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Bullivant, Brian Milton.
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305.800994 19
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1984
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Weisbrod, Carol.
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305.800973 22
Publication Date
2002
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From outlawing polygamy and mandating public education to protecting the rights of minorities, the framing of group life by the state has been a subject of considerable interest and controversy throughout the history of the United States. The subject continues to be important in many countries. This book deals with state responses to cultural difference through the examination of a number of encounters between individuals, groups, and the state, in the United States and elsewhere. The book opens the concepts of groups and the state, arguing for the complexity of their relations and interpenetrations. Carol Weisbrod draws on richly diverse historical and cultural material to explore various structures that have been seen as appropriate for adjusting relations between states and internal groups. She considers the experience of the Mormons, the Amish, and Native Americans in the United States, the Mennonites in Germany, and the Jews in Russia to illustrate arrangements and accommodations in different times and places. The Minorities Treaties of the League of Nations, political federalism, religious exemptions, nonstate schools, and rules about adoption are among the mechanisms discussed that sustain cultural difference and create frameworks for group life, and, finally, individual life.
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109802.1797
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Sarat, Austin.
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340.115 22
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2001 1999
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92251.0156
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Siemerling, Winfried, 1956-
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810.9920693 20
Publication Date
1996
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85050.7578
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Barvosa, Edwina.
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305.86807301 22
Publication Date
2008
Summary
"All of us have multiple identities. Yet, as Edwina Barvosa argues, we are not always aware of the influence of our multiplicity on our selves or on political life. Wealth of Selves explores the everyday character and political consequences of multiple identities, blending insights from various disciplines to forge an overarching theoretical framework for understanding multiple identities in political context. Through this original framework, Barvosa analyzes the shape and politics of multiple identities in terms of identity contradictions, the intersections among identities, and the political potential that lies within practices she refers to as selfcraft." "This reconsideration of the self promises to reshape our thinking on issues such as immigrant incorporation, national identity, political participation, the socially constructed sources of the will and political critique, and the longevity of racial and gender conflicts." "With its accessible style and rich cross-pollination among disciplines, Wealth of Selves will reward readers in political science, philosophy, race, ethnic, and American studies, as well as in borderlands, sexuality, and gender studies."--Jacket.
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Runciman, David.
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320.1 21
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1997
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Kao, Grace (Grace Y.)
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323 22
Publication Date
2011
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In 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which declared that every human being, without "distinction of any kind," possesses a set of morally authoritative rights and fundamental freedoms that ought to be socially guaranteed. Since that time, human rights have arguably become the cross-cultural moral concept and evaluative tool to measure the performance -- and even legitimacy -- of domestic regimes. Yet questions remain that challenge their universal validity and theoretical bases. Some theorists are "maximalist."
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Rupp, George.
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305.80090511 22
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2006
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The author outlines the steps necessary to engange the contemporary conflict between traditional religious belief and Western secularism.
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Maher, M. J. (Mary J.)
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305.8 23
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2012
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Kerwin, Lydia B.
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305.8 22
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2010
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Galston, William A. (William Arthur), 1946-
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320.51 21
Publication Date
2002
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William Galston is a distinguished political philosopher who also served from 1993-1995 in the Clinton Administration. He argues that value pluralism undergirds a kind of liberal politics that enables individuals and groups to live in accordance with their deepest beliefs about what gives meaning and purpose to life.
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Loeffler, Jack, 1936- author.
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978.9004 22
Publication Date
2008
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Loeffler has recorded interviews with representatives of the diverse cultures of New Mexico, revealing the cultural mosaic of the people along the Continental Divide.
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