Ethnic studies

Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine

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The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine is an extensive, interdisciplinary guide to the nature of traditional medicine and healing in the Chinese cultural region, and its plural epistemologies. Established experts and the next generation of scholars interpret the ways in whic…

Unamuno: Abel Sanchez

by Macklin, John

fromAris & Phillips Hispanic Classics

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Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) is the towering intellectual giant of early twentieth-century Spain. He wrote novels, plays, poetry and many essays, but is best remembered for his fictional works and for his major philosophical meditation on the nature of existence. Abel Sanchez ,…

Unamuno: Saint Manuel Bueno, Martyr

by Burns, Paul, Ortiz Carboneres, Salvador

fromAris & Phillips Hispanic Classics

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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo was born in Bilbao on 29th September 1864. He wrote novels, essays, poems and plays, and in addition to these he played an important part in the political and intellectual life of Spain - an involvement that led to his exile to Fuerteventura in 1924. San…

Unamuno: Aunt Tula

by Biggane, Julia

fromAris & Phillips Hispanic Classics

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Aunt Tula (La tia Tula), published in 1921, is one of the few novels written by Miguel de Unamuno to centre on a female protagonist. It is a vivid, nuanced portrait of the intelligent, wilful and yet vulnerable Tula. Despite having no biological children of her own, the unmarrie…

The hajj and Europe in the Age of Empire

fromLeiden studies in Islam and society

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The present volume focuses on the political perceptions of the Hajj, its global religious appeal to Muslims, and the European struggle for influence and supremacy in the Muslim world in the age of pre-colonial and colonial empires. In the late fifteenth century and early sixteen…

Beside You in Time

by Freeman, Elizabeth

fromOnline access: OAPEN DOAB Directory of Open Access Books

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In Beside You in Time Elizabeth Freeman expands biopolitical and queer theory by outlining a temporal view of the long nineteenth century. Drawing on Foucauldian notions of discipline as a regime that yoked the human body to time, Freeman shows how time became a social and senso…

British-Bangladeshi Women in Higher Education: Aspirations, Inequities and Identities

by Scandone, Berenice

fromRoutledge research in gender and society

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Drawing on primary qualitative research, this book explores the experiences and identities of a group of British-born women of Bangladeshi background attending university in London through a Bourdieusian theoretical framework.It demonstrates the inequities that these women exper…

Marginal People in Deviant Places: Ethnography, Difference, and the Challenge to Sci…

by Irvine, Janice M.

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Marginal People in Deviant Places revisits early- to mid-twentieth-century ethnographic studies, arguing that their focus on marginal subcultures-ranging from American hobos, to men who have sex with other men in St. Louis bathrooms, to hippies, to taxi dancers in Chicago, to el…

Hip hop's inheritance: from the Harlem renaissance to the hip hop femini…

by Rabaka, Reiland

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The Transformation of Tamil Religion: Ramalinga Swamigal (1823-1874) and Modern Dravidi…

by Raman, Srilata

fromRoutledge South Asian religion series

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This book analyses the religious ideology of a Tamil reformer and saint, Ramalinga Swamigal of the 19th century and his posthumous reception in the Tamil country and sheds light on the transformation of Tamil religion that both his works and the understanding of him brought abou…

Workers on arrival: Black labor in the making of America

by Trotter, Joe William

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From the ongoing issues of poverty, health, housing and employment to the recent upsurge of lethal police-community relations, the black working class stands at the center of perceptions of social and racial conflict today. Journalists and public policy analysts often discuss th…

Bound in wedlock: slave and free Black marriage in the nineteenth c…

by Hunter, Tera W.

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"Tera W. Hunter offers the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century and into the Jim Crow era. She reveals the practical ways couples adopted, adapted, or rejected white Christian ideas of marriage, creatively setting their own standards…

Black bodies, white gazes: the continuing significance of race in America

by Yancy, George

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Following the deaths of Trayvon Martin and other black youths in recent years, students on campuses across America have joined professors and activists in calling for justice and increased awareness that Black Lives Matter. In this second edition of his trenchant and provocative…