National Best Seller On a post-college visit to Florence, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri fell in love with the Italian language. A startling act of self-reflection, In Other Words is Lahiri's meditation on the process of learning to express herself in another language--and the stunning journey of a writer seeking a new voice.
How are people's identities and cultural practices shaped by network structures? This book is designed to help readers think about how and when culture and social networks systematically penetrate one another, helping to shape each other in significant ways.
Social Media Freaks presents a virtual ethnography of social media, focusing on issues of identity and inequality along five dimensions-race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability. It teaches readers how to engage social media as a tool for social activism while also examining the limits of social media's value in the quest for social change.
Nicknamed the International Express, the New York City Transit Authority 7 subway line runs through a highly diverse series of ethnic and immigrant neighborhoods in Queens. The 7 train is a microcosm of a specifically urban, New York experience, in which individuals from a variety of cultures and social classes are forced to interact and get along with one another.
The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art asks how the black figure was depicted by artists from the non-Western world. The aesthetic traditions illustrated here are as diverse as the political and social histories of these regions.
Try browsing shelves with the following Call numbers to find art and language books:
H- Social Sciences
HA- Statistics
HB- Economic theory
HC- Economic history
HM- Sociology, Cultural Studies
HN- Social history, Social Reform
M- Music
N - Fine Arts
PA- Latin
PC- Italian, Spanish, French
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