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  • American Cultural Studies

    An Introduction to American Culture

    by Neil Campbell, Alasdair Kean, Andrew Dix, Peter Templeton ...
    Now in its fifth edition, American Cultural Studies continues to offer a critical introduction to key concepts, topics and methods in the study of United States culture, exploring subjects that include the city, ethnicity and immigration, religion, youth, and gender and sexuality.The fifth edition has been comprehensively revised to take account of developments in American culture during the past ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Beginning film studies

    Second edition

    by Andrew Dix ...
    Beginning film studies offers the ideal introduction to this vibrant subject. Written accessibly and with verve, it ranges across the key topics and manifold approaches to film studies. Andrew Dix has thoroughly updated the first edition, and this new volume includes new case studies, overviews of recent developments in the discipline, and up-to-the-minute suggestions for further reading.The book ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • American Studies: The Basics

    by Andrew Dix ...
    Series series The Basics
    American Studies: The Basics is an accessible and concise introduction that aims to unpack what American studies does and why it matters.From Moby-Dick to baseball, Hollywood westerns to #BlackLivesMatter, and Disneyland to the U.S. Supreme Court, American studies engages with a myriad of topics in its efforts to understand what the French sociologist Jean Baudrillard called ‘social and cultural ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Contemporary American Novel in Context

    by Andrew Dix, Dr Brian Jarvis, Dr Paul Jenner ...
    Series series Texts and Contexts
    Assuming no prior knowledge and covering complex textual and contextual material in a clear, engaging way. this book is a critical introduction to the contemporary american novel focusing on contexts, key texts and criticism. ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Violence from Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter

    African American History and Representation

    Edited by Andrew Dix, Peter Templeton ...
    Violence from Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter brings together perspectives on violence and its representation in African American history from slavery to the present moment. Contributors explore how violence, signifying both an instrument of the white majority’s power and a modality of black resistance, has been understood and articulated in primary materials that range from slave narrative through ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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    by James M. Banner, Jr., John R. Gillis ...
    In this unique collection, the memoirs of eleven historians provide a fascinating portrait of a formative generation of scholars. Born around the time of World War II, these influential historians came of age just before the upheavals of the 1960s and ’70s and helped to transform both their discipline and the broader world of American higher education. The self-inventions they thoughtfully ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Third Edition

    Edited by Bruce Burgett, Glenn Hendler ...
    Series Book 11 - Keywords
    Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories for American Studies and Cultural Studies in an updated editionSince its initial publication, scholars and students alike have turned to Keywords for American Cultural Studies as an invaluable resource for understanding key terms and debates in the fields of American studies and cultural studies. As scholarship has continued to ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Teaching Controversial Issues

    The Case for Critical Thinking and Moral Commitment in the Classroom

    by Nel Noddings, Laurie Brooks ...
    In this book, eminent educational philosopher Nel Noddings and daughter Laurie Brooks explain how teachers can foster critical thinking through the exploration of controversial issues. The emphasis is on the use of critical thinking to understand and collaborate, not simply to win arguments. The authors describe how critical thinking that encourages dialogue across the school disciplines and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Class, Race, and Marxism

    by David Roediger ...
    Winner of the Working-Class Studies Association C.L.R. James AwardSeen as a pioneering figure in the critical study of whiteness, US historian David Roediger has sometimes received criticism, and praise, alleging that he left Marxism behind in order to work on questions of identity. This volume collects his recent and new work implicitly and explicitly challenging such a view. In his historical ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Directions Home

    Approaches to African-Canadian Literature

    by George Elliott Clarke ...
    The latest work from pioneering scholar George Elliott Clarke, Directions Home is the most comprehensive analysis of African-Canadian texts and writers to date. Building on the discoveries of his critically acclaimed Odysseys Home, Clarke passionately analyses the beautiful complexities and haunting conundrums of this important body of literature.Directions Home explores the trajectories and ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Paul Gilroy

    by Paul Williams ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Thinkers
    Paul Gilroy has been a controversial force at the forefront of debates around race, nation, and diaspora. Working across a broad range of disciplines, Gilroy has argued that racial identities are historically constructed, formed by colonization, slavery, nationalist philosophies, and consumer capitalism.Paul Williams introduces Gilroy’s key themes and ideas, including:the essential concepts, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Cultural Struggles

    Performance, Ethnography, Praxis

    by Dwight Conquergood ...
    The late Dwight Conquergood’s research has inspired an entire generation of scholars invested in performance as a meaningful paradigm to understand human interaction, especially between structures of power and the disenfranchised. Conquergood’s research laid the groundwork for others to engage issues of ethics in ethnographic research, performance as a meaningful paradigm for ethnography, and case ... Read more

    $28.09 USD