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For many decades, the LGBTQ+ community has been plagued by strife
and human rights violations. Members of the LGBTQ+ community were
often denied a right to marriage, healthcare, and in some parts of
the world, a right to life. While these struggles are steadily
improving in recent years, disparities and discrimination still
remain from the workplace to the healthcare that this community
receives. There is still much that needs to be done globally to
achieve inclusivity and equity for the LGBTQ+ community. The
Research Anthology on Inclusivity and Equity for the LGBTQ+
Community is a comprehensive compendium that analyzes the struggles
and accomplishments of the LGBTQ+ community with a focus on the
current climate around the world and the continued impact to these
individuals. Multiple settings are discussed within this dynamic
anthology such as education, healthcare, online communities, and
more. Covering topics such as gender, homophobia, and queer theory,
this text is essential for scholars of gender theory, faculty of
both K-12 and higher education, professors, pre-service teachers,
students, human rights activists, community leaders, policymakers,
researchers, and academicians.
'And then I saw it. And once I had seen it, I saw it everywhere.
Why are men still winning at work? If women have equal leadership
ability, why are they so under-represented at the top in business
and society? Why are we still living in a man's world? And why do
we accept it? In this provocative book, Gill Whitty-Collins looks
beyond the facts and figures on gender bias and uncovers the
invisible discrimination that continues to sabotage us in the
workplace and limits our shared success. Addressing both men and
women and pulling no punches, she sets out the psychology of gender
diversity from the perspective of real personal experience and
shares her powerful insights on how to tackle gender equality.
'A robust, decolonial challenge to carceral feminism' - Angela Y.
Davis ***Winner of an English PEN Award 2022*** The mainstream
conversation surrounding gender equality is a repertoire of
violence: harassment, rape, abuse, femicide. These words suggest a
cruel reality. But they also hide another reality: that of gendered
violence committed with the complicity of the State. In this book,
Francoise Verges denounces the carceral turn in the fight against
sexism. By focusing on 'violent men', we fail to question the
sources of their violence. There is no doubt as to the underlying
causes: racial capitalism, ultra-conservative populism, the
crushing of the Global South by wars and imperialist looting, the
exile of millions and the proliferation of prisons - these all put
masculinity in the service of a policy of death. Against the spirit
of the times, Francoise Verges refuses the punitive obsession of
the State in favour of restorative justice.
In times of collapse, we need a movement that recognizes injustice as a reflection of collective trauma and embraces its role as a catalyst for collective healing through transformative action.
We are living in a world where the depths of division, violence, and destruction can no longer be ignored. From political polarization leading to the erosion of the democratic process to the climate crisis continuing to perpetuate racial inequity, we need changes that heal harms at the personal and systemic levels.
Escalated forms of harm require an equally escalated response. Yet social movements often use tactics that have a tendency to escalate an “us vs. them,” “right vs. wrong” worldview not conducive to healing.
In Fierce Vulnerability, activist and author Kazu Haga argues this binary worldview is at the heart of what is destroying our relationships and our planet and offers a new way to create healing by combining the time-honored lineage of nonviolent action with the sciences of trauma healing and the promises of spiritual practice. Fierce Vulnerability realizes we can’t “shut down” injustice any more than we can “shut down” trauma; if healing is our goal, we need social movements that center relationships and promote healing.
"As departments...scramble to decolonize their curriculum, Givens
illuminates a longstanding counter-canon in predominantly black
schools and colleges." -Boston Review "Informative and
inspiring...An homage to the achievement of an often-forgotten
racial pioneer." -Glenn C. Altschuler, Florida Courier "A
long-overdue labor of love and analysis...that would make Woodson,
the ever-rigorous teacher, proud." -Randal Maurice Jelks, Los
Angeles Review of Books "Fascinating, and groundbreaking. Givens
restores Carter G. Woodson, one of the most important educators and
intellectuals of the twentieth century, to his rightful place
alongside figures like W. E. B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells." -Imani
Perry, author of May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black
National Anthem Black education was subversive from its inception.
African Americans pursued education through clandestine means,
often in defiance of law and custom, even under threat of violence.
They developed what Jarvis Givens calls a tradition of "fugitive
pedagogy"-a theory and practice of Black education epitomized by
Carter G. Woodson-groundbreaking historian, founder of Black
History Month, and legendary educator under Jim Crow. Givens shows
that Woodson succeeded because of the world of Black teachers to
which he belonged. Fugitive Pedagogy chronicles his ambitious
efforts to fight what he called the "mis-education of the Negro" by
helping teachers and students to see themselves and their mission
as set apart from an anti-Black world. Teachers, students,
families, and communities worked together, using Woodson's
materials and methods as they fought for power in schools. Forged
in slavery and honed under Jim Crow, the vision of the Black
experience Woodson articulated so passionately and effectively
remains essential for teachers and students today.
Although US history is marred by institutionalized racism and
sexism, postracial and postfeminist attitudes drive our polarized
politics. Violence against people of color, transgendered and gay
people, and women soar upon the backdrop of Donald Trump, Tea Party
affiliates, alt-right members like Richard Spencer, and right-wing
political commentators like Milo Yiannopoulos who defend their
racist and sexist commentary through legalistic claims of freedom
of speech. While more institutions recognize the volatility of
these white men's speech, few notice or have thoughtfully
considered the role of white nationalist, alt-right, and
conservative white women's messages that organizationally preserve
white supremacy. In Rebirthing a Nation: White Women, Identity
Politics, and the Internet, author Wendy K. Z. Anderson details how
white nationalist and alt-right women refine racist rhetoric and
web design as a means of protection and simultaneous instantiation
of white supremacy, which conservative political actors including
Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Kellyanne Conway, Sarah Huckabee
Sanders, and Ivanka Trump have amplified through transnational
politics. By validating racial fears and political divisiveness
through coded white identity politics, postfeminist and motherhood
discourse functions as a colorblind, gilded cage. Rebirthing a
Nation reveals how white nationalist women utilize colorblind
racism within digital space, exposing how a postfeminist framework
becomes fodder for conservative white women's political speech to
preserve institutional white supremacy.
Ndangwa Noyoo was Head of the Department of Social Development at UCT from 2018-2020.
This book exposes corruption and malpractices at UCT, which the author witnessed during his tenure as HoD there, before he was ousted by a group of lecturers in his department. The former had been aided and abetted by senior administrators at the faculty level.
It is a personal account that is evidence-based, as the claims the author makes in the book are documented in various reports, communications and eye-witness accounts that span a period of five and a half years.
While some social scientists may argue that we have always been
networked, the increased visibility of networks today across
economic, political, and social domains can hardly be disputed.
Social networks fundamentally shape our lives and social network
analysis has become a vibrant, interdisciplinary field of research.
In The Oxford Handbook of Social Networks, Ryan Light and James
Moody have gathered forty leading scholars in sociology,
archaeology, economics, statistics, and information science, among
others, to provide an overview of the theory, methods, and
contributions in the field of social networks. Each of the
thirty-three chapters in this Handbook moves through the basics of
social network analysis aimed at those seeking an introduction to
advanced and novel approaches to modeling social networks
statistically. They cover both a succinct background to, and future
directions for, distinctive approaches to analyzing social
networks. The first section of the volume consists of theoretical
and methodological approaches to social networks, such as
visualization and network analysis, statistical approaches to
networks, and network dynamics. Chapters in the second section
outline how network perspectives have contributed substantively
across numerous fields, including public health, political
analysis, and organizational studies. Despite the rapid spread of
interest in social network analysis, few volumes capture the
state-of-the-art theory, methods, and substantive contributions
featured in this volume. This Handbook therefore offers a valuable
resource for graduate students and faculty new to networks looking
to learn new approaches, scholars interested in an overview of the
field, and network analysts looking to expand their skills or
substantive areas of research.
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