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This collection of essays covers issues central to the understanding of the history of racism, the role of racism and the possibilities for justice in contemporary society. It provides an examination of race relations in the USA and South Africa, and looks at comparative history.

Presents essays on seven core, premodern classical Chinese texts. This book draws from literature, philosophy, religion, and art history and challenges the presumption of a monolithic Chinese tradition that has been promoted by scholars and popular culture alike, both in China and the West.

This treatise explores the historical treatment of American music and musicology, and argues for the recognition of its distinct and vital character. The author surveys the history of the musical professions in the USA, and discusses the relationship between classical and popular music.

Tells how aboriginal Americans and then early Spanish and Mexican immigrants contrived to use and share the available water and how American settlers, arriving in ever-increasing numbers after the Gold Rush, transformed California into the home of the nation's preeminent water seekers.

Seeks to revise the cultural nationalism and celebratory American exceptionalism that tended to dominate American Studies in the Cold War era. This work deals with cross-cultural communication, race and gender, global and local identities, and the complex tensions between symbolic and political economies.

Gives a cultural history of the immigration issue in the United States since 1965. This work traces the connections between the social, legal, and economic conditions surrounding immigration and the diverse images through which it is portrayed.

Caryl Chessman is used to examining how political debates about criminal justice ignited postwar California. This text places the case in a cultural and historical context, relating it to histories of prison reform, the anti-death penalty movement and, the popularization of psychology.

In 1930, the Olmsted Brothers and Harland Bartholomew & Associates submitted a report, "Parks, Playgrounds, and Beaches for the Los Angeles Region", to the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. After a day or two of coverage in the newspapers, the report dropped from sight. This book examines the reasons the report was called for.

Arguing that the American Plains are within closer reach of vibrant ecological sustainability than any other region of the country in 1999, this text shows how bringing back the buffalo and using wind to generate power are key to renewed economic and social health for Plains communities.

For over two millennia, the "Cyropaedia", an imaginative biography of the Persian king Cyrus the Great, was Xenophon's most popular work. This study examines the work, demonstrating its overall coherence and unity and focusing, in particular, on the notoriously difficult ending.

This oral history presents the testimony of people who experienced government repression and persecution firsthand in America. The interviews are drawn from three of the most significant social movements of our time - the labour, black freedom, and antiwar movements.

Ana Pauker is often thought of as the puppet of Soviet communism in Romania enforcing the most brutal and repressive Stalinist regime. This biography however, intends to oppose this picture and reveal a woman of remarkable strength, dominated by conflict and contradiction far more than dogmatism.

Clark Kerr was one of the 20th century's most influential figures in American higher education. This is a memoir of how the University of California rose to the peak of scientific and scholarly stature and how, under Kerr's leadership, it evolved.

The author's novel about young people in South Central Los Angeles grows out of his experience teaching in a high school there and his pain at the death of one of his favorite students.

An intimate exploration of the complexity of a bicultural immigrant experience, this text traces three generations of an Iranian (and Iranian-American) family undergoing a century of change - from the author's grandfather to her father, to Bahrampour herself.

Perhaps the oddest and most influential collaboration in the history of American modernism was hatched in 1926, when a young Virgil Thomson knocked on Gertrude Stein's door in Paris. Eight years later, their opera "Four Saints in Three Acts" became a sensation. This is an account of how that revolutionary opera was born.

'Identity' is one of the most hotly debated topics in literary theory and cultural studies. This work argues that identity is not just socially constructed but has real epistemic and political consequences for how people experience the world.

This anthology of autobiographical essays aims to reveal the human side of the Chinese diaspora. Written by ethnic Chinese who were born or raised outside of China, they describe the experience of growing up as a visible minority and the subsequent journey each author made to China.

An account of a young woman's struggle to realize her dreams while remaining true to who she was before attending Ivy League schools and receiving impressive diplomas.

This work reassesses the last elegies of the Roman poet Propertius. By using psychoanalytic theory to illuminate the texts, the book examines the relation between political crisis and the struggles of the self and offers an understanding of the social crisis that affected the early Roman empire.

Hagiography,or writing about and illustrating the lives of saints, was one of the most creative areas for artistic inspiration in the Middle Ages. This book explores the sumptuously illustrated saints' lives that were made in medieval Europe.

In the late 1920s radio exploded almost overnight into being America's dominant entertainment, just as television would do 25 years later. This text takes us back to the heyday of radio, bringing to life the great performers and shows, as well as the no-so-great and not-great-at-all.

Explores ritualized performance in twentieth-century music. This book uncovers the range of political, didactic, and aesthetic intents that inspired the creators of modernist music theater.

Victor Considerant (1808-1893), a follower of the great utopian thinker Charles Fourier, played an important role in the creation of a Fourierist movement and the development of socialist journalism. This study offers a life story of one of the engaging figures among the French romantic intellectuals of the 1840s.

Reports on a study of how government regulation of business in the United States differs in practice from regulation in other economically advanced democracies. This book analyzes regulatory systems including aspects of environmental protection, product safety, debt collection, employees' rights, and patent protection.

These autobiographic writings of three leading women in the Islamic revival movement reveal dramatic stories of religious transformation. As interpreted by Fedwa Malti-Douglas, the autobiographies provide a powerful portrayal of gender, religion, and discourses of the body in Arabo-Islamic culture.

Explores the links between place and political ideals in the twentieth century, focusing in particular on the iconography of the American West. This book examines the idea that Americans have historically looked to the land for answers to society's problems.

Features the translations of eighteen classical Chinese texts from the mid-ninth century (Tang dynasty) through the late nineteenth century (Qing dynasty) that offer a comprehensive collection of primary sources focusing on gender issues in medieval and late imperial China.

This anthology of treasures from the oral literature of native California includes a selection of stories, anecdotes, myths, reminiscences, and songs drawn from a wide sampling of California's many native cultures. Introductions provide cultural and biographical context.

The American experience in the Vietnam War has been the subject of a vast body of scholarly work, yet surprisingly little has been written about how the war is remembered by Vietnamese themselves. This title fills this gap in the literature by addressing the subject of history, memory, and commemoration of the Vietnam War in Vietnam.