Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Making Sense of Race, Class, and Gender
Commonsense, Power, and Privilege in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Using arresting case studies of how ordinary people understand the concepts of race, class, and gender, Celine-Marie Pascale shows that the peculiarity of commonsense is that it imposes obviousness—that which we cannot fail to recognize. As a result, how we negotiate the challenges of inequality...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Medical systems function in specific cultural contexts. It is common to speak of the medicine of China, Japan, India, and other nation-states. Yet almost all formalized medical systems claim universal applicability and, thus, are ready to cross the cultural boundaries that contain them. There is a...
Political Asylum Deceptions
The Culture of Suspicion
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
This book explores the legitimacy of political asylum applications in the US and UK through an examination of the varieties of evidence, narratives, and documentation with which they are assessed. Credibility is the central issue in determining the legitimacy of political asylum seekers, but the...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
The essays in this volume offer rich and diverse perspectives on the encounter between Indigenous music and digital technologies. They explore how digital media -- whether on CD, VCD, the Internet, mobile technology, or in the studio -- have transformed and become part of the fabric of Indigenous...
by Ornette D. Clennon
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
This book draws on case examples of contemporary black activism in South Manchester and contrasts them with events that surrounded C.L.R. James and his activism between 1935 and 1950. In doing so, the author considers what Brexit, the Labour Party and Theresa May’s audit on racism in the UK have...
Black Venus
Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 1999
Black Venus is a feminist study of the representations of black women in the literary, cultural, and scientific imagination of nineteenth-century France. Employing psychoanalysis, feminist film theory, and the critical race theory articulated in the works of Frantz Fanon and Toni Morrison, T. Denean...
Judging the Image
Art, Value, Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Art, value, law - the links between these three terms mark a history of struggle in the cultural scene. Studies of contemporary culture have thus increasingly turned to the image as central to the production of legitimacy, aesthetics and order. Judging the Image extends the cultural turn in legal...
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Encyclopedia of Latino Culture: From Calaveras to Quinceaneras [3 volumes]
From Calaveras to Quinceañeras
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
In the last decade, the Latina/o population has established itself as the fastest growing ethnic group within the United States, and constitutes one of the largest minority groups in the nation. While the different Latina/o groups do have cultural commonalities, there are also many differences among...
Childhood and Tween Girl Culture
Family, Media and Locality
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
This book explores the ways in which notions of childhood are being influenced by a rapidly expanding consumer-media culture in the 21st Century. It has been argued that new stages of childhood are being created and defined by children’s role as consumers. The concept of ‘tween’, girls aged...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Mothers, Mothering and Motherhood across Cultural Differences, the first-ever Reader on the subject matter, examines the meaning and practice of mothering/ motherhood from a multitude of maternal perspectives. The Reader includes 22 chapters on the following maternal identities: Aboriginal, Adoptive,...
Chains of Babylon
The Rise of Asian America
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
In Chains of Babylon, Daryl J. Maeda presents a cultural history of Asian American activism in the late 1960s and early 1970s, showing how the movement created the category of "Asian American" to join Asians of many ethnicities in racial solidarity. Drawing on the Black Power and antiwar movements, Asian...
Handbook of Asian Education
A Cultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Comprehensive and authoritative, this Handbook provides a nuanced description and analysis of educational systems, practices, and policies in Asian countries and explains and interprets these practices from cultural, social, historical, and economic perspectives.
Using a culture-based framework,...
Sustainable Modernity
The Nordic Model and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351765633, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
In the 21st century, Norway, Denmark and Sweden remain the icons of fair societies,...
Moral Panics, Social Fears, and the Media
Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
The media have always played a central role in organising the way ideas flow through societies. But what happens when those ideas are disruptive to normal social relations? Bringing together work by scholars in history, media and cultural studies and sociology, this collection explores this role in...