Author: Linda BurnhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Minority women
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Women of Color
Author: Linda BurnhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Minority women
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Women of Color Organizations and Projects
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781892999047
Category : Minority women
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Women of Color in Tech
Author: Susanne TedrickPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119633508
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Break through barriers to achieve a rewarding future in tech Nonfiction Book Awards Silver Winner Women of Color in Tech: A Blueprint for Inspiring and Mentoring the Next Generation of Technology Innovators will help you overcome the obstacles that often prevent women of color from pursuing and staying in tech careers. Contrary to popular belief, tech careers are diverse and fun—and they go far beyond just coding. This book will show you that today’s tech careers are incredibly dynamic, and you’ll learn how your soft skills—communication, public speaking, networking—can help you succeed in tech. This book will guide you through the process of cultivating strong relationships and building a network that will get you were you want to be. You’ll learn to identify a strong, knowledgeable support network that you can rely on for guidance or mentorship. This step is crucial in getting young women of color into tech careers and keeping them there. Build your professional network to get the guidance you need Find a mentor who understands your goals and your struggles Overcome negativity and stay motivated through difficult times Identify and develop the soft skills that you need to get ahead in tech Read this book to help bring to life your vision of a future in tech. With practical advice and inspiring stories, you’ll develop the right tools and the right mindset. Whether you’re just considering going into tech or you want to take your current career to the next level, Women of Color in Tech will show you how to uncover the resources you need to succeed.
Undivided Rights
Author: Jael SillimanPublisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1608466647
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Undivided Rights captures the evolving and largely unknown activist history of women of color organizing for reproductive justice—on their own behalf. Undivided Rights presents a textured understanding of the reproductive rights movement by placing the experiences, priorities, and activism of women of color in the foreground. Using historical research, original organizational case studies, and personal interviews, the authors illuminate how women of color have led the fight to control their own bodies and reproductive destinies. Undivided Rights shows how women of color—-starting within their own Latina, African American, Native American, and Asian American communities—have resisted coercion of their reproductive abilities. Projected against the backdrop of the mainstream pro-choice movement and radical right agendas, these dynamic case studies feature the groundbreaking work being done by health and reproductive rights organizations led by women-of-color. The book details how and why these women have defined and implemented expansive reproductive health agendas that reject legalistic remedies and seek instead to address the wider needs of their communities. It stresses the urgency for innovative strategies that push beyond the traditional base and goals of the mainstream pro-choice movement—strategies that are broadly inclusive while being specific, strategies that speak to all women by speaking to each woman. While the authors raise tough questions about inclusion, identity politics, and the future of women’s organizing, they also offer a way out of the limiting focus on "choice." Undivided Rights articulates a holistic vision for reproductive freedom. It refuses to allow our human rights to be divvied up and parceled out into isolated boxes that people are then forced to pick and choose among.
Women of Color, Organizations & Projects
Author: The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital
Author: Lisa LowePublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822382318
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Global in scope, but refusing a familiar totalizing theoretical framework, the essays in The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital demonstrate how localized and resistant social practices—including anticolonial and feminist struggles, peasant revolts, labor organizing, and various cultural movements—challenge contemporary capitalism as a highly differentiated mode of production. Reworking Marxist critique, these essays on Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, North America, and Europe advance a new understanding of "cultural politics" within the context of transnational neocolonial capitalism. This perspective contributes to an overall critique of traditional approaches to modernity, development, and linear liberal narratives of culture, history, and democratic institutions. It also frames a set of alternative social practices that allows for connections to be made between feminist politics among immigrant women in Britain, women of color in the United States, and Muslim women in Iran, Egypt, Pakistan, and Canada; the work of subaltern studies in India, the Philippines, and Mexico; and antiracist social movements in North and South America, the Caribbean, and Europe. These connections displace modes of opposition traditionally defined in relation to the modern state and enable a rethinking of political practice in the era of global capitalism. Contributors. Tani E. Barlow, Nandi Bhatia, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Chungmoo Choi, Clara Connolly, Angela Davis, Arturo Escobar, Grant Farred, Homa Hoodfar, Reynaldo C. Ileto, George Lipsitz, David Lloyd, Lisa Lowe, Martin F. Manalansan IV, Aihwa Ong, Pragna Patel, José Rabasa, Maria Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, Jaqueline Urla
The Alchemy of Illness
Author: Kat DuffPublisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 9780679420538
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
In this elegantly written inquiry into the function and purpose of illness, Duff reflects upon her own experience with Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS) and offers a fresh perspective on recovery and healing. While we are conditioned to think of health as the norm, the author reveals that illness has its own geography, laws and commandments.
National Women of Color Organizations
Author: Aileen C. HernandezPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
A survey was done in 1987 of national organizations of women of color, their leaders, their organizations, and the issues they were confronting. The survey was conducted through questionnaires to all and on-site visits to a few of the women of color organizations. A return for verification of information in 1991 found that all but a few were still in operation. The survey found that although the group experiences differed historically, some priorities common to all included leadership development, employment opportunities, improved education, strengthening of the family, and economic development as well as a desire to reaffirm the strength and value of their own cultures, and to gain political, social, and economic empowerment. The document presents the survey findings through a chapter on each of the following ethnic groups: (1) Asian Pacific American women; (2) African American women; (3) Hispanic American women; and (4) Native American women. Also included is a list of the 23 organizations that responded to the survey and extensive portraits of each institution, which touch on organizational history, staffing, publications, dues, goals, constituency, base of support, and issues of primary interest. A final section presents survey responses for each of the 23 organizations surveyed. (JB)
Resources in Education
Author: A Voice from the South
Author: Anna Julia CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description