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Anthropology is a flourishing discipline in Southeast Asia. Southeast Asian Anthropologies renders visible the development of national traditions and transnational practices of anthropology across the region. The authors are practising anthropologists...

In this first history of Arab American activism in the 1960s, Pamela Pennock brings to the forefront one of the most overlooked minority groups in the history of American social movements. Focusing on the ideas and strategies of key Arab American...

Our Stories: Black Families in Early Dallas enlarges upon two publications by the late Dr. Mamie McKnight's organization, Black Dallas Remembered-First African American Families of Dallas (1987) and African American Families and Settlements of Dallas...

A cutting-edge collection exploring identity-making in East AsiaThis is an interdisciplinary study of the cultural politics of nationalism and national identities in modern East Asia. Combining theoretical insights with empirical research, it explores...

What was Multiculturalism? is a timely account of a socio-political theory that has featured in public debate in the West for the past forty years. Vijay Mishra offers both a compendium as well as a critique of multicultural theory in its diverse...

"This book is both powerful and important. Powerful for the testimony it provides from Americans of many different (and even mixed races) about their experiences. And important because there is a racial revolution underway that will upend race as we know...

Written by scholars of various disciplines, the essays in this volume dig beneath the veneer of Hawai'i's myth as a melting pot paradise to uncover historical and complicated cross-racial dynamics. Race is not the primary paradigm through which Hawai'i...

This special issue investigates the intersections among Latinx, Chicanx, ethnic, and hemispheric American Studies, mapping the history of Latinx and Latin American literary and cultural production as it has circulated through the United States and the...

This book demonstrates that gender is a key component of conflict and peace discourse. The marginalization of women in conflict and peace is all pervasive. Kashmir is a mirror image of this global scenario. Kashmiri women aided the militant movement in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865436145Author Tracy D SnipeFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 264g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599540597Author Professor Daniela GioseffiFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams)...

Playing Out of Bounds investigates the North American Chinese Invitational Volleyball Tournament (NACIVT), an annual event that began in the 1930s in the streets of Manhattan and now attracts 1200 competitors from the U.S. and Canada. Its two key...

Bringing together new articles and essays from the controversial Berkeley conference of the same name, The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness presents a fascinating range of inquiry into the nature of whiteness. Representing academics, independent...

First published in 1994, Winners and Losers is based upon a two-year study carried out in Manchester. Using a wealth of research material gathered from 1000 respondents from seven ethnic minority groups, it details the social, cultural, and religious...

This book examines key issues surrounding ethnicity and human rights in our country. It asks: How do we account for the persistence of racism in the face of increasing legal protection for human rights? Kallen's classic study reveals the ways in which...

How should the project of cultural studies change for the twenty-first century? Does theory have general application? How should we evaluate revolutions?How should we define countries, like China, on the margins of modernity and post-modernity?Is a...

Based on extensive original research, this book explores the history and current revival of Buddhism on the Indonesian island of Java. Beginning by tracing how Buddhism came to Java from India via southeast Asia, it considers how Buddhism has survived...

This book examines the constantly changing nature of the relationship between the state and the media within South Korea's political landscape. It traces developments as South Korea became gradually more democratic in the decades after 1960, and goes on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599540382Author Garibaldi M LapollaFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

"Partnership" is a key concept in contemporary international peace operations. There is no universal model of peace operations in contemporary international society. Ad hoc arrangements of "partnership" between the United Nations and various regional...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599540825Author Anthony Julian TamburriFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934675635Author Alan L GravanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Italian Americana PublicationsPublisher Italian Americana PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599540429Author Fred MisurellaFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599540221Author Fred L GardaphFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599540061Author Lewis TurcoFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934675628Author Professor John Paul RussoFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Italian Americana PublicationsPublisher Italian Americana...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934675598Author Jerome KraseFormat HardbackPage Count 324Imprint Italian Americana PublicationsPublisher Italian Americana PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934675581Author Paolo A GiordanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Italian Americana PublicationsPublisher Italian Americana PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934675567Author Jerome KraseFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Italian Americana PublicationsPublisher Italian Americana PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599540184Author Dennis BaroneFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888455997Author Wu-Ling ChongFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Hong Kong University PressPublisher Hong Kong University Press

Odd Tribes challenges theories of whiteness and critical race studies by examining the tangles of privilege, debasement, power, and stigma that constitute white identity. Considering the relation of phantasmatic cultural forms such as the racial...

A leading scholar in the United States on Chinese archaeology challenges long-standing conceptions of the rise of political authority in ancient China. Questioning Marx's concept of an "Asiatic" mode of production, Wittfogel's "hydraulic hypothesis," and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892640737Author Nathan SivinFormat HardbackPage Count 584Imprint Centre for Chinese Studies PublicationsPublisher The University of Michigan...

From the perspective of a District Officer and later Deputy Commissioner in rural Burma, Singh details both the changes and continuities in local administration which accompanied independence. This period of violent maneuvering between the Communists,...

Since 1980, some of the last extensive stands of tropical forest in the Phillipines have been destroyed, as part of a broader spate of deforestation in Southeast Asia-in Borneo, the Malay Peninsula, and Sumatra-largely at the hands of logging companies...

This book attempts to portray the fine-grained impacts of industrialization and the availability of work in a major city on a single village, called Sugao, located some 150 miles from Bombay. It describes some of the effects of macro-level, "top-down,"...

A revealing investigation of changing identity in a globalizing worldA revealing investigation of changing identity in a globalizing worldReviews"Another Arabesque is excellent and exciting. It is full of valuable and new materials on Arabs and Arabs in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781563685057Author Claire L. RamseyFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Gallaudet University Press,U.S.Publisher Gallaudet University Press,U.S...

From Megyn Kelly's claim that Jesus is white to former President Trump's claim that he is the "chosen one" or the "King of Israel," there is serious trouble in paradise. Contemporary manifestations of white Christian nationalism are deeply entangled in...