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Turkish Culture in German Society (Paperback, New): David Horrocks, Eva Kolinsky Turkish Culture in German Society (Paperback, New)
David Horrocks, Eva Kolinsky
R729 Discovery Miles 7 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

..". a ground-breaking and well-researched study, a lucid documentation of the impact of Turkish migration to Germany, bringing together materials from a range of disciplines, including history, sociology, religious studies, and literature. The array of knowledge assembled in this volume is made accessible for the first time to an English speaking audience ... provides detailed background and varied accounts of historical and socio-political changes in a rapidly changing German society struggling with it its self-perception and frictions arising from the coexistence of Turks and Germans ... provides a well-founded academic analysis of data, trends, and traditions, yet still leaves room for the personal experiences and perspectives of Turks establishing their own identity and political voice in German society ... a great source for graduate German course investigating migrant culture and literature in contemporary German society." German Studies Review

..". offers and should be commended for an informative review of migrant literature in Germany, substantive statistics on the condition of migration to Germany, and a suggestive exchange with a migrant author in person-a rarity in the literature." H-Net Reviews (H-SAE)

..". an instructive introduction into the history of Turkish migration." Journal of Area Studies

For many decades Germany has had a sizeable Turkish minority that lives in an uneasy co-existence with the Germans around them and as such has attracted considerable interest abroad where it tends to be seen as a measure of German tolerance. However, little is known about the actual situation of the Turks. This volume provides valuable information, presented in a most original manner in that it combines literary and cultural studies with social and political analysis. It focuses on the Turkish-born writer Emine Sevgi Ozdamar, who writes in German and whose work, especially her highly acclaimed novel Das ist eine Karawanserei, is examined critically and situated in the context of German "migrant literature."

David Horrocks is Lecturer in German at the University of Keele, concentrating on twentieth-century German literature with special emphasis on the reflection in literary works of social issues and historical problems.

Eva Kolinsky is Professor of Modern German Studies at the University of Keele with a special interest in contemporary German society and politics.

Human Cultures through the Scientific Lens - Essays in Evolutionary Cognitive Anthropology (Hardcover, Hardback ed.): Pascal... Human Cultures through the Scientific Lens - Essays in Evolutionary Cognitive Anthropology (Hardcover, Hardback ed.)
Pascal Boyer
R1,318 Discovery Miles 13 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Children and Media Outside the Home - Playing and Learning in After-School Care (Hardcover): K Vered Children and Media Outside the Home - Playing and Learning in After-School Care (Hardcover)
K Vered
R1,397 Discovery Miles 13 970 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Karen Orr Vered demonstrates how children's media play contributes to their acquisition of media literacy. Theorizing after-school care as intermediary space, a large-scale ethnographic study informs this theory-rich and practical discussion of children's media use beyond home and classroom.

Naked Racial Preference - The Case Against Affirmative Action (Hardcover, New): Carl Cohen Naked Racial Preference - The Case Against Affirmative Action (Hardcover, New)
Carl Cohen
R590 R481 Discovery Miles 4 810 Save R109 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From landmark court cases on affirmative action to their consequences, a study on why such preferences are morally wrong, unlawful, and indefensible.

Social Stratification and Socioeconomic Inequality - Volume 2: Reproductive and Interpersonal Aspects of Dominance and Status... Social Stratification and Socioeconomic Inequality - Volume 2: Reproductive and Interpersonal Aspects of Dominance and Status (Hardcover)
Lee Ellis
R2,573 Discovery Miles 25 730 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This is the second volume of a two volume work on biosocial approaches to social stratification and human inequality. The volume considers linkages between gender and stratification; between neurohormonal variables and status; and between health, reproduction, and social status. The contributors explore topics that environmentalists shun, and discuss how the effect of biological variables on social stratification may have evolutionary consequences.

Immigration, Ethnicity and Racism in Britain 1815-1945 - 1815-1945 (Paperback): Panikos Panayi Immigration, Ethnicity and Racism in Britain 1815-1945 - 1815-1945 (Paperback)
Panikos Panayi
R622 Discovery Miles 6 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This textbook provides a wide-ranging and accessible examination of the issues of immigration, ethnicity and racism in Britain during the years 1815 to 1945. The study, from the Irish immigration of the mid-19th century to the eve of post-war influxes, examines the key period in British immigration history.

Perspectives on Korean Music - Volume 2: Creating Korean Music: Tradition, Innovation and the Discourse of Identity (Hardcover,... Perspectives on Korean Music - Volume 2: Creating Korean Music: Tradition, Innovation and the Discourse of Identity (Hardcover, New Ed)
Keith Howard
R4,221 Discovery Miles 42 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With the rise of nationalism in the Republic of Korea, music has come to play a central role in the discourse of identity. This volume asks what Koreans consider makes music Korean, and how meaning is ascribed to musical creation. Keith Howard explores specific aspects of creativity that are designed to appeal to a new audience that is increasingly westernized yet proud of its indigenous heritage - updates of tradition, compositions, and collaborative fusions. He charts the development of the Korean music scene over the last 25 years and interprets the debates, claims and statistics by incorporating the voices of musicians, composers, scholars and critics. Koreanness is a brand identity with a discourse founded on heritage, hence Howard focuses on music that is claimed to link to tradition, and on music compositions where indigenous identity is consciously incorporated. The volume opens with SamulNori, a percussion quartet known throughout the world that was formed in 1978 but is rooted in local and itinerant bands stretching back many centuries. Parallel developments in vocal genres, folksongs and p'ansori ('epic storytelling through song') are considered, then three chapters explore compositions written both for western instruments and for Korean instruments, and designed both for Korean and international audiences. Over time, Howard shows how the two musical worlds - kugak, traditional music, and yangak, western music - have collided, and how fusions have emerged. This volume documents how identity has been negotiated by musicians, composers and audiences. Until recently, references to tradition were common and, by critics and musicologists, required. Western music increasingly encroached on the market for Korean music and doubts were raised about the future of any music identifiably Korean. Today, Korean musical production exudes a resurgent confidence as it amalgamates Korean and western elements, as it arranges and incorporates the old in the new, and as it creates a music suitable for the contemporary world.

Everybody - A Book About Freedom (Hardcover): Olivia Laing Everybody - A Book About Freedom (Hardcover)
Olivia Laing
R710 Discovery Miles 7 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. At a moment in which basic rights are once again imperilled, Olivia Laing conducts an ambitious investigation into the body and its discontents, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to chart a daring course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, from gay rights and sexual liberation to feminism and the civil rights movement.

Drawing on her own experiences in protest and alternative medicine, and travelling from Weimar Berlin to the prisons of McCarthy-era America, she grapples with some of the most significant and complicated figures of the past century, among them Nina Simone, Christopher Isherwood, Andrea Dworkin, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag and Malcolm X.

Despite its many burdens, the body remains a source of power, even in an era as technologized and automated as our own. Everybody is an examination of the forces arranged against freedom and a celebration of how ordinary human bodies can resist oppression and reshape the world.

An Ethnography of Stress - The Social Determinants of Health in Aboriginal Australia (Hardcover): V. Burbank An Ethnography of Stress - The Social Determinants of Health in Aboriginal Australia (Hardcover)
V. Burbank
R2,648 Discovery Miles 26 480 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Health inequality is a global issue. This book examines the problem through an in-depth look at a remote Australian Aboriginal community characterized by a degree of premature morbidity and mortality similar to that in other disadvantaged populations. Its synthesis of cognitive anthropology with frameworks drawn from epidemiology, evolutionary theory, and social, psychological and biological sciences illuminates the actions, emotions, and stresses of daily life. While this analysis implicates structures and processes of inequality in the genesis of ill health, its focus remains on the people who suffer, grieve, and live with the dilemmas of an intercultural life.

Western Civilization in Southern Africa - Studies in Culture Contact (Hardcover): Isaac Schapera Western Civilization in Southern Africa - Studies in Culture Contact (Hardcover)
Isaac Schapera
R5,503 Discovery Miles 55 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The book is structured as follows: * An introduction of old Bantu culture * An account of modern Bantu life * Discussion of the influence exerted by Christianity and Education upon communal life of the Bantu * Examination of special aspects of Bantu culture as they have been modified by Western civilization: language and music * The economic, political and legal positions of the native tribes in South Africa are also covered. First published in 1934.

To Be An American - Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric of Assimilation (Hardcover): Bill Ong Hing To Be An American - Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric of Assimilation (Hardcover)
Bill Ong Hing
R2,859 Discovery Miles 28 590 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The impetus behind California's Proposition 187 clearly reflects the growing anti-immigrant sentiment in this country. Many Americans regard today's new immigrants as not truly American, as somehow less committed to the ideals on which the country was founded. In clear, precise terms, Bill Ong Hing considers immigration in the context of the global economy, a sluggish national economy, and the hard facts about downsizing. Importantly, he also confronts the emphatic claims of immigrant supporters that immigrants do assimilate, take jobs that native workers don't want, and contribute more to the tax coffers than they take out of the system.

A major contribution of Hing's book is its emphasis on such often-overlooked issues as the competition between immigrants and African Americans, inter-group tension, and ethnic separatism, issues constantly brushed aside both by immigrant rights groups and the anti-immigrant right. Drawing on Hing's work as a lawyer deeply involved in the day-to-day life of his immigrant clients, To Be An American is a unique blend of substantive analysis, policy, and personal experience.

Habitat, Economy and Society - A Geographical Introduction to Ethnology (Hardcover, illustrated edition): C. Daryll Forde Habitat, Economy and Society - A Geographical Introduction to Ethnology (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
C. Daryll Forde
R7,218 Discovery Miles 72 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An introduction to the ethnography and human geography of non-European peoples, this book deals with the economic and social life of a number of groups at diverse levels of cultural achievement and in different regions of the world. International in its scope the book covers: Malaysia, Africa, North America, Canada, Siberia, the Amazon, Eastern Solomon Islands, India, Central Asia and the Middle East. Originally published in 1934. This re-issues the seventh edition of 1949.

Neighbours and Nationals in an African City Ward (Hardcover, Revised edition): David Parkin Neighbours and Nationals in an African City Ward (Hardcover, Revised edition)
David Parkin
R1,679 Discovery Miles 16 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This study analyses the way in which tribal ties are maintained in the development of a tribally mixed, middle class community in Kampala, Uganda. Political independence in the early nineteen sixties in much of Africa created expectations of increased development, education and living standards. There was hope that ethnic tensions arising from false colonial boundaries might be transcended by newly emerging socio-economic status-groups. However, the new national boundaries suddenly made aliens of peoples who had migrated and settled in towns distant from their home countries. The interplay of nationality, ethnicity and socio-economic status or class was given a new theatre. Hope was dramatically tempered by nationalist and ethnic conflicts which cut across ethnically mixed, small status groups of neighbours and friends. In Kampala, Uganda, this rapidly unfolding drama resulted in the expulsion of two Kenyan ethnic groups and polarised peoples from northern and southern Uganda. The essentialisation of ethnic and national identity imposed by colonialism was thus taken on in this new situation by the people themselves, with the result that they became 'cultural' starting-points of social and political judgement. Originally published in 1969.

Death and the right hand (Hardcover): Robert Hertz Death and the right hand (Hardcover)
Robert Hertz; Translated by Rodney Needham, Claudia Needham
R9,289 Discovery Miles 92 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

First published in English 1960. The historical value of Hertz's writings is that they are a representative example of the culmination of two centuries of development of sociological thought in France, from Montesquieu to Durkheim and his pupils. In the intervening years since publication, that development has grown into the systematic comparative study of primitive institutions, based on a great body of ethnographic facts from all over the world: in effect social anthropology.

The Maasai of Matapato - A Study of Rituals of Rebellion (Paperback, 2nd edition): Paul Spencer The Maasai of Matapato - A Study of Rituals of Rebellion (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Paul Spencer
R1,506 Discovery Miles 15 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When first published in 1988, this classic study was the first to relate the dynamics of the Maasai age organisation to the tensions within the family. Together, these provide the twin strands of a man's career and, opposed ritually, reflecting a fundamental ambivalence in Maasai thought. The analysis is illustrated with extensive case material from the the Matapato, selected for this study as a typical Maasai group.

Pregnant Bodies, Fertile Minds - Gender, Race and the Schooling of Pregnant Teens (Paperback): Wendy Luttrell Pregnant Bodies, Fertile Minds - Gender, Race and the Schooling of Pregnant Teens (Paperback)
Wendy Luttrell
R1,467 Discovery Miles 14 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days


They must make mature decisions before they are out of school, take on adult responsibilities before they have left home, and care for their children before they have completed their own childhood. One of today's greatest social issues, pregnant teens walk the boundary between childhood and adulthood, no longer able to reside in one world, and unprepared for the next. While society traditionally is quick to condemn, Wendy Luttrell counters the stigmatising ways in which such girls have been traditionally held with this moving ethnography of their lives. Focusing on fifty girls enrolled in a model public school program for pregnant teens in the US, Luttrell explores how pregnant girls experience society's view of them and also considers how these girls view themselves and the choices they've made. She pays particular attention to how schools react to pregnant teens and what they are doing to help these vulnerable young women to achieve their education. Readers learn the real problems that pregnant teens are dealing with, and how society's racial and class stereotypes continue to stigmatise and scapegoat them. These individual stories are accompanied by personal self-portraits that present a carefully detailed and powerfully moving picture of the issues these girls face everyday.

Ethics of Capitalism and Critique of Sociobiology - Two Essays with a Comment by James M. Buchanan (Hardcover, 1996 ed.): Peter... Ethics of Capitalism and Critique of Sociobiology - Two Essays with a Comment by James M. Buchanan (Hardcover, 1996 ed.)
Peter Koslowski
R2,730 Discovery Miles 27 300 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book publishes the English translation of texts that appeared first in Gennan in two separate booklets. Part One, The Ethics of Capitalism includ- ing the comment by JAMES M. BUCHANAN, has been published in Gennan under the title Ethik des Kapitalismus, Ttibingen (J.C.B. Mohr [paul Sie- beck)) 1982, 5th edition 1995, in the series "Walter Eucken Institut, Vort:rt1ge und Aufsatze", vol. 87. Part Two, Evolution and Society. A Critique of So- ciobiology, appeared first in German under the title Evolution und Gesell- schaft. Eine Auseinandersetzung mit der Soziobiologie, Ttibingen (J.e.B. Mohr [Paul Siebeck)) 1984, 2nd edition 1989, in the same series, vol. 98. Part One of the book has been translated by the author, Part Two by DAVID AMBUEL. I should like to thank Liberty Fund Inc., Indianapolis, USA, for its sup- port of the translation of Part Two, Georg Siebeck of J.C.B. Mohr (paul Siebeck) Publishers, Ttibingen, for the pennission to publish the English translation of the two essays and to my co-workers at the Forschungsinstitut ftir Philosophie Hannover -The Hannover Institute of Philosophical Re- search, Hannover, Germany, for their support in editing this volume.

Dance Hall Days - Intimacy and Leisure Among Working-Class Immigrants in the United States (Hardcover): Randy Mcbee Dance Hall Days - Intimacy and Leisure Among Working-Class Immigrants in the United States (Hardcover)
Randy Mcbee
R2,875 Discovery Miles 28 750 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

"Randy D. McBee's monograph opens up a new space for thinking about immigrant life, ethnicity, and youth in the context of social history."--"The Journal of American History"

"This is a very important book that draws together astute analyses of youth, gender, morals, amusements and ethnic history. After you read it, you will never look into faces on the old dance photos in the same way."
--"American Historical Review

"This book adds important new insights to a growing literature that explores day-to-day immigrant life through the lens of popular amusments."
--"Journal of American Ethnic History"

The rise of commercialized leisure coincided with the arrival of millions of immigrants to America's cities. Conflict was inevitable as older generations attempted to preserve their traditions, values, and ethnic identities, while the young sought out the cheap amusements and sexual freedom which the urban landscape offered. At immigrant picnics, social clubs, and urban dance halls, Randy McBee discovers distinct and highly contested gender lines, proving that the battle between the ages was also one between the sexes.

Free from their parents and their strict rules governing sexual conduct, working women took advantage of their time in dance halls to challenge conventional gender norms. They routinely passed certain men over for dances, refused escorts home, and embraced the sensual and physical side of dance to further accentuate their superior skills and ability on the dance floor. Most men felt threatened by women's displays of empowerment and took steps to thwart the changes taking place. Accustomed to street corners, poolrooms, saloons, and other all-maleget-togethers, working men tried to transform the dance hall into something that resembled these familiar hangouts.

McBee also finds that men frequently abandoned the commercial dance hall for their own clubs, set up in the basements of tenement flats. In these hangouts, working men established rules governing intimacy and leisure that allowed them to regulate the behavior of the women who attended club events. The collective manner in which they behaved not only affected the organization of commercial leisure but also men and women's struggles with and against one another to define the meaning of leisure, sexuality, intimacy, and even masculinity.

Italian American - The Racializing of an Ethnic Identity (Hardcover): David A. J Richards Italian American - The Racializing of an Ethnic Identity (Hardcover)
David A. J Richards
R2,870 Discovery Miles 28 700 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

When southern Italians began emigrating to the U.S. in large numbers in the 1870s-part of the "new immigration" from southern and eastern rather than northern Europe-they were seen as racially inferior, what David A. J. Richards terms "nonvisibly" black.

The first study of its kind, Italian American explores the acculturation process of Italian immigrants in terms of then-current patterns of European and American racism. Delving into the political and legal context of flawed liberal nationalism both in Italy (the Risorgimento) and the United States (Reconstruction Amendments), Richards examines why Italian Americans were so reluctant to influence depictions of themselves and their own collective identity. He argues that American racism could not have had the durability or political power it has had either in the popular understanding or in the corruption of constitutional ideals unless many new immigrants, themselves often regarded as racially inferior, had been drawn into accepting and supporting many of the terms of American racism.

With its unprecedented focus on Italian American identity and an interdisciplinary approach to comparative culture and law, this timely study sheds important light on the history and contemporary importance of identity and multicultural politics in American political and constitutional debate.

Markets and Market Liberalization - Ethnographic Reflections (Hardcover): C. Werner, Norbert Dannhaeuser Markets and Market Liberalization - Ethnographic Reflections (Hardcover)
C. Werner, Norbert Dannhaeuser
R3,832 Discovery Miles 38 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The general theme of Volume 24 is the impact of, and reaction to, the spread of market systems and market liberalization by local communities. Part I examines cases in which migration has opened new market and entrepreneurial opportunities to local populations. Part II contains cases that describe ethnographically the impacts the oil industry market has had on towns of Louisiana's Gulf coast. The essays of Part III concern themselves with community repercussions that recent neoliberal market policies have had, while Part IV contains papers that analyse the process in which values of products and services are defined economically, culturally and politically in the context of developing markets and commoditization. This book focuses on market systems and market liberalization in local communities. Specific topics addressed include the oil industry and the gulf coast, negotiating values in the market, and many more. The international case examples provide a global perspective.

Race and IQ (Hardcover, Expanded Edition): M. F. Ashley Montagu Race and IQ (Hardcover, Expanded Edition)
M. F. Ashley Montagu
R1,873 Discovery Miles 18 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ashley Montagu, who first attacked the term "race" as a usable concept in his acclaimed work, Man's Most Dangerous Myth, offers here a devastating rebuttal to those who would claim any link between race and intelligence.
In now classic essays, this thought-provoking volume critically examines the terms "race" and "IQ" and their applications in scientific discourse. The twenty-four contributors--including such eminent thinkers as Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Lewontin, Urie Bronfenbrenner, W.F. Bodmer, and Jerome Kagan--draw on fields that range from biology and genetics to psychology, anthropology, and education. What emerges in piece after piece is a deep skepticism about the scientific validity of intelligence tests, especially as applied to evaluating innate intelligence, if only because scientists still cannot distinguish between genetic and environmental contributions to the development of the human mind. Five new essays have been included that specifically address the claims made in the recent, highly controversial book, The Bell Curve.
Must reading for anyone interested in racism and education in America, Race and IQ is a brilliantly lucid exploration of the boundary line between race and intelligence.

Managing Cyber Threats - Issues, Approaches, and Challenges (Hardcover, 2005 ed.): Vipin Kumar, Jaideep Srivastava, Aleksandar... Managing Cyber Threats - Issues, Approaches, and Challenges (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
Vipin Kumar, Jaideep Srivastava, Aleksandar Lazarevic
R4,197 Discovery Miles 41 970 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Modern society depends critically on computers that control and manage the systems on which we depend in many aspects of our daily lives. While this provides conveniences of a level unimaginable just a few years ago, it also leaves us vulnerable to attacks on the computers managing these systems. In recent times the explosion in cyber attacks, including viruses, worms, and intrusions, has turned this vulnerability into a clear and visible threat. Due to the escalating number and increased sophistication of cyber attacks, it has become important to develop a broad range of techniques, which can ensure that the information infrastructure continues to operate smoothly, even in the presence of dire and continuous threats.

This book brings together the latest techniques for managing cyber threats, developed by some of the world s leading experts in the area. The book includes broad surveys on a number of topics, as well as specific techniques. It provides an excellent reference point for researchers and practitioners in the government, academic, and industrial communities who want to understand the issues and challenges in this area of growing worldwide importance."

The Cultural Context of Therapeutic Choice - Obstetrical Care Decisions Among the Bariba of Benin (Hardcover, 1982 ed.): C... The Cultural Context of Therapeutic Choice - Obstetrical Care Decisions Among the Bariba of Benin (Hardcover, 1982 ed.)
C Sargent
R2,759 Discovery Miles 27 590 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book examines the factors influencing women's choices of obstetrical care in a Bariba community in the People's Republic of Benin, West Africa. When selecting a research topic, I decided to investigate health care among the Bariba for several reasons. First, I had served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in northern Benin (then Dahomey) and had established a network of contacts in the region. In addition, I had worked for a year as assistant manager of a pharmacy in a northern town and had become interested in the pattern of utilization of health care services by urban residents. This three-year residence proved an invaluable asset in preparing and conducting research in the northern region. In particular, I was able to establish relationships with several indigenous midwives whose families I already knew both from prior research experience and mutual friend ships. These relationships enabled me to obtain detailed information regarding obstetrical practice and thus form the foundation of this book. The fieldwork upon which the book is directly based was conducted between June 1976 and December 1977 and sponsored by the F ord-Rockefeller Popula tion Policy Program, the Social Science Research Council, the National Science Foundation, and the FUlbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Program. The Ford-Rockefeller Population Policy Program funded the project as a collab oration between myself and Professor Eusebe Alihonou, Professor Agrege (Gynecologie-Obstetrique) at the National University of Benin."

Anti-Racism (Hardcover): Alastair Bonnett Anti-Racism (Hardcover)
Alastair Bonnett
R4,211 Discovery Miles 42 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Much has been written on racism and ethic hatred. But what about traditions of racial tolerance and equality? "Anti-Racism" offers an historical and international introduction to the development of this topic. Drawing on sources from around the world, it explains the roots and illustrates the practice of anti-racism in Western and non-Western societies. The author introduces the contemporary dilemmas being tracked within anti-racist debate as well as the criticisms of anti-racism that have been heard within Western societies.
This is one of the first books to look at anti-racism as a topic of social, scientific, historical and geographical inquiry. This will prove a unique resource for anyone interested in issues of equality, race or ethnicity.

Diaspora and Visual Culture - Representing Africans and Jews (Paperback): Nicholas Mirzoeff Diaspora and Visual Culture - Representing Africans and Jews (Paperback)
Nicholas Mirzoeff
R1,213 Discovery Miles 12 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days


Diaspora and Visual Culture marks the new importance of diaspora as a means of understanding the new modes of postnational identity. In examining the visual culture of the "classic" African and Jewish diasporas, contributors address different aspects of the multiple viewpoints inherent in diasporic cultures. Two key introductory essays by Stuart Hall and the painter R.B. Kitaj highlight the intersections of diaspora and cultural identity.
The subsequent essays examine individual instances of diaspora as diverse as homosexuality in the Dreyfus Affair, the Caribbean-Jewish Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, Yoruba diaspora art and performance in Brazil and New York, identity in the art of African-American women in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the formation of American, European and Israeli artistic identity and the possibility that queer culture is diasporic.

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