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Radical Hospitality
American Policy, Media, and Immigration
Radical Hospitality centers hospitality as a primary metaphor and ethical framework governing the relationship of the migrant to both the “native” population and the host nation. The book examines the history of US immigration policy and media coverage to evaluate hospitality or hostility towards immigrants, and the impact this may have for immigrants’ sense of home and belonging within the nation.
Just Like Us
Digital Debates on Feminism and Fame
In Just Like Us: Digital Debates on Feminism and Fame, Caitlin E. Lawson examines the rise of celebrity feminism, its intersections with digital culture, and its complicated relationships with race, sexuality, capitalism, and misogyny. Through in-depth analyses of online debates, Lawson demonstrates how networked negotiations of celebrity culture and feminism are transforming popular engagements with the movement.
Global Visions of Violence
Agency and Persecution in World Christianity
From Protest to President
A Social Justice Journey through the Emergence of Adult Education and the Birth of Distance Learning
From Popular to Insurgent Intellectuals
Peasant Catechists in the Salvadoran Revolution
From Popular to Insurgent Intellectuals explains how a group of Catholic lay catechists educated in liberation theology became early regional protagonists in El Salvador’s revolutionary war (1980-92). The book chronicles the steps by which state violence led peacful men of God to join a revolutionary organization in which they came to play important roles for the duration of the twelve-year military conflict.
Digital Me
Trans Students Exploring Future Possible Selves Online
The Internet is a potent site from which to theorize, but also imagine, invest in, and explore the prismatic possibilities for life. Digital Me explores how transgender people use the internet in myriad ways. The book explores online life--from cultivating identity to creating community and everything in between.
How Schools Meet Students' Needs
Inequality, School Reform, and Caring Labor
The "Puerto Rican Problem" in Postwar New York City
Spirits in the Consulting Room
Eight Tales of Healing
Prestige Television
Cultural and Artistic Value in Twenty-First-Century America
Prestige Television
Cultural and Artistic Value in Twenty-First-Century America
Photo-Attractions
An Indian Dancer, an American Photographer, and a German Camera
A groundbreaking study of global modernity and the cultural interchange between America and South Asia, Photo-Attractions uses a rare and unpublished set of 1938 photographs taken by the photographer Carl Van Vechten of the Indian dancer Ram Gopal in exotic costumes to raise provocative questions about race, sexual identity, photographic technology, colonial histories, and transcultural desires.
Opting Out
Women Messing with Marriage around the World
Opting Out
Women Messing with Marriage around the World
Intoxication
An Ethnography of Effervescent Revelry
Why do people across cultures gather regularly to intoxicate themselves? Vivid and at times deeply personal, Intoxication offers new insights into a wide variety of intoxicating experiences, from the intimate feeling of connection among concertgoers to the adrenaline-fueled rush of a fight to the thrill of jumping off a balcony into a swimming pool. Sébastien Tutenges shows what it means and feels to move beyond the ordinary into altered states in which the transgressive, spectacular, and unexpected takes place.
Families We Need
Disability, Abandonment, and Foster Care’s Resistance in Contemporary China
Way Down in the Hole
Race, Intimacy, and the Reproduction of Racial Ideologies in Solitary Confinement
The Internet Is for Cats
How Animal Images Shape Our Digital Lives
The American Historical Imaginary
Contested Narratives of the Past
Stained Glass Ceilings
How Evangelicals Do Gender and Practice Power
Powerful Devices
Prayer and the Political Praxis of Spiritual Warfare
Port Newark and the Origins of Container Shipping
On Transits and Transitions
Trans Migrants and U.S. Immigration Law
Making Choices, Making Do
Survival Strategies of Black and White Working-Class Women during the Great Depression
In the Shadow of Tungurahua
Disaster Politics in Highland Ecuador
Growing Gardens, Building Power
Food Justice and Urban Agriculture in Brooklyn
First-Generation Faculty of Color
Reflections on Research, Teaching, and Service
First-Generation Faculty of Color
Reflections on Research, Teaching, and Service
1980
America's Pivotal Year
Every Wrong Direction
An Emigré’s Memoir
Every Wrong Direction recreates and dissects the bitter education of Dan Burt, an American émigré who never found a home in America. Burt's memoir follows his wanderings through three countries and seven cities over 43 years, culminating in his emigration to Britain, the country where he finally found a home.