Lexington Books: 3858 books
Geographies of Dance
Body, Movement, and Corporeal Negotiations
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
This volume provides a theoretical and practical examination of the relationships between bodies, dance and space. Using ten case studies, it illustrates the symbolic power of dance that is crafted by choreographers and acted out by dancers. The book portrays a multitude of ways in which public and...
by Steven Leonard Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
Providing an annotated commentary on two unpublished manuscripts written by international law and genocide scholar Raphael Lemkin, Steven L. Jacobs offers a critical introduction to the father of genocide studies. Lemkin coined the term "genocide" and was the motivating force behind the...
Images for a Generation Doomed
The Films and Career of Gregg Araki
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Over the past two decades, independent director Gregg Araki has emerged as one of the most intriguing auteurs of contemporary U.S. cinema. A leading figure of the New Queer Cinema movement of the early 1990s, Araki is known for his innovative, eye-opening, and at-times-controversial films aimed primarily...
South Asian Racialization and Belonging after 9/11
Masks of Threat
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
This collection of essays interrogates literary and cultural narratives in the contexts of the incidents following 9/11. The collected essays underscore the new and (re)emerging racial, political, and socio-cultural discourse on identity related to terrorism and identity politics. Specifically, the...
Lincoln's Enduring Legacy
Perspective from Great Thinkers, Great Leaders, and the American Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Coming on the heels of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, Lincoln's Enduring Legacy offers highly readable and accessible perspectives on Lincoln at 200 in terms of his impact on great leaders and thinkers and his place in American history. The book explores how Lincoln's words and deeds...
Queer Voices from Japan
First Person Narratives from Japan's Sexual Minorities
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2007
Queer Voices from Japan examines the wide range of queer voices in Japan, and the longevity that these minority communities have enjoyed in society. Mark McLelland, Katsuhiko Suganuma, and James Welker bring together historical and contemporary narratives that contribute to the study of sexual identities...
by Mauricio A. Font
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2010
Coffee and Transformation in São Paulo, Brazil advances a distinctive interpretation of the dynamism of the São Paulo region since the latter part of the nineteenth century. Large and entrepreneurial coffee landlords opened the frontier to the west of the state capital, playing a key role in making...
by Cristina Maria de Castro
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
This book shows the results of my doctoral thesis in Social Sciences about the construction of Muslim identities in São Paulo, the state which receives more Muslim immigrants in Brazil. The issue of construction of identities of this religious minority was undertaken in relation to: a) the pressures...
Argentine Cinema
From Noir to Neo-Noir
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Argentine Cinema: From Noir to Neo-Noir examines the phenomenon of Argentine film noir. Beginning with definitions of film noir and its international iterations, the book presents a history of the development of film noir and neo-noir in Argentina (from the 1940s to the present), as well as a technical,...
Visits With Lincoln
Abolitionists Meet The President at the White House
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Visits with Lincoln provides a balanced and readable discussion of ten abolitionists, male and female, black and white, who visited President Lincoln in the White House during the Civil War in an attempt to advance their goal of ending slavery immediately. The book paints a portrait of Lincoln through...
Chekhov's Letters
Biography, Context, Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Of the thirty volumes in the authoritative Academy edition of Chekhov's collected works, fully twelve are devoted to the writer's letters. This is the first book in English or Russian addressing this substantial—though until now neglected—epistolary corpus. The majority of the essays gathered...
Where the Waters Divide
Neoliberalism, White Privilege, and Environmental Racism in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
This timely and important scholarship advances an empirical understanding of Canada’s contemporary “Indian” problem. Where the Waters Divide is one of the few book monographs that analyze how contemporary neoliberal reforms (in the manner of de-regulation, austerity measures, common sense policies,...
by Rita J. Simon, Sarah Hernandez
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
Native American Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories presents twenty interviews with Native American adoptees raised in non-Native homes. Through the in-depth interviews they conduct with each participant, the authors explore complex questions of cultural identity formation. The participants of...
Leisure, Plantations, and the Making of a New South
The Sporting Plantations of the South Carolina Lowcountry and Red Hills Region, 1900–1940
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Leisure, Plantations, and the Making of New South investigates the social, architectural, and environmental history of sporting plantations in the South Carolina lowcountry and the Red Hills region of southeast Georgia and northern Florida. Although plantations figure prominently in histories of the...