American Cultural Studies, Paperback

Reducere. DescriptionMulticultural Psychology combines research with actual real narratives to examine multicultural issues and capture the richness of diver...

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

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...

DescriptionIn 1938, Superman debuted, jumping off the pages of Action Comics #1. In the cultural context of the Great Depression and World War II, ...

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

Reducere. DescriptionBlack, White, and in Color offers a long-awaited collection of major essays by Hortense Spillers, one of the most influential and inspir...

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...

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

Updated and expanded throughout with new illustrations and new material, this is the long- awaited second edition of a highly acclaimed and interdi...

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

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

DescriptionThis collection brings together interviews with a compelling range of musicians, artists, and activists from around the globe. What does...

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

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...

The question "Do black landscapes matter?" cuts deep to the core of American history. From the plantations of slavery to contemporary segregated ci...

Reducere. Edited by Chris Honeyman and Andrea Kupfer Schneider and featuring 106 contributors, The Negotiator's Desk Reference is simply the most comprehensi...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Long Sixties is a concise and engaging treatment of the major political, social, and cultural developments of this tumultuous period...

Reducere. From Rumi poetry and Sufi dancing or whirling, to expressions of Africanicity and the forging of transnational bonds to remote locations in Senegal...

Reducere. Educating for citizenship was the original mission of American schools, but for decades that knowledge-also known as civics education-has been in d...

Reducere. To understand the aboriginal roots of lacrosse, one must enter a world of spiritual belief and magic where players sewed inchworms into the innards...

Reducere. Enduring Critical Poses examines the stories, poems, plays, and histories centered in the Great Lakes region of North America, where the Anishinaab...

A Short History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean presents a concise account of the full sweep of U.S. military invasions an...

Reducere. Native Foodways is the first scholarly collection of essays devoted exclusively to the interplay of Indigenous religious traditions and foodways in...

Reducere. The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida's long history of publishing Latin America...

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

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

Reducere. DescriptionPublished in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University. The Pueblo Revolt of ...

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...

American social welfare policy has produced a health system with skyrocketing costs, a disability insurance program that consigns many otherwise pr...

Reducere. During the early colonial encounter, children's books were among the first kinds of literature produced by US writers introducing the new colony, i...

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

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...

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

Reducere. Tradition, community, and pride are fundamental aspects of the history of Appalachia, and the language of the region is a living testament to its r...

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

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. Founded by Mexican American men in 1929, the League of United Latin-American Citizens (LULAC) has usually been judged according to Chicano national...

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...

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

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

Reducere. For over two centuries, America has celebrated the same African-American culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon...

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...

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. The first comprehensive view of women on the North American Plains, these essays explore the richness, variety, and complexity of their experiences...

Reducere. Raciolinguistics reveals the central role that language plays in shaping our ideas about race and vice versa. The book brings together a team of le...

DescriptionIn Fighting for Our Place in the Sun, Richard D. Benson II examines the life of Malcolm X as not only a radical political figure, but al...

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

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

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. In Sound Alignments, a transnational group of scholars explores the myriad forms of popular music that circulated across Asia during the Cold War. ...

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

"A well-founded and presented description of the integral role that psychoactive substances played in ancient societies. . . . A unique addition to...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Imani PerryFor a nation that often optimistically claims to be post-racial, we are still mired in the practices of racial i...

Reducere. "A masterful overview of archaeological work on American gravestones and cemeteries that should be on the shelf of every student and scholar of mor...

Reducere. An important work in the field of diaspora studies for the past decade, this collection has inspired scholars and others to explore a trail blazed ...

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

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...

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

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

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...

DescriptionMultiplatform Media in Mexico is the first book to treat the exciting, interconnected fields of cinema, television, and internet in Mexi...

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

Opening a window onto a fascinating new world for English-speaking readers, this anthology offers popular and influential stories from over ten cou...

Reducere. Although a number of important studies of American slavery have explored the formation of slave cultures in the English colonies, no book until now...

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...

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

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. ... will make a splendid contribution to the fields of African-American and American urban, social and family history.... expanding the tradition t...

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...