Cultural Studies

From antiquity until the present, libraries have served to witness cultural and religious exchanges between civilizations. A number of famous libra...

There has been an increasing recognition of the fluidity and ambiguity of ethnic identities within the context of global mobility. With that in min...

Discussions of class make many Americans uncomfortable. This accessible book makes class visible in everyday life. Solely identifying political and...

In this interdisciplinary volume, contributors analyze the expression of Latina/o cultural identity through performance. With music, theater, dance...

Florida has a titillating underbelly that few tourists ever see. Beyond the theme parks and the beaches lies a periphery most residents know about ...

The story begins at high seas on a 12-day voyage across the Indian Ocean in the bowels of the SS Karanja bound for Bombay. It is February 1972 and ...

Are you researching the history of the Milwaukee area and looking for suggestions about what to read next? If so, this Bibliography of Metropolitan...

The Conference on Baseball in Literature and American Culture has consistently produced a strong body of scholarship since its inception in 1995...

In Generation Scot Y, Kate Higgins explores questions of Scottish identity, culture, society and politics and they way they are viewed by twenty-so...

An in-depth look at how democratic values have widened the American arts scene, even as it remains elite and cosmopolitanTwo centuries ago, wealthy...

Sounds Senses is about what happens to the francophone postcolonial condition when sound is taken as a point of departure for engaging cultural pro...

The food-secure and/or privileged worldwide no longer eat and drink simply to maintain life itself. They have the advantage and choice to regard su...

Since the advent of train travel, railways have compressed space and crossed national boundaries to become transnational icons, evoking hope, dr...

Recounts the life and career of Croatian filmmaker Rajko Grlic in the form of a lexicon of film terms tied to anecdotes spanning Grlic''s life. ...

A searing--and sobering--account of the legal and extra-legal means by which systemic white racism has kept Black Americans 'in their place' from s...

This publication benefited from the support of the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts at the University of Notre Dame.This collective vo...

From the tenor of contemporary discussions, it would be easy to conclude that the idea of marriage between two people of the same sex is a uniquely...

THE ENDURING MYTH THAT MAKES US HUMAN What makes a hero? Who better to answer that question than Lee...

Adjusting to a new culture and getting along with the local people can be a challenge for everyone who lives and works abroad. Whether in business,...

Even though the Irish child sex abuse scandals in the Catholic Church have appeared steadily in the media, many children remain in peril. In The Ch...

The Arab Spring uprisings were not about gender; these were uprisings demanding rights for all. Yet, they presented a rare opportunity for women to...