Culture and Identity

This critical and inclusive edited collection offers an overview of the musical in relation to issues of race, culture and identity. Bringing toget...

A consideration of the role of clothes in establishing personality, and the influence and significance of changing fashion as a social and cultural...

Proposing a comprehensive account of the global fashion industry this book aims to present fashion as a social and cultural fact. Drawing on six pr...

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Reducere. In sixteen linked essays, Nobel Prize--winning economist Amartya Sen discusses India's intellectual and political heritage and how its argumentativ...

Exploring popular culture and national identity in post-revolutionary Iran, this accessible and innovative book based on multi-disciplinary researc...

Reducere. Available for the first time in English, Cruz Miguel Ortiz Cuadra's magisterial history of the foods and eating habits of Puerto Rico unfolds into ...

India is an immensely diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly different convictions, widely divergent customs and a veritable feast of ...

Packed full of clear topic summaries, knowledge check questions and sample exam-style questions and answers with commentaries, this guide will help...

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. Are you wrestling with questions surrounding your gender that just don't seem to go away? Do you want answers to questions about your gender identi...

With the notion of 'identity politics' having sparked debate on the left, regarding the crossover between ideas about race and ideas about class, A...

Labyrinths of Deceit. Culture, Modernity and Identity in the Nineteenth century - Richard J. Walker

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Reducere. 'Has the world gone mad?'...this is a question that we've heard time and again during the last years. Everyone is convinced that something is wrong...

This research collection explores the ongoing interaction between sport, media, and society throughout important periods in history, from the 19th ...

A philosophical-cultural exploration, this book expands the discussion of "class" from a novel perspective. Following the current debates about wea...

Attempts to challenge the virtual exclusion of the male perspective from Middle Eastern studies of gender. The text investigates the ways in which ...

Reducere. The introduction and 17 essays in The Colors of Nature movingly address the question, What is the earth to people of color? Exploring history, disp...

One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler's Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Argui...

This is the first of four workbooks covering the prescribed core vocabulary for CCEA GCSE French. This book addresses the 'Identity, Lifestyle and ...

Publisher: Rutgers University PressAuthor(s): Stuart Z. CharmeNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 25Cover type: Paper...

Part exhibition catalog, part magazine, Identity is a visual exploration of contemporary artists views on personal, cultural and national identity....

Reducere. In this small foreign body / under this heavy, twisted tongue / is the fighting spirit of / three golden stars and a sun / still gleaming with prid...

Reducere. This is the story of God whispering, "What no one wants, I cherish." The daughter of a mail-order bride and a busboy from San Francisco's Chinatown...

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture the true scope and significanc...

Reducere. DescriptionWho do you think you are? That's a question bound up in another: What do you think you are? Gender. Religion. Race. Nationality. Class. ...

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture the true scope and significanc...

Reducere. In this ethnographic examination of Mexican-American and white girls coming of age in California's Central Valley, Julie Bettie turns class theory ...

This book explores the role that arts and culture can play in supporting global international development, arguing that arts and culture are fundam...

This book assesses the role of identity and Chinese face culture in Chinese foreign policy by analysing China's political and economic retaliation ...

Through readings of postcolonial theory and examination of post-9/11 novels, film, and hip-hop music, this book studies how North African immigrant...

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Reducere. From Africa to Brazil traces the flows of enslaved Africans from identifiable points in the broad region of Africa called Upper Guinea to Amazonia,...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Prof. Qitao GuoIllustration(s): 8 color illus.; 5 tables; 1 mapNumber of pages: 303Publication ...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Erving GoffmanNumber of pages: 160Collection: Penguin Modern ClassicsPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 130 x...

Health Communication and Breast Cancer among Black Women: Cancer, Identity, Spirituality, and Strength analyzes information collected from focus gr...

Reducere. Recent pieces by NPR, the BBC, and Forbes have called attention to the power of voice--positing that "your voice is the secret to getting hired" an...

Reducere. Does God's all-encompassing will restrict our freedom? Does God's ownership and mastery over us diminish our dignity? The fear that God is a threat...

Reducere. Winner, 2020 Outstanding Book Award, Critical/Cultural Studies Division of the National Communication Association Recent pieces by NPR, the BBC, an...

Reducere. The 1.5 Generation Korean Diaspora: A Comparative Understanding of Identity, Culture, and Transnationalism provides insights into the contemporary ...

Examines literary, philosophical, and cultural influences on Mahler's thought and work from the standpoint of the composer's position in German-Jew...

Cinema and nationalism are two fundamentally modern phenomena, but how have films shaped our understanding of the creation -the 'imagining' - of Ce...

Provides a systematic approach to lexical indicators of cultural identity, drawing on data from Slavic languages. Sipka addresses issues of interes...

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...

Reducere. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, America finds itself on the brink of a new racial consciousness. The old, unquestioned confidence with whi...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Rachel Afi QuinnIllustration(s): 28 black & white photographsNumber of pages: 264Publication date...

Reducere. Sistah Vegan is a series of narratives, critical essays, poems, and reflections from a diverse community of North American black-identified vegans....

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

This book is about gym culture, the pursuit of fit, muscular bodies and the use of drugs as a means to get there. It explores the fascination with ...

DescriptionA richly illustrated commemoration of African Americans' roles in World War I highlighting how the wartime experience reshaped their liv...

DescriptionRecently, many critics have questioned the idea of universal citizenship by pointing to the racial, class, and gendered exclusions on wh...

Focusing on Irish speakers in Catholic West Belfast, this ethnography on Irish language and identity explores the complexities of changing, and con...

HowActivist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity and WhyThis Harms Everybody

Contributor(s): Author: Helene K. LeeBetween Foreign and Family explores the impact of inconsistent rules of ethnic inclusion and exclusion on the ...

A new and fully-updated centenary edition of Raymond Williams's seminal collection of essays on nationhood and cultural identity, Who Speaks for Wa...

This one-of-a-kind, comprehensive workbook will help you navigate your gender identity and expression at home, in school, and with peers. If you ar...

Move beyond the "why" of equity and learn what it actually looks like in the classroom. This powerful book by bestselling author Colin Seale shows ...

Many Worlds Under One Heaven analyzes a wide range of newly excavated materials to offer a new perspective on political and cultural change under t...