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Being Arab Being Arab Paul Eid xvi, 255 pages ; 24 cm OL13184233W
Multiethnic teens and cultural identity Multiethnic teens and cultural identity Bárbara Cruz Discusses the many issues facing teens of multiethnic descent, including discrimination and the search for ethnic identity in an unsympathetic culture. OL15844198W
Slavery in the Cherokee Nation Slavery in the Cherokee Nation Patrick Neal Minges This work explores the dynamic issues of race and religion within the Cherokee Nation and to look at the role of secret societies in shaping these forces during the nineteenth century. OL16952142W
Obsessed With Language A Sociolinguistic History Of Quebec Obsessed With Language A Sociolinguistic History Of Quebec Chantal Bouchard "Did the Quebec "habitant" of the nineteenth century speak "Parisian French" or "French-Canadian patois?" And does this matter? And is the joual of the 1960s a language or a sub-standard version of F… OL17393135W
Playing the race card Playing the race card Linda Williams "The black man suffering at the hands of whites, the white woman sexually threatened by the black man. Both images have long been burned into the American conscience through popular entertainment, an… OL1959326W
#NotYourPrincess #NotYourPrincess Mary Beth Leatherdale,Lisa Charleyboy "Whether looking back to a troubled past or welcoming a hopeful future, the powerful voices of Indigenous women across North America resound in this book. In the same style as the best-selling Dreami… OL19671070W
I am because we are I am because we are Fred L. Hord,Jonathan Scott Lee "This anthology of writings by prominent black thinkers from antiquity to the present makes the case for a central tradition of black philosophy, rooted in Africa and distinct from the intellectual h… OL20543927W
Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the African Diaspora Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the African Diaspora Manoucheka Celeste With the exception of slave narratives, there are few stories of black international migration in U.S. news and popular culture. This book is interested in stratified immigrant experiences, diverse b… OL21281204W
Who is an Indian? Who is an Indian? Maximilian Christian Forte "Who is an Indian? This is possibly the oldest question facing Indigenous peoples across the Americas, and one with significant implications for decisions relating to resource distribution, conflicts… OL22329199W
Islam and the Blackamerican Islam and the Blackamerican Sherman A. Jackson Sherman Jackson offers a trenchant examination of the career of Islam among the blacks of America. Jackson notes that no one has offered a convincing explanation of why Islam spread among Blackameric… OL2975324W
Yearning Yearning Bell Hooks,Christopher Raschka "For bell hooks, the best cultural criticism sees no need to separate politics from the pleasure of reading. Yearning collects together some of hooks's classic and early pieces of cultural criticism … OL31122W
The cool knife The cool knife T. O. Beidelman "In The Cool Knife, T. O. Beidelman analyzes in rich detail the ritual, imagery, and symbolism of Kaguru initiations, relating them to other Kaguru ceremonies as well as to more routine daily activit… OL3343755W
War under heaven War under heaven Gregory Evans Dowd "The 1763 Treaty of Paris ceded much of the continent east of the Mississippi to Great Britain, a claim which the Indian nations of the Great Lakes, who suddenly found themselves under British rule, … OL4089208W
Tribalisme et problème national en Afrique noire Tribalisme et problème national en Afrique noire Elenga Mbuyinga >La question ethnique constitue une dimension essentielle du problème national en Afrique noire. Ce qu´on appelle le " tribalisme " est souvent la forme qu´y revêt la question des nationalités. > >… OL4518793W
Passing Strange Passing Strange Martha A. Sandweiss The secret double life of the man who mapped the American West and the woman he lovedClarence King is a hero of nineteenth-century western history. Brilliant scientist and witty conversationalist, be… OL5123523W
Slave culture Slave culture Sterling Stuckey In this ground-breaking study, Sterling Stuckey, a leading cultural historian and authority on slavery, explains how different African peoples interacted on the plantations of the South to achieve a … OL5268241W
Colored pictures Colored pictures Michael D. Harris "In this book, artist and art historian Michael Harris investigates the role of visual representation in the construction of black identities, both real and imagined, in the United States. He focuses… OL5954019W
The remote borderland The remote borderland Kürti, László. "The Remote Borderland explores the significance of the contested region of Transylvania to the creation of Hungarian national identity. Author Laszlo Kurti illustrates the process by which European … OL6210129W
Crossing the green line between the West Bank and Israel Crossing the green line between the West Bank and Israel Avram S. Bornstein "Crossing the Green Line is about passing through checkpoints - specifically those that mark the Green Line, the geopolitical border separating the West Bank from Israel proper - and how their existe… OL6213472W
Ghosts and shadows Ghosts and shadows Atsuko Karin Matsuoka "Focusing on African diaspora groups that have been virtually ignored in discussions of Canadian multiculturalism - Eritreans, Ethiopians, and Oromos - Ghosts and Shadows explores the re-creation of … OL6225987W
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