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“joel wolfe, phd”

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  • Working Women, Working Men

    Sao Paulo & the Rise of Brazil’s Industrial Working Class, 1900–1955

    by Joel Wolfe, PhD ...
    In Working Women, Working Men, Joel Wolfe traces the complex historical development of the working class in Sào Paulo, Brazil, Latin America's largest industrial center. He studies the way in which Sào Paulo's working men and women experienced Brazil's industrialization, their struggles to gain control over their lives within a highly authoritarian political system, and their rise to political ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

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    The Souls of Black Folk is a classic work of American literature by W. E. B. Du Bois. It is a seminal work in the history of sociology, and a cornerstone of African-American literary history. ... Read more

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  • Pablo Escobar - Lord of Drugs

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  • Buried Alive

    The True Story of the Chilean Mining Disaster and the Extraordinary Rescue at Camp Hope

    by Manuel Pino Toro ...
    The inside story of the thirty-three Chilean miners trapped 2,300 feet underground that captivated the worldOn August 5, 2010, a tunnel in the gold and copper mine in the Atacama Desert in Chile collapsed, with all of its miners trapped underground. For days, the families waited breathlessly as percussion drills searched out signs of life. Finally, a note came back from below--the miners were ... Read more

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  • No-Nonsense Guide to Equality

    by Danny Dorling ...
    Series Book 6 - No-Nonsense Guides
    A wide-ranging exploration of why inequality persists and what can be done about it, the No-Nonsense Guide to Equality discusses the positive effects that equality can have, using examples and case studies from across the globe. It examines the lessons of history and covers race, gender and ethnicity, age, and wealth. Danny Dorling considers, realistically, just how equal it is possible to be, the ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • 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

    $48.39 CAD

  • Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil

    by Edward E. Telles, Howard Winant, Michael Mitchell, Peggy A. Lovell ...
    Bringing together U.S. and Brazilian scholars, as well as Afro-Brazilian political activists, Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil represents a significant advance in understanding the complexities of racial difference in contemporary Brazilian society. While previous scholarship on this subject has been largely confined to quantitative and statistical research, editor Michael Hanchard presents ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • The Formation of Candomblé

    Vodun History and Ritual in Brazil

    Translated by Richard Vernon ...
    by Luis Nicolau Parés ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução
    Interweaving three centuries of transatlantic religious and social history with historical and present-day ethnography, Luis Nicolau Parés traces the formation of Candomblé, one of the most influential African-derived religious forms in the African diaspora, with practitioners today centered in Brazil but also living in Europe and elsewhere in the Americas. Originally published in Brazil and not ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • Beyond the Pale

    White Women, Racism, and History

    by Vron Ware ...
    Series series Feminist Classics
    How have ideas about white women figured in the history of racism? Vron Ware argues that they have been central, and that feminism has, in many ways, developed as a political movement within racist societies. Dissecting the different meanings of femininity and womanhood, Beyond the Pale examines the political connections between black and white women, both within contemporary racism and feminism, ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • When the State Speaks, What Should It Say?

    How Democracies Can Protect Expression and Promote Equality

    by Corey Brettschneider ...
    How should a liberal democracy respond to hate groups and others that oppose the ideal of free and equal citizenship? The democratic state faces the hard choice of either protecting the rights of hate groups and allowing their views to spread, or banning their views and violating citizens' rights to freedoms of expression, association, and religion. Avoiding the familiar yet problematic responses ... Read more

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  • Sobral Pinto, "The Conscience of Brazil"

    Leading the Attack against Vargas (1930-1945)

    by John W. F. Dulles ...
    Praised by his admirers as "one of those rare heroic figures out of Plutarch" and as "an intrepid Don Quixote," Brazilian lawyer Heráclito Fontoura Sobral Pinto (1893-1991) was the most consistently forceful opponent of dictator Getúlio Vargas. Through legal cases, activism in Catholic and lawyers' associations, newspaper polemics, and a voluminous correspondence, Sobral Pinto fought for democracy ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree

    Franciscan Missions on the Chiriguano Frontier in the Heart of South America, 1830–1949

    by Erick D. Langer ...
    Missions played a vital role in frontier development in Latin America throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They were key to the penetration of national societies into the regions and indigenous lands that the nascent republics claimed as their jurisdictions. In Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree, Erick D. Langer examines one of the most important Catholic mission systems in republican ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD