Lexington Books: 3858 books
Urban Ills
Twenty-first-Century Complexities of Urban Living in Global Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Urban Ills: Twenty First Century Complexities of Urban Living in Global Contexts is a collection of original research focused on critical challenges and dilemmas to living in cities. Volume 1 examines both the economic impact of urban life and the social realities of urban living. The editors define...
African American Students’ Career and College Readiness
The Journey Unraveled
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
African American Students’ Career and College Readiness: The Journey Unraveled explores the historical, legal, and socio-political issues of education affecting African American students and their career and college readiness. Each chapter has been written based on the authors’ experience and...
Maintaining Black Marriage
Individual, Interpersonal, and Contextual Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Maintaining Black Marriage: Individual, Interpersonal, and Contextual Dynamics moves beyond the usual demographics in the study of Black marriage to focus on the communication that sustains it. Using original data and secondary research, Marianne Dainton provides the story of Black marriage success...
American Ethnic Practices in the Twenty-first Century
The Milwaukee Study
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
American Ethnic Practices in the Early Twenty-first Century: The Milwaukee Study is based on a twelve-year research project conducted in a Midwestern urban center. Unlike many works since Barth (1970) that have moved toward deconstructing ethnicity, this book takes a new approach by focusing on ethnic...
Reagan's War on Terrorism in Nicaragua
The Outlaw State
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
During the first two years of Ronald Reagan’s second term the United States developed an offensive strategy for dealing with conflict in the developing world. Nicaragua was a primary target of this policy. Scholars refer to this as the Reagan offensive: the first time that the United States eschewed...
Border Crossings
Toward a Comparative Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 1999
Comparative political theory is at best an embryonic and marginalized endeavor. As practiced in most Western universities, the study of political theory generally involves a rehearsal of the canon of Western political thought from Plato to Marx. Only rarely are practitioners of political thought willing...
Latina/o Discourse in Vernacular Spaces
Somos de Una Voz?
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Taking up the charge to study discourses of marginalized groups, while simultaneously extending scholarship about Latina/os in the field of Communication, Latina/o Discourse in Vernacular Spaces: Somos de Una Voz? provides the most current work examining the vernacular voices of Latina/os. The editors...
Understanding Humor through Communication
Why Be Funny, Anyway?
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Understanding Humor through Communication explores theories of humor origin as well as humor functions in human groups and societies through communication. A model of humor decision by individuals is detailed, followed by humor’s emergence in communication. Elements of humor sources (incongruity,...
by Christian A. Van Gorder
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Writing on an often overlooked section of contemporary Persian culture, A. Christian Van Gorder provides a comprehensive and readable introduction to the experience of Christians and other non-Muslims in Iran throughout history and into the present day. Van Gorder gives a fascinating account of the...
Co-opting Culture
Culture and Power in Sociology and Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Co-opting Culture: Culture and Power in Sociology and Cultural Studies represents a collection of new scholarship on culture from the social sciences and from work done under the rubric of 'cultural studies'. Working from the idea that Sociology and Cultural Studies have developed distinct and valuable...
Information, Power, and Politics
Technological and Institutional Mediations
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
With the spread of information and communication technologies (ICTs) comes the potential both for new social and economic equalities and new forms of inequalities. Information, Power, and Politics: Technological and Institutional Mediations demonstrates that ICTs can act as an impetus for democratizing...
Television and the Modernization Ideal in 1980s China
Dazzling the Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Television and the Modernization Ideal in 1980s China: Dazzling the Eyes explores Chinese television history in the pivotal decade of the 1980s and explains the intellectual reception of television in China during this time. While the Chinese media has often been a topic within studies of globalization...
by Angela Kallhoff
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Why Democracy Needs Public Goods provides arguments for a new theoretical perspective in favor of public goods. Kallhoff details the benefits of public goods for any democratic state: they contribute to social inclusion, help generate the public forum, and foster national identity. These arguments...
by Sheldon Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
This study examines the role of modern sports in constructing national identities and the way leaders have exploited sports to achieve domestic and foreign policy goals. The book focuses on the development of national sporting cultures in Great Britain and the United States, the particular processes...