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The Jim Crow Encyclopedia [Two Volumes]: Greenwood Milestones in African American History
by Nikki L. M. Brown  Publisher Comments Jim Crow refers to a set of laws in many states, predominantly in the South, after the end of Reconstruction in 1877 that severely restricted the rights and privileges of African Americans. As a caste system of enormous social and economic magnitude, the...
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From Somewhere to Nowhere: China's Internal Migrants
by Andreas Seibert Synopsis High-population centers of enormous size are springing up in China with dizzying speed. With them comes an increased demand for migrant workers in the construction sector, factories, and mines. In growth centers like the Pearl River Delta in Southern...
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Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship
by Rachel Buff Publisher Comments "Impressive, provocative and smart.Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of U.S. Citizenship is breathtaking in its timeliness and its broad scope." — Erika Lee, author of At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943 "An...
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Re-Visioning Family Therapy, Second Edition: Race, Culture, and Gender in Clinical Practice
by Monica Mcgoldrick Publisher Comments Now in a significantly revised and expanded second edition, this groundbreaking work illuminates how racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression constrain the lives of diverse clients--and family therapy itself. Practitioners and students gain vital...
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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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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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Argentina: Stories for a Nation
by Amy K. Kaminsky Publisher Comments By the end of the twentieth century, Argentina’s complex identity-tango and chimichurri, Eva Perón and the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, the Falklands and the Dirty War, Jorge Luis Borges and Maradona, economic chaos and a memory of vast...
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Hero of Hispaniola: America's First Black Diplomat, Ebenezer D. Bassett
by Christopher Teal Publisher Comments We know Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice as two of today's most high-profile African American political figures, but who paved the way for these notable diplomats? More than one hundred and thirty years ago, Ebenezer D. Bassett served as the first black...
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Ellis Island (American Symbols)
by Lori Mortensen Synopsis Table of Contents/Glossary/Index/Sidebars/Fun Facts/Recommended Reading/Content Consultants/Dust Jackets Safe Web sites at www.FactHound.com National Standards for History: Standard 4: How Democratic values came to be, and how they have been exemplified...
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The Tai-Kadai Languages (Routledge Language Family)
by Anthony Diller Publisher Comments With close to 100 million speakers, Tai-Kadai constitutes one of the world's major language families. Made up of two national languages, Thai and Lao, and the so-called 'nationality languages' that represent minority 'nationalities' officially recognized...
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Migrant Imaginaries: Latino Cultural Politics in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
by Alicia Schmidt Camacho Publisher Comments "In this beautiful study, Schmidt Camacho demonstrates that Mexican migrant imaginaries affirm in songs, manifestos, poetry, novels, and testimonies visions of justice that exceed the limits of the nation-form and the logics of capital accumulation...
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For the Record:: Israelis and Palestinians-What the Media Aren't Telling You
by A. Katz Synopsis Letters to the Editor that pinpoint the one-sidedness of the media in its reporting of the conflicts in the Middle East. These letters are fact-based responses to the emotional bias of those writing, and sometimes creating, the news that is erroneously...
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Sufi Illuminati: The Rawshani Movement in Muslim Mysticism, Society and Politics. Sergei Andreyev
by S. Andreyev Publisher Comments The Rawshaniyya, who flourished in the traditional homeland of the Pashtuns in the Kabul/Indus basin in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, were a powerful religio-political movement. Drawing on a wide range of previously neglected sources, the...
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Immigration and European Integration: Beyond Fortress Europe (European Policy Studies)
by Andrew Geddes Publisher Comments Migration is at the heart of the contemporary European Union. This new edition addresses three key questions that underpin EU responses to migration policy. First, what role does the EU play in the regulation of migration? Second, how and why have EU...
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A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America (Russell Sage Foundation Books at Harvard University Press)
by Aristide R. Zolberg Publisher Comments According to the national mythology, the United States has long opened its doors to people from across the globe, providing a port in a storm and opportunity for any who seek it. Yet the history of immigration to the United States is far different. Even...
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Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities #14: Hearing, Mother-Father Deaf: Hearing People in Deaf Families
by Michelle Bishop Publisher Comments The 14th volume in the Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities series explores the rich linguistic and cultural characteristics of hearing members of deaf families....
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The Black/White Divide in America ... Still: The Inherent Contradiction in Partial Equality
by Marlin Foxworth Synopsis -???????? such as a man who is African American running for president at the head of a major political party. The book intensely examines the structural elements of the societal schisms caused by this Divide and gives specific prescriptions for things...
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Migration, Homeland, and Belonging in Eurasia
by Cynthia Buckley Publisher Comments Migration, a force throughout the world, has special meanings in the former Soviet lands. Soviet successor countries, each with strong ethnic associations, have pushed some racial groups out and pulled others back home. Forcible relocations of the Stalin...
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The New Peasantries: Struggles for Autonomy and Sustainability in an Era of Empire and Globalization
by Jan Douwe Van Der Ploeg Publisher Comments This book explores the position, role and significance of the peasantry in an era of globalization, particularly of the agribusiness and food industries. It argues that the peasant condition is characterized by a struggle for autonomy that finds...
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Transcultures - Asia-Pacific Media Representations of Globalisation
by Vera Mackie Synopsis This book examines media representations of globalization emanating from Japan and its neighbors in the 1990s and early twenty-first century. It argues that the circulation of media representations, signs and symbols, which is presented as being one of...
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