Social Science : Ethnic Studies

Unique in its consideration of this subject from a planning and urban policy perspective, David Diaz charts the history and problems faced by the largest ethnic population in America. Focusing on changing attitudes, recent issues and future more...

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The Two-Spirit man occupies a singular place in Native American culture, balancing the male and the female spirit. Drawing on observations from interviews, oral histories, and meetings and ceremonies, this work provides a view of how Two-Spirit men in Colorado and Oklahoma struggle to redefine themselves and their communities. more...

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By considering the position of young Asians in Britain in relation to education, employment, housing and the police and the responses they encounter from these institutions, this book is a comprehensive analysis of a topical area. more...

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"...a torrent of vividly recalled memories [that] reads with the sort of artless verve that can come only from one who's been unshackled from a lifetime of repression." - Vogue. Zainab Salbi was eleven years old when her father was chosen to be Saddam Hussein's personal pilot and her family's life was grafted onto his. Her mother, the beautiful Alia, taught her daughter the skills she needed to survive. A plastic smile. Saying yes. Burying in boxes in her mind the horrors she glimpsed around her. "Learn to erase your memories," she instructed. "He can read eyes.". In this richly visual memoir, Salbi describes tyranny as she saw it - through the eyes of a privileged child, a rebellious teenager, a violated wife, and ultimately a public figure fighting to overcome the skill that once kept her alive: silence. Between Two Worlds is a riveting quest for truth that deepens our understanding of the universal themes of power, fear, sexual subjugation, and the question one generation asks the one before it: How could you have let this happen to us?. more...

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A surprising number of Jews lived, literally and figuratively, "beyond the Pale" of Jewish Settlement in tsarist Russia during the half-century before the Revolution of 1917. Thanks to the availability of long-closed Russian archives, along with a wide range of other sources, Benjamin Nathans reinterprets the history of the Russian-Jewish encounter. more...

Price: $15.95