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Drag Queens and Beauty Queens
Contesting Femininity in the World's Playground
Caribbean Migrations
The Legacies of Colonialism
The Caribbean has long been a key area for empires warring over influence spheres, and where migration waves from Africa, Europe, and Asia accompanied every political transformation. In this volume, an interdisciplinary group of scholars studies the Caribbean’s “unincorporated subjects”, and explores how against all odds, Caribbean artists, filmmakers, and writers have been resourceful at showcasing migration as the hallmark of our modern age.
Bio-Imperialism
Disease, Terror, and the Construction of National Fragility
Alternative Realities
Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland
Memory, Kinship, and Personhood
Acts of Repair
Justice, Truth, and the Politics of Memory in Argentina
Stanley Kubrick Produces
Unsettling
Jews, Whiteness, and Incest in American Popular Culture
Through Japanese Eyes
Thirty Years of Studying Aging in America
The Other End of the Needle
Continuity and Change among Tattoo Workers
Reuse, Misuse, Abuse
The Ethics of Audiovisual Appropriation in the Digital Era
Premed Prep
Advice from a Medical School Admissions Dean
Performing Math
A History of Communication and Anxiety in the American Mathematics Classroom
Linked Lives
Elder Care, Migration, and Kinship in Sri Lanka
Has It Come to This?
The Promises and Perils of Geoengineering on the Brink
Gentrification Down the Shore
Gentrification in cities in the United States is a hot topic, but this book contributes something new to the ongoing discussion by offering a rich case study of seasonal gentrification and its effects on long time residents. Summer days in Asbury once again mean tourists strolling the boardwalk and dining by the Atlantic Ocean. But just across the railroad tracks from the seasonal crowds, many of Asbury’s long-time residents live below the poverty line and struggle for their share of this prosperity throughout all four seasons of the year.
Forget Burial
HIV Kinship, Disability, and Queer/Trans Narratives of Care
American War Stories
Citizen Power
A Citizen Leadership Manual, New Jersey Edition
The Thinking Woman
Australian novelist Julienne van Loon engages with eight world-renowned female intellectuals, writers, and activists to consider what philosophy might teach us about ethics, politics, and the nature of existence, and how might we relate these big ideas back to the smaller everyday concerns of domestic life, work, play, love, and relationships.
The Synergistic Classroom
Interdisciplinary Teaching in the Small College Setting
The Synergistic Classroom
Interdisciplinary Teaching in the Small College Setting
The Boxing Film
A Cultural and Transmedia History
As one of popular culture’s most popular arenas, sports are often the subject of cinematic storytelling. But boxing films are special. There are more movies about boxing, than any other sport,The Boxing Film explores why boxing has so consistently fascinated cinema, and popular media, by tracing how boxing films inform the sport’s meanings and uses from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century.
Stanley Kubrick
New York Jewish Intellectual
Jewish and Romani Families in the Holocaust and its Aftermath
Crossing Segregated Boundaries
Remembering Chicago School Desegregation
Changing on the Fly
Hockey through the Voices of South Asian Canadians
Campus with Purpose
Building a Mission-Driven Campus
Ballad of an American
A Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson
This graphic biography of Paul Robeson charts his career as a singer, actor, scholar, athlete, and activist who achieved global fame. Through films, concerts, and recordings, he became a potent symbol representing the promise of a multicultural, multiracial American democracy; despite his stardom, he was denied access to many audiences.
The Films of Bong Joon Ho
This timely book reveals that even as Bong Joon Ho has emerged as a major global auteur with works like Snowpiercer (2013) and the Oscar®-award winning Parasite (2019), his films hybridize Hollywood conventions with local realities in order to engage with distinctly Korean social and political contexts that may elude many Western viewers.