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How do racially mixed congregations come together How are they sustained Who attends them, how did they get there, and what are their experiences This book explores these questions.

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The Gran Chaco region of South America constitutes a cultural area that is little known and largely misunderstood by the majority of people living outside its borders.

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The Gran Chaco region of South America constitutes a cultural area that is little known and largely misunderstood by the majority of people living outside its borders.

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Tracing the evolution of an extraordinary biracial coalition in Los Angeles behind Mayor Tom Bradley, this book shows how 'crossover' politics and racial violence coexist in urban America. Challenging the pessimism about biracial coalitions in general, it compares their relative successes in Los Angeles to their disheartening failures in New York.

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Puerto Ricans in the United States begins by presenting Puerto Ricothe land, the people, and the culture. The final chapter on Puerto Ricans' impact on U.S. society highlights their positive contributions in a wide range of fields.

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This book is a close reading of the various ways race was covered in Slovak-language newspapers as immigrants themselves adopted a "white" identity.

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This accessible, challenging discussion of race relations looks at how institutions shape individual experience and asks how we can prevent a violent splintering of American society along racial lines in the 21st century.

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Talks about the subject of race relations in Brazil. This book seeks to understand the reality of race in Brazil and how well it squares with the traditional and revisionist views of race relations. It seeks to understand some of the political pathologies of buying too readily into unexamined ideas about race relations.

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He gives no comfort to either racists or more fashionable contemporaries obsessed with the supposedly unique evils of the Western past.

Racial issues, and misconceptions about race and race relations, are among the most divisive and confusing features of contemporary society.

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Exploring the basic conflict between the legal equality that black men possess as US citizens and their social isolation stemming from white America's perceptions of them as "culturally alien," the author sets out to change the negative images and stereotypes that indicate a fundamental defect in the mainframe of American culture.

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A thorough overview of the populations and social forces that have shaped the character of racial and ethnic diversity in the United States.

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Covering equity issues of sex, race, class, age, sexual orientation, and disability, this work presents creative, nontraditional narratives about performing social justice work, acknowledging the contributions of previous generations, describing current challenges, and appealing to readers to join the struggle toward a better world.

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Racial Justice in America examines a volatile social issue that is always in the news, focusing on five critical areas: criminal justice, education, employment, living accommodations, and political participation.

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An important examination of the new reality of race in American culture

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Offering implications for democraticizing psychology on a global scale, this work illustrates how professional training for mental health practictioners is often inadequate on issues pertaining to race and racism.

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This book proposes a racialization theory that explains the continued impoverishment and dependency of indigenous peoples. Through the case study of an Andean village, the book shows how the normal workings of society push for indigenous subordination and eventually the loss of their lands under neoliberalism.

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Developments in a number of European societies have highlighted the volatility of racism and the ease with which racist and extreme-right political movements can mobilise around the question of immigration and opposition to cultural pluralism. This volume provides an overview of the processes that have led to the situation.

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This book examines how the media-including advertising, motion pictures, cartoons, and popular fiction-has used racist images and stereotypes as marketing tools that malign and debase African Americans, Latinos, American Indians, and Asian Americans in the United States.

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Racisms is the first comprehensive history of racism, from the Crusades to the twentieth century. Demonstrating that there is not one continuous tradition of racism, Francisco Bethencourt shows that racism preceded any theories of race and must be viewed within the prism and context of social hierarchies and local conditions. In this richly illustr

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June Roberts explores the complicated post-colonial infrastructure of Caribbean society and life as an African American through the work of Erna Brodber.

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This text looks at the ways in which Australia's indigenous peoples have been, and continue to be, represented in books for children. These varying representations have helped to colour the attitudes, beliefs and assumptions of different generations of Australians.