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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Multicultural studies

Integrating Service Learning and Multicultural Education in Colleges and Universities (Hardcover): Carolyn R O'Grady Integrating Service Learning and Multicultural Education in Colleges and Universities (Hardcover)
Carolyn R O'Grady
R4,492 Discovery Miles 44 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The focus of this book is on the ways in which service learning and multicultural education can and should be integrated so that each may be strengthened and consequently have greater effect on educational and social conditions. It offers a significant attempt to forge a dialogue among practitioners of service learning and multicultural education. The overriding theme is that service learning without a focused attention to the complexity of racial and cultural differences can reinforce the dominant cultural ideology, but academic work that seeks to deconstruct these norms without providing a community-based touchstone isolates students and schools from the realities of the larger communities of which they are part.
Although the chapter authors provide varied perspectives on the benefits and challenges of integrating multicultural education and service learning, they all are committed to a vision of education that synthesizes both action and reflection. None of the authors pretend to have all the answers to what this integration should look like, nor do they believe that today's social problems are easily ameliorated through education. Rather, they share theories, practices, failures, and triumphs in order to further the conversation about the importance of aligning what educators say about the world and how they act in and on it. These authors share the view that multicultural education is truly transformative for students only when it includes a community action component, and likewise, service learning is truly a catalyst for change only when it is done from a multicultural and socially just perspective. It is their hope that the ideas explored in this book will further the work of those who share a commitment to the integration of action and reflection.

Asian Americans and the Mass Media - A Content Analysis of Twenty United States Newspapers and a Survey of Asian American... Asian Americans and the Mass Media - A Content Analysis of Twenty United States Newspapers and a Survey of Asian American Journalists (Hardcover)
Virginia Mansfield-Richardson
R4,512 Discovery Miles 45 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


Contents:
Acknowledgements Tables 1.Introduction 2.History of Asian American Publications 3.Related Studies 4.Method 5.Results and Discussion

Intercultural Services - A Worldwide Buyer's Guide and Sourcebook (Hardcover): Gary M. Wederspahn, William R. Sheridan Intercultural Services - A Worldwide Buyer's Guide and Sourcebook (Hardcover)
Gary M. Wederspahn, William R. Sheridan
R2,186 Discovery Miles 21 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

For worldwide intercultural services, here is one-stop shopping at its best. This easy-to-use guide gives you practical advice to locate, evaluate, purchase, and oversee intercultural services. It describes and provides easy access (including websites and e-mail addresses) to the world's leading intercultural services. These high-impact, productive, and cost-effective service providers are critical to your operation's growth strategy and global success.
This handy guide covers the gamut of intercultural services. Whether you are managing a multi-cultural workplace, preparing to enter the global business arena, or are already competing internationally, you'll find valuable, practical insights and information on:
* exploring intercultural services
* key intercultural concept
* cross-border roles and organizations
* choosing service providers
* working with suppliers
* types and qualities of products
Based on the author's 30+ years of being a user, purchaser, manager, evaluator, designer, and provider of intercultural services, this book presents a helpful, in-depth review of all you must know to make the right decisions about intercultural services. Clear examples and checklists lead managers step-by-step through virtually all aspects of understanding, assessing, and acquiring intercultural services.
This handy guide covers the gamut of intercultural services. Whether you are managing a multi-cultural workplace, preparing to enter the global business arena, or are already competing internationally, you'll find valuable, practical insights and information on: * exploring intercultural services* key intercultural concept* cross-border roles and organizations*choosing service providers* working with suppliers* types and qualities of productsBased on the author's 30+ years of being a user, purchaser, manager, evaluator, designer, and provider of intercultural services, this book presents a helpful, in-depth review of all you must know to make the right decisions about intercultural services. Clear examples and checklists lead managers step-by-step through virtually all aspects of understanding, assessing, and acquiring intercultural services.

No Place on the Corner - The Costs of Aggressive Policing (Hardcover): Jan Haldipur No Place on the Corner - The Costs of Aggressive Policing (Hardcover)
Jan Haldipur
R2,820 Discovery Miles 28 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Winner, 2019 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice, given by the Goddard Riverside Community Center The impact of stop-and-frisk policing on a South Bronx community What's it like to be stopped and frisked by the police while walking home from the supermarket with your young children? How does it feel to receive a phone call from your fourteen-year-old son who is in the back of a squad car because he laughed at a police officer? How does a young person of color cope with being frisked several times a week since the age of 15? These are just some of the stories in No Place on the Corner, which draws on three years of intensive ethnographic fieldwork in the South Bronx before and after the landmark 2013 Floyd v. City of New York decision that ruled that the NYPD's controversial "stop and frisk" policing methods were a violation of rights. Through riveting interviews and with a humane eye, Jan Haldipur shows how a community endured this aggressive policing regime. Though the police mostly targeted younger men of color, Haldipur focuses on how everyone in the neighborhood-mothers, fathers, grandparents, brothers and sisters, even the district attorney's office-was affected by this intense policing regime and thus shows how this South Bronx community as a whole experienced this collective form of punishment. One of Haldipur's key insights is to demonstrate how police patrols effectively cleared the streets of residents and made public spaces feel off-limits or inaccessible to the people who lived there. In this way community members lost the very 'street corner' culture that has been a hallmark of urban spaces. This profound social consequence of aggressive policing effectively keeps neighbors out of one another's lives and deeply hurts a community's sense of cohesion. No Place on the Corner makes it hard to ignore the widespread consequences of aggressive policing tactics in major cities across the United States.

Children of the French Empire - Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa 1895-1960 (Hardcover): Owen White Children of the French Empire - Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa 1895-1960 (Hardcover)
Owen White
R5,031 Discovery Miles 50 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book vividly recreates the lives and identities of the children born of relationships between French men and African women in colonial French West Africa. The book shows how colonial policies and attitudes influenced the lives of this mixed-race population, and analyses their responses to living in a racially divided society.

British Muslim Politics - Examining Pakistani Biraderi Networks (Hardcover): P. Akhtar British Muslim Politics - Examining Pakistani Biraderi Networks (Hardcover)
P. Akhtar
R1,919 Discovery Miles 19 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is the first comprehensive study of politics, participation and civic engagement in Pakistani Muslim communities in the UK. Written from an insider perspective, "British Muslim Politics," offers a unique take on a demographic group that has been the subject of much public and policy concern in recent times. Arguing for a critical reappraisal of our views of 'Muslim' politics, the book takes a panoramic view of a decade that has seen many significant events shape the political practices of Pakistani Muslims in the UK (from the 2001 summer riots, to 9/11, to 7/7). For over a decade the author has been embedded as a researcher in the Pakistani community and has thus had access to people, places, narratives and stories that allow her to provide a comprehensive account of political processes affecting this community. British Muslim Politics is a refreshing look at how religion, ethnicity, people, and place shape contemporary politics.

Black British Culture and Society - A Text Reader (Hardcover): Kwesi Owusu Black British Culture and Society - A Text Reader (Hardcover)
Kwesi Owusu
R4,541 Discovery Miles 45 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Black British Culture and Society brings together in one indispensable volume key writings on the Black community in Britain, from the 'Windrush' immigrations of the late 1940s and 1950s to contemporary multicultural Britain. Combining classic writings on Black British life with new, specially commissioned articles, Black British Culture and Society records the history of the post-war African and Caribbean diaspora, tracing the transformations of Black culture in British society.
Black British Culture and Society explores key facets of the Black experience, charting Black Britons' struggles to carve out their own identity and place in an often hostile society. The articles reflect the rich diversity of the Black British experience, addressing economic and social issues such as health, religion, education, feminism, old age, community and race relations, as well as Black culture and the arts, with discussions of performance, carnival, sport, style, literature, theatre, art and film-making. The contributors examine the often tense relationship between successful Black public figures and the media, and address the role of the Black intellectual in public life. Featuring interviews with noted Black artists and writers such as Aubrey Williams, Mustapha Matura and Caryl Phillips, and including articles from key contemporary thinkers, such as Stuart Hall, A. Sivanandan, Paul Gilroy and Henry Louis Gates, Black British Culture and Society provides a rich resource of analysis, critique and comment on the Black community's distinctive contribution to cultural life in Britain today.

Resistance to Multiculturalism - Issues and Interventions (Paperback): Jeffery Scott Mio, Gene I. Awakuni Resistance to Multiculturalism - Issues and Interventions (Paperback)
Jeffery Scott Mio, Gene I. Awakuni
R1,459 Discovery Miles 14 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Heightened interest in multicultural issues in psychology and an understanding of culture as a critical aspect of human behavior has moved the topic of multiculturalism into the forefront of research and to required coursework in the helping professions. However, this is not without the backlash of resistance.
Resistance to Multiculturalism: Issues and Interventions examines the subtle forms of racism and resistance to the multicultural movement in psychology and society. The authors use their vast experience in the arena of multiculturalism, both from the perspective of teaching and administration, to detail accounts, experiences, and challenges of resistance. Therapy and research is interwoven throughout this text that begins by placing multiculturalism at the heart of the best traditions of scholarship as proposed by the highly regarded Ernest Boyer of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
In a conversational style and through chapters addressing what includes modern resistance, the classroom, stereotypes, resistance at the administrative level, and groups, this book offers techniques and interventions to overcoming resistance. Readers who teach multiculturalism, students, researchers, and those advocating for multiculturalism on on the broader community level will find "Resistance to Multiculturalism" an informative guide to combating the challenges of resistance.

Black British Culture and Society - A Text Reader (Paperback): Kwesi Owusu Black British Culture and Society - A Text Reader (Paperback)
Kwesi Owusu
R1,292 Discovery Miles 12 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


Black British Culture and Society brings together in one indispensable volume key writings on the Black community in Britain, from the 'Windrush' immigrations of the late 1940s and 1950s to contemporary multicultural Britain. Combining classic writings on Black British life with new, specially commissioned articles, Black British Culture and Society records the history of the post-war African and Caribbean diaspora, tracing the transformations of Black culture in British society.
Black British Culture and Society explores key facets of the Black experience, charting Black Britons' struggles to carve out their own identity and place in an often hostile society. The articles reflect the rich diversity of the Black British experience, addressing economic and social issues such as health, religion, education, feminism, old age, community and race relations, as well as Black culture and the arts, with discussions of performance, carnival, sport, style, literature, theatre, art and film-making. The contributors examine the often tense relationship between successful Black public figures and the media, and address the role of the Black intellectual in public life. Featuring interviews with noted Black artists and writers such as Aubrey Williams, Mustapha Matura and Caryl Phillips, and including articles from key contemporary thinkers, such as Stuart Hall, A. Sivanandan, Paul Gilroy and Henry Louis Gates, Black British Culture and Society provides a rich resource of analysis, critique and comment on the Black community's distinctive contribution to cultural life in Britain today.

Celebrating Diversity - Coexisting in a Multicultural Society (Paperback): Carlton Munson, B. Harold Chetkow-Yanoov Celebrating Diversity - Coexisting in a Multicultural Society (Paperback)
Carlton Munson, B. Harold Chetkow-Yanoov
R1,599 Discovery Miles 15 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Celebrating Diversity: Coexisting in a Multicultural Society, offers pragmatic ways to replace conflictive behaviors between diverse peoples with coexistence alternatives. Coexistence-partnership values and skills help us to outgrow ways of the past--competition, suspicion, manipulation, isolation, victimization. These skills enhance our own lives as well as those of future generations.In Celebrating Diversity, author Benyamin Chetkow-Yanoov asserts that the increasing religious-ethnic-linguistic pluralisms of the twentieth century requires that we cease lumping people different from ourselves into an "other" category. He identifies classical elements of a coexistence model and suggests various strategies and tactics for implementing coexistence in modern societies. Among the many insights you will find are: the definition of coexistence an analysis of past patterns of majority-minority group relations, such as segregation, tolerance, and integration models of majority-minority relations, participation, and coexistence appropriate for the twenty-first century illustrations of the coexistence model through examples of places where it is flourishing action steps for leaders and citizens to put the idea of coexistence into practice a range of research findings that help us determine what is effective in promoting coexistence In the pages of Celebrating Diversity, you can learn social skills for preventing conflict escalation, for finding areas of common interest, and for working cooperatively. As more of us become informed about alternatives to violence, hopefully we can find ways to bring peace to areas of unrest, such as Algeria, Ireland, Israel, Nigeria, Rwanda, Serbia, or the former Soviet Union.

Personal Relationships Across Cultures (Paperback): Robin Goodwin Personal Relationships Across Cultures (Paperback)
Robin Goodwin
R1,438 Discovery Miles 14 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days




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Hindu Psychology - Its Meaning for the West (Hardcover): Swami Akhilananda Hindu Psychology - Its Meaning for the West (Hardcover)
Swami Akhilananda
R10,638 Discovery Miles 106 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Routledge is now re-issuing this prestigious series of 204 volumes originally published between 1910 and 1965. The titles include works by key figures such asC.G. Jung, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, Otto Rank, James Hillman, Erich Fromm, Karen Horney and Susan Isaacs. Each volume is available on its own, as part of a themed mini-set, or as part of a specially-priced 204-volume set. A brochure listing each title in the "International Library of Psychology" series is available upon request.
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The Police-Mental Health Partnership - A Community-Based Response to Urban Violence (Hardcover, New): Steven Marans The Police-Mental Health Partnership - A Community-Based Response to Urban Violence (Hardcover, New)
Steven Marans
R1,613 Discovery Miles 16 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Many of our children live in communities where violence, fear, and despair are commonplace. This book describes how one city developed a collaborative effort between law-enforcement and mental health professionals in order to help these children and their families. The Child Development-Community Policing Program in New Haven, Connecticut, was initiated in 1991 to deal more effectively with children who are victims or perpetrators of violence. Police officers, preparing for the new responsibilities of community-based policing, have become familiar with an array of strategies for preventing and responding to community violence. Mental health professionals have learned firsthand about the texture and trauma of the lives of children at risk. Police and mental health professionals working together have been able to mobilize treatment services more quickly and effectively and to assure that treatment plans are carried out. This manual provides a model, case studies, and guidelines for training the participants, operating a consultation service, and evaluating the program on an ongoing basis, all of which will be useful for other communities seeking to implement a similar project.

I Refuse to Condemn - Resisting Racism in Times of National Security (Hardcover): Asim Qureshi I Refuse to Condemn - Resisting Racism in Times of National Security (Hardcover)
Asim Qureshi
R634 Discovery Miles 6 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In times of heightened national security, scholars and activists from the communities under suspicion often attempt to alert the public to the more complex stories behind the headlines. But when they raise questions about the government, military and police policy, these individuals are routinely shut down and accused of being terrorist sympathisers or apologists for gang culture. In such environments, there is immense pressure to condemn what society at large fears. This collection explains how the expectation to condemn has emerged, tracking it against the normalisation of racism, and explores how writers manage to subvert expectations as part of their commitment to anti-racism. -- .

Beyond Aztlan - Ethnic Autonomy in Comparative Perspective (Hardcover): Mario Barrera Beyond Aztlan - Ethnic Autonomy in Comparative Perspective (Hardcover)
Mario Barrera
R2,760 Discovery Miles 27 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Does the achievement of economic equality in a multiethnic society require the complete loss of a minority's cultural identity? "Beyond Aztlan" argues that American society has historically viewed a distinctive cultural identity as something that an ethnic group gives up in order to achieve economic and political parity. Mexican Americans, who have scored limited gains in their struggle for equality since the 1940s, are proving to be no exception to the rule. However, Barrera compares the situation of Mexican Americans to that of minority groups in four other countries and concludes that equality does not necessarily require assimilation.

Muslims, Trust and Multiculturalism - New Directions (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Amina Yaqin, Peter Morey, Asmaa Soliman Muslims, Trust and Multiculturalism - New Directions (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Amina Yaqin, Peter Morey, Asmaa Soliman
R4,095 Discovery Miles 40 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book critically engages with the contemporary breakdown of trust between Muslim and non-Muslim communities in the West. It argues that a crisis of trust currently hampers intercultural relations and obstructs full participation in citizenship and civil society for those who fall prey to the suspicions of the state and their fellow citizens. This crisis of trust presents a challenge to the plurality of modern societies where religious identities have come to demand an equal recognition and political accommodation which is not consistently awarded across Europe, especially in nations which view themselves as secular, or where Islamic culture is seen as alien. This volume of interdisciplinary essays by leading scholars explores the theme of trust and multiculturalism across a range of perspectives, employing insights from political science, sociology, literature, ethnography and cultural studies. It provides an urgent critical response to the challenging contexts of multiculturalism for Muslims in both Europe and the USA. Taken together, the contributions suggest that the institutionalisation of multiculturalism as a state-led vehicle for tolerance and integration requires a certain type of trustworthy 'performance' from minority groups, particularly Muslims. Even when this performance is forthcoming, existing discourses of integration and underlying patterns of mistrust can contribute to Muslim alienation on the one hand, and rising Islamophobia on the other.

The Sociology of the Colonies [Part 1] - An Introduction to the Study of Race Contact (Hardcover): Rene Maunier The Sociology of the Colonies [Part 1] - An Introduction to the Study of Race Contact (Hardcover)
Rene Maunier
R4,058 Discovery Miles 40 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Hanging Together - Unity and Diversity in American Culture (Hardcover, New): John Higham Hanging Together - Unity and Diversity in American Culture (Hardcover, New)
John Higham; Edited by Carl J. Guarneri
R1,981 Discovery Miles 19 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book presents three decades of writings by one of America's most distinguished historians. John Higham, renowned for his influential works on immigration, ethnicity, political symbolism, and the writing of history, here traces the changing contours of American culture since its beginnings, focusing on the ways that an extraordinarily mobile society has allowed divergent ethnic, class, and ideological groups to "hang together" as Americans. The book includes classic essays by Higham and more recent writings, some of which have been substantially revised for this publication. Topics range widely from the evolution of American national symbols and the fate of our national character to new perspectives on the New Deal, on other major turning points, and on changes in race relations after major American wars. Yet they are unified by an underlying theme: that a heterogeneous society and an inclusive national culture need each other.

Liberation & Purity (Hardcover): Liberation & Purity (Hardcover)
R2,825 Discovery Miles 28 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Examines the ideas and organization of new Islamic, Hindu and other movements. Considers the creation of new traditions and ethnicities in these movements as well as the key themes of liberation central to many of them, such as purity and pollution. Bhatt also looks at the relationship between right wing and progressive social movements.

Chains of Fear - American Race Relations Since Reconstruction (Hardcover): Michael J. Cassity Chains of Fear - American Race Relations Since Reconstruction (Hardcover)
Michael J. Cassity
R2,790 Discovery Miles 27 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Modernization, Globalization, and Confucianism in Chinese Societies (Hardcover, New): Joseph B. Tamney, Linda Hsueh-Ling Chiang Modernization, Globalization, and Confucianism in Chinese Societies (Hardcover, New)
Joseph B. Tamney, Linda Hsueh-Ling Chiang
R2,785 Discovery Miles 27 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Confucianism has influenced Chinese societies for more than 2,000 years, and such influence is likely to continue in the future. However, during the preceding centuries, the nature of what was understood to be Confucianism has changed, and this process will also continue. Today, the scholarly tradition is adapting both to the modernization of Chinese societies--mainland China, Singapore, and Taiwan--and to the emergence of global society.

Tamney and Chiang focus on current social changes, their implications for the Chinese scholarly tradition, and the responses of Confucianists to these changes. Special topics include the response of Confucian scholars to the democracy movement, how politicians are using Confucian beliefs and values, the role of the scholarly tradition in contemporary Chinese popular culture, the challenges to Confucianism resulting from the changing role of women, and how competition with world religions is affecting the scholarly tradition. Throughout the book two themes are explored: the division of Confucianism into traditionalist and modernist forms and the nature of ideological convergence in the contemporary world. Scholars, students, and researchers interested in the ways Confucianism is becoming more similar to Western beliefs and values and in the ways Confucianism is likely to remain distinctive will find the volume invaluable.

Maybe I Don't Belong Here - A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery (Hardcover): David Harewood Maybe I Don't Belong Here - A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery (Hardcover)
David Harewood; Foreword by David Olusoga
R612 R544 Discovery Miles 5 440 Save R68 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

One of the Observer's Best Memoirs of 2021 and The Times Best Film and Theatre Books of the year. 'As a Black British man I believe it is vital that I tell this story. It may be just one account from the perspective of a person of colour who has experienced this system, but it may be enough to potentially change an opinion or, more importantly, stop someone else from spinning completely out of control.' - David Harewood Is it possible to be Black and British and feel welcome and whole? Maybe I Don't Belong Here is a deeply personal exploration of the duality of growing up both Black and British, recovery from crisis and a rallying cry to examine the systems and biases that continue to shape our society. In this powerful and provocative account of a life lived after psychosis, critically acclaimed actor, David Harewood, uncovers devastating family history and investigates the very real impact of racism on Black mental health. When David Harewood was twenty-three, his acting career beginning to take flight, he had what he now understands to be a psychotic breakdown and was sectioned under the Mental Health Act. He was physically restrained by six police officers, sedated, then hospitalized and transferred to a locked ward. Only now, thirty years later, has he been able to process what he went through. What was it that caused this breakdown and how did David recover to become a successful and critically acclaimed actor? How did his experiences growing up Black and British contribute to a rupture in his sense of his place in the world? 'Such a powerful and necessary read . . . Don't wait until Black History Month to pick up this book, it's a must-read just now.' - Candice Brathwaite, author of I Am Not Your Baby Mother 'David Harewood writes with rare honesty and fearless self-analysis about his experiences of racism and what ultimately led to his descent into psychosis . . . This book is, in itself, a physical manifestation of that hopeful journey.' - David Olusoga, author of Black and British

Cricket and Society in South Africa, 1910-1971 - From Union to Isolation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Bruce Murray, Richard... Cricket and Society in South Africa, 1910-1971 - From Union to Isolation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Bruce Murray, Richard Parry, Jonty Winch
R3,404 Discovery Miles 34 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores how cricket in South Africa was shaped by society and society by cricket. It demonstrates the centrality of cricket in the evolving relationship between culture, sport and politics starting with South Africa as the beating heart of the imperial project and ending with the country as an international pariah. The contributors explore the tensions between fragmentation and unity, on and off the pitch, in the context of the racist ideology of empire, its 'arrested development' and the reliance of South Africa on a racially based exploitative labour system. This edited collection uncovers the hidden history of cricket, society, and empire in defining a multiplicity of South African identities, and recognises the achievements of forgotten players and their impact.

Coolie Woman - The Odyssey of Indenture (Paperback): Gaiutra Bahadur Coolie Woman - The Odyssey of Indenture (Paperback)
Gaiutra Bahadur
R524 Discovery Miles 5 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

*** Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize*** In 1903 a Brahmin woman sailed from India to Guyana as a 'coolie', the name the British gave to the million indentured labourers they recruited for sugar plantations worldwide after slavery ended. The woman, who claimed no husband, was pregnant and travelling alone. A century later, her great-granddaughter embarks on a journey into the past, hoping to solve a mystery: what made her leave her country? And had she also left behind a man? Gaiutra Bahadur, an American journalist, pursues traces of her great-grandmother over three continents. She also excavates the repressed history of some quarter of a million female coolies. Disparaged as fallen, many were runaways, widows or outcasts, and many migrated alone. Coolie Woman chronicles their epic passage from Calcutta to the Caribbean, from departures akin either to kidnap or escape, through sea voyages rife with sexploitation, to new worlds where women were in short supply. When they exercised the power this gave them, some fell victim to the machete, in brutal attacks, often fatal, by men whom they spurned. Sex with overseers both empowered and imperiled other women, in equal measure.It also precipitated uprisings, as a struggle between Indian men and their women intersected with one between coolies and their overlords.

Social Capital, Political Participation and Migration in Europe - Making Multicultural Democracy Work? (Hardcover): L. Morales,... Social Capital, Political Participation and Migration in Europe - Making Multicultural Democracy Work? (Hardcover)
L. Morales, M. Giugni
R2,888 Discovery Miles 28 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

How can European societies more effectively promote the active engagement of immigrants and their children in the political and civic life of the countries where they live? This book examines the effect of migrants' individual attributes and resources, their social capital and the political opportunities on their political integration.

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