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  • 2000-2004  (11)
  • Berkeley : University of California Press  (11)
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  • 1
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    Engaged Surrender : African American Women and Islam (2004)
    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780520937062
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (291 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies
    DDC: 305.48697107
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    MS 3000
    Keywords: Schwarze Frau ; Islam ; Soziale Situation ; USA
    Abstract: Commonly portrayed in the media as holding women in strict subordination and deference to men, Islam is nonetheless attracting numerous converts among African American women. Are these women "reproducing their oppression," as it might seem? Or does their adherence to the religion suggest unsuspected subtleties and complexities in the relation of women, especially black women, to Islam? Carolyn Rouse sought answers to these questions among the women of Sunni Muslim mosques in Los Angeles. Her richly textured study provides rare insight into the meaning of Islam for African American women; in particular, Rouse shows how the teachings of Islam give these women a sense of power and control over interpretations of gender, family, authority, and obligations. In Engaged Surrender, Islam becomes a unique prism for clarifying the role of faith in contemporary black women's experience. Through these women's stories, Rouse reveals how commitment to Islam refracts complex processes-urbanization, political and social radicalization, and deindustrialization-that shape black lives generally, and black women's lives in particular. Rather than focusing on traditional (and deeply male) ideas of autonomy and supremacy, the book-and the community of women it depicts-emphasizes more holistic notions of collective obligation, personal humility, and commitment to overarching codes of conduct and belief. A much-needed corrective to media portraits of Islam and the misconceptions they engender, this engaged and engaging work offers an intimate, in-depth look into the vexed and interlocking issues of Islam, gender, and race.
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  • 2
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    The Price of Poverty : Money, Work, and Culture in the Mexican American Barrio (2003)
    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780520937277
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (317 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 330.979474
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    MS 3530
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    Keywords: Mexikaner ; Chicanos ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Armut ; USA
    Abstract: Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in two impoverished California communities-one made up of recent immigrants from Mexico, the other of U.S.-born Chicano citizens-this book provides an invaluable comparative perspective on Latino poverty in contemporary America. In northern California's high-tech Silicon Valley, author Daniel Dohan shows how recent immigrants get by on low-wage babysitting and dish-cleaning jobs. In the housing projects of Los Angeles, he documents how families and communities of U.S.-born Mexican Americans manage the social and economic dislocations of persistent poverty. Taking readers into worlds where public assistance, street crime, competition for low-wage jobs, and family, pride, and cross-cultural experiences intermingle, The Price of Poverty offers vivid portraits of everyday life in these Mexican American communities while addressing urgent policy questions such as: What accounts for joblessness? How can we make sense of crime in poor communities? Does welfare hurt or help?.
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  • 3
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    Colonial Subjects : Puerto Ricans in a Global Perspective (2003)
    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780520927544
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (286 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 304.8/7307295/09043
    RVK:
    MS 3600
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Puerto Ricaner ; Globalisierung ; Auswanderung ; Einwanderung ; USA ; Europa
    Abstract: Colonial Subjects is the first book to use a combination of world-system and postcolonial approaches to compare Puerto Rican migration with Caribbean migration to both the United States and Western Europe. Ramon Grosfoguel provides an alternative reading of the world-system approach to Puerto Rico's history, political economy, and urbanization processes.
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  • 4
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    Romance on a Global Stage : Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography, and "Mail Order" Marriages (2003)
    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780520937222
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (295 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.845
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    MS 1930
    Keywords: Ehe ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Interethnische Ehe ; USA
    Abstract: By the year 2000 more than 350 Internet agencies were plying the email-order marriage trade, and the business of matching up mostly Western men with women from Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America had become an example of globalization writ large. This provocative work opens a window onto the complex motivations and experiences of the people behind the stereotypes and misconceptions that have exploded along with the practice of transnational courtship and marriage. Combining extensive Internet ethnography and face-to-face fieldwork, Romance on a Global Stage looks at the intimate realities of Filipinas, Chinese women, and U.S. men corresponding in hopes of finding a suitable marriage partner. Through the experiences of those engaged in pen pal relationships-their stories of love, romance, migration, and long-distance dating-this book conveys the richness and dignity of women's and men's choices without reducing these correspondents to calculating opportunists or naive romantics. Attentive to the structural, cultural, and personal factors that prompt women and men to seek marriage partners abroad, Romance on a Global Stage questions the dichotomies so frequently drawn between structure and agency, and between global and local levels of analysis.
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  • 5
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    Unbearable weight : feminism, Western culture, and the body (2003)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 9780520240544 , 0520240545
    Language: English
    Pages: xxxviii, 361 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: Tenth anniversary edition
    DDC: 305.42
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    MS 3150
    Keywords: Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) ; Human body Social aspects ; Body image ; Self-esteem in women ; Feminist criticism ; USA ; Frauenbild ; Schönheitsideal ; Körperkultur ; Körperbild ; Feminismus ; Frau ; Körpererfahrung ; Selbsteinschätzung
    Note: Literaturangaben , Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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  • 6
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    Romance on a global stage : pen pals, virtual ethnography, and "mail-order" marriages (2003)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 0520237056 , 0520238702 , 0520937228 , 1417508329 , 1597348775 , 9780520237056 , 9780520238701 , 9780520937222 , 9781417508327 , 9781597348775
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 283 pages)
    DDC: 306.84/5
    RVK:
    MS 1930
    Keywords: Mariage interethnique / États-Unis ; Agences matrimoniales / États-Unis ; Mariage par correspondance / États-Unis ; Asiatiques / États-Unis ; Correspondance internationale / États-Unis ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural ; Huwelijksbemiddeling ; Internet ; Vrouwen ; Aziaten ; Frau ; Gesellschaft ; Intercountry marriage ; Marriage brokerage ; Mail order brides ; Asians ; International correspondence Social aspects ; Interethnische Ehe ; Ehe ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; USA ; USA ; USA ; Ehe ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; USA ; Interethnische Ehe
    Note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 , Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-274) and index , Making introductions -- Ethnography in imagined virtual communities -- Feminism and myths of "mail-order" marriages -- Fairy tales, family values, and the global politics of romance -- Political economy and the cultural logics of desire -- Women's agency and the gendered geography of marriage -- Tales of waiting: history, immigration, and the state -- Conclusion: marriage, migration, and transnational families , By the year 2000 more than 350 Internet agencies were plying the email-order marriage trade, and the business of matching up mostly Western men with women from Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America had become an example of globalization writ large. This provocative work opens a window onto the complex motivations and experiences of the people behind the stereotypes and misconceptions that have exploded along with the practice of transnational courtship and marriage. Combining extensive Internet ethnography and face-to-face fieldwork, Romance on a Global Stage looks at the intimate realities
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  • 7
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    Media worlds : anthropology on new terrain (2002)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 9780520928169 , 0520928164
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 413 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.23
    RVK:
    HU 1777
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    LC 13000
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    MS 7850
    Keywords: Médias et culture ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General ; Mass media and culture ; Mass media and culture ; Anthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Massenmedien ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Massenmedien ; Anthropologie ; USA ; Massenmedien ; Ethnologie
    Description / Table of Contents: Screen memories: resignifying the traditional in indigenous media - Faye D. Ginsburg -- - Visual media and the primitivist perplex: colonial fantasies, indigenous imagination, and advocacy in North America - Harald E.L. Prins -- - Representation, politics, and cultural imagination in indigenous video: general points and Kayapo examples - Terence Turner -- - Spectacles of difference: cultural activism and the mass mediation of Tibet - Meg McLagan -- - Egyptian melodrama: technology of the modern subject? - Lila Abu-Lughod -- - Epic contests: television and religious identity in India - Purnima Mankekar -- - The national picture: Thai media and cultural identity - Annette Hamilton -- - Television, time, and the national imaginary in Belize - Richard R. Wilk -- - Mass media and transnational subjectivity in Shanghai: notes on (re)cosmopolitanism in a Chinese metropolis - Mayfair Mei-hui Yang -- - A Marshall plan of the mind: the political economy of a Kazakh soap opera - Ruth Mandel -- - Mapping Hmong media in diasporic space - Louisa Schein -- - Putting American public television documentary in its places - Barry Dornfeld -- - Culture in the ad world: producing the Latin look - Arlene Dávila -- - "And yet my heart is still Indian": the Bombay film industry and the (h)Indianization of Hollywood - Tejaswini Ganti -- - Arrival scenes: complicity and media ethnography in the Bolivian public sphere - Jeff D. Himpele -- - The materiality of cinema theaters in northern Nigeria - Brian Larkin -- - Mobile machines and fluid audiences: rethinking reception through Zambian radio culture - Debra Spitulnik -- - The Indian work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction: or, what happens when peasants "get hold" of images - Christopher Pinney -- - Live or dead? Televising theater in Bali - Mark Hobart -- - A room with a voice: mediation and mediumship in Thailand's information age - Rosalind C. Morris
    DOI: 10.1525/9780520928169
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  • 8
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    Legacies : The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation (2001)
    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780520935792
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (455 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.90691
    RVK:
    DV 2850
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    MS 3600
    Keywords: Einwanderer ; Generation 2 ; Akkulturation ; Ethnische Identität ; Soziale Situation ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; USA
    Abstract: One out of five Americans are first- or second-generation immigrants. This study probes all aspects of the new immigrant second generation live's, exploring their potential to transform American society for better or worse.
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  • 9
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    Strangers at the Gates : New Immigrants in Urban America (2001)
    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780520927711
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (357 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.90691
    RVK:
    MS 3600
    Keywords: Einwanderung ; Stadt ; Sozialökologie ; USA
    Abstract: Immigration is remaking the United States. In New York, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, and Chicago, the multiethnic society of tomorrow is already in place. Yet today's urban centers appear unlikely to provide newcomers with the same opportunities their predecessors found at the turn of the last century. Using the latest sources of information, this hard-hitting volume of original essays looks at the nexus between urban realities and immigrant destinies in these American cities. Strangers at the Gates tells the real story of immigrants' prospects for success today and delineates the conditions that will hinder or aid the newest Americans in their quest to get ahead. This book stresses the crucial importance of understanding that immigration today is fundamentally urban and the equally important fact that immigrants are now flocking to places where low-skilled workers--regardless of ethnic background--are in particular trouble. These two themes are at the heart of this book, which also covers a range of provocative topics, often with surprising findings. Among the essayists, Nelson Lim enters the controversy over whether and how immigrants affect the employment prospects for African Americans; Mark Ellis investigates whether low immigrant wages depress other workers' salaries; William A.V. Clark contends that immigrants seem to be experiencing downward mobility; and Min Zhou asserts that trends among second-generation immigrants are decidedly more optimistic. These well-integrated and well-organized essays sit squarely at the intersection of sociology and economics, and along the way they point out both the strengths and the weaknesses of these two disciplines in understanding immigration. Providing a theoretically and empirically comprehensive overview of the economic fate of immigrants in major American cities, this book will make a major...
    Abstract: contribution to debates over immigration and the American future.
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  • 10
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    Working Families : The Transformation of the American Home (2001)
    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780520926035
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (402 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.360973
    RVK:
    MS 1900
    Keywords: Arbeit ; Familie ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The dynamics of work and parenthood are in the midst of a revolutionary shift in the United States. Focused around a major factor in this shift--the rise of dual-income families--this groundbreaking volume provides a highly informative snapshot of the intricate fabric of work and family in the United States.
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  • 11
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    Purified by fire : a history of cremation in America (2001)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 0520929748 , 0585391173 , 1282357042 , 9780520929746 , 9780585391175 , 9781282357044
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 266 pages)
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    DDC: 393/.2
    RVK:
    MS 6300
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying ; RELIGION / Comparative Religion ; Cremation ; Cremation / Public opinion ; Funeral rites and ceremonies ; Manners and customs ; Public opinion ; Geschichte ; Cremation History ; Cremation Public opinion ; Funeral rites and ceremonies History ; Public opinion ; Krematorium ; Geschichte ; USA ; USA ; Electronic books ; Electronic books History ; USA ; Krematorium ; Geschichte
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-261) and index , 'Purified by Fire' tells the story of cremation's rise from notoriety to legitimacy and takes a provocative new look at important transformations in the American cultural landscape over the last 150 years , Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: BIRTH, 18741896 -- 1. The Cremation of Baron De Palm -- 2. Sanitary Reform -- 3. Resurrection and the Resurrectionists -- PART TWO: BRICKS AND MORTAR, 18961963 -- 4. The Business of Cremation -- 5. The Memorial Idea -- PART THREE: BOOM, 1963PRESENT -- 6. Consumers Last Rites -- 7. Contemporary Ways of Cremation -- Timeline -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520208162.001.0001
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