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State, Society, and Minorities in South and Southeast Asia (Hardcover): Sunil Kukreja State, Society, and Minorities in South and Southeast Asia (Hardcover)
Sunil Kukreja; Contributions by Thanet Aphornsuvan, Richard L. Benkin, Melissa Kerr Chiovenda, Peter Joseph Hammer, …
R2,739 Discovery Miles 27 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

South and Southeast Asia continue to be extremely critical regions, deeply intertwined and bound in many ways by centuries of intersecting histories. As the recent experiences of rapid and transformative political and economic changes in several countries in these two regions illustrate, these changes have significant bearing on and are simultaneously affected by the legacy and continued dynamic of dominant-minority group relations. To be sure, while the dynamics of dominant-minority relations in each country are distinct and often mitigated by distinct historical conditions, the phenomenon of these dominant-minority relations, especially along ethnic and religious fault lines, are deeply consequential to many of the nations in these regions. This book, featuring eight case studies, provides a multidisciplinary and multi-layered assessment of the salience of the ethnic and religious realities in shaping various South and Southeast Asian nations. Featuring chapters on Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, this volume provides a deep appreciation of the challenges that these societies confront in integrating and/or responding to specific ethnic and/or religious based conflicts and tensions.

What's a Yia Yia? - A Book About Grandmothers (Hardcover): Stella Stamatakis What's a Yia Yia? - A Book About Grandmothers (Hardcover)
Stella Stamatakis
R533 Discovery Miles 5 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Lynched by a Mob! The 1892 Lynching of Robert Lewis in Port Jervis, New York (Hardcover): Michael J. Worden Lynched by a Mob! The 1892 Lynching of Robert Lewis in Port Jervis, New York (Hardcover)
Michael J. Worden
R1,240 R1,075 Discovery Miles 10 750 Save R165 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Racial Mundane - Asian American Performance and the Embodied Everyday (Hardcover): Ju Yon Kim The Racial Mundane - Asian American Performance and the Embodied Everyday (Hardcover)
Ju Yon Kim
R3,137 Discovery Miles 31 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Winner, Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize presented by the New England American Studies Association Across the twentieth century, national controversies involving Asian Americans have drawn attention to such seemingly unremarkable activities as eating rice, greeting customers, and studying for exams. While public debates about Asian Americans have invoked quotidian practices to support inconsistent claims about racial difference, diverse aesthetic projects have tested these claims by experimenting with the relationships among habit, body, and identity. In The Racial Mundane, Ju Yon Kim argues that the ambiguous relationship between behavioral tendencies and the body has sustained paradoxical characterizations of Asian Americans as ideal and impossible Americans. The body's uncertain attachment to its routine motions promises alternately to materialize racial distinctions and to dissolve them. Kim's study focuses on works of theater, fiction, and film that explore the interface between racialized bodies and everyday enactments to reveal new and latent affiliations. The various modes of performance developed in these works not only encourage audiences to see habitual behaviors differently, but also reveal the stakes of noticing such behaviors at all. Integrating studies of race, performance, and the everyday, The Racial Mundane invites readers to reflect on how and to what effect perfunctory behaviors become objects of public scrutiny.

Doublehead - Last Chickamauga Cherokee Chief (Hardcover): Rickey Butch Walker Doublehead - Last Chickamauga Cherokee Chief (Hardcover)
Rickey Butch Walker
R1,025 Discovery Miles 10 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Just Like Me (Hardcover): Vin Morreale, Twany Beckham Just Like Me (Hardcover)
Vin Morreale, Twany Beckham; Illustrated by Mandy Morreale
R537 Discovery Miles 5 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The African American Religious Experience in America (Hardcover): Anthony B Pinn The African American Religious Experience in America (Hardcover)
Anthony B Pinn
R2,487 Discovery Miles 24 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Most who think about African American religion limit themselves to black churches, or perhaps to aspects of Islamic thought and practice. But a close look at the religious landscape of African American communities presents a much more complex, thick, and layered religious reality comprising many competing faiths and practices. The African American Religious Experience in America provides readers with an introduction to the tremendous religious diversity of African American communities in the United States, with "snapshots" of 11 religious traditions practiced by African Americans--from Buddhism to Catholicism, from Judaism to Voodoo. Each snapshot provides readers a better understanding of how African Americans practice their faiths in the United States. The African American Religious Experience in America provides resources for students taking classes on the history of American religion, African American Studies, and on American Studies. In addition to the in-depth discussion of the "varieties of African American Religion," the volume includes a historical introduction to the development of African American Religion, a glossary of terms, a timeline of important events, a series of short biographies of important figures in the history of African American religion and a bibliography of sources for further study. Finally, the book includes a series of primary source documents that will provide students with first-person accounts of how religion is practiced in the African American community both today and in the past.

12 Million Black Voices (Hardcover, Reprint ed.): Richard Wright 12 Million Black Voices (Hardcover, Reprint ed.)
Richard Wright
R831 Discovery Miles 8 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Stella - A Novel of the Haitian Revolution (Hardcover): Emeric Bergeaud Stella - A Novel of the Haitian Revolution (Hardcover)
Emeric Bergeaud; Edited by Christen Mucher, Lesley S. Curtis
R3,098 Discovery Miles 30 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Stella, first published in 1859, is an imaginative retelling of Haiti's fight for independence from slavery and French colonialism. Set during the years of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), Stella tells the story of two brothers, Romulus and Remus, who help transform their homeland from the French colony of Saint-Domingue to the independent republic of Haiti. Inspired by the sacrifice of their African mother Marie and Stella, the spirit of Liberty, Romulus and Remus must learn to work together to found a new country based on the principles of freedom and equality. This new translation and critical edition of Emeric Bergeaud's allegorical novel makes Stella available to English-speaking audiences for the first time. Considered the first novel written by a Haitian, Stella tells of the devastation and deprivation that colonialism and slavery wrought upon Bergeaud's homeland. Unique among nineteenth-century accounts, Stella gives a pro-Haitian version of the Haitian Revolution, a bloody but just struggle that emancipated a people, and it charges future generations with remembering the sacrifices and glory of their victory. Bergeaud's novel demonstrates that the Haitians-not the French-are the true inheritors of the French Revolution, and that Haiti is the realization of its republican ideals. At a time in which Haitian Studies is becoming increasingly important within the English-speaking world, this edition calls attention to the rich though under-examined world of nineteenth-century Haiti.

Racism From the Eyes of a Child (Hardcover, 2nd ed.): Mathew Knowles Ph D Racism From the Eyes of a Child (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Mathew Knowles Ph D
R699 R626 Discovery Miles 6 260 Save R73 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
African Literature And Intellectual Histories - Reflecting On Ntongela Masilela's Work (Paperback): Busani Ngcaweni African Literature And Intellectual Histories - Reflecting On Ntongela Masilela's Work (Paperback)
Busani Ngcaweni
R395 R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Save R30 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Professor Ntongela Masilela (1948–2020) is recognised as one of South Africa’s most eminent scholars, and his highly respected and meticulous contributions to local and global intellectual discourse, most significantly via his historical archive, offer essential insights into disciplines such as literature, film, arts, and political and intellectual history.

The book comprises essays by Masilela; each of which is prefaced by an introduction by the volume editor. The essays contain Masilela’s most significant writings and illuminate the essence and breadth of his gifted mastery of the aforementioned disciplines; a mastery that he deployed in service of elucidating both the intellectual contributions of others – most notably the members of the New African Movement – and the interconnectedness of people, body politics, events and ideologies across time and space. In this way, the book befittingly presents Masilela as a widely read and travelled scholar, who scoured the national archive to unpack the most intricate aspects of our history and its interconnectedness with the history of the world.

The essays further showcase Masilela’s historico-biographical approach in their exploration of three key periods: the diaspora (exile), the interregnum, and post-apartheid South Africa, as well as offer us an advanced understanding of the locus that drove the works of others, such as Bernard M. Magubane, H.I.E. Dhlomo and Nadine Gordimer.

In so doing, Masilela brings to life both prominent and lesser-known African intellectuals by engaging with their archives in a manner that empowers the reader to appreciate also the value of biographical sketches. His treatment of race, language, culture and indeed literature itself is not just theoretic but verges on the dramatic, and thereby he gives these paths of inquiry both life and contemporaneity. Further, there is an ongoing debate in contemporary Africa about “what is South African literature”, “what is national liberation” and “what are the markers of a successful post-colonial state”. The book will enrich these debates, which are sometimes stylised and conducted without historical context.

The transdisciplinary nature of the book enables it to serve as reference material across various disciplines in the global south and the global north Therefore, itt will be of interest to readers of political and intellectual history, cultural (arts and film) studies, literature, political science and diaspora studies.

Modern Problems of Scientometric Assessment of Publication Activity (Hardcover): Oleg V Mikhailov Modern Problems of Scientometric Assessment of Publication Activity (Hardcover)
Oleg V Mikhailov
R1,412 R1,228 Discovery Miles 12 280 Save R184 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Stop Trying to Fix Policing - Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of Black Liberation (Hardcover): Tony Gaskew Stop Trying to Fix Policing - Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of Black Liberation (Hardcover)
Tony Gaskew
R3,234 R2,278 Discovery Miles 22 780 Save R956 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In Stop Trying to Fix Policing: Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of Black Liberation, Tony Gaskew guides readers through the phenomena of police abolition, using the cultural lens of the Black radical tradition. The author weaves an electrifying combination of critical race theory, spiritual inheritance, decolonization, self-determination, and armed resistance, into a critical autoethnographic journey that illuminates the rituals of revolution required for dismantling the institution of American policing. Stop Trying to Fix Policing is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond the rhetoric of police reform, to the next step: contributing to the formation of a world without policing.

How Do Hurricane Katrina's Winds Blow? - Racism in 21st-Century New Orleans (Hardcover): Liza Treadwell How Do Hurricane Katrina's Winds Blow? - Racism in 21st-Century New Orleans (Hardcover)
Liza Treadwell
R1,989 Discovery Miles 19 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The disproportionate effect of Hurricane Katrina on African Americans was an outcome created by law and societal construct, not chance. This book takes a hard look at racial stratification in American today and debunks the myth that segregation is a thing of the past. An outstanding resource for students of African American history, government policy, sociology, and human rights, as well as readers interested in socioeconomics in the United States today, this book examines why the divisions between the areas heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina and those left unscathed largely coincided with the color lines in New Orleans neighborhoods; and establishes how African Americans have suffered for 400 years under an oppressive system that has created a permanent underclass of second-class citizenship. Rather than focusing on the Katrina disaster itself, the author presents significant evidence of how government policy and structure, as well as societal mores, permitted and sanctioned the dehumanization of African Americans, purposefully placing them in disaster-prone areas-particularly, those in New Orleans. The historical context is framed within the construct of Hurricane Katrina and other hurricane catastrophes in New Orleans, demonstrating that Katrina was not an anomaly. For readers unfamiliar with the ugly existence of segregation in modern-day America, this book will likely shock and outrage as it sounds a call to both citizens and government to undertake the challenges we still face as a nation. Documents how the Katrina disaster uncovered the pathology of dehumanization and draws connections between the rampant problems in government and society to the root cause of dehumanization Reveals how Louisiana's laws, customs, and society structure have sought to maintain separation between the races and subjugated African Americans and non-whites, from the establishment of the state to today Suggests a number of remedies based on the basic principles of good government and the elimination of dehumanization that can move our society away from present-day segregation-a condition that is fatal to democracy

Remaking Identities - God, Nation, and Race in World History (Hardcover): Benjamin Lieberman Remaking Identities - God, Nation, and Race in World History (Hardcover)
Benjamin Lieberman
R3,126 Discovery Miles 31 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

For centuries conquerors, missionaries, and political movements acting in the name of a single god, nation, or race have sought to remake human identities. Tracing the rise of exclusive forms of identity over the past 1500 years, this innovative book explores both the creation and destruction of exclusive identities, including those based on nationalism and monotheistic religion. Benjamin Lieberman focuses on two critical phases of world history: the age of holy war and conversion, and the age of nationalism and racism. His cases include the rise of Islam, the expansion of medieval Christianity, Spanish conquests in the Americas, Muslim expansion in India, settler expansion in North America, nationalist cleansing in modern Europe and Asia, and Nazi Germany's efforts to build a racial empire. He convincingly shows that efforts to transplant and expand new identities have paradoxically generated long periods of both stability and explosive violence that remade the human landscape around the world.

Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment in Africa and North America (Hardcover, New): David M. Gordon, Shepard Krech III Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment in Africa and North America (Hardcover, New)
David M. Gordon, Shepard Krech III
R2,386 Discovery Miles 23 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Indigenous knowledge has become a catchphrase in global struggles for environmental justice. Yet indigenous knowledges are often viewed, incorrectly, as pure and primordial cultural artifacts. This collection draws from African and North American cases to argue that the forms of knowledge identified as "indigenous" resulted from strategies to control environmental resources during and after colonial encounters.
At times indigenous knowledges represented a "middle ground" of intellectual exchanges between colonizers and colonized; elsewhere, indigenous knowledges were defined through conflict and struggle. The authors demonstrate how people claimed that their hybrid forms of knowledge were communal, religious, and traditional, as opposed to individualist, secular, and scientific, which they associated with European colonialism.
"Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment" offers comparative and transnational insights that disturb romantic views of unchanging indigenous knowledges in harmony with the environment. The result is a book that informs and complicates how indigenous knowledges can and should relate to environmental policy-making.
Contributors: David Bernstein, Derick Fay, Andrew H. Fisher, Karen Flint, David M. Gordon, Paul Kelton, Shepard Krech III, Joshua Reid, Parker Shipton, Lance van Sittert, Jacob Tropp, James L. A. Webb, Jr., Marsha Weisiger

This Arab Life - A Generation's Journey into Silence (Hardcover): Amal Ghandour This Arab Life - A Generation's Journey into Silence (Hardcover)
Amal Ghandour
R575 R529 Discovery Miles 5 290 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ethnic American Literature - An Encyclopedia for Students (Hardcover): Emmanuel S. Nelson Ethnic American Literature - An Encyclopedia for Students (Hardcover)
Emmanuel S. Nelson
R3,630 Discovery Miles 36 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Unlike any other book of its kind, this volume celebrates published works from a broad range of American ethnic groups not often featured in the typical canon of literature. This culturally rich encyclopedia contains 160 alphabetically arranged entries on African American, Asian American, Latino/a, and Native American literary traditions, among others. The book introduces the uniquely American mosaic of multicultural literature by chronicling the achievements of American writers of non-European descent and highlighting the ethnic diversity of works from the colonial era to the present. The work features engaging topics like the civil rights movement, bilingualism, assimilation, and border narratives. Entries provide historical overviews of literary periods along with profiles of major authors and great works, including Toni Morrison, Maxine Hong Kingston, Maya Angelou, Sherman Alexie, A Raisin in the Sun, American Born Chinese, and The House on Mango Street. The book also provides concise overviews of genres not often featured in textbooks, like the Chinese American novel, African American young adult literature, Mexican American autobiography, and Cuban American poetry. Highlights the most important print and electronic resources on multicultural literature through a detailed bibliography Features entries from 50 contributors, all of whom are experts in their fields Includes cultural works not often highlighted in traditional textbooks, such as Iranian American literature, Dominican American literature, and Puerto Rican American literature

The History of East-Central European Eugenics, 1900-1945 - Sources and Commentaries (Hardcover): Marius Turda The History of East-Central European Eugenics, 1900-1945 - Sources and Commentaries (Hardcover)
Marius Turda
R6,342 Discovery Miles 63 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"The History of East-Central European Eugenics, 1900-1945" redefines a new European history of eugenics by exploring the ideological transmission of eugenics internationally and its application locally in Central Europe. Using over 120 primary sources translated from various European languages into English for the first time, in addition to the key contributions of leading scholars in the field from around Europe, this book examines the main organisations, individuals and policies that shaped eugenics in Austria, Poland, former Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic and Slovakia), former Yugoslavia (now Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia), Hungary and Romania. It pioneers the study of ethnic minorities and eugenics, exploring the ways in which ethnic minorities interacted with international eugenics discourses to advance their own aims and ambitions, whilst providing a comparative analysis of the emergence and development of eugenics in Central Europe more generally.Complete with 20 illustrations, a glossary of terms and a comprehensive bibliography, "The History of East-Central European Eugenics, 1900-1945" is a pivotal reference work for students, researchers and academics interested in Central Europe and the history of science in the twentieth century.

Handbook on Ethnic Minorities in China (Hardcover): Xiaowei Zang Handbook on Ethnic Minorities in China (Hardcover)
Xiaowei Zang
R6,233 Discovery Miles 62 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This much-needed volume explains who ethnic minorities are and how well do they do in China. In addition to offering general information about ethnic minority groups in China, it discusses some important issues around ethnicity, including ethnic inequality, minority rights, and multiculturalism. In doing so, it explores questions such as: How are ethnic minorities represented in China? Are ethnic minorities' gender norms different from those of Han Chinese? How serious is ethnic inequality in education and income? How well are minority cultures and languages preserved in China? Are ethnic minorities marginalized amid China's rapid economic growth? In what ways do China's ethnic policy affect its foreign policy and international relations? The handbook reviews research on major ethnic issues in China and addresses some key conceptual, theoretical and methodological issues in the study of ethnicity in China. It offers updated research findings on minority ethnicity, consolidates knowledge scattered in different disciplines in the existing literature and provides readers with a multi-disciplinary and multi-faceted coverage in one single volume.Drawing on insights and perspectives from scholars in different continents the contributions provide critical reflections on where the field has been and where it is going, offering readers possible directions for future research on minority ethnicity in China. The Handbook on Ethnic Minorities in China is an up-to-date, comprehensive, and convenient reference, ideal for teaching and research on ethnic minorities in China. Contributors include: M. Clarke, M. Dillon, S. Du, B. Gustafsson, W. Jankowiak, H. Lai, K.Y. Law, K.-m. Lee, J. Liebold, Y. Luo, J. Ma, C. Mackerras, T. Oakes, L. Schein, B. Shurentana, B.R. Weiner, X. Zang, M. Zhou

Small Places, Large Issues - An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology (Paperback, 5th edition): Thomas Hylland... Small Places, Large Issues - An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology (Paperback, 5th edition)
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
R721 R614 Discovery Miles 6 140 Save R107 (15%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This introduction to social and cultural anthropology has become a modern classic, revealing the rich global variation in social life and culture across the world. Presenting a clear overview of anthropology, it focuses on central topics such as kinship, ethnicity, ritual and political systems, offering a wealth of examples that demonstrate the enormous scope of anthropology and the importance of a comparative perspective. Using reviews of key works to illustrate his argument, for over 25 years Thomas Hylland Eriksen's lucid and accessible textbook has been a much respected and widely used undergraduate-level introduction to social anthropology. This fully updated fifth edition features brand new chapters on climate and medical anthropology, along with rewritten sections on ecology, nature and the Anthropocene. It also incorporates a more systematic engagement with gender and digitalisation throughout the text.

Ethnopolitics in Cyberspace - The Internet, Minority Nationalism, and the Web of Identity (Hardcover): Robert A. Saunders Ethnopolitics in Cyberspace - The Internet, Minority Nationalism, and the Web of Identity (Hardcover)
Robert A. Saunders
R3,902 R2,746 Discovery Miles 27 460 Save R1,156 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Defying predictions that the Internet would eventually create a world where nations disappeared in favor of a unified 'global village, ' the new millennium has instead seen a proliferation of nationalism on the Web. Cyberspace, a vast digital terrain built upon interwoven congeries of data and sustained through countless public/private communication networks, has even begun to alter the very fabric of national identity. This is particularly true among stateless nations, diasporic groups, and national minorities, which have fashioned the Internet into a shield again the assimilating efforts of their countries of residence. As a deterritorialized medium that allows both selective consumption and inexpensive production of news and information, the Internet has endowed a new generation of technology-savvy elites with a level of influence that would have been impossible to obtain a decade ago. Challenged nations-from Assyrians to Zapotecs-have used the Web to rewrite history, engage in political activism, and reinvigorate moribund languages. This book explores the role of the Internet in shaping ethnopolitics and sustaining national identity among four different national groups: Albanians outside of Albania, Russians in the 'near abroad, ' Roma (Gypsies), and European Muslims. Accompanying these case studies are briefer discussions of dozens of other online national movements, as well as the ramifications of Internet nationalism for offline domestic and global politics. The author discusses how the Internet provides new tools for maintaining national identity and improves older techniques of nationalist resistance for minorities. Bringing together research and methodologies from a range of fields, Saunders fills a gap in the social science literature on the Internet's central role in influencing nationalism in the twenty-first century. By creating new spaces for political discourse, alternative avenues for cultural production, and novel means of social organization, the Web is remaking what it means to be part of nation. This insightful study provides a glimpse of this exciting and sometimes disturbing new landscap

Whiteness and Racialized Ethnic Groups in the United States - The Politics of Remembering (Hardcover, New): Sherrow O. Pinder Whiteness and Racialized Ethnic Groups in the United States - The Politics of Remembering (Hardcover, New)
Sherrow O. Pinder
R3,669 R2,584 Discovery Miles 25 840 Save R1,085 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

.cs7CED571B{text-align: left;text-indent:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt}.cs5EFED22F{color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-family: Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; }.csA62DFD6A{color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-family: Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; } Whiteness and Racialized Ethnic Groups in the United States, in order to account for the never ending discrimination toward racialized ethnic groups including First Nations, blacks, Chinese, and Mexicans, revisits the history of whiteness in the United States. It shows the difference between remembering a history of human indignities and recreating one that composes its own textual memory. More specifically, it reformulates how the historically reliant positionality of whiteness, as a part of the everyday practice and discourse of white supremacy, would later become institutionalized. Even though whiteness studies, with the intention of exposing white privilege, has entered the realm of academic research and is moving toward antiracist forms of whiteness or, at least, toward antiracist approaches for a different form of whiteness, it is not equipped to relinquish the privilege that comes with normalized whiteness. Hence, in order to construct a post white identity, whiteness would have to be denormalized and freed of it of its presumptive hegemony.

The Integration of the UCLA School of Law, 1966-1978 - Architects of Affirmative Action (Hardcover): Miguel Espinoza The Integration of the UCLA School of Law, 1966-1978 - Architects of Affirmative Action (Hardcover)
Miguel Espinoza
R3,173 Discovery Miles 31 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In 1966, a group of UCLA law school professors sparked the era of affirmative action by creating one of the earliest and most expansive race-conscious admissions programs in higher education. The Legal Education Opportunity Program (LEOP) served to integrate the legal profession by admitting large cohorts of minority students under non-traditional standards, and sending them into the world as emissaries of integration upon graduation. Together, these students bent the arc of educational equality, and the LEOP served as a model for similar programs around the country. Drawing upon rich historical archives and interviews with dozens of students and professors who helped integrate UCLA, this book argues that such programs should be reinstituted- and with haste- because affirmative action worked.

The Irish-American Experience in New Jersey and Metropolitan New York - Cultural Identity, Hybridity, and Commemoration... The Irish-American Experience in New Jersey and Metropolitan New York - Cultural Identity, Hybridity, and Commemoration (Hardcover)
Marta Deyrup, Maura Grace Harrington; Contributions by Linda Dowling Almeida, Nicole Anderson, Augustine J Curley, …
R2,742 Discovery Miles 27 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is a collection of nine essays exploring the Irish-American experience in the New Jersey and New York metropolitan area, both historically and today. The essays place the local Irish-American experience in the wider context of immigration studies, assimilation, and historical theory. Using case studies, interviews, scholarly research in primary historical documents and theory, and first-hand experience, the authors delve into what it has meant, and means, to be Irish American in the New Jersey and New York area, projecting what this ethnic identity will signify in years to come. Representing a variety of scholarly and professional disciplines, from archivists; to historians; to lawyers; to scholars of literature and theology; the authors share their own unique perspectives on the significance of the contributions of Irish-Americans to American life in various arenas. Each chapter is interdisciplinary, revealing the interconnections among cultural history, biography, contemporary events, and literary appreciation. It is through these intersections of disciplines, of past and present, of individual and community, that we can best analyze and appreciate the ways that Irish-Americans have shaped life in the New Jersey/New York area over the past two centuries.

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