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Salvadorans and other Central Americans have a strong presence in the United States because of the recent civil wars, natural disasters, and resulting economic downturns in the region. Most fled the right-wing death squads that were funded by the Reagan...

Compiled in this volume is the most significant accumulation of works on the subject of African American leadership to date. As the field of leadership studies continues to grow, this timely work contributes to an understanding of the activities of those...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313213533Author Juan R. GarciaFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313234736Author Leo McGeeFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313201615Author Sherman W. SavageFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Many studies of Black men have been and will be produced, but most have approached the subject from angles other than a position of scholarship that explores how Black men have come to be socially produced as deviants, and asks how have persons in...

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313246432Author Donald Franklin JoyceFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Arthur documents the role that Africa's best and brightest play in the new migration of population from less developed countries to the United States. He highlights how Africans negotiate and forge relationships among themselves and with the members of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Authorl /f George /r comp.Book InformationISBN 9780313240928Author Lenwood DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing...

Despite the fact that a number of Rudolph Fisher's works appeared in national magazines such as Atlantic Monthly and McClure's, little critical attention has been devoted to his short fiction over the years. This collection brings together, for the first...

So-called multiculturalists have been recently targeted by journalists and scholars arguing that such apologists are the cause of contemporary cultural fragmentation, racism, neo-segregation, lowered standards, and a radicalism that ignores the wishes of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837163154Author Che RawickFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

A collection of first hand narratives and oral histories portraying the African American experience from slavery through emancipation and into the 20th century. African American Frontiers concentrates on the period from 1703, the date of the first...

The key theme addressed by all the contributors to this book is the relationship between South Africa's indigenous churches (AICs) to modernity. The key question asked by each of the contributors is to what extent, if any, do AICs serve as bridges to...

The Middle Eastern and North African region (MENA) dominates world energy exports today and will likely do so for decades to come, even if world consumers make steady progress in conservation, renewable energy sources, and increases from gas, coal, and...

A comprehensive comparative study of the distinct ideas and political arguments that have shaped French and British policies towards their ethnic minorities, and the effects of these intellectual frameworks at local, national and European levels...

Western industrial societies underwent a massive transformation during the 1980s, and this was particularly noticeable in the older cities whose economies were based on labour-intensive industry. In the period following World War II, racial and ethnic...

We know Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice as two of today's most high-profile African American political figures, but who paved the way for these notable diplomats? More than one hundred and thirty years ago, Ebenezer D. Bassett served as the first black...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780325070575Author Gregory H. MaddoxFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Heinemann Educational Books,U.S.Publisher Heinemann USA

Why do ethnic groups adopt violent means? In the 1990's, ethnicity emerged as the principle source of organized violence around the world. Ethnic wars were no longer internal conflicts between substate actors; instead they challenged state sovereignty...

When wielded by the white majority, ethnic humor can be used to ridicule and demean marginalized groups. In the hands of ethnic minorities themselves, ethnic humor can work as a site of community building and resistance. In nearly all cases, however,...

The book describes the alliance, since the mid-1980s, of the entrepreneurs of the Chinese diaspora with the new locally based industrialisation that reform in China has allowed to flourish in its townships and villages. The synergy between these two...

From the first Latinos' arrival in pre-Columbian America to the Alamo, Santeria, Desi Arnaz, the exodus from Castro's Cuba, and the 2006 immigration rallies, this volume illuminates the most critical-and some not as well-known-events in Latino history...

Debates on reparations for slavery have emerged on national and international levels. However, much of the discourse centers on the legitimate slave trade. Few people are cognizant of the fact that the transatlantic slave trade consisted of both a legal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Authorn Vechten /f Carl lner /f BruceBook InformationISBN 9780313210914Author Bruce KellnerFormat HardbackPage Count 318Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313206108Author William L. Van DeburgFormat HardbackPage Count 202Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976682301Author Sandra WaggonerFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Sable Creek PressPublisher Sable Creek PressWeight(grams) 136g

This series addresses the major subject areas of urban sociology, ethnic and minority groups within the city, social network of urban residents, location of retail and industrial activities within the metropolitan complex, decline of the central cities...

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 9780837197647Author Che RawickFormat HardbackImprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313204111Author Judy Jolley MohrazFormat HardbackPage Count 165Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313223136Author Daniel F. LittlefieldFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

The purpose of this book is to examine and analyze Americanization, De-Americanization, and racialized ethnic groups in America and consider the questions: who is an American? And what constitutes American identity and culture?About the AuthorSHERROW O...

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...

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.About the Authorake /f Sandra /i E.Book InformationISBN 9780313247835Author Sandra E. DrakeFormat HardbackPage Count 229Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury...

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...

Product information not available.About the AuthorwickBook InformationISBN 9780837197630Author Jules RawickFormat HardbackPage Count 1Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

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