Global Migration, Social Change, and Cultural Transformation [Hardcover]

The essays in this collection work toward a larger goal of separating 'globalization' from strictly economic considerations.?The authors instead look at globalization as a force that produces profound social and cultural consequences, including migration, struggles for social change, and the transformations of aesthetic practices.PART I: INTRODUCTION New Global Conversations: Networks of Cultural Production and Social Change; E.Elliott, J.Payne & P.Ploesch PART II:?TRANSNATIONAL NARRATIVES Most Overrated Western Virtue : Rationality and Anti-Rationality in Zadie Smith's White Teeth; G.Hong Gender, Nation, and Globalization in Dilwale Duhania Le Jayenge and Monsoon Wedding; J.Sharpe Comparing Emerati and Egyptian Narratives on Marriage, Sexuality, and the Body ; F.Hasso ? PART III:?U.S. MIGRATION AND CULTURE? Third World Cinema Newsreel: Third Cinema Practice in the U.S.; C.Young ? Defying the Taboo: On the Study of Internal Race Oppression; K.Pyke Charles Rezinkoff: Poetry and Social Change; S.G.Axelrod Veneration and Violence: The Pedagogical Force of Virgin Iconography in Chicana Literature and Visual Art; T.Lopez PART IV:GLOBAL AND DOMESTIC ECONOMIES Anyone for Cultural Citizenship?; T.Miller Toward a Theorization of the United States Prison Regime : White Supremacy, Bodily Immobilization, and the Society Structured in Dominance ; D.Rodriguez The Mechanics of Empowerment: Migrant Farmworker Advocacy; M.Gray Orientalism and The New Global: The Example of India; A.Chakrabarti , S.Cullenberg &? A.Dhar

Essays in this unique collection sharply engage the importance of culture - in manifold expressions among migrant, immigrant, and diasporic communities, and across the world - as mediating, and at timescritically transforming, the powerful social and economic processes of globalization. - Lisa Lowe, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California, San Diego The theoretically informed and analytically significant essays gathered togethl7