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Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
The contributors to this major intervention into Indian historiography trace the strategies through which Dalits have been marginalized as well as the ways Dalit intellectuals and leaders have shaped emancipatory politics in modern India. Moving beyond the anticolonialism/nationalism binary that dominates...
Every Last Tie
The Story of the Unabomber and His Family
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
In August 1995 David Kaczynski's wife Linda asked him a difficult question: "Do you think your brother Ted is the Unabomber?" He couldn't be, David thought. But as the couple pored over the Unabomber's seventy-eight-page manifesto, David couldn't rule out the possibility. It slowly became...
The Problem of the Future World
W. E. B. Du Bois and the Race Concept at Midcentury
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The Problem of the Future World is a compelling reassessment of the later writings of the iconic African American activist and intellectual W. E. B. Du Bois. As Eric Porter points out, despite the outpouring of scholarship devoted to Du Bois, the broad range of writing he produced during the 1940s...
Southern Capitalism
The Political Economy of North Carolina, 1880–1980
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 1986
Southern Capitalism challenges prevailing views of Southern development by arguing that the persisting peculiarities of the Southern economy—such as low wages and high poverty rates—have not resulted from barriers to capitalist development, nor from the lingering influence of planter values. Wood...
Coming through the Fire
Surviving Race and Place in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 1996
In Coming through the Fire, prominent scholar and writer C. Eric Lincoln addresses the most important issue of our time with insights forged by a lifetime of confronting racial oppression in America. Born in a small rural town in northern Alabama, raised by his grandparents, Lincoln portrays in rich...
The Wedding Complex
Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2002
In The Wedding Complex Elizabeth Freeman explores the significance of the wedding ceremony by asking what the wedding becomes when you separate it from the idea of marriage. Freeman finds that weddings—as performances, fantasies, and rituals of transformation—are sites for imagining and enacting...
Culture in the Marketplace
Gender, Art, and Value in the American Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2001
In the early twentieth century, a group of elite East coast women turned to the American Southwest in search of an alternative to European-derived concepts of culture. In Culture in the Marketplace Molly H. Mullin provides a detailed narrative of the growing influence that this network of women had...
Hawaiian Blood
Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2008
In the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act (HHCA) of 1921, the U.S. Congress defined “native Hawaiians” as those people “with at least one-half blood quantum of individuals inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands prior to 1778.” This “blood logic” has since become an entrenched part of the legal system...
Earth Politics
Religion, Decolonization, and Bolivia’s Indigenous Intellectuals
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Earth Politics focuses on the lives of four indigenous activist-intellectuals in Bolivia, key leaders in the Alcaldes Mayores Particulares (AMP), a movement established to claim rights for indigenous education and reclaim indigenous lands from hacienda owners. The AMP leaders invented a discourse...
Native Moderns
American Indian Painting, 1940–1960
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2006
Between 1940 and 1960, many Native American artists made bold departures from what was considered the traditional style of Indian painting. They drew on European and other non-Native American aesthetic innovations to create hybrid works that complicated notions of identity, authenticity, and tradition....
Making Samba
A New History of Race and Music in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
In November 1916, a young Afro-Brazilian musician named Donga registered sheet music for the song "Pelo telefone" ("On the Telephone") at the National Library in Rio de Janeiro. This apparently simple act—claiming ownership of a musical composition—set in motion a series of...
Italian Signs, American Streets
The Evolution of Italian American Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
In the first major critical reading of Italian American narrative literature in two decades, Fred L. Gardaphé presents an interpretive overview of Italian American literary history. Examining works from the turn of the twentieth century to the present, he develops a new perspective—variously historical,...
Masculinity Besieged?
Issues of Modernity and Male Subjectivity in Chinese Literature of the Late Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2000
In Masculinity Besieged? Xueping Zhong looks at Chinese literature and films produced during the 1980s to examine male subjectivities in contemporary China. Reading through a feminist psychoanalytic lens, Zhong argues that understanding the nature of male subjectivities as portrayed in literature...
Inside the Mouse
Work and Play at Disney World
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 1995
This entertaining and playful book views Disney World as much more than the site of an ideal family vacation. Blending personal meditations, interviews, photographs, and cultural analysis, Inside the Mouse looks at Disney World’s architecture and design, its consumer practices, and its use of Disney...