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.