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Asia Book Reviews
Southwest Journal of Cultures. Tuesday, August 11, 2009. Desi Land: Teen Culture, Class, and Success in Silicon Valley. By Shalini Shankar. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, November 2008. Cloth: ISBN 978-0-8223-4300-4, $79.95; paper: ISBN 978-0-8223-4315-8, $22.95. 264 pages. Review by Rupa Pillai, University of Oregon, Eugene. Desi Land: Teen Culture, Class, and Success in Silicon Valley. Do Desis actually claim “Brownness,” or is this term confined to her analysis? Shankar has succeeded in presenting...
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(Auto)Biography Book Reviews
Southwest Journal of Cultures. Friday, October 30, 2009. Gender, Professions and Discourse: Early Twentieth-Century Women’s Autobiography. London: Palgrave Macmillan, January 2009. Cloth: ISBN 978-0-230-21992-2, $80.00. 248 pages. Review by Suanna H. Davis, Lone Star College, Texas. However, if she is putting together a new theory, based on working models, then this is a legitimate exercise. How might it be explained? Scholars working in gender, autobiography, and history, particularly of World War I, wi...
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Anticipated Books and Reviews
Anticipated Books and Reviews. Southwest Journal of Cultures. Thursday, October 22, 2009. From Parkstone Press January 1. From Design Studio Press January 1. Tatopoulos Design: The Art and Concepts of Patrick Tatopoulos. By David Queille and Patrick Tatopoulos. From Texas Tech University Press January 10. Cowboy Park: Steer Roping Contests on the Border. By John O. Baxter. From Minnesota Historical Society Press January 15. Dakota Philosopher: Charles Eastman and American Indian Thought. By Andrea Eimke ...
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Cinema Book Reviews
Southwest Journal of Cultures. Tuesday, September 7, 2010. Dreams of Difference, Songs of the Same: The Musical Moment in Film. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, January 2010. Paper: ISBN 978-0-8166-6088-9, $25. 296 pages. Review by Albin Lohr-Jones, Independent Scholar. Cinema I: The Movement-Image. Dreams of Difference, Songs of the Same: The Musical Moment in Film. Books, Herzog adopts a different strategy. Taking as its central concern the varying modalities of repetition which operate ...
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Environs Book Reviews
Southwest Journal of Cultures. Thursday, June 25, 2009. Spare Time in Texas: Recreation and History in the Lone Star State. By David G. McComb. Austin: University of Texas Press, September 2008. Cloth:. ISBN 978-0292718708, $60; paper: ISBN 978-0292718890, $24.95. 300 pages. Review by Muhammad Aurang Zeb Mughal, Durham University, England. Spare Time in Texas. Another important and widely used source of recreation in Texas is theatre. Even after the introduction of radio, cinema, and television as al...
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Europe Book Reviews
Southwest Journal of Cultures. Tuesday, September 7, 2010. The French Atlantic: Travels in Culture and History. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, February 2010. 978-1846310508, $95;. Paper: ISBN 9781846310515, $35. Review by Kadji Amin, Columbia College, Chicago. The French Atlantic: Travels in Culture and History. Is a site-based study of a series of transatlantic exchanges involving French language, commerce, and culture. Given that "Francophone" describes any and all populations that speak French...
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Gender Book Reviews
Southwest Journal of Cultures. Tuesday, September 7, 2010. Women and the Material Culture of Needlework and Textiles, 1750-1950. Edited by Maureen Daly Goggin and Beth Fowkes Tobin. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, December 2009. Cloth: ISBN 978-0754665380, $99.95. 296 pages. Review by Julia Hudson-Richards, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona College. The “world of the needle,” however, has been a blind spot for a number of scholars, and the essays in this work enhance not only to the history of m...The colle...
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Immigrant American Book Reviews
Immigrant American Book Reviews. Southwest Journal of Cultures. Thursday, July 29, 2010. The Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, November 2008. Cloth: ISBN 978-0-8032-1073-8, $50. 462 pages. Review by John T. “Jack” Becker, Texas Tech University. The Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890,. The Lakota saw the military with a mixture of hate and respect caused by years of warfare between the two groups. Although summoned to protect settlers, some military leaders knew the Indians ha...
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Latin America Book Reviews
Latin America Book Reviews. Southwest Journal of Cultures. Tuesday, September 7, 2010. Musical ImagiNation: U.S.-Colombian Identity and the Latin Music Boom. By María Elena Cepeda. New York: New York University Press, January 2010. 978-0814716915, $65; p. Aper: ISBN 978-0-8147-1692-2, $22. Review by Sandra J. Fallon-Ludwig, Brandeis University. María Elena Cepeda attempts to remedy this neglect in her discussion of contemporary. The evolution of the. The selective history of Latin music and the commercia...
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Literature Book Reviews
Southwest Journal of Cultures. Tuesday, September 7, 2010. Cultures of Plague: Medical Thinking at the End of the Renaissance. By Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. Oxford: Oxford University Press, January 2010. Cloth: ISBN. Review by Scott Hendrix, Carroll University, Wisconsin. Raguaglio minutissimo del successo della peste di Venetia. Provides an intriguing and deeply insightful analysis of the effects of plague on the Italian peninsula during the late Renaissance. Posted by Bridget Cowlishaw, Ph.D. This purposeful ...
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Material Culture Book Reviews
Material Culture Book Reviews. Southwest Journal of Cultures. Tuesday, September 7, 2010. Women and the Material Culture of Needlework and Textiles, 1750-1950. Edited by Maureen Daly Goggin and Beth Fowkes Tobin. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, December 2009. Cloth: ISBN 978-0754665380, $99.95. 296 pages. Review by Julia Hudson-Richards, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona College. The “world of the needle,” however, has been a blind spot for a number of scholars, and the essays in this work enhan...The colle...