgers University Press
The Korean materials in the Griffis Collection at Rutgers University consist of journals, correspondence, articles, maps, prints, photos, postcards, manuscripts, scrapbooks, and ephemera. These papers reflect Griffis's interests and activities in relation to Korea as a historian, scholar, and theologian. They provide a rare window into the turbulent period of late 19th and 20th century Korea, witnessed and evaluated by Griffis and early American missionaries in East Asia. The Korea Letters in the William Elliot Griffis Collection are divided into two parts: letters from missionaries and letters from Japanese and Korean political figures. Newly available and accessible through this collection, these letters develop a multifaceted history of early American missionaries in Korea, the Korean independence movement, and Griffis's views on Korean culture.
Destroy Them Gradually
Displacement as Atrocity
Rutgers University Press
Destroy Them Gradually reframes forced displacement as an annihilatory process, rather than as an event that precedes an atrocity. Displacement crimes are defined as the unique fusion of forced displacement with systemic deprivations of vital daily needs to destroy populations.
Designing Gardens with Flora of the American East, Revised and Expanded
By Carolyn Summers and Kate Brittenham
Rutgers University Press
In this fully revised second edition of the classic guide, mother and daughter landscape designers Carolyn Summers and Kate Brittenham draw upon the most recent research on sustainability to help you plant gardens that are both chic and eco-friendly. Both home gardeners and professionals will appreciate their detailed descriptions of indigenous plants that nurture native insects and birds.
Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence
Rutgers University Press
Culinary Colonialism is the first book-length analysis of Caribbean cookbooks, tracing the multitude of ways they represent national identity, creolization, and working-class women’s food culture. Including full recipes from Cuban, Puerto Rican, Jamaican, Barbadian, Haitian, Dominican, and Antillean cookbooks, this groundbreaking work of scholarship doubles as a delicious cookbook.
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