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This book explores the themes of citizenship in the migration of Turks to the United States. It discusses identity formation across generations among Turkish Americans and analyzes important differences between first and second generation Turkish Americans.

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Turkish immigration, art and narratives of home in France argues for a cultural, rather than a sociological or economic, approach to understanding how immigrants become part of their new country.

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This book looks at the portrayals of girls on Disney and Nickelodeon tweencoms. It covers character tropes like main girls, mean girls, cheerleaders, and adults as well as special topics such as popularity, friendships, and girl power.

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This book looks at the portrayals of girls on Disney and Nickelodeon tweencoms. It covers character tropes like main girls, mean girls, cheerleaders, and adults as well as special topics such as popularity, friendships, and girl power.

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Twelve Step Programs are significant features in the American landscape. Investigating Twelve Step Programs lends further insight into the cultural crisis affecting many Americans as well as the strategies some have found to make sense of their lives.

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Americans began the twentieth century standing in Europe's sartorial shadow, yet ended by outfitting the world in blue jeans, T-shirts and sneakers.

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An overview of all aspects of American teen life in the twentieth century, from 1900 to 1999.

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While federal action on immigration faces an uncertain future, states, cities and suburban municipalities craft their own responses to immigration. Twenty-First-Century Gateways focuses on the fastest-growing immigrant populations in metropolitan areas with previously low levels of immigration.

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Many forces threaten the viability of town centers. Town centers, once locations of a rich variety of street stores in the hands of a local and independent merchant community, are being supplanted by monolithic and decentralized commercial zones.

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This book draws together the author's observations of the Fourth World Women's Conference, held in China in 1995, and compares the lives of U.S. Latinas with other minority women around the world.

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This book draws together the author's observations of the Fourth World Women's Conference, held in China in 1995, and compares the lives of U.S. Latinas with other minority women around the world.

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These profiles of major non-governmental organisations show how they compete to protect consumer or business interests ranging across all stages of American life, from baby foods to funerals. The analyses of 109 interest groups encompasses public interest, trade and professional associations.

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The theme of this work is America's ambivalence towards its historic lifeline, new immigrants whether legal or undocumented, and how the two central provisions of IRCA produced contradictory legislation towards immigrants which became the seeds of its implementation difficulties.

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The theme of this work is America's ambivalence towards its historic lifeline, new immigrants whether legal or undocumented, and how the two central provisions of IRCA produced contradictory legislation towards immigrants which became the seeds of its implementation difficulties.

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Explains the liberalization of U.S. immigration policy in recent decades.

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Explains the liberalization of U.S. immigration policy in recent decades.

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Using the most current data available, the essays collected here offer a timely assessment of the impact of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), which constitutes the most significant U.S. immigration policy initiative of recent years.

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The categories of racial and cultural groups follow the scheme of the 1990 U.S. Census, which provided the most detailed breakdown of race and ethnicity of the American population in the 200-year history of the census.

This sourcebook gives parallel treatment to each of these five census groups.

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No other reference analyzes the origins, development, programs, publications, and political action of 180 major American organizations concerned with women's issues in such depth.