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Global migration, social change, and cultural transformation / edited by Emory Elliott, Jasmine Payne, and Patricia Ploesch.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 272 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0230600549
  • 9780230600546
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.8 22
LOC classification:
  • JZ1318 .G5583 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
"Most overrated Western virtue" : the politics of knowledge in Zadie Smith's White teeth / Grace Kyungwon Hong -- Gender, nation, and globalization in Monsoon wedding and Dilwale dulhania le jayenge / Jenny Sharpe -- Comparing Emirati and Egyptian narratives on marriage, sexuality, and the body / Frances S. Hasso -- Third world newsreel : third cinema practice in the United States / Cynthia Young -- Defying the taboo on the study of internalized racial oppression / Karen D. Pyke -- Poetry and cultural change : Charles Reznikoff / Steven Gould Axelrod -- Veneration and violence : pedagogical forces in Chicana literature and visual art / Tiffany Ana Lopez -- Culture, dislocation, and citizenship / Toby Miller -- Toward a theorization of the U.S. "prison regime" : white supremacy, bodily immobilization, and the "society structured in dominance" / Dylan Rodriguez -- The mechanics of empowerment : migrant farmworker advocacy / Margaret Gray -- Orientalism and the new global : the example of India / Anjan Chakrabarti, Stephen Cullenberg, and Anup Dhar.
Summary: "The essays in this collection work toward a larger goal of separating "globalization" from strictly economic considerations. The authors instead look at globalization as a force that produces profound social and cultural consequences, including migration, struggles for social change, and the transformations of aesthetic practices."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Most overrated Western virtue" : the politics of knowledge in Zadie Smith's White teeth / Grace Kyungwon Hong -- Gender, nation, and globalization in Monsoon wedding and Dilwale dulhania le jayenge / Jenny Sharpe -- Comparing Emirati and Egyptian narratives on marriage, sexuality, and the body / Frances S. Hasso -- Third world newsreel : third cinema practice in the United States / Cynthia Young -- Defying the taboo on the study of internalized racial oppression / Karen D. Pyke -- Poetry and cultural change : Charles Reznikoff / Steven Gould Axelrod -- Veneration and violence : pedagogical forces in Chicana literature and visual art / Tiffany Ana Lopez -- Culture, dislocation, and citizenship / Toby Miller -- Toward a theorization of the U.S. "prison regime" : white supremacy, bodily immobilization, and the "society structured in dominance" / Dylan Rodriguez -- The mechanics of empowerment : migrant farmworker advocacy / Margaret Gray -- Orientalism and the new global : the example of India / Anjan Chakrabarti, Stephen Cullenberg, and Anup Dhar.

"The essays in this collection work toward a larger goal of separating "globalization" from strictly economic considerations. The authors instead look at globalization as a force that produces profound social and cultural consequences, including migration, struggles for social change, and the transformations of aesthetic practices."--Publisher description.

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