Cultural Studies

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Indigenous Bodies

An interdisciplinary exploration of indigenous bodies.

The Study of Judaism

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

A Human Necklace

By Moira Ferguson
Subjects: Literature

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

Mutual Othering

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

Good White People

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

Slouching towards Gaytheism

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

Bitter Greens

Food-based reflections on Italian food, American culture, and globalization.

Why Europe Is Lesbian and Gay Friendly (and Why America Never Will Be)

Offers an analysis of the political economy of care in order to explain how lesbian and gay citizens in Europe benefit from equality more than those in the United States.

The Prosthetic Pedagogy of Art

Uses autobiographical and cultural narratives related to art research and practice to explore, experiment, and improvise multiple correspondences between and among learners’ own lived experiences and understandings, and those of others.

Endtimes?

A groundbreaking study of ten difficult years in the life of America's most important newspaper.

Lost in Transition

Looks at the fate of Hong Kong’s unique culture since its reversion to China.

Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood

Provides a model for queering motherhood that resists racist, neoliberal, and hetero- or homonormative ideals of “good” mothering.

The Better Story

Illuminates the emotional significance of stories in response to racial traumas related to the Middle East.

Zines in Third Space

Develops third-space theory by engaging with zines produced by feminists and queers of color.

Valuing Diversity

Uses Buddhist philosophy to discuss diversity as a value, one that can contribute to equity in a globalizing world.

The Sense of Space

A phenomenological account of spatial perception in relation to the lived body.

Conversations with Remarkable Native Americans

Entertaining and enlightening interviews with some of today’s most important Native Americans.

The Structures of Love

Reframes the terms of cultural analysis with a fresh take on transference theory in Freud and Lacan and a critical engagement with the philosophy of Alain Badiou.

Rebellious Histories

Traces the emergence of creative texts focusing on the nineteenth-century slave trade to make sense of the radicalized effects of global capitalism.

Shinohara Pops!

Surveys the fifty-year career of the avant-garde artist Ushio Shinohara.

Fashion Talks

Essays on the politics of everyday style.

Nagai Kafū's Occidentalism

Describes how writer Nagai Kafū (1879–1959) used his experience of the West to reconcile modernization and Japanese identity.

Martial Arts as Embodied Knowledge

A wide-ranging scholarly consideration of the martial arts.

Potent Mana

Brilliant study of the effects of colonialism on the physical, mental, and spiritual health of Native Hawaiians, and their efforts to decolonize through healing and remembering.

Hitchcock at the Source

Considers the ways in which Alfred Hitchcock adapted and transformed a variety of literary works—novels, plays, and short stories—into film.