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Crackers in the Glade: Life and Times in the Old Everglades
by Rob Storter  Publisher Comments This abundant collection of memoirs, stories, and expressive watercolor illustrations offers a firsthand account of early 20th century life on Florida's last frontier. 118 color illustrations. Map....
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Understanding and Managing Diversity (3RD 05 - Old Edition)
by Carol Harvey Publisher Comments This combination of varied readings, real-world cases and thought-provoking exercises prepares readers to enter an increasingly broad workplace where diversity must not only be accepted, but also understood. Covers a broad definition of diversity from...
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Consuming Ethnicity and Nationalism
by Kosaku (edt) Yoshino Publisher Comments This volume applies a consumption approach to the study of ethnicity and nationalism, thereby challenging the usual "top down" approach to nation-formation. Contributors from a variety of disciplines examine the on-going consumption of minority and...
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Evolution of Racism : Human Differences and the Use and Abuse of Science (02 Edition)
by Pat Shipman Publisher Comments In an intellectually engaging narrative that mixes science and history, theories and personalities, Pat Shipman asks the question: Can we have legitimate scientific investigations of differences among humans without sounding racist? Through the...
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Racially Mixed People in America
by Maria P P Root Publisher Comments Although America has been experiencing a `biracial baby boom' for the last 25 years, there has been a dearth of information about how racially mixed people identify and view themselves as well as relate to one another. Racially Mixed People in America...
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Someone Else's House: America's Unfinished Struggle for Integration
by Tamar Jacoby Publisher Comments In this detailed history of relations between blacks and whites in the post-civil rights era, journalist Tamar Jacoby looks at how the ideal of integration has fared since it was first advocated by Martin Luther King, Jr., arguing that though blacks have...
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African Modernities
by Jan-georg (edt) Deutsch Publisher Comments This is a collection of original studies investigating the multifaceted notion of African modernities. The authors examine ideas and practices of modernity as well as the implication of its meaning in current academic debate. Both perspectives are...
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The Taiwanese Americans (New Americans)
by Franklin Ng Publisher Comments Despite the relatively short history of the Taiwanese in the United States, they have been a significant presence in America. Since 1965, immigration law changes have led to a dramatic increase in the Asian population in the United States. Taiwanese...
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Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures #37: Traveling Between Worlds: German-American Encounters
by Thomas Adam Publisher Comments In Traveling between Worlds, six authors explore the connectedness between Germans and Americans in the nineteenth century and their mutual impact on transatlantic history. Despite the ocean between them, these two groups of people were linked not only...
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Ethnicity Without Groups
by Rogers Brubaker Publisher Comments Despite a quarter-century of constructivist theorizing in the social sciences and humanities, ethnic groups continue to be conceived as entities and cast as actors. Journalists, policymakers, and researchers routinely frame accounts of ethnic, racial...
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Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
by Susan Sheehan 
Publisher Comments "A brilliantly documented chronicle of young woman's long struggle with schizophrenia." <BR>-- Willard Gaylin, The New Republic <BR>"Sylvia Frumkin," highly intelligent young girl, became a schizophrenic in her late teens and spent most of...
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Idea of English Ethnicity
by Robert J. C Young Publisher Comments In this major contribution to debates about English identity, leading theorist Robert J.C. Young argues that Englishness was never really about England at all. In the nineteenth century, it was rather developed as a form of long-distance identity for the...
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We Only Come Here To Struggle (00 Edition)
by Berida Ndambuki Publisher Comments Together they present a well-rounded portrait of a contemporary African woman who refuses to submit to stereotyping and claims our respect in sharing her fears and her triumphs....
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Oklahoma Western Biographies #6: Quanah Parker, Comanche Chief
by William Thoma Hagan
Publisher Comments The son of white captive Cynthia Ann Parker, Quanak Parker rose from able warrior to tribal leader on the Comanche reservation. Between 1875 and his death in 1911, Quanah dealth with local Indian agents and with presidents and other high officials in...
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Ethnic Americans: A History of Immigration
by Leonard Dinnerstein Publisher Comments "Ethnic Americans" provides a concise yet comprehensive overview of immigration and assimilation of European, Asian, and Latin American peoples from 1607 to the present. The fourth edition has been revised and expanded to incorporate new research on...
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Golden Gulag : Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (07 Edition)
by Ruth Gilmore Publisher Comments A long-awaited, authoritative, critical, & revolutionary study of the causes and effects of the largest prison building and filling plan in the history of the world--California's 23 major new state prisons & 500% increase in prisoner population...
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Studies in Human Rights #45: Keep A-Inchin' Along: Selected Writings of Carl Van Vechten about Black Art and Letters
by Carl Van Vechten Review The case for Van Vechten, admiringly presented by a well-versed expert who lets Van Vechten do most of the talking. He may never have an abler advocate.American...
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Autobiography of a Kiowa Apache Indian (69 Edition)
by Jim Whitewolf Publisher Comments Exciting autobiography of Jim Whitewolf, a Kiowa Apache born in the second half of the 19th-century, offers excellent inside-look at Indian culture. Ethnological classic details childhood, tribal customs, contact with whites, government attitudes toward...
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Sweet Summer: Growing Up with and Without My Dad
by Bebe Moore Campbell Publisher Comments As a child, Bebe Moore spent her school years in Philadelphia, in a world of women. Surrounded by clouds of Emeraude and Chanel, supported by the strength of her mother, grandmother, aunts, and teachers, she learned by example to mind her p's and q's, to...
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Neither Enemies Nor Friends: Latinos, Blacks, Afro-Latinos
by Suzanne Oboler Publisher Comments In this collection, leading scholars focus on the contemporary meanings and diverse experiences of blackness in specific countries of the hemisphere, including the United States. The anthology introduces new perspectives on comparative forms of...
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