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China: People's Republic Of China, Xiao-Huang Yin Dec 2006

China: People's Republic Of China, Xiao-Huang Yin

Xiao-huang Yin

No abstract provided.


Immigrant Transnationals And Us Foreign Relations, Xiao-Huang Yin, Peter Koehn Dec 2006

Immigrant Transnationals And Us Foreign Relations, Xiao-Huang Yin, Peter Koehn

Xiao-huang Yin

No abstract provided.


Why The Rwandan Genocide Seemed Like A Drive-By Shooting: The Crisis Of Race, Culture, And Policy In The African Diaspora, Seneca Vaught Dec 2006

Why The Rwandan Genocide Seemed Like A Drive-By Shooting: The Crisis Of Race, Culture, And Policy In The African Diaspora, Seneca Vaught

Seneca Vaught

From the American perspective, the Rwandan genocide developed amidst a cultural and racial crisis of the 1990s. The American attitude towards the crisis in Kigali provides a complex historical case study on how race and culture have profound and often-ignored policy implications. Specifically, the lack of American intervention in Rwanda reveals the complexity race and policy in American history and the shared fates of Africans throughout the world. Taken as a whole, the domestic cultural background of the early 1990s, including the rise of gangsta rap, rioting, and the dilemma of "black-on-black crime," collectively influenced American policy towards Africa at …


Gospel Tracks Through Texas: The Mission Of Chapel Car Good Will (Book Review), Linda Niemann Dec 2006

Gospel Tracks Through Texas: The Mission Of Chapel Car Good Will (Book Review), Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

Review of the book "Gospel Tracks Through Texas: The Mission of Chapel Car Good Will", by Wilma Rugh Taylor. Texas A&M University Press, 2005.


A Case Study Of Transnationalism: Continuity And Changes In Chinese American Philanthropy To China, Xiao-Huang Yin Dec 2003

A Case Study Of Transnationalism: Continuity And Changes In Chinese American Philanthropy To China, Xiao-Huang Yin

Xiao-huang Yin

No abstract provided.


The Expanding Roles Of Chinese Americans In U.S.-China Relations: Transnational Networks And Trans-Pacific Interactions, Peter Koehn, Xiao-Huang Yin Dec 2001

The Expanding Roles Of Chinese Americans In U.S.-China Relations: Transnational Networks And Trans-Pacific Interactions, Peter Koehn, Xiao-Huang Yin

Xiao-huang Yin

No abstract provided.


Chinese American Literature Since The 1850s, Xiao-Huang Yin Dec 1999

Chinese American Literature Since The 1850s, Xiao-Huang Yin

Xiao-huang Yin

Chinese American Literature since the 1850s traces the origins and development of the extensive and largely neglected body of literature written in English and in Chinese, assessing its themes and style and placing it in a broad social and historical context. This volume, shows how change and continuity in the Chinese American experience are reflected in the writings of immigrants from China and their descendants.


War On Crime: Bandits, G-Men, And The Politics Of Mass Culture, Claire Potter Dec 1997

War On Crime: Bandits, G-Men, And The Politics Of Mass Culture, Claire Potter

Claire Potter

No abstract provided.


Book Review: The Black Lodge In White America: "True Reformer" Browne And His Economic Strategy, Lynn Dumenil Oct 1995

Book Review: The Black Lodge In White America: "True Reformer" Browne And His Economic Strategy, Lynn Dumenil

Lynn Dumenil

No abstract provided.


Revising The Klan: Intersections Of Race, Gender, And Class In The 1920s Ku Klux Klan, Lynn Dumenil Dec 1994

Revising The Klan: Intersections Of Race, Gender, And Class In The 1920s Ku Klux Klan, Lynn Dumenil

Lynn Dumenil

No abstract provided.


China's Gilded Age, Xiao-Huang Yin Mar 1994

China's Gilded Age, Xiao-Huang Yin

Xiao-huang Yin

The article reports on social change in China. The transition from a centrally planned economy to a free market has set off an economic explosion and generated tremendous prosperity. According to the author, there are no signs of political liberalization in China and the power of the National People's Congress has increased significantly. The article discusses widespread corruption in China and the gulf between the prosperity of urban centers and the poverty of rural areas.


The Scarlet Letter In China, Xiao-Huang Yin Dec 1986

The Scarlet Letter In China, Xiao-Huang Yin

Xiao-huang Yin

No abstract provided.


Brotherhood And Respectability : Freemasonry And American Culture, 1880-1930, Lynn Dumenil Dec 1980

Brotherhood And Respectability : Freemasonry And American Culture, 1880-1930, Lynn Dumenil

Lynn Dumenil

No abstract provided.