The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory, Paperback - Catherine S. Ramírez

Reducere. The Mexican American woman zoot suiter, or pachuca, often wore a V-neck sweater or a long, broad-shouldered coat, a knee-length pleated skirt, fish...

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...

Push: Software Design and the Cultural Politics of Music Production shows how music software has shaped the production techniques and performance p...

In Italy and the Cultural Politics of World War I, well-known scholars of history, political science, film, literature, and cultural studies explor...

In Italy and the Cultural Politics of World War I, well-known scholars of history, political science, film, literature, and cultural studies explor...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Andreas HuyssenMemory of historical trauma has a unique power to generate works of art. This book analyzes the relation of ...

What tensions and what potential emerge when a community art program seeks to promote collectivity in the present era?

Situating the Maasai in the larger political, economic, and social context of Kenya and world events, this book shows how broader forces have had a...

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Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Falina EnriquezIllustration(s): 11 black & white photographsNumber of pages: 280Publication date:...

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the fighting *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of conten...

Women and ETA is the first book-length study of women in radical Basque nationalism. It uses a unique body of oral history interviews to examine th...

Reducere. DescriptionSituating safari tourism within the discourses and practices of development, Selling the Serengeti examines the relationship between the...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Jeffrey A. BennettIllustration(s): 9 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 272Collection: Bi...

In Praise of the Ancestors is a revisionist interpretation of early colonial accounts and sources that reveal incongruities in accepted knowledge a...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the fighting *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of conten...

DescriptionZOOT SUIT (n.): the ultimate in clothes. The only totally and truly American civilian suit.--Cab Calloway, The Hepster's Dictionary, 194...

This book examines the complexity of Chineseness in China and the Chinese diaspora. Using critical sociolinguistic and discourse analytical approac...

Reducere. At the intersection of indigenous studies, science studies, and legal studies lies a tense web of political issues of vital concern for the surviva...

Description'The authors draw on an impressive array of contemporary literature and critical studies to provide original and illuminating analyses o...

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DescriptionPuerto Rico is often depicted as a "racial democracy" in which a history of race mixture has produced a racially harmonious society. In ...

"This brilliant and infuriating book is the latest intriguing offering from one of the most original anthropologists working. . . . It offers us un...

Reducere. Drama. Latino/Latina Studies. This bilingual edition combines the original English-language version with the first-ever Spanish translation of the ...

For Sarah, The Darkness is real. And it knows her name.Sarah Greene almost lost her life when she discovered the truth behind a house's dark, viole...

The Fruits of Freedom in British Togoland: Literacy, Politics and Nationalism, 1914–2014 - Kate Skinner

The Fruits of Freedom in British Togoland: Literacy, Politics and Nationalism, 1914–2014 - Kate Skinner

Reducere. Even before Tito's Communist Party established control over the war-ravaged territories which became socialist Yugoslavia, his partisan forces were...

This book examines the ways in which writers' houses contribute to the making of memory. It shows that houses built or inhabited by poets and novel...

Reducere. Two lost sisters find family, and themselves, among the voices of an Ojibwe reservation When Loretta surrenders her young girls to the county and t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Marjorie SaiserEditor: Michael CatherwoodPoetry. Women's Studies. The poems in this collection move into the past with her ...

Reducere. Rebecca James unveils a chilling modern gothic novel of a family consumed by the shadows and secrets of its past in The Woman in the Mirror. For mo...

Reducere. Drama. Latino American Studies. Luis Valdez is a leading figure in Hispanic theater with outstanding achievements from a variety of venues from fla...

Features a study in the pathology of cultural criticism. By analyzing the thought and influence of three leading critics of modern Germany, It demo...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 234 x 157 x 25Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...

Reducere. For bell hooks, the best cultural criticism sees no need to separate politics from the pleasure of reading. Yearning collects together some of hook...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Isabelle de le (Independent Scholar, Switzerland) CourtIllustration(s): 35 bw illusNumber of pages: ...

Reducere. Faint traces of Indigenous people and their histories abound in American media, memory, and myths. Indigeneity often remains absent or invisible, h...