Rutgers University Press: 415 books
Why Would Anyone Do That?
Lifestyle Sport in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Triathlons, such as the famously arduous Ironman Triathlon, and “extreme” mountain biking—hair-raising events held over exceedingly dangerous terrain—are prime examples of the new “lifestyle sports” that have grown in recent years from oddball pursuits, practiced by a handful of characters,...
by José Anguiano, Marcel Brousseau, Olivia Cadaval
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
Race and Cultural Practice in Popular Culture is an innovative work that freshly approaches the concept of race as a social factor made concrete in popular forms, such as film, television, and music. The essays collectively push past the reaffirmation of static conceptions of identity, authenticity,...
Embodying the Problem
The Persuasive Power of the Teen Mother
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
The dominant narrative of teen pregnancy persuades many people to believe that a teenage pregnancy always leads to devastating consequences for a young woman, her child, and the nation in which they reside. Jenna Vinson draws on feminist and rhetorical theory to explore how pregnant and mothering...
Landscapes of Activism
Civil Society, HIV and AIDS Care in Northern Mozambique
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
AIDS activists are often romanticized as extremely noble and selfless. However, the relationships among HIV support group members highlighted in Landscapes of Activism are hardly utopian or ideal. At first, the group has everything it needs, a thriving membership, and support from major donors. Soon,...
by Debbie Lee-DiStefano, Kathleen López, Martin A. Tsang
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
For centuries, Asian immigrants have been making vital contributions to the cultures of North and South America. Yet in many of these countries, Asians are commonly viewed as undifferentiated racial “others,” lumped together as chinos regardless of whether they have Chinese ancestry. How might...
Lesson Plans
The Institutional Demands of Becoming a Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
In Lesson Plans, Judson G. Everitt takes readers into the everyday worlds of teacher training, and reveals the complexities and dilemmas teacher candidates confront as they learn how to perform a job that many people assume anybody can do. Using rich qualitative data, Everitt analyzes how people make...
Border Cinema
Reimagining Identity through Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
The rise of digital media and globalization’s intensification since the 1990s have significantly refigured global cinema’s form and content. The coincidence of digitalization and globalization has produced what this book helps to define and describe as a flourishing border cinema whose aesthetics...
by Blair Davis
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
Comic Book Movies explores how this genre serves as a source for modern-day myths, sometimes even incorporating ancient mythic figures like Thor and Wonder Woman’s Amazons, while engaging with the questions that haunt a post-9/11 world: How do we define heroism and morality today? How far are we...
by Bruce G. Haffty, Sharad Goyal, Sanjay Aneja
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Precision medicine is a rapidly-evolving field in the management of cancer. The use of novel molecular or genetic signatures in local-regional management is still in its infancy. Precision Radiation Oncology demystifies this state-of-the-art research and technology.
By describing current...
College in Prison
Reading in an Age of Mass Incarceration
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Over the years, American colleges and universities have made various efforts to provide prisoners with access to education. However, few of these outreach programs presume that incarcerated men and women can rise to the challenge of a truly rigorous college curriculum. The Bard Prison Initiative is...
Holocaust Icons
Symbolizing the Shoah in History and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The Holocaust has bequeathed to contemporary society a cultural lexicon of intensely powerful symbols, a vocabulary of remembrance that we draw on to comprehend the otherwise incomprehensible horror of the Shoah. Engagingly written and illustrated with more than forty black-and-white images, Holocaust...
Politics Across the Hudson
The Tappan Zee Megaproject
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
The State of New York is now building one of the world’s longest, widest, and most expensive bridges—the new Tappan Zee Bridge—stretching more than three miles across the Hudson River, approximately thirteen miles north of New York City. In Politics Across the Hudson, urban planner Philip Plotch...
by Lydia H Liu, John Cayley, Russell Scott Valentino
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2019
Since the 1970s, the field of Translation Studies has entered into dialogue with an array of other disciplines, sustaining a close but contentious relationship with literary translation. At Translation’s Edge expands this interdisciplinary dialogue by taking up questions of translation across sub-fields...
Race among Friends
Exploring Race at a Suburban School
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Many saw the 2008 election of Barack Obama as a sign that America had moved past the issue of race, that a colorblind society was finally within reach. But as Marianne Modica reveals in Race Among Friends, attempts to be colorblind do not end racism—in fact, ignoring race increases the likelihood...