Award Winning Books: Cultural Studies

The Afrocentric Idea

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

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Captain America and the Nationalist Superhero

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

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Consuming Catastrophe

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

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Contemporary Social Constructionism

Key Themes

Darin Weinberg

A critical overview of scholarship in social constructionism

214 pages | 5.5 x 8.25

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The Eternal Present of Sport

Rethinking Sport and Religion

Daniel A. Grano

Rethinking the changes surrounding religion and elite sport cultures

282 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 halftone

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The First Suburban Chinatown

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

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Inner Speech and the Dialogical Self

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

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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

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Literary Gestures

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

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Painting Publics

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

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Rave Culture

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

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Reverse Engineering Social Media

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

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Salut!

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

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The Scrapbook in American Life

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

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Sounds of the Modern Nation

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

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Sweating Saris

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

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