Cultural History
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From  Skeletons in the ClosetFrom: Family Ties |
This chapter discusses Canada’s modern understanding of its relationship to Axis powers, and the need for transparent political accountability rather than a sanitized public memory. | Peter McFarlane | 4 | 2024 | $0.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Slave-Descendants, Diaspora Subjects, and World CitizensPaul Gilroy’s Historical Sensibility From: Thinking While Black |
In this chapter the author further examines Paul Gilroy’s work and his contributions to cultural criticism and black academia. The topics explored in this chapter included, <Young Soul … | Daniel McNeil | 20 | 2022 | $2.00 Add |
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From  Sleeping Car Porters and Uncle BenFrom: Uncle |
This chapter examines railway sleeping cars, the Black men who served as porters to tourists on the rails, and how these men were forced to conform to the Uncle Tom stereotype. | Cheryl Thompson | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From  NEW! Solid, Glutinous, and ToothsomeThe Wrapper |
André Alexis reflects on the Trinidadian dumplings of the island of his birth, ideas of belonging and not belonging in the identity of first generation immigrants, food cultures and taboos, … | André Alexis | 5 | 2022 | $0.50 Add |
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From Song of the South and Uncle Remus’s ReturnFrom: Uncle |
This chapter explores Song of the South, a 1944 Disney movie that featured Uncle Remus. | Cheryl Thompson | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
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From  South Pacific, Miss Saigon, Soft Power and MeFrom: Bigotry on Broadway |
This author recounts her experiences and perceptions of Anti-Asian bigotry in theatre/Broadway. | Aimee Phan | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Spineless AdmirationOn Anti-Nostalgia From: On Nostalgia |
The author details how nostalgia is regarded with suspicion from academic to widespread cultural use. Advocates of dismissing the past, and their perpective of the world as just and meritocratic … | David Berry | 19 | 2020 | $1.90 Add |
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From NEW! Technically, It’s a RavioliThe Wrapper |
Kristen Arnett examines the concept of ravioli. | Kristen Arnett | 2 | 2022 | $0.20 Add |
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From That’s What She SaidOn the Future of Nostalgia From: On Nostalgia |
In this chapter the author points out that we don’t know what we’ve got until it’s gone and we don’t even know when it will go. The question "Why is it that nostalgia … | David Berry | 25 | 2020 | $2.50 Add |
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From The 1980s, Bill Cosby, and Smokescreen TomsFrom: Uncle |
This chapter examines the role of Black conservatives in the web of free-market capitalism, focusing especially on the ideology of The Cosby Show. | Cheryl Thompson | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
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From The Anti-TomFrom: Uncle |
This chapter explores the socio-economic context in which Black communities began to police the boundaries of racial loyalty. It was at this time that "Uncle Tom" became the label used … | Cheryl Thompson | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
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From The Book of Mormon Is Racist—Why Isn’t Anyone Talking about It?From: Bigotry on Broadway |
This chapter outlines the many racist aspects of The Book of Mormon, as perceived by the author. | Claire J. Harris | 5 | 2021 | $0.50 Add |
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From NEW! The Case for KreplachThe Filling |
Bev Katz Rosenbaum highlights the under-represented kreplach, a jewish delicacy, the popularity of matzo ball soup, her ties to her Ashkenazic heritage, and ties to traditional foods. | Bev Katz Rosenbaum | 4 | 2022 | $0.40 Add |
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From The Continuous Vibration of Animal Spirits:On the Why of Nostalgia From: On Nostalgia |
This chapter discusses nostalgia as a feeling, and the history of nostalgia, from antiquity to the present, moving out of the medical into the cultural realm. Why it is important to describe … | David Berry | 21 | 2020 | $2.10 Add |
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From NEW! The (Cornish) Pasty WarsThe Sauce |
John Lorinc examines the Cornish pastys, the Cornish Pasty Association (CPA), Cornish national identity, and the social history and lore of food. | John Lorinc | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add |
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From NEW! The Dumpling in Me Honours the Dumpling in YouThe Filling |
Sylvia Putz discusses her love of Asian styles of dumplings, the experience of making dumplings with her book club, her friend Lucy and her Korean dumplings, bonding over food, and being like a … | Sylvia Putz | 8 | 2022 | $0.80 Add |
