Cultural Studies News & Updates

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   Now Available - Writing Beyond Race

   What are the conditions needed for our nation to bridge cultural and racial divides? By 'writing beyond race', noted cultural critic bell hooks models the constructive ways scholars, activists, and readers can challenge and change systems of domination. In the spirit of previous classics, this new collection of compelling essays interrogatescontemporary cultural notions of race, gender, and class. From the films Precious and Crash to recent biographies of MalcolmX and Henrietta Lacks, hooks offers provocative insights into the way race isbeing talked about in this "post-racial" era. Order your copy today!
    

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   The Politics of Reality Television reviewed in CHOICE, September 2011

   "Exemplifying the vibrant scholarship on reality television, this collection tests the field's first generation of theory and initiates cross-cultural analysis of this globaly pervasive television genre. Summing Up: Recommended."
   --CHOICE, September 2011 (R. W. Morrow, Morgan State University)
     

3. eFocus on Race and Ethnicity - eBook Collection for Libraries

   Race and ethnicity have been at the forefront of both academic debate and social issues for many decades. This exciting new resource offers access to important and wide ranging contributions to the study of race, taking in cultural, social, political, legal and economic aspects of the subject.

4. eFocus on Sexuality Studies - eBook Collections for Libraries

   The field of sexuality studies has been a growth area in academia and classes on sexuality studies have been incorporated into various disciplines. This collection both charts the growth of this area and provides material which would be relevant to a wide cross section of courses.

5. eFocus on Postcolonialism - eBook Collection for Libraries

   Postcolonialism consists of a wide range of responses to colonialism and its ongoing legacies and is one of the most important cultural and theoretical developments of recent decades. This invaluable resource offers a range of perspectives on postcolonialism from across the humanities and social sciences.

6. eFocus on the Internet, Culture and Society - eBook Collection for Libraries

   The internet has proved a technology with almost unprecedented impact on culture and society. This exciting new collection assesses this impact from the perspective of eighteen different academic disciplines, ranging from economics and linguistics to cultural studies and anthropology.

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   New Online Resources Brochure Out Now

   Browse our new Online Resources Brochure to discover outstanding academic electronic resources across the Social Sciences, Humanities and Science and Technology.

   30 day free trials are available for libraries and institutions.

   To order a copy of the brochure, email reference@routledge.com

8. eFocus on Social & Cultural Theory - eBook Collection for Libraries

   The ‘cultural turn’ in social theory led to the emergence of a body of work that has had a profound influence across the humanities and social sciences.This collection offers unique insight into social and cultural theory in the early 21st Century.

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   Contemporary British Art: An Introduction

   Never, according to an article by the art critic Louisa Buck in the Evening Standard magazine last year, has the following quotation from US Museum Director Thomas Hoving, seemed more apt: ‘Art is sexy! Art is money-sexy! Art is money-sexy-social-climbing-fantastic!’ This book provides an introduction to British art, in all its money-sexy glory, from the YBA’s to the present. It covers a range of art forms, from painting and sculpture to video and installation art.

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    Book launch in NYC for H. Aram Veeser’s Edward Said

    H. Aram Veeser, author of Edward Said: The Charisma of Criticism will be holding a book launch at 7pm on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at Alwan for the Arts in NYC.  More information about the event can be found on Alwan for the Arts’ website.