Search Results - "Ethnicity"

When diversity drops race, religion, and affirmative action in higher education / by Park, Julie J., 1982-

Table of Contents: “…The cultural and organizational contexts of race, religion, and higher education -- Changing a culture: IVCF decides to make race matter -- Pursuing common goals: building congruence between race and faith -- "Man, this is hard": the possibilities and perils of interracial friendship -- Shifting strategies: going ethnic-specific -- When race goes on the backburner: IVCF loses diversity -- When a minority is the majority: Asian Americans in IVCF -- Renewing a commitment: realigning values, structures, and practice.…”
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We fought the Navy and won Guam's quest for democracy : a personal memoir / by Cogan, Doloris Coulter

Table of Contents: “…Welcome to Guam -- The Institute of Ethnic Affairs -- Collier and Ickes kick off the battle -- To be or not to be a strategic trusteeship -- The Guam echo -- The fight for civilian government -- The press weighs in -- The Navy versus the Guamanians -- Rehabilitation of Guam begins -- F.B. …”
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Nordic exposures Scandinavian identities in classical Hollywood cinema / by Lunde, Arne Olav

Table of Contents: “…Racializing Vinland: the Nordic conquest of whiteness in technicolor's The viking -- Scandinavian/American whiteface: ethnic whiteness and assimilation in Victor Sjöström's He who gets slapped -- Hotel Imperial: the border crossings of Mauritz Stiller -- Garbo talks! …”
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When diversity drops race, religion, and affirmative action in higher education / by Park, Julie J., 1982-

Table of Contents: “…The cultural and organizational contexts of race, religion, and higher education -- Changing a culture: IVCF decides to make race matter -- Pursuing common goals: building congruence between race and faith -- "Man, this is hard": the possibilities and perils of interracial friendship -- Shifting strategies: going ethnic-specific -- When race goes on the backburner: IVCF loses diversity -- When a minority is the majority: Asian Americans in IVCF -- Renewing a commitment: realigning values, structures, and practice.…”
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Remade in Hollywood the global Chinese presence in transnational cinemas / by Chan, Kenneth

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : remaking Chinese cinemas, Hollywood style -- Visualizing Hong Kong : Hollywood's 1997 response to the Hong Kong handover -- The global return of the Wuxia pian (Chinese sword-fighting movie) -- Enter the triads : American cinema's new racialized criminal other -- Hollywood's Sino-chic : Kung fu parody, mimicry, and play in cross-cultural citationality -- Chinese supernaturalism : mythic ethnography and the mystical other -- Coda : global cinematic technologies of ethnic (un)representation.…”
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An Intimate Rebuke : Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in West Africa / by Grillo, Laura S., 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Founding knowledge/binding power : the moral foundations of ethnicity and alliance -- 5. Women at the checkpoint : challenging the forces of civil war -- 6. …”
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Remade in Hollywood the global Chinese presence in transnational cinemas / by Chan, Kenneth

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : remaking Chinese cinemas, Hollywood style -- Visualizing Hong Kong : Hollywood's 1997 response to the Hong Kong handover -- The global return of the Wuxia pian (Chinese sword-fighting movie) -- Enter the triads : American cinema's new racialized criminal other -- Hollywood's Sino-chic : Kung fu parody, mimicry, and play in cross-cultural citationality -- Chinese supernaturalism : mythic ethnography and the mystical other -- Coda : global cinematic technologies of ethnic (un)representation.…”
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An Intimate Rebuke : Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in West Africa / by Grillo, Laura S., 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Founding knowledge/binding power : the moral foundations of ethnicity and alliance -- 5. Women at the checkpoint : challenging the forces of civil war -- 6. …”
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Children of a new world society, culture, and globalization / by Fass, Paula S.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Children in society, culture, and the world -- Immigration and education in the United States -- The IQ : a cultural and historical framework -- Creating new identities : youth and ethnicity in New York City high schools in the 1930s and 1940s -- Making and remaking an event : the Leopold and Loeb case in American culture -- A sign of family disorder? …”
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Genetics in practice a clinical approach for healthcare practitioners / by Haydon, Jo

Table of Contents: “…The scientific and clinical discoveries that are used to provide current patient care / Peter Farndon -- The family history / Jo Haydon -- Basic biology / Tessa Webb and Jo Haydon -- Laboratory techniques / Eileen Roberts and Sarah Warburton -- Risk perception and options available / Jo Haydon -- Chromosome disorders / Jo Haydon -- Autosomal dominant disorders : 50% risk to offspring / Jo Haydon -- Autosomal recessive disorders : unaffected parents with 25% risk to offspring / Jo Haydon -- X-linked recessive disorders : carrier mothers, affected sons / Jo Haydon -- Multifactorial inheritance : interaction of genes and environment / Jo Haydon -- Mitochondrial disorders : inherited from mother by males and females / Jo Haydon -- Cancer genetics / Lucy Burgess -- Ethnicity / Jo Haydon -- Ethical issues / Amanda Barry -- Professional development / Jo Haydon and Amanda Barry -- Here and now: integrating current possibilities into patient care / Peter Farndon.…”
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Livelihoods at the margins surviving the city /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : livelihoods at the margins / James Staples -- No money, no life : surviving on the streets of Kampala / Stan Frankland -- Embodying oppression : revolta amongst young people living on the streets of Rio De Janeiro / Udi Butler -- Children on the streets of Dhaka and their coping strategies / Alessandro Conticini -- Hindu nationalism and failing development goals : micro-finance, women and illegal livelihoods in the Bombay slums / Atreyee Sen -- Keeping it clean : discipline, control and everyday politics in a Bangkok shopping mall / Alyson Brody -- Fast money in the margins : migrants in the sex industry / Laura María Agustín -- -- Begging questions : leprosy and alms collection in Mumbai / James Staples -- Vulnerable in the city : Adivasi seasonal labour migrants in western India / David Mosse, with Sanjeev Gupta and Vidya Shah -- "Moving up and down looking for money" : making a living in a Ugandan refugee camp / Tania Kaiser -- "In-betweenness" on the margins : collective organisation, ethnicity and political agency among Bolivian street traders / Sian Lazar.…”
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Traitors suspicion, intimacy, and the ethics of state-building /

Table of Contents: “…Strauss -- Betraying trust and the elusive nature of ethnicity in Burundi / Simon Turner -- In praise of traitors: intimacy, betrayal, and the Sri Lankan Tamil community / Sharika Thiranagama -- Treason and contested moralities in a coloured township, Cape Town / Steffen Jensen -- In a treacherous state: the fear of collaboration among West Bank Palestinians / Tobias Kelly -- The glass agency: Iranian war veterans as heroes or traitors? …”
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"The slippery memory of men" the place of Pomerania in the medieval Kingdom of Poland / by Milliman, Paul

Table of Contents: “…A iugo principum Polonie, a iugo Theutonicorum : Pomerania and the south Baltic frontier of Latin Christendom in the early thirteenth century -- Dealing with the past and planning for the future : contested memories, conflicted loyalties, and the partition and donation of Pomerania in the late thirteenth century -- The restorations of the Kingdom of Poland and the foundation of the Teutonic Ordensstaat at the turn of the fourteenth century -- Immortalis Discordia : eternal enmity, massacre, and memorialization in the German-Polish borderlands -- Pomerania between Poland and Prussia : lordship, ethnicity, territoriality, and memory -- Appendix 1: The Procurator-General of the Teutonic Knights pleads his case to the Papal Curia concerning the Gdansk Massacre, 1310 -- Appendix 2: The claims submitted by the Polish Procurators in 1320 -- Appendix 3: The claims submitted by the Royal Procurator in 1339.…”
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Writing and speaking from the heart of my mind : selected essays and speeches / by Mugo, Micere Githae

Table of Contents: “…Culture, class, gender, Pan-Africanism and human development -- Culture in Africa and imperialism -- Gender, ethnicity, class and culture -- Re-envisioning Pan-Africanism: what are the roles of gender, youth and the masses? …”

Livelihoods at the margins surviving the city /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : livelihoods at the margins / James Staples -- No money, no life : surviving on the streets of Kampala / Stan Frankland -- Embodying oppression : revolta amongst young people living on the streets of Rio De Janeiro / Udi Butler -- Children on the streets of Dhaka and their coping strategies / Alessandro Conticini -- Hindu nationalism and failing development goals : micro-finance, women and illegal livelihoods in the Bombay slums / Atreyee Sen -- Keeping it clean : discipline, control and everyday politics in a Bangkok shopping mall / Alyson Brody -- Fast money in the margins : migrants in the sex industry / Laura María Agustín -- -- Begging questions : leprosy and alms collection in Mumbai / James Staples -- Vulnerable in the city : Adivasi seasonal labour migrants in western India / David Mosse, with Sanjeev Gupta and Vidya Shah -- "Moving up and down looking for money" : making a living in a Ugandan refugee camp / Tania Kaiser -- "In-betweenness" on the margins : collective organisation, ethnicity and political agency among Bolivian street traders / Sian Lazar.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Traitors suspicion, intimacy, and the ethics of state-building /

Table of Contents: “…Strauss -- Betraying trust and the elusive nature of ethnicity in Burundi / Simon Turner -- In praise of traitors: intimacy, betrayal, and the Sri Lankan Tamil community / Sharika Thiranagama -- Treason and contested moralities in a coloured township, Cape Town / Steffen Jensen -- In a treacherous state: the fear of collaboration among West Bank Palestinians / Tobias Kelly -- The glass agency: Iranian war veterans as heroes or traitors? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

"The slippery memory of men" the place of Pomerania in the medieval Kingdom of Poland / by Milliman, Paul

Table of Contents: “…A iugo principum Polonie, a iugo Theutonicorum : Pomerania and the south Baltic frontier of Latin Christendom in the early thirteenth century -- Dealing with the past and planning for the future : contested memories, conflicted loyalties, and the partition and donation of Pomerania in the late thirteenth century -- The restorations of the Kingdom of Poland and the foundation of the Teutonic Ordensstaat at the turn of the fourteenth century -- Immortalis Discordia : eternal enmity, massacre, and memorialization in the German-Polish borderlands -- Pomerania between Poland and Prussia : lordship, ethnicity, territoriality, and memory -- Appendix 1: The Procurator-General of the Teutonic Knights pleads his case to the Papal Curia concerning the Gdansk Massacre, 1310 -- Appendix 2: The claims submitted by the Polish Procurators in 1320 -- Appendix 3: The claims submitted by the Royal Procurator in 1339.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Writing and speaking from the heart of my mind : selected essays and speeches / by Mugo, Micere Githae

Table of Contents: “…Culture, class, gender, Pan-Africanism and human development -- Culture in Africa and imperialism -- Gender, ethnicity, class and culture -- Re-envisioning Pan-Africanism: what are the roles of gender, youth and the masses? …”

Children of a new world society, culture, and globalization / by Fass, Paula S.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Children in society, culture, and the world -- Immigration and education in the United States -- The IQ : a cultural and historical framework -- Creating new identities : youth and ethnicity in New York City high schools in the 1930s and 1940s -- Making and remaking an event : the Leopold and Loeb case in American culture -- A sign of family disorder? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Genetics in practice a clinical approach for healthcare practitioners / by Haydon, Jo

Table of Contents: “…The scientific and clinical discoveries that are used to provide current patient care / Peter Farndon -- The family history / Jo Haydon -- Basic biology / Tessa Webb and Jo Haydon -- Laboratory techniques / Eileen Roberts and Sarah Warburton -- Risk perception and options available / Jo Haydon -- Chromosome disorders / Jo Haydon -- Autosomal dominant disorders : 50% risk to offspring / Jo Haydon -- Autosomal recessive disorders : unaffected parents with 25% risk to offspring / Jo Haydon -- X-linked recessive disorders : carrier mothers, affected sons / Jo Haydon -- Multifactorial inheritance : interaction of genes and environment / Jo Haydon -- Mitochondrial disorders : inherited from mother by males and females / Jo Haydon -- Cancer genetics / Lucy Burgess -- Ethnicity / Jo Haydon -- Ethical issues / Amanda Barry -- Professional development / Jo Haydon and Amanda Barry -- Here and now: integrating current possibilities into patient care / Peter Farndon.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view