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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Entre la espada y el falo	Juan Durán Luzio	An excellent scholarly presentation of the deplorable policies and conduct of Spanish colonizers during the period 1492-1550 toward indigenous women in the New World. Durán is a prominent Chilean-bor…	OL13453839W
La costruzione dell'indianità. L'arte popolare di Ayacucho dall'indigenismo ai siti web	Stefania Sebastianis	In a modern world of exotic and desirable image, where the trade of cultural differences is becoming increasingly important folk art from Ayacucho in Peru conveys visual representations that reflect …	OL15193164W
Paper daughter	Jeanette Ingold	When her father, a respected journalist in Seattle, is killed in a hit-and-run accident, Maggie Chen, a high school intern at her father's newspaper, searches for clues to the mysterious circumstance…	OL15408658W
Contesting Europe's eastern rim	Ljiljana Šarić	This edited volume focuses on how political and economic transformations have triggered redefinitions of cultural identity in Europe since 1989. Examining discursive modes of identity construction, t…	OL15521785W
Da guo di fang	Wenzhao Xiong	本书对中央与地方关系结构模式、中央与地方间权限划分机制进行结构分析。探索中央与地方关系的良性互动机制。	OL15628670W
Forging people	Jorge J. E.. Gracia	"Forging People explores the way in which Hispanic American thinkers in Latin America and Latino/a philosophers in the United States have posed and thought about questions of race, ethnicity, and nat…	OL15981054W
Minority students in East Asia	Yuxiang Wang,JoAnn Phillion,Ming-tak Hue	"In <EM>Minority Students in East Asia: Government Policies, School Practices and Teacher Responses </EM>authors discuss their research on minority students' schooling (elementary to higher education…	OL16212461W
Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvania's Anthracite Region, 1880-2000	Karol K. Weaver	While much has been written about immigrant traditions, music, food culture, folklore, and other aspects of ethnic identity, little attention has been given to the study of medical culture, until now…	OL16262739W
Nations	Azar Gat	"What are the origins of nationalism and why is it capable of arousing such intense emotions? In this major study, Azar Gat counters the prevailing fashionable theories according to which nations and…	OL16726465W
'Sleepwalking to segregation'?	Nissa Finney	This book explores contemporary claims about race and migration, combining an overview of the subject with new research. The authors argue that the myths of race and migration are the real threat to …	OL16983060W
Heimat	Blickle, Peter.	"The idea of Heimat (home, homeland, native region) has been as important to German self-perceptions over the last two hundred years as the shifting notion of the German nation. While the idea of Hei…	OL1736367W
Crossing The Divide	Gerald C. Ediger	This book describes how Canadian, and then particularly Manitoba, Mennonite Brethren went through a painful process of exchanging German for English as their primary language of religious discourse a…	OL17370240W
Ethnic leadership in America	John Higham	Central focus of these papers presume that ethnic groups in an open society are the creation of their leaders.	OL17645881W
Why can't they be like us? America's white ethnic groups	Andrew M. Greeley	Surveys the beliefs, nature, and values of white ethnic groups living in the United States.	OL17848W
Taíno revival	Gabriel Haslip-Viera	"This stimulating and timely collection examines the Taino revival movement, a grassroots conglomeration of Puerto Ricans and other Latinos who promote or have adopted the culture and pedigree of the…	OL18355956W
The Canadian ethnic mosaic	Leo Driedger	18 papers on ethnic research presented at 1975 Winnipeg conference Topics include: theoretical perspectives, immigration, child development, ethnic and native identity.	OL18488757W
The Politics of race, class, and nationalism in twentieth-century South Africa	Shula Marks,Stanley Trapido	>In view of the continuing turbulence in South Africa, the analysis of its racially divided social order, and its variety of national and ethnic groupings, has become an urgent intellectual and polit…	OL19184866W
Identidades, estado nacional y globalidad	Luis Aboites,Brígida von Mentz	reflexiones sobre las bases sociales del estado nacion en el mexico del siglo XIX	OL19264622W
Tears we cannot stop	Michael Eric Dyson	Fifty years ago, when a white woman asked Malcolm X what she could do for the cause, he told her "Nothing." Now, Michael Eric Dyson believes he was wrong and responds that if society is to make real …	OL19713152W
Caste	Isabel Wilkerson	“As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is n…	OL20878310W