Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader (Routledge Student Readers)

Les Back Views: 7

Review 'A balanced and largely successful attempt at mapping the historical origins of 'race' and racism, the changing signification of 'race' during the 20th century, and its current place withi

Reframing 9 / 11: Film, Popular Culture and the "War on Terror"

Jeff Birkenstein Views: 7

Review <div><font face="Times New Roman" size=3>Looking well beyond the most obvious and familiar tales of contemporary terrorism and counter-terrorism to survey a twenty-fi

The Politics of Culture: Around the Work of Naoki Sakai (Routledge/Leiden Series in Modern East Asian Politics and History)

Richard Calichman Views: 12

Naoki Sakai is an important and prominent thinker in Asian and cultural studies and his work continues to make itself felt across a broad range of both national and disciplinary borders. Originally fi

The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics (Cultures of History)

Charles Hirschkind Views: 11

Review A very timely ethnography of Islam in general and Egypt in specific. (Anthropology.net )The relevance of this analytic project to readers both within and outside the academy cannot be unde

A Machine that Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture

Michael Kammen Views: 12

From Library Journal A timely historical survey of American lay thought and attitude toward the Constitution from the 1780s to the present by Pulitzer Prize-winner Kammen ( People of Paradox ). W

National Identity And Global Sports Events: Culture, Politics, And Spectacle in the Olympics And the Football World Cup (Suny Series on Sport, ... on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations)

Alan Tomlinson Views: 19

Explains why cities dig deep in their pockets to host the Olympics and countries breed teams for success on the world soccer stage. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.