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  • Blackface

    de Professor Ayanna Thompson ...
    Series series Object Lessons
    A New Statesman essential non-fiction book of 2021Featured in Book Riot's 12 best nonfiction books about Black identity and historyA Times Higher Education Book of the Week2022 Finalist for the Prose Awards (Media and Cultural Studies category)Why are there so many examples of public figures, entertainers, and normal, everyday people in blackface? And why aren't there... ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • Women Know Everything!

    de Karen Weekes ...
    Wit and wisdom from A to Z—a super-sized collection of inspirational quotes from bad*ss women in history and today, including Oprah Winfrey, Marilyn Monroe, and Toni Morrison.With more than 3,000 quotations on everything from fashion and feminism to men, marriage, friendship, history, technology, sports, and more, this massive compilation proves once and for all that women know everything! Each ... Leer más

    $9.59 USD

  • American Comics

    A History

    de Jeremy Dauber ...
    The sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips, and graphic novels and their hold on the American imagination.Comics have conquered America. From our multiplexes, where Marvel and DC movies reign supreme, to our television screens, where comics-based shows like The Walking Dead have become among the most popular in cable history, to convention halls, best-seller lists, Pulitzer Prize–winning titles, ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Women vs Hollywood

    The Fall and Rise of Women in Film

    de Helen O'Hara ...
    'A fascinating polemic' Sunday Times'A powerful, sobering and vital work' The Mail on Sunday'A page-turning read, peppered with humour' Sight & Sound'A must read' Edgar WrightA call to arms from Empire magazine's 'geek queen', Helen O'Hara, that explores women's roles - both in front of and behind the camera - since t... ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Good Girls & Wicked Witches

    Women in Disney's Feature Animation

    de Amy M. Davis ...
    An in-depth view of the way popular female stereotypes were reflected in—and were shaped by—the portrayal of women in Disney's animated features.In Good Girls and Wicked Witches, Amy M. Davis re-examines the notion that Disney heroines are rewarded for passivity. Davis proceeds from the assumption that, in their representations of femininity, Disney films both reflected and helped shape the ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Star System

    Hollywood's Production of Popular Identities

    de Paul McDonald ...
    Series series Short Cuts
    Looks at the development and changing organization of the star system in the American film industry. Tracing the popularity of star performers from the early "cinema of attractions" to the Internet universe, Paul McDonald explores the ways in which Hollywood has made and sold its stars. Through focusing on particular historical periods, case studies of Mary Pickford, Bette Davis, James Cagney, ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Neverisms

    A Quotation Lover's Guide to Things You Should Never Do, Never Say, or Never Forget

    de Mardy Grothe ...
    From Mardy Grothe, the author of Ifferisms,Oxymoronica,and I Never Met a Metaphor IDidn’t Like, comes a new collection of witty and wise quotations about what never to do in life. Remember, “never let the fear of striking out get in your way” (BabeRuth), "never hit anyone if you can help it, but never hit soft"(Theodore Roosevelt); "never be afraid tosit awhile and think" (Lorraine Hansberry); and ... Leer más

    $9.49 USD

  • Badass Advice

    Love, Life and Being True to Yourself

    de Becca Anderson ...
    Sass, Wise Words, and Advice from Empowering Women"...a book for and about women (no men allowed!). ― Heck of a Bunch BlogBecca Anderson is back with another inspiring book packed with everything you need to know about love, life, and relationships. Enjoy these wise words from powerful women from all over!Wise words from badass and powerful women. Becca Anderson has gathered the wisdom from... ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Black Like You

    Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation in American Popular Culture

    de John Strausbaugh ...
    A refreshingly clearheaded and taboo-breaking look at race relations reveals that American culture is neither Black nor White nor Other, but a mix-a mongrel.Black Like You is an erudite and entertaining exploration of race relations in American popular culture. Particularly compelling is Strausbaugh's eagerness to tackle blackface-a strange, often scandalous, and now taboo entertainment. Although ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Framing Blackness

    The African American Image in Film

    de Ed Guerrero ...
    Series series Culture And The Moving Image
    From D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation to Spike Lee's Malcolm X, Ed Guerrero argues, the commercial film industry reflects white domination of American society. Written with the energy and conviction generated by the new black film wave, Framing Blackness traces an ongoing epic—African Americans protesting screen images of blacks as criminals, servants, comics, athletes, and sidekicks.These ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Was the Cat in the Hat Black?

    The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books

    de Philip Nel ...
    Racism is resilient, duplicitous, and endlessly adaptable, so it is no surprise that America is again in a period of civil rights activism. A significant reason racism endures is because it is structural: it's embedded in culture and in institutions. One of the places that racism hides-and thus perhaps the best place to oppose it-is books for young people. Was the Cat in the Hat Black? presents ... Leer más

    $16.19 USD

  • The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry

    Race, Identity, and the Performance of Popular Verse in America

    de Susan Somers-Willett ...
    Series series Anthropology series
    "For a lucid and thorough 'real-world' analysis of the movement from the ground-up--including its history, aesthetics, and culture, there is surely no better place to start than Somers-Willett's trailblazing book."--- Jerome Sala, Pleiades"Finally, a clear, accurate, and thoroughly researched examination of slam poetry, a movement begun in 1984 by a mixed bag of nobody poets in Chicago. At ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD