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  • 1
    ISBN: 9781477328224 , 147732822X
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 259 Seiten , Illustrationen , 23 cm
    Edition: First edition
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hickey, Georgina, 1968- Breaking the gender code
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hickey, Georgina, 1968- Breaking the gender code
    DDC: 305.420973
    Keywords: Urban women / Political activity / United States / History / 20th century ; Urban women / United States / Social conditions / History / 20th century ; Women political activists / United States / History / 20th century ; Public spaces / Social aspects / United States / History / 20th century ; Urban women / Services for / United States / History / 20th century ; Urban women / Protection / United States / History / 20th century ; Cities and towns / Social aspects / United States / History / 20th century ; Feminist geography / United States / History / 20th century ; Femmes en milieu urbain / Activité politique / États-Unis / Histoire / 20e siècle ; Femmes en milieu urbain / États-Unis / Conditions sociales / Histoire / 20e siècle ; Femmes activistes / États-Unis / Histoire / 20e siècle ; Espaces publics / Aspect social / États-Unis / Histoire / 20e siècle ; Femmes en milieu urbain / Services / États-Unis / Histoire / 20e siècle ; Femmes en milieu urbain / Protection / États-Unis / Histoire / 20e siècle ; Villes / Aspect social / États-Unis / Histoire / 20e siècle ; Géographie féministe / États-Unis / Histoire / 20e siècle ; Cities and towns / Social aspects ; Feminist geography ; Public spaces / Social aspects ; Urban women / Services for ; Urban women / Social conditions ; Women political activists ; United States ; 1900-1999 ; History
    Abstract: "Historian Georgina Hickey investigates challenges to the code of urban gender segregation in the 20th century, focusing on organized advocacy to make the public spaces of American cities accessible to women. She traces waves of activism from the Progressive Era, with its calls for "public restrooms, rooming houses, anti-spitting ordinances, covered bus stops, employment bureaus, lunch rooms, and women police," through and beyond second-wave feminism, and its focus on the creation of alternative, women-only spaces. In doing so, Hickey looks at how class, race, and sexuality shaped activists' agendas and shaped women's experiences of urban space and the gains and limitations of this activism. She uses a wide range of archival material, from press coverage to neighborhood association records to etiquette manuals, and studies a variety of cities, from Minneapolis to Atlanta. Throughout, she draws connections between the vulnerability of women in public spaces, real and presumed, and contemporary debates surrounding rape culture, bathroom bills, and domestic violence. Ultimately, Hickey unveils the institutionalized hierarchies that have made women feel uncomfortable in American cities and the "both strikingly successful and incomplete" initiatives activists undertook to open up public space to women. The manuscript is organized into eight chapters that move chronologically through the twentieth century, with an epilogue that reflects on how these issues manifest in the present"--
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9781477328231 , 9781477328248
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 259 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Edition: First edition
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hickey, Georgina, - 1968- Breaking the gender code
    DDC: 305.420973
    Keywords: 1900-1999 ; Urban women Political activity 20th century ; History ; Urban women Social conditions 20th century ; History ; Women political activists History 20th century ; Public spaces Social aspects 20th century ; History ; Urban women Services for 20th century ; History ; Urban women Protection 20th century ; History ; Cities and towns Social aspects 20th century ; History ; Feminist geography History 20th century ; Cities and towns - Social aspects ; Feminist geography ; Public spaces - Social aspects ; Urban women - Services for ; Urban women - Social conditions ; Women political activists ; History ; United States
    Abstract: "Historian Georgina Hickey investigates challenges to the code of urban gender segregation in the 20th century, focusing on organized advocacy to make the public spaces of American cities accessible to women. She traces waves of activism from the Progressive Era, with its calls for "public restrooms, rooming houses, anti-spitting ordinances, covered bus stops, employment bureaus, lunch rooms, and women police," through and beyond second-wave feminism, and its focus on the creation of alternative, women-only spaces. In doing so, Hickey looks at how class, race, and sexuality shaped activists' agendas and shaped women's experiences of urban space and the gains and limitations of this activism. She uses a wide range of archival material, from press coverage to neighborhood association records to etiquette manuals, and studies a variety of cities, from Minneapolis to Atlanta. Throughout, she draws connections between the vulnerability of women in public spaces, real and presumed, and contemporary debates surrounding rape culture, bathroom bills, and domestic violence. Ultimately, Hickey unveils the institutionalized hierarchies that have made women feel uncomfortable in American cities and the "both strikingly successful and incomplete" initiatives activists undertook to open up public space to women. The manuscript is organized into eight chapters that move chronologically through the twentieth century, with an epilogue that reflects on how these issues manifest in the present"--
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9781477325285 , 147732528X
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (199 pages)
    Edition: First edition
    Series Statement: Latinx: the Future Is Now
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Padilla, Yajaira M From Threatening Guerrillas to Forever Illegals
    DDC: 305.868/728
    Keywords: Central Americans ; Central Americans in motion pictures ; Central Americans Press coverage ; Central Americans Legal status, laws, etc ; Immigrants in mass media ; Mass media and immigrants ; Central American Americans ; Stereotypes (Social psychology) in mass media ; Central American Americans ; Central Americans ; Central Americans in motion pictures ; Immigrants in mass media ; Mass media and immigrants ; Stereotypes (Social psychology) in mass media ; Central America On television ; Central America In popular culture ; Central America ; United States
    Abstract: "The book explores how Central Americans have been imagined and represented in the United States since the 1980s, particularly as guerrillas/military strongmen, disfranchised refugees, gang-bangers, domestic workers, and illegal aliens. Drawing from popular films, TV, news reports, and social media, it shows how these representations firm up the image of Central Americans as undeserving of citizenship while often making them invisible within discussions of Latinx community and representation"--
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9781477326060
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (132 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sandoval-Cervantes, Iván Oaxaca in Motion
    DDC: 304.80972/74
    Keywords: Migration, Internal Social aspects ; Return migration Social aspects ; Zapotec women Social life and customs ; Zapotec Indians Social life and customs ; Internal migrants Social life and customs ; Sex role ; Zapotec Indians Kinship ; Zapotec Indians Family relationships ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Emigration and immigration ; Social aspects ; Migration, Internal ; Social aspects ; Return migration ; Social aspects ; Sex role ; Zapotec Indians ; Social life and customs ; Oaxaca (Mexico : State) Emigration and immigration ; Social aspects ; Mexico ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; Mexico ; Oaxaca (State) ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction. Noticing Internal and Transnational Migrations --Chapter 1. Research in Zegache: Multiple Histories --Chapter 2. Leaving Zegache: Internal and Transnational Women Migrants --Chapter 3. Labor Corridors I: Peasants and Soldiers --Chapter 4. Labor Corridors II: Transnational Migration and Masculinity --Chapter 5. The Masculine Familiarity of Work; or, How Cooking Became Masculine --Chapter 6. Migration and Femininity: Beyond the Tutelage of the Mothers-in-Law --Conclusion --Notes --References --Index
    Abstract: "The book looks at the different experiences of migrants from the Zapotec community of Zegache, in Oaxaca, Mexico, especially women who have migrated to Mexico City and men who have moved to Los Angeles and elsewhere in the United States. In particular, it focuses on gender and kinship and how different kinds of migration affect gender and kinship in different ways"--
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9781477302309
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.6/9708
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Islam ; Kulturelle Identität ; Muslim ; Religion ; Staat ; Internationale Politik ; Hispanos ; Bevölkerungsgruppe ; HISTORY / Latin America / General ; Islam Caribbean Area ; Islam Latin America ; Islam United States ; Islam ; Islam ; Islam ; Muslims Ethnic identity ; Caribbean Area ; Muslims Ethnic identity ; Latin America ; Muslims Ethnic identity ; United States ; Muslims Ethnic identity ; Muslims Ethnic identity ; Muslims Ethnic identity
    Abstract: Muslims have been shaping the Americas and the Caribbean for more than five hundred years, yet this interplay is frequently overlooked or misconstrued. Brimming with revelations that synthesize area and ethnic studies, Crescent over Another Horizon presents a portrait of Islam's unity as it evolved through plural formulations of identity, power, and belonging. Offering a Latino American perspective on a wider Islamic world, the editors overturn the conventional perception of Muslim communities in the New World, arguing that their characterization as "minorities" obscures the interplay of ethnicity and religion that continues to foster transnational ties. Bringing together studies of Iberian colonists, enslaved Africans, indentured South Asians, migrant Arabs, and Latino and Latin American converts, the volume captures the power-laden processes at work in religious conversion or resistance. Throughout each analysis-spanning times of inquisition, conquest, repressive nationalism, and anti-terror security protocols-the authors offer innovative frameworks to probe the ways in which racialized Islam has facilitated the building of new national identities while fostering a double-edged marginalization. The subjects of the essays transition from imperialism (with studies of morisco converts to Christianity, West African slave uprisings, and Muslim and Hindu South Asian indentured laborers in Dutch Suriname) to the contemporary Muslim presence in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Trinidad, completed by a timely examination of the United States, including Muslim communities in "Hispanicized" South Florida and the agency of Latina conversion. The result is a fresh perspective that opens new horizons for a vibrant range of fields
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021) , In English
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  • 6
    ISBN: 9780292797444
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (344 pages)
    DDC: 304.2/089/68073
    Keywords: HISTORY / General ; Hispanic Americans Case studies ; Social conditions ; Human geography Case studies ; United States
    Abstract: Hispanics/Latinos are the largest ethnic minority in the United States-but they are far from being a homogenous group. Mexican Americans in the Southwest have roots that extend back four centuries, while Dominicans and Salvadorans are very recent immigrants. Cuban Americans in South Florida have very different occupational achievements, employment levels, and income from immigrant Guatemalans who work in the poultry industry in Virginia. In fact, the only characteristic shared by all Hispanics/Latinos in the United States is birth or ancestry in a Spanish-speaking country. In this book, sixteen geographers and two sociologists map the regional and cultural diversity of the Hispanic/Latino population of the United States. They report on Hispanic communities in all sections of the country, showing how factors such as people's country/culture of origin, length of time in the United States, and relations with non-Hispanic society have interacted to create a wide variety of Hispanic communities. Identifying larger trends, they also discuss the common characteristics of three types of Hispanic communities-those that have always been predominantly Hispanic, those that have become Anglo-dominated, and those in which Hispanics are just becoming a significant portion of the population
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  • 7
    ISBN: 1477320350 , 9781477320358
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 276 pages)
    Edition: First edition
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Whitney, Katherine My Shadow Is My Skin : Voices from the Iranian Diaspora
    DDC: 305.891/55073
    Keywords: Iranian Americans Social conditions ; Iranian diaspora ; Iranian Americans Ethnic identity ; Iranians ; Iranians ; Iranian Americans ; Ethnic identity ; Iranian Americans ; Social conditions ; Iranian diaspora ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "The Iranian Revolution of 1979 led to a wide diaspora, with many Iranians ending up in the United States. To mark the 40th anniversary of the revolution, the editors have brought together over 40 writers to reflect on the Iranian-American experience during this period through their personal narratives. Some of these authors migrated to the US as a result of the diaspora, some were born here to Iranian parents, and a few are connected to Iran by marriage. This multi-generational assemblage includes established authors, such as Tara Bahrampour, Jasmin Darznik, and Hooman Majd, as well as emerging writers whose voices shed fresh light on themes of identity, duality, and living as the "other" in 21st-century America. Under the shadow of renewed tensions with Iran due to the current political climate, it's important to hear the voices of Iranians and Iranian-Americans and to understand their experiences"--
    Abstract: The summer I disappeared / Jasmin Darznik -- Sacrifices / Iraj Isaac Rahmim -- Shadow nation / Cyrus M. Copeland -- Two minutes to midnight / Daniel Rafinejad -- When we were lions / Mehdi Tavana Okasi -- Fortune-tellers / Dena Afrasiabi -- Silkscreen / Omid Fallahazad -- Hookah, once upon a time (Pastiche after Roberto Bolaño) / Poupeh Missaghi -- Think of the trees / Leila Emery -- Pushing the boundaries / Dena Rod -- Uninvited guest / Roia Ferrazares -- The name on my coffee cup / Saïd Sayrafiezadeh -- Negotiating memories / Amy Malek -- In praise of big noses / Persis Karim -- Transmutations of/by language / Raha Namy -- Gilad, my enemy / Salar Abdoh -- Two countries, one divided self / Roger Sedarat -- Mothering across the cultural divide / Katherine Whitney -- My mom killed Michael Jackson / Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh -- Am I an immigrant? / Roxanne Varzi -- 1916 days / Mandana Chaffa -- Culture beyond language / Leyla Farzaneh -- Forget me not / Shideh Etaat -- Errand / Babak Elahi -- The color of the bricks / Farnaz Fatemi -- Renounce and Abjure all allegiance / Renata Khoshroo Louwers -- Learning Farsi / Darius Atefat-Peckham -- Delam Tang Shodeh / Shireen Day -- Walking with Zahra / Layla Razavi -- Halva / Nazanine Attaran -- Her orange-blossom tea / Maryam Atai -- The Iranians of Mercer island / Siamak Vossoughi.
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  • 8
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    Austin : University of Texas Press
    ISBN: 1477319700 , 9781477319703
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 211 pages)
    Edition: First edition
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Gonzalez, Rachel Valentina Quinceañera style
    DDC: 394.2
    Keywords: Hispanic Americans Social life and customs 21st century ; Hispanic Americans Ethnic identity ; Hispanic American consumers ; Quinceañera (Social custom) ; Quinceañera (Social custom) ; Hispanic American consumers ; Hispanic Americans ; Social life and customs ; Hispanic Americans ; Ethnic identity ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Quinceañera style and class performativity -- Identity off the rack : selling quinceañera dresses and manufacturing identities in the experience economy -- Coming of age in the digital barrio : quinceañera as a product in cultural economies online -- Made in Mexico, USA : beauty professionals and the manufacturing of quinceañera beauty culture -- Ambivalent embodiment : reconstituting quinceañera performance space -- Conclusion. Rights/rites and representation : reading Latinx social performance
    Abstract: Quinceañera celebrations, which recognize a girl's transition to young womanhood at age fifteen, are practiced in Latinx communities throughout the Americas. But in the consumer-driven United States, the ritual has evolved from a largely religious ceremony to an elaborate party where social status takes center stage. Examining the many facets of this contemporary debut experience, Quinceañera Style reports on ethnographic fieldwork in California, Texas, the Midwest, and Mexico City to reveal a complex, compelling story. Along the way, we meet a self-identified transwoman who uses the quinceañera as an intellectual space in her activist performance art. We explore the economic empowerment of women who own barrio boutiques specializing in the quinceañera's many accessories and made-in-China gowns. And, of course, we meet teens themselves, including a vlogger whose quince-planning tips have made her an online sensation. Disrupting assumptions, such as the belief that Latino communities in the United States can't desire upward mobility without abandoning ethnoracial cultural legacies, Quinceañera Style also underscores the performative nature of class and the process of constructing a self in the public, digital sphere
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  • 9
    ISBN: 1477316825 , 1477316833 , 9781477316825 , 9781477316832
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 467 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Chicana movidas
    DDC: 305.4886872073
    Keywords: Feminism History 20th century ; Mexican American women ; Women political activists History 20th century ; Women political activists ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; Mexican American women ; History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Feminism ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Francisca Flores, and the history of the league of Mexican American women and its evolution into the Comisión Femenil Mexicana Nacional, 1958-1975 / Anna Nieto Gomez -- Mujeres bravas: how Chicana feminists championed the equal rights amendment and feminist agenda in 1977 at the Texas Women's Meeting and the International Women's Year National Conference / Martha P. Cotera -- "Women need to find their voice": Latinas speak out in the midwest, 1972 / Leticia Wiggins -- "It's not a natural order": religion and the emergence of Chicana feminism in the Cursillo movement in San Jose / Susana L. Gallardo -- La causa de los pobres: Alicia Escalante's lived experiences of poverty and the struggle for economic justice / Rosie C. Bermudez -- Women who make their own worlds: the life and work of Ester Hernández / Maylei Blackwell -- Feminista frequencies: Chicana radio activism in the Pacific Northwest / Monica De La Torre -- Excavating the Chicano movement: Chicana feminism, mobilization, and leadership at El Centro de la Raza, 1972-1979 / Michael D. Aguirre -- The space in between: exploring the development of Chicana feminist thought in Central Texas / Brenda Sendejo -- Visions of utopia while living in occupied Aztlán / Osa Hidalgo de la Riva and Maylei Blackwell -- Forging a black-brown movement: Chicana and African American women organizing for welfare rights in Los Angeles / Alejandra Marchevsky -- "Tu riata es mi espalda": Elizabeth Sutherland's Chicana formation / Annemarie Perez -- "La raza en Canada": San Diego Chicana activists, the Indochinese Women's Conference of 1971, and third world womanism / Dionne Espinoza -- María Jiménez: reflexiones on traversing multiple fronteras in the South / Samantha Rodriguez and Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal -- De campesina a internacionalista: a journey of encuentros y desencuentros / Olga Talamante -- Unpacking our mothers' libraries: practices of Chicana memory before and after the digital turn / María Cotera -- Refocusing Chicana international feminism: photographs, postmemory, and political trauma / Marisela R. Chávez -- La mariposa de oro: the journey of an advocate / Elena Gutiérrez and Virginia Martínez -- My deliberate pursuit of freedom / Deanna Romero -- Manifesto de memoria: (re)living the movement without blinking / Inés Hernández-Ávila
    Abstract: With contributions from a wide array of scholars and activists, including leading Chicana feminists from the period, this groundbreaking anthology is the first collection of scholarly essays and testimonios that focuses on Chicana organizing, activism, and leadership in the movement years. The essays in Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activisim and Feminism in the Movement Era demonstrate how Chicanas enacted a new kind of politica at the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality, and developed innovative concepts, tactics, and methodologies that in turn generated new theories, art forms, organizational spaces, and strategies of alliance.These are the technologies of resistance documented in Chicana Movidas, a volume that brings together critical biographies of Chicana activists and their bodies of work; essays that focus on understudied organizations, mobilizations, regions, and subjects; examinations of emergent Chicana archives and the politics of collection; and scholarly approaches that challenge the temporal, political, heteronormative, and spatial limits of established Chicano movement narratives. Charting the rise of a field of knowledge that crosses the boundaries of Chicano studies, feminist theory, and queer theory, Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activisim and Feminism in the Movement Era offers a transgenerational perspective on the intellectual and political legacies of early Chicana feminism
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  • 10
    ISBN: 1477312099 , 9781477312094
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
    Edition: First edition
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Morgan, Stacy I., 1970- Frankie and Johnny
    DDC: 398.2089/96073
    Keywords: African Americans Folklore ; African Americans Race identity ; Sex role ; Popular music History and criticism ; Music Social aspects ; History and criticism ; Popular music African influences ; Folk songs, English ; African Americans ; African Americans ; Race identity ; Folk songs, English ; Music ; Social aspects ; Popular music ; Popular music ; African influences ; Sex role ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Folklore & Mythology ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Folklore ; United States
    Abstract: Frankie and Johnny take center stage : African American folk culture in 1930s America -- Lead Belly's Ninth Symphony : Huddie Ledbetter and the changing contours of American folk music -- Pistol Packin' Mama: imperiled masculinity in Thomas Hart Benton's a social history of the state of Missouri -- Whiteface Marionettes: John Huston's comic melodrama -- The finest woman ever to walk the streets : Mae West's outlaw exploits in She Done Him Wrong -- The lynching of Johnny : Sterling Brown's social realist critique -- Epilogue. African American women's voices and the tightrope of respectability.
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  • 11
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    Austin : University of Texas Press
    ISBN: 9780292759435
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 198 Seiten , Illustrationen, Porträts , 23 cm
    Edition: First edition
    Series Statement: American music series
    DDC: 782.421643092
    RVK:
    Keywords: Blige, Mary J. ; Blige, Mary J. ; Blige, Mary J. ; African American women singers / United States / Biography ; Soul musicians / United States / Biography ; Sound recording executives and producers / United States / Biography ; Rap musicians / United States / Biography ; Rhythm and blues musicians / United States / Biography ; Gospel musicians / United States / Biography ; African American actresses / United States / Biography ; African American actresses ; African American women singers ; Gospel musicians ; Rap musicians ; Rhythm and blues musicians ; Soul musicians ; Sound recording executives and producers ; United States ; USA ; Biografie ; Biografie ; Biografie ; Blige, Mary J. 1971-
    Abstract: Mary J. Blige is an icon who represents the political consciousness of hip hop and the historical promise of soul. She is an everywoman, celebrated by Oprah Winfrey and beloved by pop music fans of all ages and races. Blige has sold over fifty million albums, won numerous Grammys, and even played at multiple White House events, as well as the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. Displaying astonishing range and versatility, she has recorded everything from Broadway standards to Led Zeppelin anthems and worked with some of popular music's greatest artists-Aretha Franklin, Eric Clapton, Elton John, Whitney Houston, Sting, U2, and Beyonce, among them. Real Love, No Drama: The Music of Mary J. Blige tells the story of one of the most important artists in pop music history. Danny Alexander follows the whole arc of Blige's career, from her first album, which heralded the birth of "hip hop soul," to her critically praised 2014 album, The London Sessions. He highlights the fact that Blige was part of the historically unprecedented movement of black women onto pop radio and explores how she and other women took control of their careers and used their music to give voice to women's (and men's) everyday struggles and dreams. This book adds immensely to the story of both black women artists and artists rooted in hip hop and pays tribute to a musician who, by expanding her reach and asking tough questions about how music can and should evolve, has proven herself an artistic visionary. - Beginning his career about the same time Mary J. Blige signed her first record deal, music journalist Danny Alexander has worked as an associate editor for Dave Marsh's music newsletter Rock & Rap Confidential and covered rock, hip hop, and soul for various publications. He is the author of "Liner Notes: Soul Asylum". He lives in Overland Park, Kansas
    Description / Table of Contents: 〈〈The〉〉 artist of a generation -- The slow bomb -- Ladies, ladies, it is our turn -- Uptown -- What's the 411? -- Changes I've been going through -- Hip hop a go-go -- My life -- Natural woman -- Share my world -- On the road with MJB : Alyson Williams -- The tour -- Sisters in the studio : Channette and Channoah Higgens -- Mary, the album -- No more drama -- Love & life -- Live from Los Angeles -- Message in our music -- The breakthrough -- Growing pains -- Stronger with each tear -- Hard times come again no more -- My life II : the journey continues (act 1) -- A Mary Christmas -- Think like a man too -- The London sessions -- Being with you
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  • 12
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    ISBN: 1477308148 , 9781477308141
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (287 pages) , illustrations
    Edition: First edition
    Series Statement: Discovering America
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Guroff, Margaret, 1962- Mechanical horse
    DDC: 303.48/320973
    Keywords: Bicycles History ; Cycling Social aspects ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; Bicycles ; Cycling ; Social aspects ; History ; United States
    Abstract: The birth of the bike -- The need for speed -- The wheel, the woman, and the human body -- Paving the way for cars -- From producers to consumers -- The infinite highway of the air -- The cycles of war -- The king of the neighborhood -- The great American bicycle boom -- Bike messengers, tourists, and mountain bikers -- Are we there yet?
    Abstract: With cities across the country adding miles of bike lanes and building bike-share stations, bicycling is enjoying a new surge of popularity in America. It seems that every generation or two, Americans rediscover the freedom of movement, convenience, and relative affordability of the bicycle. The earliest two-wheeler, the draisine, arrived in Philadelphia in 1819 and astonished onlookers with the possibility of propelling themselves "like lightning." Two centuries later, the bicycle is still the fastest way to cover ground on gridlocked city streets. Filled with lively stories, The Mechanical Horse reveals how the bicycle transformed American life. As bicycling caught on in the nineteenth century, many of the country's rough, rutted roads were paved for the first time, laying a foundation for the interstate highway system. Cyclists were among the first to see the possibilities of self-directed, long-distance travel, and some of them (including a fellow named Henry Ford) went on to develop the automobile. Women shed their cumbersome Victorian dresses-- as well as their restricted gender roles-- so they could ride. And doctors recognized that aerobic exercise actually benefits the body, which helped to modernize medicine. Margaret Guroff demonstrates that the bicycle's story is really the story of a more mobile America-- one in which physical mobility has opened wider horizons of thought and new opportunities for people in all avenues of life
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  • 13
    ISBN: 1477307680 , 9781477307687
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 233 pages) , illustrations
    Edition: First edition
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Muhammad in the digital age
    DDC: 305.6/97
    Keywords: Muḥammad Public opinion ; Muḥammad ; Information technology Religious aspects ; Islam ; Digital media Religious aspects ; Islam ; Islam in mass media ; Muslims Public opinion ; Islamophobia ; Information technology ; Religious aspects ; Islam ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Islam in mass media ; Islamophobia ; Muslims ; Public opinion ; Public opinion ; Digital media ; Religious aspects ; Islam ; United States
    Abstract: Introduction / Ruqayya Yasmine Khan, with Mashal Saif -- Muhammad and the Debates on Islam's Origins in the Digital Age / Fred M. Donner -- Muhammad and the Peacemaker, Muhammad the Warrior : Visions of Islam's Prophet after 9/11 / Jonathan Brockopp -- Art History and the contemporary Politics of Depicting Muhammad : the Case of the Danish Cartoon Controversy / Jytte Klausen -- Postmodern Politics : Manipulating Images of Islam in Contemporary europe / Peter O'Brien -- Of Cyber Muslimahs : Wives of the Prophet and Muslim Women in the Digital Age / Ruqayya Yasmine Khan -- Behind Every Good Muslim Man : Fictional Representation of 'A'isha after 9/11 / Aysha Hidayatullah -- Muslimophobia, Racialization, and Mistaken Identity : Understanding Anti-Sikh Hate Violence in Post -- 9/11 America / Simran Jeet Singh -- Finding an Enemy : Islam and the New Atheism / Taner Edis -- Conclusion / Ruqayya Yasmine Khan.
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    ISBN: 1477302301 , 9781477302309
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 344 pages)
    Edition: First edition
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Crescent over another horizon
    DDC: 305.6/9708
    Keywords: Muslims Ethnic identity ; Muslims Ethnic identity ; Islam ; Islam ; Islam ; Muslims Ethnic identity ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Islam ; Muslims ; Ethnic identity ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; Caribbean Area ; Latin America ; United States
    Abstract: "De los prohibidos" : Muslims and Moriscos in colonial Spanish America / Karoline P. Cook -- African rebellion and refuge on the edge of empire / John Tofik Karam -- Ethnic and religious identification among Muslim East Indians in Suriname (1898/1954) / Ellen Bal and Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff -- Institutionalizing Islam in Argentina : comparing community and identity configurations / Silvia montenegro -- Conversion, revivalism, and tradition : the religious dynamics of Muslim communities in Brazil / Paulo G. Pinto -- Guests of Islam : conversion and the institutionalization of Islam in Mexico / Camila Pastor de Maria y Campos -- Cubans searching for a new faith in a new context / Luis Mesa Delmonte -- Muslims in Martinique / Liliane Kuczynski -- Forming Islamic religious identity among Trinidadians in the age of social networks / Halima-Sacadia Kassim -- Dis-covering a historical consciousness : the creation of a US Latina/o Muslim identity / Hjamil A. Martínez-Vázquez -- Mapping Muslim communities in "Hispanicized" South Florida / Mirsad Krijestorac -- Double-edged marginality and agency : Latina conversion to Islam / Yesenia King and Michael P. Perez.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , English
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  • 15
    ISBN: 9781477302309
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 305.6/9708
    Keywords: Islam Caribbean Area ; Islam Latin America ; Islam United States ; Islam ; Islam ; Islam ; Muslims Ethnic identity ; Caribbean Area ; Muslims Ethnic identity ; Latin America ; Muslims Ethnic identity ; United States ; Muslims Ethnic identity ; Muslims Ethnic identity ; Muslims Ethnic identity ; Geschichte ; Islam ; Kulturelle Identität ; Muslim ; Religion ; Staat ; Internationale Politik ; Hispanos ; Bevölkerungsgruppe ; HISTORY / Latin America / General
    Abstract: Muslims have been shaping the Americas and the Caribbean for more than five hundred years, yet this interplay is frequently overlooked or misconstrued. Brimming with revelations that synthesize area and ethnic studies, Crescent over Another Horizon presents a portrait of Islam's unity as it evolved through plural formulations of identity, power, and belonging. Offering a Latino American perspective on a wider Islamic world, the editors overturn the conventional perception of Muslim communities in the New World, arguing that their characterization as "minorities" obscures the interplay of ethnicity and religion that continues to foster transnational ties. Bringing together studies of Iberian colonists, enslaved Africans, indentured South Asians, migrant Arabs, and Latino and Latin American converts, the volume captures the power-laden processes at work in religious conversion or resistance. Throughout each analysis-spanning times of inquisition, conquest, repressive nationalism, and anti-terror security protocols-the authors offer innovative frameworks to probe the ways in which racialized Islam has facilitated the building of new national identities while fostering a double-edged marginalization. The subjects of the essays transition from imperialism (with studies of morisco converts to Christianity, West African slave uprisings, and Muslim and Hindu South Asian indentured laborers in Dutch Suriname) to the contemporary Muslim presence in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Trinidad, completed by a timely examination of the United States, including Muslim communities in "Hispanicized" South Florida and the agency of Latina conversion. The result is a fresh perspective that opens new horizons for a vibrant range of fields.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021)
    URL: Cover
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  • 16
    ISBN: 9780292771314
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 204 Seiten , Illustrationen
    DDC: 305.48868073
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    Keywords: Hispanic American women Social conditions ; Women immigrants Social conditions ; United States ; Women foreign workers Social conditions ; United States ; Hispanic American women in literature ; Hispanic American women in mass media ; United States Emigration and immigration ; Social aspects
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    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Austin : University of Texas Press
    ISBN: 0292754027 , 9780292754027
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 161 pages)
    Edition: First edition
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Dowling, Julie A., 1975- Mexican Americans and the question of race
    DDC: 305.868/72073
    Keywords: Mexican Americans Race identity ; Mexican Americans Social conditions ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; Hispanic American Studies ; Mexican Americans ; Race identity ; Mexican Americans ; Social conditions ; Race relations ; United States Race relations ; United States
    Abstract: The question of race -- "I'm white 'cause I'm an American, right?": the meanings of whiteness for Mexican Americans -- "We were never white": Mexican Americans identifying outside the bounds of whiteness -- "In Mexico I was . . .": translating racial identities across the border -- "That's what we call ourselves here": Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants negotiating racial labeling in daily life -- Re-envisioning our understanding of Latino racial identity.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
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  • 18
    ISBN: 0292763158 , 9780292763159
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 276 pages) , illustrations, maps
    Edition: First edition
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Jonas, Susanne, 1941- Guatemala-U.S. migration
    DDC: 304.8/7307281
    Keywords: Guatemalans Social conditions ; Guatemalan Americans Social conditions ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Emigration & Immigration ; Emigration and immigration ; Guatemala Emigration and immigration ; United States Emigration and immigration ; Guatemala ; United States
    Abstract: Theoretical perspectives : Guatemalan migration and regionalization -- Phases of migration -- Organizing for migrant rights -- Settlement and transformations in Houston -- Contradictions of the San Francisco area -- Transregional passage.
    Abstract: This comprehensive study of five phases of Guatemalan migration--both Maya and ladino--to the United States from the late 1970s to the present illuminates the transregional experiences of those who pass through Mexico
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Austin : University of Texas Press
    ISBN: 0292745656 , 9780292745650
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Bejarano, Christina E., 1980- Latina advantage
    DDC: 305.868/073
    Keywords: Women legislators ; Latin Americans ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; Hispanic American Studies ; Latin Americans ; Women legislators ; United States
    Abstract: Gender and racial attitudes in politics -- Positive interaction of gender and race/ethnicity -- Predicting Latina political office-holding -- Diverse state legislators in Texas -- Diverse state legislators in California -- Conclusion: explanations for Latina political success.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
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    URL: Cover
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  • 20
    Book
    Book
    Austin : University of Texas Press
    ISBN: 0292705859 , 0292743459 , 9780292743458
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 209 S.
    Edition: [Nachdr.]
    Series Statement: Louann Atkins Temple women & culture series 7
    Series Statement: Louann Atkins Temple women & culture series
    DDC: 305.80092273
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    Keywords: Racially mixed people Race identity ; United States ; Racially mixed people United States ; Intellectual life ; Racially mixed people United States ; Biography ; Pluralism Social sciences United States ; Performing arts Social aspects ; United States ; Racially mixed people in literature ; Ethnicity in literature ; Popular culture United States ; United States Race relations
    Note: Includes bibliographical references
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  • 21
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Austin : University of Texas Press
    ISBN: 9780292725553
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 276 p) , ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Bridging
    DDC: 818/.5409
    RVK:
    Keywords: Anzaldúa, Gloria Influence ; Anzaldúa, Gloria Appreciation ; Mexican Americans Intellectual life ; Women's studies ; Cross-cultural studies ; Queer theory ; Ethnicity in literature ; Social justice in literature ; Mexican Americans in literature ; Social change in literature ; Mexican Americans in literature ; Electronic books ; Anzaldúa, Gloria ; Influence ; Anzaldúa, Gloria ; Appreciation ; United States ; Mexican Americans in literature ; Ethnicity in literature ; Social justice in literature ; Social change in literature ; Mexican Americans ; Intellectual life ; Women's studies ; Cross-cultural studies ; Queer theory ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Anzalduá, Gloria 1942-2004 ; USA ; Chicanos ; Feminismus ; Queer-Theorie
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Con profunda gratitud -- Building Bridges, Transforming Loss, Shaping New Dialogues: Anzald an Studies for the Twenty-First Century -- THE NEW MESTIZAS: "TRANSITIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS -- Bridges of conocimiento: Una conversación con Gloria Anzaldúa -- A Letter to Gloria Anzald a Written from 30,000 Feet and 25 Years after Her "Speaking In Tongues: A Letter to 3rd-World Women Writers -- Deconstructing the Immigrant Self: The Day I Discovered I Am a Latina -- My Path of Conocimiento: How Graduate School Transformed Me into a Nepantlera -- Aprendiendo a Vivir/Aprendiendo a Morir -- Making Face, Rompiendo Barreras: The Activist Legacy of Gloria E. Anzaldúa -- EXPOSING THE WOUNDS: "YOU GAVE ME PERMISSION TO FLY INTO THE DARK -- Anzaldúa, Maestra -- May We Do Work That Matters": Bridging Gloria Anzaldúa across Borders -- A Call to Action: Spiritual Activism . . . an Inevitable Unfolding -- Gloria Anzaldúa and the Meaning of Queer -- Breaking Our Chains: Achieving Nos/otras Consciousness -- Conocimiento and Healing: Academic Wounds, Survival, and Tenure -- BORDER CROSSINGS: INNER STRUGGLES, OUTER CHANGE -- Letters from Nepantla: Writing through the Responsibilities and Implications of the Anzaldúan Legacy -- Challenging Oppressive Educational Practices: Gloria Anzald a on My Mind, in My Spirit -- Living Transculturation: Confessions of a Santero Sociologist -- Acercándose a Gloria Anzald a to Attempt Community -- Learning to Live Together: Bridging Communities, Bridging Worlds -- Risking the Vision, Transforming the Divides: Nepantlera Perspectives on Academic Boundaries, Identities, and Lives -- BRIDGING THEORIES: INTELLECTUAL ACTIVISM WITH/IN BORDERS -- To live in the borderlands means you -- A modo de testimoniar: Borderlands, Papeles, and U. S. Academia.
    Description / Table of Contents: pt. 1. The new mestizas : "transitions and transformations"pt. 2. Exposing the wounds : "You gave me permission to fly into the dark" -- pt. 3. Border crossings : inner struggles, outer change -- pt. 4. Bridging theories : intellectual activism with/in borders -- pt. 5. Todas somos nos/otras : towards a "politics of openness."
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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  • 22
    ISBN: 0292797443
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , Illustrationen, Karten , 24 cm
    Edition: 1st ed
    Edition: Online_Ausgabe Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2005 E-Books von NetLibrary Sonstige Standardnummer des Gesamttitels: 22382847
    Parallel Title: Reproduktion von Hispanic spaces, Latino places
    DDC: 304.208968073
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    Keywords: Case studies ; Hispanic Americans ; Human geography ; Social conditions ; United States ; Electronic books ; Hispanic Americans ; Case studies ; Social conditions ; Human geography ; Case studies ; United States ; Kulturelle Identität ; Soziale Situation ; Hispanos ; USA ; USA ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung ; USA ; Hispanos ; Soziale Situation ; Hispanos ; Soziale Situation ; Kulturelle Identität
    Note: Title from ebook title screen (viewed on June 13, 2005). - Includes bibliographical references (p. 292-322) and index , Hispanic American legacy, Latino American diaspora / Daniel D. Arreola -- The plaza in Las Vegas, New Mexico: a community gathering place / Jeffrey S. Smith -- Social geography of Laredo, Texas, neighborhoods: distinctiveness and diversity in a majority-Hispanic place / Michael S. Yoder and Renée La Perrière de Gutiérrez -- Barrio under siege: Latino sense of place in San Francisco, California / Brain J. Godfrey -- Globalization of the barrio: transformation of the Latino cultural landscapes of San Diego, California / Lawrence A. Herzog -- Barrio space and place in southeast Los Angeles, California / James R. Curtis -- Changing Latinzation of New York City / Inés M. Miyares -- Soccer and Latino cultural space: metropolitan Washington fútbol leagues / Marie Price and Courtney Whitworth -- The cultural landscape of a Puerto Rican neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio / Albert Benedict and Robert B. Kent -- Latinos in polynucleated Kansas City / Steven L. Driever -- Se venden aqu:̭ Lat
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    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Austin : University of Texas Press
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 229 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Delaney, David Race, place, and the law, 1836-1948
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Delaney, David Race, place, and the law, 1836-1948
    DDC: 305.8/00973
    RVK:
    Keywords: Race discrimination Law and legislation ; History ; Race discrimination - Law and legislation ; Race relations - Philosophy ; Rassendiscriminatie ; Ruimtelijke segregatie ; Geopolitiek ; Rechtspraak ; History ; United States Race relations ; Philosophy ; États-Unis - Relations raciales - Philosophie ; United States
    Abstract: Black and white Americans have occupied separate spaces since the days of "the big house" and "the quarters." But the segregation and racialization of American society was not a natural phenomenon that "just happened." The decisions, enacted into laws, that kept the races apart and restricted blacks to less desirable places sprang from legal reasoning which argued that segregated spaces were right, reasonable, and preferable to other arrangements
    Abstract: In this book, David Delaney explores the historical intersections of race, place, and the law. Drawing on court cases spanning more than a century, he examines the moves and countermoves of attorneys and judges who participated in the geopolitics of slavery and emancipation; in the development of Jim Crow segregation, which effectively created spartheid laws in many cities; and in debates over the "doctrine of changed conditions," which challenged the legality of restrictive covenants and private contracts designed to exclude people of color from white neighborhoods. This historical data yields new insights into the patterns of segregation that persist in American society today
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-224) and index , Orientations , Geographies of Slavery and Emancipation , Legal Reasoning and the Geopolitics of Nineteenth-Century Race Relations , The Geopolitics of Jim Crow , The Reasonableness of Jim Crow Geographies , Restrictive Space and the Doctrine of Changed Conditions , Epilogue.
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  • 24
    ISBN: 9780292791091 , 0292791097 , 0292791089
    Language: English
    Pages: XV, 403 S. , 23 cm
    Edition: 1. University of Texas Press ed
    DDC: 342.73/0872
    Keywords: United States ; Indians of North America Legal status, laws, etc ; Justice, Administration of ; Rechtsstellung ; Minderheitenrecht ; USA ; Indianer ; USA Supreme Court ; Rechtsprechung ; Geschichte 1823-1992
    Note: Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke , Includes bibliographical references (p. [379] - 389) and index
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis  (kostenfrei)
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  • 25
    ISBN: 0292785232 , 0292785240
    Language: English
    Pages: XIX, 442 S , Ill , 23 cm
    Edition: 1st ed
    DDC: 303.4827308
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    Keywords: Public opinion United States ; Latin America Relations ; United States ; United States Relations ; Latin America ; Latin America Civilization ; Public opinion ; Latin America Foreign public opinion, American ; USA ; Lateinamerikabild ; Geschichte ; Lateinamerika ; Amerikabild ; USA ; Lateinamerikabild ; USA ; Kulturbeziehungen ; Lateinamerika
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-419) and index
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    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Austin : University of Texas Press
    ISBN: 9780292789814 , 0292789815
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (431 pages) , illustrations)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Native American mathematics
    DDC: 510/.8997
    RVK:
    Keywords: Indians Mathematics ; Indians Mathematics ; Mathématiques indiennes d'Amérique ; Indiens - Mathématiques ; Indiens - Mathématiques ; Indians - Mathematics ; Wiskunde ; Indianen ; Eskimo's ; Mathématiques précolombiennes ; Mathématiques des Peuples autochtones ; United States ; Indianer
    Abstract: There is no question that native cultures in the New World exhibit many forms of mathematical development. This Native American mathematics can best be described by considering the nature of the concepts found in a variety of individual New World cultures. Unlike modern mathematics in which numbers and concepts are expressed in universal mathematical notation, the numbers and concepts found in native cultures occur and are expressed in many distinctive ways. Native American Mathematics, edited by Michael P. Closs, is the first book to focus on mathematical development indigenous to the New World
    Description / Table of Contents: Native American number systems / Michael P. Closs -- Numerical representations in North American rock art / William Breen Murray -- Some notes on quantification and numerals in an Amazon Indian language / Maurizio Covaz Gnerre -- The calendrical and numerical systems of the Nootka / William J. Folan -- Chumash numerals -/ Madison S. Beeler -- Cultural ecology of mathematics: Ojibway and Inuit hunters / J. Peter Denny -- Tallies and the ritual use of number in Ojibway pictography / Michael P. Closs -- A survey of Aztec numbers and their uses / Stanley E. Payne and Michael P. Closs -- Decipherment and some implications of Aztec numerical glyphs / Herbert R. Harvey and Barbara J. Williams -- Mathematical ideas of the Incas / Marcia Ascher -- The mathematical notation of the ancient Maya / Michael P. Closs -- The zero in the Mayan numerical notation / A. Seidenberg -- In search of Mesoamerican geometry / Francine Vinette.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-431)
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    Book
    Book
    Austin : University of Texas Press
    ISBN: 0292703082
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 304 p , ill , 26 cm
    DDC: 301.2973
    Keywords: Folklore ; United States ; United States ; Social life and customs ; Material culture ; United States ; United States ; Civilization
    Note: Includes bibliographies and index
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