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
Inside Notes from the Outside by Caroline Joan S. PicartRacial Formation in the United States by Michael OmiMaking the Latino South by Cecilia MarquezRacial Formation in the Twenty-First Century by Daniel Martinez HoSangThe Specter of Sex by Sally L. Kitch
Inside Notes from the Outside
27 books — 2 voters
The Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonThe Great Influenza by John M. BarryAnd the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsThe Coming Plague by Laurie GarrettGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
History of disease
166 books — 70 voters

Selected Writings, Volume 2 by Walter BenjaminFor the Well-Being of All by Bonnie J TaylorSelected Writings, Volume 2, Part 1 by Walter BenjaminPrinciples of Spiritual Economics by Hooshmand BadeeSelected Writings, Volume 4 by Walter Benjamin
Economic Theology
18 books — 2 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


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