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As the heyday of the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s to early 70s fades further into history and as more and more of its important figures pass on, so too does knowledge of its significance. Thus, Chicano Movement For Beginners is an important attempt to stave off historical amnesia. It seeks to shed light on the multifaceted civil rights struggle known as "El Movimiento" that galvanized the Mexican American community, from laborers to student...
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Studies the relationship between young Italian Americans and their Italian cultural and historical heritage.
In Sense of Origins, Rosemary Serra explores the lives of a significant group of self-identified young Italian Americans residing in New York City and its surrounding areas. The book presents and examines the results of a survey she conducted of their values, family relationships, prejudices and stereotypes, affiliations, attitudes and behaviors,...
43) Material Cultures in Public Engagement: Re-inventing Public Archaeology within Museum collections
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The Material Cultures in Public Engagement volume seeks to document and explore the significant change in the relationship of Museums with collections of the Ancient World and their audiences. The volume establishes a new approach to the study of public archaeology as a discipline and application within Museums, by bringing together the voices and experiences of museum professionals (curators, conservators and researchers) and public engagement professionals....
44) El territorio es la vida misma: Territorialidades y construcción de paz en el departamento de Chocó
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Este libro analiza cómo se articulan y cuáles son las tensiones entre las luchas étnico-territoriales (espacios, estrategias y demandas en torno a cómo se comprende el territorio: un espacio de vida y para esta) del Foro Interétnico Solidaridad Chocó (FISCH) y las iniciativas gubernamentales de construcción de paz, pues, por un lado, los primeros pasos en la implementación de los acuerdos de paz han evidenciado una brecha muy grande entre...
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Charles Wells wrote this book to provide the reader, especially young people who were not yet born, insight into the deceptive tactics and political games used by White Southern politicians and business leaders to keep minority communities economically depressed.
After the 1965 Civil Rights Voting Act was passed, Black civil rights activists and business leaders began a very aggressive campaign to improve conditions in minority communities. As the...
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This refreshing handbook-equally useful in the boardroom, the classroom, and the living room-captures insightful lessons from personal encounters with diversity. Award-winning author Dr. Joan Lester is a talented storyteller. Her generous voice sheds keen insight, humor and practical advice on the polarizing dilemmas of living with diversity.
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In China Live, Mike Chinoy provides an insider's view of two of the most important forces shaping our era-the rise of global satellite news and the rise of China. Exploring not only how events shape television, but how TV can shape the news as it unfolds, Chinoy describes his personal and professional journey through key political dramas, from armed conflict in Northern Ireland, Lebanon, Indochina, and Afghanistan, to the "people power" revolution...
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The Story of two brothers from a Nigerian village called Igbogila.
Lukuman and Fatai, six and seven years old, come from a large family and live in a jungle where the roaring of lions and trumpeting of elephants is commonplace. Hunting and growing enough food to survive is a daily struggle. Everyday after school, two brothers join their parents in the jungle to cultivate cocoa seeds that they sell to the coffee traders that sometimes, visit their...
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In Jewish Family: Identity and Self-Formation at Home Alex Pomson and Randal F. Schnoor advance a new appreciation for the deep significance of Jewish family in developing Jewish identity. This book is the result of ten years of research focused on a small sample of diverse families. Through their work, the authors paint an intricate picture of the ecosystem that the family unit provides for identity formation over the life course. They draw upon...
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Eurasians at the Grassroots - Vol.1 is a collection of short stories regarding Eurasians and the memories of Eurasians. Its purpose is to collect and publish stories as a collective work about Eurasians, by Eurasians and for Eurasians.It is intended for this publication to consist of a collection of stories about the background, history, culture and heritage of the average Eurasian family. It is not intended for this publication to be about famous...
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Late eighteenth-century writings on race by Kant and four of his contemporaries.
Kant and the Concept of Race features translations of four texts by Immanuel Kant frequently designated his Racenschriften (race essays), in which he develops and defends an early theory of race. Also included are translations of essays by four of Kant's contemporaries-E. A. W. Zimmermann, Georg Forster, Christoph Meiners, and Christoph Girtanner-which illustrate that...
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Quelle est la place des groupes venus d'ailleurs dans la société québécoise? Quels liens tissent-ils avec leur nouveau pays? Comment les deuxièmes générations d'immigrants, notamment maghrébins, s'adaptent-elles à leur pays? Qu'en est-il vraiment des ghettos que les immigrants musulmans auraient construits dans une ville comme Montréal? Grâce à un travail statistique, cartographique et ethnographique inédit, l'auteure de ce livre analyse...
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The Igbo of Nigeria always say that "Awo anaghi agba oso ihihe n'efu" meaning that the toad does not run in a broad day time for nothing". That is to say, either it is pursuing something or something is pursing it. Thus, the perception in West Africa about mental illness remains a strange one.
My research on the cultural perspectives and stigmatization against the mentally ill persons in West Africa is essential to curb the negative stereotypes, myths,...
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Randy Jurado Ertll, un salvadoreño americano, creció en el Sur Centro de Los Ángeles a fines de los a-os 1970 y durante los 80, y también vivió en El Salvador cuando era un ni-o, as' como en Rochester, Minnesota, Washington, D.C., y en Alexandria, Virginia. En cada una de estas ciudades presenció la dinámica y retos de la comunidad Latina. Porque ha vivido y trascendido las luchas, es capaz de captar una imagen realista y compasiva de la comunidad...
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Although asserting one's ethnic identity is not morally wrong, the manner in which one ethnic group construes or relates to the ethnic other(s) can obliterate the bond of togetherness and create the insecurity of life. Ethiopia, which is home to anthropologically diverse ethno-linguistic groups, exhibits a proclivity to ethnic-based hostilities and conflicts. As a result of such hostilities, Ethiopia had suffered recurrent small- and large-scale deaths,...
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Bien des choses ont changé depuis la publication de L'ethnicité et ses frontières en 1999. Le marxisme a perdu de son lustre, le tournant constructiviste s'est imposé, les recherches et revues scientifiques se sont multipliées. Mais l'ethnicité demeure un objet polémique qui attire et inquiète à la fois. Dans le domaine de la recherche, on s'interroge sur sa pertinence: penser l'ethnicité reviendrait à plaquer sur le réel des catégories...
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Home and Native Land takes its vastly important topic and places it under a new, penetrating light-shifting focus from the present grounds of debate onto a more critical terrain. The book's articles, by some of the foremost critical thinkers and activists on issues of difference, diversity, and Canadian policy, challenge sedimented thinking on the subject of multiculturalism. Not merely "another book" on race relations, national identity, or the post...
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Juxtaposes Antonio Gramsci's work and critical race theory to offer a new understanding of tactics as a transformative practice.
While scholars of social and political movements tend to analyze tactics in terms of their effectiveness in achieving specific outcomes, Robert F. Carley argues by contrast that tactics are, above all, what social movements do. They are not mere means to an end so much as they are a public form of expression pointing out...
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Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa) wrote "The Soul of the Indian" to examine the spiritual history of Native American's before European settlement in America. Born of Minnesota Sioux parents in South Dakota, Charles Eastman spent his life working with Natives and Europeans to bridge cultural divides. Born into and raised by a traditional Sioux family, Eastman developed a deep connection to the life of American Indians. Yet at the age of 15 Eastman's...
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Taylor brings an ethnographer's eye, ear, and many years of experience to this fictional portrait of life along the US/Mexico desert border. In these linked short stories, readers are taken on a wild ride from San Diego to Nogales, into Mexican and Chicano neighborhoods, failed spas and defunct mining towns, rambling Native American reservations and besieged Wildlife Refuges. Along the way they will share the conflicts, calamities, and occasional...
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