Being a child in American society can be problematic. Twenty percent of American children live in poverty, parents are divorcing at high rates, and educational institutions are not always fulfilling t
Quashie (Afro-American studies, Smith College) argues that Black women's cultural production during the past 30 years has influenced and been influenced by the debates and discourses that characterize
In this book, Robin Hackett examines portrayals of race, class, and sexuality in modernist texts by white women to argue for the existence of a literary device that she calls “Sapphic primitivism.” Th
Marcus (English, CUNY-Graduate Center and City College of New York) explores race, gender, and reading in Europe during the 1920s and 30s a period coinciding with the end of empire and the rise of fas
Calling science a "central pillar of colonialism," Philip (U. of California at Irvine) examines the everyday practices of ethnographers, foresters, botanists, plantation managers, and Christian missio
The leading voices in science studies have argued that modern science reflects dominant social interests of Western society. Following this logic, postmodern scholars have urged postcolonial societies
This anthology gathers fiction, poetry, memoirs, oral histories, and journalistic pieces by some of the best writers to chronicle the Italian American experience in the Garden State. These works fo
Stephen Prince has written the first book to examine the interplay between the aesthetics and the censorship of violence in classic Hollywood films from 1930 to 1968, the era of the Production Code,
In a unique anthology that collects essays, fiction, drama, and poetry from the main period of lynching in the US (1889-1935), Rice (black studies, Lehman College) provides sociohistorical context on
What attracts women to far-right movements that appear to denigrate their rights?This question has vexed feminist scholars for decades and has led to many lively debates in the academy. In this conte
Donna M. Lanclos writes about children on the school playgrounds of working-class Belfast, Northern Ireland, using their own words to show how they shape their social identities. The notion that child
Rare and Commonplace Flowers—a Brazilian bestseller—tells the story of two women. Elizabeth Bishop, the Pulitzer Prize–winning American poet, sought artistic inspiration in Brazil. There she met and f
The "discovery" of superconductivity happened in 1911, but it wasn't until the mid-1980s that serious work began into applications. Matricon and Waysand (both formerly affiliated with the U. Denis Did
When an environmental news story breaks, the first place to turn for background on the issue is The Reporter's Environmental Handbook, now available in an updated and expanded third edition. Here, jou
The first anthology to address the relationship between the events of the Nazi genocide and the intellectual concerns of contemporary literary and cultural theory in one substantial and indispensabl
This book is the definitive collection of the writings of Wallace Thurman (1902-1934), providing a comprehensive anthology of both the published and unpublished works of this bohemian, bisexual writer
French and German tourists join Mexican migrant workers to venerate the image of the Virgin Mary at a strip mall in Florida; Latino gang members, deported from the United States to home countries they
Art historians, historians, and literary critics gathered at the Berkeley Art Museum in October 2000 for a symposium to coincide with the exhibition titled Amazons in the Drawing Room: The Art of Roma
For children who live with a chronic illness, each day is filled with endless treatments, painful symptoms, confusion, and embarrassment. How can an eight-year old girl understand diabetes let alone e
The success of internet auction sites like eBay and the cult status of public television's Antiques Roadshow attest to the continued popularity of collecting in American culture. Acts of Possession
In this globally interconnected planet, we are increasingly able to access exotic locales without ever actually seeing these places firsthand. Instead, what we perceive to be fresh cultural experience
National Protection for National Citizens, 1873 to 1880 is the third of six planned volumes of The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. The entire collection documents the
For 300 years, New Jersey writers, books, and historical events have helped shape the cultural landscape of the nation, and yet the state is rarely credited for its numerous contributions to American
Twelve American scholars contribute 13 essays exploring the processes which shaped postcolonial America. They argue that the colonization of the U.S. was not simply a struggle between European cultur
Tracing the origins and development of Reform Judaism in America, a professor of Judaic and Religious Studies covers the major issues affecting the sect today, now the largest denomination in the Unit
Approximately one in every two thousand infants born in America each year is sexually ambiguous in such a way that doctors cannot immediately determine the child’s sex. Some children’s chromosomal sex
We use the term “modernism” almost exclusively to characterize the work of European and American writers and artists who struggled to portray a new kind of fractured urban life typified by mechanizati
Per Kugelmass (Holocaust and modern Jewish studies, Arizona State U.), the texts examined in these 16 conference-based essays are keys to this canon in the senses of providing a "collective meditation
Following the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and America's declaration of war on Japan, the U.S. War Department allowed up to five hundred second-generation, or "Nisei," Japanese American women
The way race and racial inequality are reproduced in day-to-day interactions in American schools is frequently invisible to even well-intentioned teachers and administrators, argues Lewis (sociology a
Jay Neugeboren and his brother, Robert, grew up in Brooklyn in the years following World War II. Both brothers - smart, talented, and popular - seemed well on the way to successful lives when, for rea
Gerzina (English, Vassar College) searches through records to locate black Victorians in England and put them back into the national picture, both in how they were represented in popular culture and a
Brook (film and television, California State U. and Pierce College, Los Angeles) analyzes the development of Jewish identity and stereotypes in film, television, and specifically, in several American
The story of westering Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has been told most notably through photographs of American Indians. Unlike this vast archive, produced primarily b
"This book makes an important contribution to the field of Asian film criticism, Indian film history, cultural studies, and gender studies. The Cinematic ImagiNation provides readers with valuable ins
Bridge enthusiasts and those interested in the history of the cities and towns in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania along the Delaware River will enjoy this informative encyclopedia of 35 histori
Amy Schapiro has written the first biography of Millicent Fenwick, the popular and colorful New Jersey congresswoman. Affectionately remembered as the pipe-smoking grandmother who served as the model
We do not consider it noteworthy when somebody moves three thousand miles from New York to Los Angeles. Yet we think that movement across borders requires a major degree of adjustment, and that an ind
In recent years, Islam has become a more visible force, not only in North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, but also in Western Europe and the United States. Greater attention to religious observance
In chronological sections, historians from Israel, Poland, and the US begin with relations between Jews and Poles during the final years of the Second Polish Republic in the late 1930s, and end with t
