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Undivided Rights captures the evolving and largely unknown activist history of women of color organizing for reproductive justice - on their own behalf. Undivided Rights presents a textured understanding of the reproductive rights movement by placing the experiences, priorities, and activism of women of color in the foreground. Using historical research, original organizational case studies, and personal interviews, the authors illuminate how women...
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Nuestra "casa", más que un lugar físico, es un conjunto de recuredos que nos permite comprender mejor quienes éramos, quienes somos, y puede ayudarnos a comprender quienes seremos. Ese sentido de pertenencia es el que nos define. Algunos dejan su "casa", su hogar, muy pronto en sus vidas; para ellos es muy difícil encontrar su centro emocional. Están, a veces, condenados a una vida sin equilibrio. Pero también es una existencia con mucha libertad....
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Ethnic Bargaining introduces a theory of minority politics that blends comparative analysis and field research in the postcommunist countries of East Central Europe with insights from rational choice. Erin K. Jenne finds that claims by ethnic minorities have become more frequent since 1945 even though nation-states have been on the whole more responsive to groups than in earlier periods. Minorities that perceive an increase in their bargaining power...
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Pendant au moins deux décennies, des acteurs politiques et médiatiques en France ont fomenté des divisions parmi les citoyens. Ils ont encouragé la polarisation sur la base de la race, du genre, de l'orientation sexuelle, de la richesse et de la religion. Cette fragmentation a également touché la communauté arabo-musulmane française, malgré sa taille considérable. "Chroniques du racisme ordinaire" met en lumière comment cette discrimination...
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Qui sont les Tsiganes, d'o viennent-ils, o vivent-ils et dans quelles conditions ? Quelles langues parlent-ils et comment sont-ils perçus à travers le monde ? Quelles sont leurs croyances religieuses et existe-t-il une langue et une culture gitane distinctes ? Enfin, quels sont les défis sociaux, économiques, culturels et éducatifs auxquels ils sont confrontés au quotidien ? Pour obtenir une compréhension approfondie des Tsiganes, il est essentiel...
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Malika Amar Shaikh was born to Communist-activist parents-her father, Shahir Amar Shaikh, was a trade-union leader and legendary Marathi folk singer. Brought up amidst the hurly-burly of Maharashtrian politics of the 1960s, and exposed to the best and the brightest in Bombay's cultural scene, Malika was a cosseted child, drawn to poetry and dance. She was barely out of school, when she married Namdeo Dhasal, co-founder of the radical Dalit Panthers,...
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"Winner of the Charles Horton Cooley Award, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction" "Winner of the Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form, Media Ecology Association" Eviatar Zerubavel is Board of Governors and Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University. His many books include Social Mindscapes: An Invitation to Cognitive Sociology, The Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday...
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When people think of STEM, they rarely think of Black women. Why not? One estimate claims that only 2.9% of STEM graduates are Black women.
The Shuri Effect explores the complex reasons why there are so few Black women in STEM, the inspiring ways they have continued to be pioneers, and what we all can do to change the situation. The book delves into gendered and racial attitudes and how they both feed into the lived experiences and statistical...
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"In the summer of 2015, shortly after Caitlyn Jenner came out as transgender, the NAACP official and political activist Rachel Dolezal was "outed" by her parents as white, touching off a heated debate in the media about the fluidity of gender and race. If Jenner could legitimately identify as a woman, could Dolezal legitimately identify as black? Taking the controversial pairing of transgender and transracial as his starting point, Rogers Brubaker...
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Scandalous Bodies is an impassioned scholarly study both of literature by diasporic writers and of the contexts within which it is produced. It explores topics ranging from the Canadian government's multiculturalism policy to media representations of so-called minority groups, from the relationship between realist fiction and history to postmodern constructions of ethnicity, from the multicultural theory of the philosopher Charles Taylor to the cultural...
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The notorious 1942 "Sleepy Lagoon" murder trial in Los Angeles concluded with the conviction of seventeen young Mexican American men for the alleged gang slaying of fellow youth Jose Diaz. Just five months later, the so-called Zoot Suit Riot erupted, as white soldiers in the city attacked minority youths and burned their distinctive zoot suits. Eduardo Obregon Pagan here provides the first comprehensive social history of both the trial and the riot...
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A cornerstone of black feminist and political theory, this collection of essays focuses on racial progress and women's rights. A Voice from the South, written in 1892, is regarded as the first statement of black feminism. Despite their imprint of nineteenth-century social thought, these essays possess an urgent, modern tone, characterized by an emphasis on debate and a scintillating wit. Topics include the importance of women's education as well as...
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Une analyse des positionnements de jeunes urbains, issus de quartiers défavorisés et en réussite scolaire.
Cet ouvrage analyse les positionnements de jeunes de quartiers défavorisés en réussite scolaire sur plusieurs dimensions — urbaines, sociales, ethniques et scolaires — et met en lumière à la fois la dualisation de la ville et une forme de dualisation qui apparaît dans ces quartiers, encore trop souvent appréhendés à partir d'une...
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What is the real story behind the fight over affirmative action at colleges? Veteran journalist Peter Schmidt exposes truths that will outrage readers and forever transform the debate. He reveals how:
* colleges use affirmative action to mask how much they cater to the country club crowd and to solicit support from the big corporations they steer minority students toward;
* conservatives have used opposition to affirmative action to advance a broader...
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Le livre retrace la trajectoire des nouveaux mouvements catholiques entre la fin du XXe et le début du XXIe siècle en Italie.
Comment la lutte contre la « théorie du genre », le mariage pour tous, l'homoparentalité, l'avortement a-t-elle permis de recomposer le champ de la mobilisation pro-vie et de l'action politique catholique ? Quel rôle la Manif pour tous a-t-elle joué dans le contexte italien ? Quelles leçons peut-on tirer de...
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Music is powerful and transformational, but can it spur actual social change?
A strong collection of essays, “At the Crossroads of Music and Social Justice” studies the meaning of music within a community to investigate the intersections of sound and race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and differing abilities. Ethnographic work from a range of theoretical frameworks uncovers and analyzes the successes and limitations of music's...
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Partant d'expériences vécues, de témoignages recueillis et de recherches académiques, l'autrice décrit comment se vit l'expérience de l'insécurité linguistique au quotidien, surtout dans la francophonie, là o l'idée d'une langue unique, la même pour toutes et tous, est la plus forte. Elle montre que les discours sur la langue sont aussi des discours sur les personnes qui les parlent. L'insécurité linguistique peut être liée au sentiment...
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'Lyrical and uncompromising - Suhaiymah writes to disrupt' - gal-dem
Islamophobia is everywhere. It is a narrative and history woven so deeply into our everyday lives that we don't even notice it – in our education, how we travel, our healthcare, legal system and at work. Behind the scenes it affects the most vulnerable, at the border and in prisons. Despite this, the conversation about Islamophobia is relegated to microaggressions and slurs.
Suhaiymah...
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'A wide-ranging, erudite and multi-faceted analyses of the fundamental problem of who gets to be counted as human' - Kate Evans
Refugee Talk explores cultural responses to the ongoing refugee crisis. Looking at ethical questions and political rhetoric surrounding the refugee experience, the authors uncover the reality behind the fraught discussions taking place today.
With an understanding of how to meaningfully negotiate responses through philosophy,...
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The city of London is celebrated as one of the most ethnically diverse capitals in the world, and has been a magnet of migration since its origin. Looking to London steps into the maelstrom of current and recent wars and the resulting migration crisis, telling the stories of women refugees who have made it to London to seek safe haven among the city's Kurdish, Somali, Tamil, Sudanese and Syrian communities, under the watchful eye of the security services.
Cynthia...
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