American Culture

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Heather Andrea WilliamsIn this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves ac...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Lori Kido LopezChoice Top 25 Academic TitleHow activists and minority communities use media to facilitate social change and...

Jeffrey Dahmer. Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Over the past thirty years, serial killers have become iconic figures in America, the subject of made-f...

Offers an original theoretical paradigm for thinking through race and nature by showing that diverse constructions of nature are deployed as a mean...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Peter TurchinWE ARE ON THE WRONG TRACK Seventy percent of Americans (and counting) think so. The real wage of a US worker t...

Reducere. Millions of Americans take the Bible at its word and turn to like-minded local ministers and TV preachers, periodicals and paperbacks for help in f...

Details a five-step process for creating a culture of excellence. Jacqueline Burandt provides ways to use award applications as a benchmark for dev...

Specially-commissioned essays analyse the history, politics, art and literature of Latin America from the nineteenth century to the present day. A ...

Reducere. In Veil and Vow, Aneeka Ayanna Henderson places familiar, often politicized questions about the crisis of African American marriage in conversation...

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 ...

DescriptionSins of Our Masonic Fathers offers a broad but thorough analysis of various historical aspects of Freemasonry as it unfolded in the Unit...

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Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Jerome McGannIllustration(s): 11 halftonesNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions...

Reducere. Koritha Mitchell analyzes canonical texts by and about African American women to lay bare the hostility these women face as they invest in traditio...

Reducere. Esalen is on the edge. Located in Big Sur, California, just off Highway 1, Esalen is, geographically speaking, a literal cliff, hanging rather prec...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this classic book on the meaning of multiculturalism in larger American society, Gary Okihiro explores the significance of Asian Amer...

DescriptionThe generational and social thinking changes that caused an unprecedented shift toward support for gay marriage How did gay marriage--so...

Reimagines the American 19th century through a sweeping interdisciplinary engagement with oceans, genres, and timeEmergent Worlds re-locates ninete...

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In the United States, people are deeply divided along lines of race, class, political party, gender, sexuality, and religion. Many believe that his...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Carroll QuigleyProfessor Carroll Quigley presents crucial "keys" without which 20th century political, economic, and milita...

Contributor(s): Author: Peter Dale ScottNow in a new edition updated through the unprecedented 2016 presidential election, this provocative book ma...

This book demonstrates how the explosion of distinctly American fiction in the 1920s-including work by authors such as Hemingway, Cather, Dos Passo...

In News for the Rich, White, and Blue, Nikki Usher recasts the challenges facing journalism in terms of place, power, and inequality. Drawing on mo...

Everyday Movies documents the twentieth-century rise of portable film projectors. It demonstrates that since World War II, the vast majority of mov...

The place of women's rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, an...

Zara Dinnen analyzes a range of contemporary novels, films, and artworks to contend that we live in the condition of the "digital banal, " not noti...

From the collages of Romare Bearden and paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat to the fiction of Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison to the music of Louis A...

DescriptionOur current less-is-more impulse may have contemporary trappings, says David E. Shi, but the underlying ideal has been around for centur...

How queerness and radical politics intersected--earlier than you thought. Well before Stonewall, a broad cross section of sexual dissidents took ad...

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The Latinx revolution in US culture, society, and politics"Latinx" (pronounced "La-teen-ex") is the gender-neutral term that covers one of the larg...

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

Reducere. DescriptionFifty years ago, John Steinbeck's now classic novel, The Grapes of Wrath, captured the epic story of an Oklahoma farm family driven west...

This historical study shows how the peach emerged as a viable commodity precisely when the South was desperate for an improved reputation. The book...

At 1: 27 on the morning of August 4, 2005, Herbert Manes fatally stabbed Robert Monroe, known as Shorty, in a dispute over five dollars. It was a h...

Reducere. Movie audiences seem drawn, almost compelled, toward tales of the horrific and the repulsive. Partly because horror continues to evolve radically--...

The all-American spirit of midcentury modernism, in three US State Department-sponsored exhibitionsThis revelatory volume recovers and presents the...

Reducere. Zombie stories are peculiarly American, as the creature was born in the New World and functions as a reminder of the atrocities of colonialism and ...

Reducere. Twentieth-century Los Angeles has been the locus of one of the most profound and complex interactions between variant cultures in American history....

Reducere. DescriptionThe Little Melting Pot of America books are a fantastic way to introduce children to their own, as well as others' heritage / culture / ...

Reducere. In the 1960s and 1970s, America experienced a sports revolution. New professional sports franchises and leagues were established, new stadiums were...

Analysing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, the author argues that the emerging understa...

This modern classic by one of our leading scholars seeks to explain the values prevalent in today's mass culture by tracing them back to their root...

Reducere. Radicals in the Barrio uncovers a long and rich history of political radicalism within the Mexican and Chicano working class in the United States. ...

Reducere. A strong sense of unity and tradition frames a fascinating history of Manchester, New Hampshire's Franco-American community. Author Robert B. Perre...

Reducere. Awards🏆Nominee (1998) - Oregon Book Awards - (Nonfiction)Contributor(s): Author: Quintard TaylorThe American West is mistakenly known as a region w...

Reducere. "The bookshelf next to my desk holds Christian classics and books I refer to often. Idols sits on that shelf, for Herb's lucid critique has been an...

Reducere. In its heyday Motown Records was a household word, one of the most famous and successful black-owned businesses in American history, and, arguably,...

Reducere. From Major League Baseball's inception in the 1880s through World War II, team owners enjoyed monopolistic control of the industry. Despite the pla...

The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw both the consolidation of American print culture and the establishment of an African American literary ...

Reducere. Internationally known as a writer, hostess, and patron of the arts of the twentieth century, Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879-1962) is not known for her exp...

Reducere. A reevaluation of psychoanalytic theory, based on a Freudian interpretation of the history of Western civilization

One of Choice's Significant University Press Titles for Undergraduates, 2010-2011To be fat hasn't always occasioned the level of hysteria that this...

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Contributor(s): Author: Greg LukianoffAuthor: Jonathan HaidtThe New York Times bestseller Something has been going wrong on many college campuses i...

Why does a disease that killed only a handful of Americans like ebola provoke panic, but the flu-which kills tens of thousands each year-is dismiss...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Dana PolanIllustration(s): 25 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimens...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): George M. (Francis A. McAnaney Professor Emeritus of History, , Francis A. McAnaney Professor Emer...

Reducere. Beginning with Native American stories, this invaluable resource provides hands-on activities that inspire children to understand and appreciate Na...

From Native Americans' use of tobacco for solemnizing oaths to the spread of New Age religious beliefs in Haight-Ashbury coffeehouses, drugs have b...

Reducere. From Kelly J. Baker, author of the INDIE-award-winning Sexism Ed, comes an account of how the U.S. fascination with zombie apocalypses has shaped A...

Reducere. The fact that governments lie is generally accepted today, but World War I was the first global conflict in which millions of young men were sacrif...

Reducere. Gnostic America is a reading of current American culture, politics, and religious life according to the ancient movement known as Gnosticism. In it...

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Maureen H. O'ConnellNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 163 x 236 x 32Cover type: HardbackRedes...

Reducere. Rita Hayworth: From American Love Goddess to the Face of Alzheimer's is a tribute to an actress who epitomized glamour and beauty during the 20th c...

Reducere. The history of Norwegian settlement in the United States has often been told through the eyes of prominent men, while the women are imagined in the...

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Catherine Ceniza ChoyNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 235 x 159 x 27Cover type: HardbackRede...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dennis TedlockEditor: Barbara TedlockThis collection of writings is from authors who are either Indians who have tried to m...