Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Abstractionist Aesthetics
Artistic Form and Social Critique in African American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2015
An artistic discussion on the critical potential of African American expressive culture
In a major reassessment of African American culture, Phillip Brian Harper intervenes in the ongoing debate about the “proper” depiction of black people. He advocates for African American aesthetic abstractionism—a...
Bruce Springsteen and Popular Music
Rhetoric, Social Consciousness, and Contemporary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
This interdisciplinary volume enters the scholarly conversation about Bruce Springsteen at the moment when he has reinforced his status of global superstar and achieved the status of social critic. Covering musical and cultural developments, chapters primarily consider work Springsteen has released...
by Eduardo de la Fuente
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
In the first decade of the twentieth-century, many composers rejected the principles of tonality and regular beat. This signaled a dramatic challenge to the rationalist and linear conceptions of music that had existed in the West since the Renaissance. The ‘break with tonality’, Neo-Classicism,...
Who We Be
A Cultural History of Race in Post-Civil Rights America
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Race. A four-letter word. The greatest social divide in American life, a half-century ago and today.
During that time, the U.S. has seen the most dramatic demographic and cultural shifts in its history, what can be called the colorization of America. But the same nation that elected its first Black...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
This volume of Who’s Who in Research series offers a useful guide for current researchers in Intellect’s subject area of Cultural Studies. The directory holds the names, institutions, biographies and current research interests of hundreds of leading international academics as well as references to the researchers’ principal articles in Intellect journals.
American Indians
Stereotypes & Realities
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
American Indians: Stereotypes & Realities provides an informative and engaging Indian perspective on common misconceptions concerning American Indians which afflict public and even academic circles to this very day. Written in a highly accessible stereotype/reality format, it includes numerous...
by James Mooney
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Immediately following the massacre of Wounded Knee (December 29, 1890), the well-known anthropologist James Mooney, under the auspices of the Bureau of American Ethnology and the Smithsonian, investigated the incident. His interest was primarily in the Indian background to the uprising. Admitting...
La Calle
Spatial Conflicts and Urban Renewal in a Southwest City
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
On March 1, 1966, the voters of Tucson approved the Pueblo Center Redevelopment Project—Arizona’s first major urban renewal project—which targeted the most densely populated eighty acres in the state. For close to one hundred years, tucsonenses had created their own spatial reality in the historical,...
The Harlem Renaissance: A Historical Exploration of Literature
A Historical Exploration of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
The Harlem Renaissance is one of the most interesting eras in African American literature as well as a highly regarded period in our country's literary history. The works produced during this span reflect a turbulent social climate in America … a time fraught with both opportunities and injustices...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
What is Europe? Who is European? What do Europe and European identity mean in the twenty-first century? This collection of sixteen essays seeks to answer these questions by focusing on Europe as it is seen through its own eyes and through the eyes of others across a variety of cultural texts, including...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
In Soviet times, anthropologists in the Soviet Union were closely involved in the state’s work of nation building. They helped define official nationalities, and gathered material about traditional customs and suitably heroic folklore, whilst at the same time refraining from work on the reality...
Development Arrested
The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Development Arrested is a major reinterpretation of the two-centuries-old conflict between the African Americans and planters in the Mississippi Delta. In a definitive study of the history and social structures of the plantation system, Clyde Woods examines both planter domination of politics and...
Seeing White
An Introduction to White Privilege and Race
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
This interdisciplinary textbook challenges students to see race as everyone's issue. Drawing on sociology, psychology, and economics, Seeing White introduces students to the concepts of white privilege and social power. Compelling concrete examples illustrate key theoretical perspectives, including...
by Stuart Hall, Paddy Whannel
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
When it first appeared in 1964, Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel's The Popular Arts opened up an almost unprecedented field of analysis and inquiry into contemporary popular culture. Counter to the prevailing views of the time, Hall and Whannel recognized popular culture's social importance and considered...