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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Rabelais's carnival: text, context, metatext Author: Kinser, Sam Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| European Literature \| Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: How is it possible, after four centuries, that a major episode in Rabelais's novels remains systematically misread? The episode, which playfully and grotesquely treats the relation of Carnival to Lent, occurs in Rabelais's Fourth Book , his last and most artfully crafted novel. Samuel Kinser argues . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Race and the invisible hand: how white networks exclude black men from blue-collar jobs Author: Royster, Deirdre A. (Deirdre Alexia) 1966- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology \| American Studies \| Anthropology \| Economics and Business \| Urban Studies \| Public Policy \| African American Studies \| Urban Studies \| Public Policy Publisher's Description: From the time of Booker T. Washington to today, and William Julius Wilson, the advice dispensed to young black men has invariably been, "Get a trade." Deirdre Royster has put this folk wisdom to an empirical test - and, in Race and the Invisible Hand, exposes the subtleties and discrepancies of a wo . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Race hygiene and national efficiency: the eugenics of Wilhelm Schallmayer Author: Weiss, Sheila Faith Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Science \| History and Philosophy of Science Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Race music: black cultures from bebop to hip-hop Author: Ramsey, Guthrie P Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Music \| American Music \| American Studies \| Popular Music \| United States History \| Ethnomusicology \| African American Studies Publisher's Description: This powerful book covers the vast and various terrain of African American music, from bebop to hip-hop. Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., begins with an absorbing account of his own musical experiences with family and friends on the South Side of Chicago, evoking Sunday-morning worship services, family gathe . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Race, police, and the making of a political identity: Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department, 1900-1945 Author: Escobar, Edward J 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History \| California and the West \| Latin American History \| Latino Studies \| Social Problems \| Politics \| Californian and Western History \| Urban Studies \| Criminology \| Criminology Publisher's Description: In June 1943, the city of Los Angeles was wrenched apart by the worst rioting it had seen to that point in the twentieth century. Incited by sensational newspaper stories and the growing public hysteria over allegations of widespread Mexican American juvenile crime, scores of American servicemen, jo . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: A radical Jew: Paul and the politics of identity Author: Boyarin, Daniel Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Religion \| Judaism \| Christianity \| Gender Studies \| Literature \| Anthropology Publisher's Description: Daniel Boyarin turns to the Epistles of Paul as the spiritual autobiography of a first-century Jewish cultural critic. What led Paul - in his dramatic conversion to Christianity - to such a radical critique of Jewish culture?Paul's famous formulation, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, no male and fem . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Radicalism and reverence: the political thought of Gerrard Winstanley Author: Shulman, George M Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Politics \| European History Publisher's Description: One of the most undeservedly neglected political theorists of the seventeenth century, Gerrard Winstanley is a fascinating figure who wrote broadly and creatively on issues that appear surprisingly modern to his present-day readers. His theoretical approach to the English revolution knit together su . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Radio active: advertising and consumer activism, 1935-1947 Author: Newman, Kathy M 1966- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: American Studies \| History \| Media Studies \| Women's Studies \| Politics Publisher's Description: Radio Active tells the story of how radio listeners at the American mid-century were active in their listening practices. While cultural historians have seen this period as one of failed reform - focusing on the failure of activists to win significant changes for commercial radio - Kathy M. Newman a . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Radio goes to war: the cultural politics of propaganda during World War II Author: Horten, Gerd 1959- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Media Studies \| American Studies \| Television and Radio Publisher's Description: Radio Goes to War is the first comprehensive and in-depth look at the role of domestic radio in the United States during the Second World War. As this study convincingly demonstrates, radio broadcasting played a crucial role both in government propaganda and within the context of the broader cultura . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Railroad crossing: Californians and the railroad, 1850-1910 Author: Deverell, William Francis Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| California and the West \| United States History \| Californian and Western History Publisher's Description: Nothing so changed nineteenth-century America as did the railroad. Growing up together, the iron horse and the young nation developed a fast friendship. Railroad Crossing is the story of what happened to that friendship, particularly in California, and it illuminates the chaos that was industrial Am . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Rainbow's end: Irish-Americans and the dilemmas of urban machine politics, 1840-1985 Author: Erie, Steven P Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics \| Sociology \| Urban Studies \| Ethnic Studies \| United States History Publisher's Description: Unprecedented in its scope, Rainbow's End provides a bold new analysis of the emergence, growth, and decline of six classic Irish-American political machines in New York, Jersey City, Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh and Albany. Combining the approaches of political economy and historical sociolog . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Random violence: how we talk about new crimes and new victims Author: Best, Joel Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Sociology \| Social Problems \| Law \| Criminology Publisher's Description: Random Violence is a deft and thought-provoking exploration of the ways we talk about - and why we worry about - new crimes and new forms of victimization. Focusing on so-called random crimes such as freeway shootings, gang violence, hate crimes, stalking, and wilding, Joel Best shows how new crime . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Rara!: vodou, power, and performance in Haiti and its diaspora Author: McAlister, Elizabeth A Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Religion \| Cultural Anthropology \| African American Studies \| American Studies \| Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Rara is a vibrant annual street festival in Haiti, when followers of the Afro-Creole religion called Vodou march loudly into public space to take an active role in politics. Working deftly with highly original ethnographic material, Elizabeth McAlister shows how Rara bands harness the power of Vodou . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Reading Columbus Author: Zamora, Margarita Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Literature \| Latin American Studies \| Latin American History \| European Literature Publisher's Description: Christopher Columbus authored over a hundred documents, many of them letters giving testimony on the Discovery to Isabela and Ferdinand. In this first book in English to focus specifically on these writings, Margarita Zamora offers an original analysis of their textual problems and ideological impli . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Reading Sappho: contemporary approaches Author: Greene, Ellen 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Poetry Publisher's Description: Reading Sappho considers Sappho's poetry as a powerful, influential voice in the Western cultural tradition. Essays are divided into four sections: "Language and Literary Context," "Homer and Oral Tradition", "Ritual and Social Context", and "Women's Erotics". Contributors focus on literary history, . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Reading voices: literature and the phonotext Author: Stewart, Garrett Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| English Literature Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: The real environmental crisis: why poverty, not affluence, is the environment's number one enemy Author: Hollander, Jack M Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: EcologyEvolutionEnvironment \| Conservation \| Politics \| Social Science \| Politics Publisher's Description: Drawing a completely new road map toward a sustainable future, Jack M. Hollander contends that our most critical environmental problem is global poverty. His balanced, authoritative, and lucid book challenges widely held beliefs that economic development and affluence pose a major threat to the worl . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Real fantasies: Edward Steichen's advertising photography Author: Johnston, Patricia A 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| History \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: During the 1920s and 1930s, Edward Steichen was the most successful photographer in the advertising industry. Although much has been said about Steichen's fine-art photography, his commercial work - which appeared regularly in Vanity Fair, Vogue, Ladies Home Journal , and almost every other popular . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Real Indians: identity and the survival of Native America Author: Garroutte, Eva Marie 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology \| Native American Studies \| Native American Ethnicity \| History \| American Studies Publisher's Description: At the dawn of the twenty-first century, America finds itself on the brink of a new racial consciousness. The old, unquestioned confidence with which individuals can be classified (as embodied, for instance, in previous U.S. census categories) has been eroded. In its place are shifting paradigms and . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Reason and passion: representations of gender in a Malay society Author: Peletz, Michael G Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: This book provides a historical and ethnographic examination of gender relations in Malay society, in particular in the well-known state of Negeri Sembilan, famous for its unusual mixture of Islam and matrilineal descent. Peletz analyzes the diverse ways in which the evocative, heavily gendered symb . . . [more] Similar Items

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