Rutgers University Press: 415 books
Raising the Race
Black Career Women Redefine Marriage, Motherhood, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Winner of the 2017 Race, Gender, and Class Section Book Award from the American Sociological Association
Popular discussions of professional women often dwell on the conflicts faced by the woman who attempts to “have it all,” raising children while climbing up the corporate ladder. Yet...
Developing Faculty in Liberal Arts Colleges
Aligning Individual Needs and Organizational Goals
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Developing Faculty Members in Liberal Arts Colleges analyzes the career stage challenges these faculty members must overcome, such as a lack of preparation for teaching, limited access to resources and mentors, and changing expectations for excellence in teaching, research, and service to become academic...
Trafficked Children and Youth in the United States
Reimagining Survivors
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Trafficked children are portrayed by the media—and even by child welfare specialists—as hapless victims who are forced to migrate from a poor country to the United States, where they serve as sex slaves. But as Elzbieta M. Gozdziak reveals in Trafficked Children in the United States, the picture...
Feeding the Future
School Lunch Programs as Global Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
A century ago, only local charities existed to feed children. Today 368 million children receive school lunches in 151 countries, in programs supported by state and national governments. In Feeding the Future, Jennifer Geist Rutledge investigates how and why states have assumed responsibility for...
Mapping "Race"
Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Researchers commonly ask subjects to self-identify their race from a menu of preestablished options. Yet if race is a multidimensional, multilevel social construction, this has profound methodological implications for the sciences and social sciences. Race must inform how we design large-scale data...
From Workshop to Waste Magnet
Environmental Inequality in the Philadelphia Region
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Like many industrialized regions, the Philadelphia metro area contains pockets of environmental degradation: neighborhoods littered with abandoned waste sites, polluting factories, and smoke-belching incinerators. However, other neighborhoods within and around the city are relatively pristine. This...
Children as Caregivers
The Global Fight against Tuberculosis and HIV in Zambia
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
In Zambia, due to the rise of tuberculosis and the closely connected HIV epidemic, a large number of children have experienced the illness or death of at least one parent. Children as Caregivers examines how well intentioned practitioners fail to realize that children take on active caregiving roles...
by Susan Ohmer, Kevin Sandler, Alla Gadassik
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
From the earliest motion pictures and cartoons of the 1900s, to the latest 3D animated feature and CGI blockbuster, animation has always been a part of the cinematic experience. While the boundaries between animation and live-action have often been carefully tended, the ubiquity of contemporary computer...
The Indecent Screen
Regulating Television in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019
The Indecent Screen explores clashes over indecency in broadcast television among U.S.-based media advocates, television professionals, the Federal Communications Commission, and TV audiences. Cynthia Chris focuses on the decency debates during an approximately twenty-year period since the Telecommunications...
Empowering Men of Color on Campus
Building Student Community in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
While recruitment efforts toward men of color have increased at many colleges and universities, their retention and graduation rates still lag behind those of their white peers. Men of color, particularly black and Latino men, face a number of unique challenges in their educational careers that often...
by Adrienne Rose Bitar
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Diet books contribute to a $60-billion industry as they speak to the 45 million Americans who diet every year. Yet these books don’t just tell readers what to eat: they offer complete philosophies about who Americans are and how we should live. Diet and the Disease of Civilization interrupts the...
The Insecure City
Space, Power, and Mobility in Beirut
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Fifteen years after the end of a protracted civil and regional war, Beirut broke out in violence once again, forcing residents to contend with many forms of insecurity, amid an often violent political and economic landscape. Providing a picture of what ordinary life is like for urban dwellers surviving...
There Has to be a Better Way
Lessons from Former Urban Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
Teacher attrition has long been a significant challenge within the field of education. It is a commonly-cited statistic that almost fifty percent of beginning teachers leave the field within their first five years, to the detriment of schools, students, and their own career development. There Has...
Treating AIDS
Politics of Difference, Paradox of Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
There is an inherently powerful and complex paradox underlying HIV/AIDS prevention—between the focus on collective advocacy mobilized to combat global HIV/AIDS and the staggeringly disproportionate rates of HIV/AIDS in many places. In Treating AIDS, Thurka Sangaramoorthy examines the everyday...