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"America's preeminent law firms, investment banks, and management consultant firms are known for being difficult workplaces. Between long, stressful hours on the job, low odds of promotions, often-unrewarding work assignments, and "up-or-out" personnel practices, most people who begin their careers in these institutions leave within several years of starting. But life in these firms is especially difficult for Black professionals, who leave elite...
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This is the story of the largest Mexican-American community in the United States, the city within a city known as "East Los Angeles." How did this barrio of over one million men and women-occupying an area greater than Manhattan or Washington D.C.-come to be? Although promoted early in this century as a workers' paradise, Los Angeles fared poorly in attracting European immigrants and American blue-collar workers. Wages were low, and these workers...
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Double Success is a short book that is long on information that will help you achieve success in your professional and personal aspirations. This was accomplished by investigating large volumes of books and other information over a thirty-year period. A portion of this information was then studied and used as reference material. After utilizing this material to obtain and prosper at various positions on the job, Thomas began to use this information...
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Czech American Timeline chronicles important events bearing on Czech-American history, from the earliest known entry of a Czech on American soil to date. This comprehensive chronology depicts the dazzling epic history of Czech colonists, settlers, as well as early visitors, and their descendants, starting in 1519, with Hernn Corts soldier Johann Berger in Mexico, and in 1528, the Jchymov miners in Haiti, through the escapades of Bohemian Jesuits in...
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How Can Millennials Leverage their Power to Improve the World?
Diversity, equity, and inclusion have taken center stage, and many Millennials aren't sure where to start increasing their awareness and competence. Others are culturally competent and want to know how to use their privilege and power to change the world. Millennials' Guide to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion is a primer for all people who want answers to their questions about race, gender,...
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Since the election in 2008 of Barack Obama to the Presidency of the United States there have been a plethora of books, films, and articles about the role of race in the election of the first person of color to the White House. None of these works though delves into the intricacies of Mr. Obama's biracial background and what it means. Obama and the Biracial Factor is the first book to explore the significance of mixed-race identity as a key factor...
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Mixed presents engaging and incisive first-person experiences of what it is like to be multiracial in what is supposedly a postracial world. Bringing together twelve essays by college students who identify themselves as multiracial, this book considers what this identity means in a reality that occasionally resembles the post-racial dream of some and at other times recalls a familiar world of racial and ethnic prejudice. Exploring a wide range of...
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In Japan gibt es noch immer so viel Rätselhaftes zu entdecken, dass
sich die Japanexpertin und Unternehmensberaterin Rita Menge wieder
auf die Fotopirsch begeben hat, um für weitere Aufklärung zu
sorgen. Wie bereits im ersten Band lädt auch dieses Buch dazu ein,
alleine oder mit Familie und Freunden zu raten, was es wohl mit dem
jeweiligen Foto auf sich hat. Japan ist weiterhin für viele Menschen
ein Sehnsuchtsziel, auch wenn es während der...
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In the present-day world, the study of ethnicity has been, a major concern of anthropology, and other branches of social sciences. Ethnicity is not a simple and isolable social observable fact, rather interconnected to many other multifaceted societal issues. Probing and understanding ethnicity requires numerous dimensions as it operates and channelize through various ways and means. Ethnicity in North East India is a collection of eleven original...
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This teachers' manual is meant to accompany the text entitled African Americans in Florida. The manual includes, for each chapter, (1) the key terms that are bold-faced in the text and defined in the glossary, (2) research questions for possible further work, (3) discussion topics for the classroom, and (4) a project geared to the particular chapter. The text is based on the recommendations put forth by the Study Commission on African American History...
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Race Policy and Multiracial Americans is the first book to look at the impact of multiracial people on race policies - where they lag behind the growing numbers of multiracial people in the U.S. and how they can be used to promote racial justice for multiracial Americans. Using a critical mixed race perspective, it covers such questions as: Which policies aimed at combating racial discrimination should cover multiracial Americans? Should all (or some)...
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Why and how do those from black and minority ethnic communities continue to be marginalized? Despite claims that we now live in a post-racial society, race continues to disadvantage those from black and minority ethnic backgrounds. Kalwant Bhopal examines the shift in recent years from overt to covert racism. She explores how neoliberal policy-making has increased rather than decreased discrimination faced by those from non-white backgrounds. She...
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Un viaje sin viajero es, además de un trabajo de investigación social consciente y meticulosamente realizado por Lorena Botero-protagonista de la experiencia-y Orlando Puente-docente, director académico del proyecto y su publicación-, el fragmentado relato reconstruido a través de correos electrónicos de una vivencia asumida "heroicamente" por una estudiante colombiana que aborda bruscamente, y sin previa inducción, una cultura diversa y de...
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Africa remains a continent that is yet to achieve its full potentials, despite an abundance of resources and a rich cultural pedigree. There have been various attempts to dissect the impediments to the continent's progress in its march towards development and true independence. Consequently, this book moves away from mere identification of challenges to proffering solutions. The ideas put forward about African development in this book draw from a...
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Shades of Difference addresses the widespread but little studied phenomenon of colorism-the preference for lighter skin and the ranking of individual worth according to skin tone. Examining the social and cultural significance of skin color in a broad range of societies and historical periods, this insightful collection looks at how skin color affects people's opportunities in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and North America. Is skin color bias distinct...
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Lowell "RaceMan" Thompson answers the questions America's leaders seem too afraid to even ask: How did our nation get into the racial mess it's in - and how do we get out? His background as one of America's first AfAm admen is the key. His "Thompson Branding Theory" (TBT) will revolutionize the way the world thinks about race. Thompson uses his experience and skills, gained over 35 years of creating TV, radio and print ads for many of America's leading...
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How is it that recipients of white privilege deny the role they play in reproducing racial inequality? Racing for Innocence addresses this question by examining the backlash against affirmative action in the late 1980s and early 1990s-just as courts, universities, and other institutions began to end affirmative action programs. This book recounts the stories of elite legal professionals at a large corporation with a federally mandated affirmative...
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In the context of renewed debates about diversity and cohesion, this book interrogates contemporary claims about race and migration. It demonstrates that many of the claims are myths, presenting evidence in support of and in opposition to them in an accessible yet academically rigorous manner. The book combines an easy-to-read overview of the subject with innovative new research. It tackles head-on questions about levels of immigration, the contribution...
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Los zacatecanos del otro lado de la frontera son el mejor de los ejemplos de estos otros migrantes. Resultado de una tradición migratoria que data de más de 100 años, han establecido extensas redes sociales de apoyo.
Para comprender esta faceta de la realidad migratoria, Zacatecas resulta el mejor ejemplo. Un estado binacional, conformado por una población que se extiende más allá de nuestras fronteras. Conservadoramente se puede hablar de más...
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The Japan expert and business consultant Rita Menge knows Japan for more than 20 years. In her fourth book about the land of the rising sun, she devotes herself now to numerous hard to understand curiosities and invites you to join in the discussion. Japan fascinates many people. Sushi, Manga and Karaoke are well known and have many fans worldwide. The number of tourists is growing rapidly, but the Japanese still manage to preserve many of their peculiarities....
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