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  • Desis In The House

    Indian American Youth Culture In Nyc

    by Sunaina Maira ...
    Series series Asian American History & Cultu
    She sports a nose-ring and duppata (a scarf worn by South Asian women) along with the latest fashion in slinky club wear; he's decked out in Tommy gear. Their moves on the crowded dance floor, blending Indian film dance with break-dancing, attract no particular attention. They are just two of the hundreds of hip young people who flock to the desi (i.e., South Asian) party scene that flourishes in ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Youthscapes

    The Popular, the National, the Global

    by George Lipsitz ...
    Young people, it seems, are both everywhere and nowhere. The media are crowded with images of youth as deviant or fashionable, personifying a society's anxieties and hopes about its own transformation. However, theories of globalization, nationalism, and citizenship tend to focus on adult actors. Youthscapes sets youth at the heart of globalization by exploring the meanings young people have ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The War of My Generation

    Youth Culture and the War on Terror

    by David Kieran, Holly Swyers, Cindy Dell Clark, Sunaina Maira, Laura Browder, Jeremy K. Saucier, Robertson Allen, Jo Lampert, Irene Garza, Benjamin Cooper0, Rebecca A. Adelman1 ...
    Following the 9/11 attacks, approximately four million Americans have turned eighteen each year and more than fifty million children have been born. These members of the millennial and post-millennial generation have come of age in a moment marked by increased anxiety about terrorism, two protracted wars, and policies that have raised questions about the United States's role abroad and at home. ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Youthscapes

    The Popular, the National, the Global

    by George Lipsitz ...
    Young people, it seems, are both everywhere and nowhere. The media are crowded with images of youth as deviant or fashionable, personifying a society's anxieties and hopes about its own transformation. However, theories of globalization, nationalism, and citizenship tend to focus on adult actors. Youthscapes sets youth at the heart of globalization by exploring the meanings young people have ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Imperial University

    Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent

    Edited by Piya Chatterjee, Sunaina Maira ...
    At colleges and universities throughout the United States, political protest and intellectual dissent are increasingly being met with repressive tactics by administrators, politicians, and the police—from the use of SWAT teams to disperse student protestors and the profiling of Muslim and Arab American students to the denial of tenure and dismissal of politically engaged faculty. The Imperial ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Global Raciality

    Empire, PostColoniality, DeColoniality

    Edited by Paola Bacchetta, Sunaina Maira, Howard Winant ...
    Series series New Racial Studies
    Global Raciality expands our understanding of race, space, and place by exploring forms of racism and anti-racist resistance worldwide. Contributors address neoliberalism; settler colonialism; race, class, and gender intersectionality; immigrant rights; Islamophobia; and homonationalism; and investigate the dynamic forces propelling anti-racist solidarity and resistance cultures. Midway through ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Boycott!

    The Academy and Justice for Palestine

    by Sunaina Maira ...
    Series Book 4 - American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present
    The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS) has expanded rapidly though controversially in the United States in the last five years. The academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions is a key component of this movement. What is this boycott? Why does it make sense? And why is this an American Studies issue? In this short essential book*,* Sunaina Maira addresses these key questions. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    Introductory Concepts

    by Ann Braithwaite, Catherine Orr ...
    Everyday Women’s and Gender Studies is a text-reader that offers instructors a new way to approach an introductory course on women’s and gender studies. This book highlights major concepts that organize the diverse work in this field: Knowledges, Identities, Equalities, Bodies, Places, and Representations. Its focus on "the everyday" speaks to the importance this book places on students ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Art of Protest

    Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Present

    by T. V. Reed ...
    A second edition of the classic introduction to arts in social movements, fully updated and now including Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and new digital and social media forms of cultural resistanceThe Art of Protest, first published in 2006, was hailed as an “essential” introduction to progressive social movements in the United States and praised for its “fluid writing style” and “well ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Art of Protest

    Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle

    by T.V. Reed ...
    Imagine the civil rights movement without freedom songs and the politics of women's movements without poetry. Or, more difficult yet, imagine an America unaffected by the cultural expressions and forms of the twentieth-century social movements that have shaped our nation. The first broad overview of social movements and the distinctive cultural forms that express and helped shape them, The Art of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Intercultural Communication for Everyday Life

    by John R. Baldwin, Robin R. Means Coleman, Suchitra Shenoy-Packer, Alberto González ...
    Written for students studying intercultural communication for the first time, this textbook gives a thorough introduction to inter- and cross-cultural concepts with a focus on practical application and social action.Provides a thorough introduction to inter- and cross-cultural concepts for beginning students with a focus on practical application and social actionDefines “communication” broadly ... Read more

    $107.95 USD

  • Hybridity

    The Cultural Logic Of Globalization

    by Marwan Kraidy ...
    The intermingling of people and media from different cultures is a communication-based phenomenon known as hybridity. Drawing on original research from Lebanon to Mexico and analyzing the use of the term in cultural and postcolonial studies (as well as the popular and business media), Marwan Kraidy offers readers a history of the idea and a set of prescriptions for its future use.Kraidy analyzes ... Read more

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