Ethnic Studies
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Nisbet

8 THE TOTAL COMMUNITY “I think,” wrote the brilliant Tocqueville in 1840, “that the species of oppression by which democratic nations are menaced is unlike anything that ever before existed ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 19,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-22 | Author:Caldwell, Christopher [Caldwell, Christopher]

Chapter 8 Rules for Sex Sexual freedom as a nonnegotiable European demand—Virginity and violence—Islam or custom?—The appeal of sharia—Arranged marriages—The Danish marriage law—Controversies over the headscarf—The French veil law—Compulsory liberation ...
( Category: Islam March 12,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-25 | Author:Bronstein, Jamie;

DELINEATING THE PROBLEM IN THE 1960s Prosperity during the 1950s was bounded by geography and economic sectors as well as by race. Agricultural mechanization meant that large numbers of farm ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism February 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-02 | Author:Omid Safi

CONTEMPORARY DISCOURSES: NEO-CONSERVATIVES The neo-conservatives are the most prominent faction in debates over the proper legal and social rights of Muslim women today.35 Their views are represented in publications subsidized ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies December 3,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sarah Erdman

10 Source I have tried to dash back from a film festival in Ouagadougou to meet Abi for a trip south to her hometown. But the train from Burkina Faso ...
( Category: Travel November 25,2016 )
azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ruth Benedict

Kapali, kapali, twisting around, he laughs with joy. I with my garden darkened with foliage, I with my leaves. Kapali, kapali, twisting around, he laughs with joy. During all this ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies July 18,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-15 | Author:Alyosha Goldstein [Goldstein, Alyosha]

THE DEVELOPMENT AGENDA IN AMERICAN SAMOA Developmental frameworks as applied to Samoa have historically turned on a mythical narrative of modernity: the possibility of modern transformation of the island and ...
( Category: Native American Studies July 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 1993-05-16 | Author:Patricia Buckley Ebrey

The 4th. As the sky was clear, the sun shone hot, and the bodies began to smell. Everywhere around us the dead were being burned; the smoke gathered like a ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies May 17,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-01 | Author:Juan Cole [Cole, Juan]

Egypt: From April 6 to Rebellion Unlike the young activists in Tunisia, those in Egypt retained their momentum after the initial revolution and deployed shifting political alliances to have a ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies May 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-07 | Author:Deepa Iyer

When South Asians, Arabs, Muslims, and Sikhs center themselves firmly in a collective racial identity, challenge the myth of cultural exceptionalism and disrupt the racial order, we can transform our ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies April 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-20 | Author:Tukufu Zuberi [Zuberi, Tukufu]

African Decolonization and Repression For different reasons, the Soviet Union and the United States politically encouraged the rise of nationalist movements in Asia and Africa. At first this support was ...
( Category: African-American Studies April 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-10 | Author:David Shambaugh [Shambaugh, David]

Pathways to China’s Social Future All of these public goods—healthcare, pensions, education, environment, and energy—are going to be increasingly important to China’s future over the next ten to twenty years ...
( Category: Asian April 14,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Chow, Gregory C.; Perkins, Dwight H.;

4 The effect of property rights reform on performance Changes in incentives due to the HRS reforms unleashed increases in both agricultural production and productivity. In one of the first ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies April 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2001-03-12 | Author:Vijay Prashad [Prashad, Vijay]

Bud Dhillon (right) and Daswanda Singh Mann at Gadar Ashram, 5 Wood Street, San Francisco, on the eve of their departure for a Freedom for India mission (1924). Courtesy of ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies March 9,2016 )
epub | | 2012-12-02 | Author:Shu-mei Shih

Proletarian Fiction: Nativist and Critical Modernity The New Taiwan Literature Movement of the 1920s and 1930s tried to change people’s worldviews to assist in political and social modernization. Eventually it ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies March 2,2016 )