American Culture

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

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. Contributor(s): Author: Doug GilesPUSS-I-FI-CA-TION: The act, or process, of a man being shamed, taught, lead, pastored, drugged or otherwise coerc...

Reducere. Offers suggestions to correct the dehumanization of African American children, and tells how to ensure that African American boys grow up to be str...

Reducere. Eschewing the conventional wisdom that places the origins of the American women s movement in the nostalgic glow of the late 1960s, Feminism Unfini...

Reducere. Thirteen of black America's most accomplished voices - from Spike Lee to Watler Mosley - share their vision for a self-determined, self-sufficient ...

Reducere. After five centuries of Eurocentrism, many people have little idea that Native American tribes still exist, or which traditions belong to what trib...

Reducere. The bestselling book that launched meth back into the nation's consciousness. Based on Reding's four years of reporting in the agricultural town of...

Reducere. It has long been argued that women, especially black women, have been relegated to a second-class status in American society, and despite modern ad...

*Includes pictures. *Explains the origins, religion, and social structure of the Inuit. *Includes a Bibliography for further reading. "We are told ...

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...

Americans have been fascinated by ruins as symbols of the past and now as symbols of the future. Empire of Ruins tells the story of what ruins have...

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...

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...

Reducere. The relationship between self-esteem and student achievement is analyzed in this book.

The words and evocative black/white photographs in this book provide a dramatic visual and spiritual portrayal of Native American culture. Quotatio...

Reducere. Make a Beautiful Way is nothing less than a new way of looking at history-or more correctly, the reestablishment of a very old way. For too long, E...

Taking up the New Hampshire newspaper industry as its case study, American Intelligence unpacks the ways in which an unprecedented quantity of prin...

Reducere. Addressing the many unique academic challenges that face black males--from low self-esteem, absenteeism, fatherlessness, and gangs to not accepting...

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

DescriptionPictures with Purpose, the seventh volume in the Double Exposure series, explores images from the NMAAHC's collection of nineteenth and ...

Reducere. In 1952, Jack Faragasso, a young art student, hired a model for a photo shoot. The model was Bettie Page before her career took off to the heights ...

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

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

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

DescriptionAmerican Indian customs, stories, and history come to life in this important and authoritative reference, artfully designed and packaged...

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

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

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

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH IN BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRSA new biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and...

Reducere. Description From a Nickel to an Empire Before the gut-busting eating contests and franchise stores across the country, there was a single man, Nath...

Reducere. *Includes pictures. *Explains the origins, culture, and social structure of the Navajo. *Includes a Bibliography for further reading. From the "Tra...

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

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

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

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

Reducere. Now in paperback, this New York Times bestselling work of undercover journalism offers "a compelling and cogent argument that eating healthily ough...

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

Reducere. DescriptionRichard Conrad grew up in Washington, D.C., studied engineering and economics at Vanderbilt University, earned a master's degree in Econ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Devon A. Mihesuah"Mihesuah's work should be required reading for elementary and upper level teachers, college instructors a...

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

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert SullivanFor centuries the hunting of the whale was what defined the Makah, a Native American tribe in Neah Bay, but ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Deanna M. KennedyEditor: Charles F. HarringtonEditor: Amy Klemm VerbosAmerican Indian business is booming. The number of Am...

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Reducere. Originally released in 1933, "The Mis-Education of the Negro" continues to resonate today, raising questions that readers are still trying to answe...

Reducere. The myth of the Trickster--ambiguous creator and destroyer, cheater and cheated, subhuman and superhuman--is one of the earliest and most universal...

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...

Reducere. Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war-torn na...

Reducere. Read Moustafa's Op-ed on Trump's Executive Order Against Muslims in The Guardian Winner of the 2016 Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Arab American Book Aw...

Reducere. For thousands of years, Native medicine was the only medicine on the North American continent. It is America's original holistic medicine, a powerf...

America is becoming a class-based society.It is now conventional wisdom to focus on the wealth of the top 1 percent--especially the top 0.01 percen...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Britt RusertExposes the influential work of a group of black artists to confront and refute scientific racism. Traversing t...

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

A work of narrative journalism exposing the complex roots and huge damage of the American opioid crisis. Perspectives take in the lives of doctors,...

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

Reducere. Over the past decade, Mary Pipher has been a great source of wisdom, helping us to better understand our family members. Now she connects us with t...

Reducere. The Cultural Front charts the extraordinary upsurge of cultural activity and theory in America that began during the Great Depression and embraced ...

American political thought has been shaped by those who fought back against social inequality, economic exclusion, the denial of political represen...

Reducere. Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano has described U.S. and Latin American culture as continually hobbled by amnesia--unable, or unwilling, to remember...

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 ...

Reducere. "An incisive look at immigration, assimilation, and national identity" (Kirkus Reviews) and the landmark immigration law that transformed the face ...

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. Where can one go to get a comprehensive and entertaining account of the most significant events, individuals and social processes of African-Americ...

A brilliantly illuminating and darkly comic tale of the ongoing financial and political crisis in America The financial crisis that exploded in 200...

Reducere. The fascinating story of the rise of Asian Americans as a politically and socially influential racial groupThis groundbreaking book is about the tr...

Reducere. When Black Culture and Black Consciousness first appeared thirty years ago, it marked a revolution in our understanding of African American history...

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...

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

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