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Migrant Imaginaries
Latino Cultural Politics in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Inbunden, 2008
973 kr
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Winner of the 2009 Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association2009 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleExplores the transnational movements of Mexican migrants, including their expressive culture and social movement practicesMigrant Imaginaries explores the transnational …
Migrant Imaginaries
Latino Cultural Politics in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Häftad, 2008
429 kr
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Winner of the 2009 Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association2009 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleExplores the transnational movements of Mexican migrants, including their expressive culture and social movement practicesMigrant Imaginaries explores the transnational …
Global Families
A History of Asian International Adoption in America
Inbunden, 2013
902 kr
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In the last fifty years, transnational adoption—specifically, the adoption of Asian children—has exploded in popularity as an alternative path to family making. Despite the cultural acceptance of this practice, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the factors that allowed Asian …
Soft Soil, Black Grapes
The Birth of Italian Winemaking in California
Inbunden, 2012
826 kr
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Winner of the 2013 New York Book Show Award in Scholarly/Professional Book DesignFrom Ernest and Julio Gallo to Francis Ford Coppola, Italians have shaped the history of California wine. More than any other group, Italian immigrants and their families have made California viticulture one of …
Transnational Adoption
A Cultural Economy of Race, Gender, and Kinship
Inbunden, 2006
973 kr
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Each year, thousands of Chinese children, primarily abandoned infant girls, are adopted by Americans. Yet we know very little about the local and transnational processes that characterize this new migration.Transnational Adoption is a unique ethnographic study of China/U.S. adoption, the largest …
Transnational Adoption
A Cultural Economy of Race, Gender, and Kinship
Häftad, 2006
429 kr
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Each year, thousands of Chinese children, primarily abandoned infant girls, are adopted by Americans. Yet we know very little about the local and transnational processes that characterize this new migration.Transnational Adoption is a unique ethnographic study of China/U.S. adoption, the largest …
Social Death
Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected
Inbunden, 2012
973 kr
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Winner of the 2013 John Hope Franklin Book Prize presented by the American Studies AssociationA necessary read that demonstrates the ways in which certain people are devalued without attention to social contextsSocial Death tackles one of the core paradoxes of social justice struggles and …
Social Death
Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected
Häftad, 2012
387 kr
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Winner of the 2013 John Hope Franklin Book Prize presented by the American Studies AssociationA necessary read that demonstrates the ways in which certain people are devalued without attention to social contextsSocial Death tackles one of the core paradoxes of social justice struggles and …
Feeling Italian
The Art of Ethnicity in America
Inbunden, 2005
1265 kr
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2006 American Book Award, presented by the Before Columbus FoundationSouthern Italian emigration to the United States peaked a full century ago—;descendents are now fourth and fifth generation, dispersed from their old industrial neighborhoods, professionalized, and fully integrated into the …
Feeling Italian
The Art of Ethnicity in America
Häftad, 2005
398 kr
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2006 American Book Award, presented by the Before Columbus FoundationSouthern Italian emigration to the United States peaked a full century ago—;descendents are now fourth and fifth generation, dispersed from their old industrial neighborhoods, professionalized, and fully integrated into the …
Race for Citizenship
Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America
Inbunden, 2011
1002 kr
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Helen Heran Jun explores how the history of U.S. citizenshiphas positioned Asian Americans and African Americans in interlocking socio-political relationships since the mid nineteenth century. Rejecting the conventional emphasis on 'inter-racial prejudice,' Jun demonstrates how a politics of …
Race for Citizenship
Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America
Häftad, 2011
384 kr
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Helen Heran Jun explores how the history of U.S. citizenshiphas positioned Asian Americans and African Americans in interlocking socio-political relationships since the mid nineteenth century. Rejecting the conventional emphasis on 'inter-racial prejudice,' Jun demonstrates how a politics of …
Constructing Black Selves
Caribbean American Narratives and the Second Generation
Inbunden, 2005
1229 kr
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In 1965, the Hart-Cellar Immigration Reform Act ushered in a huge wave of immigrants from across the Caribbean—Jamaicans, Cubans, Haitians, and Dominicans, among others. How have these immigrants and their children negotiated languages of race and ethnicity in American social and cultural politics? …
Arab America
Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism
Av Nadine Naber
Inbunden, 2012
973 kr
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Arab Americans are one of the most misunderstood segments of the U.S. population, especially after the events of 9/11. In Arab America, Nadine Naber tells the stories of second generation Arab American young adults living in the San Francisco Bay Area, most of whom are political activists engaged …
Arab America
Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism
Av Nadine Naber
Häftad, 2012
429 kr
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Arab Americans are one of the most misunderstood segments of the U.S. population, especially after the events of 9/11. In Arab America, Nadine Naber tells the stories of second generation Arab American young adults living in the San Francisco Bay Area, most of whom are political activists engaged …
Citizens of Asian America
Democracy and Race During the Cold War
Inbunden, 2013
768 kr
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Winner, 2013-2014 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, Adult Non-Fiction presented by the Asian Pacific American Librarian AssociationDuring the Cold War, Soviet propaganda highlighted U.S. racism in order to undermine the credibility of U.S. democracy. In response, incorporating racial and …
Love and Empire
Cybermarriage and Citizenship Across the Americas
Häftad, 2012
387 kr
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The spread of the Internet is remaking marriage markets, altering the process of courtship and the geographic trajectory of intimacy in the 21st century. For some Latin American women and U.S. men, the advent of the cybermarriage industry offers new opportunities for re-making themselves and their …
African & American
West Africans in Post-Civil Rights America
Av Marilyn Halter, Violet Showers Johnson
Inbunden, 2014
929 kr
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Examines what it means to be African and American through the stories of recent West African immigrantsAfrican & American tells the story of the much overlooked experience of first and second generation West Africanimmigrants and refugees in the United States during the last forty years. …
African & American
West Africans in Post-Civil Rights America
Av Marilyn Halter, Violet Showers Johnson
Häftad, 2014
442 kr
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Examines what it means to be African and American through the stories of recent West African immigrantsAfrican & American tells the story of the much overlooked experience of first and second generation West Africanimmigrants and refugees in the United States during the last forty years. …
Force of Domesticity
Filipina Migrants and Globalization
Inbunden, 2008
973 kr
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Taking as her subjects migrant Filipina domestic workers in Rome and Los Angeles, transnational migrant families in the Philippines, and Filipina migrant entertainers in Tokyo, Parreñas documents the social, cultural, and political pressures that maintain women's domesticity in migration, as well …
Force of Domesticity
Filipina Migrants and Globalization
Häftad, 2008
387 kr
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Taking as her subjects migrant Filipina domestic workers in Rome and Los Angeles, transnational migrant families in the Philippines, and Filipina migrant entertainers in Tokyo, Parreñas documents the social, cultural, and political pressures that maintain women's domesticity in migration, as well …
Entitled to Nothing
The Struggle for Immigrant Health Care in the Age of Welfare Reform
Inbunden, 2011
929 kr
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In Entitled to Nothing, Lisa Sun-Hee Park investigates how the politics of immigration, health care, and welfare are intertwined. Documenting the formal return of the immigrant as a "public charge," or a burden upon the State, the author shows how the concept has been revived as states adopt …
Entitled to Nothing
The Struggle for Immigrant Health Care in the Age of Welfare Reform
Häftad, 2011
384 kr
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In Entitled to Nothing, Lisa Sun-Hee Park investigates how the politics of immigration, health care, and welfare are intertwined. Documenting the formal return of the immigrant as a "public charge," or a burden upon the State, the author shows how the concept has been revived as states adopt …
Slums of Aspen
Immigrants Vs. the Environment in America's Eden
Av Lisa Sun-Hee Park, David Pellow
Inbunden, 2011
859 kr
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Winner, Allan Schnaiberg Outstanding Publication Award, presented by the Environment & Technology section of the American Sociological AssociationHow the elite ski resort reshaped the socio-economic and demographic landscape in pursuit of profit and pleasureEnvironmentalism usually calls to mind …
Immigration and American Popular Culture
An Introduction
Av Rachel Lee Rubin, Jeffrey Melnick m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
1229 kr
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A unique study that hones in on the cross-section and interdependency of immigration and American cultural productionHow does a 'national' popular culture form and grow over time in a nation comprised of immigrants? How have immigrants used popular culture in America, and how has it used …
Immigration and American Popular Culture
An Introduction
Av Rachel Lee Rubin, Jeffrey Melnick
Häftad, 2006
429 kr
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A unique study that hones in on the cross-section and interdependency of immigration and American cultural productionHow does a 'national' popular culture form and grow over time in a nation comprised of immigrants? How have immigrants used popular culture in America, and how has it used …
Rough Writing
Ethnic Authorship in Theodore Roosevelt's America
Inbunden, 2008
1168 kr
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As the United States struggled to absorb a massive influx of ethnically diverse immigrants at the turn of the twentieth century, the question of who and what an American is took on urgent intensity. It seemed more critical than ever to establish a definition by which Americanness could be …
Rough Writing
Ethnic Authorship in Theodore Roosevelt's America
Häftad, 2008
493 kr
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As the United States struggled to absorb a massive influx of ethnically diverse immigrants at the turn of the twentieth century, the question of who and what an American is took on urgent intensity. It seemed more critical than ever to establish a definition by which Americanness could be …
Who's Your Paddy?
Racial Expectations and the Struggle for Irish American Identity
Inbunden, 2013
1002 kr
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After all the green beer has been poured and the ubiquitous shamrocks fade away, what does it mean to be Irish American besides St. Patrick's Day? Who's Your Paddy traces the evolution of "Irish" as a race-based identity in the U.S. from the 19th century to the present day. Exploring how the Irish …
Who's Your Paddy?
Racial Expectations and the Struggle for Irish American Identity
Häftad, 2013
442 kr
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After all the green beer has been poured and the ubiquitous shamrocks fade away, what does it mean to be Irish American besides St. Patrick's Day? Who's Your Paddy traces the evolution of "Irish" as a race-based identity in the U.S. from the 19th century to the present day. Exploring how the Irish …
