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This collection of essays breaks new ground in the comparative study of ethnic and racial minorities by showing that there is a common ground shared by those in advanced industrial democracies that differentiates them from Third World and communist...

This book addresses the complex issue of incarceration of Latino/as and offers a comprehensive overview of such topics as deportations in historical context, a case study of latino/a resistance to prisons in the 70s, the issues of youth and and girls...

The product of years of cross-border and cross-disciplinary collaboration, this is an innovative volume of essays situated at the intersection of multi-disciplinary fields: postcolonial/subaltern theory; comparative literary analysis, especially with a...

Despite the increased number of interracial marriages in recent years, Black/White couples still experience a host of problems in American society, particularly in the South. Drawing on extensive interviews with 28 Black/White couples living in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313247835Author Sandra E. DrakeFormat HardbackPage Count 229Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

As Japan shifted from an agricultural country before 1950 to an industrialized nation in less time than any other developed country, women felt the pressure of the shift. Husbands worked longer hours, leaving all the household chores and child rearing to...

Moody presents the thesis that `post-Confucian' societies are influenced by the legacy of a strong state ruling over a weak social structure. Ruling and opposition elites thus tend towar factionalism based on personal ties, and also to `moralistic'...

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780837197630Author George P. RawickFormat HardbackPage Count 406Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780837197623Author George P. RawickFormat HardbackPage Count 370Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780837197708Author George P. RawickFormat HardbackPage Count 526Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Race and ethnicity continue to be important, if unwelcome, factors in modern politics. This is evident in East Africa: the ethnic factor is often dominant in multi-party elections, while in Rwanda and Burundi bloodshed and genocidal attacks have been...

The modern political idea of jihad-a violent struggle against corrupt or anti-Islamic regimes-is essentially the brainchild of one man who turned traditional Islamic precepts inside out and created the modern radical political Islamist movement. Using...

With Eyes Toward Zion II is a collection of papers by distinguished scholars who have set out to rediscover the Holy Land and what it means to America. They delve into the hundreds of books and pamphlets that have been written by archaeologists,...

The dominant issues in African political thought from the 1960s onward have been development and socialism. In the present decade new issues have arisen such as democracy, civil society, the nation-state, and the relevance of traditional political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837195452Author Philip S. FonerFormat HardbackPage Count 462Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Connecting the views of the Hull-House and early Chicago sociologists to issues of race and gender, Deegan offers a new perspective on race relations in Chicago from 1892 until 1960. She challenges the assumption that race relations activists had to...

The films of Ousmane Sembene are powerful representations of the newly emerging black African cinema. In this interpretive study of his most significant films, Francoise Pfaff examines Sembene's pioneering efforts over the last two decades. While...

Despite its legal abolition, racial inequality persists in many democratic societies. Entering a new era of democracy, South Africa is endeavouring to dismantle its legally structured system of inequality. In practice, however, the structures of...

Development theory is at a crossroads. Dominant theories such as modernization and dependency have run their course. In Rethinking Development one of the preeminent political and social theorists of our time offers his view of the direction of the...

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 in its midst that interface...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780275920302Author Stephan F. BrumbergFormat HardbackPage Count 282Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

From George Washington Carver to Dr. Mae Jemison, African Americans have been making outstanding contributions in the field of science. This unique resource goes beyond the headlines in chronicling not just the scientific achievements but also the lives...

Take Five brings together all of Kenneth McClane's poetry published since 1971, and reissues, for the first time, the privately-printed Running Before the Wind, his first collection of verse. Considered by many to be the finest Afro-American poet of his...

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780837183787Author Betty L. JenkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 163Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

This book examines the major theories of Black and White racial identity. Moreover, theoretical perspectives that were originally developed to describe social fomentation have been updated and expanded to explain the role of racial identity in counseling...

Since the third edition was published in 1996, there have been significant developments in this key strategic and economic relationship. Kryzanek builds on the text and themes of previous editions and further examines the ties between the United States...

This major bibliographic work reflects the significant interest in Latin American literature as a creative force in the world today. Rela who has provided Latin American bibliography with many ground-breaking contributions, has created a single,...

How can the culturally diverse communities of America live justly and fruitfully together? Not by assimilation into the dominant culture - nor by fighting for the freedom to pursue our own self-interest at the cost of our repressing both the wounds and...

This book promises to be a very useful reference work, covering material that has heretofore been hard to find. . . . . useful in academic libraries and large public libraries. Reference Books Bulletin This dictionary provides an exhaustive reference...

These essays examine the proliferation of American culture in Europe. Throughout the collection, the authors raise the issue of the degree to which Europe becomes Americanized. They examine in concrete detail the way this process operates with reference...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313230684Author Arnold ShankmanFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313219801Author George P. RawickFormat HardbackPage Count 514Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837109459Author Walter Francis WhiteFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

The South African higher education system has historically been characterized by racial and gender inequities inherited from the discriminatory policies of the apartheid era. From the ascent to power of the National Party in 1948, tertiary institutions...

The dismantlement of the communist system of control of the military and its replacement with a democratic model is one of the most significant aspects of the post-communist transition in East-Central Europe and the former Soviet-Union. The success of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837113876Author A.M.H. ChristensenFormat HardbackPage Count 116Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

In 1989, 1998, and 2005, fifteen Gullah speakers went to Sierra Leone and other parts of West Africa to trace their origins and ancestry. Their journey frames this exploration of the extraordinary history of the Gullah culture-characterized by strong...

This book provides a lot of information on the importance of fishing in ancient Hawaiian society. It includes drawings of fish with both Hawaiian and scientific names.Book InformationISBN 9780870227974Author Margaret TitcombFormat HardbackPage Count...

Combining both personal and academic insights into the Malaysian women's movement, this study provides an in-depth account of the multiple struggles of the Malaysian women's movement, from securing gender equality in a patriarchal society to achieving...

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...