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Can reading make us better citizens Fusing queer theory, citizenship studies, and border studies in its exploration of seven U.S., Canadian, and Indigenous authors, poets, and performance artists, Crossing borders and queering citizenship theorises how reading can work as a empowering tool in contemporary civic struggles in the North America.

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Can reading make us better citizens Fusing queer theory, citizenship studies, and border studies in its exploration of seven U.S., Canadian, and Indigenous authors, poets, and performance artists, Crossing borders and queering citizenship theorises how reading can work as a empowering tool in contemporary civic struggles in the North America.

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In interviews in cities and towns across the United States, from New York to Los Angeles, and from Madison to Dallas, members of 40 black and white pairs of friends reflect on how they became friends, how racial issues are addressed, and how their friendships have influenced their views and, in some cases, their actions.

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This work explores different aspects of the encounter between males and Swedish sexual and cohabitation culture, and analyses this encounter in relationship to the important elements in the cultural processes and patterns that have shaped immigrant male gender-role socialisation.

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Portrays the crosscurrents created at the interface of urban industrial and rural peasant spheres. This book shows how wage labor was adopted by country folk who maintained ties to small-scale cultivation and indigenous traditions. It examines the cultural issues that animate peasant-worker life.

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In this study, chapter authors examine the growth of gerontology as a discipline, the phenomenon of ageism as a socio-cultural concept, identity politics in which older persons are perceived as belonging to a subculture, and images of the older body in cultural perspective.

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This collection of papers encourages social and biological scientists to question their presentations of African Americans and to recognize that afrocentricity is important in refocusing portrayals of African Americans.

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A companion volume to "Mass Media and Society", this textbook is an introduction to cultural studies, offering a critical guided tour through the key debates raised by feminism, postmodernism, the politics of identity and theories of ideology. It considers the communication circuit in its entirety.

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This work challenges the field of British cultural studies to return to the question of social class as a primary focus of study. The chapters examine contemporary working-class life and its depiction in the media through a number of case studies on topics such as popular cinema and football.

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Challenging traditional orientations to the study of education and culture acquisition, the authors of this controversial work present a holistic, process-oriented method for examining culture transmission.

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Written for high school students and general readers alike, this insightful treatment links the storied past of various Apache tribes with their life in contemporary times.

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This complete overview of the Choctaw people, from ancient times to the present, includes sections on history, cuisine, music and dance, current issues, oral traditions and language, social relationships, and traditional world view.

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A new addition to the Culture and Customs of Native Peoples in America series, this book examines the traditions and contemporary culture of the Sioux Indians.

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Cultural theory has taken a 'performative turn', shifting its focus from textual nature of the world to how social world is narrated, its subjects are subjected and its relations are ritually enacted. This book explores the development and direction of notion of performativity. It explores ways of thinking political imaginations and possibilities.

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Cultural theory has taken a 'performative turn', shifting its focus from textual nature of the world to how social world is narrated, its subjects are subjected and its relations are ritually enacted. This book explores the development and direction of notion of performativity. It explores ways of thinking political imaginations and possibilities.

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The book demonstrates that cultural jobs are the preserve of the most privileged, a creative class in society, and always have been: there was no golden age for social mobility in culture. It shows how women, people of colour, and those of working class origins are missing from key parts of the workforce and audience for culture.

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Focusing on the growing transnational community of Ismailis (Muslim Shi'a followers of the Aga Khan), this study analyzes the transnational and cultural characteristics of the Ismaili social service network in the context of state/society relations.

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By the year 2000, more than half of Americans will be persons of color, and by 2050 non-white persons will constitute 45per cent of the population. This book offers an insight into the diverse lifestyles for some cultures of color in American society.

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Specialists combine efforts to present an overall picture of current thinking and research on sex roles, sex differences, and sex role development. With its emphasis on psychological antecedents and concomitants underlying sex roles and sex typing, this volume will definitely appeal to developmental and educational psychologists.

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Students of the Enlightenment have long assumed that the major movement towards atheism in the Ancien Regime was centered in the circle of intellectuals who met at the home of Baron d'Holbach during the last half of the eighteenth century. This major critical study shows, contrary to the accepted views, that in fact, atheism was not the common bond

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This book provides an intimate look into the daily life of the medieval Islamic world, and is thus an invaluable resource for students and general readers alike interested in understanding this world, so different, and yet so connected, to our own.

Chapters include discussions of: the major themes of medieval Islamic history;