The book investigates the impact of the market-oriented economic reform in China on a unique aspect of the labor market outcomes - individuals' access to different employment sectors, that is, the state and collective sector, the private sector, and the sector of family contract farming in the 1990s.
In 1943, University of Washington student Gordon Hirabayashi defied the curfew and mass removal of Japanese Americans on the West Coast, and was subsequently convicted and imprisoned as a result.
White southerners recognized that the perpetuation of segregation required whites of all ages to uphold a strict social order-especially the young members of the next generation.
A major reassessment of the development of race and subjecthood in the British AtlanticFocusing on Jamaica, Britain’s most valuable colony in the Americas by the mid-eighteenth century, this book explores the relationship between racial classifications and the inherited rights and privileges associated with British subject status.
In this inspiring and provocative memoir about a young black man, Caylin Moore tells the against-all-odds story of his rise from racial injustice and cruel poverty in gang-ridden Los Angeles to academic success at the University of Oxford, with hope as his compass.
An in-depth look at the rising American generation entering the Black professional classDespite their diversity, Black Americans have long been studied as a uniformly disadvantaged group.
Pastor Bryan Loritts dives deep into what it's like to be a person of color in predominantly white evangelical spaces today and where we can go from here.
Challenges the myth of the United States as a nation of immigrants by bringing together two groups rarely read together: Native Americans and Eastern European immigrants In this cultural history of Americanization during the Progressive Era, Cristina Stanciu argues that new immigrants and Native Americans shaped the intellectual and cultural debates over inclusion and exclusion, challenging ideas of national belonging, citizenship, and literary and cultural production.
Der zweisprachige Band untersucht Kämpfe und Regimes der Zugehörigkeit und diskutiert „Inclusive Citizenship“ in Originalbeiträgen und Konversationen von internationalen Forscher*innen und Aktivist*innen.
An extensively researched, comprehensive biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth century's most powerful and controversial figures Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) led the Republic of China for almost fifty years, starting in 1926.
This book is the first in-depth examination of the 25 million Americans with the most intense hatred of President Obama-arguably the most Republican-friendly of recent Democratic presidents-and what the mindsets of these "e;Obama Haters"e; teach us about race and ethnicity in America today.
The chance of Cameron and Johnson going to Oxford and becoming MPs was one in 10,000, whereas it was close to one in 10 million for me - 10 times more unlikely than getting struck by lightning.
The massive uprising following the police killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020--by some estimates the largest protests in US history--thrust the argument to defund the police to the forefront of international politics.
A powerful book comprising stories of anti-racist action by higher education scholars including researchers and teachers at various stages of their careers.
This edited collection documents the experiences of Muslim students and staff in UK higher education (HE), including their expertise and experiences in teaching, scholarship, policy and academic transitions as professionals, academics and students.
How to turn the paradoxes built into anti-racism work into drivers of learning and changeEven as anti-racism practices seemed to be gaining momentum, the nation shows signs of falling back into long-standing patterns of racial injustice and inequality.
La primera decada del siglo XXI en nuestra America Latina ha estado marcada por la emergencia y la trascendencia de las luchas sociales y los movimientos populares.
Am Anfang der US-amerikanischen Unterhaltungskultur steht eine Schwarze Frau, von der das Publikum nicht weiß, ob es sich um einen 161 Jahre alten Menschen, einen Schwindel oder um einen Automaten handelt: Joice Heth, George Washingtons »Mammy«, mit der P.
This fully revised and updated edition of Happiness provides an accessible introduction to the concept of happiness and how it can be applied to public policy in order to help citizens achieve the good life.
In ihrer Dissertation taucht die Autorin tief in die Kontroverse der geschlechts-indifferenten Referenz, einer Thematik, die weltweit ins öffentliche Interesse gerückt ist, ein.
While their attempts to understand the workings of capitalism led them to the conclusion that the advanced societies of Western Europe were those most likely to be the setting for a successful socialist revolution, Marx and Engels by no means ignored developments outside this region.
This fully revised and updated edition of Happiness provides an accessible introduction to the concept of happiness and how it can be applied to public policy in order to help citizens achieve the good life.
Die überarbeitete und illustrierte Neuausgabe des berühmten TED-Talks "We Should All Be Feminists" für junge Leserinnen und Leser»Ich schlage vor, dass wir heute anfangen, von einer anderen Welt zu träumen und sie zu planen.
Das Handbuch führt in den aktuellen Diskussionsstand der sozialwissenschaftlichen Entwicklungsforschung ein und liefert einen systematischen Überblick über die Vielfalt der vertretenen Paradigmen und Forschungsfelder.
En esta obra colectiva volvemos sobre viejas polémicas que la marea feminista reabre, así como nuevos y complejos interrogantes que plantea la realidad.
