June 30, 2010
Choice reviews Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure by David Freeland. The late Ray Browne, considered the father of American popular-culture studies, defined popular culture… READ MORE
From Social Text Journal’s Periscope section: In this dossier, colleagues offer critical appreciations of long-standing Social Text collective member José Esteban Muñoz’s recent book, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There… READ MORE
June 24, 2010
That’s the argument made by Leslie Bow, author of Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South, at The Progressive. The new “Karate Kid” with Jackie Chan… READ MORE
June 22, 2010
A profile in the Rutland Herald of Margaret K. Nelson, author of Parenting Out of Control. Nelson said that much writing on the phenomenon tends to dismiss modern parents’ anxieties,… READ MORE
June 21, 2010
An op-ed by Mary Niall Mitchell at History News Network. Her book, Raising Freedom’s Child: Black Children and Visions of the Future after Slavery, is now available in paperback. For… READ MORE
June 15, 2010
Nader Hashemi gives us an informative and interesting review of Democracy in Modern Iran: Islam, Culture, and Political Change, by Ali Mirsepassi, at Democracy. It is a transformation inextricable from… READ MORE
June 14, 2010
The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI) gave its life time achievement award, The George Herbert Mead Award, to Peter and Patti Adler. Their book, The Tender Cut,… READ MORE
June 8, 2010
By Wendy Chapkis, author of Dying to Get High: Marijuana as Medicine Last Saturday, I spoke at a terrific medical cannabis conference at the University of Southern Maine. 250 or… READ MORE