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Indigeneity in the Mexican Cultural Imagination: Thresholds of Belonging by Analisa Taylor Publisher Comments Since the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1917, the state has engaged in vigorous campaign to forge a unified national identity. Within the context of this effort, Indians are at once both denigrated and romanticized. Often marginalized, they are... (read more) Your price: $30.50 New - Trade Paper
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Childism: Confronting Prejudice Against Children by Elisabeth Young-bruehl Review "More than a study of child abuse, [Childism] excavates the psychological foundations of destructive attitudes toward children."—Peter Monaghan, Chronicle of Higher Education Washington... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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Latino Americans: The 500-Year Legacy That Shaped a Nation by Ray Suarez Publisher Comments As the largest minority in the country, Latino Americans make up an integral part of American history and continue to make major social, cultural, and political contributions. Latino Americans shares their story, revealing the personal struggles and... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Compact Disc
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Before L.A.: Race, Space, and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894 (Lamar Series in Western History) by David Samuel Torres-rouff Publisher Comments David Torres-Rouff significantly expands borderlands history by examining the past and original urban infrastructure of one of Americas most prominent cities; its social, spatial, and racial divides and boundaries; and how it came to be the Los Angeles... (read more) Your price: $76.25 New - Hardcover
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The Right to Stay Home: How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration by David Bacon Publisher Comments From the Introduction When I left the organizing staff of the United Farm Workers in the late 1970s, I took with me some functional working-class Spanish and a new worldview. I grew up in Oakland, California, and knew nothing about Mexican culture before... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law by Randall Kennedy Publisher Comments In the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent decision regarding Fisher v. University of Texas, For Discrimination is at once the definitive reckoning with one of America’s most explosively contentious and divisive issues and a principled work of... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Latino Americans: The 500-Year Legacy That Shaped a Nation by Ray Suarez Publisher Comments THE COMPANION BOOK TO THE PBS DOCUMENTARY SERIES Latino Americans chronicles the rich and varied history of Latinos, who have helped shaped our nation and have become, with more than fifty million people, the largest minority in the United States. This... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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Bigotry, Football, and Scotland: Perspectives and Debates by John (edt) Flint Publisher Comments A multidisciplinary analysis of sectarianism and bigotry in Scottish football Sectarianism and bigotry are among the most publicly debated issues in Scotland, often reported in the newspapers as the "shame" of Scotland's national game. The current crisis... (read more) Your price: $138.95 New - Hardcover
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365 Things to Love about Being Irish Calendar by Universe Publishing Publisher Comments They say everyone’s Irish on St. Patrick’s Day, but more than 36 million Irish-Americans definitely know something the rest of us don’t through the rest of the year. The 365 Things to Love About Being Irish 2014 Day-to... (read more) Your price: $13.99 New - Calendar
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Freedom's Frontier: California and the Struggle Over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction by Stacey L. Smith Publisher Comments Most histories of the Civil War era portray the struggle over slavery as a conflict that exclusively pitted North against South, free labor against slave labor, and black against white. In Freedom's Frontier, Stacey L. Smith examines the battle over... (read more) Your price: $40.95 New - Hardcover
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Border as Method, Or, the Multiplication of Labor (Social Text Book) by Sandro Mezzadra Publisher Comments Far from creating a borderless world, contemporary globalization has generated a proliferation of borders. In Border as Method, Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson chart this proliferation, investigating its implications for migratory movements, capitalist... (read more) Your price: $28.95 New - Trade Paper
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Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family by Najla Said Publisher Comments A frank and entertaining memoir, from the daughter of Edward Said, about growing up second-generation Arab American and struggling with that identity. The daughter of a prominent Palestinian father and a sophisticated Lebanese mother, Najla Said grew up... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fiction Into Ethnic Factions (Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and) by Vilna Bashi Treitler Publisher Comments Race is a known fiction—there is no genetic marker that indicates someone's race—yet the social stigma of race endures. In the United States, ethnicity is often positioned as a counterweight to race, and we celebrate our various... (read more) Your price: $23.95 New - Trade Paper
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Latinos at the Golden Gate: Creating Community and Identity in San Francisco by Tomas F. Summers Sandoval, Jr. Publisher Comments Born in an explosive boom and built through distinct economic networks, San Francisco has a cosmopolitan character that often masks the challenges migrants faced to create community in the city by the bay. Latin American migrants have been part of the... (read more) Your price: $40.95 New - Hardcover
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Bigotry, Football and Scotland by John (edt) Flint Publisher Comments A multidisciplinary analysis of sectarianism and bigotry in Scottish football Sectarianism and bigotry are among the most publicly debated issues in Scotland, often reported in the newspapers as the "shame" of Scotland's national game. The current crisis... (read more) Your price: $42.50 New - Trade Paper
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Student Mobilities, Migration and the Internationalization of Higher Education by Rachel Brooks Publisher Comments The last ten years have seen the deepening and expansion of the process of internationalization in relation to higher education. This process is multi-faceted and has included the development of education 'brands' as governments and educational... (read more) Your price: $33.25 New - Trade Paper
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The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fiction Into Ethnic Factions (Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and) by Vilna Bashi Treitler Publisher Comments Race is a known fiction—there is no genetic marker that indicates someone's race—yet the social stigma of race endures. In the United States, ethnicity is often positioned as a counterweight to race, and we celebrate our various... (read more) Your price: $98.95 New - Hardcover
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The Dreamers: How the Undocumented Youth Movement Transformed the Immigrant Rights Debate by Walter Nicholls Publisher Comments On May 17, 2010, four undocumented students occupied the Arizona office of Senator John McCain. Across the country a flurry of occupations, hunger strikes, demonstrations, and marches followed, calling for support of the DREAM Act that would allow these... (read more) Your price: $23.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Migration North (Black History) by James De Medeiros Your price: $29.99 New - Hardcover
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The Migration North (Black History) by James De Medeiros Your price: $14.95 New - Hardcover
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