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How does a multi-ethnic society resolve the contentious issue of resource allocation without damaging the state? This study examines inequality in terms of distributive justice, adaptation of political institutions, the role of symbols of recognition in...

Featuring interviews, conversations and observations from a multi-sited ethnography of Ecuadorean musicians and their families, this book offers an innovative response to previous analyses of globalization and indigenous languages, demonstrating how...

Masculine Identities and Male Sex Work Between East Java and Bali introduces the reader to the stories of young male sex workers in South Bali. These are accounts of gang warfare, bodies, and violence which speak to the dreams, aspirations, and failures...

A revealing study of the promising entry of Blacks into managerial ranks in corporations and the disappointing trend that tracked them into increasingly vulnerable jobsA revealing study of the promising entry of Blacks into managerial ranks in...

When parents form families by reaching across social barriers to adopt children, where and how does race enter the adoption process? How do agencies, parents, and the adopted children themselves deal with issues of difference in adoption? This volume...

Black Women in Management identifies some of the differences and/or similarities that exist between these women's career choices and progression and explores how they address socio-cultural and gendered expectations of domestic, social and caring...

This book is a study of black masculinity in the twenty-first century. Through a series of critical and interdisciplinary essays, this work examines the image of the black male in American society as a Toby Waller stereotype. Toby Waller is the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783659678837Author Ghosh ManonitaFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic PublishingWeight(grams)...

The nature of the connection between economic action and structure and ethnic identities receives here a long overdue and incisive re-examination. The question is addressed theoretically by revisiting the 'race and class' debate and by a wide-ranging...

Petty trade helped vast numbers of people to survive the crisis faced by post-Soviet Russia. The book analyses how this survival technique was carried out in practice. On the basis of his fieldwork research, the author shows how people coped with rapid...

This book tackles unanswered questions on British Muslims and political participation: What makes religion a salient 'political' identity for young Muslims (over any other identity)? How do young British Muslims identify themselves and how does it relate...

Immigration has long been associated with the urban landscape, from accounts of inner-city racial tension and discrimination during the 1960s and 1970s and studies of minority communities of the 1980s and 1990s, to the increased focus on cities amongst...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632991973Author Arthur C CosmasFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint River Grove BooksPublisher River Grove BooksWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639082449Author Huban KutayFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publisher VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Weight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783749881Author Grace Aneiza AliFormat HardbackPage Count 234Imprint Open Book PublishersPublisher Open Book PublishersWeight(grams) 875gDimensions(mm)...

This anthology tackles three key issues: how social capital is discussed within the contexts of racial inequality, how this dialogue informs public policy regarding neighbourhood revitalization and economic development, and how effective a strategy...

This book explores how six American writers have artistically responded to the racialization of U.S. frostbelt cities in the twentieth century. Using the critical tools of spatial theory, critical race theory, urban history and sociology, Simpson...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925138023Author Gianfranco CrescianiFormat PaperbackPage Count 295Imprint Connor Court PublishingPublisher Connor Court Publishing

Faith, hope, and love embody the black theology of liberation, a movement created by a group of African- American pastors in the 1960s who felt that Christ's gospel held a special message of liberation for African- Americans, and for all oppressed people...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783833444562Author Sabine A DeiringerFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Books on DemandPublisher Books on DemandWeight(grams) 172g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639185775Author Joan CharlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm

This book identifies and engages with an analysis of racism in the Caribbean region, providing an empirically-based theoretical re-framing of both the racialisation of the globe and evaluation of the prospects for anti-racism and the post-racial.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781836282976Author Davide MessinaFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Troubador PublishingPublisher Troubador Publishing

The work presented in this volume attests to the innovative and successful educational alternatives designed and implemented by Catholic religious groups to improve educational, career, and life outcomes for urban children, adolescents, and adults placed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783745661Author Deborah WillisFormat HardbackPage Count 672Imprint Open Book PublishersPublisher Open Book PublishersWeight(grams) 1442g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783640977031Author Andreas BrucknerFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Grin VerlagPublisher Grin VerlagWeight(grams) 45gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 2mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783656293415Author Marcel ReymondFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Grin PublishingPublisher Grin PublishingWeight(grams) 54g

This monograph considers the Catholic/Christian religious identity of young immigrants within the migratory diasporas in Southern Europe. It details important ethnographical work on various groups, such as the family, ethnic communities, and peers. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765123775Author Richard F. AmericaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

This title was first published in 2001. Employing a black feminist standpoint, Claudia Bernard offers an in-depth study of black mothers' responses to the abuse of their children and of the factors which shape their reactions and help-seeking behaviour...

This book explores how the children of Iranian immigrants in the US utilize the internet and develop digital identities. Taking Los Angeles-the long-time media and cultural center of Iranian diaspora-as its ethnographic field site, it investigates how...

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This volume identifies empirical sites and methodological frames for approaching the construction of migration as a public problem. Starting from the premise that transnationalism becomes structural in setting the public agenda, the authors explore...

This book is part of a series which makes available to English-speaking audiences the work of the individual Chinese economists who were the architects of China's economic reform. The series provides an inside view of China's economic reform, revealing...

This is the first book to provide an analysis of racism in the Mediterranean region. Ian Law reassesses contemporary processes of racialization, employing theoretical tools including polyracism, racial Arabization and racial Nawarization and drawing on...

The Cambridge Geographical Series originated in the late nineteenth century as a means of providing introductory guides to a broad variety of topics. In this volume, which was first published in 1896, the focus is on theories of ethnology and race as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781426944963Author Chai-Shin YuFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 237g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786208369613Author Nexus J a J WinsalasFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Our Knowledge PublishingPublisher Our Knowledge PublishingWeight(grams) 127g

In this innovative study, Patrick Ismond provides an analysis of the issue of racism within British sport. It presents a number of theoretical positions regarding race, racism and sport, before providing a background history of the involvement of...

This book focuses on the status quo and current trends concerning ethnic issues in China, and seeks to promote the equitable and harmonious development of Chinese and other nationalities around the world. Drawing on representative empirical studies and...