American Cultural Studies, Paperback

Reducere. Newspapers today are filled with stories of corruption and strife in America's Chinatowns, reversing the popular view of Chinese Americans as a mod...

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...

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...

Reducere. Description"A fascinating, totally seductive read " --Eula Biss, author of Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays and On Immunity: An Inoculatio...

Reducere. Drawing on architecture, performance art, history and visual theory, In Search of African American Space explores the creative relationship between...

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

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. Literary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. When Did You First Realize You Were Black? Provoked by the fraught relationship between th...

Reducere. Originally published in 1833, the autobiography of the Sauk war chief Black Hawk was the first memoir written by a Native American who was actively...

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...

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

"The single most illuminating work on America and the movies" (The Kansas City Star) the story of how a shy boy from Chicago crashed Hollywood and ...

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

Reducere. OCCUPY THIS BODY: A Buddhist Memoir is the story of Religious Studies Professor Sharon A. Suh's struggle to overcome a childhood of forced-feeding,...

Highly acclaimed dissection of the "new racism, " from one of the greatest radical black intellectuals of our time Many in the United States, inclu...

Reducere. Grave Injustice is the powerful story of the ongoing struggle of Native Americans to repatriate the objects and remains of their ancestors that wer...

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

Reducere. Cultural Writing. Asian-American Studies. Shortly after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, more than 100, 000 Japanese Americans were uprooted fro...

DescriptionWinner of the Eleanor Maccoby Book Award in Developmental Psychology, American Psychological AssociationWinner of a PROSE Award, Associa...

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

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

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...

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

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

... this is a remarkable book. It will occupy a significant place in the critical literature of African Studies." --International Journal of Africa...

Reducere. This survey is a synthesis of the economic, social, cultural, and political history of the Atlantic slave trade, providing the general reader with ...

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

DescriptionOver one hundred years since it premiered on cinema screens, D. W. Griffith's controversial photoplay The Birth of a Nation continues to...

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

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

Reducere. By challenging some of the most cherished theological beliefs to emerge within black Christian communities, Pinn encourages us to extend the range ...

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

Reducere. Winner: Native American and Indigenous Studies Association's Best Subsequent Book 2017 Honorable Mention: Labriola Center American Indian National ...

Reducere. Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. PAPER BELLS is a striking, new collection by poet Phan Nhi n Hao, depicting his American life as a Vietname...

What could middle-class German supermarket shoppers buying eggs and impoverished coffee farmers in Guatemala possibly have in common? Both groups u...

Reducere. Poetry. African American Studies. Latino/Latina Studies. "Up jumps the boogie. That's almost all one needs to say. Murillo is headbreakingly brilli...

Reducere. Writer and filmmaker Laura Mulvey is widely regarded as one of the most challenging and incisive contemporary feminist cultural theorists. Part of ...

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

Reducere. The Jewish Metropolis: New York from the 17th to the 21st Century covers the entire sweep of the history of the largest Jewish community of all tim...

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

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...

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

Contributor(s): Author: Audra SimpsonMohawk Interruptus is a bold challenge to dominant thinking in the fields of Native studies and anthropology. ...

Reducere. DescriptionSeeing Through the World introduces the reader to the work of German-Swiss philosopher, poet, and intellectual mystic Jean Gebser (1905-...

Reducere. A major contribution to one of the central themes in social theory, this book integrates multiple case studies of the relationship between water co...

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...

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

Reducere. Mission is the responsibility of a global church. The heart of "mission" is the drive to cross geographical, cultural and social barriers in order ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Khalid Akil WhiteAfterword by: Thurman V. White JrForeword by: Dr Larry Wayne EllisFatherhood is one of the most challengin...

Reducere. Literary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. "This collection of essays reveals an impressive new voice, both poignant and observant. M...

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...

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

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

Reducere. Shades of Difference addresses the widespread but little studied phenomenon of colorism--the preference for lighter skin and the ranking of individ...

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. 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. 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...

"Avery Gordon's stunningly original and provocatively imaginative book explores the connections linking horror, history, and haunting. " -George Li...

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

Elaborating the history, variety, pervasiveness, and function of the adornments and ornaments with which we beautify ourselves, this book takes in ...

Reducere. Responsible Test Use, an interdisciplinary reference source for promoting quality assurance in testing, consists of 85 training cases that illustra...

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. August, 1968. Fifteen-year-old preacher's kid leaves her small Midwestern town (where pronouncing "tortilla" correctly meant you were bilingual, an...

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

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. Poetry. Native American Studies. Deluxe redesign of the Gerald Lampert Award-winning classic. On the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Bric...

Reducere. Col. Bruce Hampton was a charismatic musical figure who launched and continued to influence the jam band genre over his fifty-plus years performing...