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  • Lijiang Stories

    Shamans, Taxi Drivers, and Runaway Brides in Reform-Era China

    de Emily Chao ...
    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Lijiang, a once-sleepy market town in southwest China, has become a magnet for tourism since the mid-1990s. Drawing on stories about taxi drivers, reluctant brides, dogmeat, and shamanism, Emily Chao illustrates how biopolitics and the essentialization of difference shape the ways in which Naxi residents represent and interpret their social world.The vignettes presented here are lively examples of ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

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  • Alex Haley Roots

    An Author's Odyssey

    de Adam Henig ...
    His critics called him a liar. His supporters saw him as transcending race relations. In 1977, following the airing of the mega hit television mini-series Roots, its author, Alex Haley, became America’s newest “folk hero."His book was on the Times' Best Seller's list for months, and won the Pulitzer Prize. His story had captivated a nation and then the world. From Idaho to Israel, it seemed ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Puer Tea

    Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic

    de Jinghong Zhang, K. Sivaramakrishnan ...
    Series series Culture, Place, and Nature
    Puer tea has been grown for centuries in the “Six Great Tea Mountains” of Yunnan Province, and in imperial China it was a prized commodity, traded to Tibet by horse or mule caravan via the so-called Tea Horse Road and presented as tribute to the emperor in Beijing. In the 1990s, as the tea’s noble lineage and unique process of aging and fermentation were rediscovered, it achieved cult status both ... Leer más

    $31.49 USD

  • The Other Face of America

    Chronicles of the Immigrants Shaping Our Future

    de Jorge Ramos ...

    $6.99 USD

  • The "Other" Karen in Myanmar

    Ethnic Minorities and the Struggle without Arms

    de Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung ...
    Series series AsiaWorld
    The “Other” Karen in Myanmar looks at the “other” or “quiet” minorities, who are members of ethnic groups associated with well-known armed resistance organizations, but who pursued non-violent approaches to promote their individual and collective interests. This is the first in-depth study to uncover the existence and activities of the “other” Karen and analyze the nature of relationships with ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD

  • My Fight for a New Taiwan

    One Woman's Journey from Prison to Power

    de Hsiu-lien Lu, Ashley Esarey ...
    Lu Hsiu-lien’s journey is the story of Taiwan. Through her successive drives for gender equality, human rights, political reform, Taiwan independence, and, currently, environmental protection, Lu has played a key role in Taiwan’s evolution from dictatorship to democracy. The election in 2000 of Democratic Progressive Party leader Chen Shui-bian to the presidency, with Lu as his vice president, ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Chang'an Avenue and the Modernization of Chinese Architecture

    de Shuishan Yu ...
    Series series China Program Books
    In this interdisciplinary narrative, the never-ending "completion" of China's most important street offers a broad view of the relationship between art and ideology in modern China. Chang'an Avenue, named after China's ancient capital (whose name means "Eternal Peace"), is supremely symbolic. Running east-west through the centuries-old heart of Beijing, it intersects the powerful north-south axis ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

  • Colormute

    Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School

    de Mica Pollock ...
    This book considers in unprecedented detail one of the most confounding questions in American racial practice: when to speak about people in racial terms. Viewing "race talk" through the lens of a California high school and district, Colormute draws on three years of ethnographic research on everyday race labeling in education. Based on the author's experiences as a teacher as well as an ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Race Lessons

    Using Inquiry to Teach About Race in Social Studies

    Edición de Prentice T. Chandler, Todd S. Hawley ...
    Series series Teaching and Learning Social Studies
    We hold that the mission of social studies is not attainable, without attention to the ways in which race and racism play out in society—past, present, and future.In a follow up to the book, Doing Race in Social Studies (2015), this new volume addresses practical considerations of teaching about race within the context of history, geography, government, economics, and the behavioral sciences. Race ... Leer más

    $54.99 USD

  • Danger, Development and Legitimacy in East Asian Maritime Politics

    Securing the Seas, Securing the State

    de Christian Wirth ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations
    Grounded in extensive empirical research, Danger, Development and Legitimacy in East Asian Maritime Politics addresses the major issues of geopolitics in the region that have been and will continue to shape the international politics of the Asia-Pacific for years to come. Covering the nation-states of China, Japan and South Korea, it includes an examination of the key island disputes, as well as ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Nigerian Immigrants in the United States

    Race, Identity, and Acculturation

    de Ezekiel Umo Ette ...
    Africans in America come from different regions of the continent; they speak different languages and are from different faith traditions. Nigerian Immigrants in the United States: Race, Identity, and Acculturation attempts to generate an interest in the study of African immigrants by looking at issues of settlement and adjustment of Nigerians in the United States. The literature is scanty about ... Leer más

    $105.99 USD

  • Survival Math

    Notes on an All-American Family

    de Mitchell Jackson ...
    ONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019ONE OF BUZZFEED’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019An electrifying, dazzlingly written reckoning and an essential addition to the national conversation about race and class, Survival Math takes its name from the calculations award-winning author Mitchell S. Jackson made to survive the Portland, Oregon of his youth.... ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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