Cultural Studies | Cultural Studies
Jul.31.2008
A SEASON WITH THE INFAMOUS FANS OF THE FOOTBALL TEAM EVERYONE LOVES TO HATE
[B]eyond doubt the sleaziest and rudest and most sinister mob of thugs and whackos ever assembled in such numbers under a single "roof," so to speak, anywhere in the English-speaking world.-HUNTER S. THOMPSON ON...
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Jul.17.2008
Why are the Elgin Marbles in London, and not on the Acropolis? Why do there seem to be as many mummies in France as there are in Egypt? Why are so many Etruscan masterworks in America? For the past two centuries, the West has been plundering the treasures of the ancient world to fill its great...
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Jul.08.2008
In this spellbinding lecture, delivered at Mt. Holyoke College in October 2007, Tim Wise, author of White Like Me: Reflections on Race From a Privileged Son offers a unique, inside-out view of race and racism in America. Expertly overcoming the defensiveness that often surrounds these issues, Wise...
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Jun.17.2008
Jane P. Perry writes that the playground is where children go to make sense of their world. The outdoors, with its flexibility in space and noise, where imagination is complemented by nature, children explore early peer-culture themes of life and death, danger and safety, and power and control....
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Jun.15.2008
Personality Not Included is a fun new book about the secret to making your organization more authentic, whether you are the boss, an employee, a small business or an entrepreneur. It has over 100 examples in a readable style, a useful how-to section, and 78% more chickens than your average...
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Jun.13.2008
This study argues that modern anti-Semitism is a by-product of tensions between received Classical conceptions of masculinity and Christianity's strident critique of that ideal. Utilizing works by Shakespeare, Milton, Marlowe and others, Biberman illustrates how anti-Semitism develops as a way to...
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Jun.07.2008
One of the distinguishing characteristics of the Long War, as the Global War on Terrorism is now known, is the cultural environment in which it is being fought. In truth, however, the US Army has routinely operated in unfamiliar cultural environments throughout its long history. The conditions in...
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Jun.06.2008
Fact: one-third of all the immigrants to America returned to their country of origin. Although many of them came intending to go home once they had earned seed money to establish themselves in their own countries, some, owing to illness--trachoma or tuberculosis, for example--never got past Ellis...
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May.30.2008
Ms. Abinader has written a slice of history that teaches all ofus how a family's desperate fights for survival wins out over thehorrific clashes of clutures. Her book made me realize that what I thought I knew about the Middle East was simplistic. The complexities of race, religion, and geography...
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May.04.2008
A subllmely funny, intellectually provocative journey through the tattoos on Peter Trachtenberg's body, each of which represents a theme or episode in his life. Lust. Faith. Penance. A funerary rite in Borneo, complete with demonic possession. A dope-sick interlude in a junkies' church. A...
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