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  • 2010-2014  (8)
  • 1945-1949
  • 2010  (8)
  • Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest  (8)
  • English Studies  (8)
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  • 2010-2014  (8)
  • 1945-1949
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  • 1
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780230294998
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (214 pages)
    Series Statement: Crime Files
    DDC: 305.3
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1850-1914 ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Gewaltkriminalität ; Selbstverteidigung ; Männlichkeit
    Abstract: This book considers crime fighting from the perspective of the civilian city-goer, from the mid-Victorian garotting panics to 1914. It charts the shift from the use of 'body armour' to the adoption of exotic martial arts through the works of popular playwrights and novelists, examining changing ideals of urban, middle-class heroism.
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  • 2
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203894613
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (248 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Cultural Spaces
    DDC: 304.8/7295073
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    Keywords: Rückwanderung ; Puerto Rico
    Abstract: In The Diaspora Strikes Back the eminent ethnic and cultural studies scholar Juan Flores flips the process on its head: what happens to the home country when it is being constantly fed by emigrants returning from abroad? He looks at how 'Nuyoricans' (Puerto Rican New Yorkers) have transformed the home country, introducing hip hop and modern New York culture to the Caribbean island. While he focuses on New York and Mayaguez (in Puerto Rico), the model is broadly applicable. Indians introducing contemporary British culture to India; New York Dominicans bringing slices of New York culture back to the Dominican Republic; Mexicans bringing LA culture (from fast food to heavy metal) back to Guadalajara and Monterrey. This ongoing process is both massive and global, and Flores' novel account will command a significant audience across disciplines.
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  • 3
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    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780812200140
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (382 pages)
    Series Statement: New Cultural Studies
    DDC: 305.80094109033
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1700-1800 ; Kultur ; Rassenfrage ; Kolonie ; Ethnische Identität ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Ethnische Identität ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: "The Complexion of Race marks a decisive break with literary history's binary version of eighteenth-century British radical thought."-Journal of Social History.
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  • 4
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203837177
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (231 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    DDC: 306.4
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    Abstract: This revised edition of a now classic text includes a new introduction by Henry Jenkins, explaining 'Why Fiske Still Matters' for today's students, followed by a discussion between former Fiske students Kevin Glynn, Jonathan Gray, and Pamela Wilson on the theme of 'Reading Fiske and Understanding the Popular'. Both underline the continuing relevance of this foundational text in the study of popular culture.What is popular culture? How does it differ from mass culture? And what do popular "texts" reveal about class, race, and gender dynamics in a society? John Fiske answers these and a host of other questions in Understanding Popular Culture.When it was first written, Understanding Popular Culture took a groundbreaking approach to studying such cultural artifacts as jeans, shopping malls, tabloid newspapers, and TV game shows, which remains relevant today. Fiske differentiates between mass culture - the cultural "products" put out by an industrialized, capitalist society - and popular culture - the ways in which people use, abuse, and subvert these products to create their own meanings and messages. Rather than focusing on mass culture's attempts to dominate and homogenize, he prefers to look at (and revel in) popular culture's evasions and manipulations of these attempts.Designed as a companion to Reading the Popular, Understanding Popular Culture presents a radically different theory of what it means for culture to be popular: that it is, literally, of the people. It is not imposed on them, it is created by them, and its pleasures and meanings reflect popular tastes and concerns - and a rejection of those fostered by mass culture. With wit, clarity, and insight, Professor Fiske debunks the myth of the mindless mass audience, and demonstrates that, in myriad ways, popular culture thrives because that audience is more aware than anyone guesses.
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  • 5
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203844984
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (258 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Modern British History
    DDC: 305.8
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    Abstract: In mid-Victorian England there were new racial categories based upon skin colour. The 'races' familiar to those in the modern west were invented and elaborated after the decline of faith in Biblical monogenesis in the early nineteenth century, and before the maturity of modern genetics in the middle of the twentieth. Not until the early nineteenth century would polygenetic and racialist theories win many adherents. But by the middle of the nineteenth century in England, racial categories were imposed upon humanity. How the idea of 'race' gained popularity in England at that time is the central focus of The Victorian Reinvention of Race: New Racisms and the Problem of Grouping in the Human Sciences. Scholars have linked this new racism to some very dodgy thinkers. The Victorian Reinvention of Race examines a more influential set of the era's writers and colonial officials, some French but most of them British. Attempting to do serious social analysis, these men oversimplified humanity into biologically-heritable, mentally and morally unequal, colour-based 'races'. Thinkers giving in to this racist temptation included Alexis de Tocqueville when he was writing on Algeria; Arthur de Gobineau (who influenced the Nazis); Walter Bagehot of The Economist; and Charles Darwin (whose Descent of Man was influenced by Bagehot). Victorians on Race also examines officials and thinkers (such as Tocqueville in Democracy in America, the Duke of Argyll, and Governor Gordon of Fiji) who exercised methodological care, doing the hard work of testing their categories against the evidence. They analyzed human groups without slipping into racial categorization. Author Edward Beasley examines the extent to which the Gobineau-Bagehot-Darwin way of thinking about race penetrated the minds of certain key colonial governors. He further explores the hardening of the rhetoric...
    Abstract: of race-prejudice in some quarters in England in the nineteenth century - the processes by which racism was first formed.
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  • 6
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    Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9789042032002
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (549 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Studia Imagologica
    DDC: 303.385
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    Keywords: Imagologie ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Imagology Revisited brings together in one volume essays written over a forty-year period on the perception and representation of foreign countries and peoples, the "other". The book traces the emergence of national and ethnic stereotypes in the early modern age and studies their evolution and multiple functions in a wide range of texts from travelogues and diaries to novels, plays and poetry, produced between the 16th and 20th centuries. The collection of essays, many of which are appearing in English for the first time, examines such phenomena as the mutual perception and misperception of Europeans and (North) Americans and the role of the theory of climate as a justification for stereotyped representations. It analyzes such national images as the hetero-stereotypes of Germans and Austrians in North American texts, and illuminates the depiction of the English abroad, as well as that of the Scots, the Jews and Italians in American literature. The book is of interest to comparatists, to practitioners of cultural studies and cultural history, to scholars in the fields of ethnic and inter-cultural German studies and especially to Anglicists and Americanists.
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  • 7
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    Chicago : Chicago Review Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781569765395
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (225 pages)
    DDC: 305.896073
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    Abstract: Highlighting certain socioeconomic and cultural trends, this exploration discloses the new dynamics shaping contemporary lives of African Americans. Using information from conversations with mavericks within black communitiessuch as entrepreneurs, artists, scholars, and activists as well as members of both the working and upper classesthis powerful examination gives voice to what the author has deemed post black" approaches to business, lifestyles, and religion that are nowhere else reflected as part of black life. The argument states that this new, complex black identity is strikingly different than the images handed down from previous generations and offers new examples of behavior, such as those shown by President Obama, gays and lesbians, young professionals, and black Buddhists. Contending that this new generation feels as unwelcome in traditional churches as in hip-hop clubs, this dynamic provocation dispels myths about current, popular black identity.
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  • 8
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    Cary : Oxford University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780195365474
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (287 pages)
    DDC: 301.23
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    Keywords: Nationale Minderheit ; Assimilation ; Einwanderung ; USA
    Abstract: A sociological analysis of the theories of assimilation in American society, noting the cultural and behavioral characteristics of religions, racial and ethnic groups.
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