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The African diaspora have been subjected to oppression for decades since the end of the transatlantic slave trade. In recent times this oppression has been most visible in the form of live killing and murder executed by law enforcement officers. However, the extent of the problems that face people of colour in the West are not limited to police brutality; the challenges are much broader spanning across every area of society: from politics and law...
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How do American Jews identify as both Jewish and American? American Post-Judaism argues that Zionism and the Holocaust, two anchors of contemporary American Jewish identity, will no longer be centers of identity formation for future generations of American Jews. Shaul Magid articulates a new, post-ethnic American Jewishness. He discusses pragmatism and spirituality, monotheism and post-monotheism, Jesus, Jewish law, sainthood and self-realization,...
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Can the eclectic medieval history of the world's most conquered island be a lesson for our times?
Home to Normans, Byzantines, Arabs, Germans and Jews, 12th-century Sicily was a crossroads of cultures and faiths, the epitome of diversity. Here Europe, Asia and Africa met, with magical results. Bilingualism was the norm, women's rights were defended, and the environment was protected. Literacy among Sicilians soared; it was higher during this ephemeral...
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In Japan, beer has been known, since the 1960s, as the "beverage of the masses," and whisky culture has roots stretching back to the 1950s. Meanwhile, methamphetamine was first developed in Japan and came to be sold commercially by the 1940s, and the country has also experimented with homegrown hangover drugs. By combining studies on each of these products and marketplaces, Drinking Bomb and Shooting Meth explores the efforts of those who brewed,...
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La transculturalité constitue une nouvelle façon de concevoir les cultures, c'est-àdire non plus comme des îlots distincts, mais plutt comme des réseaux interactifs de sens et de pratiques. Ces identités transculturelles qui n'entrent pas aisément dans le seul moule d'une nation ou d'une ethnie abondent particulièrement dans les Amériques, par exemple les Chicanos, les Franco-Ontariens, les Créoles et les immigrants de deuxième et de troisième...
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Les invitamos a leer una novela que no solo pone en valor la lucha, la resistencia y la trasmisión de valores de nuestrxs ancestrxs africanxs, sino que además, con una atrapante lectura, nos transporta y muestra esos rostros y cuerpos africanos invisibilizados por la historiografía oficial. Aquellas mujeres afro que nos legaron un sin fin de estrategias de trasmisión, preservación y resiliencia de la cultura afro.
Las ancestras luchadoras de...
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Esta edición recoge los trabajos de líderes y lideresas del Valle del Cauca, graduados de la maestría de Interculturalidad, Desarrollo y Paz Territorial del Instituto de Estudios Interculturales quienes, apalancados por algunas instituciones que les subvencionaron: la Gobernación del Valle, con fondos del Sistema General de Regalías, El Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación, la Fundación Universidad del Valle y la Pontificia Universidad...
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"Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally-recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous...
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An extraordinary account of survival in Syria's most notorious military prisons that is written.
Jamal Saeed arrived as a refugee in Canada in 2016. In his native Syria, as a young man, his writing pushed both social and political norms. For this reason, as well as his opposition to the regimes of the al-Assads, he was imprisoned on three occasions for a total of 12 years. In each instance, he was held without formal charge and without judicial process.
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Douglas realizó la labor de investigación de los ritos funerarios en Murélaga que sustenta la presente obra, ya un verdadero clásico, guiado por su convencimiento de que "en la sociedad vasca, las respuestas individuales y colectivas a la crisis causada por una muerte ocurrida en la comunidad son tan complejas y ocupan una posición tan destacada en la visión que del mundo tienen los actores, que nos autorizan a diferenciar en el sistema de valores...
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Mucho se ha escrito y leído sobre un periodo tan corto de nuestra historia reciente. La Transición Española. Con este trabajo de investigación pongo a juicio del lector una nueva perspectiva de cómo se entendió desde Cataluña esa etapa en sus diferentes perfiles políticos, ideológicos, económicos e identitarios. El papel de la sociedad civil catalana y su representación política tuvieron especial protagonismo en el cambio de régimen desarrollado...
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In this provocative eBook, sixteen of Minnesota's best writers provide a range of perspectives on what it is like to live as a person of color in Minnesota. They give readers a splendid gift: the gift of touching another human being's inner reality, behind masks and veils and politeness. They bring us generously into experiences that we must understand if we are to come together in real relationships. Minnesota communities struggle with some of the...
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The Igbo are one of the most populous ethnic groups in Nigeria and are perhaps best known and celebrated in the work of Chinua Achebe. In this landmark collection on Igbo society and arts, Toyin Falola and Raphael Chijioke Njoku have compiled a detailed and innovative examination of the Igbo experience in Africa and in the diaspora. Focusing on institutions and cultural practices, the volume covers the enslavement, middle passage, and American experience...
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Ce collectif rassemble des témoignages sur la plus longue grève qu'à connue Haïti. Enquêtes, photos, documents d'archives, pamphlets restituent cette mémoire. Acteurs et témoins évoquent la résistance à l'horreur et l'urgence d'une société fondée sur le respect des droits humains. Entre savoir et démocratie. Les luttes de l'Union nationale des Étudiants haïtiens (UNEH) sous le gouvernement de François Duvalier retrace cette tragique...
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In Deep Are the Roots, Stephen Bourne celebrates the pioneers of Black British theatre, beginning in 1825, when Ira Aldridge made history as the first Black actor to play Shakespeare's Othello in the United Kingdom, and ending in 1975 with the success of Britain's first Black-led theatre company.
In addition to providing a long-overdue critique of Laurence Olivier's Othello, too-often cited as the zenith of the role, Bourne has unearthed the forgotten...
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In UNDER FIRE, Stephen Bourne tells the whole story of Britain's black community during the Second World War. On the home front, civilians came under fire from the Blitz in cities such as Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool, London and Manchester. Meanwhile, black servicemen and women, many of them volunteers from places as far away as Trinidad, Jamaica, Guyana and Nigeria, risked their lives fighting for the Mother Country in the air, at sea and on land....
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Culture is what society considers "good and honorable." In America, there are numerous cultures: Anglo-Saxon, Asian, African-American or Black, Hispanic or Latino, Italian, German, among others. They should celebrate their uniqueness, such as exclusive forms of art and dance, distinctive music, languages, religious practices, and centuries of family traditions.
Diversity is good, and it made the United States of America a Great Nation.
However, in...
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The 74-year-old author, John M. Memory, realized in recent years that he has much important information that is seldom or never taught in college and university courses. After checking course descriptions of a major university in the Southeast, he undertook writing this book.
Though John is not a health expert, he has had significant scholarly and professional experiences relating to health that have helped him in writing the 17 chapters about health....
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Sinopsis de La Transición Española 2.
Una visión desde Cataluña Esta segunda parte esta dedicada en exclusiva al periodo que conocemos como La Transición Española. Con ello intento dar respuesta al por qué de las causas que nos han llevado a las puertas de un conflicto social no deseado por nadie. Un trance que continua sin ligazón entre dos formas de entender el futuro de Cataluña y de España. Quizás una de esas decisiones equivocadas...
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