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The Spanish conquerors who explored the southern cone of South America reported back to Europe that the region was empty of human inhabitants. This compilation of research by noted scholars of the region investigates the past of peoples largely neglected by the historical accounts of their conquerors.

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Artistic residency has recently become popular and well-supported within Taiwan. This book explores the challenges that this form of art practice faced in contemporary Taiwan from the revocation of Martial Law in 1987 to the 2000sarguably one of the most exciting periods in the sociocultural history of the island.

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Asian American Sexual Politics explores beauty, self-esteem, and sexual attraction among Asian Americans. Drawing on sixty in-depth interviews, this book shows how constructions of Asian American gender and sexuality reinforce the social and political dominance for whites and exposes often-ignored new racism in the United States.

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Asian Tragedies in the Americas: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Stories examines stories of nineteenth-century Asian migrants across the Americas.

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Professor Wagner's study of Barok social and ritual life pays special attention to the men's-house feasting cycle. The kaba. or culminating death feast" of that cycle, is invoked by the word "asiwinarong," which symbolizes the leadership succession on which Barok claims to ethical integrity and precedence rest Originally published in 1986. The Pr

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Explores the notion of yellowness and shows that this label originated not in early travel texts or objective descriptions, but in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scientific discourses on race. This title weaves together multiple narratives to tell the complex history of a problematic term.

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A revealing portrait of black men in America explores their lives and experiences with unusual depth and clarity

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In Being Indian, Pavan Varma, whom the Guardian has called 'one of the country's most perceptive writers', demolishes the myths and generalisations as he turns his sharply observant gaze on his fellow countrymen to examine what really makes Indians tick and what they have to offer the world in the 21st century.

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Does the achievement of economic equality in a multiethnic society require the complete loss of a minority's cultural identity However, Barrera compares the situation of Mexican Americans to that of minority groups in four other countries and concludes that equality does not necessarily require assimilation.

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This book spotlights the plight of African American boys and men, examining multiple systems beyond education, incarceration, and employment to assess their impact on the mental and physical health of African American boys and men-and challenges everyday citizens to help start a social transformation.

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This work presents scholarship on African American leadership as part of the larger dynamic of leadership studies. The annotated entries cover a variety of works on subjects such as biographies, leadership organization and audio-visual materials.

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Tells the story of the Arab woman in the United States.

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Tells the story of the Arab woman in the United States.

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Biracial in America: Forming and Performing Racial Identity looks at how and why biracial Americans identify the way they do, and the ways in which they perform race in their day-to-day lives. Noting that identity is multifaceted, this book also explores multiple dimensions of identity and finds that identity is more complex than often treated in previous research.

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"While much is known about the white men and women who were involved in the anti-slavery movement, the black abolitionists have been largely ignored. This book, written by one of America's leading blac"

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Despite all the medical and media attention focused on the rate of overweight and obesity in the African American population, African American images and body types are greatly influencing changes in the fashion, fitness, advertising, television and movie industries.