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Orientalism and Occidentalism: Is the Mistranslation of Culture Inevitable?
by Robin D. Gill  Publisher Comments 1. Identity - collective -- Japan2. Orientalism -- Occidentalism3. Intercultural communication - stereotypes4. Translation theory - Japanese/English5. Japanese - sociolinguisticsLanguages exotic to one another, such as English and Japanese, create false...
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North/South, East/West: Mapping Italianess on Television
by Michela Ardizzoni Publisher Comments North/South, East/West analyzes the economic, cultural, and political levels of identity production on contemporary Italian television by focusing particularly on regionalism, gender, ethnicity, and immigration as central to Italian identity politics....
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Fifty Poems of Hafiz
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After the Rescue: Jewish Identity and Community in Contemporary Denmark (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion)
by Andrew Buckser Publisher Comments In October of 1943, the Danish resistance rescued almost all of the Jews in Copenhagen from roundups by the occupying Nazis. In the years since, Jews have become deeply engaged in a Danish culture that presents very few barriers of anti-Semitism or...
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Latinos : a Biography of the People (92 Edition)
by Earl Shorris Publisher Comments The author's deeply moving narrative--enlivened by sketches of Mexican Americans, Cuban Americans, Puerto Ricans, and others--illuminates every aspect of the Latino experience in America, from language to education to social and political organization....
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The Education of a Woman: The Life of Gloria Steinem
by Carolyn G Heilbrun Publisher Comments From one of America's most respected critics comes an acclaimed biography of the controversial feminist. Here, Heilbrun illuminates the life and explores the many facets of Steinem's complex life, from her difficult childhood to the awakening that...
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Educating Citizens in a Multicultural Society (Multicultural Education Series)
by James A. Banks Synopsis In the eleven essays that make up this book, written over a 13-year period, Professor Banks describes how schools can both educate students to participate effectively in a society that reflects ethnic and cultural diversity and also promote national...
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Early Modern European Society (00 Edition)
by Henry Kamen Publisher Comments Surveys the sweeping changes affecting Europe from the end of the fifteenth century to the early decades of the eighteenth century. At a time when the concept of Europe itself was a nebulous idea, the book draws together common features of society from a...
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Days of Hope : Race and Democracy in New Deal Era (96 Edition)
by Patricia Sullivan Publisher Comments In the 1930s and 1940s, a loose alliance of blacks and whites, individuals and organizations, came together to offer a potent alternative to southern conservative politics. 'Days of Hope' traces the rise and fall of this movement that helped shape the...
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Barbarous Play: Race on the English Renaissance Stage
by Lara Bovilsky Publisher Comments Like our own, early modern beliefs about race depended on metaphorical, selective, and contradictory understandings of how membership in groups is determined. Although race took distinctive forms in the past, the fallacies that underlie early modern...
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Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture (Asian American History & Culture)
by Robert G. Lee Publisher Comments Sooner or later every Asian American must deal with the question, "Where do you come from?" It is probably the most familiar if least aggressive form of racism. It is a tip off to the persistent notion that people of Asian ancestry are not real Americans,...
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Radical Chic and Mau-mauing the Flak Catchers (70 Edition)
by Tom Wolfe Publisher Comments The white liberal establishment encounters the newly emerging art of confrontation in two devastatingly funny essays exploring political stances and social styles in a status-minded world....
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Where China Meets Southeast Asia: Social and Cultural Change in the Border Region
by Grant Evans Publisher Comments This book provides readers with the first survey of social conditions since the opening of the borders between China and mainland Southeast Asia in the early 1990s, which saw radical changes in the economic policies of the various states involved, in...
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Horace T. Ward (04 Edition)
by Maurice C. Daniels Book News Annotation Originally published in 2001 by Clark-Atlanta U., Daniels' (U. of Georgia) text has been reprinted by Howard U. to keep the work available for legal and other scholars and lay readers. The text examines Ward's life and work in the struggle for social...
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Jewish Life in the Industrial Promised Land, 1855-2005
by Nora Faires and Nancy Hanflik Publisher Comments Jewish Life in the Industrial Promised Land, 1855-2005 combines an examination of the evolution of a small ethnic and religious community with analysis of the dramatic rise and decline of an industrial boomtown. In both popular accounts and scholarly...
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Equal Justice Under the Law (98 Edition)
by Constance Baker Motley Publisher Comments This wise and affecting memoir is the inside story of the great efforts leading up to the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and the fight to implement it-and its implications for affirmative action and black poverty today. A...
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Living the Experience: Migration, Exclusion, and Anti-Racist Practice
by Macdonald E. Ighodaro Publisher Comments A critical look at the racism inherent in Canada's immigration and refugee policies, this thorough analysis dissects the socio-racial constructs used in Canada to exclude, contain, and forcibly repatriate refugees--especially those from Africa. With an...
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Gendering of American Politics : Founding Mothers, Founding Fathers, and Political Patriarchy (99 Edition)
by Mark E. Kann Publisher Comments America's founding mothers and fathers built gender bias into American politics. This book examines traditional prejudices against women's political participation as well as efforts to overcome these prejudices during a revolutionary era. It inquires...
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Native Use of Fish in Hawaii
by Margaret Titcomb Publisher Comments This book provides a lot of information on the importance of fishing in ancient Hawaiian society. It includes drawings of fish with both Hawaiianand scientific names....
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International Migration and National Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Viewpoints and Policy Initiatives in the Countries of Origin (Afrika-Studiecentrum)
by Aderanti Adepoju Et Al Book News Annotation Fourteen international academics and researchers contribute 14 chapters exploring the link between international migration and national development, as seen from the perspective of countries of origin in the South, and aiming to counterbalance the...
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