Revised and Expanded Edition
Molefi Kete Asante
Asante's spirited engagement with culture warriors, neocons, and postmodernists updates this classic
256 pages
| 5.5 x 8.2
Metaphors, Narratives, and Geopolitics
Jason Dittmer
A provocative exploration of the nationalist comic book superhero genre in the U.S., Canada, and Britain.
242 pages
| 6 x 9
| 26 halftones
Mass Culture in America's Decade of Disaster
Timothy Recuber
Examines the media’s coverage of four American disasters, arguing that media attention directs our concern for the suffering of others toward efforts to soothe our own emotional turmoil
228 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
| 5 tables
Key Themes
Darin Weinberg
A critical overview of scholarship in social constructionism
214 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
Rethinking Sport and Religion
Daniel A. Grano
Rethinking the changes surrounding religion and elite sport cultures
282 pages
| 6 x 9
| 1 halftone
The Remaking of Monterey Park, California
Timothy P. Fong
Ethnicity issues fuel internal strife as a community faces change
240 pages
| 6 x 9
| 14 tables, 2 figures, 8 halftones
Norbert Wiley
How the dialogical self discovers the appropriate pathways for guiding us through our lives
212 pages
| 6 x 9
| 3 tables, 3 figures
Toward a Social Logic of the Derivative
Randy Martin
What derivatives and excess, economic and otherwise, tell us about the state of global capital and culture
280 pages
| 6 x 9
The Aesthetic in Asian American Writing
Edited by Rocío G. Davis and Sue-Im Lee
Form as function in Asian American literature
248 pages
| 6 x 9
Transnational Legal Graffiti Scenes as Spaces for Encounter
Caitlin Frances Bruce
Argues that public art generates spaces for encounter as well as places and moments that can reenergize the felt sense of possibility in urban spaces
276 pages
| 6 x 9
| 54 color photos
The Alteration and Decline of a Philadelphia Music Scene
Tammy L Anderson
Exposing the forces behind the decline of the rave scene in Philadelphia and elsewhere
240 pages
| 6 x 9
| 8 tables, 2 figures, 9 halftones
Software, Culture, and Political Economy in New Media Capitalism
Robert Gehl
Revealing the underside of our technology-laden world
236 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
France Meets Philadelphia
Lynn Miller and Therese Dolan
Chronicling the French presence and impact on Philadelphia through its art and artists, as well as through the city’s political and social culture
416 pages
| 7 x 10
| 169 color photos, 2 halftones, 1 map
Edited by Susan Tucker, Katherine Ott, and Patricia Buckler
The first book about the history and practice of keeping scrapbooks
344 pages
| 7 x 10
| 72 halftones
Music, Culture, and Ideas in Post-Revolutionary Mexico
Alejandro L. Madrid
How the relationships between avant-garde music and ideas of modernity in post-revolutionary Mexico shaped discourses of nationality
224 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
| 3 tables, 36 figures
Indian Dance as Transnational Labor
Priya Srinivasan
Seeing Indian dancers as gendered labor highlights the politics of Asian American racialization, migration, and citizenship
238 pages
| 6 x 9
| 6 halftones