Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
by Christel N. Temple
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Literary Pan-Africanism: History, Contexts, and Criticism (2005) and Literary Spaces: Introduction to Comparative Black Literature (2007),have been some of the most influential models of contemporary Africana Studies-based literary criticism, responds to the demand for a core disciplinary source that...
Race, Social Reform, and the Making of a Middle Class
The American Missionary Association and Black Atlanta, 1870-1900
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2007
Moral reform movements targeting racial minorities have long been central in negotiating the relationship between race and class in the United States, particularly in periods of large scale social change. Over a century ago, when the abolition of racial slavery, Southern Reconstruction, industrialization,...
Public Relations in India
New Tasks and Responsibilites
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Public Relations in India is a review of the history of Public Relations (PR) in the world and India and an in-depth critical analysis of the value of PR as an essential feature of the management function. The key focus of this book is what PR means for India and other developing countries in the...
Laura Cornelius Kellogg
Our Democracy and the American Indian and Other Works
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Laura Cornelius Kellogg was an eloquent and fierce voice in early twentieth century Native American affairs. An organizer, author, playwright, performer, and linguist, Kellogg worked tirelessly for Wisconsin Oneida cultural self-determination when efforts to Americanize Native people reached their...
Education at the Edge of Empire
Negotiating Pueblo Identity in New Mexico's Indian Boarding Schools
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
For the vast majority of Native American students in federal Indian boarding schools at the turn of the twentieth century, the experience was nothing short of tragic. Dislocated from family and community, they were forced into an educational system that sought to erase their Indian identity as a means...
Changing Social Attitudes Toward Disability
Perspectives from historical, cultural, and educational studies
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Whilst legislation may have progressed internationally and nationally for disabled people, barriers continue to exist, of which one of the most pervasive and ingrained is attitudinal. Social attitudes are often rooted in a lack of knowledge and are perpetuated through erroneous stereotypes, and ultimately...
The Irish-American Experience in New Jersey and Metropolitan New York
Cultural Identity, Hybridity, and Commemoration
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
This book is a collection of nine essays exploring the Irish-American experience in the New Jersey and New York metropolitan area, both historically and today. The essays place the local Irish-American experience in the wider context of immigration studies, assimilation, and historical theory. Using...
Our Children and Other Animals
The Cultural Construction of Human-Animal Relations in Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Focusing on the socialization of the human use of other animals as resources in contemporary Western society, this book explores the cultural reproduction of human-nonhuman animal relations in childhood. With close attention to the dominant practices through which children encounter animals and mainstream...
Imagining Japan in Post-war East Asia
Identity Politics, Schooling and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
In the decades since her defeat in the Second World War, Japan has continued to loom large in the national imagination of many of her East Asian neighbours. While for many, Japan still conjures up images of rampant military brutality, at different times and in different communities, alternative images...
by Angela McRobbie, Angela Mcrobbie
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Postmodernism and Popular Culture brings together eleven recent essays by Angela McRobbie in a collection which deals with the issues which have dominated cultural studies over the last ten years.
A key theme is the notion of postmodernity as a space for social change and political potential. McRobbie...
by Andy Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2005
'Bennett provides a well organized, very readable and interesting discussion of a number of significant everyday cultural forms and I am confident student readers will find the book very valuable' - Barry Smart, University of Portsmouth
Culture and Everyday Life provides students with a comprehensive...
Gay Fandom and Crossover Stardom
James Dean, Mel Gibson, and Keanu Reeves
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2001
Why and how does the appeal of certain male Hollywood stars cross over from straight to gay audiences? Do stars lose their cachet with straight audiences when they cross over? In Gay Fandom and Crossover Stardom Michael DeAngelis responds to these questions with a provocative analysis of three famous...
Acts of Passion
Sexuality, Gender, and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The first volume to focus exclusively on lesbian performance work, Acts of Passion: Sexuality, Gender, and Performance draws on the experiences and expertise of a wide range of lesbian practitioners and theorists to explore the impact and influences of sexuality and gender on performance. It examines...
Home Sweat Home
Perspectives on Housework and Modern Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Coeditors Elizabeth Patton and Mimi Choi argue that an in-depth examination of media images of housework from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century is long overdue. Modern depictions often imply that certain concerns can be resolved through excessive domesticity, reflecting...