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    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9789048510894
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (77 pages)
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: Wohltätigkeitsorganisation ; Spende ; Europa ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: An overview of current philanthropic research in Europe with much-anticipated insights into the study of philanthropy.
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780472900909
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (279 pages)
    Series Statement: Contemporary Political and Social Issues Ser.
    DDC: 306.8509730905
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    Keywords: Reagan, Ronald ; Obama, Barack ; Geschichte 1950-2009 ; Sozialgeschichte 1950-2009 ; Wertwandel ; Soziokultureller Wandel ; USA ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Research and reflections on the American demographic shift that led to the election of President Barack Obama.
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780472022397
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (193 pages)
    DDC: 306.094
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    Keywords: Inglehart, Ronald ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Wertwandel ; USA ; Europa
    Abstract: A comprehensive examination of global attitude changes.
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780472024179
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (238 pages)
    Series Statement: Evolving Values For A Capitalist World
    DDC: 306.0973
    Keywords: Lebensqualität ; Materialismus ; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung ; USA
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    Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780807887646
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (334 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.242/2097509034
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Junge Frau ; Frau ; Weiße ; Soziale Situation ; Geschlechterrolle ; Sezessionskrieg ; USA Südstaaten
    Abstract: Scarlett's Sisters: Young Women in the Old South.
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    Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780807868102
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (249 pages)
    Series Statement: Gender and American Culture
    DDC: 306.850973/0904
    Keywords: Geschichte 1890-1938 ; Familie ; USA
    Abstract: Through nostalgic idealizations of motherhood, family, and the home, influential leaders in early twentieth-century America constructed and legitimated a range of reforms that promoted human reproduction. Their pronatalism emerged from a modernist conviction that reproduction and population could be regulated. European countries sought to regulate or encourage reproduction through legislation; America, by contrast, fostered ideological and cultural ideas of pronatalism through what Laura Lovett calls "nostalgic modernism," which romanticized agrarianism and promoted scientific racism and eugenics. Lovett looks closely at the ideologies of five influential American figures: Mary Lease's maternalist agenda, Florence Sherbon's eugenic "fitter families" campaign, George Maxwell's "homecroft" movement of land reclamation and home building, Theodore Roosevelt's campaign for conservation and country life, and Edward Ross's sociological theory of race suicide and social control. Demonstrating the historical circumstances that linked agrarianism, racism, and pronatalism, Lovett shows how reproductive conformity was manufactured, how it was promoted, and why it was coercive. In addition to contributing to scholarship in American history, gender studies, rural studies, and environmental history, Lovett's study sheds light on the rhetoric of "family values" that has regained currency in recent years.
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780230104198
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
    DDC: 305.868/72079478
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Auswanderung ; Landarbeiter ; Einwanderung ; Mexiko ; USA
    Abstract: Reimagining the Immigrant examines integrative practices by residents towards Mexican immigrants in a small farm town in America. This groundbreaking book sheds light on the coexisting practices of discrimination and accommodation and the ways in which immigrants and established residents reimagine ethnic identity in a more positive light.
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    ISBN: 9780262258920
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (441 pages)
    DDC: 302.23/108350973
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    Keywords: Neue Medien ; Kind ; Jugend ; USA
    Abstract: An examination of young people's everyday new media practices -- including video-game playing, text-messaging, digital media production, and social media use.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203866573
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (159 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Studies in African American History and Culture
    DDC: 305.896/07300904
    Keywords: Schwarze ; Massenkultur ; USA
    Abstract: Audience, Agency and Identity in Black Popular Culture analyses black cultural representations that appropriate anti-black stereotypes. Using examples from literature, media, and art, Worsley examines how these cultural products do not rework anti-black stereotypes into seemingly positive images. Rather, they present anti-black stereotypes in their original forms and encourage audiences not to ignore, but to explore them. Shifting critical commentary from a need to censor these questionable images, Worsley offers a complex consideration of the value of and problems with these alternative anti-racist strategies in light of stereotypes' persistence. This book furthers our understanding of the historical circumstances that are influencing contemporary representations of black subjects that are purposefully derogatory and documents the consequences of these images.
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    Cary : Oxford University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780199716098
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (234 pages)
    DDC: 306.4
    Keywords: Geschichte 1784-2005 ; Ernährungsgewohnheit ; USA ; China
    Abstract: In 1784, passengers on the ship Empress of China became the first Americans to land in China, and the first to eat Chinese food. Today there are over 40,000 Chinese restaurants across the United States--by far the most plentiful among all our ethnic eateries. Now, in Chop Suey Andrew Coe provides the authoritative history of the American infatuation with Chinese food, telling its fascinating story for the first time. It's a tale that moves from curiosity to disgust and then desire. From China, Coe's story travels to the American West, where Chinese immigrants drawn by the 1848 Gold Rush struggled against racism and culinary prejudice but still established restaurants and farms and imported an array of Asian ingredients. He traces the Chinese migration to the East Coast, highlighting that crucial moment when New York "Bohemians" discovered Chinese cuisine--and for better or worse, chop suey. Along the way, Coe shows how the peasant food of an obscure part of China came to dominate Chinese-American restaurants; unravels the truth of chop suey's origins; reveals why American Jews fell in love with egg rolls and chow mein; shows how President Nixon's 1972 trip to China opened our palates to a new range of cuisine; and explains why we still can't get dishes like those served in Beijing or Shanghai. The book also explores how American tastes have been shaped by our relationship with the outside world, and how we've relentlessly changed foreign foods to adapt to them our own deep-down conservative culinary preferences. Andrew Coe's Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States is a fascinating tour of America's centuries-long appetite for Chinese food. Always illuminating, often exploding long-held culinary myths, this book opens a new window into defining what is American cuisine.
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    London : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203881002
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (311 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.8687291073
    Keywords: Einwanderung ; Politischer Wandel ; Kuba ; USA
    Abstract: Are all immigrants from the same home country best understood as a homogeneous group of foreign-born? Or do they differ in their adaptation and transnational ties depending on when they emigrated and with what lived experiences? Between Castro's rise to power in 1959 and the early twenty-first century more than a million Cubans immigrated to the United States. While it is widely known that Cuban émigrés have exerted a strong hold on Washington policy toward their homeland, Eckstein uncovers a fascinating paradox: the recent arrivals, although poor and politically weak, have done more to transform their homeland than the influential and prosperous early exiles who have tried for half a century to bring the Castro regime to heel. The impact of the so-called New Cubans is an unintended consequence of the personal ties they maintain with family in Cuba, ties the first arrivals oppose. This historically-grounded, nuanced book offers a rare in-depth analysis of Cuban immigrants' social, cultural, economic, and political adaptation, their transformation of Miami into the "northern most Latin American city," and their cross-border engagement and homeland impact. Eckstein accordingly provides new insight into the lives of Cuban immigrants, into Cuba in the post Soviet era, and into how Washington's failed Cuba policy might be improved. She also posits a new theory to deepen the understanding not merely of Cuban but of other immigrant group adaptation.
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    Princeton : Princeton University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781400827299
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (199 pages)
    Series Statement: The Public Square
    DDC: 303.48
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    Keywords: Antiamerikanismus ; Europa
    Abstract: No survey can capture the breadth and depth of the anti-Americanism that has swept Europe in recent years. From ultraconservative Bavarian grandmothers to thirty-year-old socialist activists in Greece, from globalization opponents to corporate executives--Europeans are joining in an ever louder chorus of disdain for America. For the first time, anti-Americanism has become a European lingua franca. In this sweeping and provocative look at the history of European aversion to America, Andrei Markovits argues that understanding the ubiquity of anti-Americanism since September 11, 2001, requires an appreciation of such sentiments among European elites going back at least to July 4, 1776. While George W. Bush's policies have catapulted anti-Americanism into overdrive, particularly in Western Europe, Markovits argues that this loathing has long been driven not by what America does, but by what it is. Focusing on seven Western European countries big and small, he shows how antipathies toward things American embrace aspects of everyday life--such as sports, language, work, education, media, health, and law--that remain far from the purview of the Bush administration's policies. Aggravating Europeans' antipathies toward America is their alleged helplessness in the face of an Americanization that they view as inexorably befalling them. More troubling, Markovits argues, is that this anti-Americanism has cultivated a new strain of anti-Semitism. Above all, he shows that while Europeans are far apart in terms of their everyday lives and shared experiences, their not being American provides them with a powerful common identity--one that elites have already begun to harness in their quest to construct a unified Europe to rival America.
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    Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780807889824
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (247 pages)
    DDC: 306.810973/0904
    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Ehe ; Ehescheidung ; USA
    Abstract: By the end of World War I, the skyrocketing divorce rate in the United States had generated a deep-seated anxiety about marriage. This fear drove middle-class couples to seek advice, both professional and popular, in order to strengthen their relationships. In Making Marriage Work, historian Kristin Celello offers an insightful and wide-ranging account of marriage and divorce in America in the twentieth century, focusing on the development of the idea of marriage as "work." Throughout, Celello illuminates the interaction of marriage and divorce over the century and reveals how the idea that marriage requires work became part of Americans' collective consciousness.
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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780816670307
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
    DDC: 305.895
    Keywords: Vietnamesen ; Ethnische Identität ; USA
    Abstract: With a comparative and race-cognizant approach, Karin Aguilar-San Juan shows how places like Little Saigon and Fields Corner are sites for the simultaneous preservation and redefinition of Vietnamese identity. Intervening in debates about race, ethnicity, multiculturalism, and suburbanization as a form of assimilation, she elaborates on the significance of place as an integral element of community building and its role in defining Vietnamese American-ness.
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    Hoboken : Wiley | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781444304749
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (234 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Wiley Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture
    DDC: 306.44089
    Keywords: Rassismus ; Sprache ; Sprachliches Stereotyp ; Diskursanalyse ; USA
    Abstract: In The Everyday Language of White Racism, Jane H. Hill provides an incisive analysis of everyday language to reveal the underlying racist stereotypes that continue to circulate in American culture. provides a detailed background on the theory of race and racism reveals how racializing discourse-talk and text that produces and reproduces ideas about races and assigns people to them-facilitates a victim-blaming logic integrates a broad and interdisciplinary range of literature from sociology, social psychology, justice studies, critical legal studies, philosophy, literature, and other disciplines that have studied racism, as well as material from anthropology and sociolinguistics Part of the Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture Series.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203930588
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (353 Seiten)
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Studies in European Sociology
    DDC: 305.507204
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    Keywords: Soziale Klasse ; Soziale Schichtung ; Electronic books ; Europeans -- Economic conditions -- Classification ; Europeans -- Social conditions -- Classification ; Social classes -- Europe -- Classification ; Social stratification -- Europe -- Classification ; Europa ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This timely volume introduces a new social class schema, the European Socio-economic Classification (ESeC), which has been specifically developed and tested for use in EU comparative research. Social Class in Europe aims to introduce researchers to the new classification and its research potential. Since socio-economic classifications are so widely used in official and academic research, this collection is essential reading for all users of both government and academic social classifications. While primarily aimed at researchers who will be using the ESeC, the book's contents will also have a wider appeal as it is suitable for students taking substantive courses in European studies or as a supplementary text for undergraduates studying the EU, Sociology and Economics. Because of its inherent methodological interest, the book should prove a valuable tool for undergraduate and graduate courses that discuss how social scientists construct and validate basic measures. It will also be required reading for policy makers and analysts concerned with social inequality and social exclusion across Europe.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203862865
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (134 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity
    DDC: 305.896
    Keywords: Kunst ; Schwarze ; Ethnische Identität ; Mittelstand ; USA
    Abstract: Patricia A. Banks traverses the New York and Atlanta art worlds to uncover how black identities are cultivated through black art patronage. Drawing on over 100 in-depth interviews, observations at arts events, and photographs of art displayed in homes, Banks elaborates a racial identity theory of consumption that highlights how upper-middle class blacks forge black identities for themselves and their children through the consumption of black visual art. She not only challenges common assumptions about elite cultural participation, but also contributes to the heated debate about the significance of race for elite blacks, and illuminates recent art world developments. In doing so, Banks documents how the salience of race extends into the cultural life of even the most socioeconomically successful blacks.
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    Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780807887868
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (245 pages)
    DDC: 305.4071/1073
    Keywords: Lerner, Gerda ; Frauenforschung ; Frau ; Geschichte ; Autobiographie ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This stimulating collection of essays in an autobiographical framework spans the period from 1963 to the present. It encompasses Gerda Lerner's theoretical writing and her organizational work in transforming the history profession and in establishing Women's History as a mainstream field.Six of the twelve essays are new, written especially for this volume; the others have previously appeared in small journals or were originally presented as talks, and have been revised for this book. Several essays discuss feminist teaching and the problems of interpretation of autobiography and memoir for the reader and the historian. Lerner's reflections on feminism as a worldview, on the meaning of history writing, and on problems of aging lend this book unusual range and depth. Together, the essays illuminate how thought and action connected in Lerner's life, how the life she led before she became an academic affected the questions she addressed as a historian, and how the social and political struggles in which she engaged informed her thinking. Written in lucid, accessible prose, the essays will appeal to the general reader as well as to students at all levels. Living with History / Making Social Change offers rare insight into the life work of one of the leading historians of the United States.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203873984
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (201 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 303.48/4
    Keywords: Soziale Bewegung ; Sozialreform ; USA
    Abstract: What can we learn when we listen closely to and engage in dialogue with social movement activists? Social Movements and Activism in the USA addresses this question for a group of progressive activists in Hartford, Connecticut, who do community, labor, feminist, gay and lesbian, peace, and anti-racist organizing. Situated within the twenty-first-century landscape of post-industrialism and neo-liberalism and drawing on oral histories, the book argues for a dialogic and integrative approach to social movement activism. The dialogue between scholar and activist captures the interpretive nature of activists' identity, the variable ways activists decide on strategies and goals, the external constraints on activism, and the creative ways activists manoeuvre around these constraints. This dialogic approach makes the book accessible and useful to students, scholars, and activists alike. The integrative nature of the text refers to its theoretical approach. Rather than advancing a new theory of social movements, it uses existing approaches as a tool kit to examine the what, how, who, and why of social movement activism.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203871720
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (164 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Transnational Crime and Corruption
    DDC: 304.8/73047
    Keywords: Gemeinschaft Unabhängiger Staaten ; Russischer Einwanderer ; Illegaler Einwanderer ; Schwarzarbeit ; USA
    Abstract: This book is the first in English to examine irregular migration from post-Soviet states, focusing in particular on migration to the United States. Due to globalization and the end of the Cold War, citizens of the former Soviet Union are on the move as never before. The political, economic, and social changes that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union resulted in widespread poverty and unemployment and also created a large pool of potential migrants. Thousands of individuals from poor post-Soviet countries migrate to the West in search of better-paid work in an effort to provide for themselves and their families both through legal channels, and in their absence, illegally.  In recent years immigration has become a topic of heated debate in many Western countries: the estimated number of undocumented immigrants in the United States has reached 11 million, precipitating a new legislative focus on reforming the immigration system, culminating in the highly controversial Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act passed by the House of Representatives in 2005 but eventually "killed" in the Senate. This book examines all these issues, discussing the reasons for migration, the profile of the migrants, how the process of migration works and how the migrants obtain their U.S. visas, where they work once in the United States and their intentions with regards to their possible return home. This book explores the reality of post-Soviet migration where the mostly well-educated former professionals end up in low-wage unskilled jobs as domestic workers, child care givers, and construction workers, sometimes in exploitative labor situations. Overall, this book provides a detailed account of post-Soviet illegal migration to the United States, focusing in particular on Central Asian and Georgian migrants, and will be of interest to...
    Abstract: scholars of US politics as well as Russia, Central Asia,and the Caucasus specialists.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203881286
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (489 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Communication Series
    DDC: 302.2
    Keywords: Auslandsberichterstattung ; Massenmedien ; Internationale Kommunikation ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This volume provides a comprehensive examination of key issues regarding global communication, focusing particularly on international news and strategic communication. It addresses those news factors that influence the newsworthiness of international events, providing a synthesis of both theoretical and practical studies that highlight the complicated nature of the international news selection process. It also deals with international news coverage, presenting research on the cross-national and cross-cultural nature of media coverage of global events, in the interdisciplinary context of research on political communication, war coverage, new technologies and online communication. The work concludes with a focus on global strategic communications: in the age of globalization, global economies and cross-national media ownership, chapters here provide readers with some of the most up-to-date research on international advertising, public relations and other key issues in international communications. With contributions from many of the leading scholars in the field of international media communication research, this collection presents a valuable resource for advancing knowledge and understanding of the complicated international communication phenomenon. It will be of value to upper-level undergraduates and graduate students in mass media and communication programs, and to scholars whose research focuses on global communication research.
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    New York : Oxford University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780199703210
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (204 pages)
    DDC: 303.48/40973
    Keywords: Radikaler ; Radikalismus ; USA
    Abstract: Why do people become extremists? What makes people become so dismissive of opposing views? Why is political and cultural polarization so pervasive in America? Why do groups of teenagers, investors, and corporations take unnecessary risks? What leads groups to engage in such destructive acts as terrorism and ethic cleansing?. In Going to Extremes, renowned legal scholar and best-selling author Cass Sunstein offers startling insights into why and when people gravitate toward extremism. Sunstein marshals an abundance of evidence that shows that when like-minded people talk to one another, they tend to become more extreme in their views than they were before. This point applies to such diverse groups as religious organizations, corporate boards, investment clubs, and White House officials. Sunstein introduces original research to show that when liberals are brought together to debate climate change, they end up more alarmed about climate change, while conservatives brought together to discuss same-sex unions become skeptical about same-sex unions. In courtrooms, radio stations, and chatrooms, enclaves of like-minded people are breeding ground for extreme movements. Sunstein shows that a good way to create an extremist group, or a cult of any kind, is to separate members from the rest of society, either physically or psychologically. This disturbing finding casts new light on the dangers that arise whenever people self-select into niche groups of the like-minded. Sunstein's findings help to explain such diverse phenomena as political outrage on the Internet, unanticipated "blockbusters" in the film and music industry, the success of the disability rights movement, ethnic conflict in Iraq and former Yugoslavia, and Islamic terrorism. Providing a wealth of real-world examples--sometimes entertaining, sometimes alarming-- Sunstein offers a fresh...
    Abstract: explanation of why partisanship has become so bitter and debate so rancorous in America and abroad--and of what concrete steps citizens and nations might take to halt the drift towards unjustified extremism.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203877210
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (243 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 302.23/450973
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    Keywords: Fernsehen ; Verzicht ; USA
    Abstract: Living Without the Screen provides an in-depth study of those American families and individuals who opt not to watch television, exploring the reasons behind their choices, discussing their beliefs about television, and examining the current role of television in the American family. Author Marina Krcmar answers several questions in the volume: What is television? Who are those people who reject it? What are their reasons for doing so? How do they believe their lives are different because of this choice? What impact does this choice have on media research? This volume provides a current, distinctive, and important look at how personal choices on media use are made, and how these choices reflect more broadly on media's place in today's society. A compelling exploration of the motivations and rationales for those who choose to live without television, this book is a must-read for scholars and researchers working in children and media, media literacy, sociology, family studies and related areas. It will also be of interest to anyone with questions about media usage and the choices families make regarding the role of media in their lives.
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    ISBN: 9780203875186
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (337 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 302.2/2440973
    Keywords: Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Offering the wisdom that only experience and expertise in the field can bring, this book takes a critical look into the present and the future of literacy as envisioned by leading reading researchers. The lead author of each chapter, and in some cases more than one, of the authors, is a distinguished reading researcher elected by their peers into the Reading Hall of Fame. In this book these distinguished literacy leaders extend their role as researchers to speak directly to issues of practice and policy. All chapters address the theme of literacy and the teaching of literacy as being in a constant state of change. The authors are theoretical as they describe literacy, literacy acquisition, and the teaching of literacy; they are practical as they examine the issues that classroom teachers and reading specialists engage with on a daily basis; and they are political as they advocate for informed policy at the local, state and national levels. A key message in this book is that literacy professionals must take an active role to shape change.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203866085
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (318 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Gender and History
    DDC: 306.809182/20903
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    Abstract: Examining women's property rights in different societies across the entire medieval and early modern Mediterranean, this volume introduces a unique comparative perspective to the complexities of gender relations in Muslim, Jewish, and Christian communities. Through individual case studies based on urban and rural, elite and non-elite, religious and secular communities, Across the Religious Divide presents the only nuanced history of the region that incorporates peripheral areas such as Portugal, the Aegean Islands, Dalmatia, and Albania into the central narrative. By bridging the present-day notional and cultural divide between Muslim and Judeo-Christian worlds with geographical and thematic coherence, this collection of essays by top international scholars focuses on women in courts of law and sources such as notarial records, testaments, legal commentaries, and administrative records to offer the most advanced research and illuminate real connections across boundaries of gender, religion, and culture.
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    New York : NYU Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780814733097
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (298 pages)
    DDC: 302.2345
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    Keywords: Fernsehsendung ; Satire ; Politik ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Satirical TV has become mandatory viewing for citizens wishing to make sense of the bizarre contemporary state of political life. Shifts in industry economics and audience tastes have re-made television comedy, once considered a wasteland of escapist humor, into what is arguably the most popular source of political critique. From fake news and pundit shows to animated sitcoms and mash-up videos, satire has become an important avenue for processing politics in informative and entertaining ways, and satire TV is now its own thriving, viable television genre. Satire TV examines what happens when comedy becomes political, and politics become funny. A series of original essays focus on a range of programs, from The Daily Show to South Park, Da Ali G Show to The Colbert Report, The Boondocks to Saturday Night Live, Lil' Bush to Chappelle's Show, along with Internet D.I.Y. satire and essays on British and Canadian satire. They all offer insights into what today's class of satire tells us about the current state of politics, of television, of citizenship, all the while suggesting what satire adds to the political realm that news and documentaries cannot.
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    Cary : Oxford University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780199721269
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (299 pages)
    DDC: 305.23086/9120973
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    Keywords: Migrationshintergrund ; Bildungsgang ; Kind ; Entwicklung ; Kulturvergleich ; USA
    Abstract: Immigrant Stories portrays the contexts and academic trajectories of development of three unique immigrant groups: Cambodian, Dominican and Portuguese. The children of immigrant families - or second generation youth - are the fastest growing population of school children in the US. However, very little is known about these children's academic and psychological development during middle childhood. We examine the previously under-explored intricacies of children's emerging cultural attitudes and identities, academic engagement, and academic achievement. These processes are studied alongside a myriad of factors in the family and school environment that combine to shape children's academic psychological functioning during this important period. Through a three-year longitudinal study, including interviews with teachers, parents and children, this book presents a fascinating look at the community, school, and family contexts of child development among second-generation children. Both pre-immigration and post-immigration characteristics are explored as critical factors for understanding children of immigrants' development. In the current climate of US immigration policy debate, we offer research findings that may inform educators and administrators about the sources of community strengths and challenges facing our newest immigrant generations.
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    London : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203883112
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (214 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 302.24
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    Keywords: Politische Kommunikation ; Frame ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Today's politicians and political groups devote great attention and care to how their messages are conveyed. From policy debates in Congress to advertising on the campaign trail, they carefully choose which issues to emphasize and how to discuss them in the hope of affecting the opinions and evaluations of their target audience. This groundbreaking text brings together prominent scholars from political science, communication, and psychology in a tightly focused analysis of both the origins and the real-world impact of framing. Across the chapters, the authors discuss a broad range of contemporary issues, from taxes and health care to abortion, the death penalty, and the teaching of evolution. The chapters also illustrate the wide-ranging relevance of framing for many different contexts in American politics, including public opinion, the news media, election campaigns, parties, interest groups, Congress, the presidency, and the judiciary.
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    Leiden : BRILL | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9789047427100
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: The Northern World Ser. v.No. 44
    DDC: 306.70948109
    Keywords: Geschichte 1250-1600 ; Frau ; Sexualität ; Kriminalisierung ; Norwegen ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: This book argues the continuities between the medieval and early modern in Norway in regards to extramarital sexuality and the manner in which it was criminalised and punished, as well as the position of women within the law.
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    ISBN: 9780472022199
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (331 pages)
    Series Statement: The Politics of Race and Ethnicity
    DDC: 305.9/069120973
    Keywords: Rassenpolitik ; Einwanderer ; Politisches Engagement ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Amerikanisierung ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; USA
    Abstract: How has the arrival of new racial and ethnic groups affected the political gains of long-standing minorities in the United States?.
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780472024988
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (337 pages)
    DDC: 306.0973/09034
    Keywords: Geschichte 1865-1930 ; Volkskultur ; Größe ; Wahrnehmung ; USA
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780230240872
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (300 pages)
    DDC: 304.873
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    Keywords: Einwanderung ; Soziologie ; Social policy ; USA ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This book proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of immigration. It examines four major issues informing current sociological studies of immigration: mechanisms and effects of international migration, processes of immigrants' assimilation and transnational engagements, and the adaptation patterns of the second generation.
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780230101685
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (201 pages)
    Series Statement: Future of Minority Studies
    DDC: 306.76608968073
    Keywords: Homosexueller ; Identität ; Mexikaner ; Hispanos ; Popkultur ; Culture-Study and teaching ; USA ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Through a gender, ethnicity, and sexuality lens, Pérez demonstrates that queer Chicana/o and Latina/o identities are much more prevalent in cultural production than most people think. By claiming a variety of characters and texts as queer, he expands the breadth of queer representation in cultural production.
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    College Station : Texas A&M University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781603443739
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (160 pages)
    Series Statement: Rio Grande/Río Bravo: Borderlands Culture and Traditions v.16
    DDC: 306.4/610972/1
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    Keywords: Grenzgebiet ; Latina ; Heilerin ; Medizin ; Anthropologie ; USA ; Mexiko
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    London : Pluto Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781849642828
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (296 pages)
    DDC: 973.931
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    Keywords: Geschichte 2003-2009 ; Terrorismus ; Bekämpfung ; USA ; Algerien ; Afrika
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    Ithaca : State University of New York Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780791477489
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (238 pages)
    DDC: 306.84/80973
    Keywords: Homosexuelles Paar ; Demographie ; USA
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    Jackson : University Press of Mississippi | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781604732177
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (153 pages)
    DDC: 796.3570973
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    Keywords: Geschichte 20. Jh. ; Schwarze ; Frau ; Soziale Situation ; USA
    Abstract: Smart Ball follows Major League Baseball's history as a sport, a domestic monopoly, a neocolonial power, and an international business. MLB's challenge has been to market its popular mythology as the national pastime with pastoral, populist roots while addressing the management challenges of competing with other sports and diversions in a burgeoning global economy. Baseball researcher Robert F. Lewis II argues that MLB for years abused its legal insulation and monopoly status through arrogant treatment of its fans and players and static management of its business. As its privileged position eroded in the face of increased competition from other sports and union resistance, it awakened to its perilous predicament and began aggressively courting athletes and fans at home and abroad. Using a detailed marketing analysis and applying the principles of a "smart power" model, the author assesses MLB's progression as a global business brand that continues to appeal to a consumer's sense of an idyllic past in the midst of a fast-paced, and often violent, present.
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    Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780801892325
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (416 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    DDC: 303.48/3
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    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte ; Technik ; USA
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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780816667772
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (273 pages)
    Series Statement: Cultural Studies of the Americas
    DDC: 306.76/6089687295073
    Keywords: Puerto-ricanischer Einwanderer ; Homosexueller ; Soziale Situation ; USA
    Abstract: Exploring cultural expressions of Puerto Rican queer migration from the Caribbean to New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and San Francisco, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes analyzes how artists have portrayed their lives and the discrimination they have faced. Proposing a radical new conceptualization of Puerto Rican migration, he reveals how sexuality has shaped and defined the Puerto Rican experience in the United States.
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    Boston : Beacon Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780807095966
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (241 pages)
    DDC: 302.5/45097309051
    Keywords: Einsamkeit ; USA
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    New York : NYU Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780814785256
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (236 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.4/613
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    Keywords: Körperbild ; Fitnesstraining ; Geschlechterrolle ; Anzeigenwerbung ; USA
    Abstract: Are you ripped? Do you need to work on your abs? Do you know your ideal body weight? Your body fat index? Increasingly, Americans are being sold on a fitness ideal not just thin but toned, not just muscular but cut that is harder and harder to reach. In Body Panic, Shari L. Dworkin and Faye Linda Wachs ask why. How did these particular body types come to be "fit"? And how is it that having an unfit, or "bad," body gets conflated with being an unfit, or "bad," citizen? Dworkin and Wachs head to the newsstand for this study, examining ten years worth of men's and women's health and fitness magazines to determine the ways in which bodies are "made" in today's culture. They dissect the images, the workouts, and the ideology being sold, as well as the contemporary links among health, morality, citizenship, and identity that can be read on these pages. While women and body image are often studied together, Body Panic considers both women's and men's bodies side-by-side and over time in order to offer a more in-depth understanding of this pervasive cultural trend.
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    El Paso : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (257 pages)
    DDC: 305.8968/7291073
    Keywords: Schwarze ; Rassismus ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; USA ; Kuba
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    Cambridge : The MIT Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780262274838
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (400 pages)
    DDC: 305.800973
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1886-2005 ; Rassentheorie ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Quelle
    Abstract: A collection of wide-ranging primary source material that tracks the shifting relationships between race and science through two centuries of American history.
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    Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9789401206570
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (358 pages)
    Series Statement: Spatial Practices: An Interdisciplinary Series in Cultural History, Geography and Literature, 6 v.v. 6
    DDC: 304.2097309154
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Literatur ; Wildnis ; Wüste ; USA
    Abstract: This study explores the ways in which the desert, as topographical space and cultural presence, shaped and reshaped concepts and images of America. Once a territory outside the geopolitical and cultural borders of the United States, the deserts of the West and Southwest have since emerged as canonical American landscapes. Drawing on the critical concepts of American studies and on questions and problems raised in recent debates on ecocriticism, The Poetics and Politics of the Desert investigates the spatial rhetoric of America as it developed in view of arid landscapes since the mid-nineteenth century. Gersdorf argues that the integration of the desert into America catered to the entire spectrum of ideological and political responses to the history and culture of the US, maintaining that the Americanization of this landscape was and continues to be staged within the idiomatic parameters and in reaction to the discursive authority of four spatial metaphors: garden, wilderness, Orient, and heterotopia.
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    Cary : Oxford University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780199739523
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (321 pages)
    DDC: 305.809
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    Keywords: Kulturvergleich ; Kulturelle Identität ; USA ; Europa
    Abstract: There is much heated rhetoric about the widening gulf between Europe and America. According to the American right, Europeans are lazy, defeatist and irreligious, while Americans are entrepreneurial, optimistic, and pious. And according to Europeans, America is harsh, dominated by the market, crime-ridden, violent, and sharp-elbowed. But are the US and Europe so different? Peter Baldwin, one of the world's leading historians of comparative social policy, thinks not, and in this bracingly argued but remarkably informed polemic, he lays out how similar the two continents really are. Drawing on the latest evidence from sources such as the United Nations, the World Bank, IMF, OECD and other international organizations, Baldwin offers a fascinating comparison of the United States and Europe, looking at the latest statistics on the economy, crime, health care, education and culture, religion, the environment, and much more. It is a book filled with surprising revelations. For most categories of crime, for instance, America is safe and peaceful by European standards. But the biggest surprise is that, though there are many differences between America and Europe, in almost all cases, these differences are no greater than the differences among European nations. Europe and the US are, in fact, part of a common, big-tent grouping. America is not Sweden, for sure. But nor is Italy Sweden, nor France, nor even Germany. And who says that Sweden is Europe? Anymore than Vermont is America? Writing with flair and armed with an impressive stock of evidence, Baldwin paints a truly eye-opening portrait of Europe and America. Anyone interested in American-European relations--or simply curious about American and European society--will want to read this revelatory volume.
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    Cambridge : Harvard University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780674020191
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (340 pages)
    DDC: 306.874
    Keywords: Familie ; Erziehung ; Kind ; Eltern ; USA
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    München : Redline Verlag | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9783864142024
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (168 pages)
    DDC: 306.44081999999997
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    Keywords: Frau ; Schlagfertigkeit ; Berufserfolg ; Ratgeber
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    Champaign : University of Illinois Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780252090776
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (261 pages)
    Series Statement: Statue of Liberty Ellis Island
    DDC: 305.89451/073
    Keywords: Geschichte 1890-1945 ; Italienischer Einwanderer ; Soziale Situation ; Soziolinguistik ; USA ; Electronic books
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    Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780801895364
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (269 pages)
    DDC: 305.310973/09033
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1750-1800 ; Männerfreundschaft ; USA
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    Ithaca : Cornell University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780801459047
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (288 pages)
    DDC: 306.81/520973
    Keywords: Geschichte 1775-1783 ; Lediger ; Kultur ; USA
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    Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780801897955
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (385 pages)
    Series Statement: Gender Relations in the American Experience
    DDC: 305.38/96920907309034
    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Mann ; Geschlechterrolle ; Männlichkeit ; Soziale Identität ; Kultur ; Männerbild ; USA
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    Bloomington : Indiana University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780253003461
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (377 pages)
    DDC: 305.48/697096626
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    Keywords: Frau ; Islam ; Gesellschaft ; Niger
    Abstract: In the small town of Dogondoutchi, Niger, Malam Awal, a charismatic Sufi preacher, was recruited by local Muslim leaders to denounce the practices of reformist Muslims. Malam Awal's message has been viewed as a mixed blessing by Muslim women who have seen new definitions of Islam and Muslim practice impact their place and role in society. This study follows the career of Malam Awal and documents the engagement of women in the religious debates that are refashioning their everyday lives. Adeline Masquelier reveals how these women have had to define Islam on their own terms, especially as a practice that governs education, participation in prayer, domestic activities, wedding customs, and who wears the veil and how. Masquelier's richly detailed narrative presents new understandings of what it means to be a Muslim woman in Africa today.
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    ISBN: 9780813546513
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (321 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.0973/09045
    Keywords: Diskriminierung ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Geschlechterrolle ; Soziale Schichtung ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The United States is known as a "melting pot" yet this mix tends to be volatile and contributes to a long history of oppression, racism, and bigotry. Emerging Intersections, an anthology of ten previously unpublished essays, looks at the problems of inequality and oppression from new angles and promotes intersectionality as an interpretive tool that can be utilized to better understand the ways in which race, class, gender, ethnicity, and other dimensions of difference shape our lives today. The book showcases innovative contributions that expand our understanding of how inequality affects people of color, demonstrates the ways public policies reinforce existing systems of inequality, and shows how research and teaching using an intersectional perspective compels scholars to become agents of change within institutions. By offering practical applications for using intersectional knowledge, Emerging Intersections will help bring us one step closer to achieving positive institutional change and social justice.
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    New Haven : Yale University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780300156003
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (265 pages)
    DDC: 331.5/440973
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    Keywords: Landwirtschaft ; Einwanderer ; Einwanderungspolitik ; USA
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    New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780813548531
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (220 pages)
    Series Statement: New Directions in International Studies
    DDC: 305.48/9631098
    Keywords: Frau ; Sexualverhalten ; Pornografie ; Feminismus ; Postmoderne ; Lateinamerika
    Abstract: Moving beyond the "main dishes" of traditional literary works, Side Dishes offers a provocative and delicious new understanding of Latin American women's authorship and activism. The book illuminates a wealth of creative and intellectual work by Latin American womenùeditors, directors, cartoonists, academics, performance artists, and comediansùand explores them in light of their treatment of women's sexuality. Side Dishes considers feminist pornography and literary representations of masturbation, bisexuality, lesbianism, and sexual fantasies; the treatment of lust in stand-up comedy and science fiction; critical issues in leading feminist journals; and portrayals of sexuality in four contemporary Latin American films. Melissa A. Fitch concludes with a look at the rise of women's and gender studies programs in Latin America.
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    Chicago : University of Chicago Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780226903347
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (328 pages)
    Series Statement: National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report
    DDC: 305.260973
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    Abstract: The original essays and commentary in this volume-the third in a series reporting the results of the NBER Economics of Aging Program-address issues that are of particular importance to the well-being of individuals as they age and to a society at large that is composed increasingly of older persons. The contributors examine social security reform, including an analysis of the Japanese system; present the startling finding that the vast majority of people choose the wrong accumulation strategies for their pension plans; explore the continuing consequences of the decline in support of parents by children in the postwar period; investigate the relation between nursing home stays and the source of payment for the care; and offer initial findings on the implications of differences between developed and developing countries for understanding aging issues and determining appropriate directions for research.
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    Chicago : University of Chicago Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780226903262
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (408 pages)
    Series Statement: National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report
    DDC: 305.26
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    Abstract: This companion volume to The Economics of Aging (1989) examines the economic consequences of an increasingly older population, focusing on the housing and living arrangements of the elderly, as well as their labor force participation and retirement.
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    ISBN: 9780754686422
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (218 pages)
    Series Statement: Gender in a Global/Local World
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    Keywords: Frau ; Islam ; Muslimin ; Weibliche Intellektuelle ; Aktivistin ; Transnationalisierung ; Identität ; Transnationale Politik ; Nichtstaatliche internationale Organisation ; Geschlechterrolle
    Abstract: When Muslim women from diverse national and cultural contexts meet one another through transnational dialogue and networking, what happens to their sense of identity and social agency? Addressing this question, Meena Sharify-Funk encountered women activists and intellectuals in North America, the Middle East, South Asia and Southeast Asia - women whose lives and visions have become linked by 'the transnational' despite their differing circumstances and intellectual backgrounds. The resultant work provides a rich and cliché-bursting account of women's reflections on a wide range of topics including: the status of women in Islam, the role of women as interpreters of religious norms, the relationship between secular and religious forms of self-identification, perceptions of Islamic-Western relations, experiences of marginalization, and opportunities for empowerment. Giving careful attention both to common threads in Muslim women's experiences and to the unique voices of remarkable women, this is a compelling account of conversations that are bringing new energy and dynamism into women's activism in a world of collapsing distances.
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    Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780313364273
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (345 pages)
    Series Statement: Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality
    DDC: 306.90973
    Keywords: Tod ; USA
    Abstract: In the post-9/11 moments, months, and years, America has come to develop a new mortality awareness. Death, and our understanding that it can be sudden and is certainly inevitable, is being talked about more than ever before. As the team in this volume shows through groundbreaking research, surveys, interviews, and vignettes, death awareness has grown strong, and has changed the way we think and act, not only in relation to ourselves and our loved ones, but in relation to society overall. Those changes include nuances from increases in the number and size of college courses focused on death, rapid growth of death books, death photography, television shows dealing with death, as well as the recording and dissemination of death videos from those that show family members dying peacefully to the execution of terrorists or their captives. Impromptu street creations to memorialize common people who have died have emerged, as have new ways to dispose of dead bodies, including blasting ashes into space or placing them under the sea or giving them a green resting place in a natural forest. Our means of grieving, coping, and beliefs about afterlife have been altered, too. This work also includes a look at cosmologists and physicists who have revised their theories on humanity's legacy when our world meets a fateful end, who propose a means by which mankind's achievements might survive indefinitely, transporting from one universe to another without violating the known laws of physics. This book will intrigue all with an interest in considering not only death and how 9/11 changed America's views on and beliefs about it, but also considering what could lie beyond that end for all of us.
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    Philadelphia : Temple University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781592138302
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (307 pages)
    DDC: 305.4209679
    Keywords: Frau ; Sozialer Wandel ; Politische Bewegung ; Frauenbewegung ; Moçambique ; Nicaragua
    Abstract: In Women's Activism and Feminist Agency in Mozambique and Nicaragua, Jennifer Leigh Disney investigates the contours of women's emancipation outside the framework of liberal democracy and a market economy. She interviews 146 women and men in the two countries to explore the comparative contribution of women's participation in subsistence and informal economies, political parties and civil society organizations. She also discusses military struggles against colonialism and imperialism in fostering feminist agency to provide a fascinating look at how each movement evolved and how it changed in a post-revolutionary climate.
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    ISBN: 9780275997175
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (304 pages)
    Series Statement: Non-Series
    DDC: 395.5/20973
    Keywords: Management ; Unternehmenskultur ; Interkulturelles Management ; USA
    Abstract: Like it or not, every business--even one conducted from the kitchen table--is global. No matter the industry, employees now routinely travel to other countries or interact with foreign customers, vendors, or fellow employees. Or they conduct business over the phone, via e-mail, or through video links. As a result, they have to understand international customs and etiquette or risk losing customers or botching business relations. And understanding business customs in other cultures isn't merely playing good defense--it often leads to new products or service enhancements that help an enterprise grow. In Passport to Success, Jeanette Martin and Lillian Chaney apply their expertise in business etiquette, training, and intercultural communications to present a practical guide to conducting business successfully around the world.Each chapter in this book presents in-depth information on the business environment and culture in the top twenty trading partners of the United States: Canada, Mexico, Japan, China, United Kingdom, Germany, South Korea, Netherlands, France, Singapore, Taiwan, Belgium, Australia, Brazil, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Malaysia, Italy, India, and Israel. Chapters contain both practical tips and illustrative examples, and the book concludes with a listing of resources (books, magazines, organizations, and Web sites) for additional information. In addition, Passport to Success contains useful overview material that will help business people plan a trip abroad or a campaign to win customers in another country. Besides trade statistics and information on global trade agreements, readers will find information on using the Internet productively to conduct or seek business, how women can succeed in countries with traditional, male-oriented business cultures, how to build cross-cultural relationships, and ways language can enhance--or...
    Abstract: obstruct--business dealings. Every businessperson is now a player in the global market for goods and services. This book provides valuable tips that will help people avoid missteps and increase their sales and personal success when dealing with counterparts in other countries.
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    Philadelphia : Temple University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781592136933
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (328 pages)
    DDC: 305.800973
    Keywords: Ethnische Beziehungen ; Pluralistische Gesellschaft ; Ethnizität ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The result of work initiated by the Harvard Civil Rights Project, this collection provides an excellent overview of the contemporary racial and ethnic terrain in the United States. The well-respected contributors to Twenty-First Century Color Lines combine theoretical and empirical perspectives, answering fundamental questions about the present and future of multiracialism in the United States: How are racial and ethnic identities promoted and defended across a spectrum of social, geopolitical and cultural contexts? What do two generations of demographic and social shifts around issues of race look like "on the ground?" What are the socio-cultural implications of changing demographics in the U.S.? And what do the answers to these questions portend for our multiracial future? This illuminating book addresses issues of work, education, family life and nationality for different ethnic groups, including Asians and Latinos as well as African Americans and whites. Such diversity, gathered here in one volume, provides new perspectives on ethnicity in a society marked by profound racial transformations. Contributors: Luis A. Avilés, Juan Carlos Martínez-Cruzado, Nilanjana Dasgupta, Christina Gómez, Gerald Gurin, Patricia Gurin, Anthony Kwame Harrison, Maria-Rosario Jackson, John Matlock, Nancy McArdle, John Mollenkopf, john a. powell, Doris Ramírez, David Roediger, Anayra Santory-Jorge, Jiannbin Lee Shiao, Mia H. Tuan, Katrina Wade-Golden and the editors.
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    Chicago : University of Chicago Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780226869087
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (358 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion
    DDC: 305.800973
    Keywords: Ethnische Beziehungen ; Inter-Gruppenbeziehung ; USA
    Abstract: It is a perennial question: how should Americans deal with racial and ethnic diversity? More than 400 communities across the country have attempted to answer it by organizing discussions among diverse volunteers in an attempt to improve race relations. In Talking about Race, Katherine Cramer Walsh takes an eye-opening look at this strategy to reveal the reasons behind the method and the effects it has in the cities and towns that undertake it.With extensive observations of community dialogues, interviews with the discussants, and sophisticated analysis of national data, Walsh shows that while meeting organizers usually aim to establish common ground, participants tend to leave their discussions with a heightened awareness of differences in perspective and experience. Drawing readers into these intense conversations between ordinary Americans working to deal with diversity and figure out the meaning of citizenship in our society, she challenges many preconceptions about intergroup relations and organized public talk. Finally disputing the conventional wisdom that unity is the only way forward, Walsh prescribes a practical politics of difference that compels us to reassess the place of face-to-face discussion in civic life and the critical role of conflict in deliberative democracy.
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    Chicago : University of Chicago Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780226471938
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (275 pages)
    DDC: 302.23/44097309043
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1930-1939 ; Hörfunksendung ; USA
    Abstract: Orson Welles's greatest breakthrough into the popular consciousness occurred in 1938, three years before Citizen Kane, when his War of the Worlds radio broadcast succeeded so spectacularly that terrified listeners believed they were hearing a genuine report of an alien invasion-a landmark in the history of radio's powerful relationship with its audience. In Radio's America, Bruce Lenthall documents the enormous impact radio had on the lives of Depression-era Americans and charts the formative years of our modern mass culture. Many Americans became alienated from their government and economy in the twentieth century, and Lenthall explains that radio's appeal came from its capability to personalize an increasingly impersonal public arena. His depictions of such figures as proto-Fascist Charles Coughlin and medical quack John Brinkley offer penetrating insight into radio's use as a persuasive tool, and Lenthall's book is unique in its exploration of how ordinary Americans made radio a part of their lives. Television inherited radio's cultural role, and as the voting tallies for American Idol attest, broadcasting continues to occupy a powerfully intimate place in American life. Radio's America reveals how the connections between power and mass media began.
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    Westport : ABC-CLIO | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780313087066
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (214 pages)
    Series Statement: Women's Roles in American History
    DDC: 305.40973/09032
    Keywords: Geschichte 1600-1699 ; Frau ; Geschlechterrolle ; Soziale Situation ; USA
    Abstract: In Colonial America, the lives of white immigrant, black slave, and American Indian women intersected. Economic, religious, social, and political forces all combined to induce and promote European colonization and the growth of slavery and the slave trade during this period. This volume provides the essential overview of American women's lives in the seventeenth century, as the dominant European settlers established their patriarchy. Women were essential to the existence of a new patriarchal society, most importantly because they were necessary for its reproduction. In addition to their roles as wives and mothers, Colonial women took care of the house and household by cooking, preserving food, sewing, spinning, tending gardens, taking care of sick or injured members of the household, and many other tasks. Students and general readers will learn about women's roles in the family, women and the law, women and immigration, women's work, women and religion, women and war, and women and education. literature, and recreation. The narrative chapters in this volume focus on women, particularly white women, within the eastern region of the current United States, the site of the first colonies. Chapter 1 discusses women's roles within the family and household and how women's experiences in the various colonies differed. Chapter 2 considers women and the law and roles in courts and as victims of crime. Chapter 3 looks at women and immigration-those who came with families or as servants or slaves. Women's work is the subject of Chapter 4. The focus is work within the home, preparing food, sewing, taking care of children, and making household goods, or as businesswomen or midwives. Women and religion are discussed in Chapter 5. Chapter 6 examines women's role in war. Women's education is one focus of Chapter 7. Few Colonial women could read but most women did...
    Abstract: receive an education in the arts of housewifery. Chapter 7 also looks at women's contributions to literature and their leisure time. Few women were free to pursue literary endeavors, but many expressed their creativity through handiwork. A chronology, selected bibliography, and historical illustrations accompany the text.
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    ISBN: 9783484970632
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Beihefte zum language and culture atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry Band 5
    DDC: 306.4408992404
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    Keywords: Jiddisch ; Historische Sprachwissenschaft ; Europa ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: At eydes.de, the vast archive of The Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry, with its 5000 hours of recorded testimony in Yiddish about Ashkenazic society in Europe, can now be accessed and researched via the Internet. In 18 contributions scholars comment on the collection's research potentials, discuss data and methodology and throw new light on the interactions between Yiddish and coterritorial cultures.
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    ISBN: 9781592139569
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (270 pages)
    DDC: 304.8/40729
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1950-2008 ; Internationale Migration ; Postkolonialismus ; Karibik ; USA ; Westeuropa ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Caribbean Migration to Western Europe and the United States features a diverse group of scholars from across academic disciplines studying the transnational paths of Caribbean migration. How has the colonial path of the Caribbean influenced migration with regard to power relations, ethnic identities and transnational processes? Through a series of case studies, the contributors to this volume examine the experiences of Caribbean immigrants to Spain, France, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands as well as the United States. They show the demographic, socioeconomic, political and cultural impact migrants have, as well as their role in the development of transnational social fields. Caribbean Migration to Western Europe and the United States also examines how contrasting discourses of democracy and racism, xenophobia and globalization shape issues pertaining to citizenship and identity. Contributors: Elizabeth Aranda, Mary Chamberlain, Michel Giraud, Lisa Maya Knauer, John R. Logan, Monique Milia-Marie-Luce, Laura Oso Casas, Livio Sansone, Nina Glick Schiller,Charles (Wenquan) Zhang and the editors.
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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780816656691
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (312 pages)
    DDC: 305.8
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    Keywords: Nationalcharakter ; Nationalismus ; Gruppenidentität ; USA
    Abstract: From Thomas Jefferson to John Rawls, justice has been at the center of America's self-image and national creed. At the same time, for many of its peoples-from African slaves and European immigrants to women and the poor-the American experience has been defined by injustice: oppression, disenfranchisement, violence, and prejudice. In Identity and the Failure of America, John Michael explores the contradictions between a mythic national identity promising justice to all and the realities of a divided, hierarchical, and frequently iniquitous history and social order. Through a series of insightful readings, Michael analyzes such cultural moments as the epic dramatization of the tension between individual ambition and communal complicity in Moby-Dick, attempts to effect social change through sympathy in the novels of Lydia Marie Child and Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson's antislavery activism and Frederick Douglass's long fight for racial equity, and the divisive figures of John Brown and Nat Turner in American letters and memory. Focusing on exemplary instances when the nature of the United States as an essentially conflicted nation turned to force, Michael ultimately posits the development of a more cosmopolitan American identity, one that is more fully and justly imagined in response to the nation's ethical failings at home and abroad. John Michael is professor of English and of visual and cultural studies at the University of Rochester. He is the author of Anxious Intellects: Academic Professionals, Public Intellectuals, and Enlightenment Values and Emerson and Skepticism: The Cipher of the World.
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    Oxford : Wiley | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781405153164
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (306 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 302.23082
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1970-2005 ; Medien ; Frau
    Abstract: Women and Media is a thoughtful cross-cultural examination of the ways in which women have worked inside and outside mainstream media organizations since the 1970s. Rooted in a series of interviews with women media workers and activists collected specifically for this book, the text provides an original insight into women's experiences. Explains the ways that women have organized their internal and external campaigns to improve media content (or working conditions) for women, and established womenowned media to gain a public voice. Identifies key issues and developments in feminist media critiques and interventions over the last 30 years, as these relate to production, representation and consumption. Functions as both a research case study and a teaching text.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203182093
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (173 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Comedia
    DDC: 304.8
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    Keywords: Internationale Migration ; Migration ; Kulturelle Identität ; USA
    Abstract: In Migrancy, Culture, Identity, Iain Chambers unravels how our sense of place and identity is realised as we move through myriad languages, worlds and histories. The author explores the uncharted impact of cultural diversity on today's world, from the 'realistic' eye of the painter to the 'scientific' approach of the cultural anthropologist or the critical distance of the historian; from the computer screen to the Walkman and 'World Music'. Migrancy, Culture and Identity takes us on a journey into the disturbance and dislocation of culture and identity that faces all of us to explore how migration, marginality and homelessness have disrupted the West's faith in linear progress and rational thinking, undermining our knowledge, history and cultural identity.
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    Philadelphia : Temple University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781592135868
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (191 pages)
    DDC: 305.895/1073001
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    Keywords: Asiaten ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Sozialer Austausch ; Globalisierung ; USA
    Abstract: Economic Citizens argues that Asians have been traditionally imagined as the threat of capitalism gone awry and demonstrates that the logic of economic exchange has been an overlooked but critical means for Asian Americans to negotiate political and cultural equivalence.
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    Durham : Duke University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780822389101
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (232 pages)
    Series Statement: a differences book
    DDC: 305.4
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    Keywords: Frauenforschung ; Frau ; Geschlechterforschung ; Geschlechtergeschichte ; Wissenschaftstheorie ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Essays on the future of women's studies as an academic discipline.
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    Ithaca : Cornell University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780801460128
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (320 pages)
    DDC: 306.87420973
    Keywords: Vaterschaft ; Recht ; Geschiedener Vater ; USA
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    Champaign : University of Illinois Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780252092961
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (249 pages)
    DDC: 306.3/62
    Keywords: Geschichte 1980-2008 ; Kultur ; Film ; Literatur ; Sklaverei ; Sklaverei ; USA
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780511428142
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (190 pages)
    DDC: 306.44
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    Keywords: Geschlechtsunterschied ; Sprache ; Frau ; Diskriminierung ; Sprachverhalten ; Sexismus
    Abstract: A fresh and critical discussion of sexism in language.
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    Philadelphia : Temple University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781592135622
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (248 pages)
    DDC: 306.0973
    Keywords: Konsumgesellschaft ; USA
    Abstract: What does it mean to be a "citizen" today, in an age of unbridled consumerism, terrorism, militarism, and multinationalism? In this passionate and dazzling book, Toby Miller dares to answer this question with the depth of thought it deserves. Fast-moving and far-ranging, Cultural Citizenship blends fact, theory, observation, and speculation in a way that continually startles and engages the reader. Although he is unabashedly liberal in his politics, Miller is anything but narrow minded. He looks at media coverage of September 11th and the Iraq invasion as well as "infotainment"-such as Food and Weather channels-to see how U.S. TV is serving its citizens as part of "the global commodity chain." Repeatedly revealing the crushing grip of the invisible hand of television, Miller shows us what we have given up in our drive to acquire and to "belong." For far too long, "cultural citizenship" has been a concept invoked without content. With the publication of this book, it has at last been given flesh and substance.
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    New York, NY : Berghahn Books | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781845458577
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (336 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Studies on Civil Society v.4
    DDC: 300
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1700-2000 ; Gleichberechtigung ; Bürgerliche Gesellschaft ; Frau ; Diskriminierung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Civil society and civic engagement have increasingly become topics of discussion at the national and international level. The editors of this volume ask, does the concept of "civil society" include gender equality and gender justice? Or, to frame the question differently, is civil society a feminist concept? Conversely, does feminism need the concept of civil society? This important volume offers both a revised gendered history of civil society and a program for making it more egalitarian in the future. An interdisciplinary group of internationally known authors investigates the relationship between public and private in the discourses and practices of civil societies; the significance of the family for the project of civil society; the relation between civil society, the state, and different forms of citizenship; and the complex connection between civil society, gendered forms of protest and nongovernmental movements. While often critical of historical instantiations of civil society, all the authors nonetheless take seriously the potential inherent in civil society, particularly as it comes to influence global politics. They demand, however, an expansion of both the concept and project of civil society in order to make its political opportunities available to all.
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    Cary : Oxford University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780199721405
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (303 pages)
    DDC: 306.60973
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    Abstract: How can we grasp the complex religious lives of individuals such as Peter, an ordained Protestant minister who has little attachment to any church but centers his highly committed religious practice on peace-and-justice activism? Or Hannah, a devout Jew whose rich spiritual life revolves around her women's spirituality group and the daily practice of meditative dance? Or Laura, who identifies as Catholic but rarely attends Mass, and engages daily in Buddhist-style meditation at her home altar arranged with symbols of Mexican American popular religion? Diverse religious practices such as these have long baffled scholars, whose research often starts with the assumption that individuals commit, or refuse to commit, to an entire institutionally framed package of beliefs and practices. Meredith McGuire points the way forward toward a new way of understanding religion. She argues that scholars must study religion not as it is defined by religious organizations, but as it is actually lived in people's everyday lives. Drawing on her own extensive fieldwork, as well as recent work by others, McGuire explores the many, seemingly mundane, ways that individuals practice their religions and develop their spiritual lives. By examining the many eclectic and creative practices -- of body, mind, emotion, and spirit -- that have been invisible to researchers, she offers a fuller and more nuanced understanding of contemporary religion.
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    New York : Columbia University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780231513111
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (242 pages)
    DDC: 305.310973
    Keywords: Mann ; Mann ; Massenkultur ; Männlichkeit ; USA
    Abstract: Adam Sandler movies, HBO's Entourage, and such magazines as Maxim and FHM all trade in and appeal to one character& mdash;the modern boy-man. Addicted to video games, comic books, extreme sports, and dressing down, the boy-man would rather devote an afternoon to Grand Theft Auto than plan his next career move. He would rather prolong the hedonistic pleasures of youth than embrace the self-sacrificing demands of adulthood. When did maturity become the ultimate taboo? Men have gone from idolizing Cary Grant to aping Hugh Grant, shunning marriage and responsibility well into their twenties and thirties. Gary Cross, renowned cultural historian, identifies the boy-man and his habits, examining the attitudes and practices of three generations to make sense of this gradual but profound shift in American masculinity. Cross matches the rise of the American boy-man to trends in twentieth-century advertising, popular culture, and consumerism, and he locates the roots of our present crisis in the vague call for a new model of leadership that, ultimately, failed to offer a better concept of maturity. Cross does not blame the young or glorify the past. He finds that men of the "Greatest Generation" might have embraced their role as providers but were confused by the contradictions and expectations of modern fatherhood. Their uncertainty gave birth to the Beats and men who indulged in childhood hobbies and boyish sports. Rather than fashion a new manhood, baby-boomers held onto their youth and, when that was gone, embraced Viagra. Without mature role models to emulate or rebel against, Generation X turned to cynicism and sensual intensity, and the media fed on this longing, transforming a life stage into a highly desirable lifestyle. Arguing that contemporary American culture undermines both conservative ideals of male maturity and the liberal values of...
    Abstract: community and responsibility, Cross concludes with a proposal for a modern marriage of personal desire and ethical adulthood., reviewing a previous edition or volume.
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    New York : NYU Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780814762523
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (254 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.800973
    Keywords: Hispanos ; Asiaten ; Ethnische Identität ; Einstellung ; Rassismus ; Öffentliche Meinung ; USA
    Abstract: The divide over race is usually framed as one over Black and White. Sociologist Eileen O'Brien is interested in that middle terrain, what sits in the ever-increasing gray area she dubbed the racial middle. The Racial Middle, tells the story of the other racial and ethnic groups in America, mainly Latinos and Asian Americans, two of the largest and fastest-growing minorities in the United States. Using dozens of in-depth interviews with people of various ethnic and generational backgrounds, Eileen O'Brien challenges the notion that, to fit into American culture, the only options available to Latinos and Asian Americans are either to become white or to become brown. Instead, she offers a wholly unique analysis of Latinos and Asian Americans own distinctive experiences-those that aren't typically White nor Black. Though living alongside Whites and Blacks certainly frames some of their own identities and interpretations of race, O'Brien keenly observes that these groups struggles with discrimination, their perceived isolation from members of other races, and even how they define racial justice, are all significant realities that inform their daily lives and, importantly, influence their opportunities for advancement in society. A refreshing and lively approach to understanding race and ethnicity in the twenty-first century, The Racial Middle gives voice to Latinos and Asian-Americans place in this country's increasingly complex racial mosaic.
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    Athens : University of Georgia Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780820337258
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (465 pages)
    Edition: 3rd ed.
    Series Statement: United States and the Americas
    DDC: 303.48/271073 22
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    Keywords: Außenpolitik ; Kanada ; USA
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    Champaign : University of Illinois Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780252091285
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (241 pages)
    DDC: 306.7082/09730904
    Keywords: Weibliche Jugend ; Sexualerziehung ; Unterricht ; USA
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    Jackson : University Press of Mississippi | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781617030468
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (261 pages)
    DDC: 306.4/830973
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1916-2002 ; Sport ; Hispanos ; Schwarze ; Rassismus ; USA
    Abstract: With essays by Ron Briley, Michael Ezra, Sarah K. Fields, Billy Hawkins, Jorge Iber, Kurt Kemper, Michael E. Lomax, Samuel O. Regalado, Richard Santillan, and Maureen Smith This anthology explores the intersection of race, ethnicity, and sports and analyzes the forces that shaped the African American and Latino sports experience in post-World War II America. Contributors reveal that sports often reinforced dominant ideas about race and racial supremacy but that at other times sports became a platform for addressing racial and social injustices. The African American sports experience represented the continuation of the ideas of Black Nationalism--racial solidarity, black empowerment, and a determination to fight against white racism. Three of the essayists discuss the protest at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. In football, baseball, basketball, boxing, and track and field, African American athletes moved toward a position of group strength, establishing their own values and simultaneously rejecting the cultural norms of whites. Among Latinos, athletic achievement inspired community celebrations and became a way to express pride in ethnic and religious heritages as well as a diversion from the work week. Sports was a means by which leadership and survival tactics were developed and used in the political arena and in the fight for justice.Michael E. Lomax is associate professor of health and sport studies at the University of Iowa and the author of Black Baseball Entrepreneurs, 1860-1901: Operating by Any Means Necessary.Kenneth L. Shropshire is David W. Hauck Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and director of the school's Sports Business initiative.
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    Boulder : Westview Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780786731794
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (597 pages)
    Edition: 3rd ed.
    DDC: 305.5690973
    Keywords: Armut ; Gruppe ; Soziale Ungleichheit ; USA
    Abstract: Author Jay MacLeod 's classic ethnography-a defining work on the cycle of social reproduction and inequality as lived through the young men from the Clarendon Heights housing project-now includes a third section that continues the lives of the original Brothers and Hallway Hangers through new interviews and analysis.
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    New York : Columbia University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780231512084
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (290 pages)
    DDC: 303.48/24017492709032
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1578-1798 ; Araber ; Europabild ; Arabische Staaten ; Europa ; Quelle
    Abstract: Traveling to archives in Tunisia, Morocco, France, and England, with visits to Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Spain, Nabil Matar assembles a rare history of Europe's rise to power as seen through the eyes of those who were later subjugated by it. Many historians of the Middle East believe Arabs and Muslims had no interest in Europe during this period of Western discovery and empire, but in fact these groups were very much engaged with the naval and industrial development, politics, and trade of European Christendom. Beginning in 1578 with a major Moroccan victory over a Portuguese invading army, Matar surveys this early modern period, in which Europeans and Arabs often shared common political, commercial, and military goals. Matar concentrates on how Muslim captives, ransomers, traders, envoys, travelers, and rulers pursued those goals while transmitting to the nonprint cultures of North Africa their knowledge of the peoples and societies of Spain, France, Britain, Holland, Italy, and Malta. From the first non-European description of Queen Elizabeth I to early accounts of Florence and Pisa in Arabic, from Tunisian descriptions of the Morisco expulsion in 1609 to the letters of a Moroccan Armenian ambassador in London, the translations of the book's second half draw on the popular and elite sources that were available to Arabs in the early modern period. Letters from male and female captives in Europe, chronicles of European naval attacks and the taqayid (newspaper) reports on Muslim resistance, and descriptions of opera and quinine appear here in English for the first time. Matar notes that the Arabs of the Maghrib and the Mashriq were eager to engage Christendom, despite wars and rivalries, and hoped to establish routes of trade and alliances through treaties and royal marriages. However, the rise of an intolerant and exclusionary Christianity and...
    Abstract: the explosion of European military technology brought these advances to an end. In conclusion, Matar details the decline of Arab-Islamic power and the rise of Britain and France.
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    New York : NYU Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780814790076
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (390 pages)
    Series Statement: Nation of Nations
    DDC: 304.8/7210730904
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    Keywords: Mexikaner ; Grenzgebiet ; Migration ; Kulturpolitik ; USA
    Abstract: Winner of the 2009 Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association 2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Migrant Imaginaries explores the transnational movements of Mexican migrants in pursuit of labor and civil rights in the United States from the 1920s onward. Working through key historical moments such as the 1930s, the Chicano Movement, and contemporary globalization and neoliberalism, Alicia Schmidt Camacho examines the relationship between ethnic Mexican expressive culture and the practices sustaining migrant social movements. Combining sustained historical engagement with theoretical inquiries, she addresses how struggles for racial and gender equity, cross-border unity, and economic justice have defined the Mexican presence in the United States since 1910. Schmidt Camacho covers a range of archives and sources, including migrant testimonials and songs, Amrico Parede's last published novel, The Shadow, the film Salt of the Earth, the foundational manifestos of El Movimiento, Richard Rodriguez's memoirs, narratives by Marisela Norte and Rosario Sanmiguel, and testimonios of Mexican women workers and human rights activists, as well as significant ethnographic research. Throughout, she demonstrates how Mexicans and Mexican Americans imagined their communal ties across the border, and used those bonds to contest their noncitizen status. Migrant Imaginaries places migrants at the center of the hemisphere's most pressing concerns, contending that border crossers have long been vital to social change.
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    Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780313082443
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (254 pages)
    DDC: 305.42092/273
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    Keywords: Feministin ; Sozialreformerin ; USA ; Biografie ; Biographie ; Wörterbuch
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    ISBN: 9780822389194
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (449 pages)
    Series Statement: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
    DDC: 305.242/20904
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1920-1940 ; Frau ; Moderne ; Kulturvergleich ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: A collection that examines the global phenomenon of the Modern Girl that emerged in the 1920s and 30s.
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    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781442688896
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (405 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    DDC: 306.76/60971
    Keywords: Homosexualität ; Politik ; Recht ; USA ; Kanada
    Abstract: Queer Inclusions, Continental Divisions is a timely examination of controversial policy areas in North America and a reasoned judgment on the progress of lesbian and gay issues in our time.
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    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781442688186
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (486 pages)
    DDC: 914.04
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    Keywords: Kanadier ; Reise ; Kulturelle Identität ; Europa
    Abstract: A Happy Holiday argues that overseas tourism offered people the chance to explore questions of identity during this period, a time in which issues such as gender, nation, and empire were the subject of much public debate and discussion.
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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780816656639
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (353 pages)
    DDC: 305.800973
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    Keywords: Ethnische Beziehungen ; Rassenmischung ; Interethnische Ehe ; Rassismus ; USA
    Abstract: Despite being heralded as the answer to racial conflict in the post-civil rights United States, the principal political effect of multiracialism is neither a challenge to the ideology of white supremacy nor a defiance of sexual racism. More accurately, Jared Sexton argues in Amalgamation Schemes, multiculturalism displaces both by evoking long-standing tenets of antiblackness and prescriptions for normative sexuality. In this timely and penetrating analysis, Sexton pursues a critique of contemporary multiracialism, from the splintered political initiatives of the multiracial movement to the academic field of multiracial studies, to the melodramatic media declarations about "the browning of America." He contests the rationales of colorblindness and multiracial exceptionalism and the promotion of a repackaged family values platform in order to demonstrate that the true target of multiracialism is the singularity of blackness as a social identity, a political organizing principle, and an object of desire. From this vantage, Sexton interrogates the trivialization of sexual violence under chattel slavery and the convoluted relationship between racial and sexual politics in the new multiracial consciousness. An original and challenging intervention, Amalgamation Schemes posits that multiracialism stems from the conservative and reactionary forces determined to undo the gains of the modern civil rights movement and dismantle radical black and feminist politics. Jared Sexton is assistant professor of African American studies and film and media studies at the University of California, Irvine.
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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780816666188
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (340 pages)
    DDC: 306.2089/00973
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    Keywords: Prophetie ; Politik ; Politische Kultur ; Literatur ; Prophetie ; USA
    Abstract: Prophecy is the fundamental idiom of American politics-a biblical rhetoric about redeeming the crimes, suffering, and promise of a special people. Yet American prophecy and its great practitioners-from Frederick Douglass and Henry Thoreau to Martin Luther King, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison-are rarely addressed, let alone analyzed, by political theorists. This paradox is at the heart of American Prophecy, a work in which George Shulman unpacks and critiques the political meaning of American prophetic rhetoric. In the face of religious fundamentalisms that associate prophecy and redemption with dogmatism and domination, American Prophecy finds connections between prophetic language and democratic politics, particularly racial politics. Exploring how American critics of white supremacy have repeatedly reworked biblical prophecy, Shulman demonstrates how these writers and thinkers have transformed prophecy into a political language and given redemption a political meaning. To examine how antiracism is linked to prophecy as a vernacular idiom is to rethink political theology, recast democratic theory, and reassess the bearing of religion on American political culture. Still, prophetic language is not always liberatory, and American Prophecy maintains a critical dispassion about a rhetoric that is both prevalent and problematic.
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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780816666331
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (184 pages)
    Series Statement: Social Movements, Protest and Contention
    DDC: 306.76/6097309045
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1960-2000 ; Homosexualität ; Religion ; Recht ; Homosexuellenbewegung ; Politik ; USA
    Abstract: While gay rights are on the national agenda now, activists have spent decades fighting for their platform, seeing themselves as David against the religious right's Goliath. At the same time, the religious right has continuously and effectively countered the endeavors of lesbian and gay activists, working to repeal many of the laws prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and to progress a constitutional amendment "protecting" marriage. In this accessible and grounded work, Tina Fetner uncovers a remarkably complex relationship between the two movements-one that transcends political rivalry. Fetner shows how gay activists and the religious right have established in effect a symbiotic relationship in which each side very much affects the development of its counterpart. As lesbian and gay activists demand an end to prejudice, inclusion in marriage, the right to serve in the military, and full citizenship regardless of sexual orientation, the religious right has responded with antigay planks in Republican party platforms and the blocking of social and political change efforts. Fetner examines how the lesbian and gay movement reacts to opposition by changing rhetoric, tone, and tactics and reveals how this connection has influenced-and made more successful-the evolution of gay activism in the United States. Fetner addresses debates that lie at the center of the culture wars and, ultimately, she demonstrates how the contentious relationship between gay and lesbian rights activists and the religious right-a dynamic that is surprisingly necessary to both-challenges assumptions about how social movements are significantly shaped by their rivals.
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    München : Redline Verlag | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9783864140013
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (97 pages)
    DDC: 303.69
    Keywords: Arbeitsplatz ; Konfliktregelung ; Frau
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    East Lansing : Michigan State University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780870139581
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (340 pages)
    DDC: 305.800973
    Keywords: Internationaler Terrorismus ; Bekämpfung ; Einwanderung ; Rassendiskriminierung ; Menschenrecht ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
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    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
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    Leverkusen-Opladen : Verlag Barbara Budrich | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9783847412748
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (314 pages)
    DDC: 306.7420943
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    Keywords: Deutschland ; Auswirkung ; Prostitution ; Rechtsvergleich ; Deutschland ; Europa ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780511428197
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (352 pages)
    DDC: 305.50973
    Keywords: Herrnstein, Richard J. ; Intelligenzquotient ; Intelligenzniveau ; Rasse ; Ungleichheit ; USA
    Abstract: A controversial, left wing discussion arguing that IQ gaps between black and white Americans are environmental not genetic.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780511504266
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (204 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
    DDC: 305.48896073
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Gruppenidentität ; Frau ; Identität ; Schwarze ; Ethnische Identität ; Frauenbewegung ; USA
    Abstract: Examines the racial and gender social movements of the 1960s in the context of the traditions from which they evolved.
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    Wiesbaden : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9783531909547
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (263 pages)
    DDC: 302.2
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    Keywords: USA ; Golfkrieg ; Ausland ; Propaganda ; Imagepflege
    Abstract: Um den Irakkrieg war intensiv wie nie zuvor eine Auseinandersetzung öffentlicher Diplomatie entbrannt. Viele Gesellschaften sollten für die Unterstützung des Krieges gewonnen werden oder umgekehrt dafür, ihn zu verhindern. Um diesen Prozess zu verstehen wird das Konzept Public Diplomacy in diesem Band in normativen, theoretischen und empirischen Analysen aufgearbeitet. Dabei liegt der Schwerpunkt auf der Public Diplomacy der USA und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, die mit unterschiedlichem Ziel und unterschiedlichen Mitteln öffentliche Diplomatie ausübten.
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    Chicago : University of Chicago Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780226139098
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (541 pages)
    Series Statement: Women in Culture and Society v.1997
    DDC: 301/.092
    Keywords: Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews ; Ethnologin ; Feministin ; USA ; Biographie
    Abstract: Elsie Clews Parsons was a pioneering feminist, an eminent anthropologist, and an ardent social critic. In Elsie Clews Parsons, Desley Deacon reconstructs Parsons's efforts to overcome gender biases in both academia and society. "Wonderfully illuminating. . . . Parsons's work resonates strikingly to current trends in anthropology."-George W. Stocking, Jr., Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute "This is the biography of a woman so interesting and effective-a cross between Margaret Mead and Georgia O'Keeffe. . . . A nuanced portrait of this vivid woman."-Tanya Luhrmann, New York Times Book Review "A marvelous new book about the life of Elsie Clews Parsons. . . . It's as though she is sitting on the next rock, a contemporary struggling with the same issues that confront women today: how to combine work, love and child-rearing into one life."-Abigail Trafford, Washington Post "Parsons's splendid life and work continue to illuminate current puzzles about acculturation and diversity."-New Yorker.
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