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| Brief Table of Contents | |
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| Understanding Race and Ethnicity | |
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| Prejudice | |
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| Discrimination | |
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| Immigration and the United States | |
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| Ethnicity and Religion | |
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| The Native Americans | |
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| The Making of African Americans in a White America | |
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| African Americans Today | |
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| Hispanic Americans | |
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| Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans | |
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| Muslim and Arab Americans: Diverse Minorities | |
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| Asian Americans: Growth and Diversity | |
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| Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans | |
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| Jewish Americans: Quest to Maintain Identity | |
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| Women: the Oppressed Majority | |
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| Beyond the United States: the Comparative Perspective | |
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| Overcoming Exclusion | |
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| Perspectives On Racial and Ethnic Groups | |
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| Exploring Race and Ethnicity | |
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| What Is a Subordinate Group? | |
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| Types of Subordinate Groups | |
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| Racial Groups | |
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| Ethnic Groups | |
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| Religious Groups | |
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| Gender Groups | |
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| Other Subordinate Groups | |
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| Listen to Our Voices: Problem of the Color Line, by W. E. B. Du Bois | |
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| Does Race Matter? | |
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| Biological Meaning | |
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| Social Construction of Race | |
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| Sociology and the Study of Race and Ethnicity | |
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| Stratification by Class and Gender | |
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| Theoretical Perspectives | |
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| The Creation of Subordinate-Group Status | |
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| Migration | |
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| Annexation | |
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| Colonialism | |
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| The Consequences of Subordinate-Group Status | |
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| Extermination | |
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| Expulsion | |
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| Secession | |
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| Segregation | |
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| Fusion | |
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| Assimilation | |
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| The Pluralist Perspective | |
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| Biracial and Multiracial Identity Who Am I? | |
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| Research Focus: Measuring Multiculturalism | |
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| Resistance and Change | |
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| Prejudice | |
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| Hate Crimes | |
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| Prejudice and Discrimination | |
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| Merton's Typology | |
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| LaPiere's Study | |
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| Theories of Prejudice | |
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| Scapegoating Theory | |
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| Authoritarian Personality Theory | |
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| Exploitation Theory | |
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| Normative Approach | |
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| Stereotypes | |
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| What Are Stereotypes? | |
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| Listen to Our Voices: National Media Should Stop Using Obscene Words, by Tim Giago | |
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| Power of Stereotypes | |
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| Stereotyping in Action: Racial Profiling | |
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| Color-Blind Racism | |
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| The Mood of the Oppressed | |
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| Intergroup Hostility | |
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| Reducing Prejudice | |
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| Education | |
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| Mass Media | |
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| Avoidance versus Friendship | |
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| Research Focus: Few of My Best Friends Are | |
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| Corporate Response: Diversity Training | |
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| Ways to Fight Hate | |
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| Discrimination | |
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| Understanding Discrimination | |
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| A Global View: the Roma: A Thousand Years of Discrimination | |
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| Relative versus Absolute Deprivation | |
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| Total Discrimination | |
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| Institutional Discrimination | |
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| Listen to Our Voices: of Race and Risk, by Patricia J. Williams | |
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| Research Focus:Discrimination in Job Seeking | |
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| Low-Wage Labor | |
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| Discrimination Today | |
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| Measuring Discrimination | |
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| Eliminating Discrimination | |
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| Wealth Inequality: Discrimination's Legacy | |
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| Environmental Justice | |
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| Affirmative Action | |
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| Affirmative Action Explained | |
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| The Legal Debate | |
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| Reverse Discrimination | |
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| The Glass Ceiling | |
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| Ethnic and Religious Sources of Conflict | |
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| Immigration | |
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| Immigration: A Global Phenomenon | |
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| Patterns of Immigration to the United States | |
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| Today's Foreign-Born Population | |
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| Early Immigration | |
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| The Anti-Chinese Movement | |
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| Restrictionist Sentiment Increases | |
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| The National Origin System | |
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| The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act | |
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| Contemporary Social Concerns | |
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| The Brain Drain | |
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| Population Growth | |
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| Mixed-Status Families | |
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| Language Barriers | |
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| Illegal Immigration | |
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| Path to Citizenship: Naturalization | |
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| A Global View: Immigration and South Africa | |
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| The Economic Impact of Immigration | |
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| Listen to Our Voices: the Next Americans, by Tomàs R. Jimÿnez | |
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| Women and Immigration | |
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| The Global Economy and Immigration | |
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| Research Focus:Assimilation May Be Hazardous to Your Health | |
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| Refugees | |
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| Ethnicity and Religion | |
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| Ethnic Diversity | |
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| Why Don't We Study Whiteness? | |
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| Listen to Our Voices: I Was Born in Tirana, by Harallamb Terba | |
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| Whiteness | |
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| White Privilege | |
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| The Rediscovery of Ethnicity | |
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| The Third-Generation Principle | |
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| Symbolic Ethnicity | |
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| The German Americans | |
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| Settlement Patterns | |
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| Twentieth-Century German America | |
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| The Irish Americans | |
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| Irish Immigration | |
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| Becoming White | |
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| The Contemporary Picture | |
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| The Italian Americans | |
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| Early Immigration | |
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| Constructing Identity | |
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| The Contemporary Picture | |
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| Research Focus: Immigrants: Yesterday and Today | |
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| The Polish Americans | |
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| Early Immigration | |
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| Polonia | |
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| The Contemporary Picture | |
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| Religious Pluralism | |
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| Diversity among Roman Catholics | |
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| Diversity among Protestants | |
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| Religion and the Courts | |
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| Limits of Religious Freedom: the Amish | |
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| The Amish Way of Life | |
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| The Amish and Larger Society | |
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| Major Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups in the United States | |
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| Native Americans | |
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| Early European Contacts | |
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| Treaties and Warfare | |
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| The Case of the Sioux | |
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| The Allotment Act | |
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| The Reorganization Act | |
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| Reservation Life and Federal Policies | |
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| A Global View:Australia's Aboriginal People | |
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| Native American Legal Claims | |
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| The Termination Act | |
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| Employment Assistance Program | |
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| Collective Action | |
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| Protest Efforts | |
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| Collective Action: An Overview | |
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| American Indian Identity | |
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| Sovereignty | |
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| Individual Identity | |
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| Native Americans Today | |
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| Listen to Our Voices: Iyeska: Notes from Mixed-Blood Country, by Charles A. Trimble | |
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| Economic Development | |
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| Education | |
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| Research Focus:Learning the Navajo Way | |
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| Health Care | |
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| Religious and Spiritual Expression | |
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| Environment | |
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| The Making of African Americans in a White America | |
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| Slavery | |
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| Slave Codes | |
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| African Americans and Africa | |
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| The Attack on Slavery | |
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| Slavery's Aftermath | |
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| Reparations for Slavery | |
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| The Challenge of Black Leadership | |
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| The Politics of Accommodation | |
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| The Niagara Movement | |
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| Reemergence of Black Protest | |
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| Research Focus: Sundown Towns, USA | |
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| The Civil Rights Movement | |
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| Struggle to Desegregate the Schools | |
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| Civil Disobedience | |
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| Listen to Our Voices:Letter from Birmingham Jail, by Martin Luther King, Jr | |
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| Urban Violence and Oppression | |
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| Black Power | |
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| The Religious Force | |
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| The New Immigration | |
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| African Americans Today | |
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| Education | |
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| Quality and Quantity of Education | |
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| School Segregation | |
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| Acting White, Acting Black, or Neither | |
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| Higher Education | |
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| The Economic Picture | |
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| Income and Wealth | |
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| Employment | |
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| Family Life | |
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| Challenges to Family Stability | |
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| Strengths of African American Families | |
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| The African American Middle Class | |
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| Listen to Our Voices: Divided, by Mary Pattillo | |
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| Housing | |
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| Residential Segregation | |
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| Criminal Justice | |
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| Research Focus: Medical APartheid | |
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| Health Care | |
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| Politics | |
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| Hispanic Americans | |
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| Latino Identity | |
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| The Economic Picture | |
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| The Growing Political Presence | |
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| The Borderlands | |
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| Research Focus:English-Language Acquisition | |
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| Cuban Americans | |
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| Immigration | |
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| Listen to Our Voices:Leaving Cuba, by Alfredo Jimenez | |
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| The Current Picture | |
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| Central and South Americans | |
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| Immigration | |
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| The Current Picture | |
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| A Global View:The Salvadoran Connection | |
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| Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans | |
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| Mexican Americans | |
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| The Immigrant Experience | |
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| The Economic Picture | |
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| Political Organizations | |
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| Puerto Ricans | |
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| The Bridge between the Island and the Mainland | |
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| The Island of Puerto Rico | |
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| Listen to Our Voices:iViva Vieques! by Martün St. Espada | |
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| The Island Economy | |
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| The Contemporary Picture of Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans | |
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| Education | |
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| Family Life | |
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| Health Care | |
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| Research Focus:The Latino Family Circle: Familism | |
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| Religion | |
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| Muslim and Arab Americans: Diverse Minorities | |
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| Arab Americans | |
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| Muslim Americans | |
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| Black Muslims | |
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| Immigration to the United States | |
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| Contemporary Life in the United States | |
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| Family Life and Gender | |
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| Research Focus: Christian and Muslim Arab American Women's Gender Roles | |
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| Education | |
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| Politics | |
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| A Global View:Muslims in France | |
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| Issues of Prejudice and Discrimination | |
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| Listen to Our Voices: Hate Crime Punished, by James Zogby | |
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| Asian Americans: Growth and Diversity | |
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| The "Model-Minority" Image Explored | |
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| Education and the Economy | |
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| The Door Half Open | |
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| Political Activity and Pan-Asian Identity | |
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| Listen to Our Voices:Asian America Still Discovering Elusive Identity, by Jean Han | |
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| Diversity among Asian Americans | |
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| Asian Indians | |
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| Immigration | |
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| The Current Picture | |
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| Filipino Americans | |
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| Immigration Patterns | |
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| Research Focus:Arranged Marriages in America | |
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| The Current Picture | |
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| Southeast Asian Americans | |
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| The Refugees | |
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| The Current Picture | |
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| Case Study: A Hmong Community | |
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| Korean Americans | |
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| Historical Background | |
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| The Current Picture | |
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| Hawai'i and Its People | |
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| Historical Background | |
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| The Current Picture | |
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| Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans | |
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| Chinese Americans | |
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| Early Settlement Patterns | |
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| Occupational Profile of Chinese Americans | |
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| Chinatowns Today | |
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| Family Life | |
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| Research Focus:Cultural Capital, Social Capital, and Chinatowns Today | |
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| Japanese Americans | |
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| Early Japanese Immigration | |
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| The Wartime Evacuation | |
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| The Economic Picture | |
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| Family Life | |
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| Remnants of Prejudice and Discrimination | |
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| Listen to Our Voices: From Kawasaki to Chicago, by Miku Ishii | |
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| Jewish Americans: Quest to Maintain Identity | |
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| The Jewish People: Race, Religion, or Ethnic Group? | |
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| A Global View: Argentina's Jewish Community | |
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| Immigration of Jews to the United States | |
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| Anti-Semitism: Past and Present | |
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| Origins | |
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| The Holocaust | |
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| U.S. Anti-Semitism: Past | |
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| Listen to Our Voices:Night, by Elie Wiesel | |
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| Contemporary Anti-Semitism | |
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| Position of Jewish Americans | |
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| Employment and Income | |
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| Education | |
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| Political Activity | |
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| Religious Life | |
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| The Orthodox Tradition | |
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| The Reform Tradition | |
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| Jewish Identity | |
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| Role of the Family | |
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| Role of Religion | |
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| Research Focus:Intermarriage:The Final Step to Assimilation? | |
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| Role of Cultural Heritage | |
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| Other Patterns of Dominance | |
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| Women: the Oppressed Majority | |
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| Gender Roles | |
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| Sociological Perspectives | |
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| The Feminist Movement | |
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| The Suffrage Movement | |
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| The Women's Liberation Movement | |
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| The Economic Picture | |
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| Sources of Discrimination | |
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| Sexual Harassment | |
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| Listen to Our Voices: What Do Women and Men Want? by Kathleen Gerson | |
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| Feminization of Poverty | |
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| Education | |
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| Research Focus:Child Care and the Gender Divide | |
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| Family Life | |
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| Child Care and Housework | |
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| Abortion | |
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| Political Activity | |
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| Matrix of Domination: Minority Women | |
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| A Global View:Women Elected Officials: Rwanda and Beyond | |
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| Beyond the United States: the Comparative Perspective | |
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| Mexico: Diversity South of the Border | |
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| The Mexican Indian People and the Color Gradient | |
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| The Status of Women | |
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| Canada: Multiculturalism Up North | |
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| The First Nation | |
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| The Quÿbÿcois | |
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| Immigration and Race | |
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| Brazil: Not a Racial Paradise | |
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| Legacy of Slavery | |
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| The "Racial Democracy" Illusion | |
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| Brazilian Dilemma | |
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| Israel and the Palestinians | |
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| Arab���Israeli Conflicts | |
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| The Intifada | |
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| The Search for Solutions amid Violence | |
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| Republic of South Africa | |
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| The Legacy of Colonialism | |
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| APartheid | |
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| The Era of Reconciliation and Moving On | |
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| Listen to Our Voices: Africa, It Is Ours! by Nelson Mandela | |
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| Research Focus:Listening to the People | |
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| Overcoming Exclusion | |
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| The Aged: A Social Minority | |
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| Who Are the Elderly? | |
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| Ageism | |
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| Research Focus: Passing on the Old Job Applicant | |
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| The Economic Picture | |
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| Advocacy Efforts by the Elderly | |
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| People with Disabilities: Moving On | |
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| Disability in Contemporary Society | |
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| Labeling the Disabled | |
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| Listen to Our Voices:The Magic Wand, by Lynn Manning | |
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| Advocacy for Disability Rights | |
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| Gays and Lesbians: Coming Out for Equality | |
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| Being Gay and Lesbian in the United States | |
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| Prejudice and Discrimination | |
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| Advocacy for Gay and Lesbian Rights | |
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| The Glass Half Empty | |