Books published by Rutgers University Press

New Jersey has a varied and fascinating history - from its earliest Native American settlements, through its central role in the Revolutionary War, to its strategic position in the major events of our country's past. This guidebook includes information on forty-eight of the best sites for historical walks in New Jersey.

Presents a book-length collection of documents that spans the history of New Jersey, from the arrival of Dutch traders in the 1600s. Offering a balanced survey of New Jersey's history presented in the context of a changing nation, this volume is suitable for US history students at the high school and college levels.

Provides a full and balanced portrait of Fulgencio Batista. The author describes Batista's rise to power as part of a revolutionary movement and the intrigues and dangers that surrounded him. This volume focuses on Batista's role as a revolutionary leader from 1933 to 1934 and his image as a strongman in the years between 1934 and 1939.

This anthology reorients the field of domestic violence research by bringing attention to the structural forms of oppression in communities marginalized by race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, or social class. It is for courses in sociology, criminology, social work, and women's studies and provides information and resources for professionals.

In this revised and expanded, 21 educators call attention to racial disparities in the child welfare system by demonstrating how practices that are successful for white children are often not similarly successful for African American children.

Cheryl Clarke explores the relationship between the Black Arts Movement (BAM) and black women writers of the period, whose poems chart the emergence of a new and distinct black poetry and its relationship to the black community's struggle for rights and liberation.

As Krin Gabbard reveals in this book, we duly recognize the cultural heritage of African Americans in literature, music and art, but there is a disturbing pattern in the roles that blacks are asked to play - particularly in the movies.

These novellas appeared at the height of fin-de-siecle American fascination with Japanese culture. Usually dismissed by critics because of their stereotypical treatment of Asian women, they have been paired here to show how they defined and redefined contemporary misconceptions of the """"Orient"""".

This work is a historical account of the production, distribution, and consumption of pornography in Great Britain from the early 19th century to the turn of the 20th century.

In this collection of essays, artists, museum directors, and scholars of anthropology, law, art history, cultural studies and political science, discuss cultural appropriation and its implications. Over six sections from music to science, the relationship between culture and power is examined.