From Orphan to Adoptee : U.S. Empire and Genealogies of Korean Adoption
ISBN: 9780816683055 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych.
Transnational adoption was virtually nonexistent in Korea until U.S. military intervention in the 1940s. Currently it generates $35 million in revenue--an economic miracle for South Korea and a social and political boon for the United...
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341,51 zł |
From Orphan to Adoptee: U.S. Empire and Genealogies of Korean Adoption
ISBN: 9780816683079 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych.
Transnational adoption was virtually nonexistent in Korea until U.S. military intervention in the 1940s. Currently it generates $35 million in revenue--an economic miracle for South Korea and a social and political boon for the United...
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122,28 zł |
Men We Reaped: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781608197651 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Universally praised, Jesmyn Ward's Men We Reaped confirmed her ascendancy as a writer of both fiction and nonfiction, her Southern requiem securing its place on bestseller and best books of the year lists, with honors and awards pouring in from around the country. Jesmyn's memoir shines a light on the community she comes from, in the small town of DeLisle, Mississippi, a place of quiet beauty and fierce attachment. Here, in the space of four years, she lost five young men dear to her, including her beloved brother-lost to drugs, accidents, murder, and suicide. Their deaths... Universally praised, Jesmyn Ward's Men We Reaped confirmed her ascendancy as a writer of both fiction and nonfiction, her Southern requiem s... |
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77,64 zł |
A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil War
ISBN: 9780809068302 / Angielski / Miękka / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An unprecedented account of one of the bloodiest and most significant racial clashes in American history In May 1866, just a year after the Civil War ended, Memphis erupted in a three-day spasm of racial violence that saw whites rampage through the city's black neighborhoods. By the time the fires consuming black churches and schools were put out, forty-six freed people had been murdered. Congress, furious at this and other evidence of white resistance in the conquered South, launched what is now called Radical Reconstruction, policies to ensure the freedom of the region's... An unprecedented account of one of the bloodiest and most significant racial clashes in American history In May 1866, just a year afte... |
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86,31 zł |
The Long, Hot Summer of 1967: Urban Rebellion in America
ISBN: 9781137269621 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It seemed at times during the 1960s that America was caught in an unending cycle of violence and disorder. Successive summers from 1964-1968 brought waves of urban unrest, street fighting, looting, and arson to black communities in cities from Florida to Wisconsin, Maryland to California. In some infamous cases like Watts (1965), Newark (1967), and Detroit (1967), the turmoil lasted for days on end and left devastation in its wake: entire city blocks were reduced to burnt-out ruins and scores of people were killed or injured mainly by police officers and National Guardsmen as they battled to...
It seemed at times during the 1960s that America was caught in an unending cycle of violence and disorder. Successive summers from 1964-1968 brought w...
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467,99 zł |
Blackness in Western Europe: Racial Patterns of Paternalism and Exclusion
ISBN: 9781412853675 / Angielski / Twarda / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While the study of race relations in the United States continues to inspire and influence European thinking, Europeans have yet to confront their own history. To be black in Europe--whether during the sixteenth century or today--means sharing one crucial experience: being part of a small, but visible minority. European slave-owners, company directors, and investors in the distant past maintained an ocean-wide gap between themselves and the enslaved in the plantation colonies of the Caribbean. In the following centuries, this distance persisted. Even today, to be black in Europe often... While the study of race relations in the United States continues to inspire and influence European thinking, Europeans have yet to confront their o... |
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662,64 zł |
The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader
ISBN: 9780143106821 / Angielski / Miękka / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The broadest and most comprehensive collection of writings available by an early civil and women's rights pioneer
Seventy-one years before Rosa Parks's courageous act of resistance, police dragged a young black journalist named Ida B. Wells off a train for refusing to give up her seat. The experience shaped Wells's career, and--when hate crimes touched her life personally--she mounted what was to become her life's work: an anti-lynching crusade that captured international attention. This volume covers the entire scope of Wells's remarkable career, collecting her early writings,... The broadest and most comprehensive collection of writings available by an early civil and women's rights pioneer
Seventy-one years before ... |
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53,60 zł |
Pursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial Dynamics
ISBN: 9780739194843 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On February 26, 2012, seventeen-year-old African American male Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, a twenty-eight-year-old white Hispanic American male in Sanford, Florida. Zimmerman killed Martin in a gated community. Pursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial Dynamics, featuring a new preface by editors George Yancy and Janine Jones written after the June 2013 trial, examines the societal conditions that fueled the shooting and its ramifications for race relations and violence in America. Pursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical...
On February 26, 2012, seventeen-year-old African American male Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, a twenty-eight-year-old white H...
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230,72 zł |
African Immigrant Families in Another France
ISBN: 9780230361959 / Angielski / Twarda / 187 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Immigrant incorporation has become a key issue for France and other European societies. This book uses voices of individuals within Sub-Saharan African immigrant families to describe their integration experience as 'Another France.' Racialization is inherent in the immigration process for African migrants, and a low immigrant status is granted, limiting their employment and social integration, and many times irrespective of their qualifications or citizenship documents. First- and second-generation African youth report being, 'French on the inside, African on the out' because they hold a...
Immigrant incorporation has become a key issue for France and other European societies. This book uses voices of individuals within Sub-Saharan Africa...
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194,97 zł |
Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider
ISBN: 9780230551640 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This insightful text offers an original perspective on the significance of both racism and anti-racism in structuring the English working class. Through the unique concept of the racialized outsider, Virdee demonstrates the contribution of Irish Catholics, Jews, Asians and the African diaspora to the making of a more inclusive, democratic society.
This insightful text offers an original perspective on the significance of both racism and anti-racism in structuring the English working class. Throu...
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198,74 zł |
Debating Cultural Hybridity : Multicultural Identities and the Politics of Anti-Racism
ISBN: 9781783601615 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this era where nearly everyone at least pays lip service to the importance of multiculturalism, why is it still so difficult to negotiate differences across cultures? Why does racism still persistand how does it strike at the foundations of multiculturalism?
Bringing together some of the world s most influential postcolonial theorists, Debating Cultural Hybridity examines the place and meaning of cultural hybridity in our ever-more-connected, yet crisis-ridden and xenophobic world. Taking as its starting point the fact that personal identities are themselves multicultural, the... In this era where nearly everyone at least pays lip service to the importance of multiculturalism, why is it still so difficult to negotiate differenc...
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117,18 zł |
At the Boundaries of Homeownership: Credit, Discrimination, and the American State
ISBN: 9781108434522 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Citizens who benefit from the submerged state fail to see it; citizens who don't benefit see the state and transform it.
Citizens who benefit from the submerged state fail to see it; citizens who don't benefit see the state and transform it.
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107,00 zł |
Mission Invisible: Race, Religion, and News at the Dawn of the 9/11 Era
ISBN: 9780774826488 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For many Canadians, the attacks of 9/11 produced feelings of insecurity, vulnerability, and suspicion of ?Arabs.? How did these negative attitudes come about? Many point to the complicity of the news media in reproducing racist images of Muslim minorities. Mission Invisible chronicles varying racialized constructions of Muslim communities in the news during the most significant stage of reportage: the initial weeks when the events, issues, and primary actors of 9/11 were all first framed by journalists. By unravelling the discourse and rhetoric of news coverage in Canada at the dawn... For many Canadians, the attacks of 9/11 produced feelings of insecurity, vulnerability, and suspicion of ?Arabs.? How did these negative attitudes ... |
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173,30 zł |
Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality
ISBN: 9780774827720 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Racially mixed people in the global north are often portrayed as the embodiment of an optimistic, post-racial future. In Mixed Race Amnesia, Minelle Mahtani makes the case that this romanticized view of multiraciality governs both public perceptions and personal accounts of the mixed-race experience. Drawing on a series of interviews with mixed-race women, she explores how, in order to adopt the view that being mixed race is progressive, a strategic forgetting takes place ? one that obliterates complex diasporic histories. She argues that a new anti-colonial approach to... Racially mixed people in the global north are often portrayed as the embodiment of an optimistic, post-racial future. In Mixed Race Amnesia,... |
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453,65 zł |
Complex Justice: The Case of Missouri v. Jenkins
ISBN: 9781469614618 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1987 Judge Russell Clark mandated tax increases to help pay for improvements to the Kansas City, Missouri, School District in an effort to lure white students and quality teachers back to the inner-city district. Yet even after increasing employee salaries and constructing elaborate facilities at a cost of more than $2 billion, the district remained overwhelmingly segregated and student achievement remained far below national averages.
Just eight years later the U.S. Supreme Court began reversing these initiatives, signifying a major retreat from Brown v. Board of... In 1987 Judge Russell Clark mandated tax increases to help pay for improvements to the Kansas City, Missouri, School District in an effort to lure whi...
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203,91 zł |
Death Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights
ISBN: 9781469618999 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the Great Depression, black intellectuals, labor organizers, and artists formed the National Negro Congress (NNC) to demand a "second emancipation" in America. Over the next decade, the NNC and its offshoot, the Southern Negro Youth Congress, sought to coordinate and catalyze local antiracist activism into a national movement to undermine the Jim Crow system of racial and economic exploitation. In this pioneering study, Erik S. Gellman shows how the NNC agitated for the first-class citizenship of African Americans and all members of the working class, establishing civil rights as...
During the Great Depression, black intellectuals, labor organizers, and artists formed the National Negro Congress (NNC) to demand a "second emancipat...
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217,23 zł |
Women in IT in the New Social Era: A Critical Evidence-Based Review of Gender Inequality and the Potential for Change
ISBN: 9781466658608 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book aims to bring the topic of women in IT to the forefront of discussion about what can be done to correct this lopsided gender distribution by providing an essential guide for government professionals, students, and researchers in the ICT field looking to develop a solution to equalize the retention rate of women in these related fields--
This book aims to bring the topic of women in IT to the forefront of discussion about what can be done to correct this lopsided gender distribution by...
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1119,23 zł |
Reproducing the British Caribbean: Sex, Gender, and Population Politics after Slavery
ISBN: 9781469616056 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This innovative book traces the history of ideas and policymaking concerning population growth and infant and maternal welfare in Caribbean colonies wrestling with the aftermath of slavery. Focusing on Jamaica, Guyana, and Barbados from the nineteenth century through the 1930s, when violent labor protests swept the region, Juanita De Barros takes a comparative approach in analyzing the struggles among former slaves and masters attempting to determine the course of their societies after emancipation.
Invested in the success of the "great experiment" of slave emancipation, colonial... This innovative book traces the history of ideas and policymaking concerning population growth and infant and maternal welfare in Caribbean colonies w...
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Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America
ISBN: 9781469617831 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pigmentocracies--the fruit of the multiyear Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA)--is a richly revealing analysis of contemporary attitudes toward ethnicity and race in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, four of Latin America's most populous nations. Based on extensive, original sociological and anthropological data generated by PERLA, this landmark study analyzes ethnoracial classification, inequality, and discrimination, as well as public opinion about Afro-descended and indigenous social movements and policies that foster greater social inclusiveness, all set...
Pigmentocracies--the fruit of the multiyear Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA)--is a richly revealing analysis of contempor...
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203,91 zł |
Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow Cityvolume 41
ISBN: 9780520282582 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beginning after World War I, Houston was transformed from a black-and-white frontier town into one of the most ethnically and racially diverse urban areas in the United States.Houston Bounddraws on social and cultural history to show how, despite Anglo attempts to fix racial categories through Jim Crow laws, converging migrations particularly those of Mexicans and Creoles complicated ideas of blackness and whiteness and introduced different understandings about race. This migration history also uses music and sound to examine these racial complexities, tracing the emergence of...
Beginning after World War I, Houston was transformed from a black-and-white frontier town into one of the most ethnically and racially diverse urban a...
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134,14 zł |