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A Century of Dishonor (1884) is a work of nonfiction by Helen Hunt Jackson. Inspired by a speech given by Ponca chief Standing Bear in Boston, A Century of Dishonor attempts to reckon with the genocide and displacement of Native Americans and the passage of Indian Appropriations Act of 1871. At her own expense, Hunt Jackson sent copies of the book to every member of Congress, hoping to convince them to amend official government policies and to end...
62) National Unity
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Malaysia is a nation in which multi-ethnicity thrive in spite of differences of religion and culture. The tensions underlying this unity, however, are real and present ongoing challenges to the country's leadership in maintaining peace and harmony in this country. How has Malaysia remained unscathed by racial violence that plague other multi-ethnic nations, even while achieving exemplary growth rates since its Independence in 1957?
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In the tradition of Mark Baker's Cops, more than 100 top firefighters describe the highs and lows of the world's most dangerous profession.
Fascinating and packed with emotion,The Fire Inside is a unique look at the unseen world of firefighters who risk their lives for strangers every day In their own words, these male and female heroes vividly describe how they cope with scorching flame, injuries, earthquakes, hazardous waste, and wildfire-and the...
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The Highland Clearances generally refers to the eviction of indigenous Gaelic-speaking people of the Scottish Highlands and Islands-roughly between 1790 and 1855-to make way for more profitable cattle and sheep farms and, later, sporting estates. The blunt result of these evictions was that of a culture fundamentally altered if not destroyed. Many Highlanders emigrated to Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. A number of histories,...
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"Winner of the 2013 Academia Sinica Scholarly Monograph Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences" Michael Keevak is a professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at National Taiwan University. His books include Sexual Shakespeare, The Pretended Asian, and The Story of a Stele.
The story of how East Asians became "yellow" in the Western imagination-and what it reveals about the problematic history of racial thinking
In their earliest encounters...
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El chamanismo no ha desaparecido de las sociedades contemporáneas, sino que continua vigente palpitando en múltiples discursos. Hay chamanismo en las poéticas de las mujeres indígenas del Abya Yala, en las energías femeninas y masculinas de la espiritualidad japonesa, en los rituales de los taitas cofanes, en las nuevas epistemologías de la psicología, en la pedagogía del cuidado del territorio, en las representaciones del jaguar, en las tradiciones...
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Tierra y silicio examina algunas relaciones entre nuevos repertorios tecnológicos y política en el Tejido de Comunicaciones de la Asociación de Cabildos indígenas del Norte del Cauca (NASA-ACIN), y hace parte de una investigación más amplia titulada Cultura Política, ciudad y ciberciudadanías (Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Universidad del Valle, Colciencias). Además presenta los resultados de un estudio sobre medios de comunicación,...
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Gil Z. Hochberg is assistant professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Partition--the idea of separating Jews and Arabs along ethnic or national lines--is a legacy at least as old as the Zionist-Palestinian conflict. Challenging the widespread "separatist imagination" behind partition, Gil Hochberg demonstrates the ways in which works of contemporary Jewish and Arab literature reject simple notions of separatism...
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John Borneman is professor of anthropology at Princeton University. His books include Death of the Father: An Anthropology of the End in Political Authority and Settling Accounts: Violence, Justice, and Accountability in Postsocialist Europe (Princeton)
When Princeton anthropologist John Borneman arrived in Syria's second-largest city in 2004 as a visiting Fulbright professor, he took up residence in what many consider a "rogue state" on the frontline...
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Esta obra presenta el análisis de un evento comunicativo en el cual se emplea una lengua ritual (lengua del yagé). Los temas tratados por el autor en este libro son el estudio de una lengua ritual en la perspectiva de la etnografía del habla y la comunicación, tomando los aportes teóricos de los sociolingüistas norteamericanos Dell Hymes y Joel Sherzer, la descripción de la lengua ritual del yagé y el estudio de la relación entre lengua,...
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Ever wonder what a man thinks when he can't provide for himself? Have you ever thought about what will happen to a man when taken out of his comfort zone? What happens when his body is incarcerated and his mind roams free. Take a journey thru the eyes of a man born and raised in Jacksonville, FL. After being a resident of the Department of Corrections only two things happen. You become better or worse because you will never be the same. Poetry...
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Missionaries of the left, saviors are people of privilege who believe they have all the answers. They want to help, but don't want to listen; they lead but never follow. From post-Katrina New Orleans, to anti-sex-traficking work, to do-gooder journalists, Flaherty's book reveals saviors' misdeeds but also shows how activists can build new, stronger movements.
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El proyecto de Estado-Nación Multicultural impulsado por las sociedades contemporáneas se fundamenta en el reconocimiento de la diversidad, de los derechos diferenciados y de la igualdad como condición de la vida en comunidad. Este reconocimiento es la legitimación de luchas históricas de grupos étnicos y minorías sociales, que han sido sujetos paradigmáticos de las luchas por la participación económica, social y política. En el trabajo...
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DISCLAIMER Those of you who may feel some of these writings were out of context, those of you who may feel insulted by some of these writings, those of you, who may think this writer doesn't know what he's talking about, and those of you, who may be getting angry at these writings, this is for all of you. Any form of negative reaction towards any of these writings will not... repeat, WILL NOT... be the responsibility of the writer! Charles Ramirez...
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Each year, tens of thousands of people flock to Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina, and to more than two hundred other locations across the country to attend Scottish Highland Games and Gatherings. There, kilt-wearing participants compete in athletics, Highland dancing, and bagpiping, while others join clan societies in celebration of a Scottish heritage. As Celeste Ray notes, however, the Scottish affiliation that Americans claim today is a Highland...
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Read about Alaska, in the context of the Inuits. Learn about the geography of the state of Alaska, including its climate and landscape. Understand how these truths shaped the lives of the Inuit throughout history. At the end of the book, you will learn to appreciate the Alaskan Inuit for their strength and resourcefulness as a people despite the harsh climate of the Arctic region that Alaska is in.
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From hungry ghosts, vampiric babies, and shapeshifting fox spirits to the avenging White Lady of urban legend, for generations, Asian women's roles have been shaped and defined through myth and story. In “Unquiet Spirits”, Asian writers of horror reflect on the impact of superstition, spirits, and the supernatural in this unique collection of 21 personal essays exploring themes of otherness, identity, expectation, duty, and loss, and leading,...
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El año 2010, enmarcado por los festejos de la Independencia mexicana a cargo del sexenio panista, presentó el aliciente reflexivo acerca de la tensión política y social que existe entre el Estado-nación y la diversidad étnica. De modo que los ejes punzantes tienen que ver con la continuidad narrativa de una relación de dominación que se perpetúa y celebra a sí misma. En ese sentido, cobra relevancia el análisis y la práctica respecto de...
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Esta obra aborda un tema mapuche que desde el siglo XV ha sorprendido a la élite militar, religiosa y política de los colonizadores: cómo entender una sociedad en la que las personas hacen gala y ostentación de su individualidad, de sus nombres propios como Caupolicán, Magnin o Coñuepán. Si en el mundo hispano-criollo el sujeto desaparecía bajo el peso de las instituciones estatales, en el mundo mapuche las instituciones dependían de los...
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