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Africa Every Day presents an exuberant, thoughtful, and necessary counterpoint to the prevailing emphasis in introductory African studies classes on war, poverty, corruption, disease, and human rights violations on the continent. These challenges are real and deserve sustained attention, but this volume shows that adverse conditions do not prevent people from making music, falling in love, playing sports, participating in festivals, writing blogs, telling jokes, making videos, playing games,...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
To Ellen Dissanayake, the arts are biologically evolved propensities of human nature: their fundamental features helped early humans adapt to their environment and reproduce themselves successfully over generations. In Art and Intimacy she argues for the joint evolutionary origin of art and intimacy, what we commonly call love.It all begins with the human trait of birthing immature and helpless infants. To ensure that mothers find their demanding babies worth caring for, humans evolved to be...
| Автор | Ellen Dissanayake |
Presenta la metodología de análisis de redes sociales (ARS) desde una perspectiva investigativa mediante una serie de construcciones de diferentes autores y algunas consideraciones producto del trabajo investigativo y reflexivo de varios años.
| Автор | Edinson Gabriel Brand Monsalve |
From starry-eyed fans with dreams of fame to cotton entrepreneurs turned movie moguls, the Bombay film industry has historically energized a range of practices and practitioners, playing a crucial and compelling role in the life of modern India. Bombay Hustle presents an ambitious history of Indian cinema as a history of material practice, bringing new insights to studies of media, modernity, and the late colonial city.Drawing on original archival research and an innovative transdisciplinary...
| Автор | Debashree Mukherjee |
ESTADO y CIUDADANÍA. Dos falencias, una alternativa, es un libro diseñado para la formación política básica que cualquier habitante de este país debe conocer. Hace un recorrido por dos de los grandes problemas existentes en la sociedad colombiana: un Estado débil, desarticulado y que no hace presencia en todo el territorio nacional; pero adicionalmente, que ha sido capturado por grupos con diversos intereses, de tal forma que sus instituciones no estén al servicio de la población en general,...
| Автор | Liborio Eugenio González Cepeda |
Hay formas de la desigualdad que el coeficiente de Gini no puede mostrar. Son las que explican las diferentes experiencias de la pobreza que atraviesa alguien si es mujer u hombre, si es nativo o migrante, si es de origen indígena, si vive en una zona contaminada por las industrias cercanas, si nació en un país de ingresos altos o con menos recursos, si practica una religión minoritaria, si vive en un país con una historia de segregación étnica. Desde hace algunas décadas se viene abriendo paso...
| Автор | Elizabeth Jelin |
How does a 'national' popular culture form and grow over time in a nation comprised of immigrants? How have immigrants used popular culture in America, and how has it used them? Immigration and American Popular Culture looks at the relationship between American immigrants and the popular culture industry in the twentieth century. Through a series of case studies, Rachel Rubin and Jeffrey Melnick uncover how specific trends in popular culture—such as portrayals of European...
| Автор | Jeffrey Melnick |
With images of Jennifer Lopez’s butt and America Ferrera’s smile saturating national and global culture, Latina bodies have become an ubiquitous presence. Dangerous Curves traces the visibility of the Latina body in the media and popular culture by analyzing a broad range of popular media including news, media gossip, movies, television news, and online audience discussions.Isabel Molina-Guzmán maps the ways in which the Latina body is gendered, sexualized, and...
| Автор | Isabel Molina-Guzman |
The Measure of America, 2010-2011 , is the definitive report on the overall well-being of all Americans. How are Americans doing—compared to one another and compared to the rest of the world? This important, easy-to-understand guide will provide all of the essential information on the current state of America.This fully illustrated report, with over 130 color images, is based on the groundbreaking American Human Development Index, which provides a single measure of the well-being for...
| Автор | Sarah Burd-Sharps |
In one of the twentieth century's landmark Supreme Court cases, Brown v. Board of Education , social scientists such as Kenneth Clark helped to convince the Supreme Court Justices of the debilitating psychological effects of racism and segregation. John P. Jackson, Jr., examines the well-known studies used in support of Brown , such as Clark’s famous “doll tests,” as well as decades of research on race which lead up to the case. Jackson reveals the struggles...
| Автор | John P. Jackson Jr. |
Winner of the 2014 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Taking a performance studies approach to understanding Asian American racial subjectivity, Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson argues that the law influences racial formation by compelling Asian Americans to embody and perform recognizable identities in both popular aesthetic forms (such as theater, opera, or rock music) and in the rituals of everyday life. Tracing the production of Asian American...
| Автор | Joshua Chambers-Letson |
Winner of the 2006 Thomas J. Lyon Book Award in Western American Literary Studies, presented by the Western Literature AssociationIn The Emergence of Mexican America , John-Michael Rivera examines the cultural, political, and legal representations of Mexican Americans and the development of US capitalism and nationhood. Beginning with the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848 and continuing through the period of mass repatriation of US Mexican laborers in 1939, Rivera examines both Mexican-American...
| Автор | John-Michael Rivera |
How black women have personified art,expression,identity, and freedom through performance Winner, 2016 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, presented by the Modern Language Association for an outstanding scholarly study of African American literature or culture Winner, 2016 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, presented by the American Society for Theatre Research Winner, 2016 Errol Hill Award for outstanding scholarship in African American theater, drama, and/or...
| Автор | Uri McMillan |
Feminist legal theory is one of the most dynamic fields in the law, and it affects issues ranging from child custody to sexual harassment. Since its initial publication in 2006, Feminist Legal Theory: A Primer has received rave reviews. Now, in the completely updated second edition of this outstanding primer, Nancy Levit and Robert R.M. Verchick introduce the diverse strands of feminist legal theory and discuss an array of substantive legal topics, pulling in recent court decisions, new laws,...
| Автор | Nancy Levit |
The beating of Rodney King, the killing of Amadou Diallo, and the LAPD Rampart Scandal: these events have been interpreted by the courts, the media and the public in dramatically conflicting ways. Critical Race Narratives examines what is at stake in these conflicts and, in so doing, rethinks racial strife in the United States as a highly-charged struggle over different methods of reading and writing. Focusing in particular on the practice and theorization of narrative strategies,...
| Автор | Carl Gutierrez-Jones |
From Bombay to Bollywood analyzes the transformation of the national film industry in Bombay into a transnational and multi-media cultural enterprise, which has come to be known as Bollywood. Combining ethnographic, institutional, and textual analyses, Aswin Punathambekar explores how relations between state institutions, the Indian diaspora, circuits of capital, and new media technologies and industries have reconfigured the Bombay-based industry’s geographic reach. Providing in-depth...
| Автор | Aswin Punathambekar |
The connection and science behind race, racism, and mental illness In 2012, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at the University of Oxford reported that – based on their clinical experiment – the beta-blocker drug, Propranolol, could reduce implicit racial bias among its users. Shortly after the experiment, an article in Time Magazine cited the study, posing the question: Is racism becoming a mental illness? In Are Racists Crazy? Sander Gilman and James Thomas trace the idea of race and...
| Автор | James M. Thomas |
2006 American Book Award, presented by the Before Columbus Foundation Southern Italian emigration to the United States peaked a full century ago—;descendents are now fourth and fifth generation, dispersed from their old industrial neighborhoods, professionalized, and fully integrated into the “melting pot.” Surely the social historians are right: Italian Americans are fading into the twilight of their ethnicity. So, why is the American imagination enthralled by The...
| Автор | Thomas J. Ferraro |
Explores the racialization of immigrants from post-Soviet states and the nuances of citizenship for this new diaspora. [b][/b]Mapping representations of post-1980s immigration from the former Soviet Union to the United States in interviews, reality TV shows, fiction, and memoirs, Claudia Sadowski-Smith shows how this nationally and ethnically diverse group is associated with idealized accounts of the assimilation and upward mobility of early twentieth-century arrivals from Europe. As it traces...
| Автор | Claudia Sadowski-Smith |
2015 Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Media Ecology Association[/b]2013 Book of the Year, Visual Communication Division, National Communication Association[/b] Amidst the profound upheavals in technology, economics, and culture that mark the contemporary moment, marketing strategies have multiplied, as brand messages creep ever deeper into our private lives. In Your Ad Here, an engaging and timely new book, Michael Serazio investigates the rise of “guerrilla...
| Автор | Michael Serazio |
Este libro es el resultado de un ejercicio investigativo, por querer identificar las influencias de los contextos socioculturales en los procesos de formación de los niños y niñas del Corregimiento La Quitaz del Municipio de la Belleza, en el departamento de Santander, Colombia. Se debe resaltar la permanente colaboración de los informantes, léase: niños, niñas, padres de familia y profesores, pues, no es sencillo, en oportunidades, enfrentarse a nuestras propias realidades. A su vez, es...
| Автор | Luisa Castañeda Rueda |
"En los últimos años ha aumentado de forma significativa la reflexión sobre los problemas que atañen a las mujeres, los dilemas que asedian sus cuerpos y, como consecuencia, las demandas feministas para tratar de solucionarlos. Así ha sido como, en la actualidad, vivimos un nuevo ciclo de movilizaciones y una diversificación de los discursos feministas, en especial de aquellos relacionados con un tema que parecía superado ya en el siglo XXI: «El derecho de las mujeres a decidir sobre...
| Автор | Carmen Domingo |
En las primeras décadas de la democracia, Gendarmería era sinónimo de Centinelas de la Patria. Sus efectivos estaban habituados a los pueblos de frontera y a los operativos en la montaña, la selva, la puna. En el curso del siglo XXI, un porcentaje cada vez mayor fue destinado a las zonas más calientes del Conurbano bonaerense, CABA y Rosario, donde pasaron a convivir con poblaciones en situación de pobreza, hacinamiento, exclusión. Y a prestar servicio en condiciones tan precarias como...
| Автор | Sabina Frederric |
<P>Playing It Dangerously questions what happens when feelings attached to popular music conflict with expressions of the dominant socio-cultural order, and how this tension enters into the politics of popular culture at various levels of human interaction. Tambura is a genre-crossing performance practice centered on an eponymous stringed instrument, part of the mandolin family, that Roma, Croats, and Serbs adopted from Ottoman forces. The acclamation that one «plays dangerously»...
| Автор | Ian MacMillen |