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  • Japanese Cinema and Otherness

    Nationalism, Multiculturalism and the Problem of Japaneseness

    by Mika Ko ...
    Series series The University of Sheffield/Routledge Japanese Studies Series
    Over the last 20 years, ethnic minority groups have been increasingly featured in Japanese Films. However, the way these groups are presented has not been a subject of investigation. This study examines the representation of so-called Others – foreigners, ethnic minorities, and Okinawans – in Japanese cinema. By combining textual and contextual analysis, this book analyses the narrative and visual ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • The Other Wes Moore

    One Name, Two Fates

    by Wes Moore ...
    Series series One World Essentials
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the governor of Maryland, the “compassionate” (People), “startling” (Baltimore Sun), “moving” (Chicago Tribune) true story of two kids with the same name: One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison.The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

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  • Black Power

    Politics of Liberation in America

    by Kwame Ture, Charles V. Hamilton ...
    An eloquent document of the civil rights movement that remains a work of profound social relevance 50 years after it was first published.A revolutionary work since its publication, Black Power exposed the depths of systemic racism in this country and provided a radical political framework for reform: true and lasting social change would only be accomplished through unity among African-Americans ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Anders Breivik and the Rise of Islamophobia

    by Sindre Bangstad ...
    In late July 2011, Norway was struck by the worst terror attacks in its history. In a fertilizer-bomb attack on Government Headquarters in Oslo and a one-hour-long shooting spree at the Labour Party Youth Camp at Utøya, seventy-seven people, mostly teenagers, were killed by Anders Behring Breivik. By targeting young future social democratic leaders, his actions were meant to lead to the downfall ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Yokohama, California

    by Toshio Mori ...
    Series series Classics of Asian American Literature
    Yokohama, California, originally released in 1949, is the first published collection of short stories by a Japanese American. Set in a fictional community, these linked stories are alive with the people, gossip, humor, and legends of Japanese America in the 1930s and 1940s.Replaces ISBN 9780295961675 ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Sichuan Frontier and Tibet

    Imperial Strategy in the Early Qing

    by Yingcong Dai ...
    Series series China Program Books
    During China's last dynasty, the Qing (1644-1911), the empire's remote, bleak, and politically insignificant Southwest rose to become a strategically vital area. This study of the imperial government's handling of the southwestern frontier illuminates issues of considerable importance in Chinese history and foreign relations: Sichuan's rise as a key strategic area in relation to the complicated ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Who's Gonna Take the Weight?

    Manhood, Race, and Power in America

    by Kevin Powell ...
    “A mighty wind of fresh air. His pitiless self-examination—and his equally honest exploration of the racial, sexual, cultural, and class fault lines that thread our psychic and social landscape—is not only brave but necessary if our nation is to survive.”—Michael Eric Dyson“Kevin Powell is pushing to bring, as he has so brilliantly done before, the voices of his generation: the concerns, the cares ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Black, Jewish, and Interracial

    It’s Not the Color of Your Skin, but the Race of Your Kin, and Other Myths of Identity

    by Katya Gibel Mevorach ...
    How do adult children of interracial parents—where one parent is Jewish and one is Black—think about personal identity? This question is at the heart of Katya Gibel Azoulay’s Black, Jewish, and Interracial. Motivated by her own experience as the child of a Jewish mother and Jamaican father, Gibel Azoulay blends historical, theoretical, and personal perspectives to explore the possibilities and ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The Politics of Islamophobia

    Race, Power and Fantasy

    by David Tyrer ...
    Series series Decolonial Studies, Postcolonial Horizons
    Following 9/11, 7/7 and the War on Terror, Islamophobia has become a ubiquitous expression of political racism; its presence is felt in immigration restrictions, critiques of multiculturalism and the co-option of feminism that casts Muslim women as abject figures.Throughout the book, what emerges is that most of our knowledge of Muslim communities is apprehended through signifiers, as defined by ... Read more

    $33.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Baleen Basketry of the North Alaskan Eskimo

    by Molly Lee ...
    Baskets made of baleen, the fibrous substance found in the mouths of plankton-eating whales—a malleable and durable material that once had commercial uses equivalent to those of plastics today—were first created by Alaska Natives in the early years of the twentieth century. Because they were made for the tourist trade, they were initially disdained by scholars and collectors, but today they have ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Identity Lessons

    Contemporary Writing About Learning to Be American

    Edited by Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Jennifer Gillan ...
    In stories and poems that explore how our society shapes us, Identity Lessons features a wide array of ethnic perspectives on growing up in America. Leading the reader into the living-rooms, boardrooms, classrooms, and movie houses of America, distinguished writers from all points of the American ethnic landscape shed light on the space between conformity and difference, and examine the struggle ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Shaping Race Policy

    The United States in Comparative Perspective

    by Robert Lieberman ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    Shaping Race Policy investigates one of the most serious policy challenges facing the United States today: the stubborn persistence of racial inequality in the post-civil rights era. Unlike other books on the topic, it is comparative, examining American developments alongside parallel histories of race policy in Great Britain and France.Focusing on on two key policy areas, welfare and employment, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD