Tag: Ashgate Publishing

  • British Women Writers and the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1785-1835 Ashgate Publishing November 2014 160 pages 234 x 156 mm Hardback ISBN: 978-1-4724-3088-5 eBook PDF ISBN: 978-1-4724-3089-2 eBook ePUB ISBN: 978-1-4724-3090-8 Kathryn S. Freeman, Associate Professor of English University of Miami, Miami, Florida In her study of newly recovered works by British women, Kathryn Freeman…

  • Whiteness Fractured Ashgate Publishing November 2013 256 pages Includes 1 b&w illustration 234 x 156 mm Hardback ISBN: 978-1-4094-6357-3 Cynthia Levine-Rasky, Associate Professor of Sociology Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Whiteness Fractured examines the many ways in which whiteness is conceptualized today and how it is understood to operate and to effect social relationships. Exploring…

  • Debates over who belongs in Europe and who doesn’t increasingly speak the language of mixing, but how are the figures commonly described as ‘mixed’ actually embodied? “The Biopolitics of Mixing” invites us to reckon with the spectres of pathologization past and present, placing the celebration of mixing beside moral panics over terrorism and trafficking and…

  • The Collage Aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance Ashgate Publishing November 2009 232 pages Includes 5 b&w illustrations Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7546-6198-6 Rachel Farebrother, Lecturer in American Studies University of Swansea Beginning with a subtle and persuasive analysis of the cultural context, Farebrother examines collage in modernist and Harlem Renaissance figurative art and unearths the collage sensibility…

  • Gender, Race and Religion in the Colonization of the Americas Ashgate Publishing July 2007 218 pages 219 x 153 mm Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7546-5189-5 Edited by Nora E. Jaffary, Associate Professor of History Concordia University, Montreal, Canada When Europe introduced mechanisms to control New World territories, resources and populations, women-whether African, indigenous, mixed race, or European-responded…

  • Multifaceted Identity of Interethnic Young People: Chameleon Identities Ashgate Publishing May 2010 Illustrations: Includes 24 (including 5 tables) line drawings 234 x 156 mm 224 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7546-7860-1 eBook ISBN: 978-0-7546-9691-9 BL Reference: 305.8’0083-dc22   Sultana Choudhry, Principal Lecturer in Psychology and Director of Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Health London Metropolitan University, UK…

  • “Black Skin, Black Masks: Hybridity, Dialogism, Performativity” offers a timely exploration of Black identity and its negotiation. The book draws on empirical work recording everyday conversations between Black women: friends, peers and family members.