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A fresh compilation of essays and entries based on the latest research, this work documents African American culture and political activism from the slavery era through the 20th century.

This is a revealing compilation of essays on the latest research and debates on Asian Americans, a growing and influential ethnic group today.

The authoritative source for information on the people, places, and events of the African Diaspora, spanning five continents and five centuries.

This three-volume work is a cornerstone resource on the evolution and dynamics of the Jewish Diaspora as it played out around the world-from its beginnings to the present.

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This interdisciplinary book explores women's narratives in a variety of media and genre. Adopting a feminist perspective, it focuses particularly on the themes of hybridity and monstrosity in language and the body.

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A powerful, perceptive and personal exploration of feminism from campaigner Julie Bindel that debunks commonly believed misconceptions about feminism and explains why it is a proud social movement that benefits all women.

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Encyclopedic in its coverage, this one-of-a-kind reference is ideal for students, scholars, and others who need reliable, up-to-date information on folk and fairy tales, past and present.

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This reader offers an accessible and stimulating introduction to the sheer breadth and diversity of work on gender.

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This text offers a gendered and cross-cultural analysis of the experience of mental disorder and of society's response to people suffering from it. It discusses the differences and similarities between both legal and lay definitions of mental disorder and corresponding patterns of service provision and usage, including for those who commit crime.

This encyclopedia is the first comprehensive survey of Hispanic American religiosity, contextualizing the roles of Latino and Latina Americans within U.S. religious culture.

Spanning two volumes, Hispanic American Religious Cultures encompasses the full diversity of faiths and spiritual beliefs practiced among Hispanic Americans.

A comprehensive and timely examination of the history and current status of immigrants and refugees-their stories, the events that led to their movement, and the place of these movements in contemporary history and politics.

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This is a manageable introduction to all the theories and approaches that make up media studies. The book is accompanied by extensive textual and online resources to give readers guidance at every step. Offering a truly global approach, this is a cutting edge text for today's students seeking to understand worldwide media, past and present.

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Meet the youth of today's Middle East, cool, sexy, and devout. Faced with her own quarter-life crisis, Allegra Stratton takes herself out of her comfort zone to meet the young men and women of Beirut, Amman, Cairo, Dubai, Kuwait and Damascus, where she encounters the muhajababes (and muhajaboys) a youth culture on the cusp of change.

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A collection of myths and creation stories from around the globe.

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Why are western societies - and particularly Britain - becoming more deeply divided, more violent, more squalid Donnison draws on the experience of innovative civic leaders, community activists, local policy-makers and researchers to answer these pressing questions.

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Western Europe became a multiethnic society in a fit of absence of mind. This book tackles uncomfortable questions about immigration and Islam head-on, and asks: Why can't we face the truth

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This collection contains Celtic tales of kelpies, mermaids, selkeis, ghosts, warlords, and fairies. Also included is a brief history of the Celts, a glossary of the Gaelic integrated in the stories and an appendix of superstitions about fairy protection.

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The much-anticipated first book by photographer Kevin Amato, a leading influencer in fashion today

Readers can quickly find topics of interest, with alphabetical and topical lists of entries in the frontmatter, along with cross-references to related entries per entry.