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Contemporary Chinese America: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community Transformation
ISBN: 9781592138586 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents a comprehensive sociological investigation of the experiences of Chinese immigrants to the United States - and of their offspring - in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This title collects research on a range of subjects, including the causes and consequences of emigration from China and ethnic enclave economies.
Presents a comprehensive sociological investigation of the experiences of Chinese immigrants to the United States - and of their offspring - in the la...
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140,00 zł |
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The Snake Dance of Asian American Activism: Community, Vision, and Power
ISBN: 9780739127193 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text reinterprets a misunderstood and overlooked epoch of the Asian American experience, the Asian American Movement (AAM). The authors argue that, contrary to the common view of the movement as a passing phase limited to college youth, the Asian American Movement spanned diverse political viewpoints and became increasingly sophisticated and effective. Asian Americans were active participants and played unique roles in the social movements that convulsed the 1960s and 1970s, particularly in protests against the Vietnam War. The book traces the history of the AAM from its roots in the...
This text reinterprets a misunderstood and overlooked epoch of the Asian American experience, the Asian American Movement (AAM). The authors argue tha...
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556,92 zł |
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Giving Voice to Asian Christians
ISBN: 9783639060744 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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415,39 zł |
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The Transnational Politics of Asian Americans
ISBN: 9781592138609 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As America's ethnically diverse foreign-born population, Asian Americans can puzzle political observers. This title employs a variety of methodologies - including quantitative, ethnographic, and historical - to illustrate how transnational ties between the US and Asia have shaped, and are defining, Asian American politics in multicultural society.
As America's ethnically diverse foreign-born population, Asian Americans can puzzle political observers. This title employs a variety of methodologies...
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347,53 zł |
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The Transnational Politics of Asian Americans
ISBN: 9781592138616 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of essays that illustrates how transnational ties between the US and Asia have shaped, and are increasingly defining, Asian American politics in our multicultural society. It shows how the grassroots activism of America's newest minority both reflects and is instrumental in broader processes of political change throughout the Pacific.
A collection of essays that illustrates how transnational ties between the US and Asia have shaped, and are increasingly defining, Asian American poli...
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145,18 zł |
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Outside the Paint: When Basketball Ruled at the Chinese Playground
ISBN: 9781592139422 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reveals that Chinese Americans began 'shooting hoops' nearly a century before Chinese superstar Yao Ming turned pro. Drawing on interviews with players and coaches, this book takes readers back to San Francisco in the 1930s and 1940s, when young Chinese American men and women developed a new approach to the game - with fast breaks.
Reveals that Chinese Americans began 'shooting hoops' nearly a century before Chinese superstar Yao Ming turned pro. Drawing on interviews with player...
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108,87 zł |
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Psychosocial Aspects of the Asian-American Experience: Diversity Within Diversity
ISBN: 9780789010490 / Angielski / Twarda / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discover intervention strategies for issues affecting Asian Americans This important book examines the childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, and aging stages of Asian Americans to help researchers and practitioners offer better services to this ethnic group. Psychosocial Aspects of the Asian-American Experience will help you understand the ethnic and cultural diversity within the Asian-American population and offers both quantitative and qualitative research that may impact social policies and social services for Asian Americans.Representing Chinese, Japanese,...
Discover intervention strategies for issues affecting Asian Americans This important book examines the childhood, adolescence, young adultho...
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404,53 zł |
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Contemporary American Immigrants: Patterns of Filipino, Korean, and Chinese Settlement in the United States
ISBN: 9780275927264 / Angielski / Twarda / 229 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contemporary American Immigrants provides an overview to the immigration history of three of the largest groups of Asian immigrants to the United States--Filipinos, Koreans, and Chinese. This timely volume addresses such questions as: how do these Asian immigrants adapt to our culture?; to what extent do they adjust and integrate? and are Asian immigrants a credit to American society? Using 1980 census data, the author reviews in detail the social and economic characteristics of these three immigrant groups. He also explores those characteristics for the most recent arrivals--those who... Contemporary American Immigrants provides an overview to the immigration history of three of the largest groups of Asian immigrants to the United S... |
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382,20 zł |
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Racial Transformations: Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States
ISBN: 9780822337041 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Moving beyond the black-white binary that has long framed racial discourse in the United States, the contributors to this collection examine how the experiences of Latinos and Asians intersect in the formation of the U.S. nation-state. They analyze the political and social processes that have racialized Latinos and Asians while highlighting the productive ways that these communities challenge and transform the identities imposed on them. Each essay addresses the sociopolitical predicaments of both Latinos and Asians, bringing their experiences to light in relation to one...
Moving beyond the black-white binary that has long framed racial discourse in the United States, the contributors to this collection examine how the e...
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440,90 zł |
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Asian America: Forming New Communities, Expanding Boundaries
ISBN: 9780813544861 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The last half century witnessed a dramatic change in the geographic, ethnographic, and socioeconomic structure of Asian American communities. While traditional enclaves were strengthened by waves of recent immigrants, native-born Asian Americans also created new urban and suburban areas.
Asian America is the first comprehensive look at post-1960s Asian American communities in the United States and Canada. From Chinese Americans in Chicagoland to Vietnamese Americans in Orange County, this multi-disciplinary collection spans a wide comparative and panoramic scope. Contributors from an array... The last half century witnessed a dramatic change in the geographic, ethnographic, and socioeconomic structure of Asian American communities. While tr...
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695,06 zł |
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Asian America: Forming New Communities, Expanding Boundaries
ISBN: 9780813544878 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The last half century witnessed a dramatic change in the geographic, ethnographic, and socioeconomic structure of Asian American communities. While traditional enclaves were strengthened by waves of recent immigrants, native-born Asian Americans also created new urban and suburban areas.
Asian America is the first comprehensive look at post-1960s Asian American communities in the United States and Canada. From Chinese Americans in Chicagoland to Vietnamese Americans in Orange County, this multi-disciplinary collection spans a wide comparative and panoramic scope. Contributors from an array... The last half century witnessed a dramatic change in the geographic, ethnographic, and socioeconomic structure of Asian American communities. While tr...
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191,92 zł |
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Be(com)Ing Korean in the United States: Exploring Ethnic Identity Formation Through Cultural Practices
ISBN: 9781604975840 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Koreans have been immigrating to the United States via Hawaii for over a hundred years, although the greatest influx to the mainland began after 1965, making Koreans one of the most recent ethnic groups in the United States. The intimate socio-political links between the United States and the Korean peninsula after World War II also contributes to the ideas and ideals of what it means to be Korean in the United States. As with many people with immigrant background, young people of Korean descent residing in the United States try to understand their ethnic identities through their families,...
Koreans have been immigrating to the United States via Hawaii for over a hundred years, although the greatest influx to the mainland began after 1965,...
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559,65 zł |
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Asian Americans and the Shifting Politics of Race: The Dismantling of Affirmative Action at an Elite Public High School
ISBN: 9780415805759 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Asian Americans and the Shifting Politics of Race examines the political and discursive struggles around the dismantling of race-based admissions policies in an elite public high school in San Francisco. The book analyzes the arguments put forth by plaintiffs in and the media's depiction of the case, Brian Ho, Patrick Wong, & Hilary Chen v. SFUSD. The Ho lawsuit, filed by a group of Chinese Americans, challenged race-based admissions policies that were intended to ensure diversity by giving special consideration to African-American and Latino students. Robles... Asian Americans and the Shifting Politics of Race examines the political and discursive struggles around the dismantling of race-based adm... |
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280,05 zł |
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The Day the Dancers Stayed: Performing in the Filipino/American Diaspora
ISBN: 9781592137299 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pilipino cultural nights at American campuses have been a rite of passage for youth culture and a source of local community pride since the 1980s. Through performances and parodies of them, these celebrations of national identity through music, dance and theatrical narratives reemphasize what it means to be Filipino American.
Pilipino cultural nights at American campuses have been a rite of passage for youth culture and a source of local community pride since the 1980s. Thr...
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134,81 zł |
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The Day the Dancers Stayed: Performing in the Filipino/American Diaspora
ISBN: 9781592137282 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pilipino Cultural Nights at American campuses have been a rite of passage for youth culture and a source of local community pride since the 1980s. This title uses interviews and participant observer techniques to consider the relationship between the invention of performance repertoire and the development of diasporic identification.
Pilipino Cultural Nights at American campuses have been a rite of passage for youth culture and a source of local community pride since the 1980s. Thi...
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347,53 zł |
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The Unquiet Nisei: An Oral History of the Life of Sue Kunitomi Embrey
ISBN: 9780230600676 / Angielski / Twarda / 193 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An oral-history-based biography of a seminal Asian-American activist. The book traces Embrey's life from her youth in the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles, to her harrowing experiences in the Japanese internment camps, to her many decades of passionate advocacy on behalf of her fellow internees.
An oral-history-based biography of a seminal Asian-American activist. The book traces Embrey's life from her youth in the Little Tokyo section of Los ...
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192,74 zł |
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The Viet Kieu in America: Personal Accounts of Postwar Immigrants from Vietnam
ISBN: 9780786444700 / Angielski / Miękka / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vietnamese make up one of the largest refugee populations in the US, some arriving by boat in 1975 after the fall of Saigon and others coming in the 1990s. This collection of 22 essays illuminates Vietnamese-American culture, views of freedom and oppression, and the issues of relocation, assimilation and transition for two million people.
Vietnamese make up one of the largest refugee populations in the US, some arriving by boat in 1975 after the fall of Saigon and others coming in the 1...
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158,45 zł |
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Caste, Colonialism and Counter-Modernity: Notes on a Postcolonial Hermeneutics of Caste
ISBN: 9780415544351 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One prevalent socio-cultural structure that is peculiar to South Asia is caste, which is broadly understood in socio-anthropological terms as an institution of ranked, hereditary and occupational groups. This book discusses the enigmatic persistence of caste in the lives of South Asians as they step into the twenty-first century. It investigates the limits of sociological and secular historical analysis of the caste system in South Asia and argues for ways of describing life-forms generated by caste on the subcontinent that supplement the accounts of caste in the social sciences.... One prevalent socio-cultural structure that is peculiar to South Asia is caste, which is broadly understood in socio-anthropological terms as an in... |
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228,18 zł |
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Envisioning America: New Chinese Americans and the Politics of Belonging
ISBN: 9780804762427 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Envisioning America is a groundbreaking and richly detailed study of how naturalized Chinese living in Southern California become highly involved civic and political actors. Like other immigrants to the United States, their individual life stories are of survival, becoming, and belonging. But unlike any other Asian immigrant group before them, they have the resources--Western-based educations, entrepreneurial strengths, and widely based social networks in Asia--to become fully accepted in their new homes. Nevertheless, Chinese Americans are finding that their social credentials can be...
Envisioning America is a groundbreaking and richly detailed study of how naturalized Chinese living in Southern California become highly involv...
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103,69 zł |
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Envisioning America: New Chinese Americans and the Politics of Belonging
ISBN: 9780804762410 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Envisioning America is a groundbreaking and richly detailed study of how naturalized Chinese living in Southern California become highly involved civic and political actors. Like other immigrants to the United States, their individual life stories are of survival, becoming, and belonging. But unlike any other Asian immigrant group before them, they have the resources--Western-based educations, entrepreneurial strengths, and widely based social networks in Asia--to become fully accepted in their new homes. Nevertheless, Chinese Americans are finding that their social credentials can be...
Envisioning America is a groundbreaking and richly detailed study of how naturalized Chinese living in Southern California become highly involv...
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430,52 zł |
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