Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
African American Community Practice Models
Historical and Contemporary Responses
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
African American Community Practice Models shows you what you can “see” and “learn” when people of African American descent are put in the center of community analysis and change. This text celebrates African American experiences and challenges you to understand the black experience from the...
What Have We Become
A Blog Book
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Just like the words are the most important part of a song, the words are the lifeblood of a book. Music is and has been a dynamic force that consistently unites and speaks to us all. Simultaneously it bridges cultural gaps and encourages fun and relaxation. From musicians to celebrities, many have...
Cultural Studies, Education, and Youth
Beyond Schools
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Cultural Studies, Education, and Youth: Beyond Schools, edited by Benjamin Frymer, Matthew Carlin, and John Broughton, addresses the new cultural landscapes which increasingly "educate" our youth. With essays from both emerging and established scholars, the book explores the ways media and...
Africana Critical Theory
Reconstructing The Black Radical Tradition, From W. E. B. Du Bois and C. L. R. James to Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Building on and going far beyond W.E.B. Du Bois and the Problems of the Twenty-First Century and Du Bois's Dialectics, Reiland Rabaka's Africana Critical Theory innovatively identifies and analyzes continental and diasporan African contributions to classical and contemporary critical theory. This...
Freedom Sounds
Civil Rights Call out to Jazz and Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
An insightful examination of the impact of the Civil Rights Movement and African Independence on jazz in the 1950s and 60s, Freedom Sounds traces the complex relationships among music, politics, aesthetics, and activism through the lens of the hot button racial and economic issues of the time. Ingrid...
Opera in a Multicultural World
Coloniality, Culture, Performance
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Through historical and contemporary examples, this book critically explores the relevance and expressions of multicultural representation in western European operatic genres in the modern world. It reveals their approaches to reflecting identity, transmitting meaning, and inspiring creation, as...
The Black Cultural Front
Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
The Black Cultural Front describes how the social and political movements that grew out of the Depression facilitated the left turn of several African American artists and writers. The Communist-led John Reed Clubs brought together black and white writers in writing collectives. The Congress of Industrial...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
The Harlem Renaissance is considered one of the most significant periods of creative and intellectual expression for African Americans. Beginning as early as 1914 and lasting into the 1940s, this era saw individuals reject the stereotypes of African Americans and confront the racist, social, political,...
Rhythms of Race
Cuban Musicians and the Making of Latino New York City and Miami, 1940-1960
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Among the nearly 90,000 Cubans who settled in New York City and Miami in the 1940s and 1950s were numerous musicians and entertainers, black and white, who did more than fill dance halls with the rhythms of the rumba, mambo, and cha cha cha. In her history of music and race in midcentury America,...
Anthropology and Social Theory
Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2006
In Anthropology and Social Theory the award-winning anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner draws on her longstanding interest in theories of cultural practice to rethink key concepts of culture, agency, and subjectivity for the social sciences of the twenty-first century. The seven theoretical and interpretive...
Parodies of Ownership
Hip-Hop Aesthetics and Intellectual Property Law
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
"Richard Schur offers a provocative view of contemporary African American cultural politics and the relationship between African American cultural production and intellectual property law."
---Mark Anthony Neal, Duke University
"Whites used to own blacks. Now, they accomplish...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
This collection brings together cutting-edge work by established and emerging scholars focusing on key societies in the East Asian region: China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, North and South Korea, Mongolia and Vietnam. This scope enables the collection to reflect on the nature of the transformations...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
This is the first study to examine the representation of illness, disability, and cultural pathologies in modern and contemporary Iberian and Latin American literature. Innovative and interdisciplinary, the collection situates medicine as an important and largely overlooked discourse in these literatures,...
by Raud
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The effect of Japan on the challenges and complexities of the modernisation process that globalisation has brought to the fore in Asia are the subject of this interdisciplinary volume by leading scholars in the field. Using fascinating examples drawn from current business and organisational practice...