Books published by Rutgers University Press

Examines the issue of national affiliation in cases where two nations have become one or one nation has become two. It uses the US Civil War as a case study to demonstrate loyalty and allegiance can be used. It analyses literary works written during and after the conflict to reveal that post-war literature was profoundly shaped by loyalty.

Highlights the power and continuing reverberations in contemporary politics, culture, and public policy of hurricane Katrina. It discusses how history, location, access to transportation, health care, and social position feed resilience, recovery, and prospects for the future of New Orleans and the Gulf region.

Highlights the power and continuing reverberations in contemporary politics, culture, and public policy of hurricane Katrina. It discusses how history, location, access to transportation, health care, and social position feed resilience, recovery, and prospects for the future of New Orleans and the Gulf region.

Connecting economic and social reforms to racial and class inequality, this counters the myth of steady race progress by analyzing how the federal government and local politicians have sometimes 'reformed' politics in ways that have amplified racism in the post civil-rights era.

Examines the complex, and often hidden, bodily worlds of diverse women in Argentina during a period of profound social upheaval. Set against the backdrop of a severe economic crisis and intensified social movement activism post-2001, this title illuminates how multiple forms of injustice converge in and are contested through women's bodies.

Presents an alternative approach to anorexia, long considered the epitome of a Western obsession with individualism, beauty, self-control, and autonomy. Through detailed ethnographic investigations, this book looks at the heart of what it means to live with anorexia on a daily basis.

On December 8, 1941, as the Pacific War reached the Philippines, Yay Panlilio, a Filipina-Irish American, faced a question with no easy answer: how could she contribute to the war? This memoir narrates her experience as a journalist, leader in the Philippine resistance against the Japanese, and lover of the guerrilla general Marcos V Augustin.

Surveillance is not simply about monitoring or tracking individuals and their data - it is about the structuring of power relations through human, technical, or hybrid control mechanisms. This title gathers together some of the very best researchers studying surveillance and discipline in contemporary public schools.

In an adult-dominated society, teenagers are often shut out of participation in politics. This title offers an account of young people's attempts to get involved in community politics, and documents the battles waged to form youth movements and create social change in schools and neighborhoods.

Presents an exploration of pregnancy in two different cultures - Japan and Israel - both of which medicalize pregnancy. This title focuses on 'low-risk' or 'normal' pregnancies, using cultural comparison to explore the complex relations among ethnic ideas about procreation, medical models of pregnancy care, and local modes of maternal agency.

Focuses on the Philippines - which views itself as the 'home of the great Filipino worker' - and the multilevel brokering process that manages and sends workers worldwide. This title unravels the transnational production of Filipinos as ideal migrant workers by the state and explores how race, color, class, and gender operate.

Shows the social world of inner city African American girls and how they manage threats of personal violence. This title presents an account of how African American girls negotiate schools and neighborhoods governed by the so-called 'code of the street' - the form of street justice that governs violence in distressed urban areas.

Explores one of the major issues in Holocaust studies - the intersection of memory and ethics in artistic expression, particularly within literature. This work examines the shifting cultural contexts for Holocaust representation and reveals how writers articulate the shadowy borderline between fact and fiction, and between event and expression.

Aims to bring humor and wisdom to issues of culture, race, and religion. This work tells the story of an immigrant, working-class Chinese American family that settled in New York City during the 1930s and 1940s. It paints a portrait of the wonder and the woe of settling into a new land.

Documents the disproportionate representation of black Americans in the US criminal justice system. This book brings together twelve original essays by prominent scholars to examine not only the discrimination that is evident, but also the structural and cultural forces that have influenced and continue to perpetuate the situation.

Develops a useful framework for thinking about the American approach to shaping and managing scientific innovation. This book suggests that the history of science, technology, and politics is best understood as a negotiation of ongoing tensions between open and closed systems.

Explores the dilemma that gay Christians face in their attempts to reconcile their religious and sexual identities. This book introduces the ideologies and practices of two alternative, and competing, ministries that offer solutions for Christians who experience homosexual desire.

Provides insights into the judicial process of scientific inquiry by examining major decisions of the US Supreme Court, and advocacy efforts. Reliance on science in constitutional interpretation remains controversial. This book surveys and explains this conflict and also suggests changes in the ways that judicial decisions be made.

Displacements and Diasporas explores the transnational Asian American experience - one that crosses the Pacific and traverses the Americas from Canada to Brazil, from New York to the Caribbean. With an emphasis on anthropological and historical contexts, the essays show how the experiences of Asians have been shaped.

In the US, murderers, particularly those sentenced to death, are usually considered as entirely different from the rest of us. Sociologist Susan F. Sharp challenges perspective by reminding us that those facing a death sentence, in addition to being murderers, are brothers or sisters, mothers or fathers, daughters or sons.

A study of the relationship between earth's population explosion and the mass extinction of countless species of plant and animal communities. It is suggested that humans and their ancestors have had negative impacts on species biodiversity for nearly two million years, and that extinction rates have accelerated since the origins of agriculture.

Emily Noelle Ignacio explores how Filipinos have used the Internet's subtle, cyber, but very real social connections to construct and reinforce a sense of national, ethnic, and racial identity with distant others.

How do working parents provide care and mobilize the help that they need? Karen V. Hansen investigates the lives of working parents and the informal networks they construct to help care for their children. The book concludes with a series of policy suggestions intended to improve the environment in which working families raise children.

Environmental issues have become increasingly prominent in local struggles, national debates, and international policies. This volume provides a toolkit of vital concepts and a set of research models and analytic frameworks for researchers at all levels.

An in-depth look at the Raelian movement, founded in the 1970s by Rael, born in France as Claude Vorilhon. It traces Rael's philosophy and the formation of the Raelian subculture - radical sexual ethics, gnostic anthropocentricism, and ecotheology, showing how our worldviews have been shaped by globalization, postmodernism, and secular humanism.

This is the product of the insight and experiences of both Arabs and Jews at the School over the last two decades. The text addresses topics such as strategies for working with young people, development of effective learning environments and language as a bridge and obstacle.

Some critics describe science not as the solution to environmental problems, but as their source. Science itself is often a basis of controversy, as debates over global warming and environmental health risks show. This book explores the contributions and challenges presented when scientific authority enters the realm of environmental affairs.