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  • Abstractionist Aesthetics

    Artistic Form and Social Critique in African American Culture

    Series Book 5 - NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis
    An artistic discussion on the critical potential of African American expressive cultureIn a major reassessment of African American culture, Phillip Brian Harper intervenes in the ongoing debate about the “proper” depiction of black people. He advocates for African American aesthetic abstractionism—a representational mode whereby an artwork, rather than striving for realist verisimilitude, ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Private Affairs

    Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations

    Series Book 22 - Sexual Cultures
    In Private Affairs, Phillip Brian Harper explores the social and cultural significance of the private, proposing that, far from a universal right, privacy is limited by one's racial-and sexual-minority status. Ranging across cinema, literature, sculpture, and lived encounters-from Rodin's The Kiss to Jenny Livingston's Paris is Burning-Private Affairs demonstrates how the very concept of privacy ... Read more

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    Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives

    Series Book 3 - Sexual Cultures
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    Performance art was finally recognized as an art form in its own right in the 1970s. In Radical Gestures Jayne Wark situates feminist performance art in Canada and the United States in the social context of the feminist movement and avant-garde art from the 1970s to 2000. She shows that artists drew from feminist politics to create works that after a long period of modernist aesthetic detachment ... Read more

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  • The Theory Toolbox

    Critical Concepts for the Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences

    Series series Culture and Politics Series
    This text involves students in understanding and using the "tools" of critical social and literary theory from the first day of class. It is an ideal first introduction before students encounter more difficult readings from critical and postmodern perspectives.Nealon and Searls Giroux describe key concepts and illuminate each with an engaging inquiry that asks students to consider deeper and ... Read more

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  • Nobody Is Supposed to Know

    Black Sexuality on the Down Low

    Since the early 2000s, the phenomenon of the “down low”—black men who have sex with men as well as women and do not identify as gay, queer, or bisexual—has exploded in news media and popular culture, from the Oprah Winfrey Show to R & B singer R. Kelly’s hip hopera Trapped in the Closet. Most down-low stories are morality tales in which black men are either predators who risk infecting their ... Read more

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    Feminism, Film and the Imperial Gaze

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  • The Female Complaint

    The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture

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