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1. | | Title: The comparative imagination: on the history of racism, nationalism, and social movements Author: Fredrickson, George M 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: In this collection of essays, an eminent American historian of race relations discusses issues central to our understanding of the history of racism, the role of racism, and the possibilites for justice in contemporary society. George M. Fredrickson provides an eloquent and vigorous examination of r . . . [more]Similar Items | 2. | | Title: Colored White: transcending the racial pastAuthor: Roediger, David R Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | African American Studies | United States History | ImmigrationPublisher's Description: David R. Roediger's powerful book argues that in its political workings, its distribution of advantages, and its unspoken assumptions, the United States is a "still white" nation. Race is decidedly not over. The critical portraits of contemporary icons that lead off the book--Rush Limbaugh, Bill Cli . . . [more]Similar Items | 3. | | Title: Rethinking the American race problem Author: Brooks, Roy L. (Roy Lavon) 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: American Studies | Law | Politics | Ethnic StudiesPublisher's Description: If the conservative view of the American race problem is frightening, the traditional liberal view seems impotent. Analyzing the race problem from neither right nor left, Brooks sheds a new and clarifying light on America's longest running social and moral dilemma.This incisive book provides a bold . . . [more]Similar Items | 4. | | Title: Inside organized racism: women in the hate movementAuthor: Blee, Kathleen M Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Sociology | Gender Studies | Social Problems | Public Policy | ChristianityPublisher's Description: Kathleen M. Blee's disturbing and provocative look at the hidden world of organized racism focuses on women, the newest recruiting targets of racist groups and crucial to their campaign for racial supremacy. Through personal interviews with women active in the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazi groups, Christia . . . [more]Similar Items | 5. | | Title: Writing at the margin: discourse between anthropology and medicineAuthor: Kleinman, Arthur Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Sociology | Medicine | Asian Studies | Social ProblemsPublisher's Description: One of the most influential and creative scholars in medical anthropology takes stock of his recent intellectual odysseys in this collection of essays. Arthur Kleinman, an anthropologist and psychiatrist who has studied in Taiwan, China, and North America since 1968, draws upon his bicultural, multi . . . [more]Similar Items | 6. | | Title: An anthropology of the subject: holographic worldview in New Guinea and its meaning and significance for the world of anthropologyAuthor: Wagner, Roy Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Pacific Rim Studies | Geography | Cultural Anthropology | Folklore and MythologyPublisher's Description: An Anthropology of the Subject rounds out the theoretical-philosophical cosmos of one of the twentieth century's most intellectually adventurous anthropologists. Roy Wagner, having turned "culture" and "symbols" inside out (in The Invention of Culture and Symbols That Stand for Themselves, respectiv . . . [more]Similar Items | 7. | | Title: Of one blood: abolitionism and the origins of racial equalityAuthor: Goodman, Paul 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | United States History | American StudiesPublisher's Description: The abolition movement is perhaps the most salient example of the struggle the United States has faced in its long and complex confrontation with the issue of race. In his final book, historian Paul Goodman, who died in 1995, presents a new and important interpretation of abolitionism. Goodman pays . . . [more]Similar Items | 8. | | Title: Blood politics: race, culture, and identity in the Cherokee Nation of OklahomaAuthor: Sturm, Circe 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Native American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | African American StudiesPublisher's Description: Circe Sturm takes a bold and original approach to one of the most highly charged and important issues in the United States today: race and national identity. Focusing on the Oklahoma Cherokee, she examines how Cherokee identity is socially and politically constructed, and how that process is embedde . . . [more]Similar Items | 9. | | Title: Even in Sweden: racisms, racialized spaces, and the popular geographical imaginationAuthor: Pred, Allan Richard 1936- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Geography | Ecology | Consumerism | Urban Studies | AnthropologyPublisher's Description: Allan Pred writes compellingly about the reawakening of racism throughout Europe at the end of the twentieth century - even in Sweden, a country widely regarded as the very model of social justice and equality. Many thousands of non-European and Muslim immigrants and refugees who took advantage of S . . . [more]Similar Items | 10. | | Title: Female subjects in black and white: race, psychoanalysis, feminismAuthor: Abel, Elizabeth Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | African American Studies | Gender Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | American Literature | GayLesbian and Bisexual StudiesPublisher's Description: This landmark collaboration between African American and white feminists goes to the heart of problems that have troubled feminist thinking for decades. Putting the racial dynamics of feminist interpretation center stage, these essays question such issues as the primacy of sexual difference, the uni . . . [more]Similar Items | 11. | | Title: Pathways of power: building an anthropology of the modern worldAuthor: Wolf, Eric R 1923- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | SociologyPublisher's Description: This collection of twenty-eight essays by renowned anthropologist Eric R. Wolf is a legacy of some of his most original work, with an insightful foreword by Aram Yengoyan. Of the essays, six have never been published and two have not appeared in English until now. Shortly before his death, Wolf prep . . . [more]Similar Items | 12. | | Title: Women without class: girls, race, and identityAuthor: Bettie, Julie 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Sociology | Chicano Studies | American Studies | Popular Culture | Education | Anthropology | Social Problems | ImmigrationPublisher's Description: In this examination of white and Mexican-American girls coming of age in California's Central Valley, Julie Bettie turns class theory on its head and offers new tools for understanding the ways in which class identity is constructed and, at times, fails to be constructed in relationship to color, et . . . [more]Similar Items | 13. | | Title: Media worlds: anthropology on new terrainAuthor: Ginsburg, Faye D Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Media Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Electronic Media | Postcolonial Studies | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies | Sociology | Sociology | SociologyPublisher's Description: This groundbreaking volume showcases the exciting work emerging from the ethnography of media, a burgeoning new area in anthropology that expands both social theory and ethnographic fieldwork to examine the way media - film, television, video - are used in societies around the globe, often in places . . . [more]Similar Items | 14. | | Title: Bureaucracy and race: native administration in South Africa Author: Evans, Ivan Thomas 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: African Studies | African History | Sociology | Postcolonial Studies | Cultural AnthropologyPublisher's Description: Bureaucracy and Race overturns the common assumption that apartheid in South Africa was enforced only through terror and coercion. Without understating the role of violent intervention, Ivan Evans shows that apartheid was sustained by a great and ever-swelling bureaucracy. The Department of Native A . . . [more]Similar Items | 15. | | Title: History, power, ideology: central issues in Marxism and anthropologyAuthor: Donham, Donald L. (Donald Lewis) Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | Social Theory | African StudiesPublisher's Description: Is Marxism a reflection of the conceptual system it fights against, rather than a truly comprehensive approach to human history? Drawing on recent work in anthropology, history, and philosophy, Donald Donham confronts this problem in analyzing a radically different social order: the former Maale kin . . . [more]Similar Items | 16. | | Title: The myth of the noble savageAuthor: Ellingson, Terry Jay Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Intellectual History | European History | American Studies | European Studies | Postcolonial StudiesPublisher's Description: In this important and original study, the myth of the Noble Savage is an altogether different myth from the one defended or debunked by others over the years. That the concept of the Noble Savage was first invented by Rousseau in the mid-eighteenth century in order to glorify the "natural" life is e . . . [more]Similar Items | 17. | | Title: History and tradition in Melanesian anthropology Author: Carrier, James G Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | East Asia OtherPublisher's Description: Melanesian societies, like village societies in many parts of the world, are frequently portrayed as existing in a timeless, traditional present. These seven original essays offer an alternative view, one showing that historical evidence can and must inform our understanding of contemporary cultures . . . [more]Similar Items | 18. | | Title: As we are now: mixblood essays on race and identityAuthor: Penn, W. S 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | Native American Studies | American Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Social Problems | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: The thirteen contributors to As We Are Now invite readers to explore with them the untamed territory of race and mixblood identity in North America. A "mixblood," according to editor W.S. Penn, recognizes that his or her identity comes not from distinct and separable strains of ancestry but from the . . . [more]Similar Items | 19. | | Title: Pivot of the universe: Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896Author: Amanat, Abbas Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | Autobiographies and BiographiesPublisher's Description: When he was assassinated in 1896, Nasir al-Din Shah had occupied the Peacock throne for nearly half a century. A colorful, complex figure, he is frequently portrayed as indolent and indulgent. Yet he was in many ways an effective ruler who displayed remarkable resilience in the face of dilemmas and . . . [more]Similar Items | 20. | | Title: Genetic nature/culture: anthropology and science beyond the two-culture divideAuthor: Goodman, Alan H Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Biology | SociologyPublisher'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 |
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