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A veteran journalist spends a year following girl gangs--white, Black, and Latino--in South Central Los Angeles and elsewhere, tracing the similarities and differences between female and male gangs.

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This book represents the first comprehensive compilation of information about Black Studies programs, departments, institutions, and centers, as well as about the discipline itself.

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A Big Brother's Guide to Bringing Home a Preemie tells the story of a young boy whose baby brother is born prematurely.

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Women have always been healers; they have helped each other through the birthing process, nursed the sick and wounded, and sought cures for illnesses and injuries. This book summarizes the lives of 240 significant or representative women who have engaged in the "core" professions of mid-wifery, nurs

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Taking a different path, Miriam Meyers celebrates the positive role that food plays in women's lives, and in the relationship between mother and daughter.

Despite the changes wrought by modern technology, the provision of food remains necessary to sustain physical, social, religious, and familial life.

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The book challenges and dispels the myth that Black progress has led to equality for African American women in the academy.

The results of this study make it even more critical that the voices of African American women be heard and their experiences in the academy be expressed.

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The third and final book in my A City in the Sand series. The story of Akin and Akil's parents, Abubakar, the captain of the Kush Army and the Goddess Hathor. A story of discovery, kindness, love and war, and how it all began.

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The essays in this text challenge conventional thinking about sexuality and pedagogy, with sections on myth-making, identity, globalization and education. A range of perspectives are brought to bear on how we position ourselves and are positioned by "master narratives" of sexuality and gender.

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Includes entries for various elements of Southern African American folklife, along with a bibliography of works on the subject.

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An exploration of why both the right and left of politics have so failed remote Aboriginal Australians and why until policymakers and researchers take into account both cultural difference and inequality, we will not come anywhere near closing the gap.

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This study deals with the effects of the neighborhood stabilization movement, which was formed to maintain community racial integration. In Part Three, the national level of the movement is discussed in terms of its development and its interaction with local movement organizations.

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Presents the history of love and desire between men in Britain. Covering nearly a thousand years from the Norman Conquest to the internet age, this book talks about not only public figures like Richard the Lionheart or Derek Jarman, but also little-known individuals such as 'Eleanor', a cross-dresser in Chaucer's England, and many others.

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This glossary provides an account of the feminist movement's development across time, geography, multiple identities, and various disciplines. The authors provide cross-referenced and readable definitions of the material.

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This work investigates how ethnic minority groups in the United States suffer and die from disease at higher rates than the general population. It also offers bibliographic data. Such groups include African-Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Americans, Hispanics and Pacific Asian Americans.

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A History of Children investigates the treatment of children throughout the millennia, examining and comparing, in the timeline from prehistory to the present, cultural codes, and societal laws.

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Offering the six historical essays from the out-of-print Bicentennial volume originally published by the U.S. Department of Labor, this book tells the richly dramatic and rewarding story of the working men and women who built the nation, from colonial settlement and the beginning of the republic through the modern labor movement and the space age.

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The work gives special attention to what Washington calls Destiny Studies, an approach which allows a people to concentrate on their past, present, and future possibilities, and to view the experience of a race as a coherent unity, rather than a set of fragmented historical happenings.