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  • Gender, Race, Inequality and Student Friendship in Higher Education

    A Terrain of Struggle

    by Ingrid E. Castro ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Gender and Education
    With a qualitative case study of two university campuses in the United States, Ingrid E. Castro examines experiences of students in forming and sustaining close interracial friendships.The data in this book are comprised of interviews with students conducted at two predominantly white institutions in the early 2000s, illuminating how women of various races struggled to find commonality across ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

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  • Screening Children in Post-apocalypse Film and Television

    by Debbie Olson, Joseph V. Giunta, Cory Jobb, Cijo Joy, Suniti Madaan, Elaine Morton, Denis Newiak, Nick Petrov, Matthew Smith, Monica Sousa0, Ingrid E. Castro1 ...
    Series series Children and Youth in Popular Culture
    This collection examines the child’s role in contemporary post-apocalyptic films and television.. By exploring the function of child characters within a dystopian framework, this volume illustrates how traditional notions of childhood are tethered to sites of adult conflict and disaster, a connection that often works to reaffirm the “rightness” of past systems of social order. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Children in the Films of Steven Spielberg

    by Jen Baker, Jessica Balanzategui, Noel Brown, Andrew M. Gordon, James Kendrick, Peter Krämer, Gabrielle Kristjanson, Fran Pheasant-Kelly, Leonie Rutherford, Ingrid E. Castro ...
    Series series Children and Youth in Popular Culture
    To say that children matter in Steven Spielberg's films is an understatement. Think of the possessed Stevie in Something Evil (TV), Baby Langston in The Sugarland Express, the alien-abducted Barry in Close Encounters,Elliott and his unearthly alter-ego in E.T, the war-damaged Jim in Empire of the Sun, the little girl in the red coat in Schindler’s List, the mecha child in A.I., the kidnapped boy ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Children and Childhood in the Works of Stephen King

    by Debbie Olson, Shastri Akella, Lauren Christie, Joshua Garrison, Roxanne Harde, Kara Lukancic, Jennifer Manthei, Katherine McCain, Andrew McCormack, Debaditya Mukhopadhyay0, Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad1, Brennan Thomas2, James M. Curtis3, Kristen Miller Hill4, Ingrid E. Castro5, Karen Renner6 ...
    Series series Children and Youth in Popular Culture
    This unique and timely collection examines childhood and the child character throughout Stephen King’s works, from his early novels and short stories, through film adaptations, to his most recent publications. King’s use of child characters within the framework of horror (or of horrific childhood) raises questions about adult expectations of children, childhood, the American family, child agency, ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Representing Agency in Popular Culture

    Children and Youth on Page, Screen, and In Between

    by Jessica Clark, David Buckingham, Michael G. Cornelius, Anja Höing, John Kerr, Leanna Lucero, Lucy Newby, Fearghus Roulston, Terri Suico, Catherine Hartung0, Michelle Nicole Boyer-Kelly1, Shih-Wen Sue Chen2, Tabitha Parry Collins3, Mary L. Fahrenbruck4, Sin Wen Lau5, John C. Nelson6, Ingrid E. Castro7 ...
    Series series Children and Youth in Popular Culture
    Representing Agency in Popular Culture: Children and Youth on Page, Screen and In-Between addresses the intersection of children’s and youth’s agency and popular culture. As scholars in childhood studies and beyond seek to expand understandings of agency, power, and voice in children’s lives, this book places popular culture and representation as central to this endeavor. Core themes of family, ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy

    Walking in Other Worlds

    by Ana Lilia Campos-Manzo, Sophia Kremmydiotou, Kostas Magos, Tara Moore, Parinita Shetty, Michele D. Castleman, Peter W.Y. Lee, Ida Fadzillah Leggett, Ingrid E. Castro ...
    Series series Children and Youth in Popular Culture
    Joining the emergent interdisciplinary investment in bridging the social sciences and the humanities, Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy: Walking in Other Worlds explores linkages between children’s agency and fantasy. Fantasy as an integral aspect of childhood and as a genre allows for children’s spectacular dreams and hopeful realities. Friendship, family, identity, loyalty, belongingness, citizenry ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction

    Travel, Technology, Time

    by Jessica Clark, Kip Kline, Kwasu David Tembo, Gary Westfahl, Ingrid E. Castro, Muireann B. Crowley, Joseph Giunta, Erin Kenny, Jessica Kenty-Drane0, Megan McDonough1, Joaquin Muñoz2, Stephanie Thompson3 ...
    Series series Children and Youth in Popular Culture
    Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction: Travel, Technology, Time intersects considerations about children’s and youth’s agency with the popular culture genre of science fiction. As scholars in childhood studies and beyond seek to expand understandings of agency in children’s lives, this collection places science fiction at the heart of this endeavor. Retellings of the past, narratives of the ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Queens of Havana

    The Amazing Adventures of Anacaona, Cuba's Legendary All-Girl Dance Band

    by Alicia Castro, Ingrid Kummels, Manfred Schäfer ...
    "This evocative memoir is a joyous, rhythmic history" of the 11-sister dance band that broke musical and cultural barriers in 1930s Cuba and beyond ( Publishers Weekly).In the 1930s, Havana was the place to be for tourists, ex-pats, celebrities, and excitement-seekers. Nights were filled with drinking, dancing, romance, and the roar of infectious music spilling from cafés into the streets. It was ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Researching Children and Youth

    Methodological Issues, Strategies, and Innovations

    Edited by Ingrid E. Castro, Melissa Swauger, Brent Harger ...
    Series Book 22 - Sociological Studies of Children and Youth
    Researching Children and Youth: Methodological Issues, Strategies, and Innovations, part of the Sociological Studies of Children and Youth series, seeks to fill a void in current publications directly addressing the problems and pitfalls that often accompany researching children and youth in today’s society. Sociologists face increasingly limited access to children and youth given their ... Read more

    $136.99 USD

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