La Comunidad Latina in the United States: Personal and Political Strategies for Transforming Culture
ISBN: 9780275958923 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. La comunidad Latina, the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States, has long been told that assimilation is the only way to succeed in American society. This book challenges that generally accepted view and concludes instead that transformation as a way of life is the only viable option for the Latino community as a whole, regardless of racial, class, regional, or religious differences. It highlights how in the everyday life of la comunidad Latina the members of the community can recognize the underlying ways of life, the stories, and the patterns of relationships that cripple... La comunidad Latina, the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States, has long been told that assimilation is the only way to succeed in Amer... |
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576,07 zł |
Black Male Deviance
ISBN: 9780275959135 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 academe participated in the production of these perceived deviants, and how has the Black community responded to this social construct of a role. This work is directed toward sociologists and those who are interested in the study of the Black community.
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 tha... |
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276,19 zł |
Crossing the Line: Interracial Couples in the South
ISBN: 9780313309625 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 South, this ethnographic study describes the issues and obstacles these couples have to face and documents their overwhelming sense of social isolation. The problems include hostility, encountered while the couple is in public, ranging from stares to outright attacks, as well as a lack of support and ostracization by their families. After... Despite the increased number of interracial marriages in recent years, Black/White couples still experience a host of problems in American society,... |
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456,12 zł |
Breaking Bad Habits of Race and Gender: Transforming Identity in Schools
ISBN: 9780742563599 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines actual classroom events of racial and gender discord. It employs the theoretical lenses of pragmatism, whitenes studies, critical race theory, and poststructuralism to offer an original analysis of how students come to embody their races and genders through schooling practices. Finally, it offers a pathway out of racism and sexism through the cultivation of flexible habits of identity.
This book examines actual classroom events of racial and gender discord. It employs the theoretical lenses of pragmatism, whitenes studies, critical r...
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160,97 zł |
Renaissance humanism and ethnicity before race: The Irish and the English in the seventeenth century
ISBN: 9780719088360 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The modern ideology of race, so important in twentieth-century Europe, incorporates both a theory of human societies and a theory of human bodies. Ian Campbell's new study examines how the elite in early modern Ireland spoke about human societies and human bodies, and demonstrates that this elite discourse was grounded in a commitment to the languages and sciences of Renaissance Humanism.Emphasising the education of all of early modern Ireland's antagonistic ethnic groups in common European university and grammar school traditions, Campbell explains both the workings of the learned English...
The modern ideology of race, so important in twentieth-century Europe, incorporates both a theory of human societies and a theory of human bodies. Ian...
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456,07 zł |
The Conflict of the Church and the Synagogue: A Study in the Origins of Antisemitism
ISBN: 9781597405041 / Angielski / Miękka / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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318,12 zł |
The Violence of Incarceration
ISBN: 9780415499255 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on primary research in the USA, Canada, Australia, Ireland and the UK, this title provides a provocative insight into the brutality of incarceration in 'civilised' states and its links to the revelations of torture and abuse in the 'war on terror'.
Drawing on primary research in the USA, Canada, Australia, Ireland and the UK, this title provides a provocative insight into the brutality of incarce...
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300,69 zł |
Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal
ISBN: 9780307388421 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this incisive and unflinching study, Randall Kennedy, author of Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, tackles another stigma of America's racial discourse: -selling out.- He explains the origins of the concept and shows how fear of this label has haunted prominent members of the black community--including, most recently, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and Barack Obama. Sellout also contains a rigorously fair case study of America's quintessential racial -sellout---Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. In the book's final section, Kennedy recounts how he himself...
In this incisive and unflinching study, Randall Kennedy, author of Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, tackles another stigma of ...
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81,40 zł |
The Xaripu Community Across Borders: Labor Migration, Community, and Family
ISBN: 9780268022129 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the past three decades there have been many studies of transnational migration. Most of the scholarship has focused on one side of the border, one area of labor incorporation, one generation of migrants, and one gender. In this path-breaking book, Manuel Barajas presents the first cross-national, comparative study to examine a Mexican-origin community's experience with international migration and transnationalism. He presents an extended case study of the Xaripu community, with home bases in both Xaripu, Michoacan, and Stockton, California, and elaborates how various forms of...
During the past three decades there have been many studies of transnational migration. Most of the scholarship has focused on one side of the border, ...
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152,87 zł |
The Decline of Men: How the American Male Is Getting Axed, Giving Up, and Flipping Off His Future
ISBN: 9780061353154 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In an eye-opening exploration of contemporary American manhood, Guy Garcia's The Decline of Men shows how men are struggling to redefine what being a man means in today's world. Packed with startling statistics, informed by pop culture, and narrated in the entertaining style for which Guy Garcia is known, The Decline of Men sheds light on a problem that has wreaked havoc on the American family and urges men and women to look past the gender wars to address this national emergency together.
In an eye-opening exploration of contemporary American manhood, Guy Garcia's The Decline of Men shows how men are struggling to redefine what...
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77,07 zł |
Long Dark Road: Bill King and Murder in Jasper, Texas
ISBN: 9780292721432 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On a long dark road in deep East Texas, James Byrd Jr. was dragged to his death behind a pickup truck one summer night in 1998. The brutal modern-day lynching stunned people across America and left everyone at a loss to explain how such a heinous crime could possibly happen in our more racially enlightened times. Many eventually found an answer in the fact that two of the three men convicted of the murder had ties to the white supremacist Confederate Knights of America. In the ex-convict ringleader, Bill King, whose body was covered in racist and satanic tattoos, people saw the ultimate... On a long dark road in deep East Texas, James Byrd Jr. was dragged to his death behind a pickup truck one summer night in 1998. The brutal modern-d... |
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107,10 zł |
Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954
ISBN: 9781604732474 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954 studies the meaning of interracial romance, love, and sex in the ten years after World War II. How was interracial romance treated in popular culture by civil rights leaders, African American soldiers, and white segregationists? Previous studies focus on the period beginning in 1967 when the Supreme Court overturned the last state antimiscegenation law (Loving v. Virginia). Lubin's study, however, suggests that we cannot fully understand contemporary debates about -hybridity, - or mixed-race identity, without... Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954 studies the meaning of interracial romance, love, and sex in the ten yea... |
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216,22 zł |
The Public Intellectualism of Ralph Waldo Emerson and W.E.B. Du Bois: Emotional Dimensions of Race and Reform
ISBN: 9780230618848 / Angielski / Twarda / 183 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the first in-depth study of the emotional dimensions of Du Bois's and Emerson's writings on public intellectualism, reform, and race, Schneider offers a valuable and eloquent contribution to the critical tradition.
In the first in-depth study of the emotional dimensions of Du Bois's and Emerson's writings on public intellectualism, reform, and race, Schneider off...
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194,97 zł |
New Methods in Social Justice Research for the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780415550833 / Angielski / Twarda / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a source of innovative theories and data for researchers grappling with social justice methodology and research methods in an environment constrained by funding agendas. This book foregrounds and promotes creativity and imagination within a critical frame of reference to challenge the status quo. It invites people into creative spaces for thinking about and researching 'the social'. With/in these spaces both the processes of social justice research (methodology) and the presentation of the research (re-presentation) are seen as being intertwined. This book... This book provides a source of innovative theories and data for researchers grappling with social justice methodology and research methods in an en... |
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662,64 zł |
The Eu Race Directive: Developing the Protection Against Racial Discrimination Within the Eu
ISBN: 9780415543736 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2000, the European Union adopted a Directive against discrimination on the grounds of racial or ethnic origin. This book provides an in-depth evaluation of the Race Directive and its effects, questioning how successful the Race directive has been. The EU Race Directive discusses the history of the fight against racial discrimination in the EU and the equality clauses in international Human Rights instruments. It then examines the terms race, racism and racial discrimination and equality in the Directive. The book also looks at the concepts of equality which can be... In 2000, the European Union adopted a Directive against discrimination on the grounds of racial or ethnic origin. This book provides an in-depth ev... |
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713,61 zł |
Intra-Jewish Conflict in Israel : White Jews, Black Jews
ISBN: 9780415778640 / Angielski / Twarda / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This resource examines the Mizrahi Jews (Jews from the Muslim world) in Israel, focussing on social and political movements such as the Black Panthers and SHAS. It charts the relations and political struggle between Ashkenazi-Zionists and the Mizrahim in Israel from post-war relocation through to the present day.
This resource examines the Mizrahi Jews (Jews from the Muslim world) in Israel, focussing on social and political movements such as the Black Panthers...
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739,10 zł |
Racial Profiling: Research, Racism, and Resistance
ISBN: 9780742561052 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a critical examination of mainstream research on racial profiling. Through qualitative analysis of interviews with people of color who have experienced racial profiling, it offers an alternative understanding of racialized law and the traffic stop as the manifestation of racialized law enforcement.
This book is a critical examination of mainstream research on racial profiling. Through qualitative analysis of interviews with people of color who ha...
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509,72 zł |
Racial Profiling: Research, Racism, and Resistance
ISBN: 9780742561069 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a critical examination of mainstream research on racial profiling. Through qualitative analysis of interviews with people of color who have experienced racial profiling, it offers an alternative understanding of racialized law and the traffic stop as the manifestation of racialized law enforcement.
This book is a critical examination of mainstream research on racial profiling. Through qualitative analysis of interviews with people of color who ha...
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203,89 zł |
Race and Representation: The National Political Science Review
ISBN: 9781560009597 / Angielski / Miękka / 343 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The National Political Science Review is the official publication of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. This series, now entering its sixth volume, includes significant scholarly research reflecting the diverse interests of scholars from various backgrounds who use different models, approaches, and methodologies. The central focus is on politics and policies that advantage or disadvantage groups because of race, ethnicity, gender, and other major variables. Race and Representation is anchored by a symposium that focuses on efforts to enhance representation of African...
The National Political Science Review is the official publication of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. This series, now entering ...
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219,12 zł |
When I Can Read My Title Clear: Literacy, Slavery, and Religion in the Antebellum South
ISBN: 9780872498716 / Angielski / Miękka / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. a distinctive volume revealing yet again America's often-contradictory dance with freedom and the concepts of equality and inalienable rights. -- Chicago Tribune
a distinctive volume revealing yet again America's often-contradictory dance with freedom and the concepts of equality and inalienable rights. -- Chic...
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125,30 zł |