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  • 1
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    Fearing the black body : the racial origins of fat phobia (2019)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781479891788
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.48/896073
    RVK:
    LB 44610
    Keywords: Geschichte 1420-2019 ; Schwarze Frau ; Schönheitsideal ; Übergewicht ; Ethnische Identität ; Rassismus ; USA
    Abstract: How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as “diseased” and a burden on the public health care system. This is only the most recent incarnation of the fear of fat black women, which Sabrina Strings shows took root more than two hundred years ago.Strings weaves together an eye-opening historical narrative ranging from the Renaissance to the current moment, analyzing important works of art, newspaper and magazine articles, and scientific literature and medical journals—where fat bodies were once praised—showing that fat phobia, as it relates to black women, did not originate with medical findings, but with the Enlightenment era belief that fatness was evidence of “savagery” and racial inferiority. The author argues that the contemporary ideal of slenderness is, at its very core, racialized and racist. Indeed, it was not until the early twentieth century, when racialized attitudes against fatness were already entrenched in the culture, that the medical establishment began its crusade against obesity. An important and original work, Fearing the Black Body argues convincingly that fat phobia isn’t about health at all, but rather a means of using the body to validate race, class, and gender prejudice.
    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479891788.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479891788
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  • 2
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    Fencing in Democracy : Border Walls, Necrocitizenship, and the Security State (2019)
    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781478007470
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (200 p.) , 28 illustrations
    Edition: 2020
    Series Statement: Global Insecurities
    DDC: 972/.1
    RVK:
    LB 52595
    Keywords: Grenzgebiet ; Grenze ; Illegaler Einwanderer ; Politische Anthropologie ; Sicherheitspolitik ; Grenzschutz ; Einwanderungspolitik ; Migrationspolitik ; USA ; Mexiko
    Abstract: Border walls permeate our world, with more than thirty nation-states constructing them. Anthropologists Margaret E. Dorsey and Miguel Díaz-Barriga argue that border wall construction manifests transformations in citizenship practices that are aimed not only at keeping migrants out but also at enmeshing citizens into a wider politics of exclusion. For a decade, the authors studied the U.S.-Mexico border wall constructed by the Department of Homeland Security and observed the political protests and legal challenges that residents mounted in opposition to the wall. In Fencing in Democracy Dorsey and Díaz-Barriga take us to those border communities most affected by the wall and often ignored in national discussions about border security to highlight how the state diminishes citizens' rights. That dynamic speaks to the citizenship experiences of border residents that is indicative of how walls imprison the populations they are built to protect. Dorsey and Díaz-Barriga brilliantly expand conversations about citizenship, the operation of U.S. power, and the implications of border walls for the future of democracy.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Sep 2020)
    DOI: 10.1515/9781478007470
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478007470?locatt=mode:legacy
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  • 3
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    Islam : An American Religion (2017)
    New York, NY : Columbia University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780231543927
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Religion, Culture, and Public Life
    DDC: 305.7
    RVK:
    LB 48610
    Keywords: Islam ; USA
    Abstract: Using arguments that borrow from the themes and forms of European disputes, Islam: An American Religion demonstrates how, paradoxically, Islam as built in the United States has become an American religion in a double sense—first through the strategies of recognition adopted by Muslims and second through the formatting of Islam as a faith. In Islam: An American Religion, Nadia Marzouki investigates how Islam has developed a major stake in American politics. Focusing on the period from 2008 to 2013, she revisits the uproar over the construction of mosques, legal disputes around the prohibition of Islamic law and foreign law, and the overseas promotion of religious freedom. She argues that public controversies over Islam in the United States primarily reflects the American public's profound divisions and ambivalence toward the meaning and legitimacy of liberal secular democracy.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Feb. 24, 2017)
    DOI: 10.7312/marz17680
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7312/marz17680
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/487764
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  • 4
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    Intellectual Radicalism after 1989 : Crisis and Re-orientation in the British and the American Left (2017)
    Bielefeld : transcript-Verlag | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9783839434185
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Edition Politik 32
    DDC: 324.241/0975
    RVK:
    MG 42370
    RVK:
    LB 49000
    Keywords: Geschichte 1989 ; Linksintellektueller ; Staatssozialismus ; Zusammenbruch ; Communism and intellectuals History ; Communism and intellectuals History ; Socialism History ; Socialism History ; American History ; Britain ; British History ; History ; Intellectuals ; North America ; Political Science ; Political Sociology ; Politics ; Sociology ; United States ; Großbritannien ; USA ; Ostblock ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; History ; Electronic books ; Hochschulschrift ; Electronic books ; Hochschulschrift ; Electronic books ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: Left-wing intellectuals in Britain and the US had long repudiated the Soviet regime. Why was the collapse of the Eastern Bloc experienced as a shock that destabilised their identities and political allegiances then? What happened to a collective project that had started out to formulate a socialist vision different from both really existing socialism and social democracy? This study endeavours to answer both questions, focusing on generational networks rather than individuals and investigating political academic journals after 1989 to paint the picture of a Left deeply troubled by the triumph of a capitalism unfettered by any counter-force.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Feb. 24, 2017)
    DOI: 10.1515/9783839434185
    URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-201704091088
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    MPI Ethno. Forsch.
  • 5
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    Red and Yellow, Black and Brown : Decentering Whiteness in Mixed Race Studies (2017)
    New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780813587332
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (278 p.) , 12 photographs, 4 tables
    DDC: 305.800973
    RVK:
    MS 1235
    RVK:
    LB 31960
    Keywords: Identität ; Nationale Minderheit ; Soziale Stellung ; Rassenmischung ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Red and Yellow, Black and Brown gathers together life stories and analysis by twelve contributors who express and seek to understand the often very different dynamics that exist for mixed race people who are not part white. The chapters focus on the social, psychological, and political situations of mixed race people who have links to two or more peoples of color— Chinese and Mexican, Asian and Black, Native American and African American, South Asian and Filipino, Black and Latino/a and so on. Red and Yellow, Black and Brown addresses questions surrounding the meanings and communication of racial identities in dual or multiple minority situations and the editors highlight the theoretical implications of this fresh approach to racial studies. ...
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Jan 2020)
    DOI: 10.36019/9780813587332
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813587332
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  • 6
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    Frankie and Johnny : Race, Gender, and the Work of African American Folklore in 1930s America (2017)
    Austin : University of Texas Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781477312094
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 398.2089/96073
    RVK:
    LB 48610
    RVK:
    LB 44610
    Keywords: Geschichte 1930-1940 ; Schwarze ; Volkskunde ; Ethnische Identität ; Geschlechterrolle ; African Americans Folklore ; African Americans Folklore ; African Americans Race identity ; African Americans-Folklore ; African Americans-Race identity ; Folk songs, English ; Music Social aspects ; History and criticism ; Popular music African influences ; Popular music History and criticism ; Sex role ; Sex role-United States ; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century ; USA ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Originating in a homicide in St. Louis in 1899, the ballad of “Frankie and Johnny” became one of America’s most familiar songs during the first half of the twentieth century. It crossed lines of race, class, and artistic genres, taking form in such varied expressions as a folk song performed by Huddie Ledbetter (Lead Belly); a ballet choreographed by Ruth Page and Bentley Stone under New Deal sponsorship; a mural in the Missouri State Capitol by Thomas Hart Benton; a play by John Huston; a motion picture, She Done Him Wrong, that made Mae West a national celebrity; and an anti-lynching poem by Sterling Brown. In this innovative book, Stacy I. Morgan explores why African American folklore—and “Frankie and Johnny” in particular—became prized source material for artists of diverse political and aesthetic sensibilities. He looks at a confluence of factors, including the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Depression, and resurgent nationalism, that led those creators to engage with this ubiquitous song. Morgan’s research uncovers the wide range of work that artists called upon African American folklore to perform in the 1930s, as it alternately reinforced and challenged norms of race, gender, and appropriate subjects for artistic expression. He demonstrates that the folklorists and creative artists of that generation forged a new national culture in which African American folk songs featured centrally not only in folk and popular culture but in the fine arts as well.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Okt 2021)
    DOI: 10.7560/312070
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7560/312070
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477312094
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  • 7
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    The New Jewish Diaspora : Russian-Speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israel, and Germany (2016)
    New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780813576312
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 3 figures, 22 tables
    DDC: 305.892/4
    RVK:
    LB 56325
    Keywords: Geschichte 1970-2015 ; Juden ; Russisch ; Diaspora ; Russland ; Israel ; USA ; Deutschland ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: In 1900 over five million Jews lived in the Russian empire; today, there are four times as many Russian-speaking Jews residing outside the former Soviet Union than there are in that region. The New Jewish Diaspora is the first English-language study of the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora. This migration has made deep marks on the social, cultural, and political terrain of many countries, in particular the United States, Israel, and Germany. The contributors examine the varied ways these immigrants have adapted to new environments, while identifying the common cultural bonds that continue to unite them. Assembling an international array of experts on the Soviet and post-Soviet Jewish diaspora, the book makes room for a wide range of scholarly approaches, allowing readers to appreciate the significance of this migration from many different angles. Some chapters offer data-driven analyses that seek to quantify the impact Russian-speaking Jewish populations are making in their adoptive countries and their adaptations there. Others take a more ethnographic approach, using interviews and observations to determine how these immigrants integrate their old traditions and affiliations into their new identities. Further chapters examine how, despite the oceans separating them, members of this diaspora form imagined communities within cyberspace and through literature, enabling them to keep their shared culture alive. Above all, the scholars in The New Jewish Diaspora place the migration of Russian-speaking Jews in its historical and social contexts, showing where it fits within the larger historic saga of the Jewish diaspora, exploring its dynamic engagement with the contemporary world, and pointing to future paths these immigrants and their descendants might follow. ...
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Sep 2019)
    DOI: 10.36019/9780813576312
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813576312
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  • 8
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    Deadly Contradictions : The New American Empire and Global Warring (2016)
    Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781785330803
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (668 p.)
    DDC: 327.73009/04
    RVK:
    ML 5700
    RVK:
    LB 49610
    Keywords: Geschichte 1945 - 2014 ; Außenpolitik ; Amerikabild ; USA
    Abstract: As US imperialism continues to dictate foreign policy, Deadly Contradictions is a compelling account of the American empire. Stephen P. Reyna argues that contemporary forms of violence exercised by American elites in the colonies, client state, and regions of interest have deferred imperial problems, but not without raising their own set of deadly contradictions. This book can be read many ways: as a polemic against geopolitics, as a classic social anthropological text, or as a seminal analysis of twenty-four US global wars during the Cold War and post-Cold War eras.  ...
    DOI: 10.1515/9781785330803
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785330803
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  • 9
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    Strip Cultures : Finding America in Las Vegas (2015)
    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780822375234
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (384 p.) , 101 photographs
    DDC: 979.3/135
    RVK:
    LB 72610
    Keywords: Straße ; Kultur ; Las Vegas, Nev. ; USA
    Abstract: On the Las Vegas Strip, blockbuster casinos burst out of the desert, billboards promise "hot babes," actual hot babes proffer complimentary drinks, and a million happy slot machines ring day and night. It's loud and excessive, but, as the Project on Vegas demonstrates, the Strip is not a world apart. Combining written critique with more than one hundred photographs by Karen Klugman, Strip Cultures examines the politics of food and water, art and spectacle, entertainment and branding, body and sensory experience. In confronting the ordinary on America's most famous four-mile stretch of pavement, the authors reveal how the Strip concentrates and magnifies the basic truths and practices of American culture where consumerism is the stuff of life, digital surveillance annuls the right to privacy, and nature-all but destroyed-is refashioned as an element of decor.
    DOI: 10.1515/9780822375234
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822375234?locatt=mode:legacy
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