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People from South Asia have been coming to Britain since the beginning of the 17th century. From the 1950s, increased immigration produced new generations of British Asians, who experienced both racism and economic hardship as they strove to express their entrepreneurial spirit and assert their religious identity. This book presents their story.

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A Soviet Journey by the South African activist and novelist Alex La Guma (19251985) is one of the longest and most substantive accounts of the USSR by an African writer. It is a rare and important document of the antiapartheid struggle and the cold war period.

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A Soviet Journey by the South African activist and novelist Alex La Guma (19251985) is one of the longest and most substantive accounts of the USSR by an African writer. It is a rare and important document of the antiapartheid struggle and the cold war period.

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African Americans have faced considerable obstacles in pursuing careers in engineering in the United States. In this book, David Wharton charts the history of black efforts to advance in this field from emancipation to the present, utilising contemporary correspondence and documents.

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This major contribution to young adult genealogy studies helps create ethnic pride, self-esteem, and awareness of the extraordinary accomplishments each ethnic group has brought to the American experience.

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A major social and educational experiment in race relations was conducted in Berea, Kentucky, from 1866 to 1904.

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A challenging contribution to a debate about a very sensitive social and political issue

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Illustrates how the political economy of private domestic adoption intersects with the political economy of racism to generate quite different demands for infants and children of different races and how the private adoption arena responds to these demands.

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Leading African American scholars address the cultural context in the examination of research and policies regarding African Americans in higher education.

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From teen pregnancy to athletics, myths about African American families abound. This provocative book debunks many common myths about black families in America, sharing stories and drawing on the latest research to show the realities. As the book shows, racial inequality persistswere clearly not in a postracial society.

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The major issues for African Americans today, such as poverty, low graduation rates, high rates of out-of-wedlock births, and high rates of incarceration, are of national importance.

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This extensive collection of African American quotations is the first of its kind to be organized by subject area for ease of reference.

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In this book, Johnson interviews black Tea Partyers to reveal a group with deep regard for African Americans but also divergent perspectives on race, religion, government, and Tea Party racism. He argues in the context of their family structures and life experiences, their unusual political choices are knowable, understandable, and rational.

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This book examines the lived experiences and work of African American women educators during the 1880s to the 1960s.

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After decades of research devoted to women's health, a federal agency focused on women's health, and millions of dollars allocated to address women's health disparities, African American women are still the sickest American citizens.

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This provocative look at the connections-and conflicts-between Latinos and African Americans in the United States assesses the challenges facing both groups as they strive to achieve the American dream.

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This handbook provides a thorough treatment of the various mechanisms African Americans have used to participate in U.S. political affairs from the colonial era to the present.

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This edited collection describes and discusses the advances of African Americans since the 1960s in the context of political philosophy, specifically, utilitarian liberalism revisited as 1980s and 1990s conservatism.

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Provides an invaluable source for students as well as academics on the current condition of African Americans, highlighting disparities throughout an array of social, economic, and political areas.

African Americans comprise approximately 12 percent of the population of the United Statesa sizable proportion.

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A revealing volume that portrays the lives of African Americans in all its variety across the entire 19th century-combining coverage of the pre- and post-Civil War eras.

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African People in the Global Village looks at the place of African people in the global village and the possible direction that they may follow in the future. This original examination of African people from an open-minded, multidisciplinary perspective allows for a well-round...