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  • av Rick Bonus
    337 - 899,-

    Shows how Filipino Americans counter exclusion by actively engaging in alternative practices of community building. This book presents an ethnographic study of Filipino American communities in Los Angeles and San Diego that presents a multi-disciplinary cultural analysis of the relationship between ethnic identity and social space.

  • av Darrell Hamamoto
    390,-

    Spotlighting Asian Americans on both sides of the motion picture camera, this book examines the aesthetics, material circumstances, and politics of a broad spectrum of films released in the last thirty years. It focuses in particular on the growing presence of Asian Americans as makers of independent films and cross-over successes.

  • av Martin Manalansan
    382 - 1 029,-

    Through innovative studies of community politics, gender, family and sexual relations, cultural events, and other sites central to the formation of ethnic and citizen identity, this title reconfigures ethnography according to Asian American experiences in the US. It includes 11 essays that consider traditional models for ethnographic research.

  • av Robert Lee
    347,-

    Confronting the cultural stereotypes that have been attached to Asian-Americans over the last 150 years, this title seizes the label "Oriental" and asks where it came from. It shows how the bewildering array of racialized images first proffered by music hall songsters and social commentators have evolved and become generalized to Asian-Americans.

  • av Eva Rueschmann
    385 - 1 055,-

    Explores the sister bond in a wide range of modernist feature films that depart from the conventional cinematic rendering of women's lives. This book emphasizes the role of a woman's relationship and inner world in her continual quest for self-knowledge and draws upon the works of filmmakers from the 1970s to the 1990s.

  • av Quentin Miller
    405,-

    Presents a critical reappraisal of James Baldwin's work. Focusing on Baldwin's critically undervalued early works and the neglected later ones, the contributors illuminate little-known aspects of this daring author's work, and highlight his accomplishments as an experimental writer.

  • av Ko-lin Chin
    324,-

    Presents an account of how Chinese are being smuggled into the United States, and what happens to the people who risk their lives to reach Gold Mountain. This book shows how the problem of human smuggling will continue for as long as China's citizens are deprived of fundamental human rights and economic security.

  • av Jere Takahashi
    369,-

    A thorough examination of the diverse political styles of second and third generation Japanese Americans and their resonance within the changing racial dynamics and political complexities in the United States.

  • - Queer & Asian In America
    av Alvin Eng
    483,-

    What does it mean to be queer and Asian-American at the turn of the century? This title considers how Asian-American racial identity and queer sexuality interconnect in mutually shaping and complicating ways. It gathers an array of voices and experiences that represent the communities of a queer Asian-America.

  • - Race and Ethnicity on the Contemporary Stage
    av Josephine Lee
    356,-

    Tells us about the complex social and political issues depicted by Asian-American playwrights. In this title, the author argues that playwrights produce a different conception of "Asian-America" in accordance with their unique set of sensibilities.

  • - Authorship and the Studio System
    av Robert Sklar
    372,-

    Frank Capra's films have had a lasting impact on American culture. His depiction of American values, myths, and ideals was central to Hollywood films as "It Happened One Night", "Mr Smith Goes to Washington", and "It's a Wonderful Life". This collection of nine essays analyzes Capra's filmmaking during his most prolific period, from 1928 to 1939.

  • - South Asians in Asian America
    av Lavina Dhingra Shankar
    377 - 891,-

    Deals with the extent to which South Asian Americans are and ought to be included within Asian America as that term is applied to academic programs and admission policies; grassroots community organizing and politics more broadly; and, critical analyses of cultural products.

  • av Mary Pardo
    373,-

    Tells the stories of Mexican American women from two Los Angeles neighborhoods and how they transformed the everyday problems they confronted into political concerns. By placing these women's experiences at the center of her discussion of grassroots political activism, the author describes gender, race, and class character of community networking.

  • av Velina Houston
    572,-

    Gathers together eleven plays that speak in the "hybridized American voices of Asian descent - and often dissent." This book features plays that testify to the complexity of Asian-American experience while they also demonstrate the different styles and thematic concerns of the individual playwrights.

  • av Jonathan Y. Okamura
    369 - 1 003,-

    Challenging the dominant view of Hawai'i as a "melting pot paradise" - a place of ethnic tolerance and equality - this title examines how ethnic inequality is structured and maintained in island society. It finds that ethnicity, not race or class, signifies difference for Hawai'i's people and therefore structures their social relations.

  • - Your Child or the Dog?
    av Gary Francione
    368,-

    Two-thirds of Americans polled by the "Associated Press" agree with the following statement: 'An animal's right to live free of suffering should be just as important as a person's right to live free of suffering.' This title is a guidebook to examining our social and personal ethical beliefs.

  • av William Perkins
    394,-

    Leading authorities write on the complex--and sometimes controversial--history, politics, and culture of rap and hip hop

  • av Holmes Rolston
    430,-

    Presents an account of values carried by the natural world, coupled with an inquiry into duties toward animals, plants, species, and ecosystems. This work illustrates the philosophy of nature with numerous actual examples of ethical decisions made in encounters with fauna and flora, endangered species, and threatened ecosystems.

  • - The Western And U S History
    av Stanley Corkin
    345 - 951,-

    Examines many of the significant westerns released between 1946 and 1962, analyzing how they responded to and influenced the cultural climate of the country. This work discusses a dozen films in detail, connecting them to each other and to numerous others. It considers how these cultural productions embellished the myth of the American frontier.

  • - The African American Image in Film
    av Ed Guerrero
    380,-

    Arguing that the commercial film industry reflects white domination of American society, this book traces an African Americans protesting screen images of blacks as criminals, servants, comics, athletes, and sidekicks. It also looks at the controversies surrounding role choices by stars like Sidney Poitier, Eddie Murphy, and Whoopie Goldberg.

  • av Elizabeth Minnich
    373,-

    A book about how we define knowledge and how we think about moral and political questions. It argues that the systems of knowledge, morality, and politics are rooted in views that are exclusionary. It includes an analysis of the conceptual errors that legitimate domination and the construction of kinds ('genders') of human beings.

  • av Arnold Arluke, Leslie Irvine & Clinton Sanders
    356 - 377,-

  • av Arnold Berleant
    447,-

    Develops an alternative to the eighteenth-century aesthetic of disinterestedness. Centering on the notion of participatory engagement in the appreciation of art, this work explores its appearance in art and in aesthetic perception. It examines the ways in which art entices us into intimate participation in its workings.

  • av K. Wong
    337,-

    A collection of essays that center on the formation of an ethnic identity among Chinese Americans during the period when immigration was halted. It emphasizes the attempts by immigrant Chinese to assert their intention of becoming Americans and to defend the few rights they had as resident aliens.

  • - Invention Of An Alternative Rock Masculinity
    av Peter Lehman
    318 - 857,-

    Roy Orbison's music - whether heard in his own recordings or in cover versions of his songs - is a significant part of contemporary American culture despite the fact that he died almost a generation ago. This book looks at the long span of Orbison's career and probes into the uniqueness of his songs, singing, and performance style.

  • av Rod Michalko
    331,-

    Connecting lived experience with social theory, this title shows the consistent exclusion of disabled people from the common understandings of humanity and what constitutes the good life. It offers insight into what suffering a disability means to individuals as well as to the polity as a whole.

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