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Racial Baggage

Mexican Immigrants and Race Across the Border

By: Sylvia Zamora

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Racial Baggage

Mexican Immigrants and Race Across the Border

By: Sylvia Zamora

A sociological analysis of how immigration transforms Mexican immigrants' understandings of race in home and host countries.

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1503632245

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Racial Baggage

Mexican Immigrants and Race Across the Border

By: Sylvia Zamora

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Racial Baggage

Mexican Immigrants and Race Across the Border

By: Sylvia Zamora

Upon arrival to the United States, Mexican immigrants are racialized as simultaneously non-White and "illegal." This racialization process complicates notions of race that they bring with them, as the "pigmentocracy" of Mexican society, in which their skin color may have afforded them more privileges within their home country, collides with the American racial system. Racial Baggage examines how immigration reconfigures U.S. race relations, illuminating how the immigration experience can transform understandings of race in home and host countries. Drawing on interviews with Mexicans in Los Angeles and Guadalajara, sociologist Sylvia Zamora illustrates how racialization is a transnational process that not only changes immigrants themselves, but also everyday understandings of race and racism within the United States and Mexico. Within their communities and networks that span an international border, Zamora argues, immigrants come to define "race" in a way distinct from both the color-conscious hierarchy of Mexican society and the Black-White binary prevalent within the United States. In the process, their stories demonstrate how race is not static, but rather an evolving social phenomenon forever altered by immigration.

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Stanford University Press

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1503632253

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9781503632257

Hidden Arguments

Political Ideology and Disease Prevention Policy

By: Sylvia Noble Tesh

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Hidden Arguments

Political Ideology and Disease Prevention Policy

By: Sylvia Noble Tesh

In this provocative book, Sylvia Tesh shows how "politics masquerades as science" in the debates over the causes and prevention of disease. Tesh argues that ideas about the causes of disease which dominate policy at any given time or place are rarely determined by scientific criteria alone. In a final chapter, Tesh urges scientists to incorporate egalitarian values into their search for the truth, rather than pretending science can be divorced from that political ideology.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813513154

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9780813513157

Multiculturalism and Magic Realism in Zadie Smith’s novel White Teeth: Between Fiction and Reality

By: Sylvia Hadjetian

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Multiculturalism and Magic Realism in Zadie Smith’s novel White Teeth: Between Fiction and Reality

By: Sylvia Hadjetian

Since the 1970s, there has been increasing concern with the impact of (post)colonialism on British identities and culture. White Teeth by Zadie Smith is the story of three families from three different cultural backgrounds, set mostly in multicultural London. The first part of this book provides an overview of the former British Empire, the Commonwealth and the history of Bangladesh, Jamaica and the Jews in England as relevant to White Teeth. Following this, the role of the (former) centre of London will be presented. Subsequently, definitions and postcolonial theories (Bhabha, Said etc.) shall be discussed.The focus of this book is on life in multicultural London. The main aspects analysed in these chapters deal with identity, the location where the novel is set and racism. A further aim of the book is a comparison between the fictional world of White Teeth and reality. One chapter is devoted to the question of magic realism and the novel's position between two worlds.In a summary, the writer hopes to convince the readers of the fascination felt when reading the novel and when plunging into the buzzing streets of contemporary multicultural London.

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diplom.de

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3954897423

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Women’s Emancipation Movements in the Nineteenth Century

A European Perspective

By: Sylvia Paletschek

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Women’s Emancipation Movements in the Nineteenth Century

A European Perspective

By: Sylvia Paletschek

The nineteenth century, a time of far-reaching cultural, political, and socio-economic transformation in Europe, brought about fundamental changes in the role of women. Women achieved this by fighting for their rights in the legal, economic, and political spheres. In the various parts of Europe, this process went forward at a different pace and followed different patterns. Most historical research up to now has ignored this diversity, preferring to focus on women’s emancipation movements in major western European countries such as Britain and France. The present volume provides a broader context to the movement by including countries both large and small from all regions of Europe. Fourteen historians, all of them specialists in women’s history, examine the origins and development of women’s emancipation movements in their respective areas of expertise. By exploring the cultural and political diversity of nineteenth-century Europe and at the same time pointing out connections to questions explored by conventional scholarship, the essays shed new light on common developments and problems.

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Stanford University Press

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0804767076

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9780804767071

Gender, Generation and Poverty

Exploring the Feminisation of Poverty In Africa, Asia and Latin America

By: Sylvia H. Chant

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Gender, Generation and Poverty

Exploring the Feminisation of Poverty In Africa, Asia and Latin America

By: Sylvia H. Chant

The 'feminisation of poverty' is viewed as a global trend, and of particular concern in developing regions. Yet although popularisation of the term may have raised women's visibility in development discourses and gone some way to 'en-gender' policies for poverty reduction, the construct is only weakly substantiated. This work covers this topic.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1847206883

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9781847206886

Gender in Latin America

By: Sylvia H. Chant,Nikki Craske

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Gender in Latin America

By: Sylvia H. Chant,Nikki Craske

A comprehensive state-of-the-art review of gender in one of the world's most diverse and dynamic regions. The authors draw on a wide range of sources, including their own field research, to explore changes and continuities in gender roles, relations and identities during the late twentieth century into the twenty-first. Debunking traditional universalizing stereotypes, diversity in gender is highlighted in relation to the cross-cutting influences of age, class, sexuality, ethnicity, rural-urban residence, and migrant status.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813531969

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9780813531960

Eclipse of the Assassins

The CIA, Imperial Politics, and the Slaying of Mexican Journalist Manuel Buendía

By: Russell H. Bartley,Sylvia Erickson Bartley

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Eclipse of the Assassins

The CIA, Imperial Politics, and the Slaying of Mexican Journalist Manuel Buendía

By: Russell H. Bartley,Sylvia Erickson Bartley

Eclipse of the Assassins investigates the sensational 1984 murder of Mexico's most influential newspaper columnist, Manuel Buendía, and how that crime reveals the lethal hand of the U.S. government in Mexico and Central America during the final decades of the twentieth century.

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University of Wisconsin Pres

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0299306402

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9780299306403

The Woman on the Windowsill

A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts

By: Sylvia Sellers-Garcia

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The Woman on the Windowsill

A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts

By: Sylvia Sellers-Garcia

One of the most thoughtfully crafted works of true crime I've ever seen."--Molly Odintz, CrimeReads senior editor On the morning of July 1, 1800, a surveyor and mapmaker named Cayetano Díaz opened the window of his study in Guatemala City to find a horrific sight: a pair of severed breasts. Offering a meticulously researched and evocative account of the quest to find the perpetrator and understand the motives behind such a brutal act, The Woman on the Windowsill pinpoints the last decade of the eighteenth-century as a watershed moment in Guatemalan history, when the nature of justice changed dramatically. Sylvia Sellers-García reveals how this bizarre and macabre event came with an increased attention to crime that resulted in more forceful policing and reflected important policy decisions not only in Guatemala but throughout the Spanish Empire. This engaging true crime story serves as a backdrop for the broader consideration of the forces shaping Guatemala City at the brink of the modern era.

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Yale University Press

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0300234287

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9780300234282

Women and Survival in Mexican Cities

Perspectives on Gender, Labour Markets, and Low-income Households

By: Sylvia H. Chant

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Women and Survival in Mexican Cities

Perspectives on Gender, Labour Markets, and Low-income Households

By: Sylvia H. Chant

On the basis of interviews with low-income households and local employers, this study attempts to provide an analysis of the articulations between women, employment and household survival strategies in contemporary urban Mexico.

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Manchester University Press

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0719034434

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9780719034435

Rage for Fame

The Ascent of Clare Boothe Luce

By: Sylvia Jukes Morris

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Rage for Fame

The Ascent of Clare Boothe Luce

By: Sylvia Jukes Morris

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK “Her technique was simple: aim for the top,” an envious colleague wrote of Clare Boothe Luce. No American woman of the twentieth century aimed so accurately, or rose so far, as this legendary playwright, politician, and social seductress. Born in New York’s Spanish Harlem, with nothing to recommend her but beauty, ferocious intelligence, and dry wit, she transformed herself into the youthful managing editor of Vanity Fair. She married two millionaires and wrote three Broadway hits, including the biting satire, The Women. Her second husband, Henry Luce—the publisher of Time, Fortune, and later at her suggestion Life—was only one of the dozens of men she entranced. Adding politics and power to journalism and drama, Clare used sex, street smarts, acid humor, and money to plot a career more improbable than anything in her own fiction. Not content with mere wealth and the acclaim of transatlantic café society, Clare Boothe Luce confessed to a “rage for fame.” This extraordinary book—the result of more than fifteen years of research by Sylvia Jukes Morris, her chosen biographer—tells how she achieved it. Praise for Rage for Fame “A model biography . . . the sort that only real writers can write.”—Gore Vidal, The New Yorker “[The] riveting first part of a two-volume biography . . . Relentlessly candid, meticulously documented, Morris’s book traces [Clare Boothe] Luce’s rocketing rise from illegitimacy and poverty to wealth, power and fame.”—Hartford Courant “Powerful and resonant, admiring at times, always critical, at times searing, but ultimately fair.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “Crammed with enough drama for several mini-series.”—The New York Times “An important book about an important figure . . . a stunning feat of biography.”—Forbes “A dishy biography that is also a formidable work of research.”—Slate “One of those rare books where the reader dreads the final page.”—Newport News Daily Press

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Random House

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0307791408

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The Book of Latina Women

150 Vidas of Passion, Strength, and Success

By: Sylvia Mendoza

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The Book of Latina Women

150 Vidas of Passion, Strength, and Success

By: Sylvia Mendoza

From fiery superstars like singing sensation Selena, who blazed new trails in pop culture, to little-known heroes like the Mirabal Sisters, who died for their country, The Book of Latina Women: 150 Vidas of Passion, Strength and Success, spotlights 150 amazing and influential Latinas....

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0988523205

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Multiculturalism and Magic Realism in Zadie Smith's Novel White Teeth: Between Fiction and Reality

By: Sylvia Hadjetian

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Multiculturalism and Magic Realism in Zadie Smith's Novel White Teeth: Between Fiction and Reality

By: Sylvia Hadjetian

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3954892421

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Book's by Sylvia Zamora

Racial Baggage

Racial Baggage

Racial Baggage

Racial Baggage

Hidden Arguments

Hidden Arguments

Multiculturalism and Magic Realism in Zadie Smith’s novel White Teeth: Between Fiction and Reality

Multiculturalism and Magic Realism in Zadie Smith’s novel White Teeth: Between Fiction and Reality

Women’s Emancipation Movements in the Nineteenth Century

Women’s Emancipation Movements in the Nineteenth Century

Gender, Generation and Poverty

Gender, Generation and Poverty

Gender in Latin America

Gender in Latin America

Eclipse of the Assassins

Eclipse of the Assassins

The Woman on the Windowsill

The Woman on the Windowsill

Women and Survival in Mexican Cities

Women and Survival in Mexican Cities

Rage for Fame

Rage for Fame

The Book of Latina Women

The Book of Latina Women

Multiculturalism and Magic Realism in Zadie Smith's Novel White Teeth: Between Fiction and Reality

Multiculturalism and Magic Realism in Zadie Smith's Novel White Teeth: Between Fiction and Reality

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