Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (Large Print 16pt)
ISBN: 9781459647763 / Angielski / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., isolated himself from the demands of the civil rights movement, rented a house in Jamaica with no telephone, and labored over his final manuscript. In this prophetic work, which has been unavailable for more than ten years, he lays out his thoughts, plans, and dreams for America's future, including the need ...
In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., isolated himself from the demands of the civil rights movement, rented a house in Jamaica with no telephone, and...
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201,97 zł |
Equal Recognition: The Moral Foundations of Minority Rights
ISBN: 9780691173559 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Conflicting claims about culture are a familiar refrain of political life in the contemporary world. On one side, majorities seek to fashion the state in their own image, while on the other, cultural minorities press for greater recognition and accommodation. Theories of liberal democracy are at odds about the merits of these competing claims. Multicultural liberals hold that particular minority rights are a requirement of justice conceived of in a broadly liberal fashion. Critics, in turn, have questioned the motivations, coherence, and normative validity of such defenses of... Conflicting claims about culture are a familiar refrain of political life in the contemporary world. On one side, majorities seek to fashion the st... |
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149,65 zł |
Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
ISBN: 9780520293281 / Angielski / Miękka / 568 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political landscape, especially as it relates to Black Lives Matter and other struggles to fight police brutality against black communities. In Oakland, California, in 1966, community college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton armed themselves, began patrolling the police, and promised to prevent police brutality. Unlike the Civil Rights Movement that called for full citizenship rights for blacks...
This timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors t...
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120,04 zł |
A Century of Transnationalism: Immigrants and Their Homeland Connections
ISBN: 9780252040443 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of articles by sociologically minded historians and historically minded sociologists highlights both the long-term persistence and the continuing instability of home country connections. Encompassing societies of origin and destination from around the world, A Century of Transnationalism shows that while population movements across states recurrently produce homeland ties, those connections have varied across contexts and from one historical period to another, changing in unpredictable ways. Any number of factors shape the linkages between home and destination, including...
This collection of articles by sociologically minded historians and historically minded sociologists highlights both the long-term persistence and the...
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502,65 zł |
The History of Mary Prince a West Indian Slave
ISBN: 9783842485310 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Democracy Against Development: Lower-Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India
ISBN: 9780226063478 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hidden behind the much-touted success story of India's emergence as an economic superpower is another, far more complex narrative of the nation's recent history, one in which economic development is frequently countered by profoundly unsettling, and often violent, political movements. In Democracy against Development, Jeffrey Witsoe investigates this counter-narrative, uncovering an antagonistic relationship between recent democratic mobilization and development-oriented governance in India.
Witsoe looks at the history of colonialism in India and its role in both shaping modern... Hidden behind the much-touted success story of India's emergence as an economic superpower is another, far more complex narrative of the nation's rece...
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138,96 zł |
Reinventing Race, Reinventing Racism
ISBN: 9781608463466 / Angielski / Miękka / 399 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reinventing Race, Reinventing Racism not only provides fresh theoretical insights into the new forms of race and racism, it also provides evidence of and policy solutions to address these seemingly intractable forms of discrimination and racial disparities. These issues are tackled in accessible, yet insightful fashion by some of the nation's most prominent race and public policy scholars.
Reinventing Race, Reinventing Racism not only provides fresh theoretical insights into the new forms of race and racism, it also provides evidence of ...
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187,06 zł |
Gypsy 'Menace': Populism and the New Anti-Gypsy Politics
ISBN: 9780199327935 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Across Europe, Roma and Gypsies are suffering increasing intolerance and hostility. A new populist politics, that seeks political meaning in collective experiences and values forms of solidarity rooted in town, class, community or nation, finds in the Roma a suitable target population to which "ordinary citizens'' fears and frustrations can be attached. This politics draws on a rising tide of xenophobia; a feeling of loss of sovereignity and democratic oversight; disillusionment with political elites; frustrations with the failure of welfare programmes; the presentation of social and...
Across Europe, Roma and Gypsies are suffering increasing intolerance and hostility. A new populist politics, that seeks political meaning in collectiv...
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314,14 zł |
Cross-Cultural Women Scholars in Academe: Intergenerational Voices
ISBN: 9780415709064 / Angielski / Twarda / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This ground-breaking collection features the diverse voices, experiences, and scholarship of cross-cultural women of American Indian, Asian American, Black/African American and Hispanic descent at various levels of academe, actively engaged in the advancement of marginalized groups in the U.S. and abroad through their scholarly work. Intergenerational cross-cultural scholars manifest a literary community that models ways in which women scholars can move beyond traditional institutional, psychological, and professional barriers to practice activism, break unwritten rules, and shatter status... This ground-breaking collection features the diverse voices, experiences, and scholarship of cross-cultural women of American Indian, Asian America... |
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710,82 zł |
African Diaspora and the Metropolis: Reading the African, African American and Caribbean Experience
ISBN: 9780415845922 / Angielski / Miękka / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century, a number of African American and Caribbean intellectuals and immigrants of the African Diaspora with all their apprehensions set out in steamships en route and carried with them a certain presence to the metropoleis of Europe and North America. These individuals traversed the "middle passage" in the opposite direction from the forced journey undertaken by their enslaved ancestors. Later they began to arrive in large numbers as free men and women in London, Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Brussels, Lisbon, New York, and other places in...
At the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century, a number of African American and Caribbean intellectuals and immigrants of the Africa...
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218,27 zł |
Ideology and Social Change in Latin America
ISBN: 9780415848282 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1977, this reissue contains original articles by contemporary leading scholars in the field of Latin American politics on a range of topics including: working class organisation, populism and US labour imperialism. It will be of interest to anthropologists, students of political science and specialists in Latin American studies.
First published in 1977, this reissue contains original articles by contemporary leading scholars in the field of Latin American politics on a range o...
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218,27 zł |
Savage Portrayals: Race, Media, and the Central Park Jogger Story
ISBN: 9781439906330 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1989, the rape and beating of a white female jogger in Central Park made international headlines. Many accounts reported the incident as an example of wilding episodes of poor, minority youths roaming the streets looking for trouble. Police intent on immediate justice for the victim coerced five African-American and Latino boys to plead guilty. The teenage boys were quickly convicted and imprisoned. Natalie Byfield, who covered the case for the "New York Daily News, "now revisits the story of the Central Park Five from her perspective as a black female reporter in "Savage Portrayals....
In 1989, the rape and beating of a white female jogger in Central Park made international headlines. Many accounts reported the incident as an example...
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459,63 zł |
Savage Portrayals: Race, Media, and the Central Park Jogger Story
ISBN: 9781439906347 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1989, the rape and beating of a white female jogger in Central Park made international headlines. Many accounts reported the incident as an example of wilding episodes of poor, minority youths roaming the streets looking for trouble. Police intent on immediate justice for the victim coerced five African-American and Latino boys to plead guilty. The teenage boys were quickly convicted and imprisoned. Natalie Byfield, who covered the case for the New York Daily News, now revisits the story of the Central Park Five from her perspective as a black female reporter in Savage...
In 1989, the rape and beating of a white female jogger in Central Park made international headlines. Many accounts reported the incident as an example...
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The Encyclopedia of European Migration and Minorities: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present
ISBN: 9781107614857 / Angielski / Miękka / 812 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although migration and integration have become important concepts today as a result of globalization, migration movements, integration, and multiculturalism have always been part of the history of Europe. Few people realize how many ethnic groups participated in migration within Europe or into Europe and this ignorance has grave consequences for the social and political status of immigrants. Newly available to an English-speaking audience, this encyclopedia presents a systematic overview of the existing scholarship regarding migration within and into Europe. The first section contains survey...
Although migration and integration have become important concepts today as a result of globalization, migration movements, integration, and multicultu...
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192,89 zł |
Cabin Pressure: African American Pilots, Flight Attendants, and Emotional Labor
ISBN: 9781442221352 / Angielski / Twarda / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From African American pilots being asked to carry people's luggage to patrons refusing drinks from African American flight attendants, Cabin Pressure demonstrates that racism is still very much alive in the "friendly skies." Author Louwanda Evans draws on provocative interviews with African Americans in the flight industry to examine the emotional labor involved in a business that offers occupational prestige, but also a history of the systemic exclusion of people of color.
From African American pilots being asked to carry people's luggage to patrons refusing drinks from African American flight attendants, Cabin Pressure ...
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400,84 zł |
Crime as Structured Action: Doing Masculinities, Race, Class, Sexuality, and Crime
ISBN: 9781442225404 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. James W. Messerschmidt's groundbreaking book Crime as Structured Action demonstrates that to understand crime, we must understand how crime operates through a complex series of gender, race, sexual, and class practices. In the second edition of this powerful book, Messerschmidt updates both structured action theory as well as several of the original case studies, and he includes a new case study that further brings structured action theory to life. The book also features expanded discussions of whiteness and sexuality, and their relationships to crime.
James W. Messerschmidt's groundbreaking book Crime as Structured Action demonstrates that to understand crime, we must understand how crime operates t...
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491,69 zł |
Crime as Structured Action: Doing Masculinities, Race, Class, Sexuality, and Crime, Second Edition
ISBN: 9781442225411 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. James W. Messerschmidt's groundbreaking book Crime as Structured Action demonstrates that to understand crime, we must understand how crime operates through a complex series of gender, race, sexual, and class practices. In the second edition of this powerful book, Messerschmidt updates both structured action theory as well as several of the original case studies, and he includes a new case study that further brings structured action theory to life. The book also features expanded discussions of whiteness and sexuality, and their relationships to crime.
James W. Messerschmidt's groundbreaking book Crime as Structured Action demonstrates that to understand crime, we must understand how crime operates t...
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213,78 zł |
After Freedom Summer: How Race Realigned Mississippi Politics, 1965-1986
ISBN: 9780813049557 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A brilliant history of black politics and white resistance in post-civil rights era Mississippi. Danielson s work helps to fill the yawning gap in the black politics historiography between the Black Power movement and contemporary black politics. Additionally, he makes a critical contribution to the literature of the racial realignment of the two major political parties. A must-read "--G. Derek Musgrove, University of the District of Columbia "A sobering account of what happened after the singing and marching stopped. Danielson's masterful analysis of Mississippi's racially divided... "A brilliant history of black politics and white resistance in post-civil rights era Mississippi. Danielson s work helps to fill the yawning gap in... |
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186,36 zł |
Biracial in America: Forming and Performing Racial Identity
ISBN: 9780739184431 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Elected in 2008, Barack Obama made history as the first African American president of the United States. Though recognized as the son of a white Kansas-born mother and a black Kenyan father, the media and public have nonetheless pigeonholed him as black, and he too self-identifies as such. Obama's experience as an American with black and white ancestry, though compelling because of his celebrity, is not unique and raises several questions about the growing number of black-white biracial Americans today: How are they perceived by others with regard to race? How do they tend to identify? And...
Elected in 2008, Barack Obama made history as the first African American president of the United States. Though recognized as the son of a white Kansa...
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224,47 zł |
The Most Segregated City in America: City Planning and Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920-1980
ISBN: 9780813934914 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of Planetizen's Top Ten Books of 2006 -But for Birmingham, - Fred Shuttleworth recalled President John F. Kennedy saying in June 1963 when he invited black leaders to meet with him, -we would not be here today.- Birmingham is well known for its civil rights history, particularly for the violent white-on-black bombings that occurred there in the 1960s, resulting in the city's nickname -Bombingham.- What is less well known about Birmingham's racial history, however, is the extent to which early city planning decisions influenced and prompted the city's civil rights protests. The... One of Planetizen's Top Ten Books of 2006 -But for Birmingham, - Fred Shuttleworth recalled President John F. Kennedy saying in June 1963 whe... |
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228,75 zł |