Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Evangelical Balance Sheet
Character, Family, and Business in Mid-Victorian Nova Scotia
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Using the journals of W. Norman Rudolf (1835-1886), a Victorian merchant, Evangelical Balance Sheet: Character, Family, and Business in Mid-Victorian Nova Scotia explores the important role of character ideals and evangelicalism in mid-Victorian culture. Rudolf’s diary, with its daily weather observations,...
Constructing the Black Masculine
Identity and Ideality in African American Men’s Literature and Culture, 1775–1995
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2002
In seven representative episodes of black masculine literary and cultural history—from the founding of the first African American Masonic lodge in 1775 to the 1990s choreographies of modern dance genius Bill T. Jones—Constructing the Black Masculine maps black men’s historical efforts to negotiate...
The Arts in the 1970s
Cultural Closure
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Were the 1970s really `the devils decade'? Images of strikes, galloping inflation, rising unemployment and bitter social divisions evoke a period of unparalleled economic decline, political confrontation and social fragmentation. But how significant were the pessimism and self-doubt of the 1970s,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Introduces key ideas and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions in the emerging field of disability media studies
Disability Media Studies articulates the formation of a new field of study, based in the rich traditions of media, cultural, and disability studies. Necessarily interdisciplinary...
The Postcolonial Eye
White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Informed by theories of the visual, knowledge and desire, The Postcolonial Eye is about the 'eye' and the 'I' in contemporary Australian scenes of race. Specifically, it is about seeing, where vision is taken to be subjective and shaped by desire, and about knowing one another across the cultural...
Devouring Cultures
Perspectives on Food, Power, and Identity from the Zombie Apocalypse to Downton Abbey
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Devouring Cultures brings together contributors from a wide range of disciplines including media studies, rhetoric, gender studies, philosophy, anthropology, literary criticism, film criticism, race theory, history, and linguistics to examine the ways food signifies both culture and identity.
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The Kurds
A Contemporary Overview
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2005
The position of the 19 million Kurds is an extremely complex one. Their territory is divided between 5 sovereign states, none of which have a Kurdish majority. They speak widely divergent dialects, and are also divided by religious affiliations and social factors. It has taken the tragic and horrifying...
Cutting Along the Color Line
Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Today, black-owned barber shops play a central role in African American public life. The intimacy of commercial grooming encourages both confidentiality and camaraderie, which make the barber shop an important gathering place for African American men to talk freely. But for many years preceding and...
Midnight Basketball
Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Midnight basketball may not have been invented in Chicago, but the City of Big Shoulders—home of Michael Jordan and the Bulls—is where it first came to national prominence. And it’s also where Douglas Hartmann first began to think seriously about the audacious notion that organizing young men...
The Terms of Order
Political Science and the Myth of Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Do we live in basically orderly societies that occasionally erupt into violent conflict, or do we fail to perceive the constancy of violence and disorder in our societies? In this classic book, originally published in 1980, Cedric J. Robinson contends that our perception of political order is an illusion,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
This edited collection reports the results of a comparative study of video surveillance/CCTV in Germany, Poland, and Sweden. It investigates how video surveillance as technologically mediated social control is affected by national characteristics, with a specific concern for recent political history....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
The Anthropology of Labor Unions presents ethnographic data and analysis in eight case studies from several very diverse industries. It covers a wide range of topics, from the role of women and community in strikes to the importance of place in organization, and addresses global concerns with studies...
Woman's World/Woman's Empire
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union in International Perspective, 1880-1930
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Frances Willard founded the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1884 to carry the message of women's emancipation throughout the world. Based in the United States, the WCTU rapidly became an international organization, with affiliates in forty-two countries. Ian Tyrrell tells the extraordinary story...
Is Bill Cosby Right?
Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
Michael Eric Dyson took America by storm with this provocative expose of the class and generational divide that is tearing black America apart. Nothing exposed the class and generational divide in black America more starkly than Bill Cosby's now-infamous assault on the black poor when he received...