The Routledge Handbook to the Popular Music Cover Song: Vivid Versions and Musica Subjectivities examines histories, contexts, and critical perceptions of cover song practices that manifest in mimetic homages, nuanced reinterpretations, or radical transformations.
From Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing the Black Body and a writer who has brilliantly illuminated the Black experience in America for decades (Bryan Stevenson), comes a spirited and riveting memoir of growing up in an interracial family in 1960s Chicago and a daughters journey to understand her parents marriageand her own identity.
An emotionally wounded family leaves behind the familiar life they built in Los Angeles and sets out across America in an RV, searching not only for freedom, but for healing.
National Bestseller Nominated for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing A powerful memoir revealing the pressures, joys, and traumas of witnessing history up close and personal, from one of Canadas most prominent and decorated foreign correspondents.
If you are tired of hearing about ëwhitenessí, and if you think racism exists in the hearts of evil others, or you believe that having a black friend unshackles you from racismís hold, I dare you to read this book.
With sly humor and piercing clarity (Amanda Montell, New York Times bestselling author), and channeling the subversive and sharp-eyed voice showcased in her popular column for The Cut, Amil Niazi stylishly interrogates the aspirations of young adulthood, early middle age, motherhood, and life after ambition.
Contemporary Japanese American and Mexican American Poets examines how contemporary Japanese American and Mexican American poets imagine their past, present, and future through shared aesthetics.
In her one-of-a-kind voice, Diane Keaton shares the wisdom she s accumulated through the years as a mother, daughter, actress, artist, and international style icon.
Race Relations in Sociological Theory (1983) presents a clear definition of the field of race relations, and indicates how it should be systematically developed.
Contemporary Japanese American and Mexican American Poets examines how contemporary Japanese American and Mexican American poets imagine their past, present, and future through shared aesthetics.
Race Relations in Sociological Theory (1983) presents a clear definition of the field of race relations, and indicates how it should be systematically developed.
An essential guide to writing about a broad range of media objects - including film, television, social media, advertising, video games, mobile media, music videos, and digital media - in an equally broad range of formats - from essays and video essays to podcasts and playlists.
The Routledge Handbook to the Popular Music Cover Song: Vivid Versions and Musica Subjectivities examines histories, contexts, and critical perceptions of cover song practices that manifest in mimetic homages, nuanced reinterpretations, or radical transformations.
LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2025LONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2025A Book of the Year 2024 in the Guardian, Times Literary Supplement and ObserverRichly imaginative and powerfully empathetic, an intimate portrait of five remarkable Black men, and a meditation on race, estrangement and the search for home'Thrilling and ingenious, propulsive and genre-defying: The Strangers is an outstanding book' Bernardine Evaristo'Luminous and extraordinary.
An essential guide to writing about a broad range of media objects - including film, television, social media, advertising, video games, mobile media, music videos, and digital media - in an equally broad range of formats - from essays and video essays to podcasts and playlists.
The new fostering memoir from the Sunday Times bestselling author Casey WatsonSix-year-old Amelie lives with her mother, Kelly, who suffers from bipolar disorder.
'If you see the Black Banners coming from Khurasan, join that army, even if you have to crawl over ice; no power will be able to stop them' Hadith attributed to the Prophet MuhammadThe Black Banners is the ultimate insider's account of the realities of counter-terrorism.
Se desvelan verdades de la historia reciente de Cuba, Un abuelo carinoso le cuenta a su familia y en especial a su nieta, las verdades de los principales acontecimientos de la Cuba de hoy, a partir de 1959.
'A pleasure to read' - Irish TimesI want to walk through time, for days, for nights, I want every kind of walk, walks under sunsets and stars, walks of rain and storms, through howling winds and the most susurrating of breezes.
Born on January 5, 1907, Zetta Hamby spent much of her life in the northwestern mountains of North Carolina, keenly watching the changes in her community of Grassy Creek and in the world.
LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2019'Strong, powerful and a valuable resource' - Fox FisherThis is the story of one trans man's exploration of gender identity, set against changing cultural attitudes from the 90s to the present day.
LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2019'Strong, powerful and a valuable resource' - Fox FisherThis is the story of one trans man's exploration of gender identity, set against changing cultural attitudes from the 90s to the present day.
In Behind Ancient Bars, law professor and rabbinical student Hadar Aviram challenges the conventional assumption that incarceration is an artifact of modernity by looking back to depictions of detention and confinement in the Hebrew Bible.
