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“ruth mandel”

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  • Cosmopolitan Anxieties

    Turkish Challenges to Citizenship and Belonging in Germany

    by Ruth Mandel ...
    In Cosmopolitan Anxieties, Ruth Mandel explores Germany’s relation to the more than two million Turkish immigrants and their descendants living within its borders. Based on her two decades of ethnographic research in Berlin, she argues that Germany’s reactions to the postwar Turkish diaspora have been charged, inconsistent, and resonant of past problematic encounters with a Jewish “other.” Mandel ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Markets and Moralities

    Ethnographies of Postsocialism

    Edited by Caroline Humphrey, Ruth Mandel ...
    Before the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, private marketeering was regarded not only as criminal, but even immoral by socialist regimes. Ten years after taking on board western market-orientated shock therapy, post-socialist societies are still struggling to come to terms with the clash between these deeply engrained moralities and the daily pressures to sell and consume. This book explores the new ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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    Letter to a New Minority

    by Tim Wise ...
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    White Americans have long been comfortable in the assumption that they are the cultural norm. Now that notion is being challenged, as white people wrestle with what it means to be part of a fast-changing, truly multicultural nation.Facing chronic economic insecurity, a popular culture that reflects the nation's diverse cultural reality, a future in which they will no longer constitute the majority ... Read more

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  • Other People’s Children

    Cultural Conflict in the Classroom

    by Lisa Delpit ...
    A thirtieth anniversary edition of the landmark work on race, power, and education—repackaged for a new generationSince its original publication, education professor Lisa Delpit’s Other People’s Children has become a foundational text in the struggle for equity in education. Drawing on her experience as a teacher, researcher, and Black woman navigating predominantly white institutions, the ... Read more

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  • The Zinn Reader

    Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

    by Howard Zinn ...
    No other radical historian has reached so many hearts and minds as Howard Zinn. It is rare that a historian of the Left has managed to retain as much credibility while refusing to let his academic mantle change his beautiful writing style from being anything but direct, forthright, and accessible. Whether his subject is war, race, politics, economic justice, or history itself, each of his works ... Read more

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  • Only If they Could Hear Me Cry

    A Personal Reflection of Poverty and Homelessness In America

    by Raymond Sturgis ...
    Americans, as we put a spoonful of food to our mouths, millions of our fellow Americans cannot feed themselves or their children. The Republican politicians alike have lethargically responded to Americans living in abject conditions. They seem to be more concern about the federal deficit than about the poverty deficit that is leaving many Americans to suffer or even die. Across America, ... Read more

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  • Everything You Love Will Burn

    Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America

    by Vegas Tenold ...
    The dark story of the shocking resurgence of white supremacist and nationalist groups, and their path to political powerSix years ago, Vegas Tenold embedded himself among the members of three of America's most ideologically extreme white nationalist groups-the KKK, the National Socialist Movement, and the Traditionalist Workers Party. At the time, these groups were part of a disorganized ... Read more

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  • The Myth of Race

    The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea

    by Robert Wald Sussman ...
    Biological races do not exist—and never have. This view is shared by all scientists who study variation in human populations. Yet racial prejudice and intolerance based on the myth of race remain deeply ingrained in Western society. In his powerful examination of a persistent, false, and poisonous idea, Robert Sussman explores how race emerged as a social construct from early biblical ... Read more

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  • Blacklisted

    The Secret War between Big Business and Union Activists

    by Phil Chamberlain, Dave Smith ...
    This is a story of a bitter struggle, in which collusion with the UK police and security services resulted in victimization, violence and unemployment, with terrible effects on families and communities. Drawing on first-hand accounts of the workers, Blacklisted reveals how, when major construction projects were unionized, those involved were unlawfully targeted. Includes international perspectives ... Read more

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  • Valley Song

    by Athol Fugard ...
    Valley Song is a tender poem of deep, deep love between two human beings, a story of rebirth, and of miracles at hand. —John Heilpern, New York ObserverRarely has a playwright been so closely identified with his country and his people as Athol Fugard. Fugard's extensive body of work has served as one of the moral beacons during and after apartheid in South Africa, and in Valley Song—a coming-of ... Read more

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  • The Future of Whiteness

    by Linda Martín Alcoff ...
    White identity is in ferment. White, European Americans living in the United States will soon share an unprecedented experience of slipping below 50% of the population. The impending demographic shifts are already felt in most urban centers and the effect is a national backlash of hyper-mobilized political, and sometimes violent, activism with a stated aim that is simultaneously vague and deadly ... Read more

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  • Despite the Best Intentions

    How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools

    by Amanda E. Lewis, John B. Diamond ...
    Series series Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities
    On the surface, Riverview High School looks like the post-racial ideal. Serving an enviably affluent, diverse, and liberal district, the school is well-funded, its teachers are well-trained, and many of its students are high achieving. Yet Riverview has not escaped the same unrelenting question that plagues schools throughout America: why is it that even when all of the circumstances seem right, ... Read more

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