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A true "first," this encyclopedia is the only comprehensive guide ever published on the archaeology and traditional culture of the Caribbean.

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This book is an extension of Dr. Spooner's previous work on the interplay of insect processes and human culture as discussed in The Metaphysics of Insect Life (ISP, 1995). It continues the application of the literary, philosophical, and scientific methods employed there to the main currents in the evolution of modern Hispanic literature.

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Richard M. Weaver was one of the leading rhetoricians of the 1950s, whose philosophical and pedagogical writings helped revitalize interest in rhetoric. This book examines the relationship between Weaver's rhetorical theory and his cultural views, focusing on the rhetorical insights.

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Helps you to understand the context of Salvadoran and Central American immigration to the US, and how these new Americans are adjusting to and contributing to US society. This work covers the immigration laws and status of the refugees once they arrived. It also covers adjustment and integration issues, emphasizing family and community influences.

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Twenty-two years after Ayatollah Khomeini's ascent to power in Iran many aspects of his 1979 Islamic revolution remain obscure if not baffling.

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Los Angeles has attracted intense attention as a 'world city' characterized by multiculturalism and globalization. This work highlights the role African Americans and Japanese Americans played in the social and political struggles that remade twentieth-century Los Angeles.

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This text reinterprets a misunderstood epoch of the Asian American experience_the Asian American movement (AAM). The authors address the AAM's dramatic impact on the direction of Asian American political and social activity beginning in the 1960s, particularly in terms of neig...

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Documents the benefits of affirmative action for minority students, their communities, and the nation at large. This book investigates the roots of minority underperformance in selective colleges and universities. It explains how such factors as neighborhood, family, peer group, and early schooling influence the academic performance of students.

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This book examines the complex relationship between Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter as it unfolds on social media and in offline interpersonal relationships. In so doing, it demonstrates the ongoing influence of history within the contemporary fight for social justice.

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This book examines the complex relationship between Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter as it unfolds on social media and in offline interpersonal relationships. In so doing, it demonstrates the ongoing influence of history within the contemporary fight for social justice.

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This text examines how many, in the waning years of the 20th century, are attempting to forget or reinvent history to serve the purposes of ethnic, racial, or religious separation. It focuses on anti-Semitism and its re-emergence among the "Skinheads" of the 1980s.

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Examines Chilean singer-songwriter, visual artist, poet and ethnographer Violeta Parra (19171967)

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Examining works by black writers, this book constructs a typology of white images in the African American imagination. It argues that these images repeatedly occur in works by black writers. Stereotypes include the overt bigot, the hyocrite, the liberal, and the good-hearted weakling.

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A masterful account of world racial politics and the future of global race relations by a leading American sociologist

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He wrote detailed scholarly investigations, Souls of Black Folk and Black Reconstruction among them, as well as popular current articles. Du Bois was created to provide a short journey through his views on virtually all aspects of 20th-century life.

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Investigates various aspects of Zaza life: kinship, economy, culture, identity, gender relations, patriarchy and religion. This work focuses upon the ways in which this Middle Eastern minority has maintained its way of life and cultural identity in today's globalised society.

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This is the first book-length study of black American women playwrights.

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