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This book investigates the bittersweet legacy of the art-for-arts sake movement in today's popular culture and the modern landscape where questions of beauty are seen as secondary to those of social justice by examining Bryan Fuller's Hannibal, among other works of popular culture.

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This book investigates the bittersweet legacy of the art-for-arts sake movement in today's popular culture and the modern landscape where questions of beauty are seen as secondary to those of social justice by examining Bryan Fuller's Hannibal, among other works of popular culture.

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"A collection of philosophical and aesthetic essays, influenced by Bernard Stiegler, which focuses on the techno-cultural artefact in order to critique, engage, or respond to, an aspect of digital culture"--

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Hawk's book demonstrates that academia and the press can inform each other to present a fuller and more sensitive picture of Africa today.

This volume will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in African studies, African politics, journalism, and international relations.

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Intends to remind us of the roots of soul food and the importance of food in African American identity. This title illuminates the state of African American food culture, in the context of understanding the West African origins of most African Americans. It provides a historical overview that discusses the beginnings of this hybrid food culture.

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This book examines race, media, and ownership diversity and argues that growing conglomerate media ownership hinders the diversity of voices and content. The focus on minority media ownership and the declining presence of minority media owners addresses a variety of social and political concerns connected to communication policy development.

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This book examines race, media, and ownership diversity and argues that growing conglomerate media ownership hinders the diversity of voices and content. The focus on minority media ownership and the declining presence of minority media owners addresses a variety of social and political concerns connected to communication policy development.

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This unique publication provides a thesaurus of all Library of Congress sub-Saharan African subject headings ever published, including classification numbers for most subject headings and cross-references from related or unused versions of a heading.

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A panoramic account of the role Africa has played in the American psyche, covering books, movies, music and more.

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A panoramic account of the role Africa has played in the American psyche, covering books, movies, music and more.

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This volume seeks to identify the interconnection of theory, methodology, and praxis concerning social science studies of African Americans in communication, film, and media.

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This volume seeks to identify the interconnection of theory, methodology, and praxis concerning social science studies of African Americans in communication, film, and media.

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In Afro-Brazilians in Mass Media: Social, Political, and Economic Realities, Samantha Nogueira Joyce examines representations of Blackness on Brazilian TV, interrogating the role of mass media in developing racial equality and social change.

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The flexibility of critical realism is illustrated in the range of topics discussed - ranging from quantum mechanics to cyberspace, to literary theory, nature, smoking, the future of Marx, the unconscious and, of course, postmodernism and the future of theory itself.

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Examines the emergence of "cultural studies" (a generic term to cover newly emergent fields of study) within the university and implications for a new disciplinary economy.

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In this searing and controversial polemic, esteemed American journalist David Rieff argues against our passion for the past. He looks at how memory serves nationalistic history every ANZAC Day and annual pilgrimage to Gallipoli, and at its worst, how memory of past horrors inflame deep-seated ethnic hatreds, violence and wars.

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An analysis of pluralist, Afrocentric, and postmodernist advocacies of multicultural education and multiculturalism, grounded in critical-sociological, anthropological, and philosophical traditions. It reveals formidable flaws in their conceptions of gender, race, culture, knowledge, learning, and social change.

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An analysis of pluralist, Afrocentric, and postmodernist advocacies of multicultural education and multiculturalism, grounded in critical-sociological, anthropological, and philosophical traditions. It reveals formidable flaws in their conceptions of gender, race, culture, knowledge, learning, and social change.

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With multi-disciplinary and accessible essays that span the expanding spectrum of aging and related stereotypes as our population gets older, this book offers a broad range of readers new ways to understand, perceive, and think about aging.

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This collection of original articles sits at the intersection of two interdisciplinary fields: media studies and aging studies. Drawing on both scholarly literatures, we explore the reciprocal influences of aging and mediation in the realms of music, television, celebrity, fandom, social media, film, and advertising/marketing, among others.

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This collection of original articles sits at the intersection of two interdisciplinary fields: media studies and aging studies. Drawing on both scholarly literatures, we explore the reciprocal influences of aging and mediation in the realms of music, television, celebrity, fandom, social media, film, and advertising/marketing, among others.