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Hispanic/Latino Identity: A Philosophical Perspective
by Jorge J. E. Gracia  Publisher Comments This volume provides a superb introduction to the philosophical, social, and political elements of Hispanic/Latino identity. It is an indispensable tool for anyone interested in issues that concern Hispanics/Latinos, social policy, and the history of...
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Racism: From Slavery to Advanced Capitalism
by Carter A. Wilson Publisher Comments This volume in the Sage Series on Race and Ethnic Relations seeks to explain the phenomenon of racism throughout history by drawing on and integrating the massive literature on racism coming out of the economic, political, and cultural realms. In so...
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Closing Door : Conservative Policy and Black Opportunity (91 Edition)
by Gary Orfield Publisher Comments The Closing Door is the first major critique of the effect of conservative policies on urban race and poverty in the 1980s. Atlanta, with its booming economy, strong elected black leadership, and many highly educated blacks, seemed to be the perfect site...
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War Memory, Nationalism and History in Japan: Ienaga Saburo and the History Textbook Controversy, 1945-2005
by Y. Nozaki Synopsis The controversy over official state-approved history textbooks in Japan, which omit or play down many episodes of Japan's occupation of neighboring countries before and during the Pacific War, and which have been challenged by critics who favor a more...
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Hybridity and Its Discontents: Politics, Science, Culture
by Annie E. Coombes Publisher Comments "Hybridity and its Discontents explores the history and experience of 'hybridity' - the mixing of peoples and cultures - in North and South America, Latin America, Britain and Ireland, South Africa, Asia and the Pacific. The book traces manifestations of...
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A Japanese View of Nature: The World of Living Things (Japan Anthropology Workshop)
by Kinji Imanishi Publisher Comments Although "Seibutsu no Sekai (The World of Living Things)," the seminal 1941 work of Kinji Imanishi, had an enormous impact in Japan, both on scholars and on the general public, very little is known about it in the English-speaking world. This book makes...
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Cultural Foods : Traditions and Trends (00 Edition)
by Pamela Goyan Kittler Publisher Comments This book provides information on the health, culture, and food and nutritional habits of most ethnic and racial groups living in the United States. It is designed to help students, chefs and others in the food service industry, and health professionals...
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Latino Holiday Book: From Cinco de Mayo to Dia de Los Muertos--The Celebrat
by Valerie Menard Publisher Comments The Latino Holiday Book is the essential resource for everyone wanting to celebrate and honor the special traditions and celebrations of Hispanic Americans. Author Valerie Menard takes readers through the full year, covering new year's traditions, D...
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Black Leadership : Four Great American Leaders and the Struggle for Civil Rights (98 Edition)
by Manning Marable Synopsis The history of the black struggle for civil rights land political and economic equality in America is deeply tied to the strategies, agendas, and styles of black leaders. In this compelling work, Manning Marable presents thought-provoking portraits of...
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Bibliographies and Indexes in Religious Studies, #73: The Womb of Space: The Cross-Cultural Imagination
by Wilson Harris Review Wilson Harris argues that society is approaching a new horizon of sensibility with the ability to transform claustrophobic ritual through the use of cross-cultural imagination. ... The Womb of Space to which the title refers is the creative imagination...
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The True Story of Lu Xun
by David E. Pollard Publisher Comments This is the first independent, full-life biography of Lu Xun, the most celebrated Chinese writer of the twentieth century, in any European language. It sets aside all the propaganda that has accrued over the sixty-six years since his death, and presents...
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All American Skin Game Or the Decoy of R
by Stanley Crouch Publisher Comments In this brilliantly acerbic collection of essays--a New York Times Notable Book in 1995--Stanley Crouch confirms that he is one of the most eloquent and unpredictable commentators on race and culture in American society--something already known to anyone...
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Group Rights: Reconciling Equality and Difference
by David Ingram Publisher Comments Ingram (philosophy, Loyola University) brings a variety of current social dilemmas together in a mutually illuminating way. He examines the concept of legal equality in a multiracial society by considering issues such as self-governance for Native...
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No Name in the Street (72 Edition)
by James Baldwin Publisher Comments This stunningly personal document and extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies displays James Baldwin's fury and despair more deeply than any of his other works. In vivid detail he remembers the Harlem childhood that...
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The Bernard Cohn Omnibus: An Anthropologist Among the Historians and Other Essays, Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge, India: The Social Ant
by Bernard Cohn Publisher Comments This Omnibus edition brings together three classic volumes by the renowned historian, Bernard Cohn, India: A Social Anthropology of a Civilization; An Anthropologist Among the Historians and Other Essays; and Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge. In...
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Ashkenazi Jews in Mexico: Ideologies in the Structuring of a Community (Suny Series, Anthropology & Judaic Studies)
by Adina Cimet Publisher Comments An account of the life of the Ashkenazi Jews in Mexico in this century highlights the intersection of cultural and political international problems, shedding light on the contemporary condition of minorities the world over.<P>In a century full of...
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On My Own: Korean Businesses and Race Relations in America
by In-jin Yoon Publisher Comments The Los Angeles riots shattered Korean immigrants’ naive belief in the American dream. As many as 2,300 Korean shopkeepers lost their lifetime investments in one day. Korean immigrants had struggled for years to become economically independent...
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Gender, Family, and Social Movements (98 Edition)
by Suzanne Staggenborg Synopsis Ideal as a basic text in undergraduate gender or social movements courses, or as a supplement in sociology of family classes. Uses compelling case materials (i.e. the struggle over the ERA, abortion rights, or the fight for gay and lesbian rights) to...
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Power of Culture: Studies in Chinese Cultural History
by Andrew W. Plaks Publisher Comments A symposium of essays presented in honor of T. T. Ch'en and F. W. Mote on the occasion of their retirement from the East Asian Studies Department of Princeton University. The participants and contributors are all renowned scholars in Chinese studies...
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Russian Policy Towards China and Japan: The Yeltsin and Putin Periods (Basees/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies)
by Natasha Kuhrt Publisher Comments Drawing on the most up-to-date sources, this book provides an in-depth examination of Russia's relations with China and Japan, the two Asia-Pacific superpowers-in-waiting. For Russia there has always been more than one 'Asia': after the collapse of the...
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