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Brand new collection of the essential essays from one of the founders of cultural studies, Raymond Williams.

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A fun and inspiring book about the community of Disney-bounders across the globe!

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A fresh compilation of essays and entries based on the latest research, this work documents African American culture and political activism from the slavery era through the 20th century.

This is a revealing compilation of essays on the latest research and debates on Asian Americans, a growing and influential ethnic group today.

The authoritative source for information on the people, places, and events of the African Diaspora, spanning five continents and five centuries.

This three-volume work is a cornerstone resource on the evolution and dynamics of the Jewish Diaspora as it played out around the world-from its beginnings to the present.

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This interdisciplinary book explores women's narratives in a variety of media and genre. Adopting a feminist perspective, it focuses particularly on the themes of hybridity and monstrosity in language and the body.

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A powerful, perceptive and personal exploration of feminism from campaigner Julie Bindel that debunks commonly believed misconceptions about feminism and explains why it is a proud social movement that benefits all women.

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Encyclopedic in its coverage, this one-of-a-kind reference is ideal for students, scholars, and others who need reliable, up-to-date information on folk and fairy tales, past and present.

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This reader offers an accessible and stimulating introduction to the sheer breadth and diversity of work on gender.

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This text offers a gendered and cross-cultural analysis of the experience of mental disorder and of society's response to people suffering from it. It discusses the differences and similarities between both legal and lay definitions of mental disorder and corresponding patterns of service provision and usage, including for those who commit crime.

A comprehensive survey of green media and popular culture, introducing the key debates surrounding green interpretations of film, TV, journalism, comedy, music and computer games. It is an original and thought-provoking exploration of the emerging field of environmental media studies.

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This book analyses the HBO program Treme from multiple perspectives and argues that the series' depictions of music, culture, cuisine, and identity are innovative and represent unique televisual storytelling strategies.

This encyclopedia is the first comprehensive survey of Hispanic American religiosity, contextualizing the roles of Latino and Latina Americans within U.S. religious culture.

Spanning two volumes, Hispanic American Religious Cultures encompasses the full diversity of faiths and spiritual beliefs practiced among Hispanic Americans.

A comprehensive and timely examination of the history and current status of immigrants and refugees-their stories, the events that led to their movement, and the place of these movements in contemporary history and politics.

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An impassioned defence of the civil liberties and the rule of law in the face of increasing pressure for ever greater security'

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'Little madnesses' are our most deeply felt enthusiasms, investments and attachments in the sphere of culture. In this title, writers, artists, and scholars develop and revitalize cultural theory by exploring the idea of transitional phenomena and its potential to deepen our understanding of cultural experience in mental and social life.

Masks are objects that demonstrate creative skills of many different periods and cultures. Masks are a nearly universal phenomenon, but their uses and meanings are strikingly different across cultures. In this book, eight leading experts explore the stories of masks across ancient and modern civilizations in a survey of their meaning and power.

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This is a manageable introduction to all the theories and approaches that make up media studies. The book is accompanied by extensive textual and online resources to give readers guidance at every step. Offering a truly global approach, this is a cutting edge text for today's students seeking to understand worldwide media, past and present.

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Meet the youth of today's Middle East, cool, sexy, and devout. Faced with her own quarter-life crisis, Allegra Stratton takes herself out of her comfort zone to meet the young men and women of Beirut, Amman, Cairo, Dubai, Kuwait and Damascus, where she encounters the muhajababes (and muhajaboys) a youth culture on the cusp of change.

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This comparative analysis of multiracials who identify as part-Asian and part-White and those who identify as part-Black and part-White indicates vastly different experiences of what it means to be multiracial. The book attends to a nuanced understanding of how racism and inequality operate when an intersectional approach is taken into account.

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A collection of myths and creation stories from around the globe.