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Autore |
Lemert Charles C. <1937-, > |
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Titolo |
Dark thoughts : race and the eclipse of society / / Charles Lemert |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
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1-135-33703-9 |
0-415-93445-1 |
0-203-95240-5 |
1-135-33696-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (344 p.) |
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Racism - United States |
United States Race relations |
United States Race relations Psychological aspects |
United States Social conditions 1980-2020 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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part I. The beginnings of a millennium, 1990s -- part II. The last new century, 1890s -- part III. Between, before, and beyond, 1873-2020. |
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In Dark Thoughts, eminent sociologist Charles Lemert dares to say, and explain, what everyone already knows - that the modern world was built on the need of white people to pretend they are not as dark as the next person.Delving poignantly into the history and literature of domination, Lemert retells key moments of the twentieth-century by profiling figures like W.E.B. DuBois, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Anna Julia Cooper, Nella Larson, Malcolm X, and Muhammad Ali. In a rare and unflinching look at his own complicated history, Lemert also explores his own racism, his struggle wi |
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UNINA9910969341703321 |
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Autore |
Odo Franklin |
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No sword to bury : Japanese Americans in Hawai'i during World War II / / Franklin Odo |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, c2004 |
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9786612566967 |
9781282566965 |
1282566962 |
9781592138036 |
1592138039 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (337 p.) |
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Collana |
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Asian American history and culture |
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Disciplina |
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Japanese Americans - Hawaii |
Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 |
World War, 1939-1945 - Participation, Japanese American |
Hawaii Ethnic relations |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-314) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Introduction: The Making of a Model Minority; 1 Immigrant Parents; 2 Generation on Trial: The 1920's; 3 Before the Fire: The 1930's; 4 Pearl Harbor; 5 Hawai`i Territorial Guard; 6 The Varsity Victory Volunteers; 7 Schofield Barracks; 8 The Front Lines: Battlefront and Home Front; 9 After the War; Conclusion; Appendix: Roster of Varsity Victory Volunteers; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index |
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When bombs rained down on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Japanese American college students were among the many young men enrolled in ROTC and immediately called upon to defend the Hawaiian islands against invasion. In a few weeks, however, the military government questioned their loyalty and disarmed them. In No Sword to Bury, Franklin Odo places the largely untold story of the wartime experience of these young men in the context of the community created by their immigrant families and its relationship to the larger, white-dominated society. At the heart of the book are vivid oral historical |
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