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This ethnography, based on a five-year field study, presents a holistic view of a nearly invisible ethnic minority in the urban Midwest, Cambodian refugees.

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This work discusses the activism in the 60s of progressive women who came of age during the Popular Front era of the 30s and 40s.

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In this title contemporary black American culture is chronicled through essays on music, film, sports, publishing, politics and city life, both uptown and down. This edition includes essays on the Hughes brothers, Tupac Shakur, the business of hip-hop and Latrell Sprewell.

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Given the events of recent times, Weaver also shifts from examining how Soviet young people learned communism to considering how they unlearn communism.

Her first-hand account is based on her travels and her study in the Soviet Union and in Russia and the other fourteen republics.

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With the military seizing overt power in Egypt, Cairo's grand and dramatic urban reshaping during and after 2011 is reflected upon under the lens of a smaller story narrating everyday interactions of a middle-class building in the neighbourhood of Doqi. -- .

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With the military seizing overt power in Egypt, Cairo's grand and dramatic urban reshaping during and after 2011 is reflected upon under the lens of a smaller story narrating everyday interactions of a middle-class building in the neighbourhood of Doqi. -- .

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From Canada's profound racism in the 19th and early 20th centuries to its radical shift in immigration policy in the 1960s, this one-of-a-kind reference explores the past 1,000 years of ethnicity in Canada.

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From taverns to garden shops to town libraries to spas, this volume offers inspiring stories about the "great good places" at the heart of our communities. Oldenburg's "The Great Good Place" has helped to spawn the revival of local hangouts, and now this book provides firsthand stories about those leading the revival. 20 photos.

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Successful survivors speak for themselves in this exhaustive study of the lives, attitudes, and lifestyles of more than 500 centenarians. Beard's insights regarding the personal characteristics and principles by which centenarians live contain some unexpected findings in the areas of social relationships and social environments.

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The collapse of the Soviet Union and its totalitarian system has resulted in instability and conflict among its many ethnic groups.

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In this pioneering and important book, Philippe Aries surveys children and their place in family life from the Middle Ages to the end of the eighteenth century.

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The experiences of Muslim women in Australia cannot be typecast as a sisterhood of oppressed females. Challenging Identities questions the assumption of incompatible Australian values and Islamic values, and provides valuable first-person accounts from the lives of Muslim women in Australia.

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"Challenging Misrepresentations of Black Womanhood" investigates the stereotyping of Black womanhood and the larger sociological impact on Black women. The text details the historical and contemporary use of stereotypes against Black women and how Black women work to challenge and dispel false perceptions.

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A collection of essays that explores the nature of the complex human service delivery system that has evolved among American Jewry, the profound implication they are having for the Jewish community, and the planning issues that confront today's American Jews.

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This book examines the religious context from which emerged the German women's movement in the mid-nineteenth century.

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Heading to school for her very first day, Charlie Mae knows she will seem much different from the other kids. Hopeful they will notice she's not so different after all, will Charlie make new friends Will her classmates be kind even though she seems different Let's find out!

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This engagingly written compendium is packed with humorous, dramatic, surprising, and inspiring facts about the past, present, and future of children and childhood.

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Defying foreign government orders and interviewing terrorists face to face, a young American tours hostile lands to learn about Middle Eastern youth--and uncovers a subculture that defies every stereotype. Eight-page b&w photo insert.

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Edwards and Polite focus on African American baby-boomers who have grown up possessing something no generation of African Americans has ever before experienced--entitlement. Surprising and often controversial, this groundbreaking book stands as vivid testimony to the increasingly complex world in which African Americans strive to succeed.