Rutgers University Press imprint: 413 books
Invisible Asians
Korean American Adoptees, Asian American Experiences, and Racial Exceptionalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
The first Korean adoptees were powerful symbols of American superiority in the Cold War; as Korean adoption continued, adoptees' visibility as Asians faded as they became a geopolitical success story—all-American children in loving white families. In Invisible Asians, Kim Park Nelson analyzes the...
by Jennifer Ann Ho
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
The sheer diversity of the Asian American populace makes them an ambiguous racial category. Indeed, the 2010 U.S. Census lists twenty-four Asian-ethnic groups, lumping together under one heading people with dramatically different historical backgrounds and cultures. In Racial Ambiguity in Asian American...
Beautiful Terrible Ruins
Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Once the manufacturing powerhouse of the nation, Detroit has become emblematic of failing cities everywhere—the paradigmatic city of ruins—and the epicenter of an explosive growth in images of urban decay. In Beautiful Terrible Ruins, art historian Dora Apel explores a wide array of these images,...
Activism and the Olympics
Dissent at the Games in Vancouver and London
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2014
The Olympics have developed into the world's premier sporting event. They are simultaneously a competitive exhibition and a grand display of cooperation that bring together global cultures on ski slopes, shooting ranges, swimming pools, and track ovals. Given their scale in the modern era, the Games...
The Migration of Musical Film
From Ethnic Margins to American Mainstream
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Movie musicals are among the most quintessentially American art forms, often celebrating mobility, self-expression, and the pursuit of one’s dreams. But like America itself, the Hollywood musical draws from many distinct ethnic traditions. In this illuminating new study, Desirée J. Garcia examines...
The Cool and the Crazy
Pop Fifties Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
*Explosive! Amazing! Terrifying! You won’t believe your eyes! *
Such movie taglines were common in the 1950s, as Hollywood churned out a variety of low-budget pictures that were sold on the basis of their sensational content and topicality. While a few of these movies have since...
When Sex Changed
Birth Control Politics and Literature between the World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In When Sex Changed, Layne Parish Craig analyzes the ways literary texts responded to the political, economic, sexual, and social values put forward by the birth control movements of the 1910s to the 1930s in the United States and Great Britain.
Discussion of contraception and related topics...
Widows' Words
Women Write on the Experience of Grief, the First Year, the Long Haul, and Everything in Between
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019
Becoming a widow is one of the most traumatic life events that a woman can experience. Yet, as this remarkable new collection reveals, each woman responds to that trauma differently. Here, forty-three widows tell their stories, in their own words.
Some were widowed young, while others were...
by Ingrid A. Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Increasingly, educational researchers and policy-makers are finding that extracurricular programs make a major difference in the lives of disadvantaged youth, helping to reduce the infamous academic attainment gap between white students and their black and Latino peers. Yet studies of these programs...
Amigas y Amantes
Sexually Nonconforming Latinas Negotiate Family
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Amigas y Amantes (Friends and Lovers) explores the experiences of sexually nonconforming Latinas in the creation and maintenance of families. It is based on forty-two in-depth ethnographic interviews with women who identify as lesbian, bisexual, or queer (LBQ). Additionally, it draws from fourteen...
LatinAsian Cartographies
History, Writing, and the National Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
LatinAsian Cartographies examines how Latina/o and Asian American writers provide important counter-narratives to the stories of racial encroachment that have come to characterize twenty-first century dominant discourses on race. Susan Thananopavarn contends that the Asian American and Latina/o presence...
Domestic Negotiations
Gender, Nation, and Self-Fashioning in US Mexicana and Chicana Literature and Art
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
This interdisciplinary study explores how US Mexicana and Chicana authors and artists across different historical periods and regions use domestic space to actively claim their own histories. Through “negotiation”—a concept that accounts for artistic practices outside the duality of resistance/accommodation—and...
Transitive Cultures
Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Texts written by Southeast Asian migrants have often been read, taught, and studied under the label of multicultural literature. But what if the ideology of multiculturalism—with its emphasis on authenticity and identifiable cultural difference—is precisely what this literature resists?
Transitive...
Twentieth-Century Sentimentalism
Narrative Appropriation in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Today’s critical establishment assumes that sentimentalism is an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literary mode that all but disappeared by the twentieth century. In this book, Jennifer Williamson argues that sentimentalism is alive and well in the modern era. By examining working-class literature...