Category Archive: globalization

Making the Spectral Real: Asian American Film in Glen M. Mimura’s Ghostlife of Third Cinema

“What is Asian American cinema?” asks Glen M. Mimura in Ghostlife of Third Cinema. As other scholars in […]

Goats, Swords, & Fried Oreos: The Old 321 Flea Market as a Landscape of Globalization

The Old 321 Flea Market in Dallas, NC is now known as the I-85/321 Flea Market, even though […]

Seven Ways of Looking at a City

Assumptions about human nature have long shaped the way people think about politics, economics, and even their own […]

America’s Ace in the Hole Is, Of Course, Its Awesomeness

The United States likes to think of itself not just as “the land of the free and the […]

Cosmopolitan Tensions: Contradictions in the Theory of Cosmopolitanism

Eminent philosopher Immanuel Kant has long served as a source of confusion and inspiration. Freshman undergrads grapple with […]

Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Footballers: American Antipathy toward Soccer

Don’t waste your time on soccer kid it’s a game for commie pansies … – Sports columnist Dick […]