Category: Cultural studies
8 review(s) found that match this category.
New & Noteworthy for Winter 2014
Winter 2014
After Artest: The NBA and the Assault on Blackness by David J. Leonard SUNY Press, 2012 ::
After a brawl at a Pistons-Pacers game in 2004, the NBA adopted
policies to govern black players and prevent them from embracing styles
and persona...
Categories: Cultural studies, Poetry, Anthropology
Tags: African Americans, Basketball, Southwest United States
Nikkei Baseball: Japanese American Players from Immigration and Internment to the Major Leagues
Winter 2014
Since Sam Regalado received his doctorate in history in 1987, he has
established himself as one of the leading authorities on the history of
baseball and the Hispanic population in the United States. Now a
professor at California State Universi...
Categories: Athletics, History, Cultural studies
Tags: Japanese-Americans, Baseball, Internment camps
Asian American Women’s Popular Literature
Fall 2014
Since Nathaniel Hawthorne famously complained about the “damned mob of
scribbling women” in 1855, much has changed in American literary and
popular culture, not least the nation’s racial demographics, which now
include substantial numbers...
Categories: Literature, Cultural studies
Tags: Asian Americans, Popular culture, Women
The Aesthetics of Strangeness: Eccentricity and Madness in Early Modern Japan
Summer 2014
Eccentricity and odd artistic behavior in the Edo period of Japan
(1600–1868) proliferated as an aesthetic subculture that both resisted
the rigidity of the Tokugawa realm and served as a source of moral and
cultural values.
This study by Br...
Categories: History, Cultural studies, Fine Arts
Tags: Japan, Artists, Eccentricity
Alpha Phi Alpha: A Legacy of Greatness, the Demands of Transcendence
Winter 2012
Alpha Phi Alpha is the only black fraternity to be founded at an Ivy
League school. Starting at Cornell in 1906, its founders were just a
generation away from slavery and intent on creating an organization to
foster academic scholarship, build ...
Categories: History, Cultural studies
Tags: Black fraternities, African Americans
Building New Pathways to Peace
Winter 2011
The idea of “peace” in our
complex and conflicted
world sometimes seems out
of reach or even antiquated.
The authors in this
collection recognize these
realities and make a
concerted effort to build a
new theory of peace studies.
N...
Categories: Social sciences, History, Cultural studies
Tags: World War II, Peace Studies
Chicana Leadership: The Frontiers Reader
Winter 2004
This collection of inspired and thoughtful articles, originally published in Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies from 1980 to 1999, examines not only Chicana leadership, but also Chicana activism, history, and identity. According to the primary e...
Categories: Gender studies, Cultural studies
Tags: Latinas, Leadership, Chicanas
The Cayton Legacy: An African American Family
Summer 2002
Set in Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, and New York, The Cayton Legacy chronicles the evolution of a remarkable African American family. From the Civil War to the present, generations of the Horace and Susie Cayton family helped illuminate the black...
Categories: Cultural studies, History
Tags: African Americans