Advocating a global as opposed to a Eurocentric perspective in the college classroom, discusses why and how to teach about China's Silk Road.

Tales of the sometimes rich, sometimes famous, but always quirky residents of one of America’s best-known summer colonies, as told by the editor and publisher of Dan’s Papers, the area’s free weekly newspaper.

A survey of current critical perspectives on how North American indigenous peoples are viewed and represented transnationally.

The first collection of essays devoted to the phenomenon of the film sequel.

Explores a range of Buddhist perspectives in a distinctly American context.

Explores the ways that immigrant youth identities are shaped by dominant discourses.

First book to study rape and sexual abuse of Vietnamese women by U. S. soldiers during the Vietnam War.

A startling reading of the educational enterprise through a psychoanalytic lens.

Examines the importance of fetishism in nineteenth-century cultural theory.

Uncovers the origins of midlife anxiety in Victorian print culture.

Materially grounded analysis of contemporary film, literature, and music in Hong Kong that resists the superficial stereotypes of the “global city. ”

Philosophical exploration of Jamaica Kincaid’s entire literary oeuvre.

Provides an alternative history of nutrition in the U.S. that focuses on the power of scientific language.

Shows how Ozick’s characters attempt to mediate a complex Jewish identity, one that bridges the differences between traditional Judaism and secular American culture.

Personal accounts celebrating the place of exercise in women’s lives—and as the site of women’s community.

Philosophers and social theorists of color examine how racism can creep into defensive forms of nationalism.

Provides multiple and accessible perspectives on trauma both as a condition and as a cultural phenomenon.

Examines the enormous popular appeal of vampires from early Greek and Slavic folklore to present-day popular culture.

Explores the arrested development of American culture.

A light-hearted cookbook that reflects the historical and culinary heritage of the Hudson Valley.

Provocative take on the negative effects of increasing queer visibility and assimilation on the lives of queer people and politics in the U. S.

How one man and his family made their dream of owning a winery come true--and helped revitalize New York's winemaking industry in the process.

A comprehensive cultural and historical portrait of Italian American identities in Boston’s North End.

Memoir and meditation on blindness.

Explores the radical political potential of close reading to make the case for a new and invigorated psychoanalytic cultural studies.