Author: Prof. Jessica Gordon Nembhard Ph.D.Prof. Ngina S.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: states, current, issues, united, color, accumulation, communities, wealth
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2006-11-06
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0472069586
ISBN-13: 9780472069583

"Congratulations to Drs. Nembhard and Chiteji and the authors included in this much needed volume of work! Their book offers the perspective and insight of scholars of color that are too often missing from information produced by the asset building field (people and organizations seeking to help low-income people develop assets). Communities served by the asset building field are disproportionately made up of people of color. This book captures work produced by scholars representing these communities and offers innovative and thought provoking analyses of wealth inequality. Decision-making o

Authors:James Boyd White, H. Jefferson Powell,
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: force, empire, democracy, law
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2009-05-05
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0472116843
ISBN-13: 9780472116843

The authors of this book share a concern for the state of law and democracy in our country, which to many seems to have deteriorated badly. Deep changes are visible in a wide array of phenomena: judicial opinions, the teaching of law, legal practice, international relations, legal scholarship, congressional deliberations, and the culture of contemporary politics. In each of these intersections between law, culture, and politics, traditional expectations have been transformed in ways that pose a threat to the continued vitality and authority of law and democracy. The authors analyze specific i

Author: Jon Erickson
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: object, art, poetry, performance, postmodern, modern, fate
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1995-10-15
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0472106139
ISBN-13: 9780472106134

The Fate of the Object traces the historical shift in focus from the "difficult" essential object of modernist theater, art, and poetry to its transformation as a sign in a postmodern field of signs. In modern art, the central object had been the abstract painting; in theater, the body of the actor; in poetry, the sonic, visual and grammatical elements of the poem. Spanning several disciplinary boundaries, this ambitious and pioneering book examines how the very process of refinement to locate the essential modernist object dissolves the figure of that object into its signifying ground. Jon Er

Authors:Prof. David L. Lewis, Laurence Goldstein,
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: culture, american, automobile
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 1983-12-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 047208044X
ISBN-13: 9780472080441

Looks at the impact of the automobile on American folkways

Author: Yossi Shain
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: affairs, international, diasporas, kinship
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2007-10-04
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0472099108
ISBN-13: 9780472099108

In the face of globalization, the War on Terror, and massive shifts in migration patterns, analysts and scholars are finally being forced to reckon with the limitations of the old territorial models of global politics. As these and other political and economic changes continue to defy national borders, interested readers owe it to themselves to appreciate the power of kinship and diaspora---two of the most powerful factors in transnational politics today. Yossi Shain’s essential new work replaces the old, nationally bounded image of international politics (a vestige of the age of empire

Authors:Leo Marx, Bruce Mazlish,
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: illusion, fact, progress
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1996-07-01
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0472106767
ISBN-13: 9780472106769

Progress, perhaps the fundamental secular belief of modern Western society, has come under heavy fire recently because, after three centuries, advances in science and technology seem increasingly to bring problems in their wake: alienation, environmental degradation, the threat of nuclear destruction. The idea of progress is brought into question by postmodern critique, attacking the notion of science as truth. Yet no other meaningful organization of humankind’s sense of time looms on the horizon. This volume seeks to reassess the meaning and prospects of the idea of progress.Looking tow

Authors:Janelle G. Reinelt, Joseph Roach,
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: performance, theory, text, theater, revised, critical, enlarged
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2007-05-08
List price: $37.50
ISBN-10: 0472068865
ISBN-13: 9780472068869

Critical Theory and Performance presents a broad range of critical and theoretical methods and applies them to contemporary and historical performance genres—from stage plays, dance-dramas, performance art, cabaret, stand-up comedy, and jazz to circus, street theater, and shamanistic ritual. As the first comprehensive introduction to critical theory’s rich and diverse contributions to the study of drama, theater, and performance, the book has been highly influential for more than a decade in providing fertile ground for academic investigations in the lively field of performance studies. Th