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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE. THINKING ABOUT RELIGION AND CULTURE -- Cultural Production and New Terrain: Theology, Popular Culture, and the Cartography of Religion -- Response -- Tracings: Sketching the Cultural Geographies of Latino/a Theology -- Response -- PART TWO. CONSTRUCTING BODIES AND REPRESENTATION -- Memory of the Flesh: Theological Reflections on Word and Flesh -- Response -- Using Women: Racist Representations and Cross-Racial Ethics -- Response -- PART THREE. LITERATURE AND RELIGION -- This Day in Paradise: The Search for Human Fulfillment in Toni Morrison's Paradise -- Response -- Freedom Is Our Own: Toward a Puerto Rican Emancipation Theology -- Response -- PART FOUR. MUSIC AND RELIGION -- The Browning of Theological Thought in the Hip-Hop Generation -- Response -- The Theo-poetic Theological Ethics of Lauryn Hill and Tupac Shakur -- Response -- PART FIVE. TELEVISION AND RELIGION -- TV "Profits": The Electronic Church Phenomenon and Its Impact on Intellectual Activity within African American Religious Practices -- Response -- Telenovelas and Transcendence: Social Dramas as Theological Theater -- Response -- PART SIX. VISUAL ARTS AND RELIGION -- Response -- The Theological Significance of Normative Preferences in Visual Art Creation and Interpretation -- Response -- PART SEVEN. FOOD AND RELIGION -- She Put Her Foot in the Pot: Table Fellowship as a Practice of Political Activism -- Response -- The Making of Mexican Mole and Alimentary Theology in the Making -- Response -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

Introduction. Latinx Teens: US Popular Culture from Spider-Man to In the Heights -- 1. "I want you to know me. Who I really am": Latinx Teens on the Small Screen -- 2. "Do you want to be a papi chulo or a papi feo?": Latinx Teens on the Big Screen -- 3. "I Sign Myself Across the Line": Latinx Teens on the Page -- 4. "I'm only 19 but my mind is older": Latinx Teens on Stage -- Conclusion. Shaking Up the World: Latinx Teen Activists.

Cover -- Volume 1: American History and Violent Popular Culture -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword: American Popular Culture-There Will Be Blood -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Introduction: Recovering American Violence -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter One: The Vanishing Trace of Violence in Native American Literature and Film -- Ritualism -- Minimalism -- Ironism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter Two: The Politics of Pain: Representing the Violence of Slavery in American Popular Culture -- The Strange Career of Uncle Tom's Cabin -- The Eroticization of Interracial Violence -- Reconceptualizing the Violence of Slavery in the Post-Civil Rights Era -- Conclusion: Representing the Violence of Slavery in the "Post-Racial" Era -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter Three: Natural Laws, Unnatural Violence, and the Psychophysical Experience of the Civil War Generation in America -- Violence in Antebellum America -- Simply Murder: Unfathomable Killing and the Civil War -- Psychophysical Coping with a Bloody Past -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter Four: World War II in American Popular Culture, 1945-Present -- Early Postwar, 1945-1948 -- Cold War, 1948-1962 -- The Vietnam War Era, 1962-1978 -- Post Vietnam, 1978-2001 -- Post-9/11 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter Five: American Dreams and Nightmares: Remembering the Civil Rights Movement -- American Dreams -- American Nightmares -- A Change Is Gonna Come -- Marching Forward: Fifty Years Later -- Final Thoughts -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter Six: Exploring Popular Cultural Narratives of Gender Violence -- Domestic Violence -- Rape -- Sexual Harassment -- Hate Crimes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter Seven: Vigilant Citizens and Horrific Heroes: Perpetuating the Positive Portrayal of Vigilantes -- Notes -- Bibliography.

"This volume of original essays presents an overview of Popular Culture Studies as an ever-growing branch of American Studies while also reflecting the critical debates driving the field toward a more nuanced approach to contemporary culture more generally. Thus, many of the essays included take fresh perspectives on Black American culture, feminism, multiculturalism, and queer studies, among others, but they also provide critical updates on the global impact of U.S. American popular culture. 0If an understanding of U.S. Culture as Popular Culture in its national and international dimensions is one of the aims behind this publication, another is to conceive of cultural formations against the backdrop of shifting media environments. Placed alongside more traditional media such as literature and film, more recent phenomena including reality television, internet memes, and video games add considerable relevance to the critical appreciation of culture in the twenty-first century."

Through a gender, ethnicity, and sexuality lens, Pérez demonstrates that queer Chicana/o and Latina/o identities are much more prevalent in cultural production than most people think. By claiming a variety of characters and texts as queer, he expands the breadth of queer representation in cultural production

"A collection of essays on kitsch and high art in the Americas makes a return with thirteen new colorful conversations that deliver Stavans's trademark wit and provocative analysis. The collection has the power to go beyond common assumptions and helps us understand Mexican popular culture and its counterparts in the United States"--Provided by publisher

▪ Abstract  This review contrasts the relative lack of interest in "popular culture" within anthropology with the close, increasingly critical attention this concept has received within cultural studies. Rejecting both a production-oriented model of a manipulative mass culture imposed from above and a reception-oriented model of an expressive culture of the people, cultural studies scholars broke with essentialized conceptions and redefined the popular in Gramscian terms, as a zone of contestation, a site where the struggle for hegemony unfolds. The review uses this approach to relate the production of popular culture to class formation in the United States. Against overemphasis on the ideological effectivity of popular culture and a revisionist tendency to redefine it in affirmative, politically essentialized terms, the review suggests that contradictions and instabilities characterize all stages of the popular cultural circuit: commodity, text, and lived culture.

"Designed as an introductory text, this book details several aspects of Latin American culture as experienced by millions of people living in Central and South America. The author argues that despite early and considerable European influences on the region, indigenous Latin American traditions still characterize much of the social and artistic heritage of the Latin American countries"--Provided by publisher