ilość książek w kategorii: 2359
Pinoy Capital: The Filipino Nation in Daly City
ISBN: 9781592136643 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Home to 33,000 Filipino American residents, Daly City, California, located just outside of San Francisco, has been dubbed the Pinoy Capital of the United States. In this fascinating ethnographic study of the lives of Daly City residents, Benito Vergara shows how Daly City has become a magnet for the growing Filipino American community. Vergara challenges rooted notions of colonialism here, addressing the immigrants identities, connections and loyalties. Using the lens of transnationalism, he looks at the double lives of both recent and established Filipino Americans. Vergara explores how... Home to 33,000 Filipino American residents, Daly City, California, located just outside of San Francisco, has been dubbed the Pinoy Capital of the ... |
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346,86 zł |
Japan's Commission on the Constitution: The Final Report
ISBN: 9780295957678 / Angielski / Twarda / 423 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Japan's Commission on the Constitution: The Final Report Japan's Commission on the Constitution: The Final Report |
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471,11 zł |
Limiting Secularism : The Ethics of Coexistence in Indian Literature and Film
ISBN: 9780816650729 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With a backdrop of religious violence and escalating regional tensions in South Asia, Priya Kumar's Limiting Secularism probes the urgent topic of secularism and tolerance in Indian culture and life. Kumar explores Partition as the founding trauma of the Indian nation-state and traces the consequences of its marking off of "Indian" from "Pakistani" and the positioning of Indian Muslims as strangers within the nation.
Kumar unpacks the implications of the Nehruvian doctrine of tolerance-with all of its resonances of condescension and inequality-and asks whether more... With a backdrop of religious violence and escalating regional tensions in South Asia, Priya Kumar's Limiting Secularism probes the urgent topic... |
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310,62 zł |
Limiting Secularism: The Ethics of Coexistence in Indian Literature and Film
ISBN: 9780816650736 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With a backdrop of religious violence and escalating regional tensions in South Asia, Priya Kumar's Limiting Secularism probes the urgent topic of secularism and tolerance in Indian culture and life. Kumar explores Partition as the founding trauma of the Indian nation-state and traces the consequences of its marking off of "Indian" from "Pakistani" and the positioning of Indian Muslims as strangers within the nation.
Kumar unpacks the implications of the Nehruvian doctrine of tolerance-with all of its resonances of condescension and inequality-and asks whether more... With a backdrop of religious violence and escalating regional tensions in South Asia, Priya Kumar's Limiting Secularism probes the urgent topic... |
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113,84 zł |
Desi Land: Teen Culture, Class, and Success in Silicon Valley
ISBN: 9780822343004 / Angielski / Twarda / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Desi Land is Shalini Shankar s lively ethnographic account of South Asian American teen culture during the Silicon Valley dot-com boom. Shankar focuses on how South Asian Americans, or Desis, define and manage what it means to be successful in a place brimming with the promise of technology. Between 1999 and 2001 Shankar spent many months kickin it with Desi teenagers at three Silicon Valley high schools, and she has since followed their lives and stories. The diverse high-school students who populate Desi Land are Muslims, Hindus, Christians, and Sikhs, from South Asia and...
Desi Land is Shalini Shankar s lively ethnographic account of South Asian American teen culture during the Silicon Valley dot-com boom. Shankar...
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440,04 zł |
Desi Land: Teen Culture, Class, and Success in Silicon Valley
ISBN: 9780822343158 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Desi Land is Shalini Shankar s lively ethnographic account of South Asian American teen culture during the Silicon Valley dot-com boom. Shankar focuses on how South Asian Americans, or Desis, define and manage what it means to be successful in a place brimming with the promise of technology. Between 1999 and 2001 Shankar spent many months kickin it with Desi teenagers at three Silicon Valley high schools, and she has since followed their lives and stories. The diverse high-school students who populate Desi Land are Muslims, Hindus, Christians, and Sikhs, from South Asia and...
Desi Land is Shalini Shankar s lively ethnographic account of South Asian American teen culture during the Silicon Valley dot-com boom. Shankar...
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113,84 zł |
Chinas Unlimited: Making the Imaginaries of China and Chineseness
ISBN: 9780700714926 / Angielski / Twarda / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The foundations of popular and scientific imaginings of China are examined in this socio-cultural study of the historical representation of China and Chineseness.
The foundations of popular and scientific imaginings of China are examined in this socio-cultural study of the historical representation of China and ...
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673,02 zł |
The Development of Modern Medicine in Non-Western Countries: Historical Perspectives
ISBN: 9780415447423 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The history of medicine in non-European countries has often been characterized by the study of their native "traditional" medicine, such as (Galenico-)Islamic medicine, and Ayurvedic or Chinese medicine. Modern medicine in these countries, on the other hand, has usually been viewed as a Western corpus of knowledge and institution, juxtaposing or replacing the native medicine but without any organic relation with the local context. By discarding categories like Islamic, Indian, or Chinese medicine as the myths invented by modern (Western) historiography in the aftermath of the... The history of medicine in non-European countries has often been characterized by the study of their native "traditional" medicine, such as (Galeni... |
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750,67 zł |
Haunting the Korean Diaspora : Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War
ISBN: 9780816652747 / Angielski / Twarda / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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289,92 zł |
Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War
ISBN: 9780816652754 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the Korean WarOCothe forgotten warOComore than a million Korean women have acted as sex workers for U.S. servicemen. More than 100,000 women married GIs and moved to the United States. Through intellectual vigor and personal recollection, Haunting the Korean Diaspora explores the repressed history of emotional and physical violence between the United States and Korea and the unexamined reverberations of sexual relationships between Korean women and American soldiers. Grace M. Cho exposes how Koreans in the United States have been profoundly affected by the forgotten war and uncovers the...
Since the Korean WarOCothe forgotten warOComore than a million Korean women have acted as sex workers for U.S. servicemen. More than 100,000 women mar...
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103,49 zł |
Pinoy Capital: The Filipino Nation in Daly City
ISBN: 9781592136650 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Home to 33,000 Filipino American residents, Daly City, California, located just outside of San Francisco, has been dubbed "the Pinoy Capital of the United States". This title studies the lives of Daly City residents, showing how Daly City has become a magnet for the growing Filipino American community.
Home to 33,000 Filipino American residents, Daly City, California, located just outside of San Francisco, has been dubbed "the Pinoy Capital of the Un...
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129,37 zł |
Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation
ISBN: 9780801890826 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How did thousands of Chinese migrants end up working alongside African Americans in Louisiana after the Civil War? With the stories of these workers, Coolies and Cane advances an interpretation of emancipation that moves beyond U.S. borders and the black-white racial dynamic. Tracing American ideas of Asian labor to the sugar plantations of the Caribbean, Moon-Ho Jung argues that the racial formation of -coolies- in American culture and law played a pivotal role in reconstructing concepts of race, nation, and citizenship in the United States. Jung examines how coolies appeared... How did thousands of Chinese migrants end up working alongside African Americans in Louisiana after the Civil War? With the stories of these worker... |
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195,14 zł |
The Snake Dance of Asian American Activism: Community, Vision, and Power
ISBN: 9780739127209 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text reinterprets a misunderstood epoch of the Asian American experience_the Asian American movement (AAM). The authors address the AAM's dramatic impact on the direction of Asian American political and social activity beginning in the 1960s, particularly in terms of neighborhood redevelopment, civil rights, international solidarity, and the Jesse Jackson presidential campaigns. They argue that the movement became the vehicle to bring Asian American communities into the mainstream of civil life.
This text reinterprets a misunderstood epoch of the Asian American experience_the Asian American movement (AAM). The authors address the AAM's dramati...
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245,23 zł |
Contemporary Chinese America: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community Transformation
ISBN: 9781592138579 / Angielski / Twarda / 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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414,16 zł |
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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139,72 zł |
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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555,85 zł |
Giving Voice to Asian Christians
ISBN: 9783639060744 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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412,39 zł |
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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346,86 zł |
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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144,90 zł |
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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108,66 zł |