Cultural studies Books
The University of Michigan Press Class Critics and Shakespeare
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The University of Michigan Press Conceiving Cultures
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: imagining the field -- Tracing Nuakata -- Colonial impregnations -- Bearing the inconceivable -- Belongings -- Planting the past, tending the future -- Living death -- Conclusion: remembering Nuakata.
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The University of Michigan Press Jewish in America
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The University of Michigan Press Transcribing Class and Gender
Book SynopsisExamines the historical roots of clerical work and the role that class and gender played in determining professional status. This book explores the changing meanings of clerical work in nineteenth-century America, focusing on the discourse surrounding that work.
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The University of Michigan Press The Songs of Blind Folk
Book SynopsisArtists like Blind Arthur Blake, Sonny Terry, Arizona Dranes, and Art Tatum have appeared throughout the history of popular music in America - the list of visually impaired black musicians is long. This book examines the ways that blindness, like blackness, shaped both the music these artists produced and the way the nation received it.
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The University of Michigan Press Home Truths
Book SynopsisExplores the everyday, popular use of video production technology, looking particularly at how families use and engage with the technology and how it fits into the routines of everyday life. The authors draw on interviews, observations, and the participants' videos themselves, seeking to paint a comprehensive picture of the role of video making in their everyday lives.
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The University of Michigan Press The End of Normal
Book SynopsisExplores changing perceptions of body and mind in social, cultural, and political life as the 21st century unfolds. The book’s provocative essays mine the worlds of advertising, film, literature, and the visual arts as they consider issues of disability, depression, physician-assisted suicide, medical diagnosis, transgender, and other identities.
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The University of Michigan Press Dean Worcesters Fantasy Islands
Book SynopsisInformed by contemporary theories of colonial photography and the history of US imperialism, Dean Worcester’s Fantasy Islands is narrative in its approach, tracing Worcester’s emergence both as a colonial administrator and a photographer and analysing the intersections between his personal desires and his political agenda as they shaped his photography in the Philippines.
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The University of Michigan Press Evita Inevitably
Book SynopsisSheds new light on the history and culture of Argentina by examining the performances and reception of the country’s most iconic female figures, in particular, Eva Perón. The book links the Evita legend to a broader pattern of female iconicity from the mid-19th century onward, reading Evita against the performances of other female icons.
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The University of Michigan Press Tactics of the Human
Book SynopsisExamines the ways contemporary American fiction develops digital cultures through the creative transposition of digital rhetorics and technological practices, incorporating devices such as the hyperlink, network, and recursive processing into print or in translating a classic print narrative into a digital hypertext fiction.
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The University of Michigan Press Internationalizing International Communication
Book SynopsisArgues that we must reject both America-writ-large views of the world and self-defeating mirror images that reject anything American or Western on the grounds of cultural incompatibility or even cultural superiority. The point of departure for internationalizing “international communication” must be precisely the opposite of parochialism - namely, a spirit of cosmopolitanism.
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The University of Michigan Press Interdisciplining Digital Humanities
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The University of Michigan Press Reading for the Planet
Book SynopsisIn his new book, Christian Moraru argues that post-Cold War culture in general and, in particular, the literature, philosophy, and theory produced since 9/11 foreground an emergent “planetary” imaginary - a “planetarism” - binding in unprecedented ways the world’s peoples, traditions, and aesthetic practices.
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The University of Michigan Press Subversions of the American Century
Book SynopsisArgues that the moment the US became an overseas colonial power in 1898, American national identity was redefined across a global matrix. The Philippines, which the US seized at that point from Spain and local revolutionaries, is therefore the birthplace of a new kind of America, one with a planetary reach that was accompanied by resistance to that reach by local peoples.Trade ReviewAdam Lifshey is that rare breed and hybrid of assiduous cultural studies scholar and astute literary critic. Written with mordant humor and trenchant irony, Subversions of the American Century unearths Filipino-Hispanic writing from the U.S. colonial period in the Philippines and boldly puts this unlikely literary tradition at the core of a reconstellation of curious geographies and transposition of various critical frames. Lifshey crosses the normally separated areas of Spanish and American studies and argues, compellingly, for the exemplary modernity of this writing, its centrality to Global Studies and emergent American Empire Critique.”—Oscar V. Campomanes, Ateneo de Manila University""Lifshey has developed a sound critical study that involves the intersection of several important scholarly agendas. . .I know of no other study that raises the sort of issues of Spanish-language writing in the American English-language dominated overseas empire than Lifshey’s does . . . and it is a significant addition to the most innovative extensions of Hispanic studies.”—David William Foster, Arizona State University""Based on the study of a widely unfamiliar archive of twentieth-century hispanophone literature from the Philippines, Adam Lifshey’s Subversions of the American Century offers lively introductions to authors from Pedro Paterno to Mariano de la Rosa, interprets their original operas, poems, and novels in fresh and nuanced close readings, and argues that these works should be considered as part of American literature.”—Werner Sollors, author of Beyond Ethnicity and Multilingual America
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The University of Michigan Press Risk Criticism
Book SynopsisOffers a study of literary and cultural responses to global environmental risk in an age of unfolding ecological catastrophe. Taking inspiration from the questions raised by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’s synecdochical “nuclear”, Risk Criticism aims to generate a hybrid form of critical practice that brings “nuclear criticism” into conversation with ecocriticism.Trade ReviewThis is an important book, one that will be of interest to students of contemporary literature and culture generally and to eco-criticism and eco-theory particularly. It is impressively steeped in eco-critical scholarship and theory, advances knowledge in the environmental humanities, and exposes readers to absorbing, intelligent discussions of a variety of texts.”—Fred Buell, Queen’s College, CUNY""Risk Criticism makes a significant, original contribution to ecocriticism in showing how we might learn from the juxtaposition and overlap of varied types and sites of risk, including climate change, plastics, and nuclear weapons. This book is valuable in its rich archive, which encompasses canonical and emerging literary works as well as visual art, film, and other materials, and is important for providing ways to engage the unknown in present, past, and future ecological upheaval.”—Teresa Shewry, University of California, Santa Barbara""With rare skill, Molly Wallace pulls together the imaginative, technological, ethical and political dimensions of environmental risk. Her book offers an impressive mix of conceptual innovation and grounded case studies. Risk Criticism exemplifies the environmental humanities at their eclectic best: consequential, worldly, and infused with an interdisciplinary vitality.”—Rob Nixon, Princeton University""Here we have a careful and astute reworking of nuclear criticism—brought thoughtfully together with contemporary ecocritical work and sociological theories of risk. The great achievement of this book is that Wallace invents and performs a kind of risk criticism appropriate to life in the twenty-first century; more than fabulously textual, this risk criticism is alive to the speculative, the fictive, the imaginative and the decidedly real predicaments of our second nuclear age.”—Peter van Wyck, Concordia University
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LUP - University of Michigan Press War on Autism
Book SynopsisAutism is widely understood in contemporary times as nothing more than a biomedical disorder in need of treatment and/or cure. War on Autism disrupts this singularity by examining autism as a historically specific and power-laden cultural phenomenon that has much to teach about the social organization of a neoliberal western modernity.Trade ReviewA comprehensive treatise on the social, political, and discursive constitution of the conceptual object called ‘autism’ which considers a broad range of arguments, artifacts, and events and does so in a series of lively and provocative challenges to accepted understandings of this relatively recent phenomenon.” — Shelley Tremain, author of Foucault and the Government of Disability “In many respects, autism is the condition du jour, and cultural fascination has long prevented both lay publics and scholars from engaging with the host of characters—or figures—that govern its very construction. McGuire’s multi-pronged, critical analysis of modern-day autism advocacy will profoundly impact the field of Disability Studies and uproot (unfortunately) dearly-held clinical and educational paradigms that dominate contemporary discourse on autism.” — Melanie Yergeau, University of Michigan
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The University of Michigan Press The Automobile and American Culture
Book SynopsisIntegrating scholarly and popular approaches, this anthology of essays, memoirs, fiction, poetry, and graphics describes the impact of one of this century's most fascinating inventions on American folkways. Now revised, this volume provides an even closer look at the past, present, and future of America's automobile revolution.
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The University of Michigan Press Cowives and Calabashes
Book SynopsisExplores the world of the Saramaka Maroons of Suriname and the status of women as reflected in social structure and art.
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The University of Michigan Press Othermindedness
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The University of Michigan Press Performing Democracy
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The University of Michigan Press Agitated States
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The University of Michigan Press Between the Middle East and the Americas
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Diplomas and Thatch Houses Asserting Tradition
Book SynopsisExamines the people of Pulap, a tiny atoll just north of the Equator in the western Pacific. Pulapese consider themselves and are known to their neighbours as the most traditional islanders, a situation they regard as an asset and not as a sign of backwardness.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Papuan Borderlands
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The University of Michigan Press The Challenge of Modernity
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The University of Michigan Press Cutting the Body
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The University of Michigan Press Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina
Book SynopsisA collection of essays that documents the ways in which educational institutions and the arts community responded to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina. It also addresses the larger issues raised by committed public scholarship.
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The University of Michigan Press The Earliest Romans
Book SynopsisExamines the very foundations of the Roman state. Following Aristotle's notion that ""actions are proof of character"", the author of this highly accessible volume explores the earliest behaviours and history of the people who established one of the world's great empires.
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The University of Michigan Press Rebel Dance Renegade Stance
Book SynopsisUmi A. Vaughan reveals a rarely discussed perspective on contemporary Cuban society during the 1990s, the peak decade of timba, and beyond, as the Cuban leadership transferred from Fidel Castro to his brother. Simultaneously, the book reveals popular dance music in the context of a young and astutely educated Cuban generation of fierce and creative performers.
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The University of Michigan Press AntiImperialist Modernism
Book SynopsisArgues that US multi-ethnic cultural movements helped construct a common sense of international solidarity that critiqued ideas of nationalism and essentialized racial identity. The book thus moves beyond accounts that have tended to view the pre-war “Popular Front” through tropes of national belonging or an abandonment of the cosmopolitanism of previous decades.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Body Parts of Empire Visual Abjection Filipino
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Balce has given us a valuable addition to a growing body of scholarshipon the entwined histories of the Philippines and the United States. Thisis a gracefully-written study that pulls in a wide range of scholarly textswhile simultaneously shining new light on both well-known and longforgottenarchives.” - Mark Rice, author of Dean Worcester’s Fantasy Islands
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Dreams for Dead Bodies
Book SynopsisTrade Review“With verve and energy, Michelle Robinson argues that the work of detection in fiction predates the appearance of the detective per se, and demonstrates that genres are fluid patchworks under constant repair and erasure even as they become ever more stable and predictable contracts between authors and readers. She shows how the modes of narration essential to elaborating crime plots—usually involving money and murder—are intimately tied to affective relations across classes, races and time, and the means by which they are expressed, involve, even commit, hidden violence. It is the work of narration to enlist readers in the narrators’ process of unraveling these crimes at the heart of family and nation.”—Paula Rabinowitz, author of American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street
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Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S. The Word
Book SynopsisBased on interviews with biblical scholars (Ched Myers, Walter Wink, Marcus Borg), ministers (Peter Gomes, Jim Forbes, Kay Arthur), and Bible study groups across the country, Monroe's book offers a literary mosaic of the Bible in American culture.
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Penguin Putnam Inc Corduroys Valentines Day
Book SynopsisJoin this classic teddy bear for a Valentine’s Day celebration. It''s almost February 14th, so Corduroy and his friends decide to celebrate Valentine''s Day by making their own beautiful cards. Then Corduroy walks to the mailbox and sends his letters. When he gets home, he finds a wonderful surprise--special valentines just for him! This brightly colored, festively shaped board book is perfect for the youngest fans of Corduroy, one of the best-loved characters in children''s books for fifty years.
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group MOVIE MADE AMERICA CULTURAL HISTORY OF AMERICAN MOVIES
Book SynopsisHailed as the definitive work upon its original publication in 1975 and now extensively revised and updated by the author, this vastly absorbing and richly illustrated book examines film as an art form, technological innovation, big business, and shaper of American values. Ever since Edison's peep shows first captivated urban audiences, film has had a revolutionary impact on American society, transforming culture from the bottom up, radically revising attitudes toward pleasure and sexuality, and at the same time, cementing the myth of the American dream. No book has measured film's impact more clearly or comprehensively than Movie-Made America.This vastly readable and richly illustrated volume examines film as art form, technological innovation, big business, and cultural bellwether. It takes in stars from Douglas Fairbanks to Sly Stallone; auteurs from D. W. Griffith to Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee; and genres from the screwball comedy of the 1930s t
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Random House USA Inc Confucius Lives Next Door What Living in the East
Book Synopsis'Fascinating...clearly stated, interesting and provoking.... A plainspoken account of living in Asia.' --San Francisco ChronicleAnyone who has heard his weekly commentary on NPR knows that T. R. Reid is trenchant, funny, and deeply knowledgeable reporter and now he brings this erudition and humor to the five years he spent in Japan--where he served as The Washington Post's Tokyo bureau chief. He provides unique insights into the country and its 2,500-year-old Confucian tradition, a powerful ethical system that has played an integral role in the continent's 'postwar miracle.'Whether describing his neighbor calmly asserting that his son's loud bass playing brings disrepute on the neighborhood, or the Japanese custom of having students clean the schools, Reid inspires us to consider the many benefits of the Asian Way--as well as its drawbacks--and to use this to come to a greater understanding of both Japanese culture and America.
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University of Wales Press Postcolonial Wales
Book SynopsisQuestions, hypotheses, and concepts drawn from postcolonial theory are used to understand the culture and politics of postdevolution Wales in these essays. Beginning with discussions of how Wales, as a nation, has been understood historiographically, as well as historically, this analysis focuses on Welsh cultural differences in terms of literature, mass media, music, drama, and the visual arts. Table of ContentsPreface Jane Aaron and Chris Williams; Part I: Is Wales Postcolonial? Nation, Place and History Problematising Wales: An exploration in postcoloniality and historiography Chris Williams; In search of Wales, 1900-2002: Spatial theory and spatial politics Pyrs Gruffudd; 'Them and us': History and the discursive creation of nationhood Rob Phillips; Coming into view? Multiculturalism in postcolonial Wales Glenn Jordan; Part II: A Quiet Revolution? Devolution, 'Inclusiveness' and Postcoloniality The colonial legacy in Welsh politics Richard Wyn Jones; 'Maitres chez nous?': Awaiting the quiet revolution in Wales Alys Thomas; A new beginning or the beginning of the end? The Welsh language in postcolonial Wales Dylan Phillips; Women's political participation and the Welsh Assembly Paul Chaney; Part III: A Postcolonial Culture? Welsh Cultural Difference Welsh writing in English and postcolonial literature Stephen Knight; Bardic postcolonialism Jane Aaron; What's in the 'post'?: Mass media as a 'site of struggle' David M. Barlow; What did 'Welsh' mean for 1990s Welsh pop Music? Dai Griffiths and Sarah Hill; Dramatic fictions in a 'postcolonial' Wales Steve Blandford; Horizon Wales: Visual arts and the postcolonial Iwan Bala.
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Pluto Press For Humanism Explorations in Theory and Politics
Book SynopsisThe restoration of humanism to the radical leftTrade Review'A major intervention into contemporary discussions about the resources of political hope, this volume insists upon the continuing indispensability and, indeed, radicalness of humanism as both a critical philosophy and a moral-political template' -- Neil Lazarus, Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of WarwickTable of ContentsSeries Preface Introduction: Humanism’s Other Story - Timothy Brennan 1. The Rise, Decline and Possible Revival of Socialist Humanism - Barbara Epstein 2. Marxist Humanism after Structuralism and Post-structuralism: The Case for Renewal - Kevin Anderson 3. Postcolonialism is a Humanism - Robert Spencer 4. Queer Theory, Solidarity and Bodies Political - David Alderson Conclusion - David Alderson and Robert Spencer Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Cool Memories V 20002004 Translated by Chris
Book SynopsisProphet of the apocalypse, hysterical lyric poet, obsessive recounter of the desolation of the postmodern scene and currently the hottest property on the New York intellectual circuit. The Guardian A sharp-shooting lone-ranger from the post-Marxist left. New York Times The most important French thinker of the past twenty years. J.Trade Review"Prophet of the apocalypse, hysterical lyric poet, obsessive recounter of the desolation of the postmodern scene..." The Guardian "A sharp-shooting lone-ranger from the post-Marxist left." New York Times "An international, intellectual superstar." Salon.com
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Lost Spirit of Capitalism
Book SynopsisMax Weber famously argued that the rise of capitalism in early modern Europe was premised on the emergence of a distinctive set of attitudes - including the pursuit of profit for its own sake - which he called the spirit of capitalism .Trade Review"Capitalism has lost its spirit, not to mention its mind: destroying the desire it claims to channel, incapable of establishing any value beyond narrow calculation, it now needs saving from itself. Revisiting (and revising) Freud and Marcuse, proposing a ‘libidinal ecology’ to help us avoid the disaster ahead, Stiegler might just be the man for the job." Martin Crowley, Queens’ College, University of Cambridge "Stiegler asks not how hyperindustrial capital can be reissted today but whether capitalism can be saved from itself and the Pandora's box of dead-end futures that it now generates, from zombie cultures of mass consumerism to the devastation of the biosphere. His bold response is to call for and lay out a new 'libidinal ecology', a project that will become a key reference point for anyone concerned with the central transformative questions of our time." Tom Cohen, State University of New York at AlbanyTable of ContentsIntroduction I. Sociopathology of 1968 1. The paradox of the super-ego in the transformations of capitalism 2. The question of spirit is that of the we 3. Knowledge and the super-ego: towards a new spirit of capitalism 4. Technicity, hostility to civilization, and the intermittency of noetic action 5. The crisis of capitalism as ‘ideological disarray’ and as crisis of spirit after May 1968 6. ‘Artistic critique’ and ‘social critique’, or the jargon of authenticity 7. The recuperation of the ‘ideas of ’68’ by French capitalism and the establishment of control society 8. Digression on the meteorological predictions of the Alaskan Eskimo 9. False problems concerning action 10. Authenticity and singularity: fantasy and the forgetting of what does not exist 11. Supports and relations of production II. The automatization of the super-ego and the passage of desire as original diversion of libidinal energy 12. The historicity of psychoanalytic categories and the illusion of desire as a natural state 13. From psychopathology to sociopathology 14. Contradictions between Marcuse’s Marxism and his Freudianism in relation to struggle (eris) against the risk of decomposition. Moving beyond guilt 15. Technics, super-ego and desublimation 16. Processes of adoption and diversions of libido: Marcuse and the tendency of libidinal energy to fall 17. ‘Liberation of instincts’, technesis and the passage of desire Ð the thrust of the knife 18. The murder of the father, the opening of time and guilt, and ‘the instant of my death henceforth always pending’ 19. Diversions and decompositions 20. The automatization of the super-ego 21. The opposition of Narcissus and Prometheus 22. Ontology and the reality principle 23. Libidinal ecology Conclusion 24. Intoxications, prohibitions, cares 25. The struggle for the life of the spirit 26. Consistence of the health and authority of public power: the freedom of the spirit
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Valentines for the Eclectic Collector
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Halloween
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Hula Heaven
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd GEISHA Women of Japans Flower and Willow World
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Johns Hopkins University Press Mixing Races
Book SynopsisAs such, Mixing Races offers a unique perspective on how contentious debates taking place on college campuses reflected radical shifts in race relations in the larger society.Trade ReviewMixing Races is a fascinating look at how evolutionary science has changed alongside social beliefs. Midwest Book Review 2011Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. A Mixed-Race Couple in the 1960s2. Scientific Ideas on Race Mixing3. Challenges to Opinions on Race Mixing4. The Modern Synthesis5. The Modern Synthesis Meets Physical Anthropology and Legal Opinion6. University Campuses in the 1960s7. Science, "Race," and "Race Mixing" TodayEpilogueSuggested Further ReadingIndex
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Beacon Press Full Dissidence Notes from an Uneven Playing
Book SynopsisA bold and impassioned meditation on injustice in our country that punctures the illusion of a postracial America and reveals it as a place where authoritarianism looms large.Whether the issues are protest, labor, patriotism, or class division, it is clear that professional sports are no longer simply fun and games. Rather, the industry is a hotbed of fractures and inequities that reflect and even drive some of the most divisive issues in our country. The nine provocative and deeply personal essays in Full Dissidence confront the dangerous narratives that are shaping the current dialogue in sports and mainstream culture. The book is a reflection on a culture where African Americans continue to navigate the sharp edges of whiteness—as citizens who are always at risk of being told, often directly from the White House, to go back to where they came from. The topics Howard Bryant takes on include the player-owner relationship, the militarization of sports, the m
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Beacon Press For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the
Book SynopsisA New York Times Best SellerEssential reading for all adults who work with black and brown young people...Filled with exceptional intellectual sophistication and necessary wisdom for the future of education.—Imani Perry, National Book Award Winner author of South To AmericaAn award-winning educator offers a much-needed antidote to traditional top-down pedagogy and promises to radically reframe the landscape of urban education for the betterDrawing on his own experience of feeling undervalued and invisible in classrooms as a young man of color, Dr. Christopher Emdin has merged his experiences with more than a decade of teaching and researching in urban America. He takes to task the perception of urban youth of color as unteachable, and he challenges educators to embrace and respect each student’s culture and to reimagine the classroom as a site where roles are reversed and students become the experts in their own learning. Putting forth his theory of Reality Pedagogy, Emdin provides practical tools to unleash the brilliance and eagerness of youth and educators alike—both of whom have been typecast and stymied by outdated modes of thinking about urban education. With this fresh and engaging new pedagogical vision, Emdin demonstrates the importance of creating a family structure and building communities within the classroom, using culturally relevant strategies like hip-hop music and call-and-response, and connecting the experiences of urban youth to indigenous populations globally.Merging real stories with theory, research, and practice, Emdin demonstrates how by implementing the “Seven Cs” of reality pedagogy in their own classrooms, urban youth of color benefit from truly transformative education.
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Beacon Press What We Dont Talk About When We Talk About Fat
Book SynopsisFrom the creator of Your Fat Friend and co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people.Anti-fatness is everywhere. In What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat, Aubrey Gordon unearths the cultural attitudes and social systems that have led to people being denied basic needs because they are fat and calls for social justice movements to be inclusive of plus-sized people’s experiences. Unlike the recent wave of memoirs and quasi self-help books that encourage readers to love and accept themselves, Gordon pushes the discussion further towards authentic fat activism, which includes ending legal weight discrimination, giving equal access to health care for large people, increased access to public spaces, and ending anti-fat violence. As she argues, “I did not come to body positivity for self-esteem. I came to it for social justice.”By sharing her experienc
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