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Obstructed Labour

Race and Gender in the Re-Emergence of Midwifery

UBC Press
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Discourses of Denial

Mediations of Race, Gender, and Violence

UBC Press

With examples from the lives of immigrant girls and women of colour, this book uncovers how racism, sexism, and violence interweave deep within the foundations of our society.

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“Real” Indians and Others

Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood

UBC Press

A pioneering look at how mixed-blood urban Native people understand their identities and struggle to survive in a world that often fails to recognize them.

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Booker T. Washington and Black Progress

Up From Slavery 100 Years Later

University Press of Florida
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The Oriental Question

Consolidating a White Man's Province, 1914-41

UBC Press

Patricia E. Roy continues her study into why British Columbians were historically so opposed to Asian immigration.

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Constructing Identities in Mexican-American Political Organizations

Choosing Issues, Taking Sides

University of Texas Press

This book sheds new light on the process of political identity formation through a study of the identity politics practiced by four major Mexican American political organizations.

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Felix Longoria's Wake

Bereavement, Racism, and the Rise of Mexican American Activism

University of Texas Press

How a controversy over a slain Mexican American soldier contributed to the rise of Mexican American activism.

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Black-Brown Relations and Stereotypes

University of Texas Press

Offering some of the first in-depth analyses of how African Americans and Hispanics perceive and interact with each other, this pathfinding study looks at black-brown relations in Houston, Texas, one of the largest U.S. cities with a majority ethnic popul

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A History of Affirmative Action, 1619-2000

University Press of Mississippi

A readable history that puts the current debates in historical context

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The Identity Question

Blacks and Jews in Europe and America

University Press of Mississippi

A diasporic study of the striking similarities between Jewish consciousness and black consciousness in Europe and America

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Prejudice Across America

University Press of Mississippi

The experiences of a teacher and his white students on a nationwide trek toward racial understanding

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The Burden of History

Colonialism and the Frontier Myth in a Rural Canadian Community

UBC Press
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Comparing the Policy of Aboriginal Assimilation

Australia, Canada, and New Zealand

UBC Press

This book provides the first systematic and comparative treatment of the social policy of assimilation that was followed in these three countries.

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A White Man's Province

British Columbia Politicians and Chinese and Japanese Immigrants 1858-1914

UBC Press

A revealing historical account of the complex racism in early British Columbia and the lives and contributions made to the province by its Chinese and Japanese residents.

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They Called Them Greasers

Anglo Attitudes toward Mexicans in Texas, 1821–1900

University of Texas Press

This seminal work in the historical literature of race relations in Texas examines the attitudes of whites toward Mexicans in nineteenth-century Texas.

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