Author: David Louis Schoem
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472064526
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Young people speak about being identified as part of an ethnic minority in the United States

Author: Karsten Paerregaard
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000184390
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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This pathbreaking ethnography of population movements between rural and urban places in Peru addresses the conceptual and methodological problems of studying ‘deterritorialized' populations and the implications of this for anthropology's notions of culture and identity. Based on extensive fieldwork, this book explores the economic, social and ritual bonds which link migrants in Peru's major cities to their Andean native village. Many urban migrants establish networks based on kinship and marriage ties to exploit resources in the city as well as the village. These networks ensure they maintain strong links to their native village. Fiestas, soccer tournaments and folklore festivals also play a crucial role in the formation of migrant communities in Peru's cities. The author analyses these performance practices and shows how they give rise to the creation of new social identities. The participation of second generation migrants, returning migrants, and migrant spouses in village life is also discussed.

Author: Ella Bell Smith
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
ISBN: 164782138X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Named to the shortlist for the 2021 Outstanding Works of Literature (OWL) Award in the Women in Business Category Addressing gender alone won't help women rise to the top. Although women come from widely diverse backgrounds, they share a common assumption upon entering the workforce: "I have a chance." Along the way, however, they discover that people question their authority, challenge their intelligence, and discount their ideas. And while gender is a common denominator among these women, race and class are often wedges between them. In Our Separate Ways, Ella Bell Smith and Stella M. Nkomo take an unflinching look at the surprising differences between Black and White women's trials and triumphs on their way to the top. Based on groundbreaking research, the book compares and contrasts the experiences of 120 Black and White female managers in America. Powerful stories bring to life the women's often difficult journeys from childhood to professional success, highlighting the roles that gender, race, and class played in their development. Now with an updated preface and epilogue, the book provides candid discussions of the continuing challenge of achieving race and gender equality in the midst of deep political and ideological divides. You'll discover how White women have—perhaps unwittingly—aligned themselves more often with White men than with Black women and how systemic racism and biases still exist in organizations. But you’ll also learn what to do to leverage the talents of all women and eliminate systemic racism for good. Whether you lead an organization or simply want to better understand the dynamics at play in business today, you'll discover provocative ideas for creating a better workplace and encouraging equality for everyone.

Author: Christina Greene
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807876372
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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In an in-depth community study of women in the civil rights movement, Christina Greene examines how several generations of black and white women, low-income as well as more affluent, shaped the struggle for black freedom in Durham, North Carolina. In the city long known as "the capital of the black middle class," Greene finds that, in fact, low-income African American women were the sustaining force for change. Greene demonstrates that women activists frequently were more organized, more militant, and more numerous than their male counterparts. They brought new approaches and strategies to protest, leadership, and racial politics. Arguing that race was not automatically a unifying force, Greene sheds new light on the class and gender fault lines within Durham's black community. While middle-class black leaders cautiously negotiated with whites in the boardroom, low-income black women were coordinating direct action in hair salons and neighborhood meetings. Greene's analysis challenges scholars and activists to rethink the contours of grassroots activism in the struggle for racial and economic justice in postwar America. She provides fresh insight into the changing nature of southern white liberalism and interracial alliances, the desegregation of schools and public accommodations, and the battle to end employment discrimination and urban poverty.

Author: Robert C. Prus
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791432396
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Examines the theory and methods by which social scientists study the human lived experienced.

Author: Florian Bieber
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780714653914
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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This is a comprehensive survey of developments in Kosovo leading up to, during and after the war in 1999, providing additionally the international and regional framework to the conflict.

Author: Salomé Voegelin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1623566959
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 217

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Inspired by its use in literary theory, film criticism and the discourse of game design, Salomé Voegelin adapts and develops “possible world theory” in relation to sound. David K Lewis' Possible World is juxtaposed with Maurice Merleau-Ponty's life-world, to produce a meeting of the semantic and the phenomenological at the place of listening. The central tenet of Sonic Possible Worlds is that at present traditional musical compositions and contemporary sonic outputs are approached and investigated through separate and distinct critical languages and histories. As a consequence, no continuous and comparative study of the field is possible. In Sonic Possible Worlds, Voegelin proposes a new analytical framework that can access and investigate works across genres and times, enabling a comparative engagement where composers such as Henry Purcell and Nadia Boulanger encounter sound art works by Shilpa Gupta and Christina Kubisch and where the soundscape compositions of Chris Watson and Francisco López resound in the visual worlds of Louise Bourgeois.

Author: Alina Molisak
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527502678
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Are the literary works of Polish Jews one unified literature in three languages: Yiddish, Hebrew and Polish, or is the literal corpus of each of these languages a separated literary and cultural phenomenon? Twenty-seven scholars from Europe, the United States, and Israel explore different aspects of the multilingual literature of Eastern European Jews, with a particular focus on the trilingual literature of Polish Jews until World War II. The work of the great Yiddish and Hebrew writer Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) represents the center of the book, though it does not concentrate solely on Peretz’s work, but, rather, discusses the oeuvre of other unique authors in the cultural space of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe generally, and in Poland particularly. The book looks at this issue from three aspects, namely the literal, cultural, and historical, and also examines the dialogue of Polish Jewish literature with other languages and cultures.

Author: Jessie Bernard
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317257227
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Jessie Bernard was one of the foremost early feminist sociologists and public intellectuals in women's studies. In The Jessie Bernard Reader, Michael S. Kimmel and Yasemin Besen have compiled her most intriguing and influential work on marriage, the family, sexuality and changing women's roles in the United States. Bernard's pioneering works bridged the gap between academic social science and public advocacy for gender equality. Her books were landmarks in demarcating the effects of the "separation of spheres." Among her most celebrated arguments was that couples experienced two different marriages, "his" and "hers"-and that his was better than hers. This volume will inspire a new generation of scholars, a generation that inherits the gains for which Bernard struggled her entire career.

Author: A.K. Williams
Publisher: JMS Books LLC
ISBN: 1685503934
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 441

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Sometimes true love seems to come at warp speed from another planet. Two strangers who seem to be from different worlds learn how opposites attract when a short, skinny nerd meets a big, strong bodybuilder during a costume contest at a science fiction convention. Both are wearing skimpy, revealing costumes, and the sexual tension is palpable. But what happens later when the costumes come off? Steve Morgan is shy, sensitive, and introverted. The quintessential nerd with social anxiety so severe, he often stutters and can sometimes barely even speak at all. Adam Baxter is tall, strong, bold, and exuberant. Everyone wants him, but he only has eyes for one guy in particular. In almost every way, they’re as different as night and day. And yet they’re also like opposite sides of the same coin. Steve finds it hard to believe a big, strong hunk like Adam could actually be interested in a skinny little geek like him. But Adam is a kind, gentle giant who quickly realizes he’ll need to hold back on his naturally flirty, boisterous behavior to keep from scaring away his timid crush. As they get to know each other better, Steve is hesitant to divulge his life-long health problems because it makes him look like bad boyfriend material. But after a severe health crisis strikes, will Adam still care enough to hang around? Or will Steve have to go back to being all alone like always?