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Covering the full range of illegal immigrants from Mexican border crossers to Central American refugees, illegal Europeans, and smuggled Chinese, the book considers the kind of work the migrants do and the public response to them.

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The work aims to test a variety of theoretical ideas about the possible factors involved in social regulation of illegitimacy social hierarchy, fraternal interest groups, female power, extended family structure, affection for children, and father involvement with infants and to examine combinations of these factors for predictive power.

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This concise, up-to-date volume compiles information and materials documenting illicit drugs and their use from multiple perspectives.

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The 10 essays here explore the images of blacks in historical contemporary American culture. It interprets the use of black images in a variety of media, such as works of art, popular titles, and other sources, and identifies the artifacts, books, films, and other materials that have been collected privately or in libraries.

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Now they were faced with a new country and a new set of images to deal with just as Germany exerts itself more powerfully than ever on the world economic scene.

How much attention has this new Germany received in the American media, and how accurate are the new portrayals

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The first book of its kind, Images of the Disabled/Disabling Images combines an examination of the presentation of persons with disabilities in literature, film, and the media with an analysis of the ways in which these images are expressed in public policy concerning the disabled.

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This expanded collection of new and fully revised explorations of media content identifies the ways we all have been negatively stereotyped and demonstrates how careful analysis of media portrayals can create more beneficial alternatives.

Not all damaging stereotypes are obvious.

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This edited volume, heavy in social theory, explores interconnections between gender, sexuality, US politics, race, ethnicity, immigration, and international relations through the concept of ambiguity.

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Australians once believed that the Aboriginals were doomed to extinction. This study explores the origins and the gradual demise of the "doomed race" theory, seeking to show that white perceptions of Australia's indigenous people were shaped by Enlightenment, Darwinian and other European concepts.

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Examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean -- .

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Examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean -- .

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This study surveys a wide range of writings and ideas out of Africa by people of African descent on the various ways in which "insiders" and "outsiders", "self" and "otherness" have been imagined and defined from African perspectives. Five interviews with leading writers conclude the book.

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Imagining Latinx Intimacies addresses the ways that artists and writers resist the social forces of colonialism, displacement, and oppression through crafting incisive and inspiring responses to the problems that queer Latinx peoples encounter in both daily lives and representation such as art, film, poetry, popular culture, and stories.

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In the context of the Palestinians, whose national status in so many instances remains unresolved, the articulation and `imagination of national identity is particularly urgent.

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French Studies, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Sociology, History/Cultural History. Specific chapters will be of relevance to: Cultural Policy, Popular Music Studies, Literary Studies, Film and TV Studies, Linguistics -- .

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The book examines the way in which Arabs and Africans are conscripted into the view of the world and takes an unusual, non-Eurocentric viewpoint of how Africans journeyed to the New World and Europe, participating in, what may be considered, an early stage of world exploration and discovery.

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This work states that immigrant entrepreneurship rose dramatically in the 20th century and has had a huge impact on urban life. Not only has immigrant business revitalized derelict shopping streets, but it has also introduced "exotic" products of social cohesion.

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This work states that immigrant entrepreneurship rose dramatically in the 20th century and has had a huge impact on urban life. Not only has immigrant business revitalized derelict shopping streets, but it has also introduced "exotic" products of social cohesion.

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Immigrant Experiences weaves together detailed historical and contemporary examples of immigration to the United States that move beyond hackneyed stereotypes about immigrants to give readers a fact-based understanding of why and how immigration occurs.

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Former Soviet doctors in Israel, Canada, and the United States.

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This compilation is an examination of the anti-immigrant movement of the late 20th century, focusing on California. The book explores the impact of the nativist movement on public library usage among Latino and Asian immigrants.