UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: Similar Items


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Women without class: girls, race, and identity Author: Bettie, Julie 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Women's Studies \| Sociology \| Chicano Studies \| American Studies \| Popular Culture \| Education \| Anthropology \| Social Problems \| Immigration Publisher's Description: In this examination of white and Mexican-American girls coming of age in California's Central Valley, Julie Bettie turns class theory on its head and offers new tools for understanding the ways in which class identity is constructed and, at times, fails to be constructed in relationship to color, et . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Mass mediations: new approaches to popular culture in the Middle East and beyond Author: Armbrust, Walter Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies \| Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Media Studies \| Music \| Cinema and Performance Arts Publisher's Description: Offering a stimulating diversity of perspectives, this collection examines how popular culture through mass media defines the scale and character of social interaction in the Middle East. The contributors approach popular culture broadly, with an interest in how it creates new scales of communicatio . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	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
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Mexican ballads, Chicano poems: history and influence in Mexican-American social poetry Author: Limón, José Eduardo Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| American Literature \| American Studies \| Latin American History \| Folklore and Mythology Publisher's Description: Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems combines literary theory with the personal engagement of a prominent Chicano scholar. Recalling his experiences as a student in Texas, José Limón examines the politically motivated Chicano poetry of the 60s and 70s. He bases his analyses on Harold Bloom's theories of l . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Rebirth: Mexican Los Angeles from the great migration to the Great Depression Author: Monroy, Douglas Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History \| Latino Studies \| United States History \| California and the West Publisher's Description: This sweeping, vibrant narrative chronicles the history of the Mexican community in Los Angeles. Douglas Monroy unravels the dramatic, complex story of Mexican immigration to Los Angeles during the early decades of the twentieth century and shows how Mexican immigrants re-created their lives and the . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Popular music and national culture in Israel Author: Regev, Motti Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Music \| Ethnomusicology \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Popular Culture \| Jewish Studies Publisher's Description: A unique Israeli national culture - indeed, the very nature of "Israeliness" - remains a matter of debate, a struggle to blend vying memories and backgrounds, ideologies and wills. Identifying popular music as an important site in this wider cultural endeavor, this book focuses on the three major po . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Migrant daughter: coming of age as a Mexican American woman Author: Tywoniak, Frances Esquibel 1931- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Ethnic Studies \| Women's Studies \| Chicano Studies \| California and the West \| Californian and Western History \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Taking us from the open spaces of rural New Mexico and the fields of California's Great Central Valley to the intellectual milieu of student life in Berkeley during the 1950s, this memoir, based on an oral history by Mario T. García, is the powerful and moving testimonio of a young Mexican American . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: China's new voices: popular music, ethnicity, gender, and politics, 1978-1997 Author: Baranovitch, Nimrod 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Music \| China \| Popular Music \| Ethnomusicology \| Politics \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: This is the most comprehensive study to date of the rich popular music scene in contemporary China. Focusing on the city of Beijing and drawing upon extensive fieldwork, China's New Voices shows that during the 1980s and 1990s, rock and pop music, combined with new technologies and the new market ec . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Pulp surrealism: insolent popular culture in early twentieth-century Paris Author: Walz, Robin 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History \| French Studies \| Comparative Literature Publisher's Description: In addition to its more well known literary and artistic origins, the French surrealist movement drew inspiration from currents of psychological anxiety and rebellion running through a shadowy side of mass culture, specifically in fantastic popular fiction and sensationalistic journalism. The provoc . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: No there there: race, class, and political community in Oakland Author: Rhomberg, Chris 1959- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Sociology \| Anthropology \| American Studies \| Labor Studies \| Politics \| Ethnic Studies \| Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Challenged by Ku Klux Klan action in the '20s, labor protests culminating in a general strike in the '40s, and the rise of the civil rights and black power struggles of the '60s, Oakland, California, seems to encapsulate in one city the broad and varied sweep of urban social movements in twentieth-c . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Religion and popular culture in America Author: Forbes, Bruce David Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Religion \| Popular Culture \| United States History Publisher's Description: The connections between American popular culture and religion is the subject of this multifaceted and innovative collection. Ranging from religious themes in cowboy fiction to Madonna's "Like a Prayer," from televangelism to the world of sports, the book's contributors offer fascinating insights int . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Unequal childhoods: class, race, and family life Author: Lareau, Annette Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology \| American Studies \| Ethnic Studies \| Anthropology \| Education Publisher's Description: Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on in-depth observations of black and white middle-class, working-class, and poor families, Unequal Childhoods explores this fact, offering a picture of childhood today. Here are the frenetic families managing their . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Rethinking the American race problem Author: Brooks, Roy L. (Roy Lavon) 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: American Studies \| Law \| Politics \| Ethnic Studies Publisher's Description: If the conservative view of the American race problem is frightening, the traditional liberal view seems impotent. Analyzing the race problem from neither right nor left, Brooks sheds a new and clarifying light on America's longest running social and moral dilemma.This incisive book provides a bold . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Proletarians of the North: a history of Mexican industrial workers in Detroit and the Midwest, 1917-1933 Author: Vargas, Zaragosa Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Latino Studies \| Chicano Studies Publisher's Description: Between the end of World War I and the Great Depression, over 58,000 Mexicans journeyed to the Midwest in search of employment. Many found work in agriculture, but thousands more joined the growing ranks of the industrial proletariat. Throughout the northern Midwest, and especially in Detroit, Mexic . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Popular theater and society in Tsarist Russia Author: Swift, Eugene Anthony Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| European History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| Popular Culture \| European Literature \| European Studies Publisher's Description: This is the most comprehensive study available of the popular theater that developed during the last decades of tsarist Russia. Swift examines the origins and significance of the new "people's theaters" that were created for the lower classes in St. Petersburg and Moscow between 1861 and 1917. His e . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Workers against work: labor in Paris and Barcelona during the popular fronts Author: Seidman, Michael (Michael M.) Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| European History \| Social Science \| French Studies \| Labor Studies Publisher's Description: Why did a revolution occur in Spain and not in France in 1936? This is the key question Michael Seidman explores in his important new study of the relations between industrial capitalists and working-class movements in the early part of this century. In a comparative analysis of Paris during the Pop . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: The velvet glove: paternalism and conflict in gender, class, and race relations Author: Jackman, Mary R Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Sociology \| Social Problems \| American Studies \| Ethnic Studies \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: This landmark study analyzes and compares the ideologies that develop among unequal social groups. Mary Jackman employs a unique national survey to investigate all three of the most prominent relations of inequality in the United States: gender, class, and race. Where other scholars have emphasized . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Border matters: remapping American cultural studies Author: Saldívar, José David Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Ethnic Studies \| Popular Culture \| Literature Publisher's Description: Border Matters locates the study of Chicano culture in a broad social context. José Saldívar examines issues of representation and expression in a diverse, exciting assortment of texts - corridos , novels, poems, short stories, punk and hip-hop music, ethnography, paintings, performance, art, and es . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	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
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Lives together/worlds apart: mothers and daughters in popular culture Author: Walters, Suzanna Danuta Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Popular Culture \| American Studies \| Gender Studies \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In the 1940s film Now, Voyager, Bette Davis plays a daughter struggling against her mother's stifling repression. Nearly fifty years later, in the Hollywood saga Postcards from the Edge , Shirley MacLaine, as a neglectful and bossy mother, inflicts untold psychological pain on her daughter, played b . . . [more] Similar Items