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Lying Bodies explores how to survive with invisible, non-normative identities by focusing on literally 'invisible' differences. The first half of the book attempts a theoretical account of the self in the field of vision, drawing on psychoanalytic...

As Europe struggles to control immigration, the EU's southern flank is perceived as the weak flank of 'Fortress Europe'. This book examines the many facets of Southern Europe's new immigration: the diverse roles played by immigrants in the labour market,...

This book explains why America can realize the civil rights dream in the 21st century-if U.S. citizens take actions as individuals as well as work together for equality. It has been more than 53 years since Martin Luther King Jr. made his "I Have a...

Around the Sacred Fire is a compelling cultural history of intertribal activism centered on the Indian Ecumenical Conference, an influential movement among native people in Canada and the U.S. during the Red Power era. Founded in 1969, the Conference...

The growth of Islam in Europe is reflected in the increasing numbers of Muslims in British and French prisons, but authorities have responded differently to the challenges presented by Muslim prisoners in each country. The findings of three years of...

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 9780813027999Format PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint University Press of FloridaPublisher University Press of Florida

In this book, Peter Gardner contends that the production of narratives of ethnic peoplehood is an attempt to regain a sense of collective dignity among the previously dominant. After introducing the concept of ethnic dignity and locating its place within...

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The authors trace out the development of capitalism and U.S. imperialism in Latin America in the latest phase of this development, from the installation of the new world order of neoliberal globalization in the early 1980s to the present when U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639167115Author Elizabeth Bowles DuchanaudFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543765007Author Rosila Bee Mohd HussainFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Partridge Publishing SingaporePublisher Partridge Publishing...

Ten years after the end of the war in Bosnia, ethnicity continues to matter and the country remains dependent on international intervention. The Dayton Peace Accord signed in 1995 successfully ended the war, but froze the ethnic conflict in one of the...

This book explores the intimate marital relationships of Indonesian Muslim married women. As well as describing and analysing their sexual relationships, the book also investigates how Islam influences discourses of sexuality in Indonesia, and in...

This book, based on extensive research including in the Russian and Vatican archives, charts the development of relations between the Catholic Church and the Soviet Union from the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 to the death of Pope Pius XI in 1939. It...

Immigration and Ethnic Conflict reviews the experience of post-industrial countries that have experienced large-scale movements of population since the Second World War, creating ethnically diverse multicultural societies in a context of rapid economic,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781466988491Author Elias YussifFormat HardbackPage Count 214Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 422g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783942883221Author Erich KastenFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Verlag Der Kulturstiftung SibirienPublisher Verlag Der Kulturstiftung...

Raza Struggle and the Movement for Ethnic Studies: Decolonial Pedagogies, Literacies, and Methodologies presents an investigation of decolonization in the context of education and what this means for ethnic studies projects. It accomplishes this...

This book examines women's movements and women's collective action in Africa. Steady begins her examination in pre-colonial times, moving through the colonial period to the present. She looks at the various arenas which collective action has and can...

This book examines the complex political structures of Pakistan and India that determine both the Kashmir conflict and the geostrategic environment underpinning it. Providing comprehensive knowledge on both historical and contemporary dynamics of...

Black Magic Woman and Narrative Film examines the transformation of the stereotypical 'tragic mulatto' from tragic to empowered, as represented in independent and mainstream cinema. The author suggests that this transformation is through the character's...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783659758577Author Monticini PierluigiFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic...

For the western scholar of Islam, the great body of Arabic literature known as the Hadith has long been of outstanding interest and a subject of intensive study. Hadith, as a common noun, simply means talk, conversation but in the technical, religious...

Providing a comprehensive analysis of the increasingly common phenomenon of child migration, this volume examines the experiences of children in a wide variety of migratory circumstances including economic child migrants, transnational students,...

Nielsen offers a dialogue with Foucault, Frederick Douglass, Frantz Fanon and the Augustinian-Franciscan tradition, investigating the relation between social construction and freedom and proposing an historically friendly, ethically sensitive, and...

This fascinating work provides an enlightening guided tour of the island of Cuba's historical, political, economic, and sociocultural development from the pre-Columbian period to the present. Cuba: A Global Studies Handbook offers a revealing look at a...

Across Europe the protection of 'social cohesion' has become an important political objective. This book draws attention to the connection between the cohesive society and the active society. It explores France, Germany and the United Kingdom and...

This volume is devoted to selected aspects of the culture and language of the two largest Jewish Diaspora groups, Sephardim and Ashkenazim. The authors analyze the latest European research tendencies related to both Jewish factions. Questions concern the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783656346647Author Samuel Perrino MartinezFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Grin PublishingPublisher Grin PublishingWeight(grams) 45g

Whiteness is a narrative. It is the privileged dimension of the complex story of "race" that was, and continues to be, seminal in shaping the socio-economic structure and cultural climate of the United States and other Western nations. Without...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639134407Author Szabolcs VargaFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 104g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783656325246Author Hauke KlevinghausFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Grin PublishingPublisher Grin PublishingWeight(grams) 145g

This book is a study of the lived experience of African men in Australia and New Zealand. The author employs a relational account of racism which foregrounds how the colonial shaped the contemporary, with the settler states of contemporary Australia and...

Microaggressions and Modern Racism: Endurance and Evolution explores the causes, manifestations, and consequences of microaggressions, macroaggressions, and modern racism within society. Using surveys and interview data alongside examples in mainstream...

This book was written to highlight the problems faced by Afro-Caribbean people, with regards to their finance, education, employment, investment, future development and lifestyles. It gives us an insight into the causes that are holding us back from...

This book explores diverse communities living in Central Asia and the Caucasus, who are generally gathered under the umbrella term of 'Gypsies', their multidimensional identities, self-appellations and labels given to them by surrounding populations,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628575552Author Ruby WelchFormat PaperbackImprint Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency, LLCPublisher Strategic Book Publishing & Rights...

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 9781349331109Author K...