Global Migration, Social Change, and Cultural Transformation

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