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The World Jewish Congress during the Holocaust : between activism and restraint / by Segev, Zohar

Table of Contents: “…World Jewish Congress Activity in the United States during World War -- Stephen Wise, Nahum Goldmann, and the Question of Palestine in 1940s America -- The World Jewish Congress's Rescue Effort -- Diaspora Nationalism, The World Jewish Congress, American Jewry, and the Post-War Rehabilitation of Europe's Jews -- Summary -- Afterword.…”
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Colonial memory and postcolonial Europe Maltese settlers in Algeria and France / by Smith, Andrea L.

Table of Contents: “…A song in Malta -- Maltese settler clubs in France -- A hierarchy of settlers and the liminal Maltese -- The Algerian melting pot -- The ambivalence of assimilation -- The French-Algerian War and its aftermath -- Diaspora, rejection, and nostalgérie -- Settler ethnicity and identity politics in postcolonial France -- Place, replaced : Malta as Algeria in the pied-noir imagination.…”
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Genomes, evolution, and culture : past, present, and future of humankind / by Herrera, Rene J., Garcia-Bertrand, Ralph, Salzano, Francisco M.

Table of Contents: “…The history of human evolutionary genetics -- The human genome: structure, function, and variation -- Population structure -- Genetic variability -- Gene and genomic dynamics -- Human origins and early diasporas -- Culture -- Health and disease -- Recent human evolution : an integrative approach -- Bioethics : consequences and implications of genetic technology on human evolution -- Future of human evolution.…”
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Genomes, evolution, and culture : past, present, and future of humankind / by Herrera, Rene J., Garcia-Bertrand, Ralph, Salzano, Francisco M.

Table of Contents: “…The history of human evolutionary genetics -- The human genome: structure, function, and variation -- Population structure -- Genetic variability -- Gene and genomic dynamics -- Human origins and early diasporas -- Culture -- Health and disease -- Recent human evolution : an integrative approach -- Bioethics : consequences and implications of genetic technology on human evolution -- Future of human evolution.…”
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Colonial memory and postcolonial Europe Maltese settlers in Algeria and France / by Smith, Andrea L.

Table of Contents: “…A song in Malta -- Maltese settler clubs in France -- A hierarchy of settlers and the liminal Maltese -- The Algerian melting pot -- The ambivalence of assimilation -- The French-Algerian War and its aftermath -- Diaspora, rejection, and nostalgérie -- Settler ethnicity and identity politics in postcolonial France -- Place, replaced : Malta as Algeria in the pied-noir imagination.…”
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From fetish to subject race, modernism, and primitivism, 1919-1935 / by Sweeney, Carole

Table of Contents: “…Constructing the modern primitive -- "I'll say it's getting darker and darker in Paris" : Josephine Baker and La revue n�egre -- Black woman/colonial body -- "Go to Harlem, it's sharper there" : negro : an anthology (1934) -- "A conceptual swindle" : surrealism, race and anticolonialism -- Diaspora and resistance : a 'French' black Atlantic and counterprimitivism.…”
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From fetish to subject race, modernism, and primitivism, 1919-1935 / by Sweeney, Carole

Table of Contents: “…Constructing the modern primitive -- "I'll say it's getting darker and darker in Paris" : Josephine Baker and La revue n�egre -- Black woman/colonial body -- "Go to Harlem, it's sharper there" : negro : an anthology (1934) -- "A conceptual swindle" : surrealism, race and anticolonialism -- Diaspora and resistance : a 'French' black Atlantic and counterprimitivism.…”
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Jacob's legacy a genetic view of Jewish history / by Goldstein, David B.

Table of Contents: “…The Black Jews of South Africa -- Looking out for number two : the case of the Ashkenazi Levites -- Those Jewish mothers : the development of female-defined ethnicity in the Jewish diaspora -- Look on mine affliction : genetic diseases and Jewish history -- Jews, genes, and the future.…”
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The Mediterranean context of early Greek history by Demand, Nancy H.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the fantastic cauldron of the Mediterranean koine -- Seafaring in the mesolithic Mediterranean -- The neolithic revolution/transition -- The neolithic diaspora -- Urbanization in Mesopotamia -- The 3rd millennium -- The middle Bronze Age (2000-1550): recoveries -- Late Bronze Age maritime networks -- The late Bronze Age collapse and its aftermath -- Recovery and expansion (1050-850 BC).…”
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Relative histories : mediating history in Asian American family memoirs / by Davis, Rocío G.

Table of Contents: “…Relatives and histories -- Family memoirs in the context of auto/biographical writing : mediating history, promoting collective memory -- Representing Asian wars and revolutions -- Multiple journeys and palimpsestic diasporas -- The Chinese in America : histories and spatial positions -- The Asian American family portrait documentary : multiplying discourses -- We're everywhere : Asian diasporic transnational families.…”
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Jacob's legacy a genetic view of Jewish history / by Goldstein, David B.

Table of Contents: “…The Black Jews of South Africa -- Looking out for number two : the case of the Ashkenazi Levites -- Those Jewish mothers : the development of female-defined ethnicity in the Jewish diaspora -- Look on mine affliction : genetic diseases and Jewish history -- Jews, genes, and the future.…”
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The Mediterranean context of early Greek history by Demand, Nancy H.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the fantastic cauldron of the Mediterranean koine -- Seafaring in the mesolithic Mediterranean -- The neolithic revolution/transition -- The neolithic diaspora -- Urbanization in Mesopotamia -- The 3rd millennium -- The middle Bronze Age (2000-1550): recoveries -- Late Bronze Age maritime networks -- The late Bronze Age collapse and its aftermath -- Recovery and expansion (1050-850 BC).…”
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Relative histories : mediating history in Asian American family memoirs / by Davis, Rocío G.

Table of Contents: “…Relatives and histories -- Family memoirs in the context of auto/biographical writing : mediating history, promoting collective memory -- Representing Asian wars and revolutions -- Multiple journeys and palimpsestic diasporas -- The Chinese in America : histories and spatial positions -- The Asian American family portrait documentary : multiplying discourses -- We're everywhere : Asian diasporic transnational families.…”
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Revelry, rivalry, and longing for the Goddesses of Bengal the fortunes of Hindu festivals / by McDermott, Rachel Fell

Table of Contents: “…Pūjā origins and elite politics -- The goddess in colonial and postcolonial history -- Durgā the daughter : folk and familial traditions -- The artistry of Durgā and Jagaddhātrī -- Durgā on the Titanic : politics and religion in the Pūjā -- The "orientalist Kālī" : a Tantric icon comes alive -- Approaches to Kālī Pūjā in Bengal -- Controversies and the goddess -- Deva in the diaspora -- Appendix : an overview of the press in Bengal up to 1947.…”
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Story and song a postcolonial interplay between Christian education and worship / by Kim-Cragg, HyeRan, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Story in Christian education -- Christian formation through the story -- Postcolonial reading of the story -- Contemporary church school curriculum -- Korean Canadian diaspora congregation: a case study -- Song in worship -- Christian formation through song -- Intulturation and postcolonialism in song -- Korean Association Of Women Theologians: a case study -- Postcolonial interplay between Christian education and worship.…”
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Revelry, rivalry, and longing for the Goddesses of Bengal the fortunes of Hindu festivals / by McDermott, Rachel Fell

Table of Contents: “…Pūjā origins and elite politics -- The goddess in colonial and postcolonial history -- Durgā the daughter : folk and familial traditions -- The artistry of Durgā and Jagaddhātrī -- Durgā on the Titanic : politics and religion in the Pūjā -- The "orientalist Kālī" : a Tantric icon comes alive -- Approaches to Kālī Pūjā in Bengal -- Controversies and the goddess -- Deva in the diaspora -- Appendix : an overview of the press in Bengal up to 1947.…”
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Story and song a postcolonial interplay between Christian education and worship / by Kim-Cragg, HyeRan, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Story in Christian education -- Christian formation through the story -- Postcolonial reading of the story -- Contemporary church school curriculum -- Korean Canadian diaspora congregation: a case study -- Song in worship -- Christian formation through song -- Intulturation and postcolonialism in song -- Korean Association Of Women Theologians: a case study -- Postcolonial interplay between Christian education and worship.…”
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The Sanctuary City : Immigrant, Refugee, and Receiving Communities in Postindustrial Philadelphia / by Vitiello, Domenic

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Sanctuary and the Immigrant City -- Sanctuary in Solidarity : Central Americans and the Sanctuary Movement -- Refugee Resettlement : Southeast Asians and the Resettlement System -- African Diasporas : Liberians and Black America -- Muslim Town : Iraqis, Syrians, and Palestinians in Arab and Muslim America -- New Sanctuary : Mexicans and the New Immigration Movements -- Conclusion : What Do We Owe Each Other?…”
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The Sanctuary City : Immigrant, Refugee, and Receiving Communities in Postindustrial Philadelphia / by Vitiello, Domenic

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Sanctuary and the Immigrant City -- Sanctuary in Solidarity : Central Americans and the Sanctuary Movement -- Refugee Resettlement : Southeast Asians and the Resettlement System -- African Diasporas : Liberians and Black America -- Muslim Town : Iraqis, Syrians, and Palestinians in Arab and Muslim America -- New Sanctuary : Mexicans and the New Immigration Movements -- Conclusion : What Do We Owe Each Other?…”
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The Dutch intersection the Jews and the Netherlands in modern history /

Table of Contents: “…Dutch Jewry and the significance of the Damascus Affair (1840) / Bart Wallet -- Jewish artists facing Holland / Rivka Weiss-Blok -- Alfred Klee and Hans Goslar : from Amsterdam to Westerbork to Bergen Belsen / Benjamin Ravid -- Next year in Paramaribo : galut and diaspora as scene-changes in the Jewish life of Jakob Meijer / Evelien Gans -- Writing against silence : Jewish writers of the generation-after in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, and France : a comparison / Elrud Ibsch -- Patrons or partners? …”
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