Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
This collection celebrates the resurgence of Native Americans within the cultural landscape of the United States. During the past quarter century, the Native American population in the United States has seen an astonishing demographic growth reaching beyond all biological probability as increasing...
Podcasting
New Aural Cultures and Digital Media
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Podcasting: New Aural Cultures and Digital Media is the first comprehensive interdisciplinary collection of academic research exploring the definition, status, practices and implications of podcasting through a Media and Cultural Studies lens. By bringing together research from experienced and early...
Reclaiming Chinese Society
The New Social Activism
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Reclaiming Chinese Society analyses the mechanisms, processes and actors producing a wide spectrum of social and cultural changes in reform China. Contrary to most literature that emphasizes economic and political processes at the expense of Chinese society, this volume argues for the centrality of...
Protecting the Weak in East Asia
Framing, Mobilisation and Institutionalisation
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
This book investigates public claims for the protection of weak groups and interests in Japan and China from the nineteenth century to the present day. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it engages with ongoing global debates relevant to both Western and non-Western societies whilst also providing...
Exalted Subjects
Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2007
Questions of national identity, indigenous rights, citizenship, and migration have acquired unprecedented relevance in this age of globalization. In Exalted Subjects, noted feminist scholar Sunera Thobani examines the meanings and complexities of these questions in a Canadian context. Based in the...
Heritage Keywords
Rhetoric and Redescription in Cultural Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Situated at the intersection of scholarship and practice, Heritage Keywords positions cultural heritage as a transformative tool for social change. This volume unlocks the persuasive power of cultural heritage—as it shapes experiences of change and crafts present and future possibilities from historic...
Terrorist Assemblages
Homonationalism in Queer Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2007
In this pathbreaking work, Jasbir K. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism. She examines how liberal politics incorporate certain queer subjects...
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
An Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
Drawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in the American South, this book powerfully reveals the way these women experience and express racial, sexual, gender, and class identities--all linked by a place where such...
Asian America
A Primary Source Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
An essential collection that brings together the core primary texts of the Asian American experience in one volume An essential volume for the growing academic discipline of Asian American studies, this collection of core primary texts draws from a wide range of fields, from law to visual culture to...
Mobilizing New York
AIDS, Antipoverty, and Feminist Activism
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Examining three interconnected case studies, Tamar Carroll powerfully demonstrates the ability of grassroots community activism to bridge racial and cultural differences and effect social change. Drawing on a rich array of oral histories, archival records, newspapers, films, and photographs from post–World...
Hybrid Media Culture
Sensing Place in a World of Flows
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
The distinction between online and offline realities is becoming more and more difficult to sustain. As computer-mediated communication evolves and as interaction becomes more and more dependent on the Internet, social, cultural, and political aspects begin to get caught and entangled in the web of...
by Michael Eric Dyson
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
Here, collected for the first time, are interviews and essays representing Michael Eric Dyson's most important thinking on race and identity. Exploring such topics as "whiteness" as seen through a black man's eye, modernism and postmodernism in black culture, and the emancipating role of...
by
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Southeast Asia has undergone innumerable far-reaching changes and dramatic transformations over the last half-century. This book explores the concept of power in relation to these transformations, and examines its various social, cultural, religious, economic and political forms.
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Indigenous Women, Work, and History
1940-1980
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
When dealing with Indigenous women’s history we are conditioned to think about women as private-sphere figures, circumscribed by the home, the reserve, and the community. Moreover, in many ways Indigenous men and women have been cast in static, pre-modern, and one-dimensional identities, and their...