Rutgers University Press: 415 books
Criminalization/Assimilation
Chinese/Americans and Chinatowns in Classical Hollywood Film
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019
Criminalization/Assimilation traces how Classical Hollywood films constructed America’s image of Chinese Americans from their criminalization as unwanted immigrants to their eventual acceptance when assimilated citizens, exploiting both America’s yellow peril fears about Chinese immigration and...
by Diana Rickard
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
In Sex Offenders, Stigma, and Social Control, Diana Rickard provides the reader with an in-depth view of six sex offenders, exploring how they manage to cope with their highly stigmatized role as social outcasts. The book explores how these individuals construct their sense of self. By placing their...
The New Neighborhood Senior Center
Redefining Social and Service Roles for the Baby Boom Generation
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
In 2011, seven thousand American “baby boomers” (those born between 1946 and 1964) turned sixty-five daily. As this largest U.S. generation ages, cities, municipalities, and governments at every level must grapple with the allocation of resources and funding for maintaining the quality of life,...
EC Comics
Race, Shock, and Social Protest
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019
Entertaining Comics Group (EC Comics) is perhaps best-known today for lurid horror comics like Tales from the Crypt and for a publication that long outlived the company’s other titles, Mad magazine. But during its heyday in the early 1950s, EC was also an early innovator in another genre of comics:...
Destructive Sublime
World War II in American Film and Media
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
The American popular imagination has long portrayed World War II as the “good war,” fought by the “greatest generation” for the sake of freedom and democracy. Yet, combat films and other war media complicate this conventional view by indulging in explosive displays of spectacular violence....
Essential Facts in Cardiovascular Medicine
Board Review and Clinical Pearls
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
The treatment and management of cardiovascular disease has seen rapid advances in recent years; as a trainee or practitioner of cardiovascular medicine, it can be difficult to find the time to stay abreast of recent updates in information. Unlike standard exhaustive text and reference titles, Essential...
Kabbalistic Revolution
Reimagining Judaism in Medieval Spain
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
The set of Jewish mystical teachings known as Kabbalah are often imagined as timeless texts, teachings that have been passed down through the millennia. Yet, as this groundbreaking new study shows, Kabbalah flourished in a specific time and place, emerging in response to the social prejudices that...
by Kevin Sheth, Margy McCullough, Syed Kazmi
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
When the brain suffers an injury, the effects can be delayed and unpredictable. Cerebrospinal fluid can slowly build up, causing dangerously high levels of intracranial pressure (ICP), and the brain tissue can be displaced into adjacent compartments, resulting in cerebral herniation syndrome (CHS)....
Iatrogenicity
Causes and Consequences of Iatrogenesis in Cardiovascular Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Iatrogenesis is the occurrence of untoward effects resulting from actions of health care providers, including medical errors, medical malpractice, practicing beyond one’s expertise, adverse effects of medication, unnecessary treatment, inappropriate screenings, and surgical errors. This is a huge...
The Ex-Prisoner's Dilemma
How Women Negotiate Competing Narratives of Reentry and Desistance
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
When a woman leaves prison, she enters a world of competing messages and conflicting advice. Staff from prison, friends, family members, workers at halfway houses and treatment programs all have something to say about who she is, who she should be, and what she should do. The Ex-Prisoner’s Dilemma...
My Fair Ladies
Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial Eves
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
The fantasy of a male creator constructing his perfect woman dates back to the Greek myth of Pygmalion and Galatea. Yet as technology has advanced over the past century, the figure of the lifelike manmade woman has become nearly ubiquitous, popping up in everything from Bride of Frankenstein to Weird...
A Hundred Acres of America
The Geography of Jewish American Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Jewish writers have long had a sense of place in the United States, and interpretations of American geography have appeared in Jewish American literature from the colonial era forward. But troublingly, scholarship on Jewish American literary history often limits itself to an immigrant model, situating...
by Ana Muñiz
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Based on five years of ethnography, archival research, census data analysis, and interviews, Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundaries reveals how the LAPD, city prosecutors, and business owners struggled to control who should be considered “dangerous” and how they should be policed...
The Transatlantic Zombie
Slavery, Rebellion, and Living Death
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Our most modern monster and perhaps our most American, the zombie that is so prevalent in popular culture today has its roots in African soul capture mythologies. The Transatlantic Zombie provides a more complete history of the zombie than has ever been told, explaining how the myth’s migration...