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An anthropological examination of the globalized discourse of human rights and the local production of cultural identities and forms of resistance in indigenous communities of Chiapas, Mexico.

This book is a collection of essays about the invention-and disappearance-of the 'Semites' and the lingering effects, both institutional and theologico-political, of this invention.

Explores the process and rationale of the emergence of ethnic identity to investigate how and why ethnic groups exclude each other, looking specifically at the case of racial and ethnic group identity formation in the early years of Israeli statehood.

This volume provides an in-depth history of Navy high-level decision making during the challenging initial decade of the Cold War.

Fans of the World, Unite! investigates how American sports leagues are currently operating in the best interests of their owners but not of fans. This book offers a set of practical pro-competitive reforms that could dramatically improve the well-being of fans without crippling the owners financially.

Reveals how community-based organizations create innovative spaces for political participation among new generations of Korean Americans.

This book explores human creativity to illustrate how the legal system can protect a wide variety of authors from attribution failures and other assaults to the intended messages of their works.

All in the Family demonstrates how policymakers employ family across a host of policy areas to achieve their "non-family" goals and the consequences this has for policy stability over time.

This book studies how our personal memory is transformed as a result of technological and cultural transformations: digital photo cameras, camcorders, and multimedia computers inevitably change the way we remember and affect conventional forms of recollection.

The Souls of Mixed Folk examines representations of mixed race in literature and the arts that redefine post-race aesthetics and politics.

The first in-depth analysis of how an entire educational system delivers higher student achievement.

Analyzes how turn-of-the-twentieth-century male and female writers, educators, and activists reinterpreted both historical Chinese and modern Western women's biographies to promote their divergent visions of womanhood and nationhood.

This book examines the universal preschool movement-its growth, its proponents and opponents, and how preschools have become a popular element of school reform.

This book examines how second generation Asian American professionals bring together contrasting identities in the cultural spaces of daily life, and the implications for theories of immigrant adaptation and stratification.

Fundamentally concerned with the means by which translation ensures the afterlife of literary and cultural texts, this book examines multiple processes of translation, temporal and spatial, through acts of intercultural exchange and intergenerational transmission.

The book offers an eclectic treatment of the human capital-economic growth nexus and uses state-of-the-art nonlinear econometric methods to provide an empirical assessment of the link between human capital and economic growth.

The book traces current Indian activism in Bolivia, arguing that a new social formation is emerging to challenge racism and the harsh effects of the dominant neoliberal economic model.

Improving the educational success of the children of Mexican immigrants is crucial to the future prospects of these children as well as to the American population at large. This book documents how various aspects of these children's lives help or hinder their learning in elementary school.

The book provides a lucid and systematic theory of the work of literature and its major aspects.

Saving Democracy is a bold yet practical proposal for reinventing American democracy for the 21st century.

Learn why we are busy, how busyness is affecting American families and lives, and what real people are doing about it.

Ethnographic study of cultural politics in the contemporary Egyptian art world, examining how art-making is a crucial aspect of the transformation from socialism to neoliberalism in postcolonial countries.

Demonstrates how the campaign against "victim politics" and the "victim mentality" has profoundly altered Americans' understanding of victimhood, and investigates the consequences of this change in politics, law, culture, and the "war against terror."

This book examines the transformation of the Sino-Japanese relationship since 1989.

Between Foreigners and Shi'is addresses nineteenth-century Iranian Jews' standing as influenced by the interplay between intervening foreigners, sectors of the Shi'i majority, and local Jews.

Deftly blending sociological theory of organizations with archival research, interviews with nonprofit leaders, and original survey data, this book investigates the rise of new workplace fundraisers alongside the United Way, identifying why competition has occurred and delineating its consequences for donors, nonprofits, and recipients.

Japan differs from other industrialized democracies in having many small, local groups but few large, professionally managed national organizations. This book provides a comprehensive overview of Japan's civil society and a new theory, based on political institutions, to explain why it has developed as it has.

Post-conflict reconstruction is one of the most pressing political issues today. This book uses economics to analyze critically the incentives and constraints faced by various actors involved in reconstruction efforts. Through this analysis, the book will aid in understanding why some reconstructions are more successful than others.

This book argues that states democratize through a process of socialization to a liberal global culture. This can be seen in Taiwan and Thailand, whereas in China the Communist party resists democratization.