Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
The 1950s and 1960s were a key moment in the development of postwar France. The period was one of rapid change, derived from post-World War II economic and social modernization; yet many traditional characteristics were retained. By analyzing the eruption of the new postwar world in the context of...
by Dennis Altman
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
In this fascinating exploration—part memoir, part political discourse—Dennis Altman, one of the preeminent academics studying gay and lesbian culture around the world, connects the changes that have happened in the queer world over the last 40 years to larger social, political, and cultural trends....
Ghettonation
A Journey Into the Land of Bling and Home of the Shameless
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
ghet-to n. (Merriam-Webster dictionary) Italian, from Venetian dialect ghèto island where Jews were forced to live; literally, foundry (located on the island), from ghetàr,to cast; from Latin jactare to throw
1: a quarter of a city in which Jews were formerly required to live
2: a quarter of a city...
Rising from the Rails
Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
An engaging social history that reveals the critical role Pullman porters played in the struggle for African American civil rights
When George Pullman began recruiting Southern blacks as porters in his luxurious new sleeping cars, the former slaves suffering under Jim Crow laws found his offer...
The National Urban League, 100 Years of Empowering Communities
Ruth Standish Baldwin and George Edmund Haynes, 1950-1980
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
Ruth Standish Baldwin came from a family of early New England colonists with a history of social activism. The Baldwins were deeply concerned about the poor and disadvantaged. The health and welfare of Negro migrants were their particular interest. Mr. Baldwin, William Henry Baldwin, Jr., was an active...
The Original Black Elite
Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
In this outstanding cultural biography, the author of the New York Times bestseller A Slave in the White House chronicles a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the inspiring rise and calculated fall of the black elite, from Emancipation through Reconstruction to the Jim Crow Era—embodied...
Cultural Quarters
Principles and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
This definitive book provides a conceptual context for cultural quarters through a detailed discussion concerning the principles of urban design and planning. To examine these issues, the book presents several case studies drawn from Northern England, Ireland and Vienna to position the emergence of...
by Mark Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
Inventing Film Studies offers original and provocative insights into the institutional and intellectual foundations of cinema studies. Many scholars have linked the origins of the discipline to late-1960s developments in the academy such as structuralist theory and student protest. Yet this collection...
THE DEATH OF HOMO SAPIENS
THE ACTION IRRATIONAL AS SOCIAL VALUE
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Segundo Karl Marx[1], “para que o homem possa ser capaz de transformar (a sociedade ou a sua condição sócio-existencial) é preciso, antes, que ele seja capaz de transformar-se”.
Nesse sentido, para poder transformar-se é preciso também poder pensar: libertar-se das...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Groundbreaking information for caregivers—and those receiving care
It is more common now than ever before for partners, family members, and friends to provide informal care, yet caregiving in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities has received little attention. Caregiving...
Gay and Gray
The Older Homosexual Man, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
In the absence of accurate information, American culture has upheld a distorted view of what it means to be an older gay man. Gay and Gray is the first and only scholarly full-length treatment of older gay men in America today. It breaks the stereotype that older gay men are strange, lonely creatures...
Dirty Laundry
Coloreds and Whites
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
To many, the situation for black Americans in the world today seems hopeless. In Dirty Laundry, author Lavelle presents his personal view of race relations in the world and how these relations have affected both the black and white culture.
Through a series of essays, Lavelle describes the...
Cultural Studies
Volume 7, Issue 2
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2005
Cultural Studies explores popular culture in a uniquely exciting and innovative way. Encouraging experimentation, intervention and dialogue, Cultural Studies is both politically and theoretically rewarding.
Freedom's Racial Frontier
African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Between 1940 and 2010, the black population of the American West grew from 710,400 to 7 million. With that explosive growth has come a burgeoning interest in the history of the African American West—an interest reflected in the remarkable range and depth of the works collected in Freedom’s Racial...