Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
State University of New York Press The Time Inheritors
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Information Age Publishing Four Stars in the Night Sky
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£75.95
Information Age Publishing The Semiotic Field of the Garden
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£57.46
Information Age Publishing Handbook of Cultural Sports Psychology
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£75.95
Information Age Publishing Handbook of Cultural Sports Psychology
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Oxford University Press Inc Jorge Luis Borges
Book SynopsisA celebration of the life and works of one of the most influential world literary figures of the twentieth century, this Very Short Introduction traces Jorge Luis Borges's trajectory from his beginnings in Buenos Aires through the Dirty War in Argentina. It gives an engaging overview of his writings and their themes and shows how his career redefined Latin American as well as global literature.
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MO - University of Illinois Press Puerto Rican Chicago
Book SynopsisWinner of the Critics’ Choice Book awards of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA-CCBA) The postwar migration of Puerto Rican men and women to Chicago brought thousands of their children into city schools. These children''s classroom experience continued the colonial project begun in their homeland, where American ideologies had dominated Puerto Rican education since the island became a US territory. Mirelsie Velázquez tells how Chicago''s Puerto Ricans pursued their educational needs in a society that constantly reminded them of their status as second-class citizens. Communities organized a media culture that addressed their concerns while creating and affirming Puerto Rican identities. Education also offered women the only venue to exercise power, and they parlayed their positions to take lead roles in activist and political circles. In time, a politicized Puerto Rican community gave voice to a previously silenced group--and highlighted thaTrade Review"Puerto Rican Chicago provides an invaluable contribution to the history of education, urban history, and Latinx Studies. It reminds us that Latinx communities are richly diverse, not only located in the American West, and that their unique histories are crucial in narrating the development of twentieth-century American cities and schools." --History of Education Quarterly"Velázquez's book is needed now more than ever." --Historical Studies in Education"Puerto Rican Chicago: Schooling the City, 1940-1977 is an essential contribution to the growing scholarship on Latinos in the Midwest. It powerfully chronicles the persistent efforts of the Puerto Rican community, especially women, to advocate for their children's right to a meaningful education and a more promising future. Meticulously researched and eloquently written, Mirelsie Velázquez' book is a must read for those interested in community-based activism, education, urban history, and Puerto Rican and Latino studies."--Lourdes Torres, author of Puerto Rican Discourse: A Sociolinguistic Study of A New York Suburb"Puerto Rican Chicago innovates by taking up themes that other scholars have neglected. . . . This book shows how deeply students' encounters with schools' practices were affected by their histories." --Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ixIntroduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11. Al Brincar el Charco: Urban Response to the Puerto Rican “Problem” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252. Community Visions of Puerto Rican Schooling, 1950–1966 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573. Taking It to the Streets: The Puerto Rican Movement for Education in 1970s Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . 874. Learning to Resist, Resisting to Learn: Puerto Ricans and Higher Education in 1970s Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1055. Living and Writing in the Puerto Rican Diaspora . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127Conclusion: Winning Means Hope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
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MO - University of Illinois Press Globetrotting
Book SynopsisThroughout the Cold War, the Soviet Union deplored the treatment of African Americans by the U.S. government as proof of hypocrisy in the American promises of freedom and equality. This probing history examines government attempts to manipulate international perceptions of U.S. race relations during the Cold War by sending African American athletes abroad on goodwill tours and in international competitions as cultural ambassadors and visible symbols of American values. Damion L. Thomas follows the State Department''s efforts from 1945 to 1968 to showcase prosperous African American athletes including Jackie Robinson, Jesse Owens, and the Harlem Globetrotters as the preeminent citizens of the African Diaspora rather than as victims of racial oppression. With athletes in baseball, track and field, and basketball, the government relied on figures whose fame carried the desired message to countries where English was little understood. However, eventually African American athletes begaTrade Review"This accessible, interesting history will broaden sport historians' understanding of sport and the civil rights movement, injecting an internationalist framework that was critical to the viewpoint of the era's African American athletes."--Aram Goudsouzian, author of King of the Court: Bill Russell and the Basketball Revolution"Provides an extensive chronology of how racial identity unfolded during the Cold War years, using sport as a ploy that all was well in the U.S. Recommended." -- Choice "Globetrotting reveals surprising evidence of the importance the U.S. government placed on sports in waging the Cold War, and makes compelling arguments regarding the changing tenor of African American athletes' involvement in foreign policy initiatives amid the changing climate of the civil rights movement."--American Historical Review “Thomas effectively highlights the essential role of propaganda in addressing Cold War diplomatic concerns, and he situates both race and black athletes at the heart of the United States government's effort to win the hearts and minds of formerly colonized peoples around the world.”--Journal of American Studies "This story demonstrates the complex position of African American athletes within the Cold War and how developments in sport reflected intellectual shifts within the broader civil rights movement, as athletes worked through liberal and then radical approaches to reform."--Sport in History
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MO - University of Illinois Press African American Foodways Explorations of
Book SynopsisMoving beyond catfish and collard greens to the soul of African American cookingTrade Review“A quick and enjoyable read that is informative about the relationships between food, culture, and defining moments in world, southern, and African American history.”--The Journal of Southern History"This fascinating book reveals a little-known history and ties it to present-day values. It is well written and accessible to a general audience, for whom it is highly recommended."--Multicultural Review "Anne L. Bower has compiled a very tasty collection of essays into which the historian or food lover can really sink his teeth. . . . The essays provide an expansive and interdisciplinary view of African American culinary history as well as insight into the current trends in what is more generally known as 'soul food.' "--Southern Historian"African American Foodways: Exploration of History & Culture is a must read for anyone interested in the influence of history and culture on how foods are produced, collected, stored, prepared, and consumed. It is an excellent resource for those interested in food and its connection to identity and will be an absolute delight for anyone who may have thought the tern 'soul food' was inclusive of the many meanings attached to food by African Americans and others."--Journal of Family & Consumer Sciences"An exquisite mélange of American and black history; famous black Americans and people they served; allusions to jazz, poetry, rap, stories, and literature; and food traditions make up this credible, readable book. . . . Recommended."--Choice"Bower's reputation in the study of African American foodways is already very significant, and this achievement will only add to it. With subjects ranging from soul food to cookbooks, the writers in this volume will change our thinking about African American food and culture."--Sherrie A. Inness, author of Secret Ingredients: Race, Gender, and Class at the Dinner TableTable of ContentsAcknowledgments / ix Introduction: Watching Soul Food Anne L. Bower / 1 PART ONE: THE HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN FOOD 1. Food Crops, Medicinal Plants, and the Atlantic Slave Trade Robert L. Hall / 17 2. Soul Food as Cultural Creation William C. Whit / 45 3. Excavating the South's African American Food History Anne Yentsch / 59 PART TWO: REPRESENTATIONS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN FOOD 4. From Fiction to Foodways: Working at the Intersections of African American Literary and Culinary Studies Doris Witt / 101 5. Chickens and Chains: Using African American Foodways to Understand Black Identities Psyche Williams-Forson / 126 6. Recipes for Respect: Black Hospitality Entrepreneurs before World War 1 Rafia Zafar / 139 7. Recipes for History: The National Council of Negro Women's Five Historical Cookbooks Anne L. Bower / 153 Contributors / 175 Index / 177
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John Wiley & Sons Going Back to TTown Volume 2
Book SynopsisTerritory bands traveled from town to town, performing jazz and swing music, and Tulsa-based musician Ernie Fields (1904-97) led one of the best. In Going Back to T-Town, Ernie’s daughter, Carmen Fields, tells a story of success, disappointment, and perseverance extending from the early jazz era to the 1960s.Trade Review“This perceptive book is an insightful account, appealing to the aficionado and scholar alike, of the career and musical journey of bandleader Ernie Fields.”—Todd Wright, Professor and Director of Jazz Studies, Hayes School of Music, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina“In piecing together her father’s musical journey, Carmen Fields highlights an important untold story, but also paints a fuller picture of the strength that emanated from the much talked about Tulsa, Oklahoma, of twentieth-century America.”—Wil Haygood, author of Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World
£20.66
The University of Alabama Press What I Say Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in
Book SynopsisWhat I Say is an anthology of formally experimental and innovative poetry by black writers in America from 1977 to the present that allows readers to map the independent routes by which various poets reached their particular modes of aesthetic experimentation. What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by examining experimental poems often excluded from previous scholarship. The first volume, Every Goodbye Ain't Gone, covers the period from the end of World War II to the mid-1970s. In What I Say, editors Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey have assembled a comprehensive and dynamic collection that brings this pivotal work up to the present day. The elder poets in this collection, such as Nathaniel Mackey, C. S. Giscombe, Will Alexander, and Ron Allen, came of age during and were powerfully influenced by the Black Arts Movement, and What I Say grounds the c
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Taylor & Francis Racist America
Book SynopsisThe fifth edition of Racist America is thoroughly revised and updated, focusing on systemic racism and antiracism issues, especially those arising since the fourth edition (2018). Expanding the discussion on racialized intersectionality, as well as on the white racial frame, elite-white-male dominance system, and antiracist action, this book details how these racism realities continue to impact black, Latino, Asian, Indigenous, and white Americans. The book explains how and why Black Lives Matter movement and other antiracist protests have erupted; how and why Latino, Asian, and Indigenous Americans have responded to expanding racist discrimination; and how and why a diverse array of Americans has demanded major societal responses to dismantle entrenched white racism.
£39.99
University of Toronto Press Into the Ocean
Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary analysis of a subject that has intrigued scholars for generations, Into the Ocean will challenge the assumptions of anyone interested in the Atlantic branch of the Celtic world.Trade Review'This groundbreaking monograph brings detail and great clarity to a topic whose treatment has frequently been piecemeal and even romantic. It makes a major contribution to our understanding of the early medieval settlement of the North Atlantic.' -- Jonathan Wooding Parergon vol 32:02:2015Table of ContentsDedication Acknowledgements List of Illustrations, Tables and Abbreviations Introduction Chapter One: Nineteenth-Century Legacies: Literature, Language and the Imagining of the St. Lawrence Irish Chapter Two: A Fruitful Conversation Between Disciplines Chapter Three: Pabbays and Paibles: Pap-Names and Gaelic and Old Norse Speakers in Scotland's Hebridean Islands Chapter Four: Seljaland, Vestur-Eyjafjallahreppur, Iceland Chapter Five: Dating the Cave Chapter Six: Three Dimensions of Environmental Change Chapter Seven: The Crosses of a Desert Place? To Conclude References
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Songs of Slavery and Emancipation
Book SynopsisFeatures the lyrics of fifteen slave songs and fifteen abolitionist songs, placing them in proper historical context and making them available again to the general public. These songs not only express outrage at slavery but call for militant resistance and destruction of the slave system.
£77.35
Huia Publishers A Hidden Economy: Maori in the Privatised
Book SynopsisThe Maori economy is often defined simply by the contributions of Maori in New Zealand in the areas of farming, fisheries and forestry. This book explores the ways that Maori in the privatised military industry contribute in monetary and non-monetary ways to the Maori economy. Workers in the privatised military industry very rarely, if ever, give interviews about their work or details about their pay. However, this book includes five interviews with Maori who have worked or are still working in the privatised military industry and explores how they articulate themselves as Maori in the industry, giving a glimpse at this secret world and how Maori operate in it.
£26.55
Transworld Publishers Ltd Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
Book SynopsisMore than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England's Ulster Plantation in Northern Ireland. When hundreds of thousands of Scots-Irish migrated to America in the eighteenth century, they brought with them not only long experience as rebels and outcasts but also unparalleled skills as frontiersmen and guerrilla fighters. Their cultural identity reflected acute individualism, dislike of aristocracy and a military tradition; and, over time, the Scots-Irish defined the attitudes and values of the military, of working-class America and even of the peculiarly populist form of American democracy itself. Born Fighting is the first book to chronicle the epic journey of this remarkable ethnic group and the profound but unrecognised role it has played in shaping the social, political and cultural landscape of America from its beginnings through to the present day.Trade ReviewAn extraordinary and ambitious book, written with power and perfect clarity * Scotland Magazine *Powerful stuff . . . an absorbing book * BBC Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine *An entertaining and thought-provoking read * Scottish Field *A comprehensive account of the effect the Scots-Irish had on the American people of today . . . a scholarly work * Scottish Home and Country *Certainly provides some illuminating historical perspectives . . . definitely worth a read * Morning Star *
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Books on Demand Soziale Arbeit mit Geflüchteten: Soziale Arbeit.
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Double 9 Books The Notebooks Of Leonardo Da Vinci Vol.2
Book SynopsisThe Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Vol-2' is an enlightening collection of writings by the renowned polymath Leonardo da Vinci. The second volume of Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks contains a wide range of writings on a variety of topics, including sculpture, architecture, zoology, physiology, medicine, astronomy, geography, naval warfare, swimming, flying machines, mining, music, and more. Leonardo's writings are often accompanied by detailed drawings and diagrams, which provide a fascinating glimpse into his mind and his work. The volume begins with a section on sculpture, in which Leonardo discusses the principles of design and proportion. He also provides detailed instructions on how to create sculptures, including how to model clay, cast bronze, and carve marble. The next section of the volume is devoted to architecture. Leonardo discusses the design of buildings, including churches, palaces, and fortifications. He also provides insights into the principles of engineering and construction.
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Double 9 Books The Notebooks Of Leonardo Da Vinci Vol.1
Book SynopsisThe Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Vol-1' is an enlightening collection of writings by the renowned polymath Leonardo da Vinci. In this volume, readers are granted a glimpse into the mind of one of history's greatest geniuses as they explore da Vinci's personal notebooks. The book presents a compilation of da Vinci's observations, ideas, sketches, and reflections on a wide range of subjects. From anatomy and engineering to art and philosophy, da Vinci's writings cover an astounding breadth of knowledge and curiosity. Readers are treated to da Vinci's meticulous studies of the human body, his inventive engineering designs, and his musings on the nature of light, perspective, and aesthetics. The volume provides a fascinating window into da Vinci's creative process and the depth of his intellectual pursuits. It is a treasure trove of insights and inspiration for art enthusiasts, scholars, and anyone intrigued by the boundless curiosity and brilliance of Leonardo da Vinci.
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MO - University of Illinois Press Freud Upside Down African American Literature
Book SynopsisA salient take on psychoanalysis as a cultural phenomenon, intersecting with African American literatureTrade Review"An innovative and meaningful addition to recent scholarship on race and psychoanalysis. Badia Sahar Ahad's work makes a significant historical and theoretical contribution to the study of race, psychoanalysis, African American literature, and American culture.”--Gwen S. Bergner, author of Taboo Subjects: Sex and Psychoanalysis"Freud Upside Down showcases a theoretical sophistication that opens up exciting archives to a new take on literary and intellectual history." --Michael L. Cobb, author of God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence
£31.35
The University of Michigan Press The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of
Book SynopsisExamines the literary culture, including the small presses and literary anthologies, in which Black Arts Movement poets were first published. Focusing on the material production of Black Arts poetry, the book combines genetic criticism with cultural history to shed new light on the period, its publishing culture, and the collaborations of its participants.
£44.95
University of Toronto Press Enough to Keep Them Alive
Book SynopsisFar from being a measure of progress or humanitarian aid, Indian welfare policy in Canada was used deliberately to oppress and marginalize First Nations peoples and to foster their assimilation into the dominant society. 'Enough to Keep Them Alive' explores the history of the development and administration of social assistance policies on Indian reserves in Canada from confederation to the modern period, demonstrating a continuity of policy with roots in the pre-confederation practices of fur trading companies.Extensive archival evidence from the Indian Affairs record group at the National Archives of Canada is supplemented for the post-World War Two era by interviews with some of the key federal players. More than just an historical narrative, the book presents a critical analysis with a clear theoretical focus drawing on colonial and post-colonial theory, social theory, and critiques of liberalism and liberal democracy.
£36.00
Liverpool University Press The Poem of my Cid Aris Phillips Hispanic
Book SynopsisOne of the most powerful and sustained works in all medieval literature, without which no series could be considered complete. The Poem of My Cid deals with the exploits of the medieval Castilian warrior, beginning with the sorrow of his departure into exile and focusing on his determination to regain the favour of his king.Table of ContentsSelect Bibliography; Maps; Introduction; Notes; The Poem and Commentary
£29.69
Liverpool University Press Francisco de Quevedo Dreams and Discourses Aris
Book SynopsisThe Sueños is one of the most controversial, witty and fantastic works of early 17th century Spanish literature. The five Dreams minutely analyse stupidity, ignorance and evil, as these could be found in contemporary society.Table of Contents Translator's note Introduction Dreams: The dream of the last judgement The bedevilled constable The vision of hellv The world from the inside The dream of death Notes
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Liverpool University Press Tirso de Molina Don Gil of the Green Breeches
Book SynopsisTirso de Molina enjoys enduring popularity as a writer of irreverent comedies, though his critical reputation as a major dramatist rests largely on his more serious works.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; Don Gil of the Green Breeches; Commentary; Selected Bibliography; Abbreviations
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Liverpool University Press Tirso de Molina Don Gil of the Green Breeches
Book SynopsisTirso de Molina enjoys enduring popularity as a writer of irreverent comedies, though his critical reputation as a major dramatist rests largely on his more serious works.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; Don Gil of the Green Breeches; Commentary; Selected Bibliography; Abbreviations
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Liverpool University Press Gabriela Mistral Selected Poems
Book SynopsisGabriela Mistral (1889-1967), Chile's 'other' great poet of the twentieth century, is little known outside the Spanish-speaking world, and unlike Pablo Neruda has not been extensively translated into English.Trade Review...a highly recommended no-nonsense introduction to the work of Mistral'Table of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Introduction I. Desolation: Rodin's the Thinker, For the Hebrew People, The Lone Child, Ballad, The Sonnets of Death, prayer, The Bones of the Dead, Patagonian Landscape, To the Clouds, autumn, Summit II. Tenderness Rocking, Discovery, Mexican Child, Fear, The Rat, The Air, Mountain, Larks, The Earth Feeling: Flight, The Rose, The Foreigner, Drinking, We were All going to be Queens, Things, Catalonian Women IV. Wine Press The Other, The Fall of Europe, Hospital, Helpers, The Jewish Refugee, Daybreak; Morning; Evening; Night, The Last Tree V. Poem of Chile Waking up, My Mountain, Patch of Clover, Valparaiso, Poplar Groves, Talcahuano, Apple Trees, Ferns Southern Islands, Bibliograhy.
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The American Poetry Review Totem Apr Honickman 1st Book Prize
Book Synopsis “Gregory Pardlo . . . wants to explore the druidic function of art, the works of jazz musicians, painters, poets, and others who live imaginatively, expand reality, and make imagination free.”—Brenda Hillman, from the introduction Totem, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, is the debut of a poet who has been listening for decades. In his youth, Gregory Pardlo heard stories of factory hours and picket lines from his father; in the bars, clubs, and on the radio he listens to jazz and blues, the rhythms, beats, and aspirations of which all of which seep into his poems. A former Cave Canem fellow, Pardlo creates work that is deeply autobiographical, drifting between childhood and adult life. He speaks a language simultaneously urban and highbrow, seamlessly switching from art analysis to sneakers hung over the telephone lines. Deeply rooted in a blue-collar world, he produces snapshots of a life that is so specific it becomes u
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Taylor & Francis Black Veteranality
Book SynopsisHow does military service collide with Black identity in a racially stratified America? Black Veteranality is an examination of the intersection of race, patriotism, and military service from the perspective of Black veterans, offering a robust framework for reimagining American patriotism and reframing veteran identity. Black veteranality emerges through an interdisciplinary synthesis of W.E.B. DuBoisâ foundational concept of âœdouble-consciousnessââthe psychological duality Black Americans experience when negotiating racialized identity formationsâand Veteran Critical Theoryâs structural analysis of institutional power dynamics shaping military service members. Through critical ethnography and narrative interviews, this conceptual framework interrogates monolithic veteran narratives by documenting how Black servicemembers simultaneously embody patriotic ideals through military service while confronting systemic racismâs psychological toll and navigate what critical race scholars term the White gazeâa hegemonic social mechanism that perpetuates exclusion through perpetual scrutiny of Black veteransâ cultural authenticity and national belonging. Essential reading for scholars of African American studies, American Studies, Veteran Studies, and military professions, this work bridges academia and activism, proving true loyalty lies in confronting systemic inequities.
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Temple University Press,U.S. Communists and Community
Book SynopsisCommunists and Community seeks to reframe the traditional chronology of the Communist Party in the United States as a means to better understand the change that occurred in community activism in the mid-twentieth century. Ryan Pettengill argues that Popular Front activism continued to flourish throughout the war years and into the postwar period. In Detroit, where there was a critical mass of heavy industry, Communist Party activists mobilized support for civil rights and affordable housing, brought attention to police brutality, sought protection for the foreign-born, and led a movement for world peace.Communists and Community demonstrates that the Communist Party created a social space where activists became effective advocates for the socioeconomic betterment of a multiracial work force. Pettengill uses Detroit as a case study to examine how communist activists and their sympathizers maintained a community to enhance the quality of life for the city's working class. He investigatesTrade Review“Communists and Community greatly contributes to our understanding of an understudied period of U.S. communism. In this excellent monograph, Ryan Pettengill—utilizing extensive archival sources, including Detroit Red Squad records—recounts the important role Communists played in a variety of union and community-based coalitions devoted to fighting racism, wartime price and rent gouging, labor and housing discrimination, and police brutality. According to Pettengill, those alliances unfortunately did not survive the party-line shifts and the Cold War purges of the left, thus destroying the possibility of achieving a more inclusive and just social and economic order.”—Gerald Zahavi, Professor of History at the University at Albany, SUNY, and author of Workers, Managers, and Welfare Capitalism: The Shoeworkers and Tanners of Endicott Johnson, 1890–1950“Move over, Saul Alinsky! Communists and Community uncovers the hidden history of community organizing in Detroit before Alinsky’s version emerged. Pettengill’s sharp portrait reveals working-class radicals attempting to connect community and workplace power struggles; these were overlooked because Communist Party history was erased. From activism that began in bowling halls and clubs to campaigns for anti-police brutality and civil rights, Pettengill shows that direct action outside the workplace was a vital part of the quest for working-class power. He also rewrites the history of postwar conservatism by showing that right-wing community activists prevailed in part because of the removal of radicals during the Cold War who had acted as a bridge between labor and community struggles.”—Rosemary Feurer, Associate Professor of History at Northern Illinois University and author of Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900–1950
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University of Toronto Press By the Grace of God
Book SynopsisThough neither king nor priest, Spanish dictator Francisco Franco nevertheless conceptualized his right to sovereignty around a political theology in which national identity resembled a sacred cult. Using Franco’s Spain and la España sagrada as a counterpoint to European secularity’s own development, By the Grace of God is the first sustained analysis within Spanish cultural studies of the sacred as a political category and a tool for political organization.William Viestenz shows how imagining national identity as a sacred absolute within a pluralistic, multicultural state leads to dictatorship, scapegoating, and exceptional violence. Using novels and poetry from the Catalan literary tradition and stalwarts of the Castilian canon, his analysis demonstrates that the sacred is a concept that spills over into key areas of secular political imagination.By the Grace of God offers an original theory of the sacred that challengesTable of ContentsAcknowledegments 1. Introduction: La Espana Sagrada as a Political Category Francoist Spain, Post-Secularism, and a Sacred Politics The Sacred's Slippage into the Profane The Sacred and Metaphysics Spain's 'Time of the Sacred': Literature as a Political Matter Iberian Studies: A Parallax View 2. 'He aqui una plenitud espanola': Catholicism, Cultural Regeneration, and Spanish Essentialism Por Dios hacia el imperio: Spanish First Causes Nineteenth-Century Spain: Cuando la legalidad no basta Spanish Regenerationism: Displacing the Sacred onto the Secular Catholicism as a Social Force: 1936 3. Politics by Other Means: The Sacred Core of Collective Imagining Post-War Stimmung The Scapegoat Mechanism and the Mimetic Reduction of Difference Beyond the Victimary Principle 4. Intimate Strife: Inside Juan Goytisolo's Sovereign Exception Against Sacred Forms Conde Julian's Inclusive Exclusion Human, All Too Human A New Nomos of the Earth? 5. The Eternal Present of Sacred Time 'In illo tempore' Numa's Sacred Wood Killing Time: Ritual Death and the Origins of the Sacred 6. 'Desacralization' and 'Sacrogenesis', or How to Step Outside of Sacred Time Sacred Dialectics Le regard d'autrui: The State's Loving Embrace Rerouting Sacred Time: Tiempo de destruccion 7. Espriu's Sepharad and the Equitable Restoration of Sacred Sovereignty Sacrifice and the Poetic Expulsion of Self The Sacred Bonds of Kinship Death by Way of the Pen: Les hores Espriu's kehre: El caminant i el mur& Final del laberint: Redeeming a Lost Religiousness Rethinking Iberia: A New Temple of Sacred Communion 8. Conclusion: The Aesthetic Disruption of Political Truth Works Cited Index
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University of Toronto Press Resisting Invisibility
Book SynopsisEngaging with pre-feminist and male-authored crime literature, Resisting Invisibility offers a comparative reading of women’s bodies as represented in Spanish crime literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Utilizing the twin concepts of visibility and invisibility, the book establishes a genealogy of differing viewpoints regarding women’s positions in these narratives, before and after the birth of the modern Spanish female detective. This examination of the politics of female visibility expands our understanding of the aesthetic regimes that have governed the female body from the early phases of the genre’s evolution. While most scholars understand the feminization of the crime genre as a response to second-wave feminism, Resisting Invisibility demonstrates that even in the earliest representations of delinquent women, the politics surrounding the female body are problematized and are more complex than previously conceptuaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Detecting the Female Body in Gendered Mysteries 1. Reading the Female Delinquent in Early Spanish Crime Fiction 2. Investigating the “Eye” in Twentieth-Century Spanish Crime Novels 3. Parodying the Male Gaze in Lourdes Ortiz’s Picadura mortal 4. A New Politics of Visibility in the Lònia Guiu Series 5. Lesbianizing the Genre Conclusion: Exploring an Alternative Crime Fiction Genealogy Notes Bibliography
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Baylor University Press Black Practical Theology
Book SynopsisDale Andrews and Robert Smith combine the voices of constructive theologians, practical theologians, and those ministering in black churches to craft a rich and expansive black practical theology. Black Practical Theology brings together the hermeneutical conversation between scholars working within the traditional disciplines of theological education (systematic theology, ethics, biblical studies, history) and those scholars working within practical theology (homiletics, pastoral care and counseling, Christian education, spirituality). To this ongoing conversation, Andrews and Smith add the voices of pastors of black congregations and para-church leaders who serve the communities of faith who daily confront the challenges this work addressesâyouth and intergenerational divides, education and poverty, gender and sexuality, globalism, health care, and incarceration and the justice system. Black Practical Theology sets the standard for practical theology. Embodying its own methodological callâto begin with the issues of the black church, as well as its resources and practicesâit does not rest content but returns immediately to the communities from which it emerged. Black Practical Theology is a gift to both teacher and student.Trade ReviewBlack Practical Theology comprehensively graphs the contours of black practical theology, offering readers eighteen essays that explore an exhaustive range of generative topics involving the most pressing exigencies within what Smith conceptually labels the 'black thematic universe,' which shapes the religious life world of contemporary African Americans and Pan-Africans (8-9). -- Kenyatta R. Gilbert -- HomileticA wide-ranging, interdisciplinary approach to issues that concern all Christian communities, including education, poverty, gender, race, immigration, HIV/AIDS, and the justice system. -- The Christian CenturyA must read for those interested in practical theology. -- ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments I. Introduction 1 Prophetic Praxis for Black Practical Theology, Dale P. Andrews and Robert London Smith Jr. II. Black Youth, Intergenerational Relations, and Ageism 2. Bridging Civil Rights and Hip Hop Generations, Evelyn L. Parker 3. Rejoining Black Youth, Families, and Our Elders, James H. Evans Jr. 4. Rituals of Resistance to Strengthen Intergenerational Relations, Donna E. Allen III. Education, Class, and Poverty 5. Participative Black Theology as a Pedagogy of Praxis, Anthony G. Reddie 6. Listening to the Poor and Nonliterate, Madipoane Masenya (ngwanâa Mphahlele) 7. Doing Theology for Ordinary Folk, Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. IV. Gender, Sexual Orientation, and Race 8. Building Communities of Embodied Beauty, Phillis Isabella Sheppard 9. Encircling in Our Womanist Strength, Diana L. Hayes 10. A Radically Inclusive Vision for the Fellowship of the Black Church, Dennis W. Wiley and Christine Y. Wiley V. Globalism, Immigration, and Diasporan Communities 11. African Diasporan Communities and the Black Church, Esther E. Acolatse 12. The Aesthetic Struggle and Ecclesial Vision, Willie James Jennings 13. Embodied Black Practical Theology for the Caribbean Diasporan Church, Delroy A. Reid-Salmon VI. Health Care, HIV/AIDS, and Poverty 14. Liberating Black-Church Practical Theology from Poverty and Pandemic Marginalization, Emmanuel Y. Amugi Lartey 15. Black Practical Theology of Health and HIV/AIDS Health Care, Edward P. Antonio 16. Rethinking Theology for Impoverished Care, Gina M. Stewart VII. Mass Incarceration, Capital Punishment, and the Justice System 17. The Incarceration of Black Spirituality and the Disenfranchised, Michael Battle 18. Lifting Our Voices and Liberating Our Bodies in the Era of Massive Racialized Incarceration, Raphael Warnock 19. Jesus on Death Row: The Case for Abolishing Prisons, Madeline McClenney VIII. Conclusion 20. Graphing the Contours of Black Practical Theology, Dale P. Andrews and Robert London Smith Jr. Notes List of Contributors Index
£35.21
Haymarket Books Covert Racism: Theories, Institutions, And
Book SynopsisThe question of covert racism has been splashed across the headlines in recent times through incidents in football, with John Terry, Stan Collymore and Luis Suarez all involved; politics, with Dianne Abbott accused of racism; and the metropolitan police with two of Stephen Lawrence's killers put behind bars and allegations of `institutional racism' resurging. Covert Racism tackles our cultural norms and acceptances in a 'post-racial' society.Trade Review"A half century after the civil rights movement succeeded in putting to an end the most overt forms of racial oppression characteristic of the Jim Crow era, coming to terms with how to characterize the nature of the nation's post-civil-rights era racial formation has been an enduring focus of both academics and the public at large. This is a useful one-stop guide devoted to explaining how, to borrow from Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, “racism without racists' works. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries." —Choice"A half century after the civil rights movement succeeded in putting to an end the most overt forms of racial oppression characteristic of the Jim Crow era, coming to terms with how to characterize the nature of the nation's post-civil-rights era racial formation has been an enduring focus of both academics and the public at large. This is a useful one-stop guide devoted to explaining how, to borrow from Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, racism without racists' works. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries." ChoiceTable of ContentsCovert Racism – An Introduction, Rodney D. Coates I. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON COVERT RACISM The Impact of Racial and Nonracial Structural Forces on Poor Urban Blacks, William Julius Wilson The New Racism: The Racial Regime of Post-Civil Rights America, David Dietrich and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Race Versus Racism as Cause, Tukufu Zuberi Color Blind White Dominance, Ian Haney Lopez When Good People Do Bad Things: The Nature of Contemporary Racism, John F. Dovidio and Samuel L. Gaertner Covert Racism: Theory, Types and Examples, Rodney D. Coates II. COVERT RACISM AND INSTITUTIONS Protecting White Power in a Corporate Hierarchy, Sharon M. Collins and Georgiann Davis If You’re White, You’re All Right: The Reproduction of Racial Hierarchies in Bollywood Film, Angie Beeman and Anjana Narayan Race, Culture, and the Pursuit of Employment, Monique Morris and Sirithon Thanasombat Challenging Our Textbooks and our Teachings: Examining the Reproduction of Racism in the Sociology Classroom, Sarah Chivers and Jolene D. Smyth Challenging Racial Battle Fatigue on Historically White Campuses: A Critical Race Examination of Race-Related Stress, William A. Smith, Tara J. Yosso, Daniel G. Solórzano Covert Racism in the U.S. and Globally, Rodney D. Coates III: COVERT RACISM AND THE INDIVIDUAL The Ineffable Strangeness of Race, Patricia J. Williams The Social Situation of the Black Executive, Elijah Anderson Now You Don’t See It, Now You Don’t: White Lives as Covert Racism, David L. Brunsma Aren’t They All Dead? Passive Racism Against Native Americans, Claudia Fox Tree Silent Racism, Barbara Trepagnier One Step From Suicide, Leslie Houts Picca, Joe R. Feagin, and Tracy L. Johns Lifestyles of the Rich and Racist, Corey Dolgon Journey to Awareness: Recognizing the Invisibility of Race Issues, Janet Morrison IV: EPILOGUE Epilogue: Post-Racial Myths: Disrupting Covert Racism and the Racial Matrix, Rodney D. Coates List of Contributors Index
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Academic Studies Press My Father’s Journey: A Memoir of Lost Worlds of
Book SynopsisBorn into a leading Lithuanian-Jewish rabbinic family, Moshe Aron Reguer initially followed the path of traditional yeshiva education. His adolescence coincided with World War I and its upheavals, pandemics, and pogroms, as well as with new ideas of Haskala, Zionism, and socialism. His memoir, recently discovered and here translated and published for the first time, discusses his internal struggles and describes the world around him and the people who influenced him. Moshe Aron Reguer wrote his memoir at the age of 23, on the eve of his departure for Eretz Israel in 1926. However, his story did not end there, but continued in British Mandated Palestine and the United States. He kept in touch with the family in Brest-Litovsk until the Nazis destroyed Jewish Lithuania, and some of their correspondence is included within this volume.
£23.74
Information Age Publishing Hispanics in the US Labor Market: Selected
Book SynopsisThe Hispanic population has emerged at the largest ethnic/racial minority in the United States, and has also become a major political constituency. Consequently, it is important to gauge the extent to which they have been integrated into various societal institutions. One important institution is the US labour market. The research contained in the present volume assess a number of issues about how well Hispanics are integrated into the US labour market, a major factor in the group’s economic status. The research makes important contributions to the existing body of research on the Hispanic population, and may be used by scholars and policy makers in better understanding the status of this important ethnic/racial group.
£44.96
Information Age Publishing Hispanics in the US Labor Market: Selected
Book SynopsisThe Hispanic population has emerged at the largest ethnic/racial minority in the United States, and has also become a major political constituency. Consequently, it is important to gauge the extent to which they have been integrated into various societal institutions. One important institution is the US labour market. The research contained in the present volume assess a number of issues about how well Hispanics are integrated into the US labour market, a major factor in the group’s economic status. The research makes important contributions to the existing body of research on the Hispanic population, and may be used by scholars and policy makers in better understanding the status of this important ethnic/racial group.
£82.80
Information Age Publishing STEM Models of Success: Programs, Policies, and
Book SynopsisAs the U.S. focuses on positioning itself to retain and advance its status as a world leader in technology and scientific innovation, a recognition that community colleges are a critical site for intervention has become apparent. Community colleges serve the lion’s share of the nation’s postsecondary students. In fact, 40% of all undergraduate students are enrolled in community colleges, these students account for nearly 30% of all STEM undergraduate majors in postsecondary institutions. These students serve as a core element of the STEM pipeline into four-year colleges and universities via the community college transfer function. Moreover, community colleges are the primary postsecondary access point for non-traditional students, including students of color, first-generation, low-income, and adult students. This is a particularly salient point given that these populations are sordidly underrepresented among STEM graduates and in the STEM workforce.Increasing success among these populations can contribute significantly to advancing the nation’s interests in STEM. As such, the community college is situated as an important site for innovative practices that have strong implications for bolstering the nation’s production and sustenance of a STEM labor force. In recognition of this role, the National Science Foundation and private funding agencies have invested millions of dollars into research and programs designed to bolster the STEM pipeline. From this funding and other independently sponsored inquiry, promising programs, initiatives, and research recommendations have been identified. These efforts hold great promise for change, with the potential to transform the education and outcome of STEM students at all levels. This important book discusses many of these promising programs, initiatives, and research-based recommendations that can impact the success of STEM students in the community college. This compilation is timely, on the national landscape, as the federal government has placed increasing importance on improving STEM degree production as a strategy for America’s future stability in an increasingly competitive global marketplace. Informed by research and theory, each chapter in this volume blazes new territory in articulating how community colleges can advance outcomes for students in STEM, particularly those from historically underrepresented and underserved communities.
£87.40
Information Age Publishing STEM Models of Success: Programs, Policies, and
Book SynopsisAs the U.S. focuses on positioning itself to retain and advance its status as a world leader in technology and scientific innovation, a recognition that community colleges are a critical site for intervention has become apparent. Community colleges serve the lion’s share of the nation’s postsecondary students. In fact, 40% of all undergraduate students are enrolled in community colleges, these students account for nearly 30% of all STEM undergraduate majors in postsecondary institutions. These students serve as a core element of the STEM pipeline into four-year colleges and universities via the community college transfer function. Moreover, community colleges are the primary postsecondary access point for non-traditional students, including students of color, first-generation, low-income, and adult students. This is a particularly salient point given that these populations are sordidly underrepresented among STEM graduates and in the STEM workforce.Increasing success among these populations can contribute significantly to advancing the nation’s interests in STEM. As such, the community college is situated as an important site for innovative practices that have strong implications for bolstering the nation’s production and sustenance of a STEM labor force. In recognition of this role, the National Science Foundation and private funding agencies have invested millions of dollars into research and programs designed to bolster the STEM pipeline. From this funding and other independently sponsored inquiry, promising programs, initiatives, and research recommendations have been identified. These efforts hold great promise for change, with the potential to transform the education and outcome of STEM students at all levels. This important book discusses many of these promising programs, initiatives, and research-based recommendations that can impact the success of STEM students in the community college. This compilation is timely, on the national landscape, as the federal government has placed increasing importance on improving STEM degree production as a strategy for America’s future stability in an increasingly competitive global marketplace. Informed by research and theory, each chapter in this volume blazes new territory in articulating how community colleges can advance outcomes for students in STEM, particularly those from historically underrepresented and underserved communities.
£47.45
Information Age Publishing Historically Black College Leadership & Social
Book SynopsisLittle research has been conducted to identify aspects of effective social transformation leadership in American college and university leadership. The authors of this book argue that while much less has been done at predominantly White institutions to practically apply the processes of social transformation as a leadership model, HBCUs have historically relied upon strategies of social transformation as they sought to build and sustain the distinct mission of their institutions that enhance college access, inclusion, and choice.This publication is intended to serve as a departure from the examination of the typology of transformation leadership in the private sector and, instead, view this leadership model through the lens of higher education. The authors’ intent is to focus on institutional leadership at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and provide a deeper understanding of the Social Change Model and how it can be successfully situated as a conduit for realizing and sustaining the mission of Black colleges from perspectives of the past, present, and future.
£82.80
Information Age Publishing Historically Black College Leadership & Social
Book SynopsisLittle research has been conducted to identify aspects of effective social transformation leadership in American college and university leadership. The authors of this book argue that while much less has been done at predominantly White institutions to practically apply the processes of social transformation as a leadership model, HBCUs have historically relied upon strategies of social transformation as they sought to build and sustain the distinct mission of their institutions that enhance college access, inclusion, and choice.This publication is intended to serve as a departure from the examination of the typology of transformation leadership in the private sector and, instead, view this leadership model through the lens of higher education. The authors’ intent is to focus on institutional leadership at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and provide a deeper understanding of the Social Change Model and how it can be successfully situated as a conduit for realizing and sustaining the mission of Black colleges from perspectives of the past, present, and future.
£44.96
Information Age Publishing Researching Race in Education: Policy, Practice
Book SynopsisIn traditional educational research, race is treated as merely a variable. In 1995, Gloria Ladson-Billings and William F. Tate, IV argued that race is under-theorized in education and called for educational researchers to pay closer attention to the relationship between race and educational inequity (Ladson-Billings and Tate, 1995). In particular, they argued, drawing on legal scholar, Derrick Bell's notion of Racial Realism (Bell, 1995), that racialized inequities are not accidental or aberrant; rather, racialized educational inequities are the result of particular and specific policies and practices that are designed to maintain particular forms of dominance and marginalization. More specifically, Bell and later Ladson-Billings and Tate, argue that racial inequity persists despite liberal policies and legislation that were ostensibly designed to eradicate it. The Racial Realist perspective takes into the consideration the longevity and history of racism, racial inequity and White supremacy in the U.S. and serves as a mirror to reflect back the limitations of proposed policies and legislation that fail to address those issues. In this way, Critical Race Theory and the scholars who draw on CRT, view our work as an important Òcheck and balanceÓ in the effort toward racial equality.
£47.45
Information Age Publishing Researching Race in Education: Policy, Practice
Book SynopsisIn traditional educational research, race is treated as merely a variable. In 1995, Gloria Ladson-Billings and William F. Tate, IV argued that race is under-theorized in education and called for educational researchers to pay closer attention to the relationship between race and educational inequity (Ladson-Billings and Tate, 1995). In particular, they argued, drawing on legal scholar, Derrick Bell’s notion of Racial Realism (Bell, 1995), that racialized inequities are not accidental or aberrant; rather, racialized educational inequities are the result of particular and specific policies and practices that are designed to maintain particular forms of dominance and marginalization. More specifically, Bell and later Ladson-Billings and Tate, argue that racial inequity persists despite liberal policies and legislation that were ostensibly designed to eradicate it. The Racial Realist perspective takes into the consideration the longevity and history of racism, racial inequity and White supremacy in the U.S. and serves as a mirror to reflect back the limitations of proposed policies and legislation that fail to address those issues. In this way, Critical Race Theory and the scholars who draw on CRT, view our work as an important “check and balance” in the effort toward racial equality.
£87.40
Information Age Publishing Teacher Education and Black Communities:
Book SynopsisThe field of education has been and will continue to be essential to the survival and sustainability of the Black community. Unfortunately, over the past five decades, two major trends have become clearly evident in the Black community: (a) the decline of the academic achievement levels of Black students and (b) the disappearance of Black teachers, particularly Black males. Today, of the 3.5 million teachers in America’s classrooms (AACTE, 2010) only 8% are Black teachers, and approximately 2% of these teachers are Black males (NCES, 2010). Over the past few decades, the Black teaching force in the U.S. has dropped significantly (Lewis, 2006; Lewis, Bonner, Byrd, & James, 2008; Milner & Howard, 2004), and this educational crisis shows no signs of ending in the near future. As the population of Black students in K-12 schools in the U. S. continue to rise—currently over 16% of students in America’s schools are Black (NCES, 2010)—there is an urgent need to increase the presence of Black educators.The overall purpose of this edited volume is to stimulate thought and discussion among diverse audiences (e.g., policymakers, practitioners, and educational researchers) who are concerned about the performance of Black students in our nation’s schools, and to provide evidence-based strategies to expand our nation’s pool of Black teachers. To this end, it is our hope that this book will contribute to the teacher education literature and will inform the teacher education policy and practice debate.
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Information Age Publishing Teacher Education and Black Communities:
Book SynopsisThe field of education has been and will continue to be essential to the survival and sustainability of the Black community. Unfortunately, over the past five decades, two major trends have become clearly evident in the Black community: (a) the decline of the academic achievement levels of Black students and (b) the disappearance of Black teachers, particularly Black males. Today, of the 3.5 million teachers in America’s classrooms (AACTE, 2010) only 8% are Black teachers, and approximately 2% of these teachers are Black males (NCES, 2010). Over the past few decades, the Black teaching force in the U.S. has dropped significantly (Lewis, 2006; Lewis, Bonner, Byrd, & James, 2008; Milner & Howard, 2004), and this educational crisis shows no signs of ending in the near future. As the population of Black students in K-12 schools in the U. S. continue to rise—currently over 16% of students in America’s schools are Black (NCES, 2010)—there is an urgent need to increase the presence of Black educators.The overall purpose of this edited volume is to stimulate thought and discussion among diverse audiences (e.g., policymakers, practitioners, and educational researchers) who are concerned about the performance of Black students in our nation’s schools, and to provide evidence-based strategies to expand our nation’s pool of Black teachers. To this end, it is our hope that this book will contribute to the teacher education literature and will inform the teacher education policy and practice debate.
£87.40
Information Age Publishing Mentoring African American Males: A Research
Book SynopsisMentoring African American Males provides important black male research and student performance data to guide the efforts of those who accept the enormous task of standing in the gap to increase black male achievement. Dr. Ross provides guidance for individuals and institutions embracing the important role of developing mentoring programs or serving as a mentor to youth. However, what makes Dr. Ross’ work such a critically important book for any individual or institution considering such a role is its insight into the social-cultural framework within which mentoring must occur at every level from elementary school through college. Equally insightful is the structure that such programs must take in response to the socio-cultural constructs of the families, communities, and institutions where they will occur.There are far more quantitative studies than qualitative on the topic of mentoring. This text addresses that discrepancy and provides the results of several qualitative studies on African American males. There is hardly any that offer a mixed method perspective that combine quantitative and qualitative methodological approaches. This text reports on the research results that are qualitative in nature in addition to some that are from a quantitative and mixed method approach.
£44.96
Information Age Publishing Mentoring African American Males: A Research
Book SynopsisMentoring African American Males provides important black male research and student performance data to guide the efforts of those who accept the enormous task of standing in the gap to increase black male achievement. Dr. Ross provides guidance for individuals and institutions embracing the important role of developing mentoring programs or serving as a mentor to youth. However, what makes Dr. Ross’ work such a critically important book for any individual or institution considering such a role is its insight into the social-cultural framework within which mentoring must occur at every level from elementary school through college. Equally insightful is the structure that such programs must take in response to the socio-cultural constructs of the families, communities, and institutions where they will occur.There are far more quantitative studies than qualitative on the topic of mentoring. This text addresses that discrepancy and provides the results of several qualitative studies on African American males. There is hardly any that offer a mixed method perspective that combine quantitative and qualitative methodological approaches. This text reports on the research results that are qualitative in nature in addition to some that are from a quantitative and mixed method approach.
£82.80
Information Age Publishing Revisiting Education in the New Latino Diaspora
Book SynopsisFor most of US history, most of America’s Latino population has lived in nine states—California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Illinois, Florida, New Jersey, and New York. It follows that most education research that considered the experiences of Latino families with US schools came from these same states. But in the last 30 years Latinos have been resettling across the US, attending schools, and creating new patterns of inter-ethnic interaction in educational settings. Much of this interaction with this New Latino Diaspora has been initially tentative and improvisational, but too often it has left intact the patterns of lower educational success that have prevailed in the traditional Latino diaspora.Revisiting Education in the New Latino Diaspora is an extensive update, with all new material, of the groundbreaking volume Education in the New Latino Diaspora (Ablex Publishing) that these same editors produced in 2002. This volume consciously includes a number of junior scholars (e.g., C. Allen Lynn, Soria Colomer, Amanda Morales, Rebecca Lowenhaupt, Adam Sawyer) and more established ones (Frances Contreras, Jason Irizarry, Socorro Herrera, Linda Harklau) as it considers empirical cases from Washington State to Georgia, from the Mid-Atlantic to the Great Plains, where rural, suburban, and urban communities start their second or third decades of responding to a previously unprecedented growth in newcomer Latino populations. With excuses of surprise and improvisational strategies less persuasive as Latino newcomer populations become less new, this volume considers the persistence, the anomie, and pragmatism of Latino newcomers on the one hand, with the variously enlightened, paternalistic, dismissive, and xenophobic responses of educators and education systems on the other.With foci as personal as accounts of growing up as an adoptee in a mixed race family and the testimonio of a `successful’ undocumented college graduate to the macro scale of examining state-level education policies and with an age range from early childhood education to the university level, this volume insists that the worlds of education research and migration studies can both gain from considering the educational responses in the last two decades to the `newish’ Latino presence in the 41 U.S. states that have not long been the home to large, well established Latino populations, but that now enroll 2.5 million Latino students in K-12 alone.
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