American Culture

DescriptionIn this "urgently relevant"* collection featuring the landmark essay "The Case for Reparations, " the National Book Award-winning author...

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

In this pioneering work of cultural history, historian Anthony Harkins argues that the hillbilly-in his various guises of "briar hopper, " "brush a...

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

DescriptionIn this edited collection, Gioia Woods and her contributors bring together histories, biographies, close readings, and theories about th...

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...

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

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

Reducere. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Jewish immigrants upended Protestant control of vaudeville and the silent film industry. This book rejec...

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: Lori Kido LopezChoice Top 25 Academic TitleHow activists and minority communities use media to facilitate social change and...

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...

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

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...

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. In the early 1970s, the federal government began recognizing self-determination for American Indian nations. As sovereign entities, Indian nations ...

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 ...

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

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. The Columbus Affair engages in the intellectual, crisscrossing zigzag of a quagmire that is the Columbus Affair and hence demonstrates the major co...

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

From nineteenth-century American art and literature to comic books of the twentieth century and afterwards, Chad A. Barbour examines in From Daniel...

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

The American prison system has gone off the rails. Originally started in the country by King George III, the pre-American Revolutionary prisons wer...

The American prison system has gone off the rails. Originally started in the country by King George III, the pre-American Revolutionary prisons wer...

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

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. In this study of Christian Science and the culture in which it arose, Amy B. Voorhees emphasizes Mary Baker Eddy's foundational religious text, Sci...

Focuses on three seminal works in the history of American culture: the first full-length narrative film, D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation; th...

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

Reducere. Native American Ceremony and the Use of Sacred Plants. This comprehensive guide to the sacred plants traditionally used by Native Americans and oth...

Reducere. A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society America's great promise of equality has always rung...

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

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

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

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. 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. This wide-ranging archive, capturing more than four centuries of African American history and culture in one essential volume, is at once poignant,...

Reducere. In the summer of 1978, the B-52's conquered the New York underground. A year later, the band's self-titled debut album burst onto the Billboard cha...

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...

Provides a compelling explanation of something that has bedeviled a number of feminist scholars: why did popular authors like Edna Ferber continue ...

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

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

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

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Amanda FrostNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 222 x 143 x 24Cover type: Paperback / softbackR...

Reducere. Detroit City Is the Place to Be is one of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Best Books of 2012Once America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country...

Reducere. In this explosive account of wrongful acts and ensuing cover-ups, Jesse Ventura takes a systematic look at the wide gap between what the government...

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

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

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

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

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. Generation Rising traces the development of Providence Youth Student Movement (PrYSM), a grassroots, LGBTQ+ youth-led organization of Southeast Asi...

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

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

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

Reducere. DescriptionInvite Your Children To Enjoy The Rich And Beautiful Culture Of African American Muslims. Bashirah And The Amazing Bean Pie Shares A Fan...

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

DescriptionA fascinating journey through the origins of American tourism In the early nineteenth century, thanks to a booming transportation indust...

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

This book interrogates the white savior industrial complex by exploring how America continues to present an imagined Africa as a space for salvatio...

Reducere. Finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Book PrizeFour undocumented Mexican American students, two great teachers, one robot-building contest . . . and a...

Reducere. In this engrossing journey into the lives of psychopaths and their infamously crafty behaviors, the renowned psychologist Kevin Dutton reveals that...

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

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. 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...