Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Food Across Cultures
Linguistic Insights in Transcultural Tastes
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
This edited volume brings together original sociolinguistic and cultural contributions on food as an instrument to explore diasporic identities. Focusing on food practices in cross-cultural contact, the authors reveal how they can be used as a powerful vehicle for positive intercultural exchange either...
In Defense of the Constitution: Ending America’s Occupation
An Analysis of the Constitution to Stop the Cultural Genocide of America
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
This highly controversial book is going to change the political and cultural direction and scene of America in the 21st Century. It will do this by providing America’s Compatriots the tools they’ve been searching for to stop America’s Government, Supreme Court Judges, and Politicians from continuing...
by Camilla A. Montoya, Julieta V. García, Veronica Carrera
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Silencing Gender, Age, Ethnicity and Cultural Biases in Leadership is an edited volume containing eight chapters, each a real-life account from a Latina in a leadership position in the United States. These women discuss how their professional goals may conflict with their culture’s expectations...
Cultural Approaches to Studying Religion
An Introduction to Theories and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
This is the first book to provide an introduction to contemporary cultural approaches to the study of religion. This book makes sophisticated ideas accessible at an introductory level, and examines the analytic tools of scholars in religious studies, as well as in related disciplines that have shaped...
Population Genetics and Belonging
A Cultural Analysis of Genetic Ancestry
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
This book explores how human population genetics has emerged as a means of imagining and enacting belonging in contemporary society. Venla Oikkonen approaches population genetics as an evolving set of technological, material, narrative and affective practices, arguing that these practices are engaged...
Chinook Resilience
Heritage and Cultural Revitalization on the Lower Columbia River
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The Chinook Indian Nation�whose ancestors lived along both shores of the lower Columbia River, as well as north and south along the Pacific coast at the river�s mouth�continue to reside near traditional lands. Because of its nonrecognized status, the Chinook Indian Nation often faces challenges...
No Tea, No Shade
New Writings in Black Queer Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
The follow-up to the groundbreaking Black Queer Studies, the edited collection No Tea, No Shade brings together nineteen essays from the next generation of scholars, activists, and community leaders doing work on black gender and sexuality. Building on the foundations laid by the earlier volume, this...
Patterns of Culture
An Enduring Classic
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
An anthropologist compares three diverse societies in this groundbreaking, “unique and important” cultural study (The New York Times).
A remarkable introduction to cultural studies, Patterns of Culture made history in exploring the role of culture in shaping our lives. In it, the renowned...
by Wayne Koestenbaum
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Wayne Koestenbaum considers the meaning of humiliation in this eloquent work of cultural critique and personal reflection.
The lives of people both famous and obscure are filled with scarlet-letter moments when their dirty laundry sees daylight. In these moments we not only witness the reversibility...
Sifters
Native American Women's Lives
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2001
In this edited volume, Theda Perdue, a nationally known expert on Indian history and southern women's history, offers a rich collection of biographical essays on Native American women. From Pocahontas, a Powhatan woman of the seventeenth century, to Ada Deer, the Menominee woman who headed the Bureau...
What Have We Become
A Blog Book
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Just like the words are the most important part of a song, the words are the lifeblood of a book. Music is and has been a dynamic force that consistently unites and speaks to us all. Simultaneously it bridges cultural gaps and encourages fun and relaxation. From musicians to celebrities, many have...
Drawing from Life
Memory and Subjectivity in Comic Art
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Autobiography has seen enormous expansions and challenges over the past decades. One of these expansions has been in comics, and it is an expansion that pushes back against any postmodern notion of the death of the author/subject, while also demanding new approaches from critics.Drawing from Life:...
by Michael Luongo
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Travel beyond the fear and paranoia of 9-11 to experience Muslim culture
Gay Travels in the Muslim World journeys where other gay travel books fear to tread-Muslim countries. This thought-provoking book tells both Muslim and non-Muslim gay men's stories of traveling in the Middle East during...
Dirty Laundry
Coloreds and Whites
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
To many, the situation for black Americans in the world today seems hopeless. In Dirty Laundry, author Lavelle presents his personal view of race relations in the world and how these relations have affected both the black and white culture.
Through a series of essays, Lavelle describes the...