Contesting Art: Politics and Identity in the Modern World

Contesting Art: Politics and Identity in the Modern World. Jeremy MacClancy. ed. New York: New York University Press, 1997.254 pp.     

Un-Separate and Still Unequal? Three Books about American Education and Race at the End of the Liberal Century

Multicultural Education, Transformative Knowledge, and Action: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. James Banks, ed. New York: Teachers College Press, 1996. 352 pp.
Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom. Lisa Delpit. New York: The New Press, 1995. 206 pp.
Beyond Desegregation: The Politics of Quality in African American Schooling. Mwalimu J. Shujaa, ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 1996. 268 pp.     

Education and Identity in Rural France: The Politics of Schooling.

Education and Identity in Rural France: The Politics of Schooling. Deborah Reed-Danahay. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 240 pp.     

Words and Stones: The Politics of Language and Identity in Israel

Words and Stones: The Politics of Language and Identity in Israel . Daniel Lefkowitz. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 316 pp.     

Critical Comparisons in Politics and Culture

Critical Comparisons in Politics and Culture. John Bowen and Roger Petersen. eds. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 266 pp.     

The Future of Us All: Race and Neighborhood Politics in New York City

The Future of Us All: Race and Neighborhood Politics in New York City. Roger Sanjek. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998. 466 pp.     

Population, Gender and Politics: Demographic Change in Rural North India

Population, Gender and Politics: Demographic Change in Rural North India. Roger Jeffery and Patricia Jeffery. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 278 pp.     

Being Góral: Identity Politics and Globalization in Postsocialist Poland

Being Góral: Identity Politics and Globalization in Postsocialist Poland . Deborah Cahalen Schneider. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. 212 pp.     

Looking for Identity in the Muslim World

Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt. Lila Abu-Lughod. Chicago: University Chicago Press, 2005. 319 pp.
Memories of State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq. Eric Davis. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. 385 pp.
Religion, Social Practice, and Contested Hegemonies: Reconstructing the Public Sphere in Muslim Majority Societies. Armando Salvatore and Mark LeVine, eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 249 pp.
Contesting Rituals: Islam and Practices of Identity Making. Pamela Stewart and Andrew Strathern, eds. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2005. 239 pp.     

Ideology in the Language of Judges: How Judges Practice Law, Politics, and Courtroom Control

Ideology in the Language of Judges: How Judges Practice Law, Politics, and Courtroom Control. Susan U. Philips. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 206 pp.     

The Myth of Mondragón: Cooperatives, Politics, and Working-Class Life in a Basque Town

The Myth of Mondragón: Cooperatives, Politics, and Working-Class Life in. Basque Town. Sharryn Kasmir. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. 243 pp.     

The Liberationist Catholic Church in Brazil

Promised Land: Base Christian Communities and the Struggle for the Amazon. Madeleine Cousineau Adriance. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. 202 pp.
Women, Religion, and Social Change in Brazil's Popular Church. Carol Ann Drogus. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997. 226 pp.
Claiming the Virgin: The Broken Promise of Liberation Theology in Brazil. Robin Nagle. New York: Routledge, 1997. 224 pp.
The Brazilian Popular Church and the Crisis of Modernity. Manuel A. Vasquez. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 302 pp.     

Cultural Politics and China's Minorities

China's Minority Cultures. Colin Mackerras. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. 252 pp.
Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers. Stevan Harrell. ed. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995. 379 pp.     

The Archaeology of Disease, 2nd and Palaeopathology of Aboriginal Australians:Health and Disease across a Hunter-Gatherer Continent

The Archaeology of Disease, 2nd. ed. Charlotte Roberts and Keith Manchester. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995 (cloth), x + 243 pp.
Palaeopathology of Aboriginal Australians: Health and Disease across a Hunter-Gatherer Continent. Stephen Webb. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995 (cloth), xii + 324 pp.     

"Black Gal Swing": Color, Class, and Category in Globalized Culture

Scattered Belongings: Cultural Paradoxes of "Race," Nation and Gender. Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe. New York: Routledge, 1999. 221 pp.
Race and Ideology: Language, Symbolism, and Popular Culture. Arthur K. Spears. ed. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1999. 242 pp.
Spurious Issues: Race and Multiracial Identity Politics in the United States. Rainier Spencer. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. 222 pp.     

The Common Ground of Contested Space: Historical Archaeology and American Landscapes

Landscape Archaeology: Reading and Interpreting the American Historical Landscape. Rebecca Yamin and Karen Bescherer Metheny, eds. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1996. 292 pp.
Culture Change and the New Technology: An Archaeology of the Early American Industrial Era. Paul A. Shackel. New York: Plenum Press, 1996. 217 pp.     

Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation

Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation. Alejandro Portes and Rubén G. Rumbaut. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 430 pp.
Hispanas de Queens: Latino Panethnicity in. New York City Neighborhood. Milagros and Ricourt and Ruby Danta. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003. 168 pp.
Transnational Latina/o Communities: Politics, Processes, and Cultures. Carlos G. Vélez-Ibañez and Anna Sampaio, eds. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002. 307 pp.     

Computers and Classroom Culture

Computers and Classroom Culture. Janet Ward Schofield. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 271 pp.     

The Roads of Chinese Childhood: Learning and Identification in Angang

The Roads of Chinese Childhood: Learning and Identification in Angang. Charles Stafford. New York: University of Cambridge Press, 1995. 213 pp.     

War before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage

War before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage. Lawrence Keeley. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. 246 pp.