American Cultural Studies, Paperback

Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories for American Studies and Cultural Studies in an updated edition Since its initial...

Suitable for those engaged in the study of popular culture, American studies, cultural studies, cinema and visual studies, as well as to the genera...

The publication of Cultural Studies 1983 is a touchstone event in the history of Cultural Studies and a testament to Stuart Hall's unparalleled con...

Focuses on the American city as a fantastic geography constrained neither by media nor rigid genre boundaries. The book builds on a mix of theoreti...

Comparative philosophy is an important site for the study of non-Western philosophical traditions, but it has long been associated with "East-West"...

DescriptionAsian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics brings together groundbreaking essays that speak to the relationship between Asian ...

Reducere. The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature offers an engaging survey of Asian American literature from the nineteenth century to the pres...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Cathy J. Schlund-VialsEditor: K. Scott WongEditor: Linda Trinh VoBorn out of the Civil Rights and Third World Liberation mo...

Reducere. 2012 Honorable mention for the Book Award in Cultural Studies from the Association for Asian American Studies Arkansas, 1943. The Deep South during...

Reducere. Food Studies in Latin American Literature presents a timely collection of essays analyzing a wide array of Latin American narratives through the le...

Reducere. During the early 1970s, the nation's turbulence was keenly reflected in Austin's kaleidoscopic cultural movements, particularly in the city's progr...

This book honors Cornelia Bodea, academician, scholar, professor, teacher, and, above all, friend and colleague to three generations of American an...

DescriptionRoots in Reverse explores how Latin music contributed to the formation of the n gritude movement in the 1930s. Taking Senegal and Cuba a...

Reducere. At each step of this journey through American cultural history, Louis Menand has an original point to make: he explains the real significance of Wi...

Presents an innovative history of funk music focused on the performers, regarding them as intellectuals who fashioned a new aesthetic. Utilizing mu...

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This guide to Native American history and culture outlines new ways of understanding American Indian cultures in contemporary contexts. Native Amer...

DescriptionAlthough cross-cultural encounter is often considered an economic or political matter, beauty, taste, and artistry were central to cultu...

Reducere. Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds explores the critically neglected intersection of Native and African American cultures. This interdisciplinary col...

This study, based on newspapers, journals, oral interviews, and academic studies examines nineteenth and twentieth century cultural changes through...

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Reducere. Winner of the Charles C. Eldredge Prize In this book, Alan Trachtenberg reinterprets some of America's most significant photographs, presenting the...

Reducere. DescriptionGerald Vizenor counters the cultural notions of dominance, false representations, and simulations of absence, and, by documents, experie...

Reducere. Literary Nonfiction. Drama. African & African American Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Middle Eastern Studies. Performance Studies. Women's Studies. Is i...

From Mouse to Mermaid, an interdisciplinary collection of original essays, is the first comprehensive, critical treatment of Disney cinema. Address...

Reducere. "Sylvia Wynter's work is distinctively Caribbean. From her exciting and rigorous interventions on 'folk culture' and its profound meaning for the s...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is a thought-provoking look at Native American stories, cultural institutions, and ways of knowing, and what they can teach us abou...

Reducere. In Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics, Sean Guynes and Martin Lund bring together a series of essays that contextualize the hi...

This book examines the foundational parameters and historical mission of the field of African-American Studies, which emerged from a broad-based Bl...

Demonstrates that, similar to their white counterparts, African American authors - including Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison and Countee Cullen - have...

Reducere. Higher education hails Asian American students as model minorities who face no educational barriers given their purported cultural values of hard w...

Reducere. Although its early films featured racial caricatures and exclusively Caucasian heroines, Disney has, in recent years, become more multicultural in ...

Continuing in the vein of his ever questioning the conventions of race melodrama through the lens of which so much American racial and cultural his...

Reducere. From his film festival debut Hard Eight to ambitious studio epics Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson's unique c...

DescriptionThe intertribal pow-wow is the most widespread venue for traditional Indian music and dance in North America. Now in paperback, Tara Bro...

Reducere. Bednarowski is especially good at elucidating the theological daring of these new American religions. . . . [She] demonstrates in a very few pages ...

This compelling look at the wellsprings of cultural vitality during one of the most dehumanizing experiences in history provides a fresh perspectiv...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Piyali BhattacharyaAuthor: Tarfia FaizullahLiterary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. GOOD GIRLS...

Infrapolitics: A Handbook elaborates conditions of existence that exceed any definition of world bound to political determinations. It offers a gen...

This critical and inclusive edited collection offers an overview of the musical in relation to issues of race, culture and identity. Bringing toget...

This volume explores the ways in which the cultural, scientific and political myth of whiteness influenced the identities and integration of Nordic...

Reducere. Challenging the stereotypes and myths that typically characterize students' understanding of antiquity, Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations: From P...

Reducere. A powerful account of how cultural anxieties about race shaped American notions of mental illness The civil rights era is largely remembered as a t...

Reducere. This collection brings together a group of important and influential essays on Mexican history and historiography by Eric Van Young, a leading scho...

Reducere. Food studies, once trendy, has settled into the public arena. In the academy, scholarship on food and literary culture constitutes a growing river ...

Reducere. The first Latin American to receive a Nobel Prize for Literature, the Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is often characterized as a heali...

Appalachia resides in the American imagination at the intersections of race and class in a very particular way, in the tension between deep histori...

Reducere. DescriptionPoetry. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. 2017 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Transgender Poetry. Through a combination of lyri...

Reducere. Poetry. LGBT Studies. Native American Studies. Chip Livingston confronts and immerses himself into new cultural territories in his second poetry co...

A study of American love in the twentieth century that unravels the mass of images that define our ideas of love and romance, revealing that the ex...

This book offers English translations of more than one hundred articles published in Black newspapers in Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, and Uruguay. Esse...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Vanessa Angaelica VillarrealPoetry. Latino/Latina Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. BEAST MERIDIAN narrates the fi...

A recent coinage within international relations, "nation branding" designates the process of highlighting a country's positive characteristics for ...

From his cavernous voice and unparalleled artistry to his fearless struggle for human rights, Paul Robeson was one of the twentieth century's great...

Reducere. This landmark volume compiled by Jacob K. Olupona and Rowland O. Abiodun brings readers into the diverse world of If --its discourse, ways of think...

DescriptionSpike Lee's challenging film Bamboozled (2000) is often read as a surface level satire of blackface minstrelsy. Careful analysis, howeve...

Reducere. After years of occupying a vexed position in the American academy, Philippine studies has come into its own, emerging as a trenchant and dynamic sp...

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Reducere. Poetry. African American Studies. Peformance Studies. TWERK unveils an identity shaped by popular media and history, code switching and cultural in...

Reducere. In this refreshingly candid intellectual autobiography, Robert C. Smith traces the evolution of his consciousness and identity from his early days ...

Reducere. Featuring more than 100 readings from a wide range of sources and writers, The Pop, Rock, and Soul Reader has established itself as the #1 reader o...

Reducere. In this ethnographic examination of Mexican-American and white girls coming of age in California's Central Valley, Julie Bettie turns class theory ...

In this collaboratively authored work, five distinguished sociologists develop an ambitious theoretical model of "cultural trauma"-and on this basi...

This book considers the persistence of the Nordic (Scandinavian) Model, especially on the Anglo-American left. The emphasis is on three areas: huma...

Reducere. Winner of the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation (1995) From its beginnings in hip hop culture, the dense rhythms and aggressi...

Winner of the 2006 Andr s Bello Award for Memory and Ibero-American ThoughtIn this evocatively written book, Germ n Pati o Ossa presents the cultur...

Reducere. In 1971, French jazz critics Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli co-wrote Free Jazz/Black Power, a treatise on the racial and political implicat...

The most detailed set of studies ever on all aspects of one of the most beautifully decorated Egyptian non-royal tombs, new in paperback This lavis...

Reducere. Winner of an American Educational Studies Association Critics Choice Award and Choice Magazine s Outstanding Academic Book Award, and voted one of ...

Reducere. Cultural Writing. Asian American Studies. In his long-overdue first collection of essays, noted journalist and NPR commentator Andrew Lam explores ...