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Guardians of the valley Guardians of the valley Edward J. Cashin This is the first comprehensive history of the Lower Chickasaws in the Savannah River Valley. Edward J. Cashin, the preeminent historian of colonial Georgia history, offers an account of the Lower Ch… OL15069475W
The new face of small-town America The new face of small-town America Edgar Sandoval "A collection of essays on the experiences of Latino immigrants in Allentown, Pennsylvania"--Provided by publisher. OL15586985W
Jewish identity and civil rights in America Jewish identity and civil rights in America Kenneth L. Marcus "What does it mean to be Jewish? This ancient question has become a pressing civil rights controversy. Despite a recent resurgence of anti-Semitic incidents on American college campuses, the U.S. Dep… OL15603378W
Stars of David Stars of David Abigail Pogrebin A collection of intimate conversations with sixty-one prominent Jews--including Mike Nichols, Leonard Nimoy, Steven Spielberg, Beverly Sills, and Larry King--reveals how they feel about their Jewish … OL15833345W
Say it loud Say it loud Stephen Smith,Catherine Ellis Collects the text and audio recordings of famous African American political speeches, by individuals ranging from Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. to Condoleezza Rice and Barack Obama. OL15896798W
Ogimaag Ogimaag Cary Miller "Cary Miller's Ogimaag: Anishinaabeg Leadership, 1760-1845 reexamines Ojibwe leadership practices and processes in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. At the end of the nineteenth cen… OL15975080W
Forging people 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
Organizing to change a city Organizing to change a city Kitty Kelly Epstein The book tells the story of a huge number of residents working to change their city. They recruited a progressive African-American to run for mayor, engaged 1000 people in task forces to make policy… OL16585448W
Indian affairs and the administrative state in the nineteenth century Indian affairs and the administrative state in the nineteenth century Stephen J. Rockwell "The framers of the Constitution and the generations that followed built a powerful and intrusive national administrative state in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The romantic myth of a… OL16964655W
Why can't they be like us? America's white ethnic groups 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
The pious ones The pious ones Berger, Joseph "As the population of ultra-Orthodox Jews in the United States increases to record proportions after near-extinction during the Holocaust, award-winning New York Times journalist and author Joseph Be… OL17935946W
New cosmopolitanisms New cosmopolitanisms Shailja Sharma xii, 172 pages ; 24 cm OL18288432W
A Jew in America A Jew in America Arthur Hertzberg ""I became an American by refusing to assimilate," writes Arthur Hertzberg in this long-awaited memoir. Throughout his life this world-renowned rabbi, activist, author, historian, public servant, and… OL1858476W
A history of the khipu A history of the khipu Galen Brokaw "This book begins by proposing a theoretical model that reconciles orality-literacy studies and media theory in order to avoid the specious dichotomization of societies into those with and those with… OL18672950W
The Soviet Jewish Americans The Soviet Jewish Americans Annelise Orleck xiv, 216 p. : 25 cm OL1897441W
Village of immigrants Village of immigrants Diana R. Gordon "Greenport, New York, a village on the North Fork of Long Island, exemplifies a little-noted national trend--that of immigrants spreading beyond the big coastal cities, driving much of rural populati… OL19714635W
Mexican American children and families Mexican American children and families Yvonne M. Caldera,Eric W. Lindsey "Offering new insight on Mexican American culture and families, this book provides an interdisciplinary examination of this growing population. Contributors from psychology, education, health, and so… OL19994940W
The star and the stripes The star and the stripes Michael N. Barnett "How do American Jews envision their role in the world? Are they tribal--a people whose obligations extend solely to their own? Or are they prophetic--a light unto nations, working to repair the worl… OL20023352W
Making Refuge Making Refuge Catherine Besteman In Gesture and Power Yolanda Covington-Ward examines the everyday embodied practices and performances of the BisiKongo people of the lower Congo to show how their gestures, dances, and spirituality a… OL20240916W
Democracy and ethnography Democracy and ethnography Carol J. Greenhouse,Roshanak Kheshti These ethnographic essays by scholars in anthropology, law, political science, folklore, public administration, medicine, and linguistics show contemporary connections between liberal democracy and e… OL20544333W
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