American Culture

Reducere. DescriptionThe second edition of Popular Culture in American Historyupdates the text for a contemporary readership and exploresacademic development...

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

For many Americans of both right and left political persuasions, the Russian bear is more of a bugbear. On the right, the country is still mentally...

Considers the misappropriation of African American popular culture through various genres, largely Hip Hop, to argue that while such cultural creat...

Focusing on Chinese-American ventures, this expanded and revised edition chronicles the investments that have marked China's astonishing growth in ...

Reducere. An extraordinary compilation of the plants used by North American native peoples for medicine, food, fiber, dye, and a host of other things. Anthro...

Now in an updated edition, this insightful book explores the ways U.S. movies, music, TV, fast food, sports, and even clothing styles have molded a...

Examines American screen culture and its power to create and sustain values. Looking specifically at the ways in which nostalgia colours the vision...

Reassesses American elitisms of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Arguing that Henry Adams, Henry James and Edith Wharton articulated...

Collecting from the Margins: Material Culture in a Latin American is the first anthology to provide a sustained discussion of the modern practice o...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. The aftermath of Japan's 1945 military defeat left its public institutions in a state of deep crisis; virtually every major source of state legitim...

Kevin Munger marshals novel data and survey evidence to argue that generational conflict will define the politics of the next decade. He shows that...

DescriptionCan reading make us better citizens? In Crossing borders and queering citizenship, Feghali crafts a sophisticated theoretical framework ...

Gunslinging justice examines gun violence in Western films and literature alongside changes in justifiable homicide and gun rights in the United St...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dayna Bowen MatthewJust Medicine offers us a new, effective, and innovative plan to regulate implicit biases and eliminate ...

Reducere. Utilizing written sources as well as nationally representative survey data, Daniel H. Krymkowski analyzes the extent and causes of African American...

Reducere. DescriptionThis title is a comprehensive resource for understanding all aspects of the American flag and its relationship to the American people. T...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Andrew BallNumber of pages: 272Collection: New Directions in Religion and LiteraturePublication date...

This book is for students and instructors of American literature and culture. It features two dozen scholarly essays on different aspects of the th...

The collection explores the various, often conflicting representations of the war offered by US writers, artists, intellectuals, and political figu...

Publisher: American Occupational TherapyNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 282 x 218 x 34Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(...