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  • 1970-1974
  • Berkeley : University of California Press
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  • 1
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
    ISBN: 9780520942448 , 0520942442
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 251 pages)
    DDC: 201/.7
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    Keywords: Einwanderer ; Recht ; Religiöses Engagement ; Menschenrecht ; Religiöse Gruppe ; USA
    Abstract: In this timely and compelling account of the contribution to immigrant rights made by religious activists in post-1965 and post-9/11 America, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo provides a comprehensive, close-up view of how Muslim, Christian, and Jewish groups are working to counter xenophobia. Against the hysteria prevalent in today's media, in which immigrants are often painted as a drain on the public coffers, inherently unassimilable, or an outright threat to national security, Hondagneu-Sotelo finds the intersection between migration and religion and calls attention to quieter voices, those dedic.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-236) and index
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  • 2
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
    ISBN: 9780520942462 , 0520942469 , 9780520256736 , 0520256735 , 9780520256743 , 0520256743
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 258 pages) , Illustrations, map
    DDC: 973.00468/72
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1940-2005 ; Mexikanischer Einwanderer ; Mexikaner ; Migrationspolitik ; USA ; Houston, Tex. ; Mexiko
    Abstract: Challenging many common perceptions, this book is dedicated to understanding a major new phenomenon - the large number of skilled urban workers who are coming to America from Mexico's cities. Based on a ten-year study of one working-class neighbourhood in Monterrey, the book studies the forces that lead to Mexican emigration.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-245) and index
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  • 3
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520942462
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (273 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 973.0046872
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1940-2005 ; Mexikanischer Einwanderer ; Mexikaner ; Migrationspolitik ; USA ; Houston, Tex. ; Mexiko ; Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: Challenging many common perceptions, this is the first book fully dedicated to understanding a major new phenomenon-the large numbers of skilled urban workers who are now coming across the border from Mexico's cities. Based on a ten-year, on-the-ground study of one working-class neighborhood in Monterrey, Mexico's industrial powerhouse and third-largest city, Metropolitan Migrants explores the ways in which Mexico's economic restructuring and the industrial modernization of the past three decades have pushed a new flow of migrants toward cities such as Houston, Texas, the global capital of the oil industry. Weaving together rich details of everyday life with a lucid analysis of Mexico's political economy, Rubén Hernández-León deftly traces the effects of restructuring on the lives of the working class, from the national level to the kitchen table.
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  • 4
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | New York, NY : JSTOR
    ISBN: 9780520933026 , 0520933028
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: Updated with a new preface
    Series Statement: Comparative studies of health systems and medical care 33
    DDC: 306.4/61
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    Keywords: Aids ; HIV-Infektion ; Armut ; Haiti ; USA
    Abstract: In this dissertation, ethnographic, historical and epidemiologic data are brought to bear on the subject of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in Haiti. The forces that have helped to determine rates and pattern of spread of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) are examined, as are social responses to AIDS in rural and urban Haiti, and in parts of North America. History and its calculus of economic and symbolic power also help to explain why residents of a small village in rural Haiti came to understand AIDS in the manner that they did. Drawing on several years of fieldwork, the evolution of a cultural model of AIDS is traced. In a small village in rural Haiti, it was possible to document first the lack of such a model, and then the elaboration over time of a widely shared representation of AIDS. The experience of three villagers who died of complications of AIDS is examined in detail, and the importance of their suffering to the evolution of a cultural model is demonstrated. Epidemiologic and ethnographic studies are prefaced by a geographically broad historical analysis, which suggests the outlines of relations between a powerful center (the United States) and a peripheral client state (Haiti). These relations constitute an important part of a political-economic network termed the "West Atlantic system." The epidemiology of HIV and AIDS in Haiti and elsewhere in the Caribbean is reviewed, and the relation between the degree of involvement in the West Atlantic system and the prevalence of HIV is suggested. It is further suggested that the history of HIV in the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Bahamas is similar to that documented here for Haiti.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-331) and index
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  • 5
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520933026
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (277 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    DDC: 306.4/61
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    Keywords: Aids ; HIV-Infektion ; Armut ; Haiti ; USA
    Abstract: Does the scientific "theory" that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the United States rather than from hard evidence? Award-winning author and anthropologist-physician Paul Farmer answers with this, the first full-length ethnographic study of AIDS in a poor society. First published in 1992 this new edition has been updated and a new preface added.
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  • 6
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520939204 , 1429481838 , 9780520246492 , 9780520939202 , 9781429481830
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 279 pages)
    Series Statement: American crossroads 20
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    DDC: 362.1/0979494
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1879-1939 ; HEALTH & FITNESS / Health Care Issues ; MEDICAL / Public Health ; MEDICAL / Health Policy ; HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / General ; MEDICAL / Diseases ; MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery ; HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) ; Asian Americans / Health and hygiene ; Immigrants / Health and hygiene ; Mexican Americans / Health and hygiene ; Public health ; Race relations ; Sociale gezondheidszorg ; Immigranten ; Rassenverhoudingen ; Public Health / history / Los Angeles ; Asian Americans / history / Los Angeles ; Emigration and Immigration / history / Los Angeles ; History, 19th Century / Los Angeles ; History, 20th Century / Los Angeles ; Mexican Americans / history / Los Angeles ; Race Relations / history / Los Angeles ; Einwanderer ; Geschichte ; Medizin ; Immigrants Health and hygiene ; History ; Asian Americans Health and hygiene ; History ; Mexican Americans Health and hygiene ; History ; Public health History ; Asiaten ; Chicanos ; Medizinische Versorgung ; USA ; Los Angeles, Calif. ; Los Angeles, Calif. ; Asiaten ; Medizinische Versorgung ; Geschichte 1879-1939 ; Los Angeles, Calif. ; Chicanos ; Medizinische Versorgung ; Geschichte 1879-1939
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-272) and index , Interlopers in the land of sunshine : Chinese disease carriers, launderers, and vegetable peddlers -- Caught between discourses of disease, health, and nation : public health attitudes toward Japanese and Mexican laborers in progressive-era Los Angeles -- Institutionalizing public health in ethnic Los Angeles in the 1920s -- "We can no longer ignore the problem of the Mexican" : depression-era public health policies in Los Angeles -- The fight for "health, morality, and decent living standards" : Mexican Americans and the struggle for public housing in 1930s Los Angeles -- Epilogue : genealogies of racial discourses and practices , Shows how science and public health shaped the meaning of race in the early twentieth century. Examining the experiences of Mexican, Japanese, and Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles, this book illustrates the ways health officials used complexly constructed concerns about public health to demean, diminish, discipline, and define racial groups
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  • 7
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520938632
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (262 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.48895107
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    Keywords: Buck, Pearl S. ; Wong, Anna May ; Song, Meiling ; Chinabild ; USA
    Abstract: Throughout the history of the United States, images of China have populated the American imagination. Always in flux, these images shift rapidly, as they did during the early decades of the twentieth century. In this erudite and original study, Karen J. Leong explores the gendering of American orientalism during the 1930s and 1940s. Focusing on three women who were popularly and publicly associated with China-Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, and Mayling Soong-Leong shows how each negotiated what it meant to be American, Chinese American, and Chinese against the backdrop of changes in the United States as a national community and as an international power. The China Mystique illustrates how each of these women encountered the possibilities as well as the limitations of transnational status in attempting to shape her own opportunities. During these two decades, each woman enjoyed expanding visibility due to an increasingly global mass culture, rising nationalism in Asia, the emergence of the United States from the shadows of imperialism to world power, and the more assertive participation of women in civic and consumer culture.
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  • 8
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520930049
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (308 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.70973
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    Keywords: Kinsey-Report ; Sexualverhalten ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Geschlechterverhältnis ; USA ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: When Alfred Kinsey's massive studies Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female appeared in 1948 and 1953, their detailed data spurred an unprecedented public discussion of the nation's sexual practices and ideologies. As they debated what behaviors were normal or average, abnormal or deviant, Cold War Americans also celebrated and scrutinized the state of their nation, relating apparent changes in sexuality to shifts in its political structure, economy, and people. American Sexual Character employs the studies and the myriad responses they evoked to examine national debates about sexuality, gender, and Americanness after World War II. Focusing on the mutual construction of postwar ideas about national identity and sexual life, this wide-ranging, shrewd, and lively analysis explores the many uses to which these sex surveys were put at a time of extreme anxiety about sexual behavior and its effects on the nation. Looking at real and perceived changes in masculinity, female sexuality, marriage, and homosexuality, Miriam G. Reumann develops the notion of "American sexual character," sexual patterns and attitudes that were understood to be uniquely American and to reflect contemporary transformations in politics, social life, gender roles, and culture. She considers how apparent shifts in sexual behavior shaped the nation's workplaces, homes, and families, and how these might be linked to racial and class differences.
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  • 9
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520937864
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (381 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.0973
    Keywords: Landleben ; Natur ; Religiöses Verhalten ; Spiritualität ; USA ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Motivated variously by the desire to reject consumerism, to live closer to the earth, to embrace voluntary simplicity, or to discover a more spiritual path, homesteaders have made the radical decision to go "back to the land," rejecting modern culture and amenities to live self-sufficiently and in harmony with nature. Drawing from vivid firsthand accounts as well as from rich historical material, this gracefully written study of homesteading in America from the late nineteenth century to the present examines the lives and beliefs of those who have ascribed to the homesteading philosophy, placing their experiences within the broader context of the changing meanings of nature and religion in modern American culture. Rebecca Kneale Gould investigates the lives of famous figures such as Henry David Thoreau, John Burroughs, Ralph Borsodi, Wendell Berry, and Helen and Scott Nearing, and she presents penetrating interviews with many contemporary homesteaders. She also considers homesteading as a form of dissent from consumer culture, as a departure from traditional religious life, and as a practice of environmental ethics.
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