Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Latino Placemaking and Planning
Cultural Resilience and Strategies for Reurbanization
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Latinos are currently the second-largest ethnic group demographically within the United States. By the year 2050 they are projected to number nearly 133 million, or approximately one third of the country’s total population. As the urban component of this population increases, the need for resources...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Although issues of youth culture are frequently cited in classrooms and public forums, most encyclopedias of childhood and youth are devoted to history, human development, and society. A limitation on the reference bookshelf is the restriction of youth to pre-adolescence, although issues of youth...
Progressive Country
How the 1970s Transformed the Texan in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
During the early 1970s, the nation’s turbulence was keenly reflected in Austin’s kaleidoscopic cultural movements, particularly in the city’s progressive country music scene. Capturing a pivotal chapter in American social history, Progressive Country maps the conflicted iconography of “the...
Military Cooperation in Multinational Peace Operations
Managing Cultural Diversity and Crisis Response
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
This edited volume uses theoretical overviews and empirical case studies to explore both how soldiers cope with the new forms of cultural diversity occurring within various multinational military operations, and how their organizations manage them.
Military organizations, like other complex...
Homegrown
Engaged Cultural Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
In Homegrown, cultural critics bell hooks and Amalia Mesa-Bains reflect on the innate solidarity between Black and Latino culture. Riffing on everything from home and family to multiculturalism and the mass media, hooks and Mesa-Bains invite readers to re-examine and confront the polarizing mainstream...
by Andrew Ross
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 1996
In the wake of the highly fractious Culture Wars, conservatives in science have launched a backlash against feminist, multiculturalist, and social critics in science studies. Paul Gross and Norman Levitt’s book Higher Superstition, presented as a wake-up call to scientists unaware of the dangers...
Race, Place and Globalization
Youth Cultures in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
What does it mean to be young in a changing world? How are migration, settlement and new urban cultures shaping young lives? And in particular, are race, place and class still meaningful to contemporary youth cultures? This path-breaking book shows how young people are responding differently to recent...
Secrecy and Cultural Reality
Utopian Ideologies of the New Guinea Men's House
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
Gilbert Herdt is Director of the Program in Human Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University, where he is also Professor of Human Sexuality Studies and Anthropology.
Constructing Black Selves
Caribbean American Narratives and the Second Generation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
In 1965, the Hart-Cellar Immigration Reform Act ushered in a huge wave of immigrants from across the Caribbean—Jamaicans, Cubans, Haitians, and Dominicans, among others. How have these immigrants and their children negotiated languages of race and ethnicity in American social and cultural politics?...
The Black Cultural Front
Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
The Black Cultural Front describes how the social and political movements that grew out of the Depression facilitated the left turn of several African American artists and writers. The Communist-led John Reed Clubs brought together black and white writers in writing collectives. The Congress of Industrial...
Human Sexuality
Biological, Psychological, and Cultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Human Sexuality: Biological, Psychological, and Cultural Perspectives is a unique textbook that provides a complete analysis of this crucial aspect of life around the world. Utilizing viewpoints across cultural and national boundaries, and deftly weaving evolutionary and psychological perspectives,...
Digital Queer Cultures in India
Politics, Intimacies and Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Sexuality in India offers an expression of nationalist anxieties and is a significant marker of modernity through which subjectivities are formed among the middle class. This book investigates the everyday experience of queer Indian men on digital spaces. It explores how queer identities are formed...
by Michael Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Why do people want what they want? Why does one person see the world as a place to control, while another feels controlled by the world? A useful theory of culture, the authors contend, should start with these questions, and the answers, given different historical conditions, should apply equally...
A Small Boy and Others
Imitation and Initiation in American Culture from Henry James to Andy Warhol
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 1998
In A Small Boy and Others, Michael Moon makes a vital contributon to our understanding of the dynamics of sexuality and identity in modern American culture. He explores a wide array of literary, artistic, and theatrical performances ranging from the memoirs of Henry James and the dances of Vaslav...