Books published by Rutgers University Press

Examines how Latina/o cultural production has engaged with US militarism in the post-Vietnam era. Analysing literature alongside film, memoir and activism, Ariana E. Vigil highlights the productive interplay among social, political and cultural movements while exploring Latina/o responses to US intervention in Central America and the Middle East.

Offers an analysis of public health and family welfare through the lens of the tuberculosis preventorium. This book explains how the child-saving themes embedded in the preventorium movement continue to shape children's health care delivery and family policy in the United States.

Presents an analysis of the creation of the Japanese national school system based primarily on Japanese-language documents, a major step forward in the scholarship on this subject.

Over the past fifty years, Puerto Rican voters have roundly rejected any calls for national independence. Yet the rhetoric and iconography of independence have been defining features of Puerto Rican literature and culture. In this provocative new book, Maria Acosta Cruz investigates the roots and effects of this profound disconnect between cultural fantasy and political reality.

For over a century, movies have played an important role in our lives, entertaining us, often provoking conversation and debate. This title examines film culture at the turn of this century, at the precise moment when digital media are altering our historical relationship with the movies.

Drawing on his primary fieldwork in six countries, environmental researcher Timothy Doyle argues that there is, in fact, no one global environmental movement; rather, there are many, and the differences between them far outweigh their similarities.