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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520974272
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: American Crossroads Ser v.57
    Series Statement: American crossroads
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire : Puerto Rican Workers on U. S. Farms
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    DDC: 305.8687295073
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    Keywords: Ausländischer Arbeitnehmer ; Migration ; Puerto Rico ; USA ; Puerto Ricans ; United States ; Migrations ; Electronic books ; Ausländischer Arbeitnehmer ; Puerto Rico ; Migration ; USA
    Abstract: Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One The Formation of Agrarian Labor Regimes -- 1 The Making of Colonial Migrant Farmworkers -- 2 Establishing the Farm Labor Program -- 3 Implementing Contract Migration -- Part Two Managing Hope, Despair, and Dissent -- 4 Pa'lla Afuera and the Life Experiences of Migrants -- 5 Labor Camps as Prisons in the Fields -- 6 Puerto Ricans in the Rural United States -- 7 Labor Organizing and the End of an Era -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Index
    Abstract: Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire is the first in-depth look at the experiences of Puerto Rican migrant workers in continental U.S. agriculture in the twentieth century. The Farm Labor Program, established by the government of Puerto Rico in 1947, placed hundreds of thousands of migrant workers on U.S. farms and fostered the emergence of many stateside Puerto Rican communities. Ismael García-Colón investigates the origins and development of this program and uncovers the unique challenges faced by its participants. A labor history and an ethnography, Colonial Migrants evokes the violence, fieldwork, food, lodging, surveillance, and coercion that these workers experienced on farms and conveys their hopes and struggles to overcome poverty. Island farmworkers encountered a unique form of prejudice and racism arising from their dual status as both U.S. citizens and as "foreign others," and their experiences were further shaped by evolving immigration policies. Despite these challenges, many Puerto Rican farmworkers ultimately chose to settle in rural U.S. communities, contributing to the production of food and the Latinization of the U.S. farm labor force
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520964846
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 224 Seiten)
    DDC: 303.48/4
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    Keywords: Geschichte 2013-2018 ; Soziale Bewegung ; Kollektives Handeln ; Politische Mobilisierung ; Politischer Protest ; Protestbewegung ; Lateinamerika ; USA
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 187-220
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780520958654
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , Illustrations (black and white).
    Series Statement: American crossroads 40
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1942-1964 ; Mexikanischer Arbeitnehmer ; Landarbeiter ; Familienbeziehung ; Migration ; Foreign workers, Mexican Family relationships 20th century ; History ; Migrant agricultural laborers Family relationships 20th century ; History ; Mexicans Social conditions 20th century ; Families Social conditions 20th century ; Immigrant families Social conditions 20th century ; USA ; Mexico Emigration and immigration ; Social aspects ; United States Emigration and immigration ; Social aspects
    Abstract: Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, Ana Elizabeth Rosas uncovers a previously hidden history of transnational family life. Intimate and personal experiences are revealed to show how Mexican immigrants and their families were not passive victims but instead found ways to embrace the spirit (abrazando el espíritu) of making and implementing difficult decisions concerning their family situations - creating new forms of affection, gender roles, and economic survival strategies with long-term consequences.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520275594 , 0520275608 , 0520956877 , 1299988164 , 9780520275591 , 9780520275607 , 9780520956872 , 9781299988163
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.8009794/94
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    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies ; HISTORY / United States / General ; African Americans ; Community development ; Community life ; Ethnic relations ; Hispanic Americans ; Minorities ; Race relations ; Social history ; Minderheit ; Schwarze. USA ; Sozialgeschichte ; African Americans ; Hispanic Americans ; Minorities ; Community development ; Community life ; Hispanos ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Schwarze ; USA ; Los Angeles, Calif. ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Online-Publikation ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Los Angeles, Calif. ; Schwarze ; Hispanos ; Ethnische Beziehungen
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , PART ONE. THE ECONOMICS OF PEOPLE AND PLACES -- Keeping it Real: Demographics, Workforce, and Organizing for African Americans and Latinos in Los Angeles / Manuel Pastor -- Banking on the Community: Mexican Immigrants Experiences in a Historically African American Bank in South Central Los Angeles, 1970-2007 / Abigail Rosas -- Putting Down Roots: Spatial Context and Inter-group Relations in Suburban Los Angeles / Lorrie Frasure and Stacey Greene -- PART TWO. URBAN HISTORIES -- The Changing Valence of White Racial Innocence: The Los Angeles School Desegregation Struggles of the 1970s / Daniel Martinez HoSang -- Fighting the Segregation Amendment: Black and Mexican American Responses to Proposition 14 in Los Angeles / Max Felker-Kantor -- Lowriding in Los Angeles: Black and Chicano Inter-relationships / Denise Sandoval -- PART THREE. COMMUNITY LIFE AND POLITICS -- , - Rainbow Coalition in the Golden State?: Exposing Myths, Uncovering New Realities in Latino Attitudes toward Blacks / Matt A. Barreto, Ben F. Gonzalez, and Gabriel R. Sanchez -- Race, the Citizen, and the L.A.1 Human: Race Relations and State Violence in Globalized Los Angeles / Ofelia Ortiz Cuevas -- PART FOUR. REPORTING BLACK AND BROWN L.A.: A JOURNALIST'S VIEW -- More than Just the Latinos-Next-Door: Piercing Black Silence on Immigration and Plugging Immigration's Drain on Black Employment / Erin Aubrey Kaplan -- The Violent Real Estate of Street Life: A Report from the Black and Latino Killing Fields / Sam Quinoes -- PART FIVE. CITY CULTURES -- Landscapes of Black and Brown L.A.: A Photo Essay / Wendy Cheng -- Spatial Entitlement: Race, Displacement, and Reclamation in Post-war Los Angeles / Gaye T. Johnson -- The Art of Shared Practices: Excerpts from Fallen Nature and the Two Cities and Black Is Brown and Brown Is Beautiful / Nery Gabriel Lemus -- , - Raiding Los Angeles: The Raider Nation at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and Beyond, 1982-1994 / Priscilla Leiva -- What Is an MC if He Can't Rap to Banda?: Making Music in Nuevo L.A. / Josh Kun
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520945654
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 309 p.
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    DDC: 391.6
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Beauty culture Social aspects ; Korean American women Employment ; Women foreign workers ; Asian Americans Social conditions ; Ausländische Arbeitnehmerin ; Kosmetik ; Auswanderin ; USA ; USA ; Korea ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; USA ; Ausländische Arbeitnehmerin ; Kosmetik ; Korea ; Auswanderin
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: manicuring work -- "There's no business like the nail business" -- "What other work is there?": manicurists -- Hooked on nails: customers -- "I just put Koreans and nails together": nail spas and the model minority -- Black people "have not been the ones who get pampered": nail art salons and black-Korean relations -- "You could get a fungus": Asian discount nail salons as the new yellow peril -- Conclusion: what is a manicure worth?
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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.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520941298
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (89 Seiten)
    Edition: 1st edition
    DDC: 304.8
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Diaspora ; Minderheit
    Abstract: Coined in the third century B.C., the term diaspora has evolved into a buzzword used to describe the migrations of groups as diverse as ethnic populations, religious communities, and even engineers working abroad. This concise book provides a critical introduction to the concept of diaspora, bringing a fresh, synthetic perspective to virtually all aspects of this topic. Stéphane Dufoix incorporates a wealth of case studies-about the Jewish, Armenian, African, Chinese, Greek, and Indian experiences- to illustrate key concepts, give a clear overview on current thinking, and reassess the value of the term for us today.
    Note: Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources , Literaturverzeichnis Seite 83-88
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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.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520941292 , 9780520941298
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 136 p.)
    Uniform Title: Diasporas
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    DDC: 304.8
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration ; Emigration and immigration ; Geschichte ; Migration ; Emigration and immigration History ; Diaspora ; Minderheit ; Diaspora ; Geschichte ; Minderheit ; Geschichte
    Note: "Originally published in French as Les diasporas, c2003, Presses Universitaires de France"--T.p. verso , Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-136) , What is a diaspora? -- The spaces of dispersion -- Maintaining connections : holding on and letting go -- Managing distance , A critical introduction to the concept of 'diaspora' this book incorporates a wealth of case studies & provides a clear overview of current thinking
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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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    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.
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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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    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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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520937062
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (291 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies
    DDC: 305.48697107
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    Keywords: Schwarze Frau ; Islam ; Soziale Situation ; USA
    Abstract: Commonly portrayed in the media as holding women in strict subordination and deference to men, Islam is nonetheless attracting numerous converts among African American women. Are these women "reproducing their oppression," as it might seem? Or does their adherence to the religion suggest unsuspected subtleties and complexities in the relation of women, especially black women, to Islam? Carolyn Rouse sought answers to these questions among the women of Sunni Muslim mosques in Los Angeles. Her richly textured study provides rare insight into the meaning of Islam for African American women; in particular, Rouse shows how the teachings of Islam give these women a sense of power and control over interpretations of gender, family, authority, and obligations. In Engaged Surrender, Islam becomes a unique prism for clarifying the role of faith in contemporary black women's experience. Through these women's stories, Rouse reveals how commitment to Islam refracts complex processes-urbanization, political and social radicalization, and deindustrialization-that shape black lives generally, and black women's lives in particular. Rather than focusing on traditional (and deeply male) ideas of autonomy and supremacy, the book-and the community of women it depicts-emphasizes more holistic notions of collective obligation, personal humility, and commitment to overarching codes of conduct and belief. A much-needed corrective to media portraits of Islam and the misconceptions they engender, this engaged and engaging work offers an intimate, in-depth look into the vexed and interlocking issues of Islam, gender, and race.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520937277
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (317 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 330.979474
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    Keywords: Mexikaner ; Chicanos ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Armut ; USA
    Abstract: Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in two impoverished California communities-one made up of recent immigrants from Mexico, the other of U.S.-born Chicano citizens-this book provides an invaluable comparative perspective on Latino poverty in contemporary America. In northern California's high-tech Silicon Valley, author Daniel Dohan shows how recent immigrants get by on low-wage babysitting and dish-cleaning jobs. In the housing projects of Los Angeles, he documents how families and communities of U.S.-born Mexican Americans manage the social and economic dislocations of persistent poverty. Taking readers into worlds where public assistance, street crime, competition for low-wage jobs, and family, pride, and cross-cultural experiences intermingle, The Price of Poverty offers vivid portraits of everyday life in these Mexican American communities while addressing urgent policy questions such as: What accounts for joblessness? How can we make sense of crime in poor communities? Does welfare hurt or help?.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520927544
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (286 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 304.8/7307295/09043
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Puerto Ricaner ; Globalisierung ; Auswanderung ; Einwanderung ; USA ; Europa
    Abstract: Colonial Subjects is the first book to use a combination of world-system and postcolonial approaches to compare Puerto Rican migration with Caribbean migration to both the United States and Western Europe. Ramon Grosfoguel provides an alternative reading of the world-system approach to Puerto Rico's history, political economy, and urbanization processes.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520936645
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (248 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.4096762
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Geschlechterrolle ; Beschneidung ; Soziale Situation ; Frau ; Kenia
    Abstract: In more than a metaphorical sense, the womb has proven to be an important site of political struggle in and about Africa. By examining the political significance-and complex ramifications-of reproductive controversies in twentieth-century Kenya, this book explores why and how control of female initiation, abortion, childbirth, and premarital pregnancy have been crucial to the exercise of colonial and postcolonial power. This innovative book enriches the study of gender, reproduction, sexuality, and African history by revealing how reproductive controversies challenged long-standing social hierarchies and contributed to the construction of new ones that continue to influence the fraught politics of abortion, birth control, female genital cutting, and HIV/AIDS in Africa.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520937222
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (295 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.845
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    Keywords: Ehe ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Interethnische Ehe ; USA
    Abstract: By the year 2000 more than 350 Internet agencies were plying the email-order marriage trade, and the business of matching up mostly Western men with women from Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America had become an example of globalization writ large. This provocative work opens a window onto the complex motivations and experiences of the people behind the stereotypes and misconceptions that have exploded along with the practice of transnational courtship and marriage. Combining extensive Internet ethnography and face-to-face fieldwork, Romance on a Global Stage looks at the intimate realities of Filipinas, Chinese women, and U.S. men corresponding in hopes of finding a suitable marriage partner. Through the experiences of those engaged in pen pal relationships-their stories of love, romance, migration, and long-distance dating-this book conveys the richness and dignity of women's and men's choices without reducing these correspondents to calculating opportunists or naive romantics. Attentive to the structural, cultural, and personal factors that prompt women and men to seek marriage partners abroad, Romance on a Global Stage questions the dichotomies so frequently drawn between structure and agency, and between global and local levels of analysis.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520237056 , 0520238702 , 0520937228 , 1417508329 , 1597348775 , 9780520237056 , 9780520238701 , 9780520937222 , 9781417508327 , 9781597348775
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 283 pages)
    DDC: 306.84/5
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    Keywords: Mariage interethnique / États-Unis ; Agences matrimoniales / États-Unis ; Mariage par correspondance / États-Unis ; Asiatiques / États-Unis ; Correspondance internationale / États-Unis ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural ; Huwelijksbemiddeling ; Internet ; Vrouwen ; Aziaten ; Frau ; Gesellschaft ; Intercountry marriage ; Marriage brokerage ; Mail order brides ; Asians ; International correspondence Social aspects ; Interethnische Ehe ; Ehe ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; USA ; USA ; USA ; Ehe ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; USA ; Interethnische Ehe
    Note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 , Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-274) and index , Making introductions -- Ethnography in imagined virtual communities -- Feminism and myths of "mail-order" marriages -- Fairy tales, family values, and the global politics of romance -- Political economy and the cultural logics of desire -- Women's agency and the gendered geography of marriage -- Tales of waiting: history, immigration, and the state -- Conclusion: marriage, migration, and transnational families , By the year 2000 more than 350 Internet agencies were plying the email-order marriage trade, and the business of matching up mostly Western men with women from Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America had become an example of globalization writ large. This provocative work opens a window onto the complex motivations and experiences of the people behind the stereotypes and misconceptions that have exploded along with the practice of transnational courtship and marriage. Combining extensive Internet ethnography and face-to-face fieldwork, Romance on a Global Stage looks at the intimate realities
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520938748
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (290 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.9
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Homosexualität ; Homosexueller ; Kalifornien
    Abstract: Wide-Open Town traces the history of gay men and lesbians in San Francisco from the turn of the century, when queer bars emerged in San Francisco's tourist districts, to 1965, when a raid on a drag ball changed the course of queer history. Bringing to life the striking personalities and vibrant milieu that fueled this era, Nan Alamilla Boyd examines the culture that developed around the bar scene and homophile activism. She argues that the communities forged inside bars and taverns functioned politically and, ultimately, offered practical and ideological responses to the policing of San Francisco's queer and transgender communities. Using police and court records, oral histories, tourist literature, and manuscript collections from local and state archives, Nan Alamilla Boyd explains the phenomenal growth of San Francisco as a "wide-open town"-a town where anything goes. She also relates the early history of the gay and lesbian civil rights movement that took place in San Francisco prior to 1965. Wide-Open Town argues that police persecution forged debates about rights and justice that transformed San Francisco's queer communities into the identity-based groups we see today. In its vivid re-creation of bar and drag life, its absorbing portrait of central figures in the communities, and its provocative chronicling of this period in the country's most transgressive city, Wide-Open Town offers a fascinating and lively new chapter of American queer history.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520927292
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (398 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 301.096
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Visualisierung ; Soziologie ; Anthropologie ; Afrika
    Abstract: Figurative images have long played a critical, if largely unexamined, role in Africa--mediating relationships between the colonizer and the colonized, the state and the individual, and the global and the local. This pivotal volume considers the meaning and power of images in African history and culture.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520928169 , 0520928164
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 413 Seiten)
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    DDC: 302.23
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    Keywords: Médias et culture ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General ; Mass media and culture ; Mass media and culture ; Anthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Massenmedien ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Massenmedien ; Anthropologie ; USA ; Massenmedien ; Ethnologie
    Description / Table of Contents: Screen memories: resignifying the traditional in indigenous media - Faye D. Ginsburg -- - Visual media and the primitivist perplex: colonial fantasies, indigenous imagination, and advocacy in North America - Harald E.L. Prins -- - Representation, politics, and cultural imagination in indigenous video: general points and Kayapo examples - Terence Turner -- - Spectacles of difference: cultural activism and the mass mediation of Tibet - Meg McLagan -- - Egyptian melodrama: technology of the modern subject? - Lila Abu-Lughod -- - Epic contests: television and religious identity in India - Purnima Mankekar -- - The national picture: Thai media and cultural identity - Annette Hamilton -- - Television, time, and the national imaginary in Belize - Richard R. Wilk -- - Mass media and transnational subjectivity in Shanghai: notes on (re)cosmopolitanism in a Chinese metropolis - Mayfair Mei-hui Yang -- - A Marshall plan of the mind: the political economy of a Kazakh soap opera - Ruth Mandel -- - Mapping Hmong media in diasporic space - Louisa Schein -- - Putting American public television documentary in its places - Barry Dornfeld -- - Culture in the ad world: producing the Latin look - Arlene Dávila -- - "And yet my heart is still Indian": the Bombay film industry and the (h)Indianization of Hollywood - Tejaswini Ganti -- - Arrival scenes: complicity and media ethnography in the Bolivian public sphere - Jeff D. Himpele -- - The materiality of cinema theaters in northern Nigeria - Brian Larkin -- - Mobile machines and fluid audiences: rethinking reception through Zambian radio culture - Debra Spitulnik -- - The Indian work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction: or, what happens when peasants "get hold" of images - Christopher Pinney -- - Live or dead? Televising theater in Bali - Mark Hobart -- - A room with a voice: mediation and mediumship in Thailand's information age - Rosalind C. Morris
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520929748 , 0585391173 , 1282357042 , 9780520929746 , 9780585391175 , 9781282357044
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 266 pages)
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    DDC: 393/.2
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    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying ; RELIGION / Comparative Religion ; Cremation ; Cremation / Public opinion ; Funeral rites and ceremonies ; Manners and customs ; Public opinion ; Geschichte ; Cremation History ; Cremation Public opinion ; Funeral rites and ceremonies History ; Public opinion ; Krematorium ; Geschichte ; USA ; USA ; Electronic books ; Electronic books History ; USA ; Krematorium ; Geschichte
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-261) and index , 'Purified by Fire' tells the story of cremation's rise from notoriety to legitimacy and takes a provocative new look at important transformations in the American cultural landscape over the last 150 years , Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: BIRTH, 18741896 -- 1. The Cremation of Baron De Palm -- 2. Sanitary Reform -- 3. Resurrection and the Resurrectionists -- PART TWO: BRICKS AND MORTAR, 18961963 -- 4. The Business of Cremation -- 5. The Memorial Idea -- PART THREE: BOOM, 1963PRESENT -- 6. Consumers Last Rites -- 7. Contemporary Ways of Cremation -- Timeline -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520926035
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (402 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.360973
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    Keywords: Arbeit ; Familie ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The dynamics of work and parenthood are in the midst of a revolutionary shift in the United States. Focused around a major factor in this shift--the rise of dual-income families--this groundbreaking volume provides a highly informative snapshot of the intricate fabric of work and family in the United States.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520935792
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (455 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.90691
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    Keywords: Einwanderer ; Generation 2 ; Akkulturation ; Ethnische Identität ; Soziale Situation ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; USA
    Abstract: One out of five Americans are first- or second-generation immigrants. This study probes all aspects of the new immigrant second generation live's, exploring their potential to transform American society for better or worse.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520927711
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (357 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.90691
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    Keywords: Einwanderung ; Stadt ; Sozialökologie ; USA
    Abstract: Immigration is remaking the United States. In New York, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, and Chicago, the multiethnic society of tomorrow is already in place. Yet today's urban centers appear unlikely to provide newcomers with the same opportunities their predecessors found at the turn of the last century. Using the latest sources of information, this hard-hitting volume of original essays looks at the nexus between urban realities and immigrant destinies in these American cities. Strangers at the Gates tells the real story of immigrants' prospects for success today and delineates the conditions that will hinder or aid the newest Americans in their quest to get ahead. This book stresses the crucial importance of understanding that immigration today is fundamentally urban and the equally important fact that immigrants are now flocking to places where low-skilled workers--regardless of ethnic background--are in particular trouble. These two themes are at the heart of this book, which also covers a range of provocative topics, often with surprising findings. Among the essayists, Nelson Lim enters the controversy over whether and how immigrants affect the employment prospects for African Americans; Mark Ellis investigates whether low immigrant wages depress other workers' salaries; William A.V. Clark contends that immigrants seem to be experiencing downward mobility; and Min Zhou asserts that trends among second-generation immigrants are decidedly more optimistic. These well-integrated and well-organized essays sit squarely at the intersection of sociology and economics, and along the way they point out both the strengths and the weaknesses of these two disciplines in understanding immigration. Providing a theoretically and empirically comprehensive overview of the economic fate of immigrants in major American cities, this book will make a major...
    Abstract: contribution to debates over immigration and the American future.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520219236 , 052092441X , 1597344826 , 9780520924413 , 9781597344821
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 435 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies on China 23
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    DDC: 951.05
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    Keywords: 1900 - 1999 ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; HISTORY. ; Cities and towns ; Civilization ; National characteristics, Chinese ; Geschichte ; Stadt ; Cities and towns History 20th century ; National characteristics, Chinese ; Zivilisation ; Stadtentwicklung ; Modernisierung ; China ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; China ; Stadtentwicklung ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; China ; Modernisierung ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; China ; Zivilisation ; Geschichte 1900-2000
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Introduction: interpreting Chinese modernity, 1900-1950 / Wen-hsin Yeh -- The cultural construction of modernity in urban Shanghai: some preliminary explorations / Leo Ou-fan Lee -- Marketing medicine and advertising dreams in China, 1900-1950 / Sherman Cochran -- "A high place is no better than a low place": the city in the making of modern China / David Strand -- Engineering China: birth of the developmental state, 1928-1937 / William C. Kirby -- Hierarchical modernization: Tianjin's Gong Shang College as a model for Catholic community in North China / Richard Madsen -- The grounding of cosmopolitans: merchants and local cultures in Guangdong / Helen F. Siu -- Zhang Taiyan's concept of the individual and modern Chinese identity / Wang Hui -- Crime or punishment? On the forensic discourse of modern Chinese literature / David Der-wei Wang -- Hanjian (Traitor)! Collaboration and retribution in wartime Shanghai / Frederic Wakeman Jr. -- Of authenticity and woman: personal narratives of middle-class women in modern China / Prasenjit Duara -- Victory as defeat: postwar visualizations of China's War of Resistance / Paul G. Pickowicz , This volume evaluates the dual roles of war and modernity in the transformation of 20th-century Chinese identity. The contributors argue that war, no less than revolution, deserves attention as a major force in the making of 20th-century Chinese history
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
    ISBN: 9780520920026 , 0520920023 , 0585047774 , 9780585047775 , 9780520211087 , 0520211081 , 9780520211223 , 0520211227
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 280 pages)
    DDC: 305.892/4073
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    Keywords: Juden ; Ethnische Identität ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520079337
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 424 Seiten , Illustrationen , 23 cm
    DDC: 302.23/5/0973
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    Keywords: Comunicacao de massa ; Sociale aspecten ; Telefonia ; Telefonie ; Teléfono - Aspectos sociales - Estados Univods - Historia ; Téléphone - Aspect social - États-Unis - Histoire ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Telephone Social aspects ; History ; Sozialgeschichte ; Telefon ; USA ; USA ; USA ; Telefon ; Sozialgeschichte
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