Written from an African American perspective, this work depicts the presentation of the gospel message to the first-century community of Colossae, their reception of it comparative to the presentation and reception of the same to the enslaved Africans of North America particularly in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries.
Chechens: Culture and Society is an ethnography that elaborates the lived experiences of Chechens, focusing primarily on relationships and socio-cultural norms within the context of the current conflict in the Chechen Republic.
In this book, renowned Latin American intellectuals, Pablo Alabarces and Nestor Garcia Canclini, bring us up to date on the changes in the status and role of the popular classes in Latin American democracies over the past two decades.
Some states have a long history of reaching out to citizens living in other countries but since 2000 it has become much more common for states to encourage loyalty from current or former citizens living abroad.
Through an investigation of the protection needs of 'irregularised migrants', this book offers a novel approach to the phenomenon of irregular migration by reframing it as a matter of refugee law.
Liminal Diasporas: Contemporary Movements of Humanity and the Environment offers readers a new lens through which to critically re-evaluate the necropolitics of migration.
Provocative, inspiring, and unflinchingly honest, My Grandfather's Son is the story of one of America's most remarkable and controversial leaders, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, told in his own words.
Tracing representations of the Rushdie affair from 1989 to 2009, this study establishes a genealogy of how British Muslims appeared on the public scene and how an imaginary and politics of this subject position developed.
A scholar of race and a leader in the Afro-Asian solidarity movement, Cedric Dover embodied the 20th-century cosmopolitan redefinition of racial identity.
This book examines constructions of 'national' citizenship in the context of perceived internal division, including devolution, multiculturalism, ethno-religious conflict, post-conflict and refugees, drawing on a wide range of countries such as Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the UK, Ukraine, Canada and Palestinians in Lebanon.
Indigenous Nationals/Canadian Citizens begins with a detailed policy history from first contact to the Sesquicentennial with major emphasis on the evolution of Canadian policy initiatives relating to Indigenous peoples.
Indigenous Nationals/Canadian Citizens begins with a detailed policy history from first contact to the Sesquicentennial with major emphasis on the evolution of Canadian policy initiatives relating to Indigenous peoples.
A new way of seeing Black historythe sweeping story of how American cities as we know them developed from the vision, aspirations, and actions of the Black poor.
Grounded in NCTE's position statements "e;The Students' Right to Read"e; and "e;NCTE Beliefs about the Students' Right to Write,"e; this book focuses on high school English language arts classes, drawing from the work of seven teachers from across the country to illustrate how advocating for students' rights to read and write can be revolutionary work.
This volume questions what constitutes literacy in a society organized by race as an inquiry, to deepen the significance for why K20 learners must develop knowledges that support their abilities to process and ultimately transform racism.
Through a mix of history, theory, and story, Anna Plemons explores the fate of the Arts in Corrections (AIC) program at New Folsom Prison in California in order to study prison education in general as well as the disciplinary goals of rhetoric and composition classrooms.
Shakespeare and Cultural Appropriation pushes back against two intertwined binaries: the idea that appropriation can only be either theft or gift, and the idea that cultural appropriation should be narrowly defined as an appropriative contest between a hegemonic and marginalized power.
First published in 1993, Radicalism, Anti-Racism and Representation is a study set within a wider political context for the discussion of 'racial' representation and anti-racism.
First published in 1993, Radicalism, Anti-Racism and Representation is a study set within a wider political context for the discussion of 'racial' representation and anti-racism.
Black Matters presents an anthology of stories of African American and African undergraduate and graduate students' experiences at college, offering lifespan perspectives on their formative relationships and influences, life-changing events, and the role their heritage has played in shaping their personal identities, values, and choices.
Black Matters presents an anthology of stories of African American and African undergraduate and graduate students' experiences at college, offering lifespan perspectives on their formative relationships and influences, life-changing events, and the role their heritage has played in shaping their personal identities, values, and choices.
In Postcolonial Configurations Josen Masangkay Diaz examines the making of Filipino America through the dynamics of dictatorship, coloniality, and subjectivity.
Part of the New Approaches to Sociology series, Social Inequalities is a relevant and valuable exploration of how we see the world, through a decolonised lens.
Part of the New Approaches to Sociology series, Social Inequalities is a relevant and valuable exploration of how we see the world, through a decolonised lens.
Population aging and rapid socioeconomic changes are weakening family-based elder care while escalating the needs for long-term care services for older adults in China.
The life and work of Upper Skagit tribal elder Vi Hilbert, who, more than anyone, revitalized her native languageLushootseedand shared it and the culture it expresses with the world.
This book develops a theory of collective empowerment that looks for change both from the bottom up, in civil society, and from the top down, from state interventions responding to such pressure.
In this edited volume, Kasi Lemmons, the first African-American woman auteur to solidly and steadily produce a full body of work in cinema-an oeuvre of quality, of note, of international recognition-will get the full film-studies treatment.
"Un viaje sin viajero" es, además de un trabajo de investigación social consciente y meticulosamente realizado por Lorena Botero -protagonista de la experiencia- y Orlando Puente -docente, director académico del proyecto y su publicación-, el fragmentado relato reconstruido a través de correos electrónicos de una vivencia asumida "heroicamente" por una estudiante colombiana que aborda bruscamente, y sin previa inducción, una cultura diversa y de la cual solo reconoce el imaginario de los cultores del "mundo oriental", especialmente la hindú.
