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Politics in Black and White: Race and Power in Los Angeles

(Paperback, Revised edition)

By: Raphael J. Sonenshein

ISBN: 9780691025483
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 1995
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Tracing the evolution of an extraordinary biracial coalition in Los Angeles behind Mayor Tom Bradley, this book shows how 'crossover' politics and racial violence coexist in urban America. Challenging the pessimism about biracial coalitions in general, it compares their relative successes in Los Angeles to their disheartening failures in New York.

Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject

(Paperback, Revised edition)

By: Saba Mahmood

ISBN: 9780691149806
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Provides an analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt.

Portraits to the Wall: Historic Lesbian Lives Unveiled

(Hardback)

By: Rose Collis

ISBN: 9781474287067
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Positive Images: Gay Men and HIV/AIDS in the Culture of 'Post Crisis'

(Paperback)

By: Dion Kagan

ISBN: 9781350259997
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Possible Spaces of Somali Belonging

(Paperback)

By: Vivian Gerrand

ISBN: 9780522869286
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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Post-soul Nation: The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, And Tragic 1980s as Experienced by African Americans

(Paperback)

By: Nelson George

ISBN: 9780143034476
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2005
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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One of the foremost chroniclers of the contemporary black experience offers an undiluted perspective on the 1980s in a fast-paced chronological retrospective. Photos & illustrations throughout.

Power and Inequality in Urban Africa

(Hardback)

By: Laura Stark

ISBN: 9781786993458
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A unique collection examining the African urban experience, with a special focus on the causes, consequences and power dynamics of urban inequality.

Power and Informality in Urban Africa: Ethnographic Perspectives

(Paperback)

By: Laura Stark

ISBN: 9781786993441
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A unique collection examining the African urban experience, with a special focus on the causes, consequences and power dynamics of urban inequality.

Power on the Move: Adivasi and Roma Accessing Social Justice

(Paperback)

By: Cristina-Ioana Dragomir

ISBN: 9781350229914
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Pragmatist Feminism and the Work of Charlene Haddock Seigfried

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By: Lee A. McBride III

ISBN: 9781350324947
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Pragmatist Feminism and the Work of Charlene Haddock Seigfried

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By: Lee A. McBride III

ISBN: 9781350201507
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Precarious Childhood in Post-Independence Ireland

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By: Moira Maguire

ISBN: 9780719087745
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2012
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book reveals the desperate plight of the poor, neglected, illegitimate, and abused children in an Irish society that claimed to "cherish" and hold them sacred, but in fact marginalized and ignored them. -- .

Precarious Modernities: Assembling State, Space and Society on the Urban Margins in Morocco

(Paperback)

By: Cristiana Strava

ISBN: 9781350232587
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Pregnancy Without Birth: A Feminist Philosophy of Miscarriage

(Paperback)

By: Victoria Browne

ISBN: 9781350279698
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Pregnancy Without Birth: A Feminist Philosophy of Miscarriage

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By: Victoria Browne

ISBN: 9781350279681
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The first book to propose a philosophy of miscarriage exploring the meaning of pregnancy without birth and linking theory to real, lived experience.

Presbyterian Women in America: Two Centuries of a Quest for Status

(Hardback, 2nd edition)

By: Lois A. Boyd

ISBN: 9780313298417
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 1996
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This second edition of Boyd and Brackenridge's acclaimed history of Presbyterian women in America traces women's affiliation with Presbyterianism for more than two centuriesfrom 1789 to the present.

Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children

(Paperback, Revised edition)

By: Viviana A. Zelizer

ISBN: 9780691034591
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 1994
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Having established laws removing many children from the marketplace, turn-of-the-century America was discovering new, sentimental criteria to determine a child's monetary worth. This book traces the emergence of the modern child, at once economically 'useless' and emotionally 'priceless,' from the late 1800s to the 1930s.

Proceedings, World Zionist Organization

(Hardback)

Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1972
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Profiles in Injustice: Why Racial Profiling Cannot Work

(Paperback)

By: David A. Harris

ISBN: 9781565848184
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2003
Publisher: The New Press
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Explains the origins and justifications for using racial profiles in police investigation, and argues that not only does the policy have serious social side effects, but statistics suggest that it is ineffective.

Progressive Politics in the Democratic Party: Samuel Untermyer and the Jewish Anti-Nazi Boycott Campaign

(Paperback)

By: Richard A. Hawkins

ISBN: 9781350278578
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Prospects for Change in Socialist Systems: Challenges and Responses

(Hardback)

By: Charles Bukowski

ISBN: 9780275924348
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1987
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book brings together experts in international relations and comparative politics in order to examine the sociopolitical and economic issues of individual socialist countries and to investigate specific issues cross-nationally.

Psychosocial Aspects of Chronic Illness and Disability Among African Americans

(Hardback)

By: Faye Z. Belgrave

ISBN: 9780865692428
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 1998
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book examines the psychosocial aspects of disability and chronic illness prevalence and adjustment using a culturally congruent framework.

Public Policy Opinion and the Elderly, 1952-1978: A Kaleidoscope of Culture

(Hardback)

By: Gershom Morningstar

ISBN: 9780313254321
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 1987
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Differences and similarities to opinions of younger groups are discussed along with the changes that took place from the conservative fifties to the liberal sixties and early seventies and back again to the conservatism of the late seventies.

Puerto Ricans in the United States

(Hardback)

By: Maria E. Perez y Gonzalez

ISBN: 9780313297489
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Puerto Ricans in the United States begins by presenting Puerto Ricothe land, the people, and the culture. The final chapter on Puerto Ricans' impact on U.S. society highlights their positive contributions in a wide range of fields.

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