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Ethnic and Racial Studies: Racialization and Religion: Race Culture and Difference in the Study of Antisemitism and Islamophobia (Paperback)

This volume locates the contemporary study of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia squarely within the fields of race and racism. As such it challenges the extent to which discussion of the racialization of these minorities remains unrelated to each other or... more

Ethnic and Racial Studies: Responses to Stigmatization in Comparative Perspective (Hardcover)

In this book leading experts from a range of disciplines look at the responses to stigmatization from the perspectives of ordinary people. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies. more

Ethnic and Racial Studies: Islamophobia and Surveillance: Genealogies of a Global Order (Hardcover)

The War on Terror has established a new global order of political structures legislation and technologies designed to spy on the world s Muslims. This book explains the origins and trajectories of this political system. The contributors argue that a... more

Pre-Owned Violent Crime: Assessing Race and Ethnic Differences Cambridge Studies in Criminology Hardcover Hawkins Darnell F.

Analysts have long noted that some societies have much higher rates of criminal violence than others. This series of essays explores the extent and causes of racial and ethnic differences in violent crime in the United States and several other... more

Pre-Owned Ethnoburb: The New Ethnic Community in Urban America (Hardcover) 0824830652 9780824830656

Winner of the 2009 Book Award in Social Sciences Association for Asian American Studies This innovative work provides a new model for the analysis of ethnic and racial settlement patterns in the United States and Canada. Ethnoburbs--suburban ethnic... more

Studies in Migration and Diaspora: Color that Matters: A Comparative Approach to Mixed Race Identity and Nordic Exceptionalism (Hardcover)

This book examines the ways in which mixed ethnic identities in Scandinavia are formed along both cultural and embodied lines arguing that while the official discourses in the region refer to a post-racial or color blind era color still matters in the... more

Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood (Updated) (Paperback)

Based on a three-year study of Brooklyn s Greenpoint-Williamsburg area Norman Street is an in-depth detailed description of life in a multi-ethnic working class neighborhood during New York City s fiscal crisis of 1975-78. Now updated with a new... more

Pre-Owned Contested Transformation: Race Gender and Political Leadership in 21st Century America (Paperback) 052114454X 9780521144544

Contested Transformation constitutes the first comprehensive study of racial and ethnic minorities holding elective office in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Building on data from the Gender and Multicultural Leadership... more

Marriages And Families: Changes Choices And Constraints - Nijole V. Benokraitis

This Textbook Introduces Students To The Study Of Marriage And The Family In Ways To Which They Can Easily Relate. Giving Equal Attention To People Of All Racial Ethnic And Other Societal Groups The Author Shows Students That As Families Continue To... more

Pre-Owned Marriages and Families: Changes Choices and Constraints (Hardcover) 0131995480 9780131995482

This textbook introduces students to the study of marriage and the family in ways to which they can easily relate. Giving equal attention to people of all racial ethnic and other societal groups the author shows students that as families continue to... more

Making the Mexican Diabetic : Race Science and the Genetics of Inequality (Edition 1) (Hardcover)

This innovative ethnographic study animates the racial politics that underlie genomic research into type 2 diabetes one of the most widespread chronic diseases and one that affects ethnic groups disproportionately. Michael J. Montoya follows blood... more

Challenging Gender Norms : Five Genders among Bugis in Indonesia 9780495092803 Used / Pre-owned

See how gender identities are constructed in a rapidly changing cultural milieu with CHALLENGING GENDER NORMS: THE FIVE GENDERS OF INDONESIA! This case study in cultural anthropology explores the Bugis ethnic group native to the Indonesian island of... more