Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books

Book SynopsisWhat was life like for native peoples in present-day North America before their lives were disrupted by European conquest?Trade Review"This series provides high school and college students and the general reader with detailed information about people in the United States from the pre-colonial up to the present. Daily Life in Pre-Columbian Native America offers information about the daily life of ancient North Americans.' " - MultiCultural Review"Clarissa Confer provides a well-written overview of the culture history and material culture of the American Indian groups who inhabited what is now the United States prior to the 'discovery' of the New World by explorer Christopher Columbus in 1492.' " - American Indian Quarterly

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Book SynopsisA powerful indictment of the notion of hereditary intelligence, A Terrible Thing to Waste shows how environmental racism drives the black-white IQ gap and explains what can be done to remedy its toxic effects on marginalized communities.The 1994 publication of the The Bell Curve and its controversial thesis catapulted the topic of genetic racial differences in IQ to the forefront of renewed and heated debate. Now, in A Terrible Thing to Waste, award-winning science writer Harriet A. Washington adds her incisive analysis to the fray. She takes apart the spurious notion of intelligence as an inherited trait, pointing instead to environmental racism -- a confluence of institutional factors that relegate marginalized communities to living and working near sites of toxic waste, pollution, and urban decay -- as the prime cause of the reported black-white IQ gap. Investigating the deleterious heavy metals, neurotoxins, deficient prenatal care, bad nutrit

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Book SynopsisGrowing up in Maplewood, New Jersey the only Black, Muslim-American in hijab, in middle school Ibtihaj discovered fencing, a sport traditionally reserved for the wealthy and elite. Though she would start fencing later than most at 12 years old, she had an undeniable talent-the sort that would soon put her on the international stage. But Ibtihaj saw something more in her Olympic journey: an opportunity to take action, to stand up and make a Muslim-American woman of color impossible to ignore.Ibtihaj''s path to Olympic greatness has been marked with hateful opposition and near-debilitating challenges-bigotry from teammates at Duke University and Team USA, death threats, and social hardships as a Muslim-American. In Proud, her exhilarating emergence from young outsider to national hero and outspoken activist is a timeless, uniquely American tale of hard work, determination, and resilience that hasn''t been told.

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Book Synopsis An award-winning journalist envisions the future of leadership, excellence, and prosperity in Black America with this 'urgent and pathbreaking' work (Marc Lamont Hill). Hard-hitting, thought-provoking, and inspiring, Conversations in Black offers sage wisdom for navigating race in a radically divisive America, and, with help from his mighty team of black intelligentsia, veteran journalist Ed Gordon creates hope and a timeless new narrative on what the future of black leadership should look like and how we can get there. In Conversations in Black, Gordon brings together some of the most prominent voices in black America today, including Stacey Abrams, Harry Belafonte, Charlamagne tha God, Michael Eric Dyson, Alicia Garza, Jemele Hill, Iyanla VanZant, Eric Holder, Killer Mike, Angela Rye, Al Sharpton, T.I., Maxine Waters, and so many more to answer questions about vital topics affecting our nation today, such as: Will the

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Book Synopsis''A mesmerising book, full of story, truth, pain, lyricism, humour and astonishment: the stuff of a difficult life, fully lived, and masterfully transformed into art'' SALMAN RUSHDIE''Intimate and wise, poignant and compassionate, redemptive and raw. You have to read this beautiful book'' CHERYL STRAYED, author of WildAn electrifying, dazzlingly written reckoning and an essential addition to the conversation about race and class, Survival Math takes its name from the calculations that award-winning author Mitchell S. Jackson made to survive the Portland, Oregon, of his youth. This dynamic book explores gangs and guns, near-death experiences, sex work, masculinity, composite fathers, the concept of ''hustle'' and the destructive power of addiction - all framed within the story of Jackson, his family and his community. Mitchell S. Jackson presents a microcosm of struggle and survival in contemporary urban America - an Trade Review'An unforgettable mix of sharp humor, wide interrogation, and indelible tragedy. Jackson's mesmerizing voice and style draws you into the survival calculations for millions of American kids and families, revealing a need-to-know reality for all of us' * Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black *An extensive and illuminating look at the city of [Jackson's] childhood, exploring issues like sex, violence, addiction, community, and the toll this takes on a person's life * Buzzfeed, Most Anticipated Books of 2019 *Vivid and unflinching ... Mitchell's memoir in essays chronicles the struggles of friends and family with drugs, racism, violence, and hopelessness and puts a face on the cyclical nature of poverty * Boston Globe, Most Anticipated Books of 2019 *"A dynamic, impressive debut memoir from the Whiting Award-winning author of The Residue Years (2013)... A potent book that revels in the author's truthful experiences while maintaining the jagged-grain, keeping-it-a-100, natural storytelling that made The Residue Years a modern must-read." * Kirkus Reviews *Jackson's musings skillfully illuminate the bloodlines, both inherited and earned, that pulse through the body of America's gang-graffitied carceral state * Tyehimba Jess, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olio *'Survival Math is the best memoir I've read in ages. With honesty, insight, and a tremendous amount of heart, Mitchell S. Jackson takes us deep into the stories that made, ruined, and saved him. I had the feeling while reading it that I'd never read anything quite like it before. It's intimate and wise; poignant and compassionate; redemptive and raw. You have to read this beautiful book' * Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild *Survival Math should be praised for many reasons--its literary integrity, its cinematic pace, its creativity and candor. But what I find most striking about this work, what I think distinguishes it, is its heart * Jason Reynolds *

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Book SynopsisSHORTLISTED FOR THE WRITERS' TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICYFrom one of Canada's most celebrated writers, two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji, comes a thoughtful meditation on what it means to belong in the world.Home is never a single place, entirely and unequivocally. It is contingent. The abstract nowhere, then, is the true home.M.G. Vassanji has been exploring the immigrant experience for over three decades, drawing deeply on his own transnational upbringing and intimate understanding of the unique challenges and perspectives born from leaving one's home to resettle in a new land. The question of identity, of how to configure and see oneself within this new land, is one such challenge faced. But Vassanji suggests that a more fundamental and slippery endeavour than establishing one's identity is how, if ever, we can establish a sense of belonging. Can we ever truly belong in this new home? Did we ever truly belong in the home we left? Where exactly do we belong? For many, the answer is nowhere exactly. Combining brilliant prose, thoughtful, candid observation, and a lifetime of exploring how we as individuals are shaped by the places and communities in which we live and the history that haunts them, Nowhere, Exactly examines with exquisite sensitivity the space between identity and belonging, the immigrant experience of both loss and gain, and the weight of memory and nostalgia, guilt and hope felt by so many of those who leave their homes in search of new ones.

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Book SynopsisWomen and the Irish Diaspora looks at the changing nature of national and cultural belonging both among women who have left Ireland and those who remain. It identifies new ways of thinking about Irish modernity by looking specifically at women''s lives and their experiences of migration and diaspora. Based on original research with Irish women both in Ireland and in England, this book explores how questions of mobility and stasis are recast along gender, class, racial and generational lines. Through analyses of representations of ''the strong Irish mother'', migrant women, ''the global Irish family'' and celebrity culture, Breda Gray further unravels some of the complex relationships between femininity and Irish modernity(ies).Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Migration and Irish women The categories 'women', 'the Irish diaspora' and 'the global' 'The Irish Atlantic' and 'the Irish Sea' Researching women and the Irish diaspora - journeys and encounters 1. 'Women', the Diaspora and Irish Modernity(ies) The Irish game of sexuality in 'controlled' and 'globalised' modernities Emigration and the Irish diaspora in the 1990s Migration, diaspora and the work of nation Mary Robinson and the Irish diaspora The limits of diasporic belonging Conclusion 2. 'Keeping Up Appearances' and the Contested Category 'Irish Women' Irish femininities in the 1990s Feminists, women in paid-work and 'women in the home' Icons of Irish femininity - negotiating contradictory legacies Conclusion 3. 'We Haven't Really Got a Set Country' - Global Mobilities and Irish Traveller Women Irish Traveller mobilities and national belonging Telling 'the difference' - the ideology of domesticity and Traveller women Contested histories and multicultural belonging(s) Inhabiting Irish identity as Traveller women in England Conclusion 4. 'The Bright and the Beautiful Take Off ' Gendered Negotiations of Staying and Going Resistance, choice, agency and staying-put Impermissible narratives of migration and belonging 'Suspect' belongings - migrant relationships to the 'homeland' Conclusion 5. 'Are We Here Or Are We There?' - Migrant Irish Identity in 1990s London Class, generation, 'homeland' and Irish identity in London Irish migrant femininities in London Women's transnational lives - hybrid or divided selves? 'Peg' communities and multicultural London Religion and London-Irish identity Conclusion 6. 'The Irish Are Not "Ethnic" - 'Whiteness', Femininities and Migration Whitely scripts Citizenship and migration in proximity Cultural exclusion and racial inclusion A transnational 'white' Irishness? Conclusion 7. Women, the Diaspora and the 'Global Irish Family' - Feminist Contentions The 'global Irish family' Blurring the migrant/non-migrant dichotomy Conclusion References Appendices Index

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses and provides examples of Russiaâs need to reshape its security and military policies in order to meet the global challenges of fighting terrorism and counterinsurgency. It addresses some of the problems facing Russiaâs national security and military power, including: military reform US-Russian relations the political economy of Russian security policy Russian policy regarding the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction the chances for US-Russian cooperation in ballistic missile defence. Russia's Security and the War on Terror provides a insight into Russian military policies and its changing relationship with NATO throughout the 1990s.This book was previously published as a special issue of The Journal of Slavic Military StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 US-Russian Relations and the Global Counter-Terrorist Campaign 2 Military Reform in Russia and the Global War Against Terrorism 3 The US Military Engagement in Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus: An Overview 4 Prospects for Russia-US Cooperation in Preventing WMD Proliferation 5 Prospects for US-Russian Cooperation in Ballistic Missile Defense and Outer Space Activities 6 The Anti-Oligarchy Campaign and its Implications for Russia's Security 7 The Soviet-Afghan War: A Superpower Mired in the Mountains 8 'The War in Iraq': An Assessment of Lessons Learned by Russian Military Specialists Through 31 July 2003

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Book SynopsisThis book surveys differing historical contexts from the era of scientific racism in the nineteenth-century to the post-racial racism of the post 9/11 period, and from Europe to the United States, to understand how racism has been articulated in differing situations.This book was previously published as a special issue of Patterns of Prejudice.Table of Contents1. Naming Race, Naming Racisms: An Introduction Jonathan Judaken 2. Antinomies of Race: Diversity and Destiny in Kant Mark Larrimore 3. A Haitian in Paris: Anténor Firmin as a Philosopher Against Racism Robert Bernasconi 4. Surviving Maurraus: Jacques Maritain’s Jewish Question Richard Crane 5. Kenneth B. Clark and The Problem of Power Damon Freeman 6. Listening to Melancholia: Alice Walker’s ‘Meridian’ Leigh Anne Duck 7. Riots, Disasters and Racism: Impending Racial Cataclysm and the Extreme Right in the United States George Michael and D.J. Mulloy 8. Assia Djebar’s qualam: The Poetics of the Trace in Postcolonial Algeria Brigitte Weltman-Aron 9. "Everybody else just living their lives": 9/11, Race, and the New Postglobal Literature Alfred Lopez 10. So What’s New?: Rethinking the New Antisemitism in a Global Age Jonathan Judaken 11. Black Intellectuals in America: A Conversation with Cornel West Jonathan Judaken and Jennifer Geddes

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Book SynopsisSerious research into the problematic and contested relationship between notions of race and crime continues to blossom. Indeed, the work of scholars in this cross-disciplinary field supports numerous international journals, regional organizations, and global conferences. Now, to make some sense of the wide range of approaches, theories, and concepts that have informed thinking in this area, Routledge announces a new title in its acclaimed Critical Concepts in Criminology series. Edited by a leading scholar with an international reputation, Race and Crime is a definitive, four-volume collection of cutting-edge and foundational research.With a full index, together with a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context, Race and Crime is an essential work of reference. The collection will be particularly useful as a database allowing scattered and often fugitive material to be easily located. It will also be welcomed as a crucial tool permitting rapid access to less familiarâand sometimes overlookedâtexts. For scholars, students, and policy-makers, it is an essential one-stop research and pedagogic resource.

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Book SynopsisThis classic work by the distinguished economist traces the history of nine American ethnic groups -- the Irish, Germans, Jews, Italians, Chinese, African-Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans.

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Book SynopsisFrom a leading authority on race and public policy, a deeply researched account of how families rise and fall today Since the Great Recession, most Americans'' standard of living has stagnated or declined. Economic inequality is at historic highs. But inequality''s impact differs by race; African Americans'' net wealth is just a tenth that of white Americans, and over recent decades, white families have accumulated wealth at three times the rate of black families. In our increasingly diverse nation, sociologist Thomas M. Shapiro argues, wealth disparities must be understood in tandem with racial inequities -- a dangerous combination he terms toxic inequality. In Toxic Inequality, Shapiro reveals how these forces combine to trap families in place. Following nearly two hundred families of different races and income levels over a period of twelve years, Shapiro''s research vividly documents the recession''s toll on parents and children, the ways families use assets to manage crises and create opportunities, and the real reasons some families build wealth while others struggle in poverty. The structure of our neighborhoods, workplaces, and tax code-much more than individual choices-push some forward and hold others back. A lack of assets, far more common in families of color, can often ruin parents'' careful plans for themselves and their children. Toxic inequality may seem inexorable, but it is not inevitable. America''s growing wealth gap and its yawning racial divide have been forged by history and preserved by policy, and only bold, race-conscious reforms can move us toward a more just society.Everyone concerned about the toxic effects of inequality must read this book. -- Robert B. Reich This is one of the most thought-provoking books I have read on economic inequality in the US. -- William Julius WilsonTrade Review"In this lucid and compelling book, Thomas M. Shapiro convincingly argues why we can't understand wealth and income inequality in America without also understanding racial inequality, and that any potential solution to the former must also remedy the nation's widening racial divide. He shows how wealth and race compound historic injustices through their combined effects on housing, schools and colleges, employment, and politics. Everyone concerned about the toxic effects of inequality must read this book."--Robert B. Reich, author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few "In this indispensable book, Thomas M. Shapiro connects the stories of individual American families to a powerful and readable analysis of data and policy, revealing the truth about escalating racial inequality in America: it is the result of institutional forces, not individual effort."--Heather C. McGhee, President, Demos "Thomas M. Shapiro brilliantly analyzes the most important economic challenge of our time. With its razor-sharp insights and poignant personal stories, Toxic Inequality is a compelling, crucially important, and ultimately hopeful book." --Bob Herbert, Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos and former Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times "In Toxic Inequality, Thomas M. Shapiro shows that inequality harms everyone--that it squanders talents, misallocates resources, and suppresses initiative. Deftly blending facts and figures with moving personal stories, this book reveals how severe inequality is, why it matters, and what we can do about it."--George Lipsitz, author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness

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Book SynopsisIn a climate where whites who criticize affirmative action risk being termed racist and blacks who do the same risk charges of treason and self hatred, a frank and open discussion of racial preference is difficult to achieve. But, in the first book on racial preference written from personal experience, Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby, Stephen L. Carter, Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale University and self-described beneficiary (and, at times, victim) of affirmative action, does it.Using his own story of success and frustration as an affirmative action baby as a point of departure, Carter, who has risen to the top of his profession, provides an incisive analysis of one of the most incendiary topics of our day,as well as an honest critique of the pressures on black professionals and intellectuals to conform to the politically correct way of being black.Affirmative action as it is practiced today not only does little to promote racial equality, Carter argues, but also allowTable of Contents* On Being a Black Intellectual On Being An Affirmative Action Baby * Racial Preferences? So What? * The Representative of the People * The Best Black * Racial Justice on the Cheap On Being A Black Dissenter * Silencing Dissent * On Contenting Oneself with Silence * Why Black Conservative Is Pejorative * Silencing Doubt On Solidarity And Reconciliation * The Special Perspective * Special But Equal * Racial Solidarity and the Black Intellectual

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Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER? From the indie rock sensation known as Japanese Breakfast, an unforgettable memoir about family, food, grief, love, and growing up Korean American??in losing her mother and cooking to bring her back to life, Zauner became herself? (NPR). ? CELEBRATING OVER ONE YEAR ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLISTIn this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother''s particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother''s tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food. As she grew up, moving to the East Coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, and performing gigs with her fledgling band--and meeting the man who would become her husband--her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live. It was her mother''s diagnosis of terminal cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her.Vivacious and plainspoken, lyrical and honest, Zauner''s voice is as radiantly alive on the page as it is onstage. Rich with intimate anecdotes that will resonate widely, and complete with family photos, Crying in H Mart is a book to cherish, share, and reread.

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Book SynopsisThe instant #1 New York Times bestseller and #1 USA Today bestseller Amanda Gorman’s electrifying and historic poem “The Hill We Climb,” read at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, is now available as a collectible gift edition. “Stunning.” —CNN “Dynamic.” —NPR “Deeply rousing and uplifting.” —Vogue     On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Taking the stage after the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden, Gorman captivated the nation and brought hope to viewers around the globe with her call for unity and healing. Her poem “The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country” can now be cherished in this special gift edition, perfect for any reader looking for some inspiration. Including an enduring foreword by Oprah Winfrey, this remarkable keepsake celebrates the promise of America and affirms the power of poetry.

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Book SynopsisConventionally, US immigration history has been understood through the lens of restriction and those who have been barred from getting in. In contrast, The Good Immigrants considers immigration from the perspective of Chinese elites--intellectuals, businessmen, and students--who gained entrance because of immigration exemptions. Exploring a centuryTrade ReviewWinner of the 2017 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in History Winner of the 2016 Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Winner of the 2015 Douglass C. North Research Award, Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics (SIOE) Runner-up for the 2016 Hamilton Book Awards, University Co-operative Society, University of Texas at Austin Winner of the 2015 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society Honor Book, 2015 Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature, Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association "Hsu's well-researched study focuses on the ways in which certain categories of the same ethnic group were designated as exempt and thus permitted admission... A worthy read, as it fills a gap in our understanding of the history of U.S. immigration policy and the implications of this policy in educational history."--Eileen H. Tamura, History of Education Quarterly "This book will ... provide relevant historical context for anybody formulating ideas about Europe's current debate on migration and asylum-seeking."--Charlotte De Blois, Asian Affairs "The Good Immigrants provides much insight on a variety of topics. Those who want to learn more about US immigration policies, cultural relations between the US and China during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Chinese refugees during the 1940s to 1960s, and Chinese transpacific migration will not want to miss it."--Chi-ting Peng, Pacific AffairsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix List of Tables xi Abbreviations xiii Note on Transliterations xv Chapter 1 Gateways and Gates in American Immigration History 1 Chapter 2 "The Anglo-Saxons of the Orient" Student Exceptions to the Racial Bar against Chinese, 1872-1925 23 Chapter 3 The China Institute in America: Advocating for China through Educational Exchange, 1926-1937 55 Chapter 4 "A Pressing Problem of Interracial Justice" Repealing Chinese Exclusion, 1937-1943 81 Chapter 5 The Wartime Transformation of Student Visitors into Refugee Citizens, 1943-1955 104 Chapter 6 "The Best Type of Chinese" Aid Refugee Chinese Intellectuals and Symbolic Refugee Relief, 1952-1960 130 Chapter 7 "Economic and Humanitarian" Propaganda and the Redemption of Chinese Immigrants through Refugee Relief 166 Chapter 8 Symbiotic Brain Drains: Immigration Reform and the Knowledge Worker Recruitment Act of 1965 198 Chapter 9 Conclusion: The American Marketplace of Brains 236 Acknowledgments 251 Appendix 257 Notes 259 Bibliography 313 Index 325

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Book SynopsisOpening a new window into Chinese intellectual discourse, this unique book is a critical engagement with the issues, problems, and meanings of contemporary Chinese intellectual thought. As key participants in these debates who have exercised a significant influence on the development of contemporary Chinese thought, the volume''s contributors explore concerns over the role of the intellectual and the outcomes of knowledge production in the humanities. Masterfully translated, these essays provide a wide range of conflicting perspectives on contemporary Chinese intellectuality, yet they share in common the belief held by many Chinese intellectuals in the power of intellectual labor to shape and change social life. By showing how Western social and cultural theory as well as the May Fourth and pre-modern Confucian traditions are being adapted for contemporary Chinese intellectual use, the book highlights how Chinese academics have affirmed an independent critical role for themselves in post-Mao China and the scope of the knowledge industry that they have created and developed since 1979.Trade Review[Voicing Concern] raises large and important theoretical issues concerning and concerned with cultural and intellectual production. It is an engaging read and this significant collection will be of great value to scholars of modern China. * Journal of Asian Studies *A welcome addition to the growing corpus of translations from contemporary Chinese discussions of culture and society. The volume should be useful not only to cultural studies scholars but for teaching purposes. * Asian Studies Review *Allows readers, in this era of economic globalization, access to some of the dimensions of current worldwide intellectual debates as they get played out in China. * The China Journal *This collection of translations represents a valiant attempt to help Western readers peek into China's diverse, if not confusing, intellectual life during the 1990s. Unlike the preceding decade, the 1990s have not yet attracted much scholarly attention in the West. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Self-Made Maps of Chinese Intellectuality Chapter 3 The Topography of Intellectual Culture in 1990s Mainland China: A Survey Chapter 4 The Popular Cultural Movement of the 1980s Chapter 5 Revisiting the Perils of "Designer Pidgin Scholarship" Chapter 6 On Western Literary Theory in China Chapter 7 Some Reflections on New Confucianism in Mainland Chinese Culture of the 1990s Chapter 8 On Scientism and Social Theory in Modern Chinese Thought Chapter 9 Interpreting Modern Chinese History through the Theory of Ultra-Stable Systems Chapter 10 Patriotism versus Intellectual Curiosity: Jin Guantao's Approach to Chinese History Chapter 11 In Search of a "Third Way": A Conversation regarding "Liberalism" and the "New Left Wing" Chapter 12 Time's Arrows: Imaginative Pasts and Nostalgic Futures

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Book SynopsisSovereignty establishes a government-to-government relationship between American Indian tribes and the United States. Exploring tribal-state interactions over land and sovereignty, this book takes a geographical look at issues of environmental regulation, expansion of gaming, criminal jurisdiction, taxation, fishing, and transportation. The contributors find repeatedly that tribes and states have two choiceslitigate or cooperate. While identifying the encroachment of state jurisdiction in Indian country, this book also seeks to develop a resource for tribes, states, and all actors in their relationships and to show that no tribal-state interaction has to be a zero-sum game.Trade ReviewA recently published collection of essays, The Tribes and the States: Geographies of Intergovernmental Interaction, sheds a great deal of light on this subject and provides an excellent resource base on related issues. We congratulate the emerging crop of scholars—both Native and non-Native—who are delving deeply and seriously into these dynamics. They have provided Indian country with a valuable resource tool that should be studied by Native leaders and opinion-makers everywhere. * Indian Country Today *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Tribal-State Affairs: American States as "Disclaiming" Sovereigns Chapter 2 Kansas and the Exodus of the Miami Tribe Chapter 3 Jurisdiction in South Dakota: Diminishment and the Question of Indian Character Chapter 4 Tribes and States: A New Era in Intergovernmental Affairs Chapter 5 The Struggle over the Geographic Expansion of Indian Gaming Chapter 6 Tribes, States, the EPA, and the Territorial Politics of Environmental Protection Chapter 7 State and Tribal Relations in Transportation: A Washington Case Study Chapter 8 Dividing the Waters: Cooperative Management and the Allocation of Pacific Salmon Chapter 9 Tribal-State Tobacco Compacts and Motor Fuel Contracts in Oklahoma

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Book SynopsisRich in historical perspective on women and men in the context of economic development, this ethnography provides a unique window on rural China since the 1930s. Laurel Bossen uses her detailed knowledge to explore theories regarding such momentous changes as the demise of footbinding, the transformation and feminization of farming, the rise of family planning, and the question of missing daughters. Based on anthropological research conducted during the 1990s in Lu Village and informed by the classic 1930s study of the same village by Fei Xiaotong, China''s most famous anthropologist, Chinese Women and Rural Development goes beyond the enduring myths and cardboard images of women as either victims or heroes. Highlighting women''s work in a complex farming economy and their choices in marriage and family, the book portrays individuals confronting a variety of changes, ranging from drastic to gradual, in their daily lives. Bossen examines the economic, social, and political practices both upholding and altering the boundaries of gender in the face of shifting state and market forces over time. Throughout, Lu Village women defy stereotypes, yet their stories, rooted in the reality of Yunnan province, express the commonalities and continuities of gender in rural China.Trade ReviewRich, dense, but eminently readable and consistently fascinating book. * CHOICE *Fresh and insightful. An extremely strong contribution to the literature on both women in China and in rural development more broadly. The author is leading the wave of new ethnography that explores and encompasses a local cultural whole. Specialists will find the book fascinating; students will find it accessible and likable. -- Hill Gates, Stanford UniversityThis study constitutes a major contribution to our understanding of women, gender and rural development within and beyond China. Examining 60 years of economic, political and social change in one village in Yunnan province, this book has both depth and breadth. -- Elisabeth Croll * China Quarterly *For those interested in rural development in China, Bossen's study will be a welcome addition. It offers fresh observations on the north-south divide in China and fills in some of the material dimensions of gender that have been largely neglected in recent years. * Population and Development Review *There are two aspects of Bossen's methods that are most potent. First, she makes compelling use of Fei's work as a comparative point of historical reference, which provides a sense of context, historical continuity and historical dynamism to her study. Second, Bossen makes space available for storytelling /by /and /about /the women whom she studies, on their own terms....With powerful chapters on footbinding, marriage and households, and sex preference in family planning, this work will be of interest to those studying gender or women's experiences in rural China. * Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology *Historical perspective figures impressively throughout the book. . . . Bossen's research is made powerful by her dedication of ten years to the research of Lu Village. . . . Such firsthand observations and live reports from the field are both persuasive and highly effective. * B.C. Asian Reviews *[A] finely wrought monograph on gender and economic development. Because of the breadth of Bossen’s quantitative and qualitative research, the book could become a classic in its own right…. For anyone interested in gender or rural economy in China’s reform era, Bossen’s book will be an invaluable resource. For advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars with broader interests in gender, family, rural development, and the anthropology of work, the volume will also be rewarding. * American Ethnologist *This book provides a standard by which future ethnographers can assess change and continuity in gender relations throughout China. Laurel Bossen's remarkably sophisticated and holistic analysis makes her book a major contribution to the literature on women in rural China in particular and to the ethnography of China in general. * The China Journal *A broad-gauged survey of village life that remains attuned to local circumstances while exploring changes in women's status in rural China more generally. . . . Bossen's refusal of monocausal explanations is a sobering corrective to many of our habits of explanation, and her attention to detail makes for a rich and stimulating read. -- Gail Hershatter, University of California, Santa Cruz * Economic Development and Cultural Change *As Bossen herself points out in her introduction, there is to date a minimal quantity of in-depth anthropological field research on rural women in contemporary China. This volume is therefore a welcome addtition to the field. It adds new and rich material to our reflections on contrasts and continuties between contemporary China and the past. Its observations also suggests rich fields for further enquiry: the closeness of ties between women kinfolk, siblings, and sworn sisters; the weak distinction between sale into marriage and the diverse economic transactions that characterize customary marriage arrangements; the blurred boundaries between voluntary and involuntary migrations for marriage. Through rich historical perspective on continuities and changes in gender practices, it also shows how the complex texture of gendered relations in a rural community does not, and cannot correspond with neat lines of distinction between gender or lesser inequalities across past and present. -- Harriet Evans, University of WestminsterTable of ContentsChapter 1 Lu Village in Southwest China: Unearthing Gender Chapter 2 Perspectives in Time Chapter 3 Trade and Beauty: The Demise of Footbinding in Lu Village Chapter 4 Gender in Land Tenure, Farming, and Employment Chapter 5 The Wealth of a Gifted Woman: The Shaman of Lu Village Chapter 6 Wealth and Poverty, 1930s to 1990s: Paths to Ruin and Fortune Chapter 7 Marriage, Households, and Gender: Keeping Sons and Daughters Chapter 8 Demographic Change, Family Planning, and Sex Preference Chapter 9 Politics and Political Culture Chapter 10 Unbinding China's Peasants Chapter 11 List of Maps, Figures, and Tables Chapter 12 Weighs and Measures Chapter 13 Glossary

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Book SynopsisIn this first truly cross-cultural study of opium, Keith McMahon considers the perspectives of both smokers and non-smokers from China and the Euro-West and from both sides of the issue of opium prohibition. The author stages a dramatic confrontation between the Chinese opium user and the Euro-Westerner who saw in opium the image of an uncanny Asiatic menace. Opium was inextricably bound up with generalizations made about teeming Asiatic masses, nightmarish opium sots, effeminate Chinamen, and orientalized white women. In China, opiumcalled the Western Drugwas tied to the arrival of Christianity and Western greed. The rise of the opium demon meant the fall of the god of money, that is, Chinese money, and the irreversible trend in which Confucianism gave way to Christianity. McMahon makes the case for opium smoking as a way of life that, far from being merely wanton, was an entirely reasonable choice in times when smokers could be neither Christian nor Confucian. Opium smoking was a way of inhabiting an era in which traditional loyalties were in critical transition. The author convincingly demonstrates that the current laws against drugs of addiction have their origins in this early modern conflict of cultures and not in any supposed scientific evidence that opium is so definitively worse than alcohol. The book explores early Western observations of opium smoking, the formation of arguments for and against the legalization of opium, the portrayals of opium smoking in Chinese poetry and prose, and scenes of opium-smoking interactions among male and female smokers and smokers of all social levels in 19th-century China. By providing the first translation ever of a unique 1878 autobiography of a Chinese addict, McMahon is able to explore the opium smoker''s own observations on China and opium smoking. No other studies have focused attention so richly on opium smokers, their language, the scenes of their smoking together, their gendered interactions, and their relations with family and society.Trade ReviewKeith McMahon's monograph is a genuine contribution to the late Qing opium discourse, even today often mired in the unreflected condemnation of a complex and sophisticated smoking culture. -- Lars Peter Laaman * Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies *This study contributes to the cultural history of late imperial China and the contemporaneous West. Recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction to "Western Smoke" Chapter 2 A Short History of Opium Smoking in China Chapter 3 Westerners' Intercourse with China Chapter 4 Westerners on Opium and The Chinese Chapter 5 Zhang Changjia's Yanhua, Opium Talk (1878) Chapter 6 Eaten by Wild Dogs: Opium in Late Qing Fiction Chapter 7 "Why the Chinese Smoked Opium" Chapter 8 Appendix: Yanhua, "Opium Talk," by Zhang Changjia of Jinshan County, Jiangsu Province

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Book SynopsisA study of media and minorities - both the representations of minorities by dominant society 'outsiders', and indigenous self-representation and media creation, in film, television, radio, print and new media.Trade ReviewMedia and Ethnic Minorities sets up a radical anthropological account of power and representation Media International Australia Much is packed into this slim text... The authors combine original and thought-provoking case-studies with key issues drawn from discourses on ethnicity and media theory and practice. -- Heather Norris Nicholson, Manchester Metropolitan University British Journal of Canadian Studies The most significant contribution of Alia and Bull's book is their sustained and critical discussion of what they call 'the Once Were Warriors syndrome' -- Marwan M. Kraldy, University of Pennsylvania Global Media and Communication Media and Ethnic Minorities sets up a radical anthropological account of power and representation Much is packed into this slim text... The authors combine original and thought-provoking case-studies with key issues drawn from discourses on ethnicity and media theory and practice. The most significant contribution of Alia and Bull's book is their sustained and critical discussion of what they call 'the Once Were Warriors syndrome'Table of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: 'Race', Ethnicity, and Representation; 1. The Rise and Rise of 'Imputed Filth'; 2. Representations from the Outside; 3. The Once Were Warriors Syndrome; 4. Cultures of Silence; 5. Homeland, Diaspora, and the 'New Media Nation'; 6. Reciprocal Seeing; 7. Ethnic Roots, Diasporic Routes, and Resistance from Below.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the quilts, ceramics, paintings, sculpture, installations, assemblages, daguerreotypes, photography and performance art produced by African American artists over a two hundred year period.Trade Review'This is the richest and most important book on African American visual arts on the market. It has enormous period coverage without sacrificing rich analysis and depth. It is a book that will be crucial for anyone interested in African American culture, the visual arts, and American Studies. It is brilliantly conceived, deeply research, and very well executed.' John Stauffer, Harvard University -- John Stauffer, Harvard University This book is well written and informed by extensive research based on archival as well as secondary sources... A well researched and interesting book, a welcome addition to its field, and the author expresses an individual voice whilst also enabling artists to speak to the reader. -- Gen Doy, De Montfort University The Art Book This book is important because it explores onotlogical concerns that focus on the nature of African American art history, how it is written, its critical and theoretical frames and the need for more in-depth research and critical analysis... producing an informed and very rich narrative shaped by a comprehensive understanding of African American history and culture... African American Visual Arts is a clear indication that Celeste Marie Bernier is a new talent in the room and that those of us interested in expanding the discourse on African American art history have good reason to await her future publications on this and related subjects with great anticipation. -- Floyd Coleman, Howard University, Washington DC International Review of African American Art 'This is the richest and most important book on African American visual arts on the market. It has enormous period coverage without sacrificing rich analysis and depth. It is a book that will be crucial for anyone interested in African American culture, the visual arts, and American Studies. It is brilliantly conceived, deeply research, and very well executed.' John Stauffer, Harvard University This book is well written and informed by extensive research based on archival as well as secondary sources... A well researched and interesting book, a welcome addition to its field, and the author expresses an individual voice whilst also enabling artists to speak to the reader. This book is important because it explores onotlogical concerns that focus on the nature of African American art history, how it is written, its critical and theoretical frames and the need for more in-depth research and critical analysis... producing an informed and very rich narrative shaped by a comprehensive understanding of African American history and culture... African American Visual Arts is a clear indication that Celeste Marie Bernier is a new talent in the room and that those of us interested in expanding the discourse on African American art history have good reason to await her future publications on this and related subjects with great anticipation.Table of ContentsChronology of Visual Arts by African Americans from Slavery to the Present; Introduction: The Historical Context; 1. 'Grotesque jars and voodoo jugs': Africa, a Slave Past and the Visual Arts; 2. 'Ethiopia Awakening': Sculpture, Religion and Folk Art; 3. Black Revolution, the Mural and the Fine Arts; 4. Creative Chroniclers: Developments in Photography; 5. A Visual Language: Graffiti Art and Installation; Conclusion; Guide to Further Reading.

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Book SynopsisAfter the collapse of the Soviet Union, over 25 million Russian speakers ended up living outside their homeland. Some remained in the non-Russian former Soviet republics which became independent states, whilst others migrated. This book discusses language and identity of the Russian speakers outside Russia from a sociolinguistic perspective.

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Book SynopsisWhen the harrowing Great War diaries of one of Britain’s first black soldiers were unearthed in a dusty Scottish attic nearly 100 years after they were written, they posed a bit of a mystery.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book of its kind to address the crucial issue of why people choose to make Convention refugee claims. It represents a substantial and original contribution primarily to the field of refugee studies but also applicable for a broader readership of political science, international studies, sociology, law, history and womenâs studies. Furthermore, it theorizes the problems that face refugees by discussing the perception of the possible host countries. The conclusions of the book bear directly upon contemporary issues in refugee studies that suggest refugees move on the basis of (generally) extreme levels of persecution.Trade Review’This is a most original piece of work, impossible to pigeonhole by genre. It is everywhere touched by passion and a kind of ethical anger that can make even the most difficult research data seductive...Informing Barsky’s argument throughout is his wide reading in social, linguistic and literary theory. He draws on Marc Angenot, Chomsky and Bakhtin, especially, to make a powerful argument for the role of narrative construction in the hearings he describes. He articulates a discourse theory that will be of interest not only to those directly involved with refugee issues, but to those pursuing literary theory, sociolinguistics, postcolonial studies, as well as those working in law and literature.’ Michael Holquist, Yale University, USA ’...identifies some key and quite disturbing policy concerns in the field of refugee studies.’ Ethnic and Racial Studies 'Barksy's approach in general is refreshingly eclectic. He blends legal thought, literary criticism and discourse analysis, with a powerful moral outrage...The book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars and professionals working with asylum issues...' Journal of Refugee Studies 'Barsky's book offers radical and efficient critique of the legal structures which lock refugees into a state of vulnerability and powerlessness...Breaking inter-disciplinary barriers, Barsky opens the way to new and profitable research directions...the refugees' narratives...are lively and informative. An extensive bibliography by topics, as well as a list of refugee organizations and documentation centers around the world bring added value to an already interesting work.' Asian and Pacific Migration JournalTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Interpreting refugee discourse: from discourse analysis to inter-cultural communication; Claimants from the former Soviet Union: from European standards to the American dream; Claimants from Israel: a threat to the Jewish Identity?; Claimants from Peru: persecution in America and flight to Canada; Claimants from Pakistan: the constraints of state intervention; Conclusion: theorizing the obstacles to female claims; Bibliography; Appendices; Index.

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Book SynopsisThroughout the world, indigenous rights have become increasingly prominent and controversial. The recent adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is the latest in a series of significant developments in the recognition of such rights across a range of jurisdictions. The papers in this collection address the most important philosophical and practical issues informing the discussion of indigenous rights over the past decade or so, at both the international and national levels. Its contributing authors comprise some of the most interesting and influential indigenous and non-indigenous thinkers presently writing on the topic.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Conceptual, Historical and International Context: 'Indigenous peoples' in international law: a constructivist approach to the Asian controversy, Benedict Kingsbury; 'Just backward children': international law and the conquest of non-European peoples, Paul Keal; Indigenous peoples, international institutions, and the international legal literature from 1945-1993, Chris Tennant. Part II Indigenous Rights, Liberalism and Historical Injustice: Kymlicka, liberalism and respect for cultural minorities, John Tomasi; Land, culture and justice: a framework for group rights and recognition, Jeff Spinner-Halev; Historical obligations, Janna Thompson. Part III Kinds of Indigenous Rights: Reconciling 5 competing conceptual structures of indigenous peoples' claims in international and comparative law, Benedict Kingsbury; Indigenous Political Rights - Self-Determination, Self-Government and Sovereignty: Political autonomy and integration of authority: the understanding of Saami self-determination, Else Grete Broderstad; Aboriginal self-government and the construction of Canadian constitutional identity, Michael Asch; Distributing sovereignty: Indian nations and equality of peoples, Patrick Macklem; Indigenous Treaty Rights: Sacred obligations: intercultural justice and the discourse of treaty rights, Rebecca Tsosie; Waitangi tales, Robert E. Goodwin; Indigenous Land and Natural Resources Rights: The sui generis nature of aboriginal rights: does it make a difference?, John Borrows and Leonard I. Rotman; Indigenous rights and environmental justice, Roy W. Perrett; Indigenous Cultural Property Rights: Looking beyond intellectual property in resolving protection of the intangible cultural heritage of indigenous peoples, Robert K. Paterson and Dennis S. Karjala; Culture, autonomy and Djulibinyamurr: individual and community in the construction of rights to traditional designs, Kimberlee Weatherall. Part IV Beyond Indigenous Rights?: Aboriginal peoples

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Book SynopsisRace, Law and Society draws together some of the very best writing on race and racism from the law and society tradition, yet it is not intended to merely reprint the greatest hits of the past. Instead, from its introduction to its selection of articles, this anthology is designed as a 'how-to manual', a guide for scholars and students seeking templates for their own work in this important but also tricky area. Race, Law and Society pulls together leading exemplars of the sorts of social science scholarship on race, society and law that will be essential to racial progress as the world begins to travel the twenty-first century.Table of ContentsContents: Series preface; Introduction. Part I Beyond Doctrine: Race and Rights: Law, society, identity, and the making of the Jim Crow South: travel and segregation on Tennessee railroads, 1875-1905, Kennth W. Mack; Brown as a Cold War case, Mary L. Dudziak; African-American rights after Brown, Gerald N. Rosenberg; 'Won't you please help me get my son home': peonage, patronage, and protest in the World War II urban south, Risa L Goluboff; Victims in the shadow of the law: a critique of the model of legal protection, Kristin Bumiller; Advocacy against the stereotype: lessons from cognitive social psychology, Gary Blasi . Part II: Race, Racism, and Criminal Justice: The mark of a criminal record, Devah Pager; Too many black men: the sentencing judge's dilemma, Doris Marie Provine; Crime, race, and reproduction, Dorothy E. Roberts; From slavery to mass incarceration: rethinking the 'race question' in the US, Loïc Wacquant. Part III From Law to Race: Telling the difference: nineteenth-century legal narratives of racial taxonomy, Michael A Elliott; Miscegenation law, court cases, and ideologies of 'race' in twentieth- century America, Peggy Pascoe; The architecture of race in American immigration law; a re-examination of the immigration act of 1924, Mae M. Ngai; Protest, repression, and race: legal violence and the Chicano Movement, Ian F. Haney López; The citizen and the terrorist, Leti Volpp. Part IV Methods: Race in law and society: a critique, Osagie K. Obasogie; A tale of two genres: on the real and ideal links between law and society and critical race theory, Laura E. Gómez; Sapphire bound!, Regina Austin; Name index.

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Book SynopsisWhere is the ethnic minority presence in cyberspace? In this book, Linda Leung makes a pioneering exploration of ethnic minority presence in cyberspace. She finds that despite the apparent white, Western, male, middle class profile of cyberspace, there is significant ethnic minority activity. The work draws on the author's empirical research amongst ethnic minority women and incorporates discussion of media and web-texts from the US, Canada, Britain and Australia. This is a fascinating interdisciplinary examination of the web-participation of ethnic communities, which sheds light on how ethnic identities are articulated in cyberspace and contemporary society in both predictable and surprising ways.Trade Review’Linda Leung addresses questions too often sidestepped or ignored when it comes to New Media. Her specific and focused study has important implications in terms of a critique of the racialised and ethnocentric character of the [world-wide web]. Never overstated, her work demands a change of minds and practice. That she presents her critique through evidence, discussion, interaction and engagement, and does so with style and grace, and with a never rushed urgency, makes this book an indispensable guide.’ John Hutnyk, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK ’This book engages media theory across television, film and the internet in relation to race and ethnicity, thus allowing a historically contextual and nuanced understanding of the interplay of virtuality and ethnicity, online and offline. Leung lays out the complexity of absences and presences of racialized bodies' works in relation to the internet. Her work addresses gaps in what has thus far been a mostly US-centric approach to race in cyberspace.’ Radhika Gajjala, Bowling Green State University, USATable of ContentsContents: Introduction; ’Not Everything in Black and White Makes Sense’: differing definitions of difference; ’Its All There in Black and White’: media studies and the theorising of race and ethnicity on the world wide web; Tactics and technologies of resistance: the web as minority medium; The Matrix: the complexities of the empirical research and its interdisciplinary methodologies; A computer in the home or a bug in the house? Ethnic minority women’s consumption of information technology in the domestic sphere; Continuing the tradition: translating the web through previous media; Reconfiguring ethnicity: the web as technology of self-representation; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisOvercoming obstacles of prejudice, ignorance, and stereotyping, this group has given the world some of its most beloved stars and told some of its most indelible stories. Viva Hollywood examines the stars in front of the screen as well as the people behind-the-scenes who have created a rich legacy across more than 100 years.The role of Latin women on screen is explored through the professional lives of Dolores Del Rio, Rita Hayworth, Raquel Welch, Salma Hayek, Penélope Cruz, and many more. The book covers the films and careers of actors ranging from silent screen idol Antonio Moreno, to international Oscar-winning star Anthony Quinn, to Andy Garcia and Antonio Banderas. A spotlight is also given to craftspeople who elevated the medium with their artistry-visionaries like cinematographer John Alonzo, Citizen Kane scenic artist Mario Larrinaga, and Oscar-winning makeup artist Beatrice de Alba.The stories of these and many others begins through a lens of s

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Book SynopsisFind out how to entertain all types of Japanese tourists from student groups to retirees!Would a Japanese traveler rather see pictures of beautiful landscapes or smiling Japanese couples in a tourist brochure? Will you attract more Japanese tour groups by promising them independence and adventure or excellent food? Given the importance of Japanese tourists to the global travel industry, understanding their travel-related behavior has become an essential item in the tourism research agenda. Japanese Tourists: Socio-Economic, Marketing, and Psychological Analysis investigates the specific needs, behaviors, and desires of this growing segment of the international tourism market.Japanese tourists spend billions of dollars abroad every year, and travel destinations as far apart as Australia and Manhattan compete fiercely for their custom. By taking cultural traits into account, travel industry professionals can better understand exactly what kinds of amenities, accommodations, service, aTable of ContentsContents Preface Buyer Behavior in the Japanese Travel Trade: Advancements in Theoretical Frameworks Age and Cohort Effects: An Examination of Older Japanese Travelers The Japanese Vacation Visitor to Alaska: A Preliminary Examination of Peak and Off Season Traveler Demographics, Information Source Utilization, Trip Planning, and Customer Satisfaction Hong Kong as a Travel Destination: An Analysis of Japanese Tourists' Satisfaction Levels, and the Likelihood of Them Recommending Hong Kong to Others Social and Cultural Factors Influencing Tourists' Souvenir-Purchasing Behavior: A Comparative Study on Japanese “Omiyage” and Korean “Sunmul” Japanese Tourists' Experience of the Natural Environments in North QLD Region--Great Barrier Reef Experience Packaging a Resort: An Analysis of Japanese Ski Holiday Package Tour Brochures Journeys for Experiences: Japanese Independent Travelers in Scotland Travel-Related Behavior of Japanese Leisure Tourists: A Review and Discussion The Japanese Travel Life Cycle Meeting the Needs of Japanese Consumers: Hotels in Japan and the United States Index Reference Notes Included

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Book SynopsisLearn how ethnic factors affect tobacco use The addiction to smoking is remarkably resistant to intervention, bringing with it a multitude of health issues among users that can at times co-occur with psychiatric disorders. Ethnicity is increasingly recognized as often playing an important role in the prevalence of tobacco use. Tobacco Use and Ethnicity explores the various factors that impact tobacco use among ethnic groups and provides practical, culturally competent approaches to treatment. Chapters consider multiple variables that lead to use among certain groups, such as Asian American and Pacific Island youth, American Indian and Alaskan Native youth, and low-income African Americans. Tobacco Use and Ethnicity is a unique source that comprehensively reveals the intersection between nicotine and culture, constructing culturally informed and culturally competent approaches to tobacco prevention and cessation treatment. This volume is based on first-hand participaTable of Contents Introduction (Peter L. Myers) A Cross-Cultural and Historical Survey of Tobacco Use Among Various Ethnic Groups (Victor Stolberg) Black ’N Mild and Carcinogenic: Cigar Smoking Among Inner City Young Adults in Hartford, CT (Merrill Singer, Greg Mirhej, J. Bryan Page, Erica Hastings, Hassan Salaheen, and Giorelly Prado) Toward an Explanation of Observed Ethnic Differences in Youths’ Tobacco Use (Rick Sawatzky, Pamela A. Ratner, Joy L. Johnson, and Sheila Marshall) Tobacco Use and Dependence in Asian Americans/Pacific Islander Adolescents: A Review of the Literature (Sun S. Kim, Douglas Ziedonis, and Kevin Chen) Regular Tobacco Use Among American Indian and Alaska Native Adolescents: An Examination of Protective Mechanisms (Karen K. Chan, Heather S. Lonczak, Patricia D. Mail, Mary E. Larimer, and G. Alan Marlatt) Smoking Susceptibility and Attitudes toward Smoking among Chinese and Vietnamese American Adolescents (Ting T. Nguyen, Ginny Goldengorin, Steven E. Gregorich, Stephen J. McPhee, and Celia Patricia Kaplan) RESEARCH REPORT Association Between Tobacco Use and Lifestyle in a Sample of Lower Income Urban African-Americans in the American South (Doohee Lee, Nannette Turner, and Chantelle Moon) Index Reference Notes Included

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of so-called Indian identity in South Africa and its transformations after apartheid.

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Book SynopsisWhile there are numerous studies of racism and racial inequality at the macro-level of analysis, there has been little work done on the experience of everyday racism for black people. Philomena Essed's brilliant work fills this gap. This landmark volume compares contemporary racism in the United States and the Netherlands through in-depth interview data from more than 2,000 experiences of black women. As an interdisciplinary analysis of gendered social constructions of racism, it breaks new ground. Essed problematizes and reinterprets many of the meanings and everyday practices that the majority of society has come to take for granted. She addresses crucial but largely neglected dimensions of racism: How is racism experienced in everyday situations? How do black women recognize covert expressions of racism? What knowledge of racism do black women have, and how is this knowledge acquired? How do they challenge racism in everyday life? To answer these questions, over two thousand experTable of ContentsPART ONE: TOWARDS AN INTEGRATION OF MACRO AND MICRO DIMENSIONS OF RACISM Racism Today The Social-political Context The Netherlands Some Notes on Contemporary Racism in the US Women and Racism Black Women with Higher Education Conceptualizing Racism as a Process Racism A Working Definition The Notion of Everyday Racism PART TWO: METHODOLOGICAL QUESTIONS Introduction Methodology within Methodology Accounts The Interviewees Interviewing Method of Analysis PART THREE: KNOWLEDGE AND COMPREHENSION OF EVERYDAY RACISM Introduction General Knowledge and Scenarios of Racism Comprehending Racism Subjective and Objective Assessments of the Comprehension of Racist Events A Procedure for the Assessment of Racist Events Assessing Real-life Explanations of `Unfair Treatment′ Relating Cognitive to Social Processes of Understanding The Acquisition of Knowledge of Racism Reconstructing Black Women′s General Knowledge of Racism PART FOUR: ANALYZING ACCOUNTS OF RACISM Introduction Analyzing Accounts of Racism Knowledge About Racism as an Evaluative Category in Verbal Accounts Heuristics, Interpretations and Evaluations in Reconstructions of Racist Events Racist Complications in Job Applications What happened? Examples of Real-life Accounts Conclusions PART FIVE: THE INTEGRATION OF RACISM IN EVERYDAY LIFE: THE STORY OF ROSA N. Introduction Rosa N. A Fragmentary Representation of Everyday Racism The Process of Everyday Racism in the Experience of Rosa N. The Macro Context of Experiences of Racism Conclusions Rosa N. and the Shared Experience of Racism PART SIX: THE STRUCTURE OF EVERYDAY RACISM Racism as Conflict Maintaining Process Hidden Agendas The Dominations of Euro-American Values The Basic Agenda Perpetuation of Exclusion and Subordination The Agenda of the Agenda Problematizing those who Problematize Racism The Structure of Everyday Racism CONCLUSIONS APPENDICES Appendix 1. Interview Guide Appendix 2. General Statements about Racism Appendix 3. `Rosa N. File′

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Book SynopsisKnowledge in the Blood offers a firsthand account, from the first black Dean of a historically white university, of how white South African students learn and confront the Apartheid past, and how this knowledge transforms students and teacher alike.Trade Review"This book is a testament of hope and reconciliation. Jansen's microlevel detail and experiential knowledge provide evidence that the apartheid legacy is not insurmountable . . . Jansen offers valuable insights into universal issues of policy versus practice, ideal versus real, and the often-torturous route to enacting deep change in educational institutions. Anyone interested in the complexities of postapartheid South African education and life in general will find this book a must-read." -- Diane Brook Napier * Comparative Education Review *"This is a brilliant book, weaving together a description of the integration of the student body and revision of the curriculum at the University of Pretoria, a sophisticated explanation of the transmission of historical knowledge, and a moving personal story. In 2000, Jansen became the first black dean of the faculty of education at the University of Pretoria, following a Fulbright grant to Stanford University and a career at black universities in South Africa. Jansen tells a moving personal story of his efforts—thoughtful and courageous—to open new educational directions for his students, their parents, and his colleagues and explains how family, church, schools, and media shaped an Afrikaans worldview that was transmitted to the next generation even after the end of legal apartheid. He uses philosophical and cognitive theories of historical knowledge to frame the human stories, comparing the South African context with post-Nazi Germany." -- Library Journal"Brave, discerning, and deeply affecting, this study of a South African institution in the midst of historic change, gives us profound insight into the challenges faced by the larger society, as it emerges from a bitterly divisive past into a more hopeful future. Bringing realism and rare moral generosity to the most difficult of conflicts, Jonathan Jansen illuminates the struggles faced by the inheritors of violence, as they move from pride and prejudice to a new and larger knowledge. An act of empathy as well as penetrating analysis, Knowledge in the Blood is an inspiring blueprint for thinking about social and personal transformation, and for extending to a problematic Other an understanding which includes both compassion and asense of justice." -- Eva Hoffman * author of After Such Knowledge *"Knowledge in the Blood conveys an extraordinary sense of time and place, bringing to life the fundamental questions of identity and humanity that students and faculty face in post-Apartheid South Africa. This compelling work casts light on culture, language, and race in a way that no other book ever has. It will undoubtedly command attention." -- Andy Hargreaves * author of Sustainable Leadership and Teaching in the Knowledge Society *"Jonathan Jansen's stunning, deeply rounded story draws you in and never lets go. It is at once an autobiography and a socio-emotional political account of one of the most profound changes facing any nation, the transformation from Apartheid. As the first black Dean in a formerly all-white university, appointed long before the institution was ready for change, Jansen takes us on an incredible journey." -- Michael Fullan * author of The Six Secrets of Change and The Moral Imperative of School Leadership *

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Book SynopsisWith issues of equity at the forefront of mathematics education research and policy, Mathematics Teaching, Learning, and Liberation in the Lives of Black Children fills the need for authoritative, rigorous scholarship that sheds light on the ways that young black learners experience mathematics in schools and their communities. This timely collection significantly extends the knowledge base on mathematics teaching, learning, participation, and policy for black children and it provides new framings of relevant issues that researchers can use in future work. More importantly, this book helps move the field beyond analyses that continue to focus on and normalize failure by giving primacy to the stories that black learners tell about themselves and to the voices of mathematics educators whose work has demonstrated a commitment to the success of these children.Trade Review"I have a deep appreciation for this volume and understand its value for the educational enterprise in general and Black children in particular. Even those who do not share my same sentiments will find this book to be insightful, informative, and thought provoking concerning the mathematics teaching and learning of Black children."--Christopher C. Jett, Journal of Urban Mathematics Education "This book is a rich resource for anyone who is concerned about mathematics learning of black and other minority children. Recommended for university libraries and researchers involved in mathematics education of minority children....Recommended."--CHOICE"This is a book that I heartily recommend to anyone who cares about equity and tackling racism, and it is a book that appropriately and refreshingly put teaching at its center. The book presents many different forms of research and writing, colorful and engaging accounts, insightful and chilling accounts of racism, and powerful new lenses and theories to consider the issues. This may be the first collection of its kind in mathematics education that brings different authors together to focus exclusively on African American children."--Teachers College RecordTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsSection I: Mapping A Liberatory Research and Policy Agenda1. Liberating the Production of Knowledge About African American Children and Mathematics, Danny Bernard Martin Section II: Pedagogy, Standards, and Assessment2. Researching African American Mathematics Teachers of African American Students: Conceptual and Methodological Considerations, Lawrence M. Clark, Whitney Johnson & Daniel Chazan3. "This Little Light of Mine!" Entering Voices of Cultural Relevancy into the Mathematics Teaching Conversation, Lou Edward Matthews4. Instructional Strategies and Dispositions of Teachers Who Help African American Students Gain Conceptual Understanding, Carol E. Malloy5. Contrasting Pedagogical Styles and Their Impact on African American Students, Robert Q. Berry III & Oren L. McClain6. More than Test Scores: How Teachers’ Classroom Practice Contributes to and What Student Work Reveals about Black Students’ Mathematics Performance and Understanding, Erica N. WalkerSection III: Socialization, Learning, and Identity7. The Social Construction of Youth and Mathematics: The Case of a Fifth-Grade Classroom, Kara J. Jackson8. Identity at the Crossroads: Understanding the Practices and Forces that Shape African American Success and Struggle in Mathematics, Joi A. Spencer 9. Wrestling with the Legacy of Stereotypes: Being African American in Math Class, Na’ilah Suad Nasir, Grace Atukpawu, Kathleen O’Connor, Michael Davis, Sarah Wischnia & Jessica Tsang10. Opportunities to Learn Geometry: Listening to the Voices of Three African American Students High School Students, Marilyn E. Strutchens & S. Kathy Westbrook11. Negotiating Sociocultural Discourses: The Counter-Storytelling of Academically and Mathematically Successful African American Male Students, David W. Stinson12. "Come Home, Then": Two Eighth-Grade Black Female Students’ Reflections on their Mathematics Experiences, Yolanda A. Johnson13. "Still Not Saved": The Power of Mathematics to Liberate the Oppressed, Jacqueline LeonardSection IV: Collaboration and Reform14. University/K-12 Partnerships: A Collaborative Approach to School Reform, Martin L. Johnson & Stephanie Timmons BrownContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisExplores the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.

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Book SynopsisThe Harlem Renaissance is considered one of the most significant periods of creative and intellectual expression for African Americans. Beginning as early as 1914 and lasting into the 1940s, this era saw individuals reject the stereotypes of African Americans and confront the racist, social, political, and economic ideas that denied them citizenship and access to the American Dream. While the majority of recognized literary and artistic contributors to this period were black males, African American women were also key contributors.Black Women of the Harlem Renaissance Era profiles the most important figures of this cultural and intellectual movement. Highlighting the accomplishments of black women who sought to create positive change after the end of WWI, this reference work includes representatives not only from the literary scene but also:ActivistsActressesArtistsEducatorsEntrepreneursMusiciansPolitical leaders ScholarsBy acknowledging the women who played vitalif not always recognizTrade ReviewThe Harlem Renaissance is a name ascribed to the cultural, social, and artistic mode occurring between 1919 and 1940 that defined many black Americans. While the majority of those engaged in this outpouring of expression were male, there was also considerable female participation. However, most of the scholarship on black women of this period has concentrated on literary or artistic achievements, omitting other contributions that women made. This very fine collection, edited by Bracks and Smith, brings together an array of essayists who focus on their subjects' roles as activists, educators, entrepreneurs, journalists, philanthropists, playwrights, professionals, or entertainers—and, of course, writers. There are more than 200 women profiled, which provides a depth and breadth that no other single monograph has achieved to date, thus rescuing many of these women from obscurity. Alphabetical entries range in length from one paragraph to several pages. The volume includes a chronology and an appendix of entrants' names organized by their various roles. These features, in addition to the bibliographic references, index, and a list of the volume's contributors, make for an arrangement that will be very useful to the researcher. This well-done encyclopedia provides many delightful surprises for anyone researching the Harlem Renaissance. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsForeword Harlem Renaissance Era 1919-1940 Timeline Entries Sources Index About the Editors and Contributors

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