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Advertising Diversity
Ad Agencies and the Creation of Asian American Consumers
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
In Advertising Diversity Shalini Shankar explores how racial and ethnic differences are created and commodified through advertisements, marketing, and public relations. Drawing from periods of fieldwork she conducted over four years at Asian American ad agencies in New York, San Francisco, and Los...
The Space of Boredom
Homelessness in the Slowing Global Order
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
In The Space of Boredom Bruce O'Neill explores how people cast aside by globalism deal with an intractable symptom of downward mobility: an unshakeable and immense boredom. Focusing on Bucharest, Romania, where the 2008 financial crisis compounded the failures of the postsocialist state to deliver...
Freedom without Permission
Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
As the 2011 uprisings in North Africa reverberated across the Middle East, a diverse cross section of women and girls publicly disputed gender and sexual norms in novel, unauthorized, and often shocking ways. In a series of case studies ranging from Tunisia's 14 January Revolution to the Taksim Gezi...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
The first sustained critical examination of the work of Dominican-American writer Junot Díaz, this interdisciplinary collection considers how Díaz's writing illuminates the world of Latino cultural expression and trans-American and diasporic literary history. Interested in conceptualizing Díaz's...
Orientalism's Interlocutors
Painting, Architecture, Photography
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2002
Until now, Orientalist art—exemplified by paintings of harems, slave markets, or bazaars—has predominantly been understood to reflect Western interpretations and to perpetuate reductive, often demeaning stereotypes of the exotic East. Orientalism's Interlocutors contests the idea that Orientalist...
Full Metal Apache
Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2006
Takayuki Tatsumi is one of Japan’s leading cultural critics, renowned for his work on American literature and culture. With his encyclopedic knowledge and fan’s love of both Japanese and American art and literature, he is perhaps uniquely well situated to offer this study of the dynamic crosscurrents...
Time Binds
Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Time Binds is a powerful argument that temporal and sexual dissonance are intertwined, and that the writing of history can be both embodied and erotic. Challenging queer theory’s recent emphasis on loss and trauma, Elizabeth Freeman foregrounds bodily pleasure in the experience and representation...
Birth of an Industry
Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
In Birth of an Industry, Nicholas Sammond describes how popular early American cartoon characters were derived from blackface minstrelsy. He charts the industrialization of animation in the early twentieth century, its representation in the cartoons themselves, and how important blackface minstrels...
Interrogating Postfeminism
Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2007
This timely collection brings feminist critique to bear on contemporary postfeminist mass media culture, analyzing phenomena ranging from action films featuring violent heroines to the “girling” of aging women in productions such as the movie Something’s Gotta Give and the British television...
Kannani and Document of Flames
Two Japanese Colonial Novels
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2005
This volume makes available for the first time in English two of the most important novels of Japanese colonialism: Yuasa Katsuei’s Kannani and Document of Flames. Born in Japan in 1910 and raised in Korea, Yuasa was an eyewitness to the ravages of the Japanese occupation. In both of the novels...
Imagining Transgender
An Ethnography of a Category
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2007
Imagining Transgender is an ethnography of the emergence and institutionalization of transgender as a category of collective identity and political activism. Embraced by activists in the early 1990s to advocate for gender-variant people, the category quickly gained momentum in public health, social...
Freedom Not Yet
Liberation and the Next World Order
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
The neoliberal project in the West has created an increasingly polarized and impoverished world, to the point that the vast majority of its citizens require liberation from their present socioeconomic circumstances. The marxist theorist Kenneth Surin contends that innovation and change at the level...
Undoing Monogamy
The Politics of Science and the Possibilities of Biology
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
In Undoing Monogamy Angela Willey offers a radically interdisciplinary exploration of the concept of monogamy in U.S. science and culture, propelled by queer feminist desires for new modes of conceptualization and new forms of belonging. She approaches the politics and materiality of monogamy as intertwined...
by Sharon Patricia Holland
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
A major intervention in the fields of critical race theory, black feminism, and queer theory, The Erotic Life of Racism contends that theoretical and political analyses of race have largely failed to understand and describe the profound ordinariness of racism and the ways that it operates as a quotidian...