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Race and the Politics of Deception
The Making of an American City
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
What is the relationship between race and space, and how do racial politics inform the organization and development of urban locales?
In Race and the Politics of Deception, Christopher Mele unpacks America’s history of dealing with racial problems through the inequitable use of public space....
Sanctuary Cinema
Origins of the Christian Film Industry
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Winner of the Religious Communication Association Book of the Year Award for 2008
Sanctuary Cinema provides the first history of the origins of the Christian film industry. Focusing on the early days of film during the silent era, it traces the ways in which the Church came to adopt film making as...
Pocahontas and the English Boys
Caught between Cultures in Early Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
The captivating story of four young people—English and Powhatan—who lived their lives between cultures
In Pocahontas and the English Boys, the esteemed historian Karen Ordahl Kupperman shifts the lens on the well-known narrative of Virginia’s founding to reveal the previously untold and...
Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade
Setting the Record Straight
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2000
In the wake of the civil rights movement, a great divide has opened up between African American and Jewish communities. What was historically a harmonious and supportive relationship has suffered from a powerful and oft-repeated legend, that Jews controlled and masterminded the slave trade and owned...
Whose Global Village?
Rethinking How Technology Shapes Our World
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
A call to action to include marginalized, non-western communities in the continuously expanding digital revolution
In the digital age, technology has shrunk the physical world into a “global village,” where we all seem to be connected as an online community as information travels to the...
Antisocial Media
Anxious Labor in the Digital Economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
The debate surrounding the transformation of work at the hands of digital technology and the anxieties brought forth by automation, the sharing economy, and the exploitation of leisure
We have been told that digital technology is now threatening the workplace as we know it, that advances in...
Sex and Sexuality in Latin America
An Interdisciplinary Reader
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1997
Despite the explosion of critical writing on gender and sexuality, relatively little work has focused on Latin America. Sex and Sexuality in Latin America: An Interdisciplinary Readerfills in this gap. Daniel Balderston and Donna J. Guy assert that the study of sexuality in Latin America requires...
The Latino Body
Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
The Latino Body tells the story of the United States Latino body politic and its relation to the state: how the state configures Latino subjects and how Latino subjects have in turn altered the state. Lázaro Lima charts the interrelated groups that define themselves as Latinos and examines how these...
Racial Asymmetries
Asian American Fictional Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Challenging the tidy links among authorial position, narrative perspective, and fictional content, Stephen Hong Sohn argues that Asian American authors have never been limited to writing about Asian American characters or contexts. Racial Asymmetries specifically examines the importance of first person...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
African immigration to North America has been rapidly increasing. Yet, little has been written about this significant group of immigrants and the particular religious traditions that they are transplanting on our shores, as scholars continue largely to focus instead on immigrants from Europe and Asia.
African...
Judges in Contemporary Democracy
An International Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Law, politics, and society in the modern West have been marked by the increasing power of the judge: the development of constitutional justice, the evolution of international judiciaries, and judicial systems that extend even further into social life. Judges make decisions that not only enforce the...
by Cary Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1997
In an age when innovative scholarly work is at an all-time high, the academy itself is being rocked by structural change. Funding is plummeting. Tenure increasingly seems a prospect for only the elite few. Ph.D.'s are going begging for even adjunct work. Into this tumult steps Cary Nelson, with a...
No University Is an Island
Saving Academic Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2010
The modern university is sustained by academic freedom; it guarantees higher education’s independence, its quality, and its success in educating students. The need to uphold those values would seem obvious. Yet the university is presently under siege from all corners; workers are being exploited...
The Black Radical Tragic
Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
2017 Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award presented by the Caribbean Philosophical Association
As the first successful revolution emanating from a slave rebellion, the Haitian Revolution remains an inspired site of investigation for a remarkable range of artists and activist-intellectuals...