Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Pathways of Desire
The Sexual Migration of Mexican Gay Men
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
With Pathways of Desire, Héctor Carrillo brings us into the lives of Mexican gay men who have left their home country to pursue greater sexual autonomy and sexual freedom in the United States. The groundbreaking ethnographic study brings our attention to the full arc of these men’s migration...
Gendering Global Transformations
Gender, Culture, Race, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
The authors collected in Gendering Global Transformations: Gender, Culture, Race, and Identity probe the effects of global and local forces in reshaping notions of gender, race, class, identity, human rights, and community across Africa and its Diaspora. The essays in this unique collection employ...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Mexico and Mexicans have been involved in every aspect of making the United States from colonial times until the present. Yet our shared history is a largely untold story, eclipsed by headlines about illegal immigration and the drug war. Placing Mexicans and Mexico in the center of American history,...
Conquering Sickness
Race, Health, and Colonization in the Texas Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Published through the Early American Places initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Conquering Sickness presents a comprehensive analysis of race, health, and colonization in a specific cross-cultural contact zone in the Texas borderlands between 1780 and 1861. Throughout...
African Cultural Values
Igbo Political Leadership in Colonial Nigeria, 1900–1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Although numerous studies have been made of the Western educated political elite of colonial Nigeria in particular, and of Africa in general, very few have approached the study from a perspective that analyzes the impacts of indigenous institutions on the lives, values, and ideas of these individuals....
When Greeks think about Turks
The View from Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Drawing upon anthropological studies that document culturally specific ways of perceiving ethic Others in Greece and Cyprus, this book explores the cultural boundaries of the categories ‘Greek’ and ‘Turk’, and compares views on what it means to be one of these ethnic groups or both. The contributors...
Hybridity
The Cultural Logic Of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2008
The intermingling of people and media from different cultures is a communication-based phenomenon known as hybridity. Drawing on original research from Lebanon to Mexico and analyzing the use of the term in cultural and postcolonial studies (as well as the popular and business media), Marwan Kraidy...
Chronic Youth
Disability, Sexuality, and U.S. Media Cultures of Rehabilitation
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
The teenager has often appeared in culture as an anxious figure,
the repository for American dreams and worst nightmares, at once on the brink
of success and imminent failure. Spotlighting the “troubled teen” as a site of
pop cultural, medical, and governmental intervention, Chronic Youth
traces...
Ethnicities and Global Multiculture
Pants for an Octopus
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
Arguing that ethnicity and multiculturalism are essential for understanding globalization, Jan Nederveen Pieterse offers one of the first sustained treatments of the reach of these key forces beyond a limited national context. He shows that multiethnicity preceded the nation-state by millennia; but...
Multiethnic American Literatures
Essays for Teaching Context and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
This book provides original essays that suggest ways to engage students in the classroom with the cultural factors of American literature. Some of the essays focus on individual authors’ works, others view American literature more broadly, and still others focus on the application of culturally...
China's Mongols at University
Contesting Cultural Recognition
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2010
Minority students in China often receive preferential treatment for access to universities. However, very little is known about minority student experiences and perceptions on campus after they are accorded what's called "meaningful access" to university.
The Mongols emerged as a...
Mapping China and Managing the World
Culture, Cartography and Cosmology in Late Imperial Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
From the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE to the present, the Chinese have been preoccupied with the notion of ordering their world. Efforts to create and maintain order are expressed not only in China’s bureaucratic institutions and methods of social and economic organization but also in...
Politics of Chinese Language and Culture
The Art of Reading Dragons
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
An innovative text which adopts the tools of cultural studies to provide a fresh approach to the study of Chinese language, culture and society. The book tackles areas such as grammar, language, gender, popular culture, film and the Chinese diaspora and employs the concepts of social semiotics to...
Technoculture and Critical Theory
In the Service of the Machine?
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
The author explores the work of major thinkers and cultural movements that have grappled with the complex relationship between technology, politics and culture. Subjects such as the Internet, cloning, warfare, fascism and Virtual Reality are placed within a broad theoretical context which explores...