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Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Culture

Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Culture more books like this

by Russell Ferguson (Editor), Cornel West (Editor), Trinh T Minh-Ha (Editor)

This text addresses the question of cultural marginalization - the process through which various groups are excluded from access to and participation in the dominant culture. An anthology that juxtaposes diverse points of view on issues of gender, race, sexual preference, and class, it takes up the fundamental issues raised when attempts are made ...

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Art & Empire: The Politics of Ethnicity in the United States Capitol, 1815-1860

Art & Empire: The Politics of Ethnicity in the United States Capitol, 1815-1860 more books like this

by Vivien Green Fryd

A cultural and political interpretation of the portraits, reliefs, allegories and historical paintings commissioned for the US Capital between 1815 and 1860. It seeks to give the reader an enhanced appreciation for the racial and ethnic implications of these works.

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Honoring Our Ancestors: Stories and Paintings by Fourteen Artists

Honoring Our Ancestors: Stories and Paintings by Fourteen Artists more books like this

by Harriet Rohmer (Editor)

Fourteen artists and picture book illustrators present paintings with descriptions of ancestors or other sources of inspiration that have inspired them.

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Cultural Politics: Class, Gender, Race and the Postmodern World

Cultural Politics: Class, Gender, Race and the Postmodern World more books like this

by Glenn Jordan, Chris Weedon

Glenn Jordan and Chris Weedon look at the role of culture in reproducing and contesting social relations of class, gender and race. They focus on relationships between culture, subjectivity, and power, in what is the first comprehensive introduction to contemporary cultural politics.* Whose culture shall be the official one and whose shall be ...

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Race, Sex, and Gender

Race, Sex, and Gender more books like this

by Edward Lucie-Smith

One of the most significant developments in the art world of the 1980s and 1990s has been the rise to prominence of minority cultures. In this provocative volume, an art historian looks at how the different minority groups came to prominence, and how they revolutionized the kinds of art currently featured in museums and galleries. 115 ...

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Ethno-Techno; Writings on Performance, Activism and Pedagogy

Ethno-Techno; Writings on Performance, Activism and Pedagogy more books like this

by Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Elaine Pena (Editor)

Guillermo Gomez-Pena has spent many years developing his unique style of performance-activism; his theatricalizations of postcolonial theory. In" Ethno-Techno: Writings on Performance, Activism and Pedagogy," he pushes the boundaries still further, exploring what's left for artists to do in a post-9/11 repressive culture of what he calls 'the ...

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Race and American Culture

Race and American Culture more books like this

by Anne Anlin Cheng

In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study Anne Anlin Cheng argues that we have to understand racial grief not only as the result of racism but also as a foundation for racial identity. The Melancholy of Race proposes that racial identification is itself already a melancholic act--a social category that is imaginatively supported through a ...

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Let's Get It On: The Politics of Black Performance

Let's Get It On: The Politics of Black Performance more books like this

by Catherine Ugwu

In recent years, performance art has become the primary medium for challenging the boundaries between art and politics, as artists have uniquely used its strategies to respond to contemporary social crises. Both an overdue history and a state-of-the-art survey, Let's Get It On focuses on the work of Latino, Afro-Caribbean, African-American, Indian ...

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Yunnan School: A Renaissance in Chinese Painting more books like this

by Joan L. Cohen, Zhang Ding

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Disrupted Borders: An Intervention in Definitions of Boundaries

Disrupted Borders: An Intervention in Definitions of Boundaries more books like this

by Sunil Gupta (Editor)

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Saracens, Demons, & Jews: Making Monsters in Medieval Art

Saracens, Demons, & Jews: Making Monsters in Medieval Art more books like this

by Debra Higgs Strickland

During the crusades, Ethiopians, Jews, Muslims, and Mongols were branded enemies of the Christian majority. Illustrated with strikingly imaginative and still disturbing images, this book reveals the outrageously pejorative ways these rejected social groups were represented - often as monsters, demons, or freaks of nature. Such monstrous images of ...

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Book Arts of Isfahan: Diversity and Identity in Seventeenth-Century Persia more books like this

by Alice Taylor

This work exlpores the vibrant and diverse artistic legacy of the capital city of the Safavid Empire in 17th-century Persia.

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Territories of difference more books like this

by Renee Baert (Editor)

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Culture Bandits more books like this

by Del Jones

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Smith: Changing Rep/Minor/E&w more books like this

by Larry E Smith (Editor), John Rieder (Editor)

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Dogs Playing Cards: Powerbrokers of Prejudice in Education, Art, and Culture more books like this

by Dennis Earl Fehr

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Artists of Conscience II: Tomie Arai, Peggy Diggs, Bailey Doogan, John Knecht, Ben Sakoguchi, Jos Sances more books like this

by Alternative Museum

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Artists of Conscience: 16 Years of Social and Political Commentary: Alternative Museum, New York City, November 5, 1991-January 25, 1992 more books like this

by Geno Rodriguez

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Honoring Our Ancestors more books like this

by Harriet Rohmer (Editor)

Two young Maidu Indian brothers sent to live at a government-run Indian residential school in California in the 1930s find a way to escape and return home for the summer.

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