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Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksShe deconstructs reality TV’s twisted fairytales to demonstrate that far from being simple guilty pleasures,“ these programs are actually guilty of fomenting gender-war ideology and significantly affecting the intellectual and political development of this generation’s young viewers.

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Saint Mary’s College Library / All LocationsDrawing on in-depth interviews, survey data, web analytics, and more, Jones highlights not only the dangers, but also the rewards, of working in one of the most taboo corners of the Internet.

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Saint Mary’s College Library / All LocationsInfused in this conversation is the ever-present policing of Black bodies in sport and society, and the disconnect we have as citizens living in the same country perpetually divided by race.

Saint Mary’s College Library / All LocationsThe planet is...

Saint Mary’s College Library / All LocationsThe planet is in deep trouble because of capitalism, and Karl Marx, freed from the chains of “real socialism”, is being rediscovered all around the world as the thinker who provided us with its most insightful critique.

Saint Mary’s College Library / All LocationsWhile...

Saint Mary’s College Library / All LocationsWhile acknowledged as the first Muslim superhero to headline her own series, her character appears well-developed and multifaceted in many other ways.

Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksAllen describes...

Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksAllen describes ancient Cynicism as an improvised philosophy and a way of life disposed to scandalize contemporaries, subjecting their cultural commitments to derision.

Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksPerry gives an...

Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksPerry gives an overview of Black-majority cities and spotlights four that he has a deep connection to-Detroit, New Orleans, Birmingham, and Washington, D.C.-providing an intimate look at the assets residents should demand greater value from.

Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksNoting...

Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksNoting society’s many exclusions and erasures, scholars in the second half of the twentieth century persuasively argued that only some social groups assimilate. Others, they pointed out, are subject to racialization.

Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksFungi also...

Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksFungi also drive many long-standing human fascinations: from yeasts that cause bread to rise and orchestrate the fermentation of sugar into alcohol; to psychedelic fungi; to the mold that produces penicillin and revolutionized modern medicine.

Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksHis subjects...

Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksHis subjects include a Ugandan refugee in flight to Canada, a trans woman fighting for custody of her child in Moscow, a lesbian couple campaigning for marriage equality in Mexico, genderqueer high schoolers coming of age in Michigan, a gay Israeli-Palestinian couple searching for common ground, and a community of kothis–“women’s hearts in men’s bodies”–who run a temple in an Indian fishing village.

Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksThe social...

Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksThe social crisis we confront is defined not by an oppressive presence but by a debilitating absence of the forces that unite us and militate against alienation.

Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksThe concept of...

Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksThe concept of the China Dream was first coined by Xi Jinping. It describes a set of personal and national ideals. The phrase is a loan translation: it follows the rendering of the ‘American Dream’

Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksFrom the...

Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksFrom the perspective of the contributors to this volume, formal black politics did not begin in 1865, or with agitation by abolitionists like Frederick Douglass in the 1840s, but rather in the Revolutionary era’s antislavery and citizenship activism.

Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksEver wonder why...

Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksEver wonder why you don’t walk into walls or off cliffs? How you decide if you can drive through a snowstorm? How high you are willing to climb up a ladder to change a lightbulb?

Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksUnreal City: a...

Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksUnreal City: a zany cartoon megalopolis where towers are built of cotton candy, facts scatter like pixie dust, and the truth is whatever you feel it to be. And it’s no fantasy. It’s where we live.

Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksWhile some...

Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksWhile some faces are famous, most are familiar. They may look like your grandmother, your neighbor, your mail carrier, or your doctor.

Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksBlack hair is...

Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksBlack hair is here addressed by artists, barbers, and activists in both its historical perceptions and its ramifications for self and society today.

Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksCategory theory...

Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksCategory theory also emphasizes dimensionality: much as a cube can cast a square or diamond shadow, depending on your perspective, so too do gender politics appear to change with how we examine them.

While imprisoned for “inciting subversion of state...

While imprisoned for “inciting subversion of state power,” Liu won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. He was granted medical parole just weeks before dying of cancer in 2017.

Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as the protagonist in...

Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he’s merely Generic Asian Man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but always he is relegated to a prop.