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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
Building a healthy multi-ethnic church	Mark DeYmaz	Through personal stories, proven experience and a thorough analysis of the biblical text, Building a Healthy Multi-ethnic Church illustrates both the biblical mandate for the multi-ethnic church as w…	OL13676046W
New Race Politics in America	Jane Junn	Foreign migration to the United States is dramatically altering the demographic profile of the American electorate. Nearly a third of all Americans are of non-white and non-European descent. Latinos …	OL15172896W
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
Das Serbokroatische zwischen Linguistik und Politik	Bernhard Gröschel	In this book, it is shown that Croatian and Serbian are variants of a single Serbo-Croatian language. The volume contains 1.500 bibliographic units.	OL15295665W
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
Dim Sum, bagels, and grits	Myra Alperson	"... guides adoptive parents (and parents-to-be) on the journey toward creating a family that represents more than one culture."--cover.	OL15835794W
On being different	Conrad Phillip Kottak	"On Being Different provides an up-to-date, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary account of diversity and multiculturalism in the United States and Canada. Kottak (recent inductee to The National Aca…	OL15936048W
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
Ėtnicheskoe samosoznanie slavi͡a︡n v XV stoletii	G. G. Litavrin	238 p. ; 23 cm.	OL16030228W
Ethnic America	Marjorie P. K. Weiser	A compilation of reprinted articles considering various ethnic groups in the United States, with emphasis on Native Americans and Afro-Americans, and how they coped with their problems in adjusting t…	OL16065321W
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