Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Rachel's Children
Stories from a Contemporary Native American Woman
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2004
Rachel's Children is a true story, based on real events. It is an engaging and humorous account of a contemporary Ojibwa household and the woman and her children who are at its core. As their lives unfold, we understand how traditional beliefs and oral history help Rachel and her family cope as they...
Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis
A Living Black Chicago History
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2007
Anti-black racism is a stark presence in Chicago, a fact illustrated by significant racial inequality in and around contemporary "global" city. Drawing his work as a civil rights advocate and investigator in Chicago, Street explains this neo-liberal apartheid and its resulting disparity...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
This book provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the production of Turkish cultural policies in the context of globalization and of the circulation of knowledge and practices. Focusing on circulations, the book proposes an innovative approach to the transfer of cultural policies, considering them...
Intercultural Couples
Exploring Diversity in Intimate Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
While cross-cultural relations were once assumed to be inherently problematic, in recent years these couples have increased in both numbers and social acceptance, and there is now a growing awareness of how little we really know about them. Addressing this gap in our knowledge, this book presents...
Abject Performances
Aesthetic Strategies in Latino Cultural Production
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
In Abject Performances Leticia Alvarado draws out the irreverent, disruptive aesthetic strategies used by Latino artists and cultural producers who shun standards of respectability that are typically used to conjure concrete minority identities. In place of works imbued with pride, redemption, or...
Staging Faith
Religion and African American Theater from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
In the years between the Harlem Renaissance and World War II, African American playwrights gave birth to a vital black theater movement in the U.S. It was a movement overwhelmingly concerned with the role of religion in black identity. In a time of profound social transformation fueled by a massive...
Makeshift Migrants and Law
Gender, Belonging, and Postcolonial Anxieties
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This book unmasks the cultural and gender stereotypes that inform the legal regulation of the migrant. It critiques the postcolonial perspective on how belonging and non-belonging are determined by the sexual, cultural, and familial norms on which law is based as well as the historical backdrop of...
The Changing Face of Korean Cinema
1960 to 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
The rapid development of Korean cinema during the decades of the 1960s and 2000s reveals a dynamic cinematic history which runs parallel to the nation’s political, social, economic and cultural transformation during these formative periods.
This book examines the ways in which South Korean...
Multimedia Stardom in Hong Kong
Image, Performance and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
This book details original research into the practices and discourse of multimedia stardom alongside changing social and cultural landscapes in Hong Kong since 1980. It examines the cultural and sociological significance of stardom in the region, and the conditions which gave rise to such famous stars...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
The collection provides insights on developments in post-traditional religiosity (especially 'New Age' and 'Neo-Paganism') through studies of rave's Gnostic narratives of ascensionism and re-enchantment, explorations of the embodied spirituality and millennialist predispositions of dance culture,...
International Perspectives on Translation, Education and Innovation in Japanese and Korean Societies
International Perspectives on Translation, Education and Innovation in Japanese and Korean Societies
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
This book studies the three concepts of translation, education and innovation from a Nordic and international perspective on Japanese and Korean societies. It presents findings from pioneering research into cultural translation, Japanese and Korean linguistics, urban development, traditional arts,...
by Michael Leach
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Timor-Leste’s long journey to nationhood spans 450 years of colonial rule by Portugal, a short-lived independence in 1975, and a 24-year occupation by Indonesia. This book examines the history of nation-building and national identity in Timor-Leste, and the evolution of a collective identity through...
Escape from New York
The New Negro Renaissance beyond Harlem
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In the midst of vast cultural and political shifts in the early twentieth century, politicians and cultural observers variously hailed and decried the rise of the “New Negro.” This phenomenon was most clearly manifest in the United States through the outpouring of Black arts and letters and social...
by Aaron Lefkovitz
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
This book, on Jimi Hendrix’s life, times, visual-cultural prominence, and popular music, with a particular emphasis on Hendrix’s relationships to the cultural politics of race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, and nation. Hendrix, an itinerant “Gypsy” and “Voodoo child” whose racialized...