White Saviorism and Popular Culture. Imagined Africa as a Space for American Salvation, Hardback - Kathryn (Duke University, USA) Mathers

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

Early industrial Merthyr is synonymous with the darker side of the British urban experience. This work considers the efforts of dedicated civic "bo...

Under capitalism, economic growth is seen as the key to collective well-being. In Self-Devouring Growth Julie Livingston upends this notion, showin...

Now in an updated edition, this insightful book explores the ways U.S. movies, music, TV, fast food, sports, and even clothing styles have molded a...

Suitable for those engaged in the study of popular culture, American studies, cultural studies, cinema and visual studies, as well as to the genera...

Reducere. In Songbooks, critic and scholar Eric Weisbard offers a critical guide to books on American popular music from William Billings's 1770 New-England ...

In Songbooks, critic and scholar Eric Weisbard offers a critical guide to books on American popular music from William Billings's 1770 New-England ...

Priya Jaikumar examines seven decades of films shot on location in India to show how attending to filmed space reveals alternative timelines and hi...

In Rock - Water - Life Lesley Green examines the interwoven realities of inequality, racism, colonialism, and environmental destruction in South Af...

Kyung Hyun Kim considers the recent global success of Korean popular culture-the Korean wave of pop music, cinema, and television also known as hal...

The contributors to Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas investigate the complex intersections between the body, religious express...

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

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This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the construction and contestation of popular culture in the late eighteenth and early nineteen...

`The 11 comprehensive and well-documented chapters provide critical insights toward understanding these complex domains and their contemporary role...

Contributor(s): Author: Gloria WekkerIn White Innocence Gloria Wekker explores a central paradox of Dutch culture: the passionate denial of racial ...

DescriptionIn Empowered Sarah Banet-Weiser examines the deeply entwined relationship between popular feminism and popular misogyny as it plays out ...

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Reducere. Description"How is it that there are so many lloronas?" A haunting figure of Mexican oral and literary traditions, La Llorona permeates the conscio...

Law has played a central role in American history. From colonial times to the present, law has not just reflected the changing society in which leg...

The supernatural has become extraordinarily popular in literature, television, and film. Vampires, zombies, werewolves, witches, and wizard have be...

Reducere. One of the outstanding mysteries of the twentieth century, and one with huge political resonance, is the death of Dag Hammarskjold and his UN team ...

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The iconic images of Uncle Sam and Marilyn Monroe, or the "fireside chats" of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr.: the...

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

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Jafari S. Allen offers a sweeping and lively ethnographic and intellectual history of Black queer politics, culture, and history in the 1980s as th...

This work focuses on the creation of, and struggle over, urban order in four cities in Eastern and Southern Africa, namely Nairobi, Lusaka, Zanziba...

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

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...

Discusses African metal scenes and conversations around the presence of heavy metal in the continent, and how acts in Africa are changing the conve...

DescriptionThe Upper Peninsula of Michigan--known as "the U P"--is historically, geographically, and culturally distinct. Struggles over land, labo...

In the United States, people are deeply divided along lines of race, class, political party, gender, sexuality, and religion. Many believe that his...

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...

Drawing on the radical black tradition, process philosophy, and Felix Guattari's schizoanalysis, Erin Manning explores the links between neurotypic...

Commentators have noted the extraordinary impact of popular culture on legal practice, courtroom proceedings, police departments, and government as...

Reducere. For two years, Philip Gambone traveled the length and breadth of the United States, talking candidly with LGBTQ people about their lives. In additi...

American ideas about race owe much to the notion of an undifferentiated "heathen world" held together by its need of assistance. This religious not...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Joan (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) OrmrodNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2021Dimens...

Reducere. Both law and popular culture pervade our lives. Movies and television shape our perception of law and change how players in the legal system behave...

This book examines and establishes the sociological relevance of the concept of populism and illuminates the ideological use of sport, leisure, and...

From romantic novelist Elinor Glyn in the 1920s to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle today, this collection examines some of the history, contemporary...

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