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Being Unequal explores how identity categories associated with race, class, gender, and sexuality help shape inequality. This concise and accessible book asks: How is identity experienced How does identity help reproduce inequality How does identity help resist inequality What is the relationship between micro and macro inequality

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This third edition of a classic urban sociology text examines critical but often-neglected aspects of urban life from a social-psychological theoretical perspective.

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This third edition of a classic urban sociology text examines critical but often-neglected aspects of urban life from a social-psychological theoretical perspective.

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Addresses the psychological effect of religious fervour, right-wing Republicanism, internalized self-hatred and the intervention of urban gay/feminist politics on gay/feminist life, identities and communities in the Southern States of America. The book combines interviews with political commentary.

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Bensonhurst Sutra: Tales of an Italian American Buddhist is a collection of autobiographical essays that chronicles DeLuca's movement from a traditional, and much-loved Italian American/Catholic community in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn to an embrace of Buddhism.

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This is a study of a gay community, a narrative of personal development and change and an exploration of the use of friendship in conducting research. The study explores sexuality, marriage, lifestyles, and the meanings of friendship.

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This workexamines how preschool teachers construct the preschool teacher identity through everyday practices of teaching and caring. Pruit's analysis of preschool teachers' talk and interaction addresses pertinent sociological and early childhood education themes, including classroom management, social control, emotions, and identity construction.

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Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. This book offers a paradigm for theorizing gender and sexuality - not just in the Victorian period, but in our own.

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Does the achievement of economic equality in a multiethnic society require the complete loss of a minority's cultural identity However, Barrera compares the situation of Mexican Americans to that of minority groups in four other countries and concludes that equality does not necessarily require assimilation.

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The urgent debate over a multiracial category in the 2000 census forced the nation to reflect upon the important questions of what it means to construct and maintain a racial identity. Using in-depth interviews and survey data, Beyond Black documents how biracial people develo...

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A new variety of African American celebrity has emerged. According to Cashmore the most avaluable product they sell, is a conception of America where racism has been rendered insignificant. Cashmore argues that the primacy of the market in celebrity-fixated American culture makes these figures unreliable indicators of Black America.

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This book offers a practical guide to the everyday actions and decisions that anyone can take to promote gender equality and social justice in their own life and the world around them.

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A unique examination of the women involved in grassroots movements in North Africa

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This book spotlights the plight of African American boys and men, examining multiple systems beyond education, incarceration, and employment to assess their impact on the mental and physical health of African American boys and men-and challenges everyday citizens to help start a social transformation.

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The German-Jewish experience through the rise of Nazism in 1933 was characterized by an explosion of cultural and intellectual creativity. This work seeks to explain this phenomenon and analyze how the German-Jewish legacy has permeated modes of Western thought and sensibility, and why these emigres occupy an iconic place in contemporary society.

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The eight essays in this volume explore the public, or extra-domestic, lives of women, examining the connections between their activities in the public and private domains.

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Through qualitative analysis of individuals, Kathleen J. Fitzgerald studies the social construction of racial and ethnic identity in Beyond White Ethnicity.

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A groundbreaking exploration of bisexual politics by a revolutionary thinker provides the missing piece of the puzzle for readers who identify as bisexual.