Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Legacies of the Asia-Pacific War
The Yakeato Generation
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
When we look in detail at the various peripheral groups of disenfranchised people emerging from the aftermath of the Asia–Pacific War the list is startling: Koreans in Japan (migrants or forced labourers), Burakumin, Hibakusha, Okinawans, Asian minorities, comfort women and many others. Many of...
Osage and Settler
Reconstructing Shared History through an Oklahoma Family Archive
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Drawing on a rare family archive and archival material from the Osage Nation, this book documents a unique relationship among white settlers, the Osage and African Americans in Oklahoma. The history of white settlement and colonization is often discussed in the context of the cultural erasure of,...
Freedom's Racial Frontier
African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Between 1940 and 2010, the black population of the American West grew from 710,400 to 7 million. With that explosive growth has come a burgeoning interest in the history of the African American West—an interest reflected in the remarkable range and depth of the works collected in Freedom’s Racial...
by Hilary McD. Beckles, Heather D. Russell
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
Rihanna: Barbados World Gurl in Global Popular Culture brings together US- and Caribbean-based scholars to discuss issues of class, gender, sexuality, race, culture and economy. Drawing from literature, history, musicology, sociology, cultural studies, feminist, gender, and queer studies, the creative/cultural...
by Eduardo de la Fuente
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
In the first decade of the twentieth-century, many composers rejected the principles of tonality and regular beat. This signaled a dramatic challenge to the rationalist and linear conceptions of music that had existed in the West since the Renaissance. The ‘break with tonality’, Neo-Classicism,...
The Rise of Enlightened Sexism
How Pop Culture Took Us from Girl Power to Girls Gone Wild
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Women today are inundated with conflicting messages from the mass media: they must either be strong leaders in complete command or sex kittens obsessed with finding and pleasing a man. In The Rise Of Enlightened Sexism, Susan J. Douglas, one of America's most entertaining and insightful cultural critics,...
Who We Be
A Cultural History of Race in Post-Civil Rights America
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Race. A four-letter word. The greatest social divide in American life, a half-century ago and today.
During that time, the U.S. has seen the most dramatic demographic and cultural shifts in its history, what can be called the colorization of America. But the same nation that elected its first Black...
Black Culture and Black Consciousness
Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2007
When Black Culture and Black Consciousness first appeared thirty years ago, it marked a revolution in our understanding of African American history. Contrary to prevailing ideas at the time, which held that African culture disappeared quickly under slavery and that black Americans had little group...
Twisted
My Dreadlock Chronicles
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
In Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles, professor and author Bert Ashe delivers a witty, fascinating, and unprecedented account of black male identity as seen through our culture's perceptions of hair. It is a deeply personal story that weaves together the cultural and political history of dreadlocks...
by Huy Pham
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Within these 300 pages, you will find 70+ English short stories of a Vietnamese generation full of optimism and angst. These edgy stories run the gamut from quirky parents, cultural confusion, child abuse, bi-cultural marriage, and sexuality. This book will make you laugh and cry.
The Vietnamese...
Living with Animals
Ojibwe Spirit Powers
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Within nineteenth-century Ojibwe/Chippewa medicine societies, and in communities at large, animals are realities and symbols that demonstrate cultural principles of North American Ojibwe nations. Living with Animals presents over 100 images from oral and written sources – including birch bark scrolls,...
Anetso, the Cherokee Ball Game
At the Center of Ceremony and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Anetso, a centuries-old Cherokee ball game still played today, is a vigorous, sometimes violent activity that rewards speed, strength, and agility. At the same time, it is the focus of several linked ritual activities. Is it a sport? Is it a religious ritual? Could it possibly be both? Why has it...
by James Mooney
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Immediately following the massacre of Wounded Knee (December 29, 1890), the well-known anthropologist James Mooney, under the auspices of the Bureau of American Ethnology and the Smithsonian, investigated the incident. His interest was primarily in the Indian background to the uprising. Admitting...
'Injuns!'
Native Americans in the Movies
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2006
The indispensable sage, fierce enemy, silent sidekick: the role of Native Americans in film has been largely confined to identities defined by the “white” perspective. Many studies have analyzed these simplistic stereotypes of Native American cultures in film, but few have looked beyond the Hollywood...