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Higher Education amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
Supporting Teaching and Learning through Turbulent Times
Memorializing Violence
Transnational Feminist Reflections
Memorializing Violence
Transnational Feminist Reflections
Labs of Our Own
Feminist Tinkerings with Science
Dancing for Their Lives
The Pursuit of Meaningful Aging in Urban China
The Dressing Room
Backstage Lives and American Film
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
Strength Through Diversity
Harlem Prep and the Rise of Multiculturalism
Rewriting Television
Raritan on War
An Anthology
Public Catastrophes, Private Losses
Public Catastrophes, Private Losses
Moving Blackness
Black Circulation, Racism, and Relations of Homespace
Icons Axed, Freedoms Lost
Russian Desecularization and a Ukrainian Alternative
Black Sporting Resistance
Diaspora, Transnationalism, and Internationalism
Ben Hecht's Theatre of Jewish Protest
Transmedia Geographies
Decoloniality, Democratization, Cultural Citizenship, and Media Convergence
The Future of Youth Violence Prevention
A Mixtape for Practice, Policy, and Research
Reclaiming Haiti's Futures
Returned Intellectuals, Placemaking, and Radical Imagination
Metagraffiti
Graffiti Art and the Urban Image in Latin America
Imprisoned Minds
Lost Boys, Trapped Men, and Solutions from Within the Prison
Hollywood Unions
Hollywood Unions
Grieving Pregnancy
Memorializing Loss in Japanese Buddhism and American Catholicism
God's Waiting Room
Racial Reckoning at Life's End
Caribbean Inhospitality
The Poetics of Strangers at Home
Caribbean Inhospitality juxtaposes the Caribbean’s reputation for being hospitable to foreigners with the alienation of the Caribbean citizen-subject from nations they call home. Reading literary, cinematic, and digital texts, Natalie Lauren Belisle demonstrates that the inhospitality is institutionalized through the aesthetic, reproducing itself in the laws that condition belonging and membership in the Caribbean nation/state.
Becoming an Expert Caregiver
How Structural Flaws Shape Autism Carework and Community
Transformed States
Medicine, Biotechnology, and American Culture, 1990-2020
Rutgers Then and Now
Two Centuries of Campus Development, A Historical and Photographic Odyssey
Post-Crisis Leadership
Resilience, Renewal, and Reinvention in the Aftermath of Disruption
Persisting Pandemics
Syphilis, AIDS, and COVID
Making the Human
Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans
Lifting the Shadow
Reshaping Memory, Race, and Slavery in U.S. Museums
Inside Tenement Time
Suss, Spirit, and Surveillance
Inaccessible Access
Rethinking Disability Inclusion in Academic Knowledge Creation
Inaccessible Access
Rethinking Disability Inclusion in Academic Knowledge Creation
Cinema under National Reconstruction
State Censorship and South Korea’s Cold War Film Culture
Cinema under National Reconstruction
State Censorship and South Korea's Cold War Film Culture
Children as Social Butterflies
Navigating Belonging in a Diverse Swiss Kindergarten
Black Feminist Anthropology, 25th Anniversary Edition
Theory, Politics, and Poetics
Walking East Harlem
A Neighborhood Experience
Remittance as Belonging
Global Migration, Transnationalism, and the Quest for Home
Pandemonium Logs
Sioux Falls, South Dakota 2020-2022
In 2015, Ben Miller moved from New York City to Sioux Falls, South Dakota to focus on his writing. Working a day job in a hospital, he had a front-row seat to the Covid-19 pandemic. His book gives voice to the doctors, nurses, staff, and patients he observed.