Spike Lee's Bamboozled and Blackface in American Culture, Paperback - Elizabeth L. Sanderson

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

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 ...

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...

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

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

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

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. 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...

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. Maia Tamarin proved her skill as a tailor when she wove the dresses of the sun, the moon, and the stars, but it will take more than a beautiful gow...

Project Runway meets Mulan in this sweeping fantasy about a young girl who poses as a boy to compete for the role of imperial tailor and embarks on...

What if Mulan had to travel to the Underworld?When Captain Shang is mortally wounded by Shan Yu in battle, Mulan must travel to the Underworld, Diy...

Reducere. Maia Tamarin proved her skill as a tailor when she wove the dresses of the sun, the moon, and the stars, but it will take more than a beautiful gow...

A beautiful and immersive YA fantasy retelling of the Grimm brothers' The Six Swans fairytale, set in an East-Asian inspired world, by the author o...

Reducere. The Jewish Question is foundational to the demographic transformation of the West, the revolution in its sexual and ethical mores, and to the traje...

Reducere. December can be an exciting month as children eagerly wait to celebrate the birthday of Jesus. The Christmas Kindness Kids show how to use that cou...

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. Many American's today are taking note of the surprisingly strong political force that is the religious right. Controversial decisions by the govern...

-Overdressed does for T-shirts and leggings what Fast Food Nation did for burgers and fries.---Katha Pollitt Cheap fashion has fundamentally change...

Written for students at every level of training, including psychiatry residents, psychology graduate students, social work students, and medical st...

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

Reducere. For over two centuries, America has celebrated the same African-American culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon...

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

Reducere. The sheer diversity of the Asian American populace makes them an ambiguous racial category. Indeed, the 2010 U.S. Census lists twenty-four Asian-et...

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...

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

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

Reducere. DescriptionA provocative, must-read investigation that both appreciates the importance of--and punctures the hype around--big-time contemporary Ame...

Reducere. K-pop (Korean popular music) reigns as one of the most popular music genres in the world today, a phenomenon that appeals to listeners of all ages ...

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. Alice Echols reveals the ways in which disco transformed popular music, propelling it into new sonic territory and influencing rap, techno, and tra...

Reducere. In 1979 Elizabeth Eisenstein provided the first full-scale treatment of the fifteenth-century printing revolution in the West in her monumental two...

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...

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

Reducere. From what we eat and wear to how we spend our money and our leisure time, Americans have developed a unique culture that binds us together despite ...

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

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

Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonAuthor(s): Elizabeth LimPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 154 x 234 x 38Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul lect...

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

Reducere. An emerging cult classic about America's cultural meltdown--and a surprising solution. A prophetic examination of Western decline, The Twilight of ...

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. Each life is fascinating in its own right, and each is used to brightly illuminate the historical context.

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...

Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture, Paperback

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...

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. A rich potpourri of articles and paintings on Gullah art, history, fiction, recipes, and language along with social commentary which clarifies the ...