Mexican Americans and the Question of Race, Paperback - Julie a. Dowling

Reducere. With Mexican Americans constituting a large and growing segment of U.S. society, their assimilation trajectory has become a constant source of deba...

Reducere. Winner, A Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 2002The history of Mexican Americans is a history of the intermingling of races--Indian, White, and Bla...

Reducere. This sweeping history explores the growing Latino presence in the United States over the past two hundred years. It also debunks common myths about...

This book engages new research into Kant and his philosophy of religion, addresses the lack of analytic voices in these discussions, and puts forwa...

Reveals the intimate connection between beauty and the philosophical life. What Plato meant by beauty is not easily characterized, this work shows ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Richard (University of Strathclyde, UK) FinlayIllustration(s): 5 bw illusNumber of pages: ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe struggle for Palestinian sovereignty has been a quest for inclusion in-and recognition from-a world order that left them behind. Sov...

This book aims to change the terms of the debate on animism, arguing that if animism has one outstanding feature, it is its peculiar restrictivenes...

Animal Alterity uses readings of science fiction texts to explore the centrality of animals for our ways of thinking about human.Publisher: Liverpo...

Reducere. Justice in the Question of Palestine is often framed as a question of law. Yet none of the Israel-Palestinian conflict's most vexing challenges hav...

This book explores how phenomenology - the study of how the world shows itself to conscious experience - can provide new insights into acting and t...

Reducere. During the 1960s and '70s, Mexican Americans began to agitate for social and political change. From their diverse activities and agendas there emer...

The first comprehensive reader on punk and race, from The Clash to Bad Brains.Publisher: Verso BooksIllustration(s): 36 BLACK-AND-WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS...

"The definitive account of the organized destruction of the Ottoman Armenians . . . No future discussion of the history will be able to ignore this...

In this masterful book, Peter Gordon offers a highly original account of the intertwined histories of religion and secular modernity. With clarity ...

Explores the curious prevalence of bodily metaphors in conceptions of noncorporeal institutions: the state, the law, and politics itself. The book ...

The author shares an untold narrative of heredity, an active topic of inquiry long before Gregor Mendel planted his peas. This story involves the s...

Reducere. DescriptionCovering more than one hundred years of American history, Walls and Mirrors examines the ways that continuous immigration from Mexico tr...

Gilroy examines the ways in which media and commodity culture have become preeminent in our lives in the years since the 1960s and especially in th...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Germany's acceptance of its direct responsibility for the Holocaust has strengthened its relationship with Israel and has led to a deep commitment ...

Poetry and the Question of Modernity provides the first extended account of the relationship between Heidegger's thought and modern poetry: it is n...

Reducere. The conquest and colonization of the Americas marked the beginning of a social, economic, and cultural change of global scale. Most of what we know...

DescriptionHow interracial couples in Brazil and the US navigate racial boundaries How do people understand and navigate being married to a person ...

Reducere. DescriptionUp to 750, 000 Mexican American men served in World War II, earning more Medals of Honor and other decorations in proportion to their nu...

DescriptionWith the development of the first skyscrapers in the 1880s, urban built environments could expand vertically as well as horizontally. Ta...

Adopting an ethnographic approach in the study of community participation and power and the significance of 'race' in three ethnically diverse neig...

Reducere. After World War II, Mexican American veterans returned home to lead the civil rights struggles of the fifties, sixties, and seventies. Many of thei...

Reducere. Did you know that barrio is a term for a Chicano neighborhood, and that some of the oldest barrios can be found in major U.S. cities, like Los Ange...

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A scorching manifesto on the ethics of eating meat by the best placed person to write about it - farmer and chef Matthew Evans, aka The Gourmet Far...

Reducere. Latinos in the U.S. are a major political, economic, and cultural force that is fast changing the national identity of this country. Mexican Americ...

Reducere. When Latino migration to the U.S. South became increasingly visible in the 1990s, observers and advocates grasped for ways to analyze "new" racial ...

Contributor(s): Author: Willie James JenningsWhy has Christianity, a religion premised upon neighborly love, failed in its attempts to heal social ...

Reducere. Martin Heidegger's 1925-26 lectures on truth and time provided much of the basis for his momentous work, Being and Time. Not published until 1976 a...

"An urgent look at the relationship between the politics of guns, race, and policing in America today"--Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor...