Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
by Luke Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject South Asian Studies, South-Eastern Asian Studies, Macquarie University, course: Sociology of politics, language: English, abstract: This research paper provides a critical analysis of past and present methods adopted by China, the United...
From Toussaint to Tupac
The Black International since the Age of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Transcending geographic and cultural lines, From Toussaint to Tupac is an ambitious collection of essays exploring black internationalism and its implications for a black consciousness. At its core, black internationalism is a struggle against oppression, whether manifested in slavery, colonialism,...
Constructing the Black Masculine
Identity and Ideality in African American Men’s Literature and Culture, 1775–1995
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2002
In seven representative episodes of black masculine literary and cultural history—from the founding of the first African American Masonic lodge in 1775 to the 1990s choreographies of modern dance genius Bill T. Jones—Constructing the Black Masculine maps black men’s historical efforts to negotiate...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
This volume pursues a new line of research in cultural memory studies by understanding memory as a performative act in art and popular culture. The authors take their cue from the observation that art and popular culture enact memory and generate processes of memory. They do memory, and in this doing...
Syrian Episodes
Sons, Fathers, and an Anthropologist in Aleppo
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2007
When Princeton anthropologist John Borneman arrived in Syria's second-largest city in 2004 as a visiting Fulbright professor, he took up residence in what many consider a "rogue state" on the frontline of a "clash of civilizations" between the Orient and the West. Hoping to understand...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
The Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso (1835 – 1909) is the single-most important figure in the founding of criminology and the study of aberrant conduct in the human sciences.
The Cesare Lombroso Handbook brings together essays by leading Lombroso scholars and is divided into four main...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
The problem of madness has preoccupied Russian thinkers since the beginning of Russia's troubled history and has been dealt with repeatedly in literature, art, film, and opera, as well as medical, political, and philosophical essays. Madness has been treated not only as a medical or psychological...
Conquest
Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
In this revolutionary text, prominent Native American studies scholar and activist Andrea Smith reveals the connections between different forms of violence—perpetrated by the state and by society at large—and documents their impact on Native women. Beginning with the impact of the abuses inflicted...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
It has become increasingly critical for both novice and experienced educators to bring to their diverse classrooms a set of dispositions, skills, and experiences that will enhance learning for all students, especially pupils from diverse cultural and language backgrounds. Intercultural teaching experiences...
The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual Reconsidered
A Retrospective
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2004
Thirty-five years after its initial publication, Harold Cruse's "The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual," remains a foundational work in Afro-American Studies and American Cultural Studies. Published during a highly contentious moment in Afro-American political life, "The Crisis of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
The Anthropology of Labor Unions presents ethnographic data and analysis in eight case studies from several very diverse industries. It covers a wide range of topics, from the role of women and community in strikes to the importance of place in organization, and addresses global concerns with studies...
Woman's World/Woman's Empire
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union in International Perspective, 1880-1930
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Frances Willard founded the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1884 to carry the message of women's emancipation throughout the world. Based in the United States, the WCTU rapidly became an international organization, with affiliates in forty-two countries. Ian Tyrrell tells the extraordinary story...
Pride Parades
How a Parade Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
On June 28, 1970, two thousand gay and lesbian activists in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago paraded down the streets of their cities in a new kind of social protest, one marked by celebration, fun, and unashamed declaration of a stigmatized identity. Forty-five years later, over six million people...
Cultural Heritage Ethics
Between Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Theory without practice is empty, practice without theory is blind, to adapt a phrase from Immanuel Kant. The sentiment could not be truer of cultural heritage ethics. This intra-disciplinary book bridges the gap between theory and practice by bringing together a stellar cast of academics, activists,...