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Providing a discussion of Balanchine's life and work, this text also explores the legal, financial and institutional subplots that unfolded after the death of one of the most famous choreographers of the century.

A collaboration between African American and white feminists that deals with the problems that have troubled feminist thinking for decades. It questions such issues as the primacy of sexual difference, the universal nature of psychoanalytic categories, and the role of race in the formation of identity.

Focusing on blues, jazz, gospel, rhythm and blues, and soul music, this text explores the rich musical heritage of African Americans in California. The contributors describe individual artists, lacales, groups, musical styles and regional qualities.

This investigation of slavery on the northwest coast of North America argues that slaves and slavery were central to these hunting-fishing-gathering societies. It examines how important slaves were to the Northwest economies for their labour and for their value as major items of exchange.

This collection of reviews and essays focuses on the political and social dynamics of the contemporary movie scene. It explores the many links between film and our ideological identities as individuals and as society.

This text charts women's contributions to what the author calls the "War Story". It concentrates on the contemporary literature of the Arab world, showing how women who write themselves and their experiences into the "War Story" undo the masculine contract with violence, sexuality and glory.

This volume reflects on the late-1990s fascination with Sappho's "afterlife". The essays examine the changing interpretations of scholars and writers who have read the fragmentary remains of Sappho's poetry.

This volume considers Sappho's poetry as a powerful, influential voice in the western cultural tradition. Contributors focus on literary history, mythic traditions, cultural studies, performance studies, recent work in feminist theory, and more.

Exposes US efforts to fight drug trafficking and abuse. This book argues that only by situating drug issues in the context of our fundamental institutions - the family, neighborhoods, and schools - can we hope to provide viable treatment, prevention, and law enforcement.

It was a crime that captured national attention. In the idyllic suburb of Glen Ridge, New Jersey, four of the town's most popular high school athletes were accused of raping a retarded young woman while nine of their teammates watched. This book takes the reader behind Glen Ridge's manicured facade.

Juan Gelman is Argentina's leading poet, but his work has been almost unknown in the United States. This book features the lush and visceral poetry for an English-speaking readership. It is a stark witness to the brutality of power, and his poems reflect his suffering at the hands of the Argentine military government.

Features contextual readings of four of Herman Melville's novels - "Typee", "White-Jacket", "Moby-Dick", and "Pierre-Samuel". This book delves into Melville's exorbitant prose to show how he anatomizes ideology, making it palpable and strange.

This collection of essays aims to reshape the way American religious history is understood. It covers a range of topics which include: sexual pleasure; colonization; gender; and interreligious exchange. It discusses a range of groups in a number of geographical locations in America.

This anecdotal narrative explores the community lives of New England's working women and men, both black and white, in the half century before the Civil War. The book's collection of original writings reinforces Hansen's arguments and provides an intimate glimpse into life in the area.

Describes the world of mental patients and their doctors in the first half of the twentieth century. This book shows how well-intentioned physicians could rationalize and regard as therapeutic treatments that often had dreadful consequences, and how much the social and cultural world is inscribed within the practice of biological psychiatry.

Shows that 'Aryan,' a word that today evokes images of racial hatred and atrocity, was first used by Europeans to suggest bonds of kinship. This book features the history of British Orientalism and the ethnology of India.

The "cold war university" is the academic component of the military-industrial-academic complex. This work discusses the role played by university administrators in making their universities dependent upon military foundation and industrial patronage.

Few cities captivate the imagination as does Los Angeles. It is the locus of spectaculars: movies, earthquakes, freeways, riots, and sunsets. This title offers information on the City of Angels, including entries on history, geography, automobile culture, sports, movies, architecture, flora, fauna, scandals, biography, and religious groups.

A collection of twenty-one essays that presents case studies on Kostof's model of urban forms and fabrics. It focuses on individual streets around the world and from different historical periods.

The California Bear Flag and the University of California football team the Golden Bears emblemize the great animal that has been extinct in California since the 1920s but once numbered perhaps as many as ten thousand in the state. This book focuses on the bear's history in California.

Presents a study that probes Chinese efforts to battle manifold discrimination - in housing, employment, and education - in nineteenth-century America. This title presents cases in which Chinese laundrymen challenged the city of San Francisco's discriminatory building restrictions.

An examination into the world of scientific publishing in which various incidents of misconduct take place. It focuses on the fragile 'peer review' process - the editorial system of seeking pre-publication opinions from experts. It is suitable for scientific community, policy makers, and the general public.

Yearly millions of people visit the area of rugged California coastline and wild mountains known as Big Sur. This book presents both a natural history of this beautiful region and a guide to its extensive public lands. It introduces the area's geology, climate, flora, fauna, and human history. It describes selected sites, trails, and features.

One of the unanticipated results of the First Crusade in 1095 was a series of violent assaults on major Jewish communities in the Rhineland. The author offers a detailed analysis of these events, illuminating the attitudes that triggered the assaults as well as the beliefs that informed Jewish reactions to them.

Nothing so changed nineteenth-century America as did the railroad. Growing up together, the iron horse and the young nation developed a fast friendship. This book presents the story of what happened to that friendship, particularly in California.

This study offers an explanation of why the radical Catholic church is losing, and Pentecostalism and "umbanda" are winning, the battle for souls in urban Brazil.

Investigates the racial dynamics that exist between Korean merchants, the African American community, and white society in general. Focusing on hostility toward Korean merchants in New York and Los Angeles, this title explains how the 'middleman' economic role Koreans often occupy leads to conflicts with other groups.

Explores the ways in which questions of originality and impersonation function, not just for westernized subjects, but across a range of identities. This book considers the Englishman's fascination with 'going native', an Irishwoman's assumption of Hindu feminine celibacy, and Gandhi's impersonation of femininity.

In early 1920 in Hawaii, Japanese sugar cane workers, faced with spiraling living expenses, defiantly struck for a wage increase to $1.25 per day. The event shook the traditional power structure in Hawaii. This book demonstrates that the event had consequences reaching all the way up to the eve of World War II.

Examines the impact of Greek learning, literature, and religion on central aspects of Roman life in the middle Republic. This book discusses the introduction of and resistance to new cults, the relationship between Roman political figures and literary artists schooled in Greek, and the reaction to Hellenic philosophy and rhetoric by Roman elite.