Brings psychoanalytic concepts to the notion of childhood development with a keen eye to discussions of social justice and human dignity.

Engages with Chinese philosophy to offer new conceptual models for reframing gender, bodies, and aesthetics.

The first in-depth study of a range of literature written by Native Americans who attended government-run boarding schools.

Comprehensive historical study of policy planning and implementation during the crucial formative years of the Israeli government system.

Examines how African American jazz music was received in Germany both as a racial and cultural threat and as a partner in promoting the rise of Nazi totalitarian cultural politics.

Recounts the true story of an entrepreneurial woman who succeeded in a male-dominated industry in the twentieth century.

First English translations of a novel and two play excerpts based on tales of the goddess Chen Jinggu, an eighth-century shaman and present-day cult deity.

Essays on Telugu and South Indian literature and culture by distinguished Telugu scholar Narayana Rao.

Explores intervisual case studies in relation to migration, xenophobia, and gender.

A career-spanning assessment of Glissant’s work as a philosophical project.

Examines an all too often neglected period of postwar British cinema and popular culture.

Examines the rising power of China and Chinese foreign policy through a revisionist analysis of Chinese civilization.

Phenomenological analysis of beauty and art across various aspects of lived experience and culture.

Analyzes the use of anecdotes as an essential rhetorical tool and form of persuasion in various literary genres in early China.

Provides concrete examples of homework mentorship and positive academic interventions among immigrant families.

Provides answers to one of the enduring paradoxes of mass social change.

Argues that Indigenous hip hop is the latest and newest assertion of Indigenous sovereignty throughout Indigenous North America.

Uses real-life episodes of psychosis and recovery to show how poetic paradigms for thinking about psychiatric symptoms can enlarge contemporary understandings of mental illness and improve long-term treatment outcome.

Addresses an understudied yet highly significant aspect of the work of the influential artist Andy Warhol: his exploration of anniversaries.

A father’s personal and intimate account of his Filipino and Alaska Native family’s experiences, and his search for how to help his children overcome the effects of historical and contemporary oppression.

Surveys how reunification in 1990 impacted historical scholarship in the former East Germany.

How a small family company in the Finger Lakes became one of the most important wine producers in the United States, only to be taken down by corporate greed and mismanagement.

Investigates the cultural value of film violence.

Advances critical conversations in Native American literary studies by situating its subject in global, transnational, and modernizing contexts.

Explores issues related to race and religion in Lovecraft criticism.

Argues that post-Katrina New Orleans is a key site for exploring competing narratives of American decline and renewal at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

English-language translations of traditional plays from the marionette puppet theater of Northern China.

Examines movie romance in light of our emotional bond to the actors and characters on screen.

Draws on theology and queer theory to argue for the power of humiliating pleasures in a culture oriented very strongly to denying any enjoyment that is not about success.

Assesses the limits and possibilities of humanism for engaging with issues of pressing political and cultural concern.

Presents a major new interpretation of the Ashcan School of Art, arguing that these artists made the working class city at the turn of the century a subject for beautiful art.

Explores how white supremacist groups use popular music and culture to teach hate and promote violence.

A story of self, braided to a story of American culture.

Chronicles the conflict between religious and secular forces in Israel.

Examines how postfeminism and postracialism intersect to perpetuate systemic injustice in the United States.

Analyzes the theme of self-sacrifice in Puerto Rican literature through psychoanalytic theory.

Contends that the narrative and aesthetic qualities of the documentary genre enable new understandings of animals and animal/human relationships.

Essays on one of Fichte's best known and most controversial works.

Examines literary responses to the impact of economic and technological globalization in Latin America.

Considers how our ideas about mathematics shape our individual and cultural relationship to the field.

Addresses ways that cultural imaginaries point toward alternative urban futures.

Investigates the rise and fall of US American lesbian cultural institutions since the 1970s.

A bracing critique of human rights law and activism from the perspective of the Global South.

Combines psychoanalysis, queer theory, masculinity studies, and cultural studies to explore contemporary manhood in film.

Analyzes the diverse roles and pervasive presence of disability in Latin American literature and film.

Combining expert knowledge and first-hand experience, a noted elder care researcher confronts the long-distance care of her own mother.

Explores how the USHMM and other museums and memorials both displace and disturb the memories that they are trying to commemorate.

Explores spoken word poetry as a tool for social justice, critical feminist pedagogy, and new ways of teaching.

Frames menstruation as a site of resistance, defiance, and shamelessness, showcasing the work of those who fight back against shame and silence.

Explores the hundred-year history of Piel Bros. , one of the prominent German American brands that once made New York City the brewing capital of America.

Informative and entertaining introduction to the study of popular culture.

Argues that Indian cinema’s deep nineteenth-century past continues to play a vital role in its twenty-first-century present.

A theologically informed look at the postcolonial self that forms as Korean immigrants confront life in the United States.

Interviews and profiles of spiritual and cultural figures influenced by Buddhism.

Provides an incisive account of women’s porn and queer porn of the 1980s and 1990s.

Explores the existential significance of literacy.

Deconstructs fiction and nonfiction to further understandings of how aging and old age are created.

A rare look at Spike Lee’s creative appropriation of the documentary film genre.

Tracks the medical emergence and treatment of vulvar pain conditions in order to understand why so many US women are misinformed about their sexual bodies.

Updated version of an engaging overview of the television situation comedy.

Provides encyclopedic coverage of female sexuality in 1940s popular culture.

A comparative study of Latin American and francophone postcoloniality.

Discusses how contemporary Iranian and Middle Eastern thinkers and artists are forging a new postmodern vision.

Tells the fascinating story of African American women who traveled to France to seek freedom of expression.

Employs a critical Afrocentric reading of Western constructions of knowledge so as to overcome the dehumanizing tendencies of modernity.

Explores how political activism, art, and popular culture challenge the discrimination and injustice faced by “illegal” and displaced peoples.

Uses historical case studies to illuminate women’s claims to emancipation and to sexual subjectivity during the tumultuous Wilhelmine and Weimar periods in Germany.

An interdisciplinary exploration of the contemporary Confucian revival.

Analyzes theatrical texts and performances while providing political and historical mappings.

Considers the significance of female Chinese action stars in national and transnational contexts.

Examines the complexities and contradictions that arise when the monsters in the movies are children.

Food and history combine in this exploration of the Dutch influence on American holiday traditions. Includes more than one hundred easy-to-make holiday recipes.

Explores how the trope of racial passing continues to serve as a touchstone for gauging public beliefs and anxieties about race in this multiracial era.

Examines the rhetoric in and around the New York State Asylum for Idiots in Syracuse, New York from 1854 to 1884.

An interdisciplinary consideration of Paul Gilroy's contributions to cultural theory and understandings of modernity.

An interdisciplinary study of the rise of empirical observation in the Spanish arts and sciences as the principle vehicle for acquiring knowledge about the natural world.

Analyzes the author’s transformation from academic to figure competitor.

A cultural studies consideration of marriage and those considered “deviant” in the nineteenth-century American imagination.

Examines Japanese later life learners involved in Noh theater.

Develops a novel characterization of the pornographic as a cultural concept.

An ethnography of young, single women struggling to live independently in South Korea.

An interdisciplinary anthology exploring issues related to diversity, multiculturalism, and social justice.

Offers a critical history of the role of pain, suffering, and compassion in democratic culture.

A pioneering approach to social theory that rectifies overreliance on Western historical experience of development and modernization.

Examines the contemporary discourse on happiness through the lens of governmentality theory.

Considers films that lurk on the boundaries of acceptability in taste, style, and politics.

Explores the curating of “difficult knowledge” through the exhibition of lynching photographs in contemporary museums.

A collection of student essays that captures the passionate engagement their generation brings to the Harry Potter phenomenon.

Passionate and rollicking personal and intellectual essays by philosopher Crispin Sartwell.

Traces the history of the New York wine industry as it evolved across the state.

Tracks the influence of Italian cinema on American film from the postwar period to the present.

Examines how six writers reconfigure African American subjectivity in ways that recall postmodernist theory.

Demonstrates how written and visual representations worked to construct definitions of ethnicity in midcentury America.

Uses ethnography and cultural analysis to track scenes of intimate connection and disconnection among gay men across an array of media sites.

An interdisciplinary exploration of indigenous bodies.

Considers Jewish studies as an academic discipline from its origins to the present.

Argues that Paule Marshall’s work collectively constitutes a multigenerational saga of the African diaspora across centuries and continents.

Explores interactions between Europeans and Moroccans on both sides of the straits in the latter half of the nineteenth century.

Argues for the necessity of a new ethos for middle-class white anti-racism.

Argues that homophobia will not be eradicated in the United States until religion is ended.