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This book is an essential resource for anyone who wants to understand race in America, drawing on research from a variety of fields to answer frequently asked questions regarding race relations, systemic racism, and racial inequality.

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Krase and DeSena offer a comprehensive view from the street of two iconic Brooklyn neighborhoods, Crown Heights-Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and Greenpoint-Williamsburg. They analyze the neighborhoods' precipitous decline and subsequent spectacular rise.

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Unlike criticisms of multiculturalism, which worry about 'reverse discrimination' or the erosion of core Western cultural values, this book's focuses on the effects of multicultural rhetoric and multicultural rights on their beneficiaries. It argues that multicultural accounts of cultural difference do not describe the practices of social groups.

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Written with the general reader in mind, a thorough, nontechnical discussion of race problems and awareness in various nations of the world.

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Challenges perspectives on race that rely upon oft-repeated claims that race is culturally constructed and, hence, simply false and distorting. John Hartigan asserts, instead, that we need to explain how race is experienced by people as a daily reality.

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The essays in Racialized Politics of Desire in Personal Ads explore complex intersections among the social categories of race, gender and sexuality within personal ads, revealing a dynamic tapestry of power relations and hierarchies. The ephemeral nature of personal ads, their...

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This one-stop resource provides a wide-angle overview of the legal and cultural history of racism in the USA, as well as perspectives on racial hostility and reconciliation in the twenty-first century.

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This book is a call to action. It is a critique of the poor state of commercial research and an articulation of the shifts and changes in thinking needed to fulfil the empty promises of human-centered research.

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This book is a call to action. It is a critique of the poor state of commercial research and an articulation of the shifts and changes in thinking needed to fulfil the empty promises of human-centered research.

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With the resurgence of separatism in the province, Irian Jaya has become the focus of fears that the Indonesian nation is falling apart. This book shows how practices that indicated Biaks' submission to national authority actually reproduced antinational understandings of space, time, and self.

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The second edition of the best-selling Raising Boys With ADHD features the latest information on research and treatment for boys with ADHD.

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An accessible field guide to Rapid Qualitative Inquiry (RQI)a team-based, applied research method designed to quickly develop an insiders perspective on and preliminary understanding of complicated situations.

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This book examines the intersections of gender and race in a liberation movement propelled by an African spiritual ethos and restores agency to the RastaWomans subversive participation in the ritual known as Reasoning. It appeals to studies of religious transformation, resistance movements, gender and race theory and Caribbean history and culture.

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Community service and learning experiences are booming as we enter the 21st century. This practical guide assists college students and other constituents as they psychologically prepare for volunteering, service-learning, practicums, fieldwork assignments, and internships in a...

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This edited collection explores what happens when a city administration tries to bring their vision for a city into being. It provides ethnographic accounts that complicate the dominant narrative of Manchester's renaissance. -- .

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This books contends that fear of death lies at the basis of reasoning and shows why people must be co-operating beings who accept certain sorts of facts as reasons for acting. Within the context of this account, this book offers an understanding of brain death and of physician-assisted suicide.

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Rebel populism is an ethnography of Syrian migrant workers in Lebanon during the Syrian uprising and civil war. It documents the rise and fall of the revolution from the perspective of ordinary men. It explores the role of economic transformation, new technology, and masculinity in the development and practice of mass oppositional politics

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Without true healing, Madsen's analysis reveals, a new mother's suppressed sense of loss and pain can affect her relationships with her baby and husband, her body image, her feelings about going back to work, even her hopes for future pregnancies and births.

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At present, Marxism appears to have a strong footing within American sociology. Its unique critical approach and current information on debates in Marxist sociology will interest those involved in social theory, Marxism, political economy, and contemporary sociology.

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At present, Marxism appears to have a strong footing within American sociology. Its unique critical approach and current information on debates in Marxist sociology will interest those involved in social theory, Marxism, political economy, and contemporary sociology.

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Focusing on compensation, friendship, and collaboration, this book explores what anthropologists and research participants give to each other in and beyond fieldwork. Contributors argue that while learning and following the local rules of reciprocity are challenging, they are essential to responsible research and efforts to decolonize anthropology.