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Cheryl Clarke explores the relationship between the Black Arts Movement (BAM) and black women writers of the period, whose poems chart the emergence of a new and distinct black poetry and its relationship to the black community's struggle for rights and liberation.

As Krin Gabbard reveals in this book, we duly recognize the cultural heritage of African Americans in literature, music and art, but there is a disturbing pattern in the roles that blacks are asked to play - particularly in the movies.

Focusing on recent postmodern examples, this is a collection of essays reviewing the history of the horror film and the psychological reasons for its persistent appeal.

A study of race, class and sexuality in modernist texts by white women to argue the existence of a literary device termed as """"Sapphic Primitivism"""", this text exposes the ways several classes of identification were intertwined with the development of gay identities at the start of the 20th century.

India's 1997 celebration of the Golden Jubilee marked 50 years of independence from British colonial rule. This anniversary is the impetus for this exploration of the English language icons of South Asian post-colonial literature such as: Salman Rushdie, Vikram Chandra and Amitav Ghosh.

Writing about children on the school playgrounds of working-class Belfast, Northern Ireland, Donna M. Lanclos uses their own words to show how they shape their social identities. She explores their ideas about gender, family, adult-child interactions, and Protestant/Catholic tensions.

A vast archive of photographs of the American West chronicled American expansion and the subordination of many Native peoples. This volume tells the stories of four unconventional women photographers and their subjects, providing the reader with insights into a network of complex relationships.

Argues that the conventional wisdom on religion makes sense only as a strategy of intellectual and political control. It examines how nationalists, officials, missionaries and scholars in the West and the colonis defined and redefined the relationship between the political and religious.

A guide to discovering the best teachers at your school or college and learning everything you can from them. Case studies provide real-life examples of how to put ideas into practice as the authors show how to evaluate professors, what to look for in a syllabus and what resources to check.

These novellas appeared at the height of fin-de-siecle American fascination with Japanese culture. Usually dismissed by critics because of their stereotypical treatment of Asian women, they have been paired here to show how they defined and redefined contemporary misconceptions of the """"Orient"""".

Despite media reporting, annual reports from the Surgeon General show Americans are the healthiest people on the planet. This volume aims to set the record straight and conteract the culture of complaint and worry with an unbiased account of the scientific facts.

This work is a historical account of the production, distribution, and consumption of pornography in Great Britain from the early 19th century to the turn of the 20th century.

Written from a cross-disciplinary perspective, the essays in this collection are divided into four sections: the causes of wrongful convictions; the social characteristics of the wrongfully convicted; case studies and personal histories; and suggestions for change in the criminal justice system.

An examination of the rhetoric of rape in British and Anglo-Indian fiction of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Drawing on more than 30 novels, Paxton shows how the treatment of rape reflects basic concepts in the social and sexual contracts defining the women's relationship to the nation state.

In this collection of essays, artists, museum directors, and scholars of anthropology, law, art history, cultural studies and political science, discuss cultural appropriation and its implications. Over six sections from music to science, the relationship between culture and power is examined.

This narrative interrogates the notion of the fifties as an era of normalcy. Ellwood explores the Catholic-Protestant tensions, the conflict between theology and popular faith, and the underground forms of religiosity, and argues that the decade was actually full of spiritual strife.

Dismayed by the media's tendency to reduce the feminist enterprise to labels and superstars, Donna Perry and Nan Bauer Maglin decided to find out what a diverse group of feminists think about women, sex, and power in the nineties. The result is a provocative and varied collection of twenty-four essays.

Two American Studies professors from Rutgers University here show how the New Jersey Turnpike--that "ugly icon,'' America's "widest and most traveled'' road--has found its way into the minds, if not the hearts, of artists and drivers alike. In poet Allen Ginsberg, singer Bruce Springsteen, commuters and roadside home owners lulled to sleep by its drone of traffic, this 12-lane asphalt monster has inspired powerful reactions, from admiration to anger.

Nameless Diseases is compelling reading for anyone who has ever suffered from a medical mystery or seeks to understand the limitations of medical progress. The book includes a list of organizations devoted to education the public about commonly overlooked, unrecognized, rare, or misdiagnosed diseases.

Hobomok, A Tale of Early Times is the provocative story of an upperclass white woman who marries an Indian chief, has a child, then leaves him - with the child - for another man. This novel, originally published in 1824, is a powerful first among antipatriarchal and antiracist novels in American literature.

Tells the story of the Lenape Indians who lived in what is now New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. The book describes their culture, crafts, and language as no other book has done. In presenting the lore and heritage of the Lenapes, Dr. M.R. Harrington does so through the eyes of a shipwrecked English boy who was eventually adopted into the tribe.

A contribution to the history of the blues and of Afro-American culture in general. Writing from a black/feminist standpoint, Harrison shows the joys, trials, heartbreaks and enduring influence of such singers as Victoria Spivey and Alberta Hunter.

The book has the great advantage of placing the slave in the centre of the history not simply as a type of labour, but as an actor whose culture, actions and decisions influenced the operation of the system. Written with verve and grace for a general readership.

What do Christians do with the Bible? How do they - individually and collectively - interact with the sacred texts? Why does this engagement shift so drastically among and between social, historical, religious, and institutional contexts? This book addresses such questions.

Shows how various aspects of our understanding and discussion of cancer bears the imprint of its Cold War entanglement.