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  • CULTURAL CONFLICT AND ADAPTATION
    HENRY T. TRUEBA / LILA JACOBS / ELIZABETH KIRTON
    Cultural Conflict and Adaptation (1990) examines the alienation and cultural conflicts faced at school by the children of a small group of Hmong who have settled in La Playa, California. The educational process for these children is an example of cultural conflict and adjustment patterns which may be found in many other populations in the world. ...

    $860.00

  • THE FRATERNAL ATLANTIC, 1770–1930
    JESSICA L. HARLAND-JACOBS, JAN C. JANSEN AND ELIZABETH MANCKE
    This book examines Freemasonry in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Atlantic world. Drawing on fresh empirical evidence, the chapters position fraternalism as a critical component of Atlantic history. Fraternalism was a key strategy for people swept up in the dislocations of imperialism, large-scale migrations, and the socio-political upheavals of revolution. Ranging from ...

    $1,160.00

  • CULTURAL CONFLICT & ADAPTATION
    HENRY T. TRUEBA / LILA JACOBS / ELIZABETH KIRTON
    First published in 1990. The Hmong people, with a total population of about 5 million, have a long history of statelessness and migration. During the last century, groups of Hmong moved from southern China into Indochina and, as war refugees, about 90,000 have come to America in the last thirteen years. This book examines the alienation and cultural conflicts faced at school by...

    $1,340.00

  • MEXICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
    ELIZABETH JACOBS
    Presenting an up-to-date critical perspective as well as a cultural, political and historical context, this book is an excellent introduction to Mexican American literature, affording readers the major novels, drama and poetry. This volume presents fresh and original readings of major works, and with its historiographic and cultural analyses, impressively delivers key informati...

    $1,240.00

  • WOMEN AND FREEDOM
    ELIZABETH KECKLEY / HARRIET JACOBS / SOJOURNER TRUTH
    In these classic memoirs, three indomitable women share their stories of surviving slavery and fighting for the freedom of others.   Behind the Scenes: Born into slavery, Elizabeth Keckley used her talents as a seamstress to buy her freedom and eventually became Mary Todd Lincoln's dressmaker. Keckley and the first lady formed a close friendship as they endured tragedies togeth...

    $199.00