Search Results - "Ethnicity"

Voices from the global margin confronting poverty and inventing new lives in the Andes / by Mitchell, William P., 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: A personal and intellectual odyssey -- Pablo and Claudia : peasant farming -- Horacio and Benjamina : gender, race, ethnicity, and class -- Horacio and Benjamina : confronting village poverty -- Martín : confronting migrant poverty -- Valentina : from bride by capture to international migrant -- Triga : guerrilla war, cocaine, and commerce -- El Comandante Tigre : the peasant patrols and war -- Anastasio : fleeing shining path -- At the margin of the shifting world.…”
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The Bohemian body gender and sexuality in modern Czech culture / by Thomas, Alfred

Table of Contents: “…Maidens, barbarians, and vampires : nationality and sexuality in nineteenth-century Czech literature -- Gender, form, and ethnicity in nineteenth-century Czech women's writing -- Czech mates : homosexuality in Czech modernist short fiction, 1917-20 -- Between Paris and Moscow : sexuality and politics in interwar Czech poetry and film -- Robots, golems, and femmes fatales : the drama of Karel Čapek -- Terror and dream were my father and mother : postwar Czech fiction and film -- "The unborn" : postwar feminist fiction and film.…”
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Everyone eats understanding food and culture / by Anderson, Eugene N. (Eugene Newton), 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Everyone eats -- Obligatory omnivores -- Human nutritional needs -- More needs than one -- The senses : taste, smell, and the adapted mind -- Basics : environment and economy -- Food as pleasure -- Food classification and communication -- Me, myself, and the others : food as social marker -- Food and traditional medicine -- Food and religion -- Change -- Foods and borders : ethnicities, cuisines, and boundary crossings -- Feeding the world.…”
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Archaeologies of English Renaissance literature by Schwyzer, Philip

Table of Contents: “…Intimate disciplines : archaeology, literary criticism, and the traces of the dead -- Exhumation and ethnic conflict : colonial archaeology from St Erkenwald to Spenser in Ireland -- Dissolving images : monastic ruins in Elizabethan poetry -- Charnel knowledge : open graves in Shakespeare and Donne -- 'Mummy is become merchandise' : cannibals and commodities in the seventeenth century -- Readers of the lost urns : desire and disintegration in Thomas Browne's Urn-burial.…”
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Anti-Arab racism in the USA where it comes from and what it means for politics today / by Salaita, Steven, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the evolution of white supremacy -- The perilous world of savages and barbarians -- Ethnic identity and imperative patriotism: Arab Americans before and after 9/11 -- Observations on a new fifth column: anti-Arab racism in the American university -- Is Zionism racism? …”
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The politics of imagining Asia by Wang, Hui

Table of Contents: “…The politics of imagining Asia -- How to explain "China" and its "modernity" : rethinking the rise of modern Chinese thought -- Local forms, vernacular dialects, and the war of resistance against Japan : the "national forms" debate -- The "Tibetan question" East and West : Orientalism, regional ethnic autonomy, and the politics of dignity -- Okinawa and two dramatic changes to the regional order -- Weber and the question of Chinese modernity.…”
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First-generation college students understanding and improving the experience from recruitment to commencement / by Ward, Lee, Dr

Table of Contents: “…Class, Culture, Race, and Ethnicity5. Transforming How We Work with First-Generation Students6. …”
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Anti-Arab racism in the USA where it comes from and what it means for politics today / by Salaita, Steven, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the evolution of white supremacy -- The perilous world of savages and barbarians -- Ethnic identity and imperative patriotism: Arab Americans before and after 9/11 -- Observations on a new fifth column: anti-Arab racism in the American university -- Is Zionism racism? …”
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The politics of imagining Asia by Wang, Hui

Table of Contents: “…The politics of imagining Asia -- How to explain "China" and its "modernity" : rethinking the rise of modern Chinese thought -- Local forms, vernacular dialects, and the war of resistance against Japan : the "national forms" debate -- The "Tibetan question" East and West : Orientalism, regional ethnic autonomy, and the politics of dignity -- Okinawa and two dramatic changes to the regional order -- Weber and the question of Chinese modernity.…”
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First-generation college students understanding and improving the experience from recruitment to commencement / by Ward, Lee, Dr

Table of Contents: “…Class, Culture, Race, and Ethnicity5. Transforming How We Work with First-Generation Students6. …”
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The new entrepreneurs how race, class, and gender shape American enterprise / by Valdez, Zulema

Table of Contents: “…: the economic and social value of Latino/a enterprise -- Ethnic and racial identity formation among American Latino/a entrepreneurs -- Rugged individualists and the American dream -- Conclusion : embedded entrepreneurs in brown, black, and white.…”
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Everyone eats understanding food and culture / by Anderson, Eugene N. (Eugene Newton), 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Everyone eats -- Obligatory omnivores -- Human nutritional needs -- More needs than one -- The senses : taste, smell, and the adapted mind -- Basics : environment and economy -- Food as pleasure -- Food classification and communication -- Me, myself, and the others : food as social marker -- Food and traditional medicine -- Food and religion -- Change -- Foods and borders : ethnicities, cuisines, and boundary crossings -- Feeding the world.…”
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Archaeologies of English Renaissance literature by Schwyzer, Philip

Table of Contents: “…Intimate disciplines : archaeology, literary criticism, and the traces of the dead -- Exhumation and ethnic conflict : colonial archaeology from St Erkenwald to Spenser in Ireland -- Dissolving images : monastic ruins in Elizabethan poetry -- Charnel knowledge : open graves in Shakespeare and Donne -- 'Mummy is become merchandise' : cannibals and commodities in the seventeenth century -- Readers of the lost urns : desire and disintegration in Thomas Browne's Urn-burial.…”
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The new entrepreneurs how race, class, and gender shape American enterprise / by Valdez, Zulema

Table of Contents: “…: the economic and social value of Latino/a enterprise -- Ethnic and racial identity formation among American Latino/a entrepreneurs -- Rugged individualists and the American dream -- Conclusion : embedded entrepreneurs in brown, black, and white.…”
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Reframing Latin America a cultural theory reading of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / by Ching, Erik Kristofer

Table of Contents: “…(Not) An Abbreviated Introduction -- Saussure, Signs, and Semiotics, or Lots of Words That Begin with S -- Narrating about Narrative -- Part II: Theory -- An Opening Jaunt: El Salvador in 1923 -- A Gringo in Mañana-land / Harry Foster -- Be Here (or There) Now: Ethnicity -- Identity and Difference / Stuart Hall -- Identity Construct #1: Race -- I'm Not a Racist But... / Lawrence Blum -- Race and Ethnicity in Latin America / Peter Wade -- Identity Construct #2: Class -- The Idea of the Middle Class / David Parker -- Identity Construct #3: Gender -- Doing Gender / Candace West and Don Zimmerman -- Masculinities / R. …”
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Reframing Latin America a cultural theory reading of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / by Ching, Erik Kristofer

Table of Contents: “…(Not) An Abbreviated Introduction -- Saussure, Signs, and Semiotics, or Lots of Words That Begin with S -- Narrating about Narrative -- Part II: Theory -- An Opening Jaunt: El Salvador in 1923 -- A Gringo in Mañana-land / Harry Foster -- Be Here (or There) Now: Ethnicity -- Identity and Difference / Stuart Hall -- Identity Construct #1: Race -- I'm Not a Racist But... / Lawrence Blum -- Race and Ethnicity in Latin America / Peter Wade -- Identity Construct #2: Class -- The Idea of the Middle Class / David Parker -- Identity Construct #3: Gender -- Doing Gender / Candace West and Don Zimmerman -- Masculinities / R. …”
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Changing the U.S. health care system : key issues in health services policy and management /

Table of Contents: “…Changing the U.S. health care system: the patient protection and affordable care act -- Improving access to care in America -- Ethnic disparities in health status -- Racial and ethnic disparities in health care -- Multilevel social determinants of health -- Public policies to extend health care coverage -- Private health insurance -- Measuring health care costs and trends -- Containing health care costs -- Promoting pharmaceutical access while controlling prices and expenditures -- Measuring health-related quality of life and other outcomes -- Evaluating the quality of care -- Public release of information on quality -- Health care information systems -- Performance measurement of nursing care -- Long-term services and supports for the elderly population -- Hiv and aids in the twenty-first century -- Health reform for children and families -- Homeless persons -- Changing the US health care delivery system -- Medicare reform -- Public health and clinical care -- Strengthening the safety net -- Ethical issues in public health and health services.…”
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Changing the U.S. health care system : key issues in health services policy and management /

Table of Contents: “…Changing the U.S. health care system: the patient protection and affordable care act -- Improving access to care in America -- Ethnic disparities in health status -- Racial and ethnic disparities in health care -- Multilevel social determinants of health -- Public policies to extend health care coverage -- Private health insurance -- Measuring health care costs and trends -- Containing health care costs -- Promoting pharmaceutical access while controlling prices and expenditures -- Measuring health-related quality of life and other outcomes -- Evaluating the quality of care -- Public release of information on quality -- Health care information systems -- Performance measurement of nursing care -- Long-term services and supports for the elderly population -- Hiv and aids in the twenty-first century -- Health reform for children and families -- Homeless persons -- Changing the US health care delivery system -- Medicare reform -- Public health and clinical care -- Strengthening the safety net -- Ethical issues in public health and health services.…”
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Gendered processes Korean immigrant small business ownership / by Lee, Eunju, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Theories of immigrant entrepreneurship : a framework for applying a gender perspective -- Korean immigrant entrepreneurs in the New York City Metropolitan Area -- Profiles of Korean immigrants in small business -- Paths of immigrant entrepreneurship -- Gender and ownership : rethinking family labor -- A gendered niche : the case of the nail salon industry -- Gender and ethnic stratification in Korean Small businesses -- The future of Korean immigrant entrepreneurship.…”
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French theatre today the view from New York, Paris, and Avignon / by Turk, Edward Baron

Table of Contents: “…Great classics revisited -- Boulevard, experimental, and in-between -- Three prodigious artists -- Cultural diversity (I): ethnicities -- Cultural diversity (II): operas and circuses -- Avignon. …”
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