Rutgers University Press: 415 books
Cinema Civil Rights
Regulation, Repression, and Race in the Classical Hollywood Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
From Al Jolson in blackface to Song of the South, there is a long history of racism in Hollywood film. Yet as early as the 1930s, movie studios carefully vetted their releases, removing racially offensive language like the “N-word.” This censorship did not stem from purely humanitarian concerns,...
Walking on the Wild Side
Long-Distance Hiking on the Appalachian Trail
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
The most famous long-distance hiking trail in North America, the 2,181-mile Appalachian Trail—the longest hiking-only footpath in the world—runs along the Appalachian mountain range from Georgia to Maine. Every year about 2,000 individuals attempt to “thru-hike” the entire trail, a feat equivalent...
Constituting Central American–Americans
Transnational Identities and the Politics of Dislocation
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
Central Americans are the third largest and fastest growing Latino population in the United States. And yet, despite their demographic presence, there has been little scholarship focused on this group. Constituting Central American-Americans is an exploration of the historical and disciplinary conditions...
Beyond Repair?
Mayan Women’s Protagonism in the Aftermath of Genocidal Harm
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
Beyond Repair? explores Mayan women’s agency in the search for redress for harm suffered during the genocidal violence perpetrated by the Guatemalan state in the early 1980s at the height of the thirty-six-year armed conflict. The book draws on eight years of feminist participatory action research...
Everyday Desistance
The Transition to Adulthood Among Formerly Incarcerated Youth
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
In Everyday Desistance, Laura Abrams and Diane J. Terry examine the lives of young people who spent considerable time in and out of correctional institutions as adolescents. These formerly incarcerated youth often struggle with the onset of adult responsibilities at a much earlier age than their more...
The Autobiography of Citizenship
Assimilation and Resistance in U.S. Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2015
At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States was faced with a new and radically mixed population, one that included freed African Americans, former reservation Indians, and a burgeoning immigrant population. In The Autobiography of Citizenship, Tova Cooper looks at how educators tried...
Guys Like Me
Five Wars, Five Veterans for Peace
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
Over the last few decades, as the United States has become embroiled in foreign war after foreign war, some of the most vocal activists for peace have been veterans. These veterans for peace come from all different races, classes, regions, and generations. What common motivations unite them and fuel...
by Steven Gerrard
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
When you think of British horror films, you might picture the classic Hammer Horror movies, with Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and blood in lurid technicolor. Yet British horror has undergone an astonishing change and resurgence in the twenty-first century, with films that capture instead the anxieties...
by Yoel Palgi, David Engel, Phyllis Palgi
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2016
In the spring of 1944, thirty-two young Palestinian Jews parachuted into Nazi-held Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Their goal was to encourage Jewish resistance where possible and to organize rescue schemes thwarting deportations to the death camps. Linking up in Yugoslavia and impelled by the hope...