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This is a unique and valuable resource whose focus is not restricted to the examination of racism and antiracism from a single perspective. Contributors from diverse backgrounds - anthropology, classics, sociology, political science, communications and...

In Western countries, the theories and practices of citizenship and democracy have come under intense scrutiny. These are premised on a relatively autonomous nation-state, yet national boundaries are now being tested through globalization. At the same...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313253003Author Walter C. DanielFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

This book presents a comparative analysis of residential, social, economic and political rights for aliens. We will analyse the concepts of nationality and citizenship. Some foreigners are increasingly able to enjoy traditional citizenship rights though...

United States aid to Israel averages a staggering $21 billion per year. Yet, as this insightful volume explains, that aid has failed to serve both U.S. and Israeli interests. The Politics of Foreign Aid discusses how the appropriation of foreign aid is...

The contributors to Language Ideologies, Policies and Practices investigate the workings of language ideologies in relation to other social processes in a globalizing world. They explore in detail the specific ways in which language ideologies underpin...

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313219856Author George P. RawickFormat HardbackPage Count 510Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Mbaku, Saxena, and their contributors examine the problems faced by Africa as it decides what to do to improve its ability to contribute to and benefit from the new globalization. Today, the continent stands at a crossroads; it must choose between...

The authors of the narrative chapters represented in this volume have in common that they are dedicated to the realization of a critical, multicultural, democratic society. Individually, they are female and male, from diverse ethnicities, socio-economic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837163086Author Che RawickFormat HardbackPage Count 754Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

The status and prospects of African-Americans in contemporary society are of immense significance. They speak both to the conscience of the society and to ominous social and political portends. Involving issues of essential fairness and social justice...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837175294Author Philip Sheldon FonerFormat HardbackPage Count 680Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

This timely book investigates Black-Jewish estrangement and the erosion of Black support for Israel. Topics such as the response of Afro-Americans to the early Zionist movement; the emergence of the Jewish state in the Middle East; the attitudes of such...

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313236754Author John David SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 888Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

This book employs a sociological perspective to examine the situation of the African American female in light of changing global economic, political, and educational events. The legal forum is utilized along with social statistics to describe the...

"A Negro Universities Press publication."Book InformationISBN 9780837146614Author Hanes WaltonFormat HardbackPage Count 137Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313236310Author Maria NunesFormat HardbackPage Count 158Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Using experiences of the white, English, working-classes in Manchester, this book explores the local frustrations with feeling 'ignored' and 'neglected' by the government through articulations of fairness.Book InformationISBN 9780230289741Author...

This bibliography is a comprehensive collection of the non-English-language labor and radical periodical publications of the United States and Canada, written for and by immigrants. It is intended to supplement existing studies of the role of individual...

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313209499Author Sylvia GonzalesFormat HardbackPage Count 267Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780275922214Author Elizabeth G. FerrisFormat HardbackPage Count 159Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780275920845Author Board of TrusteesFormat HardbackPage Count 247Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

For the first time, the Middle Passage-the experience of slaves on the trans-Atlantic ships-receives a full reference treatment in an encyclopedia. This A-to-Z reference consists of 226 signed entries arranged alphabetically, exhaustively covering the...

This book explores how memories are used to re-establish a sense of belonging, analyzing the relationships between migrants' adjustment, assimilation and re-membering home. It considers memories as social expressions as well as the tensions and conflicts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313212017Author Eric A CloughFormat HardbackPage Count 369Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

At the close of the 19th century, a black woman of the South presents womanhood as a vital element in the regeneration and progress of her race.Book InformationISBN 9780837113845Author Anna Julia CooperFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Praeger...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595367177Author Stan HaskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 608g

This stimulating volume challenges the tendency to represent African-American women's experiences as a monolithic whole. The interdisciplinary approach organized around the theme of activism enables an unusual and inventive selection of topics to be...

Beset by the forces of European colonialism, US imperialism, and neoliberalism, the people of the Antilles have had good reasons to band together politically and economically, yet not all Dominicans, Haitians, and Puerto Ricans have heeded the calls for...

This collection of essays examines the relationship of women of color's armed resistance to their aesthetic struggles, tension and transformation in feminist practice, and the impact of the gender-based design of state-sponsored terror, human rights...

Edoho and his contributors examine the management challenges facing African governments and businesses on the eve of a new millennium. As the authors make clear, Africa's future is defined by how Africa does in the 21st century. For Africa, a major...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780325001036Author Joseph K. AdjayeFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Heinemann Educational Books,U.S.Publisher Heinemann USA

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313234309Author Mary Aickin RothschildFormat HardbackPage Count 213Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

This latest of many Grenadian-inspired books provides a useful supplement to the exclusively Grenadian-oriented volumes of recent years. Six of the articles represent conflicting interpretations of Maurice Bishop's New Jewel Movement and the US invasion...

Was modern primitivism complicit with the ideologies of colonialism, or was it a multivalent encounter with difference? Examining race and modernism through a wider and more historically contextualized study, Sweeney brings together a variety of...

This book discusses the origin and development of the Talmud.Book InformationISBN 9780313202537Author Ernest Robert TrattnerFormat HardbackPage Count 211Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Opening a new window into Chinese intellectual discourse, this unique book is a critical engagement with the issues, problems, and meanings of contemporary Chinese intellectual thought. As key participants in these debates who have exercised a...

Terrorist attacks on America and its allies and persistent violence in the Islamic world point to a crisis in Islamic society, which States without Citizens attributes to an unfulfilled quest for an Islamic renaissance. The Islamic states, whose borders...

This book focuses on three ethnic neighbourhoods in San Francisco - commoditized Chinatown, gentrified Japantown, and defunct Manilatown - and argues that the city is global because it comprises a multiplicity of global niches that interface with and...

Britain is now permanently a multi-racial and multi-cultural society, with a race relations legislative framework. From Legislation to Integration? provides a unique and comprehensive analysis of the contribution made by this legislation to the...