Cultural Studies

Cultural studies is an academic field grounded in critical theory and literary criticism. It generally concerns the political nature of contemporary culture, as well as its past historical precedents, conflicts, and issues. It is, to this extent, largely distinguished from cultural anthropology and ethnic studies in both objective and methodology. Researchers concentrate on how a particular medium or message relates to matters of ideology, social class, nationality, ethnicity, sexuality, and/or gender.
Cultural studies is extremely holistic, combining feminist theory, social theory, political t
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Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age
Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop
Oślizgłe macki, wiadome siły. Historia Ameryki w teoriach spiskowych
Pure Innocent Fun: Essays
Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets, and the Fever Dream of the American New Age
The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World
Hands of Time: A Watchmaker’s History
Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge
The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research
Corpses, Fools and Monsters
Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes
The Life We're Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World
Orientalism
Mythologies
The Society of the Spectacle
Outliers: The Story of Success
Subculture: The Meaning of Style
Between the World and Me
The Location of Culture
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Culture and Imperialism
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
The Culture Industry
Cracking The Rich Code Volume 20 by Diane Merrill WiggintonCAPS LOCK by Ruben PaterMy ABC "Chair" Book (Revised) by Barbara H. HartsfieldPrejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'Agostino MDElizabeth's Mountain by Lucille Guarino
Design Under Neoliberalism
32 books — 8 voters
Tales of the Astonishing Black Spark by Charlie J. EskewJUDGES by Charles J. EskewZami by Audre LordeMirrors by Eduardo GaleanoI Am Your Negro by Dead Writers Club
Black, White, and Beyond
24 books — 9 voters

Hunger by Roxane GayYou Can't Buy Love Like That by Carol E. AndersonDear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSouth and West by Joan DidionThe Radium Girls by Kate  Moore
2017 Non-male Non-Fiction
247 books — 86 voters


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Christopher Lasch
As long as political movements exercise a fatal attraction for those who seek to drown the sense of personal failure in collective action - as if collective action somehow precluded rigorous attention to the quality of personal life - political movements will have little to say about the personal dimension of social crisis.
Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations

Stuart Hall
Against the urgency of people dying in the streets, what in God's name is the point of cultural studies?...At that point, I think anybody who is into cultural studies seriously as an intellectual practice, must feel, on their pulse, its ephemerality, its insubstantiality, how little it registers, how little we've been able to change anything or get anybody to do anything. If you don't feel that as one tension in the work that you are doing, theory has let you off the hook. ...more
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