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Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896-1937
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /2013 Honorable Mention, Asian American Studies Association's prize in Literary Studies Part of the American Literatures Initiative SeriesWhy do b...
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Brown Saviors and Their Others: Race, Caste, Labor, and the Global Politics of Help in India
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /In Brown Saviors and Their Others Arjun Shankar draws from his ethnographic work with an educational NGO to investigate the practices of "brown sav...
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Violence of Democracy: Interparty Conflict in South India
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /In Violence of Democracy Ruchi Chaturvedi tracks the rise of India's divisive politics through close examination of decades-long confrontations in ...
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Musical Resilience: Performing Patronage in the Indian Thar Desert
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Indian regional musicians find resilience in a postcolonial worldIn Musical Resilience, Shalini Ayyagari shows how professional low-caste musicians...
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A Life of Worry: Politics, Mental Health, and Vietnam's Age of Anxiety Volume 17
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780520392168 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: University of California Press Publication Date: 09-12-2023 Pages: 177 Serie...
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An eye-opening account of life inside North Korea—a closed world of increasing global importance—hailed as a “tour de force of meticulous reporti...
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Populist Authoritarianism: Chinese Political Culture and Regime Sustainability
PaperbackOriginal price $44.99 - Original price $44.99Original price $44.99$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /Populist Authoritarianism focuses on the Chinese Communist Party, which governs the world's largest population in a single-party authoritarian st...
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AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /With a Foreword by Vijay Prashad and an Afterword by Gary OkihiroHow might we understand yellowface performances by African Americans in 1930s sw...
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Redefining Japaneseness: Japanese Americans in the Ancestral Homeland
PaperbackOriginal price $38.95 - Original price $38.95Original price $38.95$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /There is a rich body of literature on the experience of Japanese immigrants in the United States, and there are also numerous accounts of the cul...
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Social Work and the Grand Challenge to Eliminate Racism: Concepts, Theory, and Evidence Based Approaches
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /This text offers a compendium of knowledge and perspectives from leading researchers dedicated to examining various forms of racism and their disti...
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Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India
PaperbackOriginal price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /An ethnographic study of Indian democracy that shows how agrarian life creates values of citizenship and active engagement that are essential for t...
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Suspended Apocalypse: White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Filipino Condition
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Suspended Apocalypse is a rich and provocative meditation on the emergence of the Filipino American as a subject of history. Culling from historica...
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Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Since the nineteenth century, a succession of states has classified the inhabitants of what are now the borderlands of Northeast India and Banglade...
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Hailing the State: Indian Democracy Between Elections
HardcoverOriginal price $104.95 - Original price $104.95Original price $104.95$123.99$123.99 - $123.99Current price $123.99| /In Hailing the State, Lisa Mitchell explores the methods of collective assembly that people in India use to hold elected officials and government a...
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Hailing the State: Indian Democracy Between Elections
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /In Hailing the State, Lisa Mitchell explores the methods of collective assembly that people in India use to hold elected officials and government a...
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Ayya's Accounts: A Ledger of Hope in Modern India
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Ayya's Accounts explores the life of an ordinary man--orphan, refugee, shopkeeper, and grandfather--during a century of tremendous hope and upheava...
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A Far Corner: Life and Art with the Open Circle Tribe
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /In 2002, after living ten years in Asia, American poet and musician Scott Ezell used his advance from a local record company to move to Dulan, on T...
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China Mission: A Personal History from the Last Imperial Dynasty to the People's Republic
HardcoverOriginal price $36.00Original price $36.00 - Original price $36.00Original price $36.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /When the Reverend Halvor Ronning, his sister Thea, and fellow missionary Hannah Rorem set out in 1891 to found a Lutheran mission and school in the...
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Seeing Like a Child: Inheriting the Korean War
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /An utterly original and illuminating work that meets at the crossroads of autobiography and ethnography to re-examine violence and memory through t...
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Genghis Khan The Emperor Of All Men
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is...
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Chinese Girl in the Ghetto
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /As China opens itself to the world and undertakes historic economic reforms, a little girl in the southern city of Guangzhou immerses herself in a ...
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A Kickboxing Geishas: How Modern Japanese Women Are Changing Their Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Forget the stereotypes. Today's Japanese women are shattering them -- breaking the bonds of tradition and dramatically transforming their culture. ...
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Introduction to Japanese Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Featuring full-color photographs and illustrations throughout, this text is a comprehensive guide to Japanese culture. The richness of Japan's hi...
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A Brief History of China: Dynasty, Revolution and Transformation: From the Middle Kingdom to the People's Republic
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A comprehensive, yet entertaining look at China's history through a modern lens. For millennia, China was the largest and richest nation on earth...
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