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Shows the social world of inner city African American girls and how they manage threats of personal violence. This title presents an account of how African American girls negotiate schools and neighborhoods governed by the so-called 'code of the street' - the form of street justice that governs violence in distressed urban areas.

Explores one of the major issues in Holocaust studies - the intersection of memory and ethics in artistic expression, particularly within literature. This work examines the shifting cultural contexts for Holocaust representation and reveals how writers articulate the shadowy borderline between fact and fiction, and between event and expression.

Aims to bring humor and wisdom to issues of culture, race, and religion. This work tells the story of an immigrant, working-class Chinese American family that settled in New York City during the 1930s and 1940s. It paints a portrait of the wonder and the woe of settling into a new land.

Documents the disproportionate representation of black Americans in the US criminal justice system. This book brings together twelve original essays by prominent scholars to examine not only the discrimination that is evident, but also the structural and cultural forces that have influenced and continue to perpetuate the situation.

Develops a useful framework for thinking about the American approach to shaping and managing scientific innovation. This book suggests that the history of science, technology, and politics is best understood as a negotiation of ongoing tensions between open and closed systems.

Explores the dilemma that gay Christians face in their attempts to reconcile their religious and sexual identities. This book introduces the ideologies and practices of two alternative, and competing, ministries that offer solutions for Christians who experience homosexual desire.

Provides insights into the judicial process of scientific inquiry by examining major decisions of the US Supreme Court, and advocacy efforts. Reliance on science in constitutional interpretation remains controversial. This book surveys and explains this conflict and also suggests changes in the ways that judicial decisions be made.

Displacements and Diasporas explores the transnational Asian American experience - one that crosses the Pacific and traverses the Americas from Canada to Brazil, from New York to the Caribbean. With an emphasis on anthropological and historical contexts, the essays show how the experiences of Asians have been shaped.

In the US, murderers, particularly those sentenced to death, are usually considered as entirely different from the rest of us. Sociologist Susan F. Sharp challenges perspective by reminding us that those facing a death sentence, in addition to being murderers, are brothers or sisters, mothers or fathers, daughters or sons.

A study of the relationship between earth's population explosion and the mass extinction of countless species of plant and animal communities. It is suggested that humans and their ancestors have had negative impacts on species biodiversity for nearly two million years, and that extinction rates have accelerated since the origins of agriculture.

Emily Noelle Ignacio explores how Filipinos have used the Internet's subtle, cyber, but very real social connections to construct and reinforce a sense of national, ethnic, and racial identity with distant others.

How do working parents provide care and mobilize the help that they need? Karen V. Hansen investigates the lives of working parents and the informal networks they construct to help care for their children. The book concludes with a series of policy suggestions intended to improve the environment in which working families raise children.

Environmental issues have become increasingly prominent in local struggles, national debates, and international policies. This volume provides a toolkit of vital concepts and a set of research models and analytic frameworks for researchers at all levels.

An in-depth look at the Raelian movement, founded in the 1970s by Rael, born in France as Claude Vorilhon. It traces Rael's philosophy and the formation of the Raelian subculture - radical sexual ethics, gnostic anthropocentricism, and ecotheology, showing how our worldviews have been shaped by globalization, postmodernism, and secular humanism.

This is the product of the insight and experiences of both Arabs and Jews at the School over the last two decades. The text addresses topics such as strategies for working with young people, development of effective learning environments and language as a bridge and obstacle.

Some critics describe science not as the solution to environmental problems, but as their source. Science itself is often a basis of controversy, as debates over global warming and environmental health risks show. This book explores the contributions and challenges presented when scientific authority enters the realm of environmental affairs.

Elizabeth Bishop, the Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, sought inspiration in Brazil, where she met and fell in love with Lota de Macedo Soares, a self-trained Brazilian architect. This dual biography follows their relationship from 1951 to 1967, the time when the two lived together in Brazil.

What attracts women to far-right movements that appear to denigrate their rights? This book provides a compelling comparative examination of this important topic through current research, literature reviews, and dialogue with existing debates.

Drawing on case studies in the United States and Latin America, the authors explore the evolving roles of religion in the Americas in the face of globalization, transnational migration, the rapid growth of culture industries, the rise of computer mediated technologies and the crisis of modernity.

Through in-depth interviews with surviving Nisei (Japanese American) women who served in the military during World War II, the author provides firsthand accounts of their experiences and, with extensive archival research, sheds light on their reasoning at that time.

This collection of essays attempts to reassess the existing historiography of Polish-Jewish relations just before, during and after World War II. Topics covered include the pre-war legacy of anti-semitism; and the official Polish response to the Nazi Final Solution.

Traces the formation of the North Korean state and the early years of Kim Il Sung's rule, when the future "Great Leader" and his entourage were consolidating their power. Surveying the situation in North Korea after 1945, Lankov explores the internal composition of the ruling elite, the role of the Soviets, and relations between political groups.

This volume explores various aspects of behaviour that are endemic to contemporary Western society, and proposes ways of understanding and addressing them. Many of our behaviours are played out in an arena that is far different from that in which they evolved.

Originally published in 1869, this was one of the 19th centuries most important handbooks of domestic advice - a collaboration by two of the era's most important women writers. It represents their attempt to direct women's acquisition and use of a variety of new household consumer goods.

Examines contemporary literary revisions of slavery in the United States by black women writers. Books studied include ""Kindred"", ""Dessa Rose"" and ""Beloved"". These works create a space to problematize the slavery/freedom dichotomy from which contemporay black women have a ""safe"" vantage point.

This text explores how modern and industrial and scientific advances shaped black Atlantic population centres. It provides historical analysis of how shifting environmental factors and disease control aid from the United States affected the collective development of these populations.

This text takes the reader through the Hebrew Bible to examine ancient Israel's ideas of the body, the unstable role of gender, the deployment of sexuality and the cultural practices of the time. It looks at the logic of ancient social meanings and contrasts them with contemporary social theory.

This study progresses chronologically from abolitionist newspapers to the impact and implications of the Internet, to reveal how the black press' content and its very form changed with evolving historical and cultural conditions in America.

This is a collection of memoirs by nine Chinese women who grew up during the Mao era. The issues explored include: the burgeoning rebellion of a young girl in Northeast China, and a girl's struggles to obtain for herself the education her parents inspired her to attain.

A history of the circle, showing how investigations of the circle have contributed to our current knowledge of the physical universe. Throughout the book, the author emphasizes the concepts underlying mathematicians' calculations, and how these are linked to real-life examples.