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Five Frames for the Decameron: Communication and Social Systems in the CORNICE by Joy Hambuechen Potter 9780691614250
RRP: £35.00£27.74Using a fourfold approach derived from symbolic anthropology, sociology, semiotics, and philology, Joy Hambuechen Potter focuses on the cornice, or frame tale, of the Decameron, its purpose, and its relationship to the stories. Originally published in... -
The Measure of Civilization: How Social Development Decides the Fate of Nations by Ian Morris 9780691155685
£54.61In the last thirty years, there have been fierce debates over how civilizations develop and why the West became so powerful. The Measure of Civilization presents a brand-new way of investigating these questions and provides new tools for assessing the... -
Class: The Anthology by Stanley Aronowitz 9780631224983
£109.69Using an innovative framework, this reader examines the most important and influential writings on modern class relations. * Uses an interdisciplinary approach that combines scholarship from political economy, social history, and cultural studies *... -
Battleground: The Family [2 volumes] by Kimberly P. Brackett 9780313340956
RRP: £155.00£24.32Everyone is part of a family, but what constitutes a family is one of the most hotly debated issues in the United States today. Battleground: The Family provides extensive coverage of those critical issues in U. S. culture concerning current and future... -
The Courthouse Square in Texas by Robert E. Veselka 9780292787360
RRP: £19.99£17.54With its dignified courthouse set among shade trees and lawns dotted with monuments to prominent citizens and fallen veterans, the courthouse square remains the civic center in a majority of the county seats of Texas. Yet the squares themselves vary in... -
Imagining the Mulatta: Blackness in U.S. and Brazilian Media by Jasmine Mitchell 9780252085208
RRP: £20.99£18.37Brazil markets itself as a racially mixed utopia. The United States prefers the term melting pot. Both nations have long used the image of the mulatta to push skewed cultural narratives. Highlighting the prevalence of mixed race women of African and... -
Myths America Lives By: White Supremacy and the Stories That Give Us Meaning by Richard T. Hughes 9780252083754
RRP: £15.99£14.24Six myths lie at the heart of the American experience. Taken as aspirational, four of those myths remind us of our noblest ideals, challenging us to realize our nation's promise while galvanizing the sense of hope and unity we need to reach our goals... -
Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America by Kathy Roberts Forde 9780252044106
RRP: £103.00£89.14White publishers and editors used their newspapers to build, nurture, and protect white supremacy across the South in the decades after the Civil War. At the same time, a vibrant Black press fought to disrupt these efforts and force the United States to... -
Energy Never Dies: Afro-Optimism and Creativity in Chicago by Ayana Contreras 9780252044069
RRP: £91.00£78.92From Afro Sheen to Theaster Gates and from Soul Train to Chance the Rapper, Black Chicago draws sustenance from a culture rooted in self-determination, aspiration, and hustle. In Energy Never Dies, Ayana Contreras embarks on a journey to share the... -
Ring Shout, Wheel About: The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American Slavery by Katrina Dyonne Thompson 9780252038259
RRP: £91.00£78.92In this ambitious project, historian Katrina Thompson examines the conceptualization and staging of race through the performance, sometimes coerced, of black dance from the slave ship to the minstrel stage. Drawing on a rich variety of sources, Thompson... -
Building Sustainable Worlds: Latinx Placemaking in the Midwest by Theresa Delgadillo 9780252086618
RRP: £21.99£19.19Latina/o/x places exist as both tangible physical phenomena and gatherings created and maintained by creative cultural practices. In this collection, an interdisciplinary group of contributors critically examines the many ways that varied Latina/o/x... -
Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media by Reighan Gillam 9780252086489
RRP: £20.99£18.37A new generation of Afro-Brazilian media producers have emerged to challenge a mainstream that frequently excludes them. Reighan Gillam delves into the dynamic alternative media landscape developed by Afro-Brazilians in the twenty-first century. With... -
America's Religious Crossroads: Faith and Community in the Emerging Midwest by Stephen T. Kissel 9780252086274
RRP: £21.99£19.19Between 1790 and 1850, waves of Anglo-Americans, African Americans, and European immigrants flooded the Old Northwest (modern-day Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin). They brought with them a mosaic of Christian religious belief. Stephen T... -
Discriminating Sex: White Leisure and the Making of the American "Oriental" by Amy Sueyoshi 9780252083259
RRP: £20.99£18.37Freewheeling sexuality and gender experimentation defined the social and moral landscape of 1890s San Francisco. Middle class whites crafting titillating narratives on topics such as high divorce rates, mannish women, and extramarital sex centered... -
Defining Deviance: Sex, Science, and Delinquent Girls, 1890-1960 by Michael A. Rembis 9780252079276
RRP: £24.99£21.67Defining Deviance analyzes how reformers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries perceived delinquent girls and their often troubled lives. Drawing on exclusive access to thousands of case files and other documents at the State Training... -
The Black Chicago Renaissance by Darlene Clark Hine 9780252078583
RRP: £21.99£19.59Beginning in the 1930s, Black Chicago experienced a cultural renaissance that lasted into the 1950s and rivaled the cultural outpouring in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. The contributors to this volume analyze this prolific period of African... -
Straight with a Twist: Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexuality by Calvin Thomas 9780252068133
RRP: £21.99£19.19This engaging collection poses the question, Can straight people think queer? Straight with a Twist offers a refreshing look at the relation between queer theory and critical examinations of the construction of heterosexuality. Seeking to proliferate... -
Food Instagram: Identity, Influence, and Negotiation by Emily J. H. Contois 9780252044465
RRP: £103.00£89.14Image by image and hashtag by hashtag, Instagram has redefined the ways we relate to food. Emily J. H. Contois and Zenia Kish edit contributions that explore the massively popular social media platform as a space for self-identification, influence,... -
Shapeshifting Subjects: Gloria Anzaldua's Naguala and Border Arte by Kelli D. Zaytoun 9780252044434
RRP: £91.00£78.92Kelli D. Zaytoun draws on Gloria Anzaldua's thought to present a radically inclusive and expansive approach to selfhood, creativity, scholarship, healing, coalition-building, and activism. Zaytoun focuses on Anzaldua's naguala/ shapeshifter, a concept of... -
Shadow Traces: Seeing Japanese/American and Ainu Women in Photographic Archives by Elena Tajima Creef 9780252044403
RRP: £91.00£78.92Images of Japanese and Japanese American women can teach us what it meant to be visible at specific moments in history. Elena Tajima Creef employs an Asian American feminist vantage point to examine ways of looking at indigenous Japanese Ainu women... -
For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938 by Sonia Hernandez 9780252044045
RRP: £91.00£78.92Caritina Pina Montalvo personified the vital role played by Mexican women in the anarcho-syndicalist movement. Sonia Hernandez tells the story of how Pina and other Mexicanas in the Gulf of Mexico region fought for labor rights both locally and abroad in... -
Television and the Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists by Wazhmah Osman 9780252043550
RRP: £91.00£78.92Portrayed in Western discourse as tribal and traditional, Afghans have in fact intensely debated women's rights, democracy, modernity, and Islam as part of their nation building in the post-9/11 era. Wazhmah Osman places television at the heart of these... -
Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century by Danielle Fuentes Morgan 9780252043390
RRP: £91.00£78.92By subverting comedy's rules and expectations, African American satire promotes social justice by connecting laughter with ethical beliefs in a revolutionary way. Danielle Fuentes Morgan ventures from Suzan-Lori Parks to Leslie Jones and Dave Chappelle... -
Remaking Muslim Lives: Everyday Islam in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina by David Henig 9780252043291
RRP: £91.00£78.92The violent disintegration of Yugoslavia and the cultural and economic dispossession caused by the collapse of socialism continue to force Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina to reconfigure their religious lives and societal values. David Henig draws on a... -
Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean by Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy 9780252043192
RRP: £91.00£78.92Long before the English became involved in the African slave trade, they imagined Africans as monstrous and deformed beings. The English drew on pre-existing European ideas about monstrosity and deformity to argue that Africans were a monstrous race,... -
Ending Gender-Based Violence: Justice and Community in South Africa by Hannah E. Britton 9780252043093
RRP: £91.00£78.92South African women's still-increasing presence in local, provincial, and national institutions has inspired sweeping legislation aimed at advancing women's rights and opportunity. Yet the country remains plagued by sexual assault, rape, and intimate... -
Hierarchies of Care: Girls, Motherhood, and Inequality in Peru by Krista E Van Vleet 9780252042782
RRP: £91.00£78.92Palomitay is an orphanage in highland Peru that provides a home for unmarried mothers as young as twelve years old. In their ordinary lives, these young women encounter diverse social expectations and face moral dilemmas. They endeavor to create a 'good... -
Black Cultural Production after Civil Rights by Robert J Patterson 9780252042775
RRP: £91.00£78.92The post-civil rights era of the 1970s offered African Americans an all-too-familiar paradox. Material and symbolic gains contended with setbacks fueled by resentment and reaction. African American artists responded with black approaches to expression... -
Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham: Dances in Literature and Cinema by Hannah Durkin 9780252042621
RRP: £91.00£78.92Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham were the two most acclaimed and commercially successful African American dancers of their era and among the first black women to enjoy international screen careers. Both also produced fascinating memoirs that provided... -
Hostile Heartland: Racism, Repression, and Resistance in the Midwest by Brent M.S. Campney 9780252042492
RRP: £91.00£78.92We forget that racist violence permeated the lower Midwest from the pre-Civil War period until the 1930s. From Kansas to Ohio, whites orchestrated extraordinary events like lynchings and riots while engaged in a spectrum of brutal acts made all the more... -
Building the Black Arts Movement: Hoyt Fuller and the Cultural Politics of the 1960s by Jonathan Fenderson 9780252042430
RRP: £91.00£78.92As both an activist and the dynamic editor of Negro Digest, Hoyt W. Fuller stood at the nexus of the Black Arts Movement and the broader black cultural politics of his time. Jonathan Fenderson uses historical snapshots of Fuller's life and achievements... -
Radicals in the Heartland: The 1960s Student Protest Movement at the University of Illinois by Michael V. Metz 9780252042416
RRP: £91.00£78.92In 1969, the campus tumult that defined the Sixties reached a flash point at the University of Illinois. Out-of-town radicals preached armed revolution. Students took to the streets and fought police and National Guardsmen. Firebombs were planted in... -
Homeland Maternity: US Security Culture and the New Reproductive Regime by Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz 9780252042355
RRP: £91.00£78.92In US security culture, motherhood is a site of intense contestation--both a powerful form of cultural currency and a target of unprecedented assault. Linked by an atmosphere of crisis and perceived vulnerability, motherhood and nation have become... -
To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice by Jessica Wilkerson 9780252042188
RRP: £91.00£78.92Launched in 1964, the War on Poverty quickly took aim at the coalfields of southern Appalachia. There, the federal government found unexpected allies among working-class white women devoted to a local tradition of citizen caregiving and seasoned by... -
Alice in Pornoland: Hardcore Encounters with the Victorian Gothic by Laura Helen Marks 9780252042140
RRP: £91.00£78.92The unquenchable thirst of Dracula. The animal lust of Mr. Hyde. The acquiescence of Lewis Carroll's Alice. Victorian literature--with its overtones of prudishness, respectability, and Old World hypocrisy--belies a subverted eroticism. The Victorian... -
The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age by Valerie Francisco-Menchavez 9780252041723
RRP: £91.00£78.92For generations, migration moved in one direction at a time: migrants to host countries, and money to families left behind. The Labor of Care argues that globalization has changed all that. Valerie Francisco-Menchavez spent five years alongside a group... -
The Work of Mothering: Globalization and the Filipino Diaspora by Harrod J. Suarez 9780252041440
RRP: £91.00£78.92Women make up a majority of the Filipino workforce laboring overseas. Their frequent employment in nurturing, maternal jobs--nanny, maid, caretaker, nurse--has found expression in a significant but understudied body of Filipino and Filipino American... -
New Italian Migrations to the United States: Vol. 2: Art and Culture since 1945 by Laura E. Ruberto 9780252041396
RRP: £91.00£78.92This second volume of New Italian Migrations to the United States explores the evolution of art and cultural expressions created by and about Italian immigrants and their descendants since 1945. The essays range from an Italian-language radio program... -
The Rise and Fall of the Associated Negro Press: Claude Barnett's Pan-African News and the Jim Crow Paradox by Gerald Horne 9780252041198
RRP: £91.00£78.92For more than fifty years, the Chicago-based Associated Negro Press (ANP) fought racism at home and grew into an international news organization abroad. At its head stood founder Claude Barnett, one of the most influential African Americans of his day... -
Health Equity in Brazil: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Policy by Kia Lilly Caldwell 9780252040986
RRP: £91.00£78.92Brazil's leadership role in the fight against HIV has brought its public health system widespread praise. But the nation still faces serious health challenges and inequities. Though home to the world's second largest African-descendant population, Brazil...