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Book Hispanic Nations of the New World  A Chronicle of Our Southern Neighbors

Download or read book Hispanic Nations of the New World A Chronicle of Our Southern Neighbors written by William R. Shepherd and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1919-01-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Southern Neighbors

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  • Author : Frederick K. Branom
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-10
  • ISBN : 9781494073541
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book Southern Neighbors written by Frederick K. Branom and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1951 edition.

Book Black Neighbors

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  • Author : Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2017-10-06
  • ISBN : 1469621495
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Black Neighbors written by Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professing a policy of cultural and social integration, the American settlement house movement made early progress in helping immigrants adjust to life in American cities. However, when African Americans migrating from the rural South in the early twentieth century began to replace white immigrants in settlement environs, most houses failed to redirect their efforts toward their new neighbors. Nationally, the movement did not take a concerted stand on the issue of race until after World War II. In Black Neighbors, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn analyzes this reluctance of the mainstream settlement house movement to extend its programs to African American communities, which, she argues, were assisted instead by a variety of alternative organizations. Lasch-Quinn recasts the traditional definitions, periods, and regional divisions of settlement work and uncovers a vast settlement movement among African Americans. By placing community work conducted by the YWCA, black women's clubs, religious missions, southern industrial schools, and other organizations within the settlement tradition, she highlights their significance as well as the mainstream movement's failure to recognize the enormous potential in alliances with these groups. Her analysis fundamentally revises our understanding of the role that race has played in American social reform.

Book Contrary Neighbors

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  • Author : David La Vere
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2001-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780806132990
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Contrary Neighbors written by David La Vere and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: examines relations between Southeastern Indians who were removed to Indian Territory in the early nineteenth century and Southern Plains Indians who claimed this area as their own. These two Indian groups viewed the world in different ways. The Southeastern Indians, primarily Choctaws, Cherokees, Creeks, Chickasaws, and Seminoles, were agricultural peoples. By the nineteenth century they were adopting American "civilization": codified laws, Christianity, market-driven farming, and a formal, Euroamerican style of education. By contrast, the hunter-gathers of the Southern Plains-the Comanches, Kiowas, Wichitas, and Osages-had a culture based on the buffalo. They actively resisted the Removed Indians' "invasion" of their homelands. The Removed Indians hoped to lessen Plains Indian raids into Indian Territory by "civilizing" the Plains peoples through diplomatic councils and trade. But the Southern Plains Indians were not interested in "civilization" and saw no use in farming. Even their defeat by the U.S. government could not bridge the cultural gap between the Plains and Removed Indians, a gulf that remains to this day.

Book A Good Neighborhood

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  • Author : Therese Anne Fowler
  • Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
  • Release : 2020-03-10
  • ISBN : 1250237289
  • Pages : 301 pages

Download or read book A Good Neighborhood written by Therese Anne Fowler and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * One of NPR's Best Books of 2020 "A provocative, absorbing read." — People “A feast of a read... I finished A Good Neighborhood in a single sitting. Yes, it’s that good.” —Jodi Picoult, #1New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Thingsand A Spark of Light In Oak Knoll, a verdant, tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood, professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son, Xavier, who’s headed to college in the fall. All is well until the Whitmans—a family with new money and a secretly troubled teenage daughter—raze the house and trees next door to build themselves a showplace. With little in common except a property line, these two families quickly find themselves at odds: first, over an historic oak tree in Valerie's yard, and soon after, the blossoming romance between their two teenagers. A Good Neighborhood asks big questions about life in America today—what does it mean to be a good neighbor? How do we live alongside each other when we don't see eye to eye?—as it explores the effects of class, race, and heartrending love in a story that’s as provocative as it is powerful.

Book Our southern neighbors

Download or read book Our southern neighbors written by Jacob Gibble Meyer and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beggar Your Neighbours

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  • Author : Joseph Hanlon
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN : 9780852553077
  • Pages : 374 pages

Download or read book Beggar Your Neighbours written by Joseph Hanlon and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ..". comprehensive in its coverage, exacting in its standards of description and interpretation, and almost faultless in its use of source material and existing literature... " -- Anti-Apartheid News ..". an excellent compendium of information on the military and economic power that South Africa applies in dealing with its neighbors." -- Foreign Service Journal ..". important for the shaping of Western policy toward South Africa." -- The Book Exchange ..". impressive... indispensable." -- Third World Book Review "This is a very important book." -- Social Dynamics Hanlon pieces together the details of South Africa's military attacks on its neighbors and relates them to the control the South African state exercises through its economic power.

Book America s Southern Neighbors

Download or read book America s Southern Neighbors written by Eleanor Murdoch Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Becoming Neighbors in a Mexican American Community

Download or read book Becoming Neighbors in a Mexican American Community written by Gilda L. Ochoa and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the surface, Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants to the United States seem to share a common cultural identity but often make uneasy neighbors. Discrimination and assimilationist policies have influenced generations of Mexican Americans so that some now fear that the status they have gained by assimilating into American society will be jeopardized by Spanish-speaking newcomers. Other Mexican Americans, however, adopt a position of group solidarity and work to better the social conditions and educational opportunities of Mexican immigrants. Focusing on the Mexican-origin, working-class city of La Puente in Los Angeles County, California, this book examines Mexican Americans' everyday attitudes toward and interactions with Mexican immigrants—a topic that has so far received little serious study. Using in-depth interviews, participant observations, school board meeting minutes, and other historical documents, Gilda Ochoa investigates how Mexican Americans are negotiating their relationships with immigrants at an interpersonal level in the places where they shop, worship, learn, and raise their families. This research into daily lives highlights the centrality of women in the process of negotiating and building communities and sheds new light on identity formation and group mobilization in the U.S. and on educational issues, especially bilingual education. It also complements previous studies on the impact of immigration on the wages and employment opportunities of Mexican Americans.

Book Our Southern Neighbors

Download or read book Our Southern Neighbors written by Jacob Gibble Meyer and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin

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  • Author : United States. Office of Education
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1942
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by United States. Office of Education and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Tiv and Their Southern Neighbours  1890 1990

Download or read book The Tiv and Their Southern Neighbours 1890 1990 written by Emmanuel Chiahemba Ayangaor and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the economic, political and socio-cultural relations of the Tiv people of Benue State with their southern neighbours. In pre-colonial times, the Tiv, needing additional farm lands, began displacing their southern neighbours and settling on their farms. In retaliation, teams of Ogirinya headhunters targeted lone Tiv women and farmers. The Tiv's answer to this loss of life was to adopt Ogirinya themselves, and clandestine mutual headhunting then became a standing blood feud that escaped the notice of the colonial administration for years. During an official inquiry into the causes of the 1985 Tsar-Obudu War, both parties confessed that Ogirinya was the main cause of their inter-ethnic wars. Once the leaders of the neighbouring local government areas agreed to ban Ogirinya and to set up a joint monitoring committee, peace returned to the borderlands. In addition to the conflicts, Ayangaor also covers the intermarriages, friendships, pacts, and palm wine drinking orgies of these interdependent peoples. This book is part of the African World Series, edited by Toyin Falola, Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, University of Texas at Austin.

Book Southern Neighbors

Download or read book Southern Neighbors written by Sister Marion and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Our Southern Neighbors

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  • Author : Jacob Gibble Meyer
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1943
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Our Southern Neighbors written by Jacob Gibble Meyer and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Judge Thy Neighbor

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  • Author : Patrick Bergemann
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2019-03-26
  • ISBN : 0231542380
  • Pages : 145 pages

Download or read book Judge Thy Neighbor written by Patrick Bergemann and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Spanish Inquisition to Nazi Germany to the United States today, ordinary people have often chosen to turn in their neighbors to the authorities. What motivates citizens to inform on the people next door? In Judge Thy Neighbor, Patrick Bergemann provides a theoretical framework for understanding the motives for denunciations in terms of institutional structures and incentives. In case studies of societies in which denunciations were widespread, Bergemann merges historical and quantitative analysis to explore individual reasons for participation. He sheds light on Jewish converts’ shifting motives during the Spanish Inquisition; when and why seventeenth-century Romanov subjects fulfilled their obligation to report insults to the tsar’s honor; and the widespread petty and false complaints filed by German citizens under the Third Reich, as well as present-day plea bargains, whistleblowing, and crime reporting. Bergemann finds that when authorities use coercion or positive incentives to elicit information, individuals denounce out of self-preservation or to gain rewards. However, in the absence of these incentives, denunciations are often motivated by personal resentments and grudges. In both cases, denunciations facilitate social control not because of citizen loyalty or moral outrage but through the local interests of ordinary participants. Offering an empirically and theoretically rich account of the dynamics of denunciation as well as vivid descriptions of the denounced, Judge Thy Neighbor is a timely and compelling analysis of the reasons people turn in their acquaintances, with relevance beyond conventionally repressive regimes.

Book America

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1915
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 868 pages

Download or read book America written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nazis and Good Neighbors

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  • Author : Max Paul Friedman
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2003-08-04
  • ISBN : 9780521822466
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Nazis and Good Neighbors written by Max Paul Friedman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-04 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents