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| 241. |  | Title: Legacies: the story of the immigrant second generation Author: Portes, Alejandro 1944- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Sociology | Ethnic Studies | Anthropology | Asian American Studies | Chicano Studies | Postcolonial Studies | Politics | Latino Studies | Social Problems | Immigration Publisher's Description: One out of five Americans, more than 55 million people, are first-or second-generation immigrants. This landmark study, the most comprehensive to date, probes all aspects of the new immigrant second generation's lives, exploring their immense potential to transform American society for better or wor . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 242. |  | Title: Tobacco war: inside the California battles  Author: Glantz, Stanton A Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: American Studies | California and the West | Public Policy | Politics | Social Problems | Economics and Business | Medicine | Environmental Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: Tobacco War charts the dramatic and complex history of tobacco politics in California over the past quarter century. Beginning with the activities of a small band of activists who, in the 1970s, put forward the radical notion that people should not have to breathe second-hand tobacco smoke, Stanton . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 243. |  | Title: Gender and U.S. immigration: contemporary trends Author: Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Asian American Studies | Chicano Studies | Latino Studies | Gender Studies | Latin American Studies | Immigration | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Resurgent immigration is one of the most powerful forces disrupting and realigning everyday life in the United States and elsewhere, and gender is one of the fundamental social categories anchoring and shaping immigration patterns. Yet the intersection of gender and immigration has received little a . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 244. |  | Title: Toil and toxics: workplace struggles and political strategies for occupational health Author: Robinson, James C. (James Claude) 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Labor Studies | Sociology | Public Policy | Economics and Business Similar Items |
| 245. |  | Title: Searching for life: the grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the disappeared children of Argentina Author: Arditti, Rita 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Latin American Studies | Sociology | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: FROM THE BOOK :"I want to touch you and kiss you.""You are my mother's sister and only one year older; you must have something of my mother in you." - A found child after being returned to her family Searching for Life traces the courageous plight of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a group of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 246. |  | Title: Beyond recognition: representation, power, and culture Author: Owens, Craig Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Art | Art Theory | Gender Studies | Sociology | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | Art Criticism Similar Items |
| 247. |  | Title: Society and politics in Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla Author: Bagge, Sverre 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | European Literature | Medieval History | Medieval Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: Heimskringla is the best known and most important book of Old Norse kings' sagas. A medieval masterpiece, the collection was written by Snorri Sturluson in the first half of the thirteenth century. The sagas have been studied primarily as literary sources and chronicles of specific historical events . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 248. |  | Title: The activist's handbook: a primer for the 1990s and beyond Author: Shaw, Randy 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Politics | Sociology | California and the West | Urban Studies | American Studies | Public Policy Publisher's Description: The Activist's Handbook is a hard-hitting guide to winning social change in the 1990s. Randy Shaw, attorney and longtime activist for urban issues, shows how positive change can still be accomplished despite an increasingly grim political order, if activists employ the strategies set forth in this d . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 249. |  | Title: I heard it through the grapevine: rumor in African-American culture Author: Turner, Patricia 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | Sociology | African American Studies | Anthropology | American Studies | Folklore and Mythology | Popular Culture Similar Items |
| 250. |  | Title: Between two islands: Dominican international migration Author: Grasmuck, Sherri Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Sociology | Latino Studies | Latin American Studies | Anthropology Publisher's Description: Popular notions about migration to the United States from Latin America and the Caribbean are too often distorted by memories of earlier European migrations and by a tendency to generalize from the more familiar cases of Mexico and Puerto Rico. Between Two Islands is an interdisciplinary study of Do . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 251. |  | Title: Spectacular nature: corporate culture and the Sea World experience Author: Davis, Susan G 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Popular Culture | American Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: This is the story of Sea World, a theme park where the wonders of nature are performed, marketed, and sold. With its trademark star, Shamu the killer whale - as well as performing dolphins, pettable sting rays, and reproductions of pristine natural worlds - the park represents a careful coordination . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 252. |  | Title: There's something happening here: the New Left, the Klan, and FBI counterintelligence Author: Cunningham, David 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: American Studies | History | Politics | Sociology | Law Publisher's Description: Using over twelve thousand previously classified documents made available through the Freedom of Information Act, David Cunningham uncovers the riveting inside story of the FBI's attempts to neutralize political targets on both the Right and the Left during the 1960s. Examining the FBI's infamous co . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 253. |  | Title: The silk weavers of Kyoto: family and work in a changing traditional industry Author: Hareven, Tamara K Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | Anthropology | Asian Studies | Asian History | Labor Studies Publisher's Description: The makers of obi, the elegant and costly sash worn over kimono in Japan, belong to an endangered species. These families of manufacturers, weavers, and other craftspeople centered in the Nishijin weaving district of Kyoto have practiced their demanding craft for generations. In recent decades, howe . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 254. |  | Title: What is sexual harassment?: from Capitol Hill to the Sorbonne Author: Saguy, Abigail Cope 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Gender Studies | American Studies | Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | European Studies | Men and Masculinity | Women's Studies | Law | Sociology Publisher's Description: In France, a common notion is that the shared interests of graduate students and their professors could lead to intimate sexual relations, and that regulations curtailing those relationships would be both futile and counterproductive. By contrast, many universities and corporations in the United Sta . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 255. |  | Title: Genetic nature/culture: anthropology and science beyond the two-culture divide Author: Goodman, Alan H Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Biology | Sociology Publisher's Description: The so-called science wars pit science against culture, and nowhere is the struggle more contentious - or more fraught with paradox - than in the burgeoning realm of genetics. A constructive response, and a welcome intervention, this volume brings together biological and cultural anthropologists to . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 256. |  | Title: The political economy of mountain Java: an interpretive history Author: Hefner, Robert W 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian History | Sociology | Cultural Anthropology | Southeast Asia | Politics Similar Items |
| 257. |  | Title: Drug war politics: the price of denial Author: Bertram, Eva Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy | Law | Sociology | Medicine | American Studies Publisher's Description: Why have our drug wars failed and how might we turn things around? Ask the authors of this hardhitting exposè of U.S. efforts to fight drug trafficking and abuse. In a bold analysis of a century's worth of policy failure, Drug War Politics turns on its head many familiar bromides about drug politics . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 258. |  | Title: Working hard and making do: surviving in small town America Author: Nelson, Margaret K 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Politics | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: The economic recovery of the 1990s brought with it a surge of new jobs, but the prospects for most working Americans improved little. Family income rose only slightly and the period witnessed a significant degradation of the quality of work as well as in what people could expect from their waged emp . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 259. |  | Title: Factory daughters: gender, household dynamics, and rural industrialization in Java Author: Wolf, Diane L Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Gender Studies | Sociology | Southeast Asia | Anthropology Similar Items |
| 260. |  | Title: Between craft and class: skilled workers and factory politics in the United States and Britain, 1890-1922 Author: Haydu, Jeffrey Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Sociology | United States History | European History | Labor Studies | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: Between Craft and Class provides an incisive new look at workers' responses to the momentous economic changes surrounding them in the early years of the twentieth century. In this work, Haydu focuses on the reaction of skilled metal workers to new production methods that threatened time-honored craf . . . [more] Similar Items |