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Part history, part memoir, Outliving the White Lie: A Southerner's Historical, Genealogical, and Personal Journey charts conflicting narratives of American and southern identity through a blend of public, family, and deeply personal history. Author James...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992808327Author Victoria BrowneFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Neville House PublishingPublisher Neville House Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393093032Author S N EisenstadtFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 404g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996051132Author Paulo da CostaFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Boavista PressPublisher Boavista PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970340399Author Ernest IalongoFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint John D. Calandra Italian-American InstitutePublisher John D. Calandra...

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The continuation of China's successful rise depends considerably on the capacity of the Chinese government to prevent and manage a wide range of potential and actual crises, which could, if mishandled, have serious adverse consequences for China. These...

This book offers an innovative perspective on Muslim family life in British society. Drawing on recent debates, the book considers how theories of family have overlooked Muslim families and offers a comprehensive framework to address this oversight. ...

Bringing together multi-award-winning author Hazel Carby's most important and influential essays, Cultures in Babylon addresses the political dilemmas of representing Black women as sexual subjects, considers how far female sexuality is exploited by...

The Northwest Coast of North America was home to dozens of Native peoples at the time of its first contact with Europeans. The rich artistic, ceremonial, and oral traditions of these peoples and their preservation of cultural practices have made this...

What does it mean to be Black in Scotland today? How are notions of nationhood, Scottishness, and Britishness implicated in this? Why is it important to archive and understand Black Scottish history? Reflecting on the past to make sense of the present,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788126129270Author R. S. TiwariFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint Anmol Publications Pvt LtdPublisher Anmol Publications Pvt Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825365752Author Mita BanerjeeFormat HardbackPage Count 423Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams)...

Reveals the historical and political significance of “The Divine Nine”—the Black Greek Letter Organizations In 1905, Henry Arthur Callis began his studies at Cornell University. Despite their academic pedigrees, Callis and his fellow African American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783496028093Author Christian KaufmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Dietrich ReimerPublisher Dietrich ReimerWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 239mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783496028031Author Erna FiorentiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 241Imprint Dietrich ReimerPublisher Dietrich ReimerWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 239mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783496027683Author Erich KastenFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Dietrich ReimerPublisher Dietrich ReimerWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 135mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921816628Author Hunjia JuanFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint ATF PressPublisher ATF PressWeight(grams) 254g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921816550Author Jiqieng JuanFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint ATF PressPublisher ATF PressWeight(grams) 454g

This edited collection evaluates indigenous community-based initiatives from around the world. Examples include programmes among Maori in New Zealand, Sami in Norway, Aboriginal People in Australia, Innu in Canada, and Native Americans in the mainland...

When a young white child growing up in Tanzania discovers why her family's African gardener so dislikes the chameleon she spots in a tree, she is plunged into a puzzled awareness of the complexities of race, colour and difference.As the 'I' of the...

The Kora: A Contextual Reclamation of the African Perspective is a collection of readings curated to facilitate a dynamic interest in African American studies and African American history. The anthology emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of the...

The growing mobility of people within and into the Asia Pacific region has created environments of increasing diversity as nations become hosts to both permanent and temporary multicultural societies. How do we begin to gauge the impact of mobility and...

Using digital storytelling-a new media genre that began in California in the late 1990s and that proliferated across 'the West' in the 2000s-as a site of analysis, this book asks, 'What is done in the name of the everyday?' Like everyday...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588263988Author David L. BrunsmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Lynne Rienner Publishers IncPublisher Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc

This book systematically and consistently analyses a wide range of symbols for Europe, critically interpreting their often contradictory or ambiguous dimensions of meaning and uncovering several astonishing aspects of how Europe is currently identified -...

Modern Argentine Masculinities gathers essays that explore the social construction of gender from the nineteenth century to the present. Authors analyze literary and cinematic texts, as well as contemporary popular songs, and offer a wide-ranging picture...

Contrary to today's widespread emphasis on "cultural diversity," the United States has become not a multicultural society but the world's first post-cultural society. Cultures, Christopher Clausen argues, have lost power over both public and...

Shared signing communities consist of a relatively high number of hereditarily deaf people living together with hearing people in relative isolation, one being the Akan village in Ghana called Adamorobe. Annelies Kusters traveled to Adamorobe to conduct...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781536171105Author Thomas MoellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 232g

Technology is rapidly changing the way we think about money. Digital payment has been slow to take off in the United States but is displacing cash in countries as diverse as China, Kenya, and Sweden. In Reimagining Money, Sibel Kusimba describes the rise...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478013891Author Xine YaoFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Duke University PressPublisher Duke University PressWeight(grams) 152g

AIDS and the Distribution of Crises engages with the AIDS pandemic as a network of varied historical, overlapping, and ongoing crises born of global capitalism and colonial, racialized, gendered, and sexual violence. Drawing on their investments in...

In Cartographic Memory, Juan Herrera maps 1960s Chicano movement activism in the Latinx neighborhood of Fruitvale in Oakland, California, showing how activists there constructed a politics forged through productions of space. From Chicano-inspired street...

In Insurgent Aesthetics Ronak K. Kapadia theorizes the world-making power of contemporary art responses to US militarism in the Greater Middle East. He traces how new forms of remote killing, torture, confinement, and surveillance have created a...

Race Policy and Multiracial Americans is the first book to look at the impact of multiracial people on race policies-where they lag behind the growing numbers of multiracial people in the U.S. and how they can be used to promote racial justice for...

Since the election in 2008 of Barack Obama to the Presidency of the United States there have been a plethora of books, films, and articles about the role of race in the election of the first person of color to the White House. None of these works though...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780920897119Author Myrna KostashFormat PaperbackPage Count 446Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 632gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm

The essays in this collection explore the activities of two populations of displaced peoples that are seldom discussed together: Indigenous peoples and refugees or diasporic peoples around the world. Rather than focusing on victimhood, the authors focus...

Contemporary Ethnographic StudiesBook InformationISBN 9780892329618Author Jeffrey A. SlukaFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint JAI Press Inc.Publisher Emerald Publishing LimitedWeight(grams) 644gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 150mm * 28mm