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| 1. |  | Title: Domestic individualism: imagining self in nineteenth-century America Author: Brown, Gillian Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | American Literature | Gender Studies | United States History | American Studies Publisher's Description: Gillian Brown's book probes the key relationship between domestic ideology and formulations of the self in nineteenth-century America. Arguing that domesticity institutes gender, class, and racial distinctions that govern masculine as well as feminine identity, Brown brilliantly alters, for literary . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: The white scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and poor whites in Texas cotton culture Author: Foley, Neil Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Ethnic Studies | American Studies Publisher's Description: In a book that fundamentally challenges our understanding of race in the United States, Neil Foley unravels the complex history of ethnicity in the cotton culture of central Texas. This engrossing narrative, spanning the period from the Civil War through the collapse of tenant farming in the early 1 . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Colored White: transcending the racial past Author: Roediger, David R Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | African American Studies | United States History | Immigration Publisher's Description: David R. Roediger's powerful book argues that in its political workings, its distribution of advantages, and its unspoken assumptions, the United States is a "still white" nation. Race is decidedly not over. The critical portraits of contemporary icons that lead off the book--Rush Limbaugh, Bill Cli . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Natural history of the White-Inyo Range, eastern California  Author: Hall, Clarence A Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Ecology | Earth Sciences | California and the West | Natural History Publisher's Description: The White-Inyo Range - rising sharply from the eastern edge of Owens Valley - is one of the most extraordinary landscapes in the world. High, dry, and amazingly diverse, it boasts an expansive alpine tundra and features the oldest living species on earth - the 4,000-year-old Bristlecone Pines. This . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Envisioning power: ideologies of dominance and crisis Author: Wolf, Eric R 1923- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | Social Theory | Social and Political Thought | Political Theory | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: With the originality and energy that have marked his earlier works, Eric Wolf now explores the historical relationship of ideas, power, and culture. Responding to anthropology's long reliance on a concept of culture that takes little account of power, Wolf argues that power is crucial in shaping the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Fathering the nation: American genealogies of slavery and freedom Author: Castronovo, Russ 1965- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature | American Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | American Studies | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Russ Castronovo underscores the inherent contradictions between America's founding principles of freedom and the reality of slavery in a book that probes mid-nineteenth-century representations of the founding fathers. He finds that rather than being coherent and consensual, narratives of nationhood . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Dilemmas of enlightenment: studies in the rhetoric and logic of ideology Author: Kenshur, Oscar 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | Literary Theory and Criticism | European History Publisher's Description: Oscar Kenshur combines trenchant analyses of important early-modern texts with a powerful critique of postmodern theories of ideology. He thereby contributes both to our understanding of Enlightenment thought and to contemporary debates about cultural studies and critical theory.While striving to re . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: The frontiers of Catholicism: the politics of ideology in a liberal world Author: Burns, Gene 1958- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Sociology | Religion | Social Theory | Gender Studies | Christianity | Politics Publisher's Description: Gene Burns examines the origins of contemporary diversity and conflict in the Catholic Church, illuminating as well the processes of ideological change. Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Inside organized racism: women in the hate movement Author: Blee, Kathleen M Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Sociology | Gender Studies | Social Problems | Public Policy | Christianity Publisher's Description: Kathleen M. Blee's disturbing and provocative look at the hidden world of organized racism focuses on women, the newest recruiting targets of racist groups and crucial to their campaign for racial supremacy. Through personal interviews with women active in the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazi groups, Christia . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | 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 |
| 11. |  | Title: Exits from the labyrinth: culture and ideology in the Mexican national space Author: Lomnitz Adler, Claudio Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American History Publisher's Description: Can we address the issue of nationalism without polemics and restore it to the domain of social science? Claudio Lomnitz-Adler takes a major step in that direction by applying anthropological tools to the study of national culture. His sweeping and innovative interpretation of Mexican national ideol . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Female subjects in black and white: race, psychoanalysis, feminism Author: Abel, Elizabeth Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | African American Studies | Gender Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | American Literature | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies Publisher's Description: This landmark collaboration between African American and white feminists goes to the heart of problems that have troubled feminist thinking for decades. Putting the racial dynamics of feminist interpretation center stage, these essays question such issues as the primacy of sexual difference, the uni . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Deeply into the bone: re-inventing rites of passage Author: Grimes, Ronald L 1943- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Religion | Anthropology | Social Science Publisher's Description: Over the past two decades, North Americans have become increasingly interested in understanding and reclaiming the rites that mark significant life passages. In the absence of meaningful rites of passage, we speed through the dangerous intersections of life and often come to regret missing an opport . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Imperial ideology and provincial loyalty in the Roman Empire Author: Ando, Clifford 1969- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Ancient History | Social Theory Publisher's Description: The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Moreover, the empire created this culture with a bureaucracy smalle . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: A translucent mirror: history and identity in Qing imperial ideology Author: Crossley, Pamela Kyle Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | China | Asian History Publisher's Description: In this landmark exploration of the origins of nationalism and cultural identity in China, Pamela Kyle Crossley traces the ways in which a large, early modern empire of Eurasia, the Qing (1636-1912), incorporated neighboring, but disparate, political traditions into a new style of emperorship. Drawi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Honky Author: Conley, Dalton 1969- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Sociology | Urban Studies | American Studies | Autobiography Publisher's Description: This intensely personal and engaging memoir is the coming-of-age story of a white boy growing up in a neighborhood of predominantly African American and Latino housing projects on New York's Lower East Side. Vividly evoking the details of city life from a child's point of view - the streets, buses, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: National ideology under socialism: identity and cultural politics in Ceauşescu's Romania Author: Verdery, Katherine Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Politics | Cultural Anthropology | European History | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: The current transformation of many Eastern European societies is impossible to understand without comprehending the intellectual struggles surrounding nationalism in the region. Anthropologist Katherine Verdery shows how the example of Romania suggests that current ethnic tensions come not from a re . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Residues of justice: literature, law, philosophy Author: Dimock, Wai-chee 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | American Studies | Law | Philosophy Publisher's Description: In this arresting book, Wai Chee Dimock takes on the philosophical tradition from Kant to Rawls, challenging its conception of justice as foundational, self-evident, and all-encompassing. The idea of justice is based on the premise that the world can be resolved into commensurate terms: punishment e . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Blackface, white noise: Jewish immigrants in the Hollywood melting pot Author: Rogin, Michael 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: American Studies | Film | United States History | Jewish Studies | Popular Culture Publisher's Description: The tangled connections that have bound Jews to African Americans in popular culture and liberal politics are at the heart of Michael Rogin's arresting and unnerving book. Looking at films from Birth of a Nation to Forrest Gump , Rogin explores blackface in Hollywood films as an aperture to broader . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Beriberi, white rice, and vitamin B: a disease, a cause, and a cure Author: Carpenter, Kenneth J. (Kenneth John) 1923- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Science | Medicine Publisher's Description: In this comprehensive account of the history and treatment of beriberi, Kenneth Carpenter traces the decades of medical and chemical research that solved the puzzle posed by this mysterious disease. Caused by the lack of a minute quantity of the chemical thiamin, or vitamin B1 in the diet, beriberi . . . [more] Similar Items |