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High tech low pay a Marxist analysis of the changing character of the working class / by Marcy, Sam Ballan

Table of Contents: “…Technology and national oppression -- pt. 3. Strategies for a working class fightback.…”
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The Iraqi predicament people in the quagmire of power politics / by Ismael, Tareq Y.

Table of Contents: “…The Iraq question in Arab politics -- The US, September 11 and the invasion of Iraq -- The UN sanctions : tools of domination and oppression -- Social deconstruction : social development under siege -- Russia and the question of Iraq.…”
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The Iraqi predicament people in the quagmire of power politics / by Ismael, Tareq Y.

Table of Contents: “…The Iraq question in Arab politics -- The US, September 11 and the invasion of Iraq -- The UN sanctions : tools of domination and oppression -- Social deconstruction : social development under siege -- Russia and the question of Iraq.…”
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Faces of state terrorism by Westra, Laura

Table of Contents: “…Terrorism : a conceptual analysis -- Terrorism and crime -- Terrorism : means and motives, the quest for independence and the limits to self-defense -- State terrorism and economic oppression : the many "faces" of state -- Terrorism -- State responsibility : principles and theory.…”
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Faces of state terrorism by Westra, Laura

Table of Contents: “…Terrorism : a conceptual analysis -- Terrorism and crime -- Terrorism : means and motives, the quest for independence and the limits to self-defense -- State terrorism and economic oppression : the many "faces" of state -- Terrorism -- State responsibility : principles and theory.…”
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National trauma in postdictatorship Latin American literature Chile and Argentina / by Wirshing, Irene, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Wounds of humanity in Diamela Eltit's The sacred cow and The fourth world -- Ricardo Piglia's The absent city: oppressed memories unearthed -- Ariel Dorfman's Death and the maiden: testimonial theater of the "paranoid" -- Griselda Gambaro's Antígona Furiosa: heiress of shame and bride to freedom.…”
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National trauma in postdictatorship Latin American literature Chile and Argentina / by Wirshing, Irene, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Wounds of humanity in Diamela Eltit's The sacred cow and The fourth world -- Ricardo Piglia's The absent city: oppressed memories unearthed -- Ariel Dorfman's Death and the maiden: testimonial theater of the "paranoid" -- Griselda Gambaro's Antígona Furiosa: heiress of shame and bride to freedom.…”
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Transforming the ivory tower : challenging racism, sexism, and homophobia in the academy /

Table of Contents: “…The ivory tower paradox : higher education as a site of oppression and resistance / Brett C. Stockdill and Mary Yu Danico -- Transforming the place that rewards and oppresses us / Rick Bonus -- Telling our stories, naming ourselves : the lost María in the academy / Christina Gómez -- Striving to be queer : challenging inequality from positions of privilege / Michael Armato -- One activist intellectual's experience in surviving and transforming the academy / Jose Guillermo Zapata Calderon -- Activist-scholar alliances for social change : the transformative power of university-community collaborations / David Naguib Pellow -- Transformative disjunctures in the academy : Asian American studies as praxis / Linda Trinh Võ -- Queering the ivory tower : tales of a troublemaking homosexual / Brett C. …”
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Transforming the ivory tower : challenging racism, sexism, and homophobia in the academy /

Table of Contents: “…The ivory tower paradox : higher education as a site of oppression and resistance / Brett C. Stockdill and Mary Yu Danico -- Transforming the place that rewards and oppresses us / Rick Bonus -- Telling our stories, naming ourselves : the lost María in the academy / Christina Gómez -- Striving to be queer : challenging inequality from positions of privilege / Michael Armato -- One activist intellectual's experience in surviving and transforming the academy / Jose Guillermo Zapata Calderon -- Activist-scholar alliances for social change : the transformative power of university-community collaborations / David Naguib Pellow -- Transformative disjunctures in the academy : Asian American studies as praxis / Linda Trinh Võ -- Queering the ivory tower : tales of a troublemaking homosexual / Brett C. …”
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Women's movements and the Filipina, 1986-2008 / by Roces, Mina, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…The religious roots of women's oppression -- Prostitution, women's movements, and the victim narrative -- The woman as worker -- Indigenous women -- Hindi kailangan magtiis (there is no need to endure) -- Women's studies on the air -- Fashioning women through activism, ritual, and dress -- Women's movements in transnational spaces -- Women's movements in liminal spaces.…”
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Women's movements and the Filipina, 1986-2008 / by Roces, Mina, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…The religious roots of women's oppression -- Prostitution, women's movements, and the victim narrative -- The woman as worker -- Indigenous women -- Hindi kailangan magtiis (there is no need to endure) -- Women's studies on the air -- Fashioning women through activism, ritual, and dress -- Women's movements in transnational spaces -- Women's movements in liminal spaces.…”
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An African republic Black & White Virginians in the making of Liberia / by Tyler-McGraw, Marie

Table of Contents: “…A small frisson of fear, soon soothed -- The alchemy of colonization -- Auxiliary arms - Ho, all ye that are by the pale-faces' law oppressed: out of Virginia -- My old mistress promise me -- Revising the future in Virginia -- Virginians in Liberia -- Liberians in Africa and America -- Civil War to white city.…”
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Spider by Michalska, Katarzyna

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : spiders on the wall and elsewhere -- Some basic zoological facts -- Arachnophobia -- Venom and cold intellect : the spider and its web in the European intellectual tradition -- The femme fatale and eroticism -- Oppressive mothers, dreams and Louise Bourgeois -- Spiders in art and caricature -- Myth and folklore -- Urban legends -- Spider goes Hollywood.…”
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An African republic Black & White Virginians in the making of Liberia / by Tyler-McGraw, Marie

Table of Contents: “…A small frisson of fear, soon soothed -- The alchemy of colonization -- Auxiliary arms - Ho, all ye that are by the pale-faces' law oppressed: out of Virginia -- My old mistress promise me -- Revising the future in Virginia -- Virginians in Liberia -- Liberians in Africa and America -- Civil War to white city.…”
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Spider by Michalska, Katarzyna

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : spiders on the wall and elsewhere -- Some basic zoological facts -- Arachnophobia -- Venom and cold intellect : the spider and its web in the European intellectual tradition -- The femme fatale and eroticism -- Oppressive mothers, dreams and Louise Bourgeois -- Spiders in art and caricature -- Myth and folklore -- Urban legends -- Spider goes Hollywood.…”
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Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor / by Kammen, Douglas Anton

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : situating recurrent mass violence -- Contested origins -- Maubara and the Dutch East India Company -- Vassalage and violence, 1861-1887 -- The uprising and devastation of 1893 -- High colonialism and new forms of oppression, 1894-1974 -- The end of empire and the Indonesian occupation, 1974-1998 -- Serious crimes and the politics of the past, 1999-2012.…”
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Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor / by Kammen, Douglas Anton

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : situating recurrent mass violence -- Contested origins -- Maubara and the Dutch East India Company -- Vassalage and violence, 1861-1887 -- The uprising and devastation of 1893 -- High colonialism and new forms of oppression, 1894-1974 -- The end of empire and the Indonesian occupation, 1974-1998 -- Serious crimes and the politics of the past, 1999-2012.…”
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Listening for Africa : Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music's African Origins / by García, David F.

Table of Contents: “…Analyzing the African origins of Negro music and dance in a time of racism, fascism, and war -- Listening to Africa in the city, in the laboratory, and on record -- Embodying Africa against racial oppression, ignorance, and colonialism -- Disalienating movement and sound from the pathologies of freedom and time -- Desiring Africa, or Western civilization's discontents -- Conclusion: dance-music as rhizome.…”
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Listening for Africa : Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music's African Origins / by García, David F.

Table of Contents: “…Analyzing the African origins of Negro music and dance in a time of racism, fascism, and war -- Listening to Africa in the city, in the laboratory, and on record -- Embodying Africa against racial oppression, ignorance, and colonialism -- Disalienating movement and sound from the pathologies of freedom and time -- Desiring Africa, or Western civilization's discontents -- Conclusion: dance-music as rhizome.…”
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Zombies are us essays on the humanity of the walking dead /

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