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The Work of Hospitals
Global Medicine in Local Cultures
The Paris Commune
A Brief History
Risky Cities
The Physical and Fiscal Nature of Disaster Capitalism
OutWrite
The Speeches That Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture
This collection gives readers a front-row seat to a pivotal moment in LGBTQ literary history with twenty-seven of the most memorable speeches from the 1990-1999 OutWrite conferences, including talks from such luminaries as Allen Ginsberg, Essex Hemphill, Patrick Califia, Dorothy Allison, and Edmund White that cover everything from racial representation to sexual politics.
Literature and Revolution
British Responses to the Paris Commune of 1871
Immigrant Agency
Hmong American Movements and the Politics of Racialized Incorporation
Double Exposure
How Social Psychology Fell in Love with the Movies
Black Women Directors
Babylost
Racism, Survival, and the Quiet Politics of Infant Mortality, from A to Z
Transnational Marriage and Partner Migration
Constellations of Security, Citizenship, and Rights
This multidisciplinary collection investigates how marriage and partner migration processes have become the object of state scrutiny for control and exclusion in several states around the world. Covering cases across several countries, contributors offer a compelling multidisciplinary perspective on the interplay between security, citizenship and rights as experienced by migrants, policymakers, and actors who negotiate encounters with the state.
Transnational Marriage and Partner Migration
Constellations of Security, Citizenship, and Rights
This multidisciplinary collection investigates how marriage and partner migration processes have become the object of state scrutiny for control and exclusion in several states around the world. Covering cases across several countries, contributors offer a compelling multidisciplinary perspective on the interplay between security, citizenship and rights as experienced by migrants, policymakers, and actors who negotiate encounters with the state.
Speaking Truths
Young Adults, Identity, and Spoken Word Activism
See Me Naked
Black Women Defining Pleasure in the Interwar Era
Resonant Violence
Affect, Memory, and Activism in Post-Genocide Societies
Played Out
The Race Man in Twenty-First-Century Satire
From Bureaucracy to Bullets
Extreme Domicide and the Right to Home
Badass Feminist Politics
Exploring Radical Edges of Feminist Theory, Communication, and Activism
Badass Feminist Politics explores gender, difference, feminist methods, stigma, social movements, mediated communication, intersectional feminist theory and pedagogy. It is a testament to resilience, resistance, and forward thinking about what these themes mean for new feminist agendas.
Population Trends in New Jersey
The Baseball Film
A Cultural and Transmedia History
The American Girl Goes to War
Women and National Identity in U.S. Silent Film
Stellar Transformations
Movie Stars of the 2010s
Stellar Transformations
Movie Stars of the 2010s
Star Decades Complete 11 Volume Set
The Star Decades: American Culture/American Cinema series is now available as an eleven volume set: Movie Stars from the 1910s to the 2010s. Each volume presents original essays that analyze the movie star against the background of American cultural history. As icon, as mediated personality, and as object of audience fascination and desire, the Hollywood star remains the model for celebrity in modern culture, representing a combination of achievement, talent, ability, luck, authenticity, superficiality, and even ordinariness.
Latinas on the Line
Invisible Information Workers in Telecommunications
Fredric Jameson and Film Theory
Marxism, Allegory, and Geopolitics in World Cinema
Fredric Jameson and Film Theory
Marxism, Allegory, and Geopolitics in World Cinema
Erotic Cartographies
Decolonization and the Queer Caribbean Imagination
Collision Course
Economic Change, Criminal Justice Reform, and Work in America
Carrying On
Another School of Thought on Pregnancy and Health
Black Space
Negotiating Race, Diversity, and Belonging in the Ivory Tower
Residues
Thinking Through Chemical Environments
Residues offers readers a new approach for conceptualizing the environmental impacts of chemicals production, consumption, disposal, and regulation. With detailed stories that span the globe, we introduce “residual materialism” as a way to track the, often invisible, impacts of chemicals through time and space and for explaining their world-making powers.
Screen Decades Complete 12 Volume Set
The Screen Decades: American Culture/American Cinema series is now available as an twelve-volume set: American Cinema from the 1890s to the 2010s. Each volume presents a group of original essays analyzing the impact of cultural issues on the cinema and the impact of the cinema on society. Every chapter explores a spectrum of particularly significant motion pictures and the broad range of historical events to provide a continuing sense of the decade as it came to be depicted on movie screens across the nation.
Painting in Excess
Kyiv's Art Revival, 1985-1993
Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships
Housing, Memory, and Daily Life in Haiti
The Politics of International Marriage in Japan
The Marion Thompson Wright Reader
Edited and with a Biographical Introduction by Graham Russell Gao Hodges
The Life and Comics of Howard Cruse
Taking Risks in the Service of Truth
This book tells the remarkable story of how a preacher’s kid from Birmingham, Alabama became the so-called “Godfather of Gay Comics.” Lavishly illustrated with a broad selection of comics from Howard Cruse’s fifty-year career, this study showcases his critical role as a satirist and commentator on his times.
The Great Disappearing Act
Germans in New York City, 1880-1930
Where did all the Germans go? How does a community of several hundred thousand people become invisible within a generation? This study examines these questions in relation to the German immigrant community in New York City between 1880-1930, and seeks to understand how German-American New Yorkers assimilated into the larger American society in the early twentieth century.
Intimate Connections
Love and Marriage in Pakistan’s High Mountains
Intimate Connections
Love and Marriage in Pakistan's High Mountains
Getting It, Having It, Keeping It Up
Straight Men’s Sexuality in Public and Private
This landmark sociological study emerges from in-depth interviews with nearly one hundred straight American men aged 20 to 68 from a variety of socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds. Getting It, Having It, Keeping It Up examines how these men use sex with women as a way of affirming their manhood—and how they view themselves as failures when they are unable to “score.” It also explores the effects of aging and erectile dysfunction on the men’s self-image. However, the life stories collected here are not just about performance anxiety, as this research reveals ways that some straight men have resisted masculine cultural scripts to form mutually nurturing relationships with women.
Getting It, Having It, Keeping It Up
Straight Men's Sexuality in Public and Private
This landmark sociological study emerges from in-depth interviews with nearly one hundred straight American men aged 20 to 68 from a variety of socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds. Getting It, Having It, Keeping It Up examines how these men use sex with women as a way of affirming their manhood—and how they view themselves as failures when they are unable to “score.” It also explores the effects of aging and erectile dysfunction on the men’s self-image. However, the life stories collected here are not just about performance anxiety, as this research reveals ways that some straight men have resisted masculine cultural scripts to form mutually nurturing relationships with women.
Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity, 4th edition
The fourth edition of Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity provides both classic and recent contributions to the field, with a special accent on how these approaches can contribute to health and social equity. The 23 chapters offer conceptual frameworks, skill- building and case studies in areas like coalition building, organizing by and with women of color, community assessment, and the power of the arts, the Internet, social media, and policy and media advocacy in such work. The use of participatory evaluation and strategies and tips on fundraising for community organizing also are presented, as are the ethical challenges that can arise in this work, and helpful tools for anticipating and addressing them.
An Unseen Unheard Minority
Asian American Students at the University of Illinois
American Cinema of the 2010s
Themes and Variations
Americans and the Holocaust
A Reader
This edited collection of more than one hundred primary sources from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s—including newspaper and magazine articles, popular culture materials, and government records—reveals how Americans debated their responsibility to respond to Nazism. It includes valuable resources for students and historians seeking to shed light on this dark era in world history.
Fourth of July, Asbury Park
A History of the Promised Land
This revised and expanded edition of Daniel Wolff’s classic study of Asbury Park, New Jersey tells the tale of the city’s first 150 years, guiding us through the development of its lavish amusement parks and bandstands, the decay of its working-class neighborhoods, the spread of its racially-segregated ghettos, and the effects of recent gentrification.