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Every arena of science has its own flash-point issues—chemistry and poison gas, physics and the atom bomb—and genetics has had a troubled history with race. As Jonathan Marks reveals, this dangerous relationship rumbles on to this day, still leaving plenty of leeway for...
Editeur :
Polity
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2017-02-27
Collection :
Debating Race
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Immigrant Families aims to capture the richness, complexity, and diversity that characterize contemporary immigrant families in the United States. In doing so, it reaffirms that the vast majority of people do not migrate as isolated individuals, but are members of...
Editeur :
Polity
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2016-09-12
Collection :
Immigration and Society
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Building on the successful outcomes of a five-year initiative undertaken in New York City, Alma Carten, Alan Siskind, and Mary Pender Greene bring together a national roster of leading practitioners, scholars, and advocates who draw upon extensive practice experiences...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-06-07
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The Rise of the New Second Generation In this age of migration, more and more children are growing up in immigrant or transnational families.The "new second generation" refers to foreign-born and native-born children of immigrants who have come of age at the turn of the...
Editeur :
Polity
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2016-04-29
Collection :
Immigration and Society
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The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. “An engrossing and relentless intellectual history of prejudice in America.” ―Washington Post Some Americans insist that...
Editeur :
Bold Type Books
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2016-04-12
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*WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* 'Beautifully written, thought-provoking, and unforgettable ... If you want a good understanding of how the issues that cause poverty are intertwined, you should read this book' Bill Gates, Best Books of 2017'Essential....
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2016-03-01
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Identity is never just an individual matter; it is intricately shaped by our experiences of social life. Taking a Symbolic Interactionist approach, and drawing on Goffman’s dramaturgical theory, Susie Scott explores the micro-social processes of interaction through...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-02-19
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The gap between rich and poor, included and excluded, advantaged and disadvantaged is steadily growing as inequality becomes one of the most pressing issues of our times.The new edition of this popular text explores current patterns of inequality in the context of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-11-24
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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...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-10-12
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Inequality in its many forms is becoming an ever greater problem in modern society. The revised edition of this popular book explains why it is so important to understand class and stratification, and how the tools used to analyse these divisions can help us to...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-10-02
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We hear much talk about the advent of a “postracial” age. The election of Barack Obama as President of the U.S. was held by many to be proof that we have once and for all moved beyond race. The Swedish government has even gone so far as to erase all references to race...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-09-09
Collection :
Debating Race
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On the global stage, China is often seen to be a homogenous nation when, in fact, it is a diverse multi-ethnic society, with 55 minority nationality groups recognized by the government. Scattered across the vast landmass, ethnic minorities in China occupy a precarious...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-06-05
Collection :
China Today
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Despite global shifts in world power, racial conflict remains one of the major problems of contemporary social life. This concise and engaging book demonstrates the interplay between identity, power and conflict in the creation, persistence and transformation of...
Editeur :
Polity
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2014-09-08
Collection :
Political Sociology
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Feminists have long differed in their view of prostitution. While some regard it as a classic form of exploitation and degradation, others offer a more sympathetic interpretation of women's involvement in the sex industry. In this important new book, Maggie O'Neill...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-08-21
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This volume presents a systematic discussion of the leading theoretical approaches to social stratification. It is both an accessible overview and a distinctive contribution to the analysis of class, status and power. John Scott argues that Max Weber's conceptual...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-04-03
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This much-needed book is a concise and accessible account of the contribution of feminist thinking to the study of crime. Tracing the intellectual history of criminology from its scientific foundations in the nineteenth century to its recent encounters with...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-03-10
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This timely and engaging book argues that technoscientific advances are radically transforming the woman-machine relationship. However, it is feminist politics rather than the technologies themselves that make the difference. TechnoFeminism fuses the visionary insights...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-12-17
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Immigration has long shaped US society in fundamental ways. With Latinos recently surpassing African Americans as the largest minority group in the US, attention has been focused on the important implications of immigration for the character and role of race in US life,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-11-18
Collection :
Immigration and Society
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Christians and the Color Line analyzes the complex entanglement of race and religion in the United States. Drawing on historical and contemporary examples of racialized religion, the essays in this volume consider the problem of race both in Christian congregations and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-10-04
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This book is an important introductory textbook on sexual politics and an original contribution to the reformulation of social and political theory. In a discussion of, among other issues, psychoanalysis, Marxism and feminist theories, the structure of gender relations,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-07-23
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