The essays in this volume contain a symphony of carefully orchestrated narratives that engage a wide-ranging assemblage of topics including immigration, indigenous identity, Genizaros, hybridity, education, religious syncretism, and United States and Spanish imperialism.
This collection of essays generates important enquiries into the teaching and practice of anti-racism education, by way of working through conversations, contestations, and emotions as presented by a diverse group of strong women committed to social justice work in their own right.
When Pulitzer Prize nominated author Richard Rodriguez published his autobiography, Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez in 1982, he received much criticism due to his views on issues such as assimilation, bilingual education, and affirmative action.
Transaction, the interaction, the transfer, the transference (and most definitely what's left behind) in exchange during interpersonal communications, is the focus in this work.
This work is an intervention of self-representation that explores experiences of five Black mothers of the same Chicago elementary school with respect to their relationship with the author-a qualitative researcher-over a period of two years.
Trayvon Martin, Race, and "e;American Justice"e;: Writing Wrong is the first comprehensive text to analyze not only the killing of Trayvon Martin, but the implications of this event for the state of race in the United States.
This book is written for the Millennial Generation to educate them about what school desegregation was actually about-the struggle over white domination in the United States.
The authors bring you in this edited volume a collection of essays that address the relationship between racial violence, media, the criminal justice system, and education.
Harnessing conceptual inspiration through the work of Harriet Tubman and Queen Nanny the Maroon of Jamaica, this book explores the historical and contemporary role that education has-and can continually play as an instrument of personal and group liberation.
Adopting a symbolic interactionist perspective and building extensively on the ethnographic research tradition, this book analyzes the mystique that often accompanies deviance by examining deviance as an ongoing feature of community life.
The Lowland South American World showcases cutting-edge research on the anthropology of Lowland South America, providing both an in-depth knowledge of Lowland South American life ways and engaging readers in urgent social, environmental, and political issues in the contemporary world.
In recent years, most studies on immigrant adaptation and assimilation have examined questions of ethnicity, identity and belonging among groups that are marked as racially different from the white majority in the United States.
This book examines contemporary Indigenous affairs through questions of relationality, presenting a range of interdisciplinary perspectives on the what, who, when, where, and why of Indigenous-settler relations.
The book is the first of its kind in using the methodology of Comparative Literature to look at ethnographic fiction written in different regional languages of India.
This book, part of a larger work entitled How to Live, offers practical advice on how one might live (as opposed to just existing) within the confines of 24 hours a day.
The Tribal Culture in India is a collection of research papers mostly based on the empirical facts collected by the author through various anthropological techniques over a span of thirsty years: the problems faced by Chota Nagpur, the Student' unrest with its effects is a paper on village studies in India reflecting various patterns of village life and in India a full paper on the contribution of E.
Over the past decade, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) signed Mutual Recognition Arrangements (MRAs) in seven occupations, all designed to facilitate professional mobility within the region.
Governments and nonstate actors around the world have signed mutual recognition arrangements (MRAs), but while most of them share the goals of streamlining the recognition of foreign workers' qualifications and boosting labor mobility, the MRAs vary considerably.
This publication seeks to explain the nature of settlements termed "e;urban villages"e; as set within the context of growing levels of urbanization in contemporary Pacific towns and cities.
The urban metabolism framework maps the activities of cities from their consumption of materials, the different activities associated with those processes, and the wastes produced.
This volume, based on presentations at a 1998 state of the art conference at the University of Georgia, critically examines African American English (AAE) socially, culturally, historically, and educationally.
An impressive collection of theoretical perspectives and empirical data which includes papers on Catalan, Galician, Tagalog, and the minority languages of Kenya.
This book systematically investigates intercultural experiences of Polish managers and specialists delegated by their multinational company (MNC) on an international assignment to China.
This book sets out to search for the Second World - the (post)socialist context - in dance studies and examines the way it appears and reappears in today's globalized world.
The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature introduces world literature readers to the transnational, multivocal writings of immigrant African authors.
Unser globalisiertes Leben ist aufgrund der Fülle von vernetzten Daten derart komplex und undurchsichtig, dass zur Beherrschung allumfassende Detailkenntnisse notwendig wären.
