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Hate Crimes: Confronting Violence Against Lesbians and Gay Men
ISBN: 9780803945425 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents an overview of the problem of violence against lesbians and gay men and discusses the context of anti-gay violence, focusing on both the victims and the perpetrators, and concludes with coverage of a variety of community responses.
Presents an overview of the problem of violence against lesbians and gay men and discusses the context of anti-gay violence, focusing on both the vict...
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408,06 |
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Analyzing Inequality: Life Chances and Social Mobility in Comparative Perspective
ISBN: 9780804750967 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Analyzing Inequality summarizes key issues in today's theoretically guided empirical research on social inequality, life course, and cross-national comparative sociology. It describes the progress made in terms of data sources, both cross-sectional and longitudinal; the new instruments that make inequality research possible; new ways of thinking and explaining; and empirical findings or important contributions of rigorous empirical research to our understanding. The chapters, each written by a distinguished social scientist, are of interest to both scholars and students. This is the...
Analyzing Inequality summarizes key issues in today's theoretically guided empirical research on social inequality, life course, and cross-nati...
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383,76 |
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Learning Difference: Race and Schooling in the Multiracial Metropolis
ISBN: 9780804753159 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This ethnographic study of an urban high school in one of the most diverse cities in the United States examines the role that race plays in the lives of students. At a school publicly celebrated for its integration, academic excellence, and racial harmony, the reality is a different story: that of continuing internal segregation and racial conflicts. Examining the role of race in neighborhood relations, desegregation programs, and school violence, the author uncovers competing racial orders. A gifted magnet program reinforces the notion that being white means being gifted. Conflicts in the...
This ethnographic study of an urban high school in one of the most diverse cities in the United States examines the role that race plays in the lives ...
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422,64 |
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Learning Difference: Race and Schooling in the Multiracial Metropolis
ISBN: 9780804753166 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This ethnographic study of an urban high school in one of the most diverse cities in the United States examines the role that race plays in the lives of students. At a school publicly celebrated for its integration, academic excellence, and racial harmony, the reality is a different story: that of continuing internal segregation and racial conflicts. Examining the role of race in neighborhood relations, desegregation programs, and school violence, the author uncovers competing racial orders. A gifted magnet program reinforces the notion that being white means being gifted. Conflicts in the...
This ethnographic study of an urban high school in one of the most diverse cities in the United States examines the role that race plays in the lives ...
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98,83 |
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Peer Prejudice and Discrimination: The Origins of Prejudice
ISBN: 9780805837711 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This award-winning book provides an analysis of the genetic/evolutionary, cultural/historical, and developmental aspects of prejudice and discrimination. It emphasizes how certain genetic/evolutionary mechanisms are utilized to both produce and prevent prejudice and discrimination from occurring or to modify these behaviors once established. The goals of the book are to help us understand the limitations of interventions and increase tolerance and acceptance of outsiders. Peer Prejudice and Discrimination, Second Edition is ideal for advanced-level courses on prejudice and/or...
This award-winning book provides an analysis of the genetic/evolutionary, cultural/historical, and developmental aspects of prejudice and discriminati...
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655,81 |
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Peer Prejudice and Discrimination : The Origins of Prejudice
ISBN: 9780805837728 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is suitable for A Level courses on prejudice and/or prejudice and discrimination, or as a supplement in social psychology and developmental psychology courses. This second edition features a new chapter on the influence of peers, parents and personality on prejudice.
This volume is suitable for A Level courses on prejudice and/or prejudice and discrimination, or as a supplement in social psychology and developmenta...
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242,84 |
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Stereotype Dynamics: Language-Based Approaches to the Formation, Maintenance, and Transformation of Stereotypes
ISBN: 9780805856774 / Angielski / Twarda / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume addresses the role of communication in stereotype dynamics, while placing the phenomenon of social stereotypes appropriately in the socio-cultural context. Stereotype Dynamics assembles top researchers in the field to investigate stereotype formation, maintenance, and transformation through interpersonal facets of communication. Section one presents meta-theoretical perspectives, strongly informed by theories and empirical research. Subsequent parts address the following research questions in the perspectives of language-based communication:
This volume addresses the role of communication in stereotype dynamics, while placing the phenomenon of social stereotypes appropriately in the soc... |
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728,68 |
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Stereotype Dynamics: Language-Based Approaches to the Formation, Maintenance, and Transformation of Stereotypes
ISBN: 9780805856781 / Angielski / Miękka / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. < P> < P> This volume addresses the role of communication in stereotype dynamics, while placing the phenomenon of social stereotypes appropriately in the socio-cultural context. < EM> Stereotype Dynamics < /EM> assembles top researchers in the field to investigate stereotype formation, maintenance, and transformation through interpersonal facets of communication.< /P> < P> Section one presents meta-theoretical perspectives, strongly informed by theories and empirical research. Subsequent parts address the following research questions in the perspectives of...
< P> < P> This volume addresses the role of communication in stereotype dynamics, while placing the phenomenon of social stereotypes appropriately in ...
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Turning Back
ISBN: 9780807041215 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the ASA, Oliver Cox Award for Anti-Racist Scholarship
From the author of "The Ethnic Myth" comes this cogent analysis of how social science has placed a liberal gloss on racism and failed to champion civil rights. From a powerful critique of Gunnar Myrdal's classic "An American Dilemma" to a new epilogue that dismantles the myth of black progress, "Turning Back" offers a challenge to liberals as well as conservatives, blacks as well as whites, who have fueled the current backlash by providing a spurious intellectual cover for gutting affirmative action and other policies... Winner of the ASA, Oliver Cox Award for Anti-Racist Scholarship
From the author of "The Ethnic Myth" comes this cogent analysis of how social scie... |
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Case Studies of Minority Student Placement in Special Education
ISBN: 9780807747612 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book features vivid case studies that bring to life real children, school personnel, and family members from the bestselling book, Why Are So Many Minority Students in Special Education? Once again addressing the disproportionate placement of minority students in special education programs, this new book includes the voices and perspectives of all stakeholders to show the tremendous complexity of the issues and the dilemmas faced by professionals, family members, and children. Challenging questions and scenarios are offered at the end of each case study to provide thoughtful follow-up...
This book features vivid case studies that bring to life real children, school personnel, and family members from the bestselling book, Why Are So Man...
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101,97 |
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Citizen Klansmen: The Ku Klux Klan in Indiana, 1921-1928
ISBN: 9780807846278 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Indiana had the largest and most politically significant state organization in the massive national Ku Klux Klan movement of the 1920s. Using a unique set of Klan membership documents, quantitative analysis, and a variety of other sources, Leonard Moore provides the first comprehensive analysis of the social characteristics and activities of the Indiana Klan membership and thereby reveals the nature of the group's political support.
Challenging traditional assumptions about the Klan, Moore argues that in Indiana the organization represented an extraordinarily wide cross section of... Indiana had the largest and most politically significant state organization in the massive national Ku Klux Klan movement of the 1920s. Using a unique...
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184,60 |
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White Enough to Be American?: Race Mixing, Indigenous People, and the Boundaries of State and Nation
ISBN: 9780807858370 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Racial mixture posed a distinct threat to European American perceptions of the nation and state in the late nineteenth century, says Lauren Basson, as it exposed and disrupted the racial categories that organized political and social life in the United States. Offering a provocative conceptual approach to the study of citizenship, nationhood, and race, Basson explores how racial mixture challenged and sometimes changed the boundaries that defined what it meant to be American.
Drawing on government documents, press coverage, and firsthand accounts, Basson presents four fascinating... Racial mixture posed a distinct threat to European American perceptions of the nation and state in the late nineteenth century, says Lauren Basson, as...
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155,45 |
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Waiting for Gautreaux: A Story of Segregation, Housing, and the Black Ghetto
ISBN: 9780810123441 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner, 2006 The American Lawyer Lifetime Achievement Award
On his thirty-ninth birthday in 1966, Alexander Polikoff, a volunteer ACLU attorney and partner in a Chicago law firm, met some friends to discuss a pro bono case. Over lunch, the four talked about the Chicago Housing Authority construction program. All the new public housing, it seemed, was going into black neighborhoods. If discrimination was prohibited in public schools, wasn't it also prohibited in public housing? And so began "Gautreaux v. CHA and HUD, " a case that from its rocky beginnings would roll on year after... Winner, 2006 The American Lawyer Lifetime Achievement Award
On his thirty-ninth birthday in 1966, Alexander Polikoff, a volunteer ACLU attorney an... |
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Waiting for Gautreaux: A Story of Segregation, Housing, and the Black Ghetto
ISBN: 9780810124202 / Angielski / Miękka / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner, 2006 The American Lawyer Lifetime Achievement Award
On his thirty-ninth birthday in 1966, Alexander Polikoff, a volunteer ACLU attorney and partner in a Chicago law firm, met some friends to discuss a pro bono case. Over lunch, the four talked about the Chicago Housing Authority construction program. All the new public housing, it seemed, was going into black neighborhoods. If discrimination was prohibited in public schools, wasn't it also prohibited in public housing? And so began "Gautreaux v. CHA and HUD, " a case that from its rocky beginnings would roll on year after... Winner, 2006 The American Lawyer Lifetime Achievement Award
On his thirty-ninth birthday in 1966, Alexander Polikoff, a volunteer ACLU attorney an... |
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American Indian Stereotypes in the World of Children: A Reader and Bibliography
ISBN: 9780810836136 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The world of contemporary American infants and young children is saturated with inappropriate images of American Indians. American Indian Stereotypes in the World of Children reveals and discusses these images and cultural stereotypes through writings like Kathy Kerner's previously unpublished essay on Thanksgiving and an essay by Dr. Cornell Pewewardy on Disney's Pocahontas film. This edition incorporates new writings and recent developments, such as a chronology documenting changes associated with the mascot issue, along with information on state legislation. Other new material incorporates...
The world of contemporary American infants and young children is saturated with inappropriate images of American Indians. American Indian Stereotypes ...
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325,48 |
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Unraveling Somalia: Race, Class, and the Legacy of Slavery
ISBN: 9780812216882 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unraveling Somalia Race, Class, and the Legacy of Slavery Catherine Besteman "Besteman's well-written and important book is a fine example of how careful scholarship can expose the realities behind widely held beliefs."--Choice In 1991 the Somali state collapsed. Once heralded as the only true nation-state in Africa, the Somalia of the 1990s suffered brutal internecine warfare. At the same time a politically created famine caused the deaths of a half a million people and the flight of a million refugees. During the civil war, scholarly and popular analyses explained Somalia's...
Unraveling Somalia Race, Class, and the Legacy of Slavery Catherine Besteman "Besteman's well-written and important book is a fine example of how care...
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135,98 |
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Inequality, Crime, And Social Control
ISBN: 9780813320052 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings together the most recent advances in theory and research on the relationship between social inequality and the control of criminal behavior.
This book brings together the most recent advances in theory and research on the relationship between social inequality and the control of criminal be...
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252,56 |
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Inequality Classic Readings in Race, Class, and Gender: Classic Readings in Race, Class, and Gender
ISBN: 9780813343303 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The field of inequality emerged out of a set of classic textsimportant works that students and scholars continue to read and to rely on to inform their ongoing research. Often controversial and deeply influential, these texts formed the field as we know it and serve as cornerstones even today. For the first time, these twenty calssic texts have no been brought together in a new reader, Inequality: Classic Readings in Race, Class, and Gender. Edited by David B. Grusky and Sonja Szelenyi, this important new volume provides:
A solid introduction to fundamental concepts, theories, and... The field of inequality emerged out of a set of classic textsimportant works that students and scholars continue to read and to rely on to inform thei...
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276,84 |
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Speaking Truth To Power : Essays On Race, Resistance, And Radicalism
ISBN: 9780813388281 / Angielski / Miękka / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through public appearances, radio and television interviews, and his many articles and books, Manning Marable has become one of America's most prominent commentators on race relations and African-American politics. Speaking Truth to Power brings together for the first time Marable's major writings on black politics, peace, and social justice.The book traces the changing role of race within the American political system since the Civil Rights Movement. It also charts the author's striking evolution of political ideas, moving toward a political analysis of multicultural democracy, social...
Through public appearances, radio and television interviews, and his many articles and books, Manning Marable has become one of America's most promine...
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223,41 |
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When History Is A Nightmare: Lives and Memories of Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina
ISBN: 9780813526768 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stevan M. Weine is a psychiatrist who has spent the past decade working with Bosnian survivors of ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia. As he listened to their testimonies, Weine concluded that these narratives were capable of bearing a complex truth about the horrific events in Yugoslavia that often were lost in more analytic works on the subject. When History is a Nightmare also explores how these traumatic events affected not just individuals, but an entire society and its culture. Weine investigates the survivors' attempts to reconcile the contrasting, collective memories of having...
Stevan M. Weine is a psychiatrist who has spent the past decade working with Bosnian survivors of ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia. As he lis...
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160,30 |
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