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Religion, national identity, and confessional politics in Lebanon
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Robert G. Rabil |
"Tracing the rise of Islamism in Lebanon and its attempt to Islamize society and state by the reverse integration of society and state into the project of Islamism, this book looks at Lebanon against… |
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Hizbullah's identity construction
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Joseph Elie Alagha |
"The important study [title] offers a revolutionary new perspective on the political phenomenon of Hizbullah whose evolution has frequently confounded scholars and politicians. Drawing on his unparal… |
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Legal grounds
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Nandini Sundar |
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After identity
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Georgia Warnke |
Social and political theorists have traced in detail how individuals come to possess gender, sex and racial identities. This book examines the nature of these identities. Georgia Warnke argues that i… |
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Divided
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Tim Marshall |
"Tim Marshall ... analyzes the most urgent and tenacious topics in global politics and international relations by examining the borders, walls, and boundaries that divide countries and their populati… |
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Galileo's middle finger
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Alice Domurat Dreger |
"An investigation of some of the most contentious debates of our time, Galileo's Middle Finger describes Alice Dreger's experiences on the front lines of scientific controversy, where for two decades… |
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When states come out
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Phillip Ayoub |
"In the last two decades, the LGBT movement has gained momentum that is arguably unprecedented in speed and suddenness when compared to other human rights movements. This book investigates the recent… |
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A battlefield of values
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Stephen Burgard |
"This title aims to both point out the unhealthy chasm of polarization in the nation and also describe with empathy why people of good will can hold such divergent beliefs and values while still ascr… |
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Black elephants in the room
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Corey Fields |
"What do you think of when you hear about an African American Republican? Are they heroes fighting against the expectation that all blacks must vote democratic? Are they Uncle Toms or sellouts, servi… |
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The possessive investment in whiteness
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George Lipsitz |
In this unflinching look at white supremacy, George Lipsitz argues that racism is a matter of interests as well as attitudes, a problem of property as well as pigment. Above and beyond personal preju… |
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Yearning
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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 … |
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Uncivil war
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James D. Le Sueur |
"Uncivil War is a study of the intellectuals who confronted the loss of France's most prized overseas possession, colonial Algeria. Tracing the intellectual history of one of the most violent wars of… |
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Settling the Pop Score
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Stan Hawkins |
"The analysis of popular music forces us to rethink the assumptions that underpin our approaches to the study of Western music. Not least, it brings to the fore an idea that many musicologists still … |
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