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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Color Plates -- Introduction -- 1. Brown Beginnings -- 2. Beautiful Brown Skin -- 3. "Of the Brown- Skin Type" -- 4. To a Brown Girl -- 5. Browning the Dark Princess -- 6. Sociological Discourses on Color, Class, and Gender, from Depression to World War II -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

"The Ku Klux Klan's persecution of Hispanics during the early 1920s was just as brutal as their terrorizing of the black community...a fact sparsely documented in historical texts. Drawing on numerous Spanish-language newspapers and Klan publications of the day, the author describes the KKK's extensive anti-Hispanic activity in the southwestern United States"...

Introduction -- Discursive colonization -- Representation and "listening" -- Portrait of a researcher as a Muslim woman -- Everyday of inhabiting margins -- Dreaming in shackles -- Memory and experience of violence -- I speak, therefore I am articulation as shaping of "self" -- I did not know myself -- Select narratives from states -- A call for change -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Usage -- Introduction -- 1. Forging a Partnership for Development: Point Four and American Universities -- 2. Utahns in Iran -- 3. Point Four and the Iranian Political Crisis of 1951-1953 -- 4. To Make the Iranian Desert Bloom -- 5. Modernizing Iranian Education -- 6. Legacies -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Author -- Index

Intro; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 History, Powers, and Roles of the National Personnel Authority (NPA); 2 Case Study 1; 3 Case Study 2; 4 Case Study 3; 5 Case Study 4; 6 Case Study 5; Conclusions and Areas for Further Study; References; Index; About the Author

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Artist's Statement -- Faces of a Movement -- #1960Now: The Photographs and Vision of Sheila Pree Bright -- Ferguson, MO -- 1960Now: Art + Intersections -- Baltimore, MD -- From 1960 to Now! -- Washington, DC -- Heroes, Victories, and Triumphs -- Atlanta, GA -- Baton Rouge, LA -- Philadelphia, PA -- Black Lives Matter Meetings -- About the Author -- Chronicle Ebooks.

"This study examines the CIA's "third force" strategy--providing support for a third-party alternative over two primary on-the-ground options--in East Asia during the first decade of the Cold War. The author argues that the strategy failed due to a lack of understanding of the historical and cultural contexts of the region"--

"This study provides a political biography of Sakata Michita, a major figure in postwar Japanese politics who served as Japan's minister of defense. The author focuses on Sakata's role in forging Japanese defense policy and managing relations with allies and examines how his legacy informs contemporary debates about the country's security policy."--Provided by publisher

"The author, a former Senate Page, shares firsthand accounts along with interviews. In-depth research on the history of Capitol Pages' duties, schooling, experiences, downfalls and victories--including the admission of the first African American and female pages--illustrates the importance of the program in both the lives of the pages and in American politics"--

Introduction: ten theses on racial capitalism -- Beginning -- Social reproduction: gender, racism, nature -- Histories of violence, legacies of trauma -- What racial capitalism is and what it is not -- Territory and borders, racial capitalism and sovereignty in crisis -- Consumption and indebtedness -- Ending: on not being part of the industrial reserve army -- Bibliography -- About the author

"This book analyzes the reasons for the emergence and extinction of the Croatian name in four Slovene border regions. The author uses comparative methods and a broad spectrum of sources. He explores how this process was triggered by tectonic geopolitical changes resulting from the Ottoman conquests in the Balkans and the Pannonian Basin"--Provided by publishers

This study examines the Japan Exchange and Teaching program as a form of public diplomacy and soft power. Through original survey data and extensive interviews with alumni, the author provides a quantitative analysis of the program's effects and argues that it has been highly useful in shaping interactions between Japan and the United States

Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- Introduction -- Turning back the clock : "modern" virginities -- Breaking in vs. breaking out : negotiating the transition from girlhood to womanhood -- Maligned mother(hood)s -- Fairy tale witches and much more -- Life isn't a fairy tale and I'm no princess : the case of countess Elizabeth Bathory -- Epilogue -- Works cited -- Filmography -- About the author

Front Cover -- About the Author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. "'arf a cup" -- 2. "I'm a Londoner" -- 3. " I never wanted to come (to this country) 'e made me come" -- 4. "'e was a wickid man" -- 5. "That's my Albert" -- 6. "Just get on with it" -- Conclusion: Ann Hannah's Legacy -- References

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Federalism and Colonial Kenya -- Chapter 3: Federal Schemes in the 1940s -- Chapter 4: Provincial Autonomy and White Supremacy, 1950-1956 -- Chapter 5: New Approaches for Federalism, 1957-1960 -- Chapter 6: Federalism at a Dead End -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.