ilość książek w kategorii: 1528
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Sewing Women : Immigrants and the New York City Garment Industry
ISBN: 9780231133081 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Many Latino and Chinese women who immigrated to New York City over the past several decades found work in the garment industry-an industry well known for both hiring immigrants and its harsh working conditions. In the 1990s, the garment industry was one of the largest immigrant employers in New York City and workers in Chinese- and Korean-owned factories produced 70 percent of all manufactured clothing in New York City. Based on extensive interviews with workers and employers, Margaret M. Chin offers a detailed and complex portrait of the work lives of Chinese and Latino garment workers....
Many Latino and Chinese women who immigrated to New York City over the past several decades found work in the garment industry-an industry well known ...
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592,34 zł |
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American Paper Son : A CHINESE IMMIGRANT IN THE MIDWEST
ISBN: 9780252072635 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Wong served in one of the all-Chinese units of the 14th Air Force in China during World War II and he discusses the impact of race and segregation on his experience. After the war he found a wife in Taishan, brought her to the US, and became involved in the government's infamous Confession program. This title gives his portrait.
Wong served in one of the all-Chinese units of the 14th Air Force in China during World War II and he discusses the impact of race and segregation on ...
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98,71 zł |
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Being Chinese, Becoming Chinese American
ISBN: 9780252073892 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Investigates how Chinese immigrants to the United States transformed themselves into Chinese Americans between 1911 and 1927.
Investigates how Chinese immigrants to the United States transformed themselves into Chinese Americans between 1911 and 1927.
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131,28 zł |
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Religion and Spirituality in Korean America
ISBN: 9780252074745 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Religion and Spirituality in Korean America examines the ambivalent identities of predominantly Protestant Korean Americans in Judeo-Christian American culture. Focusing largely on the migration of Koreans to the United States since 1965, this interdisciplinary collection investigates campus faith groups and adoptees and probes how factors such as race, the concept of diaspora, and the improvised creation of sacred spaces shape Korean American religious identity and experience. In calling attention to important trends in Korean American spirituality, this volume highlights a high rate of...
Religion and Spirituality in Korean America examines the ambivalent identities of predominantly Protestant Korean Americans in Judeo-Christian America...
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120,42 zł |
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Village "contracts" in Tokugawa Japan: Fifty Specimens with English Translations and Comments
ISBN: 9780295954059 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. There are assembled here the Japanese (sorobun) originals and English translations of over fifty private agreements, mostly dating from the 19th century and selected from eighteen different villages scattered about the main island of Japan. Their subject matter has been classified into fifteen categories for convenience: water rights, land sales, boundary lines, commons, loans with or without interest, loans with or without various kinds of security, personal services, agreements concerning family relations (such as dowry, retirement, succession, sale-of-daughter, and prenuptial... There are assembled here the Japanese (sorobun) originals and English translations of over fifty private agreements, mostly dating from the 19th ce... |
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503,86 zł |
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Altered Lives, Enduring Community : Japanese Americans Remember Their World War II Incarceration
ISBN: 9780295983813 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Altered Lives, Enduring Community examines the long-term effects on Japanese Americans of their World War II experiences: forced removal from their Pacific Coast homes, incarceration in desolate government camps, and ultimate resettlement. As part of Seattle's Densho: Japanese American Legacy Project, the authors collected interviews and survey data from Japanese Americans now living in King County, Washington, who were imprisoned during World War II. Their clear-eyed, often poignant account presents the contemporary, post-redress perspectives of former incarcerees on their... Altered Lives, Enduring Community examines the long-term effects on Japanese Americans of their World War II experiences: forced removal fro... |
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159,83 zł |
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Sweet Cakes, Long Journey : The Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon
ISBN: 9780295983837 / Angielski / Miękka / 337 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Around the turn of the twentieth century, and for decades thereafter, Oregon had the second largest Chinese population in the United States. In terms of geographical coverage, Portland's two Chinatowns (one an urban area of brick commercial structures, one a vegetable-gardening community of shanty dwellings) were the largest in all of North America. Marie Rose Wong chronicles the history of Portland's Chinatowns from their early beginnings in the 1850s until the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act in the 1940s, drawing on exhaustive primary material from the National Archives,... Around the turn of the twentieth century, and for decades thereafter, Oregon had the second largest Chinese population in the United States. In ter... |
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159,83 zł |
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Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest : Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780295984612 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Challenging the notion that Nikkei individuals before and during World War II were helpless pawns manipulated by forces beyond their control, the diverse essays in this rich collection focus on the theme of resistance within Japanese American and Japanese Canadian communities to twentieth-century political, cultural, and legal discrimination. They illustrate how Nikkei groups were mobilized to fight discrimination through assertive legal challenges, community participation, skillful print publicity, and political and economic organization. Comprised of all-new and original research,... Challenging the notion that Nikkei individuals before and during World War II were helpless pawns manipulated by forces beyond their control, the d... |
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143,96 zł |
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Asian American Issues
ISBN: 9780313319655 / Angielski / Twarda / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Many Asian Americans have made great strides in achieving the American Dream. However, this diverse population faces great challenges from outside their communities as well as from within. Asian American Issues brings to the fore eight major issues affecting the Asian American population today, including media stereotypes of a model minority, transnationalism, panethnicity, intergenerational conflict, and cultural expression. Students will find that the background narrative and questions for debate and discussion are a meaningful way to engage in the current events of this growing... Many Asian Americans have made great strides in achieving the American Dream. However, this diverse population faces great challenges from outside ... |
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313,77 zł |
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Caste, Colonialism and Counter-Modernity : Notes on a Postcolonial Hermeneutics of Caste
ISBN: 9780415342940 / Angielski / Twarda / 287 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 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. In caste today we see a continuation of a non-modern life-form on the subcontinent that one and a half centuries of colonial rule and the forces of global capitalist modernity that such rule brought in its wake have been unable to wipe out, much to the despair of social scientists, political activists and policy makers. This book discusses the enigmatic persistence of caste in the lives of...
One prevalent socio-cultural structure that is peculiar to South Asia is caste, which is broadly understood in socio-anthropological terms as an insti...
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619,90 zł |
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An Introduction to Tantric Philosophy : The Paramarthasara of Abhinavagupta with the Commentary of Yogaraja
ISBN: 9780415346696 / Angielski / Twarda / 462 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. The Paramārthasāra, or 'Essence of Ultimate Reality', is a work of the Kashmirian polymath Abhinavagupta (tenth-eleventh centuries). It is a brief treatise in which the author outlines the doctrine of which he is a notable exponent, namely nondualistic Śaivism, which he designates in his works as the Trika, or 'Triad' of three principles: Śiva, Śakti and the embodied soul (nara). The main interest of the Paramārthasāra is not only that it serves as an introduction to the established doctrine of a tradition, but also advances the notion of... The Paramārthasāra, or 'Essence of Ultimate Reality', is a work of the Kashmirian polymath Abhinavagupta (tenth-eleventh centuries). It... |
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645,69 zł |
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China's Industrial Policies and the Global Business Revolution : The Case of the Domestic Appliance Industry
ISBN: 9780415355605 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. As China has blended market reforms with comprehensive industrial policies, most research has focused on the national government's strategies for economic growth. However, one of the unique characteristics of industrial policy in China is that it involves government intervention at all levels, from the political elite all the way down to village leaders.
This book focuses on the domestic appliance industry, and China's three major business groups in this area - Haier, Hisense and Aucma. The Haier Group, in particular, is one of the most successful and competitive enterprises in... As China has blended market reforms with comprehensive industrial policies, most research has focused on the national government's strategies for econ...
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619,90 zł |
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Protestant Missionaries, Asian Immigrants, and Ideologies of Race in America, 1850-1924
ISBN: 9780415955836 / Angielski / Twarda / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. This book examines how in defending Asian rights and their own version of Christian idealism against scientific racism, missionaries developed a complex theology of race that prefigured modern ideologies of multiculturalism and reached its final, belated culmination in the liberal Protestant support of the civil rights movements in the 1960s This book examines how in defending Asian rights and their own version of Christian idealism against scientific racism, missionaries developed a co... |
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645,69 zł |
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Asian America.Net : Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Cyberspace
ISBN: 9780415965590 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Demonstrates how Asian-Americans have both defined and been defined by electronic technology. From model minority stereotypes in the software industry to the techno-orientalism of computer games, these associations weigh heavily on contemporary discourses of race.
Demonstrates how Asian-Americans have both defined and been defined by electronic technology. From model minority stereotypes in the software industry...
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542,55 zł |
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Asian America.Net : Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Cyberspace
ISBN: 9780415965606 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Asian America.Net demonstrates how Asian Americans have both defined and been defined by electronic technology. From model minority stereotypes in the software industry to the techno-orientalism of computer games, these associations weigh heavily on contemporary discourses of race, ethnicity, gender and technology. The 13 essays gathered here critically examine the intersections of these discourses in mainstream media including novels and film, in alternative currents such as chat rooms and comic books, and in real life. This contribution to the study of cyberculture illuminates the complex...
Asian America.Net demonstrates how Asian Americans have both defined and been defined by electronic technology. From model minority stereotypes in the...
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166,03 zł |
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Taiwanese American Transnational Families : Women and Kin Work
ISBN: 9780415973304 / Angielski / Twarda / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. This book explores the differences for participants when the wives migrate for reproductive labor in the United States. This book also adds a much needed non-working class dimension to the impact of migration on women and marital relations, particularly in the Pacific Rim: where husbands remain in Taiwan, the country of origin, and send remittances to support their wives and children in the United States, the receiving country. This book thus contributes to theorizing the class and gender dimensions of international migration, and provides comparative data for the study of transnational...
This book explores the differences for participants when the wives migrate for reproductive labor in the United States. This book also adds a much nee...
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181,49 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: 9780415976329 / Angielski / Twarda / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 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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645,69 zł |
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Us, Hawai'i-born Japanese : Storied Identities of Japanese American Elderly from a Sugar Plantation Community
ISBN: 9780415977982 / Angielski / Twarda / 285 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. This enlightening book on the collective identities of Japanese American elderly in a former sugar plantation community in the rural town of Puna, Hawai'i, investigates the stories in which they remember, evaluate, and represent their past lives on the plantation from the 1920s to the 1980s. Author Kinoshita deftly explores the process by which they collectively delineate their identities in terms of ethnicity, class, generation, and gender. Presenting an ethnography of remembering that captures the so-called 'cultural testimony', the Japanese American elderly, in this book, narrate their...
This enlightening book on the collective identities of Japanese American elderly in a former sugar plantation community in the rural town of Puna, Haw...
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645,69 zł |
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Racial Attitudes and Asian Pacific Americans : Demystifying the Model Minority
ISBN: 9780415979368 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. This is an examination of the complex sources and implications of the racial attitudes of Asian Pacific American (APA) college students, who, as one of the fastest growing demographics in higher education enrollments, play an increasingly significant role in campus race relations.
This is an examination of the complex sources and implications of the racial attitudes of Asian Pacific American (APA) college students, who, as one o...
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671,48 zł |
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Asian American X : An Intersection of Twenty-first Century Asian American Voices
ISBN: 9780472068746 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. "This diverse collection, like Asian America itself, adds up to something far more vibrant than the sum of its voices."
-Eric Liu, author of The Accidental Asian "There's fury, dignity, and self-awareness in these essays. I found the voices to be energetic and the ideas exciting." -Diana Son, playwright (Stop Kiss) and co-producer (Law & Order: Criminal Intent) This refreshing and timely collection of coming-of-age essays, edited and written by young Asian Americans, powerfully captures the joys and struggles of their evolving identities as one of the... "This diverse collection, like Asian America itself, adds up to something far more vibrant than the sum of its voices."
-Eric Liu, author of The... |
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117,77 zł |