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Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Presents an examination of how the migration of nurses from the Philippines to the US is inextricably linked to American imperialism and the US colonization of the Philippine Islands in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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From a Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art and Representation in France, 1945-1962 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Focusing on the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) and the historical continuities it presented with the experience of the Second World War, this book highlights decolonization's formative effects on art and related theories of representation, both political and aesthetic.
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Eternal Sovereigns: Indigenous Artists, Activists, and Travelers Reframing Rome (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Gloria Jane Bell explores the relationship between Indigenous cultures around the world and the Vatican, which holds thousands of works by Indigenous scholars and refuses to return them.
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Tropical Zion: General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosua (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A history of Sosua, a Dominican Republic settlement founded as a refuge for Jews fleeing Nazi Europe, and an analysis of the geopolitics underlying the settlement s formation.
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Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Presents a cultural history of the African American women who performed in variety shows - chorus lines, burlesque revues, cabaret... Læs mere
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Biopolitics: A Reader (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A compilation of the primary texts-by Foucault, Arendt, Agamben, Badiou, and other theorists-that laid the ground for contemporary thinking about biopolitics, or the relations between life and politics.
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A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism: Machado De Assis (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A translation (from the original Portuguese) of the author's study of Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis (1839-1908). It focuses on Machado's... Læs mere
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Cold War Femme: Lesbianism, National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Interpretations of Hollywood films of the 1950s and 1960s demonstrate how Cold War homophobia focused on the femme as the lesbian who posed the greatest threat to the nation.
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Canadian Cultural Studies: A Reader (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
An anthology that brings work by contemporary Canadian cultural analysts together with that of an earlier generation, including Harold Cardinal, Northrup Frye, Harold Innis, and Marshall McLuhan.
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Confronting Mass Democracy and Industrial Technology: Political and Social Theory from Nietzsche to Habermas (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This is an analysis of how Heidegger, Brecht, Habermas, Adorno, and other German thinkers came to terms with the proliferation of technologies - technologies of bureaucratic democracy, of surveillance and military conquest, and those that affect the human psyche and soul.
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Open Admissions: The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Danica Savonick traces the largely untold story of the teaching experience of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich at the City University of New York (CUNY) in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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Reproducing the French Race: Immigration, Intimacy, and Embodiment in the Early Twentieth Century (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Argues that immigration was a defining feature of early-twentieth-century France. This book examines the political, cultural, and social issues implicated in public debates about immigration and national identity at the time.
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