Ethnic Studies
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Speaking Treason Fluently Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections from an Angry White Male Anti-Racist Reflections from an Angry White Male
by Tim Wise  Publisher Comments In this highly anticipated follow-up to White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, activist and educator Tim Wise examines the way in which institutional racism continues to shape the contours of daily life in the United States, and the...
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Welcome to America?: A Pro/Con Debate Over Immigration (Issues in Focus Today)
by Thomas Streissguth Synopsis Immigration is a hot-button topic, inspiring strong feelings on all sides of the debate. Candidates in the 2008 presidential race offer different solutions to the problems involved. WELCOME TO AMERICA? A PRO/CON DEBATE OVER IMMIGRATION gives a clear...
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Exodus/Exodo
by Charles Bowden Publisher Comments Immigration has become one of the most important and contentious issues of our time. But even as policy makers in the United States and Mexico argue over what to do about the half million or more Mexicans who cross the border illegally each year to work...
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Desire for Race
by Sarah Daynes Publisher Comments What do people mean when they talk about race? Are they acknowledging a biological fact, a social reality, or a cultural identity? Is race real, or is it merely an illusion? This book brings analytical clarity to one of the most vexed topics in the...
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The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization
by Rinku Sen Synopsis The Accidental American vividly illustrates the challenges and contradictions of U. S. immigration policy, and argues that, just as there is a free flow of capital in the world economy, there should be a free flow of labor. Author Rinku Sen alternates...
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Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing
by Jane Margolis Publisher Comments The number of African Americans and Latino/as receiving undergraduate and advanced degrees in computer science is disproportionately low, according to recent surveys. And relatively few African American and Latino/a high school students receive the kind...
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Underground America
by Peter Orner Publisher Comments Underground America tells the stories of men and women who have come to the United States seeking a better life for their families, only to be subjected to dehumanizing working conditions. Supporting myriad industries, these workers form an essential...
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Racism: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides)
by Alana Lentin Publisher Comments Despite the fact that we've spent hundreds of millions of dollars promoting tolerance, racism is still prevalent today. In fact, since 9-11 the subject of race, and exactly what this means, has become more important than ever before. Alana Lentin traces...
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Icons of Latino America [Two Volumes]: Latino Contributions to American Culture (Greenwood Icons)
by Roger Bruns Publisher Comments Latinos have contributed a tremendous amount to American cultural heritage, injecting energy, a unique style, and piquant flavor. This set profiles the big names from this century and the last who represent the highest achievement in their field and who...
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Creative Freedom: F Words
by The F-words Group Publisher Comments Addressing a wide range of themes—from the oppression and restitution in 19th-century and contemporary South Africa to wry reflections on the thirst for freedom from a formerly imprisoned poet—this collection is an elegant exploration of the...
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Transnational Blackness: Navigating the Global Color Line (Critical Black Studies)
by Manning Marable Publisher Comments The Critical Black Studies Series celebrates its third volume, Transnational Blackness. The series, under the general supervision of Manning Marable, features readers and anthologies examining challenging topics within the contemporary black...
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David Rockefeller Center Series on Latin American Studies #21: Becoming Brazuca: Brazilian Immigration to the United States
by Clmence Jout-pastr Publisher Comments Brazilians in the United States are a relatively new wave of immigrants from South America. In the past their vast country of origin was used to receiving immigrants, not sending them out. The shift is new, and these arrivals do not necessarily fit...
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Competitive Irish Dance: Art, Sport, Duty
by Frank Hall Publisher Comments What happens when you put an expressive form in a competitive frame? This question motivates Frank Hall’s study of competitive Irish stepdancing. He examines this dance tradition—from the organization of competitions to the movement of...
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The Immigrant Scene: Ethnic Amusements in New York, 1880-1920
by Sabine Haenni Publisher Comments Yiddish melodramas about the tribulations of immigration. German plays about alpine tourism. Italian vaudeville performances. Rubbernecking tours of Chinatown. In the New York City of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, these seemingly...
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People of the Underground Railroad: A Biographical Dictionary
by Tom Calarco Publisher Comments The Underground Railroad was perhaps the best example in U.S. history of blacks and whites working together for the common good. People of the Underground Railroad is the largest in-depth collection of profiles of those individuals involved in the...
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Race Relations in the United States #2: Race Relations in the United States [Five Volumes]
by Leslie Vincent Tischauser Publisher Comments The history of the American twentieth century is largely one of race relations. As the twentieth century unfolded, racial tensions between major racial and ethnic groups often exploded. From the backlash against Eastern and Southern European immigration...
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How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses
by Mark M. Smith Publisher Comments For at least two centuries, argues Mark Smith, white southerners used all of their senses--not just their eyes--to construct racial difference and define race. His provocative analysis, extending from the colonial period to the mid-twentieth century...
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Nigeria's Stumbling Democracy and Its Implications for Africa's Democratic Movement
by Victor Oguejiofor Okafor Publisher Comments Nigeria's Stumbling Democracy and its Implications for Africa's Democratic Movement is the first book to recount and analyze Nigeria's controversial general elections of April 2007. Because Nigeria's immense and diverse population of 140 million people...
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Voices of the U.S. Latino Experience [Three Volumes]
by Rodolfo F. Acuna Publisher Comments The history and experiences of the diverse groups labeled Latinos in this country are abundantly documented in this major new collection. From the Treaty of San Ildefonso in 1803 to remembrances of life on the frontier, to the Young Lords platform of...
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Immigration (Ilan Stavans Library of Latino Civilization)
by Ilan Stavans Publisher Comments Immigration is a topic on the minds of a large portion of Americans. In 2006, a series of large marches and political debates shook the nation to the core. With the 2008 presidential campaign under way, the controversy is alive and well. However, it is...
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