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Chinese American voices [[electronic resource] ] : from the gold rush to the present / / edited with introductions by Judy Yung, Gordon H. Chang, and Him Mark Lai
| Chinese American voices [[electronic resource] ] : from the gold rush to the present / / edited with introductions by Judy Yung, Gordon H. Chang, and Him Mark Lai |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (485 p.) |
| Disciplina | 973/.04951 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
YungJudy
ChangGordon H LaiH. Mark |
| Soggetto topico |
Chinese Americans - History
History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
american born
american history california chinese american experience chinese americans civil rights community leaders cultural history cultural perspective english translation gold rush historians immigrant experience laborers letters memoirs merchants modern history nonfiction essays nonfiction oral histories political history primary documents professionals scholars social activists social history students textbooks |
| ISBN |
1-4237-5550-2
9786612357954 1-282-35795-6 0-520-93832-1 1-59875-922-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Chinese American Voices -- Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part one: Early Chinese Immigrants, 1852-1904 -- Introduction -- Songs of Gold Mountain Wives -- To His Excellency Governor Bigler (1852) -- The Founding of Golden Hills' News (1854) -- Letter by a Chinese Girl (1876) -- Documents of the Chinese Six Companies Pertaining to Immigration -- The Second Exhumation and Return of the Remains of Our Departed Friends to the Homeland (1876) -- Reminiscences of a Pioneer Student (1923) -- Reminiscences of an Old Chinese Railroad Worker (1926) -- Memorandum No. 29 to Envoy Zheng (1882) -- Memorial of Chinese Laborers at Rock Springs, Wyoming (1885) -- A Chinese View of the Statue of Liberty (1885) -- Reminiscences of an Early Chinese Minister (1932) -- Bow On Guk (Protective Bureau) (1887) -- Why Am I a Heathen? (1887) -- Why I Am Not a Heathen: A Rejoinder to Wong Chin Foo (1887) -- The Geary Act: From the Standpoint of a Christian Chinese (1892) -- Leaves from the Life History of a Chinese Immigrant (1936) -- Kam Wah Chung Letters (1898-1903) -- Part two: Life Under Exclusion, 1904-1943 -- Introduction -- The Treatment of the Exempt Classes of Chinese in the U.S. (1908) -- Detention in the Wooden Building (1910) -- Letter Asking for Support to Build the Sunning Railroad (1911) -- Admission of Wives of American Citizens of Oriental Ancestry (1926) -- "Just plain old luck and good timing" -- "I was the only Chinese woman in town" -- Second-Generation Dilemmas (1930's) -- I Am Growing More Chinese- Each Passing Year! (1934) -- Declaration of the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance (1933) -- Chinese Women's Association Condensed Report for the Years 1932-1936 -- Song of Chinese Workers (1938) -- Chinatown Goes Picketing (1938) -- Paul Robeson: The People's Singer (1950) -- The Founding of McGehee Chinese School (1944) -- "There but for the grace of God go I" -- One Hundred and Seven Chinese (1943) -- Part three: Becoming an Integral Part of America, 1943-2003 -- Introduction -- San Francisco Chinese Papers Blame Immigration Practices in Suicide of Chinese Woman (1948) -- I Want to Marry an American Girl (1955) -- My Bitter Experience in the United States (1956) -- Father and Son (1995) -- "We gave workers a sense of dignity" -- "All the daddies were Chinese and all the mommies were white" -- "I always felt out of place there" -- "It was not a winnable war" -- "I'm a Chinaman" -- Major Education Problems Facing the Chinese Community (1972) -- On the Normalization of Relations between China and the U.S. -- Proclamation by the Chinese Six Companies of San Francisco (1971) -- A Turning Point in Chinatown (1979) -- Asian American Women and Revolution: A Personal View (1983) -- "In unity there is strength" -- The Words of a Woman Who Breathes Fire (1983) -- Anti-Asian Violence and the Vincent Chin Case -- The New Violence (1984) -- A Letter from Lily Chin (1983) -- A Journey of Bitterness (1999) -- Immigrant Women Speak Out on Garment Industry Abuse (1993) -- Chinese and Proud of It (1996) -- Learning to See the Man Himself (1997) -- The Best Tofu in the World Comes from . . . Indiana? (1998) -- Reflections on Becoming American (1999) -- Affirming Affirmative Action (1995) -- Countering Complacency -- "One mile, one hundred years" -- A Second-Generation Call to Action (1999) -- The Los Alamos Incident and Its Effects on Chinese American Scientists (2000) -- "We are Americans" -- Chronology of Chinese American history -- Chinese glossary -- Bibliography -- Index |
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006 | ||
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Janitors, street vendors, and activists [[electronic resource] ] : the lives of Mexican immigrants in Silicon Valley / / Christian Zlolniski
| Janitors, street vendors, and activists [[electronic resource] ] : the lives of Mexican immigrants in Silicon Valley / / Christian Zlolniski |
| Autore | Zlolniski Christian |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
| Disciplina | 331.6/272079473 |
| Soggetto topico |
Mexicans - Employment - California - Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County)
Foreign workers, Mexican - California - Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County) Unskilled labor - California - Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County) |
| Soggetto non controllato |
america
california economy california community politics economic analysis ethnographers ethnographic study globalism immigrant experience janitors labor policies labor politics labor practices latino immigrants low wage jobs mexican americans mexican immigrants mexico nonfiction study regional study silicon valley social activists street vendors subcontracting technological developments united states us economy working conditions |
| ISBN |
9786612772009
0-520-93917-4 1-282-77200-7 1-4237-4553-1 1-59875-927-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Mexican Immigrants in Silicon Valley -- 2. The Subcontracting of Mexican Janitors in the High-Tech Industry -- 3. Working in the Informal Economy -- 4. Mexican Families in Santech -- 5. Community Politics in the Barrio -- Conclusion: Subproletarians in a Postindustrial Economy -- Epilogue: After the Dot-Com Demise -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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Zlolniski Christian
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006 | ||
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The life of the law [[electronic resource] ] : anthropological projects / / Laura Nader
| The life of the law [[electronic resource] ] : anthropological projects / / Laura Nader |
| Autore | Nader Laura |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
| Disciplina | 340/.115 |
| Soggetto topico | Law and anthropology |
| Soggetto non controllato |
20th century
american democracy anthropology business corporations civic corporate interests democracy dispute resolution economic justice globalization lawyers legal anthropologists legal anthropology legal history legal issues legislation mediation modern law neoliberal ideology plaintiffs role political activists power of the law role of the law social activists social change social justice social science united states us judicial system |
| ISBN |
0-520-93618-3
1-59734-713-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Evolving an Ethnography of Law: A Personal Document -- 2. Lawyers and Anthropologists -- 3. Hegemonic Processes in Law: Colonial to Contemporary -- 4. The Plaintiff: A User Theory -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780378603321 |
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Nader Laura
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 | ||
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Making Japanese citizens [[electronic resource] ] : civil society and the mythology of the Shimin in postwar Japan / / Simon Andrew Avenell
| Making Japanese citizens [[electronic resource] ] : civil society and the mythology of the Shimin in postwar Japan / / Simon Andrew Avenell |
| Autore | Avenell Simon Andrew |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (370 p.) |
| Disciplina | 323.6/0952 |
| Soggetto topico |
Citizenship - Japan
Civil society - Japan Political activists - Japan |
| Soggetto non controllato |
asia scholars
asian studies civic activism civic groups civic thought contemporary japan democracy government reform historians industrialized nations japan japanese citizens japanese history japanese society local government modern history political participation popular nationalism postwar era postwar japan protests retrospective self reliance shimin mythology social activists social cultural history social movements |
| ISBN |
0-520-94767-3
9786612732560 1-282-73256-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Before the Shimin: The Dark Energy of the People -- 2. Mass Society, Anpo, and the Birth of the Shimin -- 3. Beheiren and the Asian Shimin: The Fate of Conscientious Civic Activism -- 4. Residents into Citizens: The Fate of Pragmatic Civic Activism -- 5. Shimin, New Civic Movements, and the Politics of Proposal -- Conclusion: The Shimin Idea and Civil Society -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786713803321 |
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Avenell Simon Andrew
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 | ||
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Melancholia of freedom [[electronic resource] ] : social life in an Indian township in South Africa / / Thomas Blom Hansen
| Melancholia of freedom [[electronic resource] ] : social life in an Indian township in South Africa / / Thomas Blom Hansen |
| Autore | Hansen Thomas Blom <1958-> |
| Edizione | [Course Book] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (373 p.) |
| Disciplina | 305.891/41068455 |
| Soggetto topico | East Indians - South Africa - Durban |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Africans
Asiatic question Bollywood films Chatsworth Durban Hinduism Indian life Indian middle class Indian township Indian townships Indian Indians Jacob Zuma Muslims Natal Pentecostal Christianity South Africa South African Indians South Africans ambition apartheid regulation apartheid autonomy charou church communities colonialism coolie cultural economy cultural intimacy cultural mobility culturally alien people cynicism diasporic imagination disengagement ethnoracial definition kombi taxi majoritarianism minorities neo-Hindu movements non-African communities policy makers politics postapartheid city postapartheid freedom postapartheid society postapartheid private taxi industry public culture race lines racial practices racial segregation racialized identities racism religious identity religious purification representative politics roots tourism social activists social mobility spiritual purification township politics traditional conservatism urban landscape urban music working-class Indians youth culture |
| ISBN |
1-4008-4261-1
9786613589873 1-280-49464-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Under the gaze: freedom and race after apartheid -- Ethnicity by fiat: the remaking of Indian life in South Africa -- Domesticity and cultural intimacy -- Charous and Ravans: a story of mutual nonrecognition -- Autonomy, freedom, and political speech -- Movement, sound, and body in the postapartheid city -- The unwieldy fetish: Desi fantasies, roots tourism, and diasporic desires -- Global Hindus and pure Muslims: universalist aspirations and territorialized lives -- The saved and the backsliders: the Charou soul and the instability of belief -- Postscript: Melancholia in the time of the "African personality". |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790955303321 |
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Hansen Thomas Blom <1958->
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| Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2012 | ||
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My name is Jody Williams [[electronic resource] ] : a Vermont girl's winding path to the Nobel Peace Prize / / Jody Williams ; foreword by Eve Ensler
| My name is Jody Williams [[electronic resource] ] : a Vermont girl's winding path to the Nobel Peace Prize / / Jody Williams ; foreword by Eve Ensler |
| Autore | Williams Jody <1950-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (309 p.) |
| Disciplina |
327.1/743
B |
| Altri autori (Persone) | V <1953-> |
| Collana |
California Series in Public Anthropology
California series in public anthropology |
| Soggetto topico |
Pacifists - United States
Women Nobel Prize winners - United States Nobel Prize winners - United States |
| Soggetto non controllato |
advocate
anthropology autobiography biographies biography career catholic roots engaging female authors geopolitics government human rights icbl international campaign to ban landmines international campaign intersectional feminism memoir nobel peace prize page turner political action political revolutionaries social activists social issues social movements socials issues sociology strong women uplifting stories vermont vietnam war women writers women world politics |
| ISBN | 0-520-95533-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Prologue: October 10, 1997 -- If you could be anyone -- What do you mean I can't be the pope? -- A special place in hell -- Claude, Casey, and the Corvair convertible -- V-I-E-T-N-A-M, marriage, and Mexico -- The making of a grassroots activist -- The pamphlet -- Boots on the ground : Sandinista interlude -- Dinner with the death squad -- I thought I wanted a straight job-instead I got landmines -- Landmines and love -- The Ottawa Process and the 1997 landmine ban world tour -- Whirlwind : October 10 to December 10, 1997 -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations follow page. |
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Williams Jody <1950->
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Palestinian politics after the Oslo accords [[electronic resource] ] : resuming Arab Palestine / / Nathan J. Brown
| Palestinian politics after the Oslo accords [[electronic resource] ] : resuming Arab Palestine / / Nathan J. Brown |
| Autore | Brown Nathan J |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 324 pages) |
| Disciplina | 956.95/3054 |
| Soggetto topico |
Nation-state
Palestinian Arabs - Politics and government - 1993- |
| Soggetto non controllato |
20th century
arab israeli conflict arab national models arab palestine arab world constitutionalism fieldwork historical history buffs insider perspective interviews legal development middle east nation building nonfiction oslo accords palestine palestinian legislative council palestinian politics palestinian reformers political perspective political science politics social activists textbooks world politics |
| ISBN |
1-59734-793-0
0-520-93778-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Resuming Arab Palestine -- The legal framework : disputing in, over, and outside of courts -- Constituting and reconstituting Palestine -- Inventing a parliament -- Civil society in theory and practice -- Democracy, nationalism, and contesting the Palestinian curriculum. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783022103321 |
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Brown Nathan J
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| Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, 2003 | ||
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What justice? whose justice? [[electronic resource] ] : fighting for fairness in Latin America / / edited by Susan Eva Eckstein and Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley
| What justice? whose justice? [[electronic resource] ] : fighting for fairness in Latin America / / edited by Susan Eva Eckstein and Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (377 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.3/72/098 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
EcksteinSusan <1942->
Wickham-CrowleyTimothy P. <1951-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Social justice - Latin America
Democratization - Latin America Free trade - Social aspects - Latin America |
| Soggetto non controllato |
anthology
collection of essays contemporary latin america democracy fairness and equality global analysis human rights ideological injustice international perspective latin america latin american scholars local issues modern history nonfiction essays political activism political protests political science regional history social activists social constructs social history social justice social movements social sciences textbooks |
| ISBN |
9786612359651
0-520-93698-1 1-282-35965-7 1-59734-999-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Struggles for Justice in Latin America -- 2. Social Inequality, Civil Society, and the Limits of Citizenship in Latin America -- 3. An Exception to Chilean Exceptionalism? The Historical Role of Chile's Judiciary -- 4. Presidential Crises and Democratic Accountability in Latin America, 1990-1999 -- 5. The Vicious Cycle of Inequality in Latin America -- 6. Perpetrators' Confessions: Truth, Reconciliation, and Justice in Argentina -- 7. Colombia: Does Injustice Cause Violence? -- 8. Progressive Pragmatism as a Governance Model: An In-Depth Look at Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1989-2000 -- 9. Citizen Responses to Conflict and Political Crisis in Peru: Informal Politics in Ayacucho -- 10. Social Justice and the New Indigenous Politics: An Analysis of Guatemala, the Central Andes, and Chiapas -- 11. The War of the Peace: Indigenous Women's Struggle for Social Justice in Chiapas, Mexico -- 12. Reflections on Remembrance: Voices from an Ixcán Village -- List of Contributors -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783294603321 |
| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003 | ||
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