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Brings together primary documents conveying the words and ideas of new religious movements (NRMs), and offers a first-hand look into their belief systems. The volume includes original documents from groups such as the Unification Church, Theosophy, Branch Davidians, Wicca, Jehovah's Witnesses, Santeria, and Seventh Day Adventists.

Explores the surveillance, manipulations, erasures, and visibility of the body in the twenty-first century

A unique and richly textured look at global television through a cultural lens

Approaches the development of psychoanalytic theories of women on two fronts: the psychoanalytic and the political. This book draws attention to the influence of the Women's Liberation Movement on psychoanalytic theory.

Jenkins looks at the first amendment and how it should be applied to child pornography on the internet.

Discusses how godless societies can be moral, happy and free

Addresses the economic, visual, cultural, audience, and new media dimensions of reality television

An unpredictable exploration of how media is sparking grassroots cultural campaigns

A feminist - and former model - scrutinizes hip-hop culture

Offers an introduction to the historical development and contemporary expressions of religious life in South and Central America, Mexico, and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean.

Examines the ways in which questions of immigrant rights engage broader issues of identity, including gender, race, and sexuality

The Indian American community is one of the fastest growing immigrant communities in the US. Its members are marked by a high degree of training as medical doctors, engineers, scientists, and university professors. This title explores how these highly skilled professionals have been inserted into the racial dynamics of American society.

Reveals a vibrant and contentious political culture punctuated by traditional civic pride and an understudied tradition of protest in the black community

Discusses how discrimination by default creates a situation in which disparate outcomes are expected, accepted, and taken for granted

Says that not only are Latinos a religious community, but their religious institutions inform daily life and politics in Latino communities to a considerable degree. This work shows that Latino religious institutions have played a significant role in the poor and urban communities where Latinos live.

Whether conveyed through newspapers, photographs, or Billie HollidayΓÇÖs haunting song ΓÇ£Strange Fruit,ΓÇ¥ lynching has immediate and graphic connotations for all who hear the word. Images of lynching are generally unambiguous: black victims hanging from trees, often surrounded by gawking white mobs. While this picture of lynching tells a distressingly familiar story about mob violence in America, it is not the full story. Lynching in America presents the most comprehensive portrait of lynching to date, demonstrating that while lynching has always been present in American society, it has been anything but one-dimensional.Ranging from personal correspondence to courtroom transcripts to journalistic accounts, Christopher Waldrep has extensively mined an enormous quantity of documents about lynching, which he arranges chronologically with concise introductions. He reveals that lynching has been part of American history since the Revolution, but its victims, perpetrators, causes, and environments have changed over time. From the American Revolution to the expansion of the western frontier, Waldrep shows how communities defended lynching as a way to maintain law and order. Slavery, the Civil War, and especially Reconstruction marked the ascendancy of racialized lynching in the nineteenth century, which has continued to the present day, with the murder of James Byrd in Jasper, Texas, and Supreme Court Justice Clarence ThomasΓÇÖs contention that he was lynched by Congress at his confirmation hearings.Since its founding, lynching has permeated American social, political, and cultural life, and no other book documents American lynching with historical texts offering firsthand accounts of lynchings, explanations, excuses, and criticism.

Argues that the story of juridical racialism shows how race and citizenship served as a nexus for the professionalization of the social sciences

Undertakes a critical examination of explicitly theological and confessional perspectives for understanding and transforming North American racism. This book offers insights from Latino/a theology for broader scholarly and social discussions concerning racism, borders, and immigration.

Focusing on those seemingly inexplicable gaps or blind spots in recent American presidential politics, the author interrogates symptomatic moments in political rhetoric, popular culture, and presidential behavior to elucidate profound and disturbing changes in the American presidency and the way it embodies a national imaginary.

Contends that our notions of black American identity are not inevitable, nor have they simply been forced onto the black community. This work also argues that black American intellectuals have actively chosen the identity schemes that seem to us so natural.

A study of queer Latino America. Drawing on diverse cultural examples such as bolero, salsa, film, literature and correspondence, it flips the stereotype around, showing how Latin/o American lesbians and gays have consistently eschewed notions of sexual identity for a politics of intervention.

Illustrates how the operation of globalization enforces notions of women's domesticity and creates contradictory messages about women's place in society

Provides an overview of the rapidly changing landscape of global television, combining previously published essays by pioneers of the study of television with new work by cutting-edge television scholars who refine and extend intellectual debates in the field.

Gives voice to Latinos and Asian-Americans place in Americas increasingly complex racial mosaic

Offers a fascinating history of a once devastating social problem

Examines the aspects of childhood in the American colonies between the late sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries. This work contains essays and documents that shed light on the ways in which the process of colonization shaped childhood, and in turn how the experience of children affected life in colonial America.

Absorbing, entertaining and keenly perceptive, Talking Trash illuminates the complex viewer response to daytime television talk shows and examines the cultural politics surrounding this wildly controversial popular phenomenon.

Gathers writings on Black nationalism from Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois, and Alexander Crummell.

Reveals the ambiguous, often contested nature of marital law, showing that husbands' superior status and wives' dependence were fluid and negotiable

Highlights the contributions of rebbetzins to the development of American Jewry. Tracing the careers of rebbetzins from the beginning of twentieth century onwards, this title chronicles the evolution of the role from a few individual rabbis' wives who emerged as leaders to a cohort who worked together on behalf of American Judaism.