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Losing Culture
Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times
By David Berliner; Translated by Dominic Horsfall
Rutgers University Press
Around the world, you will hear complaints that people are losing their culture and their heritage. This study explores what is triggering this sense of cultural loss, to what ends this rhetoric gets deployed, and how anthropologists deal with their own feelings of nostalgia.
Diversity Regimes
Why Talk Is Not Enough to Fix Racial Inequality at Universities
Rutgers University Press
In Diversity Regimes, James M. Thomas uncovers a complex combination of meanings, practices, and actions that work to institutionalize universities’ commitments to diversity, but in doing so obscure, entrench, and even magnify existing racial inequalities. Drawing on two years of ethnographic field work at so-called “Diversity University,” Thomas provides new insights into the social organization of multicultural principles and practices.
Chronicles of a Radical Criminologist
Working the Margins of Law, Power, and Justice
By Gregg Barak
Rutgers University Press
Prominent criminologist Gregg Barak's new book, Chronicles of a Radical Criminologist, while remaining scholarly in its intent, departs from the typical academic format. This book is a a first-person account that examines the linkages between one scholar's experiences as a criminologist from the late 1960s to the present and the emergence and evolution of radical criminology as a challenge to developments in mainstream criminology.
Anthropological Lives
An Introduction to the Profession of Anthropology
Rutgers University Press
Anthropological Lives introduces readers to what it is like to be a professional anthropologist. It focuses on the work they do, the passions they have, the way that being an anthropologist affects the kind of life they lead. The book draws heavily on the experiences of twenty anthropologists interviewed by Virginia R. Dominguez and Brigittine M. French, as well as on the experiences of the two coauthors.
The Glass Church
Robert H. Schuller, the Crystal Cathedral, and the Strain of Megachurch Ministry
By Mark T. Mulder and Gerardo Martí
Rutgers University Press
Robert H. Schuller’s ministry—including the architectural wonder of the Crystal Cathedral and the polished television broadcast of Hour of Power—cast a broad shadow over American Christianity. Pastors flocked to Southern California to learn Schuller’s techniques. The President of United States invited him sit prominently next to the First Lady at the State of the Union Address. Muhammad Ali asked for the pastor’s autograph. It seemed as if Schuller may have started a second Reformation. And then it all went away. As Schuller’s ministry wrestled with internal turmoil and bankruptcy, his emulators—including Rick Warren, Bill Hybels, and Joel Osteen— nurtured megachurches that seemed to sweep away the Crystal Cathedral as a relic of the twentieth century. How did it come to this? The Glass Church examines the spectacular collapse of The Crystal Cathedral to better understand both the strength and fragility of Schuller’s ministry. The apparent success of the ministry obscured the many tensions that often threatened its future.
Scarlet and Black
Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History
Edited by Marisa J. Fuentes and Deborah Gray White
Rutgers University Press
Scarlet and Black documents the history of Rutgers’s connection to slavery, which was neither casual nor accidental—nor unusual. Like most early American colleges, Rutgers depended on slaves to build its campuses and serve its students and faculty. The contributors offer this history as a usable one—to strengthen Rutgers and help direct its course for the future.
The work of the Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Population in Rutgers History.
The work of the Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Population in Rutgers History.
Regulating Difference
Religious Diversity and Nationhood in the Secular West
Rutgers University Press
Transnational migration has contributed to the rise of religious diversity in Western societies. Regulating Difference employs a transatlantic comparison to show how nation-building, religious heritage-making and divergent interpretations of secularism are co-implicated in shaping religious diversity. It argues that religious diversity has become central for governing national and urban spaces.
Like Family
Narratives of Fictive Kinship
Rutgers University Press
For decades, social scientists have assumed that “fictive kinship” is a phenomenon associated only with marginal peoples and people of color in the United States. In this innovative book, Nelson reveals the frequency, texture and dynamics of relationships which are felt to be “like family” among the white middle-class.
Learning from Bryant Park
Revitalizing Cities, Towns, and Public Spaces
Rutgers University Press
Andrew M. Manshel helped transform New York’s Bryant Park from a blighted eyesore to a vibrant destination, then applied its strategies to an equally successful renewal project in a very different neighborhood: Jamaica, Queens. Here, he candidly describes what does (and doesn’t) work when coordinating urban redevelopment projects.
Far from Mecca
Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean
By Aliyah Khan
Rutgers University Press
Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean is the first academic book on the fiction, poetry, and music of Islam and Muslims in the English-speaking Caribbean. Khan focuses on Guyana, Trinidad, and Jamaica to argue for a regional continuity of Afro- and Indo-Muslim historical and cultural presence.
Damsels and Divas
European Stardom in Silent Hollywood
By Agata Frymus
Rutgers University Press
Damsels and Divas examines the careers of three European stars of silent Hollywood: Pola Negri, Vilma Bánky and Jetta Goudal. Through the interrogation of their star personae − as depicted by their on-screen presence, film magazines, fan letters, popular press and promotional material – it analyses the meanings of Europeanness and whiteness in the United States.
Charting Your Path to Full
A Guide for Women Associate Professors
By Vicki L. Baker; Foreword by Pamela L. Eddy
Rutgers University Press
Charting Your Path to Full is a data- and literature-informed resource aimed at helping women in the professoriate advance in their careers, regardless of discipline and institution type. Vicki L. Baker’s wealth of consulting and research insights provide a compelling and accessible approach to supporting women academics as they re-envision their careers.
Carbon Criminals, Climate Crimes
By Ronald C. Kramer; Foreword by Rob White
Rutgers University Press
Carbon Criminals, Climate Crimes analyzes climate change from a criminological perspective. Four state-corporate crimes are examined: continued extraction of fossil fuels and rising carbon emissions; political omission related to the mitigation of emissions; socially organized denial; and climate crimes of empire. The final chapter reviews policies to achieve climate justice.
Unmanning
How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare
Rutgers University Press
Unmanning studies the conditions that create unmanned platforms in the United States through a genealogy of experimental, pilotless planes flown between 1936 and 1992. Rather than treating the drone as a result of the war on terror, this book examines contemporary targeted killing through a series of failed experiments to develop unmanned flight in the twentieth century. These experiments are tied to histories of global control, cybernetics, racism and colonialism. Drone crashes and failures call attention to the significance of human action in making technopolitics that comes to be opposed to “man” and the paradoxes at their basis.
The Children in Child Health
Negotiating Young Lives and Health in New Zealand
By Julie Spray
Rutgers University Press
A journey into the lives of children coping in a world compromised by poverty and inequality, The Children in Child Health challenges the invisibility of children’s perspectives in health policy and argues that paying attention to what children do is critical for understanding the practical and policy implications of these experiences.
Sports Movies
Rutgers University Press
Sports Movies covers a broad spectrum of baseball, basketball, football, and boxing films. Describing the traditional formulas that have made these movies such crowd-pleasers, it also explores how the genre’s attitudes have changed over the years, especially regarding key issues like class, race, masculinity, and women in sports.
Revolutionizing Women's Healthcare
The Feminist Self-Help Movement in America
Rutgers University Press
Revolutionizing Women’s Healthcare is the story of a feminist experiment: the self-help movement. Tired of doctors who saw them as silly little girls, shame over birth control, abortions in back alleys, and little control over their reproductive lives, feminists created the self-help movement. In an effort to revolutionize women’s healthcare they founded clinics, created books and movies, raided medical institutions, performed abortions, and created national organizations.
Radio's Second Century
Past, Present, and Future Perspectives
Edited by John Allen Hendricks; Foreword by Michael Brown
Rutgers University Press
One of the first books to examine the status of broadcasting on its one hundredth anniversary, Radio’s Second Century investigates both vanguard and perennial topics relevant to radio’s past, present, and future. As the radio industry enters its second century of existence, it continues to be a dominant mass medium with almost total listenership saturation despite rapid technological advancements that provide alternatives for consumers.
Radio's Second Century
Past, Present, and Future Perspectives
Edited by John Allen Hendricks; Foreword by Michael Brown
Rutgers University Press
One of the first books to examine the status of broadcasting on its one hundredth anniversary, Radio’s Second Century investigates both vanguard and perennial topics relevant to radio’s past, present, and future. As the radio industry enters its second century of existence, it continues to be a dominant mass medium with almost total listenership saturation despite rapid technological advancements that provide alternatives for consumers.
Marriage and Health
The Well-Being of Same-Sex Couples
Rutgers University Press
Evidence shows that married couples have better overall health than unmarried people. Scholars and policy makers contend that same-sex marriage provide similar benefits as well. Marriage and Health represents the forefront of marriage and health research on same-sex couples. This collection of essays presents new perspectives that address the challenges faced by same-sex couples in multiple domains of well-being.
Marriage and Health
The Well-Being of Same-Sex Couples
Rutgers University Press
Evidence shows that married couples have better overall health than unmarried people. Scholars and policy makers contend that same-sex marriage provide similar benefits as well. Marriage and Health represents the forefront of marriage and health research on same-sex couples. This collection of essays presents new perspectives that address the challenges faced by same-sex couples in multiple domains of well-being.
Making the Scene in the Garden State
Popular Music in New Jersey from Edison to Springsteen and Beyond
Rutgers University Press
Making the Scene in the Garden State explores New Jersey’s rich musical heritage through stories about the musicians, listeners and fans who came together to create sounds from across the American popular music spectrum. From the beginnings of recording in Thomas Edison’s factories to Bruce Springsteen’s early years at the Upstage Club, and beyond, the book examines the sounds, sights and textures of music scenes in New Jersey.
Intimate Geopolitics
Love, Territory, and the Future on India’s Northern Threshold
By Sara Smith
Rutgers University Press
Intimate Geopolitics is the story of love and territory in the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in India’s Jammu and Kashmir State. This book takes on global processes of “demographic fever dreams,” which animate political movements, by understanding them in a deeply rooted local context and through the lives of ordinary people making decisions about love, babies, and the future.
Intimate Geopolitics
Love, Territory, and the Future on India's Northern Threshold
By Sara Smith
Rutgers University Press
Intimate Geopolitics is the story of love and territory in the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in India’s Jammu and Kashmir State. This book takes on global processes of “demographic fever dreams,” which animate political movements, by understanding them in a deeply rooted local context and through the lives of ordinary people making decisions about love, babies, and the future.
Cultural Anxieties
Managing Migrant Suffering in France
Rutgers University Press
Cultural Anxieties is a compelling ethnography about Centre Minkowska, a transcultural psychiatry clinic in Paris, France. From her unique position as both observer and staff member, Stéphanie Larchanché explores the challenges of providing non-stigmatizing mental healthcare to migrants, and she identifies practical routes for improving caregiving practices.
Cinema '62
The Greatest Year at the Movies
Rutgers University Press
Challenging the common assumption that the early 1960s were a drab time for American film, this book makes the bold case that 1962 was a peak year for the movies, giving audiences a prime mix of adult, artistic, and uncompromising work from Hollywood veterans, hot young directors, and international auteurs.
A Mexican State of Mind
New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture
Rutgers University Press
A Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture is the story Mexican migrant creativity in New York City since 9/11 focusing on youth productions in hip hop, the arts and labor advocacy.
Citizen Power
A Citizen Leadership Manual Introducing the Art of No-Blame Problem Solving
Rutgers University Press
CITIZEN POWER gives all Americans the know how to become no-blame problem solvers and be part of what is emerging as a new model for a citizen driven national public service.
Hollywood Diplomacy
Film Regulation, Foreign Relations, and East Asian Representations
Rutgers University Press
While tracing both Hollywood’s internal foreign relations protocols and external regulatory interventions by the Chinese government, the U.S. State Department, the Office of War Information, and the Department of Defense, Hollywood Diplomacy contends that film regulation has played a key role in shaping images of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean ethnicities according to the political mandates of U.S. foreign policy.
Cleveland Jews and the Making of a Midwestern Community
Edited by Sean Martin and John J. Grabowski
Rutgers University Press
This volume gathers an array of voices to tell the stories of Cleveland’s twentieth century Jewish community. Strong and stable after an often turbulent century, the Jews of Cleveland had both deep ties in the region and an evolving and dynamic commitment to Jewish life.
Scarlet and Black, Volume Two
Constructing Race and Gender at Rutgers, 1865-1945
Rutgers University Press
Scarlet and Black, Volume Two continues the work of the Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Population in Rutgers History. This latest volume includes an introduction to the period from the end of the Civil War through WWII , a study of the first black students at Rutgers and New Brunswick Theological Seminary, and profiles of the earliest black women to matriculate at Douglass College.
Welcome to Wherever We Are
A Memoir of Family, Caregiving, and Redemption
Rutgers University Press
In this extraordinary memoir, Deborah Cohan shares her story of caring for her elderly father, a man who was often generous and loving, but who also subjected her to a lifetime of cruelty, rage, and controlling behavior. Trained as a sociologist and family violence counselor, Cohan reflects on how she healed from decades of emotional abuse.
The Great White Way
Race and the Broadway Musical
Rutgers University Press
The Great White Way reveals the racial politics, content, and subtexts that have haunted musicals for almost one hundred years from Show Boat (1927) to Hamilton (2015). It investigates the thematic content of the Broadway musical and considers how musicals work on a structural level, allowing them to simultaneously present and hide their racial agendas. New archival research will have theater fans and scholars forever rethinking how they view this popular American entertainment.
Rebuilding Jewish Life in Germany
Edited by Jay Howard Geller and Michael Meng
Rutgers University Press
Featuring essays by scholars of history, literature, television, and sociology, Rebuilding Jewish Life in Germany illuminates important aspects of Jewish life in Germany since 1949, including institution building, the internal dynamics and changing demographics of the Jewish community, and the central role of Jewish writers and public intellectuals.
Extraordinarily Ordinary
Us Weekly and the Rise of Reality Television Celebrity
Rutgers University Press
Extraordinarily Ordinary offers a critical analysis of the production of a distinct form of twenty-first century celebrity constructed through the exploding coverage of reality television cast members in Us Weekly magazine, unpacking the ways in which the magazine helped promote a broader intensification of discourses of ordinariness or “just being yourself” in the production of contemporary celebrity.
East of East
The Making of Greater El Monte
Rutgers University Press
East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte is an edited collection of thirty-one essays that trace the experience of a California community over three centuries. Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral history, and creative nonfiction, it provides a radical new history of El Monte and South El Monte.
East of East
The Making of Greater El Monte
Rutgers University Press
East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte is an edited collection of thirty-one essays that trace the experience of a California community over three centuries. Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral history, and creative nonfiction, it provides a radical new history of El Monte and South El Monte.
An Athletic Director’s Story and the Future of College Sports in America
Rutgers University Press
An Athletic Director’s Story is the story of Robert Mulcahy’s transforming decade as Rutgers University athletic director. His first-hand account describes the challenges awaiting him in 1998: To elevate the athletics program’s assets – coaches and staffs, student athletes, facilities, and school pride – from hardly known to national prominence and achievement in NCAA Division I sports.
After Authority
Global Art Cinema and Political Transition
By Kalling Heck
Rutgers University Press
After Authority contends that art cinema’s constitutive ambiguity is a product of its having been forged in and around moments of transition from authoritarianism or totalitarianism to democracy. Kalling Heck compares films from Italy, Hungary, South Korea, and the United States in order to explore the political potentials of ambiguity in art cinema.
Dialogues
Ilya Kabakov and Viktor Pivovarov, Stories about Ourselves
Edited by Ksenia Nouril
Rutgers University Press
This exhibition catalog brings together key works by Russian conceptualists Ilya Kabakov and Viktor Pivovarov, whose art depicted the absurdities of everyday life in the Soviet era. It not only includes nearly 100 pages of full-color illustrations, but also provides complete English translations of the texts that appear in the volume, plus new interviews with each artist. Published in partnership with the Zimmerli Museum.
Those Were the Days
Why All in the Family Still Matters
By Jim Cullen
Rutgers University Press
This is the first full-length study of All in the Family, a show that was remarkably popular even as it dared to address such taboo topics as rape, abortion, and racial prejudice. Through a close analysis of the sitcom’s main characters, Jim Cullen demonstrates how it was able to appeal to a broad spectrum of American viewers.
The Journey Before Us
First-Generation Pathways from Middle School to College
Rutgers University Press
Why is college completion so closely linked to social class? In The Journey Before Us, Laura Nichols looks at the experiences of aspiring first-generation college students from middle-school to young adulthood and shows what must change in order to improve college pathways and graduate more students.
The George Washington Bridge
Poetry in Steel
Rutgers University Press
Revised and expanded, Michael Rockland's rich narrative presents perspectives on the George Washington Bridge spanning history, architecture, engineering, transportation, design, the arts, politics, and even post-9/11 mentalities. This new edition brings new insight since its initial publication in 2008, including a new chapter on the infamous “Bridgegate” Chris Christie-era scandal of 2013.
Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body
Materialisms, Technologies, Ecologies
Rutgers University Press
Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body explores the extent to which the body, when moving about active body spaces (the gymnasium, the ball field, the lab, the running track, the beach, or the stadium) and those places less often connected to physical activity (the home, the street, the classroom, the automobile), is bounded to technologies of life and living, as well as to the political arrangements that seek to capitalize upon such frames of biological vitality. To do so, the authors problematize the rise of active body science (kinesiology, sport and exercise sciences, performance biotechnology) and the effects these scientific interventions have on embodied, lived experience. Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body offers a groundbreaking departure from representationalist tendencies and orthodoxies brought about by the cultural turn in sport and physical cultural studies. It brings the moving body and its physics back into focus: re-centering moving flesh as the locus of social order, environmental change, and the global political economy.
Pyrrhic Progress
The History of Antibiotics in Anglo-American Food Production
Rutgers University Press
Mass-introduced after 1945, antibiotics helped revolutionize post-war agriculture, but food producers soon became dependent on routine antibiotic use to sustain and increase production. Pyrrhic Progress analyses over half a century of antibiotic use, regulation, and resistance in US and British food production.
Phenomenal Justice
Violence and Morality in Argentina
Rutgers University Press
How do the victims and perpetrators of the Argentinian dictatorship experience transitional justice on their own terms? Grounded in phenomenological anthropology and the anthropology of emotion, Phenomenal Justice establishes a new theoretical basis that is faithful to the uncertainties of justice and truth in the aftermath of human rights violations.
Intervention Narratives
Afghanistan, the United States, and the Global War on Terror
By Purnima Bose
Rutgers University Press
Intervention Narratives examines contradictory cultural representations of the US intervention in Afghanistan that justify an imperial foreign policy. Bose demonstrates that contemporary imperialism operates on an ideologically diverse terrain by marshaling familiar tropes of entrepreneurship, pet love, and Orientalist stereotypes to enlist support for the war across the political spectrum.
Implementing Inequality
The Invisible Labor of International Development
Rutgers University Press
An ethnographic study of development work in postwar Angola, Implementing Inequality demonstrates how the international development industry’s internal social dynamics inadvertently replicate global inequalities. Underestimating the intense relational work of the development implementariat, its in-country implementation agents, development sabotages itself and must revisit how to assesses its work and workers.
Guilty People
By Abbe Smith
Rutgers University Press
In Guilty People, law professor and longtime criminal defense attorney Abbe Smith gives us a thoughtful and honest look at people under trial, from petty criminals to rapists and murderers. Telling compelling stories about real cases, she reveals how individuals get embroiled in the justice system and what happens to them there.
Global Mental Health
Latin America and Spanish-Speaking Populations
Edited by Javier I Escobar
Rutgers University Press
Global Mental Health provides an outline of the field of mental health with a particular focus on Latin America and the Spanish-speaking world. The book details evidence-based approaches being implemented globally and presents ongoing state of the art research on major mental disorders taking place in Latin America.
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