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Undocumented
How Immigration Became Illegal
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Explores what it means to be undocumented in a legal, social, economic and historical context
In this illuminating work, immigrant rights activist Aviva Chomsky shows how “illegality” and “undocumentedness” are concepts that were created to exclude and exploit. With a focus on US policy,...
One Nation, One Standard
An Ex-Liberal on How Hispanics Can Succeed Just Like Other Immigrant Groups
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2006
Why aren’t Hispanics succeeding like Asians, Jews, and other immigrant groups in America? Herman Badillo's answer is as politically incorrect as the question: Hispanics simply don’t put the same emphasis on education as other immigrant groups.
As the nation’s first Puerto Rican–born U.S....
How Race Is Made in America
Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
How Race Is Made in America examines Mexican Americans—from 1924, when American law drastically reduced immigration into the United States, to 1965, when many quotas were abolished—to understand how broad themes of race and citizenship are constructed. These years shaped the emergence of what...
No Undocumented Child Left Behind
Plyler v. Doe and the Education of Undocumented Schoolchildren
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The 1982 U. S. Supreme Court case of Plyler v. Doe, which made it possible for undocumented children to enroll in Texas public schools, was a watershed moment for immigrant rights in the United States. The Court struck down both a state statute denying funding for education to undocumented children...
Guardianship Reality
Who’S Looking out for America’S Abandoned, Abused, Neglected Children & Elderly?
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
WHOS LOOKING OUT FOR AMERICA'S ABUSED & NEGLECTED CHILDREN & THE ELDERLY? The court orders Professional Guardians to make critical decisions; this pragmatic guide explains how to make those decisions. It guides the reader through the process of making bio-ethical healthcare, ethical social...
Living Cities in Japan
Citizens' Movements, Machizukuri and Local Environments
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Over the last fifteen years local citizens' movements have spread rapidly throughout Japan. Created with the aim of improving the quality of the local environment, and of environmental management processes, such activities are widely referred to as machizukuri, and represent an important development...
Borneo Trilogy Sarawak: Volume 1
Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Sarawak, Malaysia is the second in the trilogy on Borneo and is a travelogue on rainforest and its Indigenous Peoples. Sarawak opens its heart of darkness, the rainforest when Frans Welman visits the interior and meets the peoples of the rainforests, Indigenous Peoples and peoples who exploit this rich and diverse ecosystem and habitat.
San Francisco Chinatown
A Guide to Its History and Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
This is the only historical guidebook specifically devoted to SF Chinatown.
Will be of interest to the large Chinese American population in SF and to those interested in Chinatowns throughout the US.
Bay Area historians and those interested in the history of SF's architecture.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
It has become increasingly critical for both novice and experienced educators to bring to their diverse classrooms a set of dispositions, skills, and experiences that will enhance learning for all students, especially pupils from diverse cultural and language backgrounds. Intercultural teaching experiences...
China and the Internet
Politics of the Digital Leap Forward
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
China and the Internet: Politics of the Digital Leap Forward is a comprehensive assessment of the political and economic impact of information and communication technologies (ITCs) on Chinese society. It provides in-depth analyses of topics including economic development, civil and political liberties,...
by Glenn Alan Cheney
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Sister Diane DalleMolle and Sister Barbara Staley arrived in Swaziland at the height of an HIV epidemic that today afflicts a third of the population. Under under extremely difficult conditions in the harsh, semi-arid outback, they managed to establish a clinic, care for over 100 orphans, install...
The Quran: A New Interpretation
In English with Arabic Text
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This new rendering of the Holy Quran into the English language is the first of its kind, since it is a combination of translation and exegesis in which the author 'opens out' the verses of the Holy Book to reveal some of the layers of meaning expounded by the Prophet and transmitted through the ages...
Blowout!, Enhanced Ebook
Enhanced ebook with video and audio - Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
In March 1968, thousands of Chicano students walked out of their East Los Angeles high schools and middle schools to protest decades of inferior and discriminatory education in the so-called "Mexican Schools." During these historic walkouts, or "blowouts," the students were led...
Whiteness
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2007
What is whiteness? Why is it worth using as a tool in the social sciences?
Making sociological sense of the idea of whiteness, this book skilfully argues how this concept can help us understand contemporary societies. If one of sociology's objectives is to make the familiar unfamiliar in order...