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Is a multicultural approach to integration and diversity really as destructive as critics say Have we been too quick to declare its demise Offering an unflinching and informed defence of cultural diversity, Tim Soutphommasane shows that multiculturalism is more than laksa, kebabs or souvlaki and that it doesnt automatically spell cultural relativism, ethnic ghettos or reverse racism.

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This groundbreaking analysis of nineteenth-century European clinical case histories of hermaphrodites shows how sex changed from an outward appearance inscribed in a social body to something to be found deep inside body and self. -- .

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This groundbreaking analysis of nineteenth-century European clinical case histories of hermaphrodites shows how sex changed from an outward appearance inscribed in a social body to something to be found deep inside body and self. -- .

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In Drifting Toward Love, journalist Kai Wright introduces us to Manny, Julius, Carlos, and their friends, young gay men of color desperately searching for life's basic necessities. With these vivid, intimate portraits, Wright reveals both their heroism and their mistakes, placing their stories into a larger social context.

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Offers a candid revelation of the ideas, values, and attitudes that inform "drylongso" or ordinary black life in America. In writing this book the author went in search of "Core Black People" - the ordinary men and women who make up black America and asked them to define their culture.

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In a mix of the serious and the irreverent, this view of the many rites and phases of lesbian life, from coming out to commitment ceremonies, brings together essays by lesbian and bisexual women of different ages, races, and classes.

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This work articulates a theoretical alternative to contemporary social movement theory. Through the application of chaos theory, it seeks recognition of the persistence of resistance hovering within civil society.

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Biographical directory of early black American playwrights from the time prior to the Civil War to World War II. Around 200 playwrights, librettists, screenwriters and radio script writers and their work are discussed.

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This expert handbook explores the various means of political participation of East Asian Americans in the United States.

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In general, the Russian and Polish Jews who came to New York reached the middle class sooner than those who remained in London and thus can be said to have made the better choice.

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Examines womens gatherings, internationalism, political travel, and networks through questioning established geopolitical categories broadly understood as Cold War peripheries.

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This is a study of the economic thoughts of an Islamic scholar on the role of the state in the economy, public finance, money, interest, prices, partnership, profit sharing and other economic issues, reported and analyzed in their historical context.

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This book examines claims that aging populations will create serious economic problems for various nations.

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Eleven of the best-known papers, written by women, for women, are analyzed here in chapters covering the women's rights press, the purpose of women's education, coeducation, women as teachers, and the professional and graduate education of women.

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During the 1990s, the United States experienced a sort of Latino diaspora, in which new immigrants settled in large numbers outside the major urban centers and agricultural corridors they had previously occupied. In this text, contributions from professors of education consider the new social relati

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A review of risk instruments used in adult protective services and non-adult protective services settings forms the basis of chapter five, and chapter six outlines a proposed risk assessment model, specially designed for elder-serving human service professionals.

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Deals with state responses to cultural difference through the examination of a number of encounters between individuals, groups, and the state, in the United States and elsewhere. This book opens the concepts of groups and the state, arguing for the complexity of their relations and interpenetrations.

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Presents a psychological analysis of the process of "coming out" for gay men in America since 1950. Koponen uses six American novels as guides to illustrate this process, including "Falconer" by John Cheever; "Giovanni's Room" by James Baldwin; and "The Beautiful Room is Empty" by Edmund White.

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While there is a predominant celebration of mobility and instability metaphors in contemporary feminist discourse, concepts of home, rest or dwelling are frequently left unproblematized and perceived as simple, static and lacking in development potential.