Minority Communities
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From ![]() The Bisexuality Wars:The Perils of Identity as Marginality From: In a Queer Country |
Zoe Newman’s ‘The Bisexuality Wars: The Perils of Identity as Marginality" looks at differing views of sexual orientation, in particular the role of self-identified bisexuals in … | Zoë Newman | 21 | 2001 | $0.42 Add |
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From ![]() The Dominican Republic, 1963 |
In this chapter, Engler and Schalk examine the 1963 military coup against elected President Juan Bosch in the Dominican Republic and the 1965 US invasion that followed. | Owen Schalk; Yves Engler | 7 | 2024 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() The Dynamics of RacismFrom: Uprooting Racism |
One of the purposes of racism and religious-based oppression is to keep people of color, Muslims, Jews, and others at the center of attention while keeping white people in general, and white male … | Paul Kivel | 39 | 2017 | $3.90 Add |
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From ![]() The Effects of HistoryFrom: Uprooting Racism |
This part of Uprooting Racism explores how white racism has defined and controlled specific other groups. All the sections are about white people and what we have done to people of color, even … | Paul Kivel | 73 | 2017 | $7.30 Add |
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From ![]() “… the elementary relationship between land and people …”: Geographical and Ethnological Paradigms / Early Geographical Studies, 1881-1883: Inuit Occupancy in the ArcticChapters 1 and 2 From: The Franz Boas Enigma |
Chapter 1 discusses Franz Boas’ life and research/various publications and their importance as well as explores his interests, academic directions, and influences. Chapter 2 explores … | Ludger Müller-Wille | 20 | 2014 | $2.00 Add |
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From ![]() The Elephant, the Mouse, and the Lesbian National Park RangersFrom: In a Queer Country |
Whether the discussion is of a queer nation or a queer country, citizenship must be a concern, but to follow the usual assumptions about the gay community, so must spectacle and display. bj … | BJ Wray | 20 | 2001 | $0.40 Add |
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From ![]() The Evanescence of a Great Family and a Founding Community: Sephardim vs. Ashkenazim |
This chapter tells the story of Benjamin Hart, looking at the Hart family’s experiences during the 19th century. | Denis Vaugeois | 31 | 2012 | $3.10 Add |
![]() The First Jews in North AmericaThe Extraordinary Story of the Hart Family, 1760-1860 |
“Vaugeois’s fascinating account, amply illustrated by archival documents, is a valuable contribution to the history of Quebec, Canada and minority-majority relations.” The … | Denis Vaugeois; Käthe Roth | 380 | 2012 | View |
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From ![]() NEW! The First U.S. Regime Change in Syria—The Early Cold WarFrom: Syria |
In this chapter, Kuzmarov and Kovalik trace the U.S. covert interference in Syria from the Truman administration through the early Cold War, beginning with the 1949 CIA-engineered coup against … | Dan Kovalik; Jeremy Kuzmarov | 10 | 2025 | $1.00 Add |
![]() The Franz Boas EnigmaInuit, Arctic, and Sciences |
“… Franz Boas has remained an enigma, so misunderstood as a person and so often misrepresented as an anthropologist.” William S. Willis, Jr. How did Franz Boas become the … | Ludger Müller-Wille | 188 | 2014 | View |
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From ![]() The GameFrom: The Teen Sex Trade |
A black Nova Scotian woman outlines her experience as a 17 year old who begins working in the sex trade at the urging of her boyfriend as the best way for the couple to make money. | Jade M. Brooks | 20 | 2017 | $2.00 Add |
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From ![]() The Hart Clan: Introductions |
An introduction to the family at the heart of this book and their choice to settle and remain in Trois-Rivières. | Denis Vaugeois | 28 | 2012 | $2.80 Add |
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From ![]() The Last Song of Akol CholFrom: From Bombs to Books |
Details the life of a young boy from the Sudan who suffered a traumatic brain injury during the war. When his family came to Canada in order to get him the services he needed they placed him in … | David Starr | 11 | 2016 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() The Legacy of ViolenceFrom: From Bombs to Books |
Discusses how teachers and others can support students who have lived through extreme violence and what programs have worked in two schools with high refugee populations. | David Starr | 8 | 2016 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() “The Little Jew of Trois-Rivières”: Secrets to Success |
This chapter explores early Jewish settlement in North America, and the history leading up to it. The stories of Jeffery Amherst, Aaron Hart and Levy Andrew Levy (partner of William Trent) are … | Denis Vaugeois | 28 | 2012 | $2.80 Add |
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From ![]() The Parable of the TextbookEducation, Meritocracy, and Why History Matters From: “Too Asian”? |
Where did Maclean’s get the notion that they were honourably defending “merit-based” admissions policies against American racist policies? The idea that only considering … | Henry Yu | 12 | 2012 | $1.20 Add |












