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  • Minority Rules

    The Miao and the Feminine in China's Cultural Politics

    by Louisa Schein ...
    Series series Body, commodity, text
    Minority Rules is an ethnography of a Chinese people known as the Miao, a group long consigned to the remote highlands and considered backward by other Chinese. Now the nation’s fifth largest minority, the Miao number nearly eight million people speaking various dialects and spread out over seven provinces. In a theoretically innovative work that combines methods from both anthropology and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • Race in Another America

    The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil

    by Edward E. Telles ...
    This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the increasingly important and controversial subject of race relations in Brazil. North American scholars of race relations frequently turn to Brazil for comparisons, since its history has many key similarities to that of the United States. Brazilians have commonly compared themselves with North Americans, and have traditionally argued that ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • Mixed Race Identity: Anglo-Indians

    by Warren Brown ...
    Anglo-Indians are the only English speaking, Christian community in India, whose Mother tongue is English and who have a Western lifestyle in the sub-continent of India. Anglo-Indians originated during the Colonial period in India. When British soldiers and traders had affairs or married Indian women their offspring came to be known as Anglo-Indians or Eurasians in history. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon

    Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime L.A.

    by Eduardo Obregón Pagán ...
    The notorious 1942 “Sleepy Lagoon” murder trial in Los Angeles concluded with the conviction of seventeen young Mexican American men for the alleged gang slaying of fellow youth Jose Diaz. Just five months later, the so-called Zoot Suit Riot erupted, as white soldiers in the city attacked minority youths and burned their distinctive zoot suits. Eduardo Obregón Pagán here provides the first ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Dirty Laundry

    Coloreds and Whites

    by Lavelle ...
    To many, the situation for black Americans in the world today seems hopeless. In Dirty Laundry, author Lavelle presents his personal view of race relations in the world and how these relations have affected both the black and white culture.Through a series of essays, Lavelle describes the current state of black culture, examines the elements that have caused the erosion of the black community, and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Lionel Messi: Soccer's Top Scorer

    by Jacob Steinberg ...
    Series series Living Legends of Sports
    Between his time playing for Spain’s FC Barcelona team and his role on the Argentine national team, it’s surprising Lionel Messi has a life off the pitch. Yet, the most popular soccer legend of our time keeps a busy schedule that far exceeds his notable accomplishments on the field. Readers will find all the details of Messi’s life, including his early struggles with a growth hormone deficiency, ... Read more

    $25.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Race, Racism and Development

    Interrogating History, Discourse and Practice

    by Kalpana Wilson ...
    Race, Racism and Development places racism and constructions of race at the centre of an exploration of the dominant discourses, structures and practices of development. Combining insights from postcolonial and race critical theory with a political economy framework, it puts forward provocative theoretical analyses of the relationships between development, race, capital, embodiment and resistance ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • A Nation of Haters and Victims

    Or a Nation of Thinkers, Hopers, and Doers

    by Ruth E. Todd ...
    The truth does not just set us free; it will keep us free. In A Nation of Haters and Victims, author Ruth E. Todd demonstrates the importance of seeking the truth about issues, events, and policies affecting the country.A Nation of Haters and Victims details how the United States is becoming a nation of haters and victims. Haters and victims have permeated our society and created a national ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Between Race and Reason

    Violence, Intellectual Responsibility, and the University to Come

    by Susan Searls Giroux ...
    Inquiring into the future of the university, Susan Giroux finds a paradox at the heart of higher education in the post-civil rights era. Although we think of "post-civil rights" as representing a colorblind or race transcendent triumphalism in national political discourse, Giroux argues that our present is shaped by persistent "raceless" racism at home and permanent civilizational war abroad. She ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Beyond the Rope

    The Impact of Lynching on Black Culture and Memory

    by Karlos K. Hill ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies on the American South
    Beyond the Rope is an interdisciplinary study that draws on narrative theory and cultural studies methodologies to trace African Americans' changing attitudes and relationships to lynching over the twentieth century. Whereas African Americans are typically framed as victims of white lynch mob violence in both scholarly and public discourses, Karlos K. Hill reveals that in the late nineteenth and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Dalit Literatures in India

    Edited by Joshil K. Abraham, Judith Misrahi-Barak ...
    This book breaks new ground in the study of Dalit literature, including in its corpus a range of genres such as novels, autobiographies, pamphlets, poetry, short stories and graphic novels. With contributions from major scholars in the field, alongside budding ones, the book critically examines Dalit literary production and theory. It also initiates a dialogue between Dalit writing and Western ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Faces of Béxar

    Early San Antonio and Texas

    by Jesús F. De la Teja ...
    Winner, 2019 Summerfield G. Robert Award, sponsored by The Sons of the Republic of TexasFaces of Béxar showcases the finest work of Jesús F. de la Teja, a foremost authority on Spanish colonial Mexico and Texas through the Republic. These essays trace the arc of the author’s career over a quarter of a century. A new bibliographic essay on early San Antonio and Texas history rounds out the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD