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The devil behind the mirror : globalization and politics in the Dominican Republic.
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ISBN: 0520247272 9780520247277 0520249291 9780520249295 Year: 2007 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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The devil behind the mirror
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ISBN: 0520282256 052095789X 9780520957893 9780520282254 Year: 2014 Publisher: Berkeley

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In The Devil behind the Mirror, Steven Gregory provides a compelling and intimate account of the impact that transnational processes associated with globalization are having on the lives and livelihoods of people in the Dominican Republic. Grounded in ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the adjacent towns of Boca Chica and Andrés, Gregory's study deftly demonstrates how transnational flows of capital, culture, and people are mediated by contextually specific power relations, politics, and history. He explores such topics as the informal economy, the making of a telenova, sex tourism, and racism and discrimination against Haitians, who occupy the lowest rung on the Dominican economic ladder. Innovative, beautifully written, and now updated with a new preface, The Devil behind the Mirror masterfully situates the analysis of global economic change in everyday lives.

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Dominican Republic -- Economic conditions -- 1961-. --- Dominican Republic -- Foreign economic relations. --- Dominican Republic -- Social conditions -- 1961-. --- Globalization -- Dominican Republic. --- Globalization -- Political aspects -- Dominican Republic. --- Tourism -- Dominican Republic. --- Globalization --- Tourism --- Political aspects --- Dominican Republic --- Foreign economic relations. --- Economic conditions --- Social conditions --- Holiday industry --- Operators, Tour (Industry) --- Tour operators (Industry) --- Tourism industry --- Tourism operators (Industry) --- Tourist industry --- Tourist trade --- Tourist traffic --- Travel industry --- Visitor industry --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- Economic aspects --- República Dominicana --- République dominicaine --- Quisqueya --- San Domingo --- Service industries --- National tourism organizations --- Travel --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- ドミニカ共和国 --- Dominika Kyōwakoku --- Dominikaaninen tasavalta --- Dominikanska republiken --- Dominikanische Republik --- רפובליקה הדומיניקנית --- Republiḳah ha-Dominiḳanit --- Santo Domingo (Spanish colony) --- E-books --- andres. --- boca chica. --- capital. --- caribbean islands. --- caribbean. --- central america. --- culture. --- discrimination. --- dominican republic. --- economy of difference. --- ethnographic fieldwork. --- gender studies. --- gender. --- global economic change. --- globalization. --- government and governing. --- haiti. --- haitians. --- hispaniola. --- history. --- identity politics. --- imagination. --- impact of transnationalism. --- informal economy. --- livelihood. --- masculinity. --- politics. --- poverty. --- power and wealth. --- power relations. --- racism. --- sex tourism. --- telenova. --- transnational capital. --- transnational.

Black Corona
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ISBN: 1283379864 9786613379863 1400839319 9781400839315 0691029369 9780691029368 0691017395 9780691029368 9780691017396 0691017395 9781283379861 6613379867 Year: 1998 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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In Black Corona, Steven Gregory examines political culture and activism in an African-American neighborhood in New York City. Using historical and ethnographic research, he challenges the view that black urban communities are "socially disorganized." Gregory demonstrates instead how working-class and middle-class African Americans construct and negotiate complex and deeply historical political identities and institutions through struggles over the built environment and neighborhood quality of life. With its emphasis on the lived experiences of African Americans, Black Corona provides a fresh and innovative contribution to the study of the dynamic interplay of race, class, and space in contemporary urban communities. It questions the accuracy of the widely used trope of the dysfunctional "black ghetto," which, the author asserts, has often been deployed to depoliticize issues of racial and economic inequality in the United States. By contrast, Gregory argues that the urban experience of African Americans is more diverse than is generally acknowledged and that it is only by attending to the history and politics of black identity and community life that we can come to appreciate this complexity. This is the first modern ethnography to focus on black working-class and middle-class life and politics. Unlike books that enumerate the ways in which black communities have been rendered powerless by urban political processes and by changing urban economies, Black Corona demonstrates the range of ways in which African Americans continue to organize and struggle for social justice and community empowerment. Although it discusses the experiences of one community, its implications resonate far more widely.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.


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Herihor in Art and iconography : kingship and the gods in the ritual landscape of Late New Kingdom Thebes
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ISBN: 9781906137380 Year: 2014 Publisher: London : Golden House Publications,


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Tutankhamun knew the names of the two great gods : d̲t and nḥḥ as fundamental concepts of pharaonic ideology
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ISBN: 1789699851 9781789699852 178969986X Year: 2022 Publisher: Oxford : Archaeopress,

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Tutankhamun Knew the Names of the Two Great Godsoffers a new interpretation of the terms Dtand nHHas fundamental concepts of Pharaonic ideology, terms that, until now, have often been treated as synonyms reflecting notions related to the vastness of time.

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ISBN: 0813521092 Year: 1994 Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Press

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