White Supremacy, Racism and the Coloniality of Anti-Trafficking
Global efforts to combat human trafficking are ubiquitous and reference particular ideas about unfreedoms, suffering, and rescue. The discourse has, however, a distinct racialized legacy that is lodged specifically in fears about "white slavery," women in prostitution and migration, and the defilement of white womanhood by the criminal and racialized Other. White Supremacy, Racism and the Coloniality of Anti-Trafficking centers the legacies of race and racism in contemporary anti-trafficking wor...
Humor in the Caribbean Literary Canon intimately examines Caribbean writers who engage canonical Western texts and forms, while using humor to challenge Western representations of people of African descent.
Indian Partition in Literature and Films (Routledge Contemporary South Asia)
by Mehta Bhattacharya, Rini
This book presents an examination of fictional representations, in books and films, of the 1947 Partition that led to the creation of the sovereign nation-states of India and Pakistan. While the process of representing the Partition experience through words and images began in the late 1940s, it is only in the last few decades that literary critics and film scholars have begun to analyse the work. The emerging critical scholarship on the Partition and its aftermath has deepened our understandin...
This user-friendly textbook provides a comprehensive analysis of the economic geography of contemporary Japan. Ranging from the post-war period to prospects for the future, and with chapters on key factors such as agriculture, demography, transportation, industrialisation, labour markets, energy, regional development and urbanisation, Bart van der Knaap explores the regional dynamics of Japan by analyzing the evolution of three interrelated transformations:the transformation of a rural society t...
This volume examines early black baseball as it was represented in the artwork and written accounts of the popular press. From contemporary postbellum articles, illustrations, photographs and woodcuts, a unique image of the black athlete emerges, one that was not always positive but was nonetheless central in understanding the evolving black image in American culture. Chapters of this title cover press depictions of championship games, specific teams and athletes, and the fans and culture surrou...
Der expansive Todestrieb. Selbstzerstoerung und Attentat unter kulturwissenschaftlicher Betrachtung
by Rea Ost
Tourism and nation-building in South Sulawesi
by Marion Zimmermann
Die Urkunde der Stadtrechtsverleihung vom 22. März 1315 und ihre Parallelen zum Prümer Urbar
by Thomas Dunzweiler
Do race and ethnicity present a danger to the consolidation of effective democratic government? Can liberal constitutionalism provide a stable basis for governance of a polity historically erected on racial and ethnic division? In this book Courtney Jung argues that when ethnic and racial identities are politically fluid and heterogeneous, as she finds they are in South Africa, ethnic and racial politics will not undermine the peaceful and democratic potential of the government. Jung examines...
Black Religion and the Imagination of Matter in the Atlantic World (Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice)
by James A Noel
Blacks, Reds, and Russians: Sojourners in Search of the Soviet Promise
by Professor Joy Gleason Carew
Aboriginal Music in Contemporary Canada (McGill-Queen's Native and Northern, #66)
Describes the life of a Kumeyaay, or Kumiai, Indian girl and her family living in San Diego area long ago. Includes a glossary of Kumeyaay words and a clarification of the different Indian groups from this area.