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A wedding serves as the beginning marker of a marriage; if a couple
is to manage cultural differences throughout their relationship,
they must first pass the hurdle of designing a wedding ceremony
that accommodates those differences. In this volume, author Wendy
Leeds-Hurwitz documents the weddings of 112 couples from across the
United States, studied over a 10-year period. She focuses on
intercultural weddings--interracial, interethnic, interfaith,
international, and interclass--looking at how real people are
coping with cultural differences in their lives.
Through detailed case studies, the book explores how couples
display different identities simultaneously. The concepts of
community, ritual, identity, and meaning are given extensive
consideration. Because material culture plays a particularly
important role in weddings as in other examples of ritual, food,
clothing, and objects are given special attention here.
Focusing on how couples design a wedding ritual to simultaneously
meet multiple--and different--requirements, this book provides:
*extensive details of actual behavior by couples;
*an innovative format: six traditional theoretical chapters, with
examples integrated into the discussion, are matched to six
"interludes" providing detailed descriptions of the most successful
examples of resolving intercultural differences;
*a methodological appendix detailing what was done and why these
decisions were made; and
*a theoretical appendix outlining the study's assumptions in
detail.
"Wedding as Text: Communicating Cultural Identities Through
Ritual" is a distinctive study of those who have accepted cultural
difference into their daily lives and how they have managed to do
so successfully. As such, it is suitable for students and scholars
in semiotics, intercultural communication, ritual, material
culture, family communication, and family studies, and will be
valuable reading for anyone facing the issue of cultural
difference.
This book presents the struggle for dialogue and understanding
between teachers and refugee and immigrant families, in their own
words. Forging a stronger connection between teachers, newcomers,
and their families is one of the greatest challenges facing schools
in the United States. Teachers need to become familiar with the
political, economic, and sociocultural contexts of these newcomers'
lives, and the role of the U.S. in influencing these contexts in
positive and negative ways.
The important contribution of "American Dreams, Global Visions" is
to bring together global issues of international politics and
economics and their effects on migration and refugee situations,
national issues of language and social policy, and local issues of
education and finding ways to live together in an increasingly
diverse society.
Narratives of four immigrant families in the United States (Hmong,
Mexican, Assyrian/Kurdish, Kosovar) and the teacher-researchers who
are coming to know them form the heart of this work. The narratives
are interwoven with data from the research and critical analysis of
how the narratives reflect and embody local, national, and global
contexts of power. The themes that are developed set the stage for
critical dialogues about culture, language, history, and power.
Central to the book is a rationale and methodology for teachers to
conduct "dialogic research" with refugees and immigrants--research
encompassing methods as once ethnographic, participatory, and
narrative--which seeks to engage researchers and participants in
dialogues that shed light on economic, political, social, and
cultural relationships; to represent these relationships in texts;
and to extend these dialogues to promote broader understanding and
social justice in schools and communities.
"American Dreams, Global Visions" will interest teachers, social
workers, and others who work with immigrants and refugees;
researchers, professionals, and students across the fields of
education, language and culture, ethnic studies, American studies,
and anthropology; and members of the general public interested in
learning more about America's most recent newcomers. It is
particularly appropriate for courses in foundations of education,
multicultural education, comparative education, language and
culture, and qualitative research.
This classic book is a powerful indictment of contemporary
attitudes to race. By accusing British intellectuals and
politicians on both sides of the political divide of refusing to
take race seriously, Paul Gilroy caused immediate uproar when this
book was first published in 1987. A brilliant and explosive
exploration of racial discourses, There Ain't No Black in the Union
Jack provided a powerful new direction for race relations in
Britain. Still dynamite today and as relevant as ever, this
Routledge Classics edition includes a new introduction by the
author.
This book examines the intersections of representations of race and gender identity in writings by contemporary US men. The author seeks strategies for approaching ostensibly sexist or homophobic texts by men of colour in ways which grasp how homophobia or sexism coexist or are engendered by certain articulations of anti-racism, or conversely, how certain articulations of gender concerns help produce reactionary ideas about race.
"Race-ing Art History" is the first comprehensive anthology to
place issues of racial representation squarely on the canvas.
Within these pages are representations of Nubians in ancient art,
the great tradition of Western masters such as Manet and Picasso,
and contemporary work by lesser known artists of color.
Assembled chronologically, these essays draw upon multiculturalism,
postcolonialism, and critical race theory to confront the
longstanding tradition of art as a means of looking at "the other."
The essays address important questions about racial visibility and
racial politics, asking whether modern concepts of race can be
imposed upon ancient art, whether there is a link between pictorial
realism and Orientalism, and how today's artists and critics can
engage our visual culture's inherent racialized dimension.
Richly illustrated, this pioneering volume lays the groundwork for
a better understanding of the complex and shifting category of race
and its significance in our visual culture and everyday lives.
Unmatched in historical scope and presentation, "Race-ing Art
History" will be the essential guide to the opportunities and
challenges involved in integrating race into the study of art. A
discussion guide is available at www.routledge-ny.com/pinderguide.
Also includes an 8-page color insert.
Cybertypes looks at the impact of the web and its discourses upon our ideas about race, and vice versa. Examining internet advertising, role-playing games, chat rooms, cyberpunk fiction from Neuromancer to The Matrix and web design, Nakamura traces the real-life consequences that follow when we attempt to push issues of race and identity on-line.
How the words we use-and don't use-reinforce dominant cultural
norms Why is the term "openly gay" so widely used but "openly
straight" is not? What are the unspoken assumptions behind terms
like "male nurse," "working mom," and "white trash"? Offering a
revealing and provocative look at the word choices we make every
day without even realizing it, Taken for Granted exposes the subtly
encoded ways we talk about race, gender, sexual orientation,
religion, social status, and more. In this engaging and insightful
book, Eviatar Zerubavel describes how the words we use-such as when
we mark "the best female basketball player" but leave her male
counterpart unmarked-provide telling clues about the things many of
us take for granted. By marking "women's history" or "Black History
Month," we are also reinforcing the apparent normality of the
history of white men. When we mark something as being special or
somehow noticeable, that which goes unmarked-such as maleness,
whiteness, straightness, and able-bodiedness-is assumed to be
ordinary by default. Zerubavel shows how this tacit normalizing of
certain identities, practices, and ideas helps to maintain their
cultural dominance-including the power to dictate what others take
for granted. A little book about a very big idea, Taken for Granted
draws our attention to what we implicitly assume to be normal-and
in the process unsettles the very notion of normality.
This book explores how writers from several different cultures
learn to write in their academic settings, and how their writing
practices interact with and contribute to their evolving identities
as students and professionals in academic environments in higher
education.
Embedded in a theoretical framework of situated practice, the
naturalistic case studies and literacy autobiographies include
portrayals of undergraduate students and teachers, master's level
students, doctoral students, young bilingual faculty, and
established scholars, all of whom are struggling to understand
their roles in ambiguously defined communities of academic writers.
In addition to the notion of situated practice, the other powerful
concept used as an interpretive framework is captured by the
metaphor of "games"--a metaphor designed to emphasize that the
practice of academic writing is shaped but not dictated by rules
and conventions; that writing games consist of the practice of
playing, not the rules themselves; and that writers have choices
about whether and how to play.
Focusing on people rather than experiments, numbers, and
abstractions, this interdisciplinary work draws on concepts and
methods from narrative inquiry, qualitative anthropology and
sociology, and case studies of academic literacy in the field of
composition and rhetoric. The style of the book is accessible and
reader friendly, eschewing highly technical insider language
without dismissing complex issues. It has a multicultural focus in
the sense that the people portrayed are from a number of different
cultures within and outside North America. It is also a multivocal
work: the author positions herself as both an insider and outsider
and takes on the different voices of each; other voices that appear
are those of her case study participants, and published authors and
their case study participants. It is the author's hope that readers
will find multiple ways to connect their own experiences with those
of the writers the book portrays.
In this book, Andrew Brindle analyzes a corpus of texts taken from
a white supremacist web forum which refer to the subject of
homosexuality, drawing conclusions about the discourses of
extremism and the dissemination of far-right hate speech online.
The website from which Brindle's corpus is drawn, Stormfront, has
been described as the most powerful active influence in the White
Nationalist movement (Kim 2005). Through a linguistic analysis of
the data combining corpus linguistic methodologies and a critical
discourse analysis approach, Brindle examines the language used to
construct heterosexual, white masculinities, as well as posters'
representations of gay men, racial minorities and other out-groups,
and how such groups are associated by the in-group. Brindle applies
three types of analysis to the corpus: a corpus-driven approach
centered on the study of frequency, keywords, collocation and
concordance analyses; a detailed qualitative study of posts from
the forum and the threads in which they are located; and a
corpus-based approach which combines the corpus linguistic and
qualitative analyses. The analysis of the data demonstrates a
convergence of reactionary responses to not only women, gay men and
lesbians, but also to racial minorities. Brindle's findings suggest
that due to the forum format of the data, topics are discussed and
negotiated rather than dictated unilaterally as would be the case
in a hierarchical organization. This research-based study of white
supremacist discourse on the Internet facilitates understanding of
hate speech and the behavior of extremist groups, with the aim of
providing tools to combat elements of extremism and intolerance in
society.
"A Place To Be Navajo" is the only book-length ethnographic account
of a revolutionary Indigenous self-determination movement that
began in 1966 with the Rough Rock Demonstration School. Called
"Dine Bi'olta', " The People's School, in recognition of its status
as the first American Indian community-controlled school, Rough
Rock was the first to teach in the Native language and to produce a
body of quality children's literature by and about Navajo people.
These innovations have positioned the school as a leader in
American Indian and bilingual/bicultural education and have enabled
school participants to wield considerable influence on national
policy. This book is a critical life history of this singular
school and community.
McCarty's account grows out of 20 years of ethnographic work by the
author with the "Dine" (Navajo) community of Rough Rock. The story
is told primarily through written text, but also through the
striking black-and-white images of photographer Fred Bia, a member
of the Rough Rock community. Unlike most accounts of Indigenous
schooling, this study involves the active participation of Navajo
community members. Their oral testimony and that of other leaders
in Indigenous/Navajo education frame and texture the account.
Informed by critical theories of education, this book is not just
the story of a single school and community. It is also an inquiry
into the larger struggle for self-determination by Indigenous and
other minoritized communities, raising issues of identity, voice,
and community empowerment. "A Place To Be Navajo" asks whether
school can be a place where children learn, question, and grow in
an environment that values and builds upon who they are. The author
argues that the questions Rough Rock raises, and the responses they
summon, implicate us all.
Contents: Hearings on The Enforcement of the Voting Rights Act: Hearings Before the Civil Rights Oversight Subcommittee (Subcommittee No. 4) of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, 92nd Congress, First Session on the Enforcement and Administration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, As Amended, May 26; June 2 & 10, 1971, Serial No. 8, GPO (1971): Testimony of: * Henry, Dr. Aaron, president, Mississippi State Conference of Branches, NAACP, accompanied by Clarence Mitchell, director, Washington bureau, NAACP, and Frank Polhaus, counsel, Washington bureau, NAACP. * Lewis, John, director, Voter Education Project. * Derfner, Armand, attorney, Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, accompanied by Stanley Halpin, attorney, Lawyer's Constitutional Defense Committee, New Orleans, Louisiana Testimony of and Brief Submitted by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (Prepared by Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., Assisted by Eleanor K. Holmes and H. Miles Jaffe): * Raugh, Joseph L., Jr., general counsel, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, Accompanied by Clarence Mitchell, director, Washington bureau, NAACP, and Frank Polhaus, counsel, Washington bureau, NAACP Correspondence: * Parker, Frank, R., attorney, Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, to Hon. Don Edwards, May 19, 1971. * Edwards, Hon. Don, a Representative in Congress from the State of California, and Chairman, Civil Rights Oversight Subcommittee, to David L. Norman, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, June 1, 1971. * Norman, David L., Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, Reply to Edwards, Hon. Don, a Representative in Congress from the State of California, and Chairman, Civil Rights Oversight Subcommittee and 'Current Registration in Mississippi Counties.' Hearings on Amendments to the Voting Rights Act of 1965: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate, 91st Congress, First and Second Sessions on S. 818, S. 2456, S. 2507, and Title IV of S. 2029, Bills to Amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965, July 9, 10, 11, and 30, 1969 and February 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 1970, GPO (1970). Statement of Honorable Barry Goldwater, US Senator from Arizona on Voter Residency Requirements I the Nation, Thurs., February 19, 1970. Voting Rights Act Extension, House of Representatives, 94th Congress, 1st Session, Report No. 94-196, May 8,1975: * 'Report, together with Additional, Supplemental, Separate, Additional Supplemental, and Views Concurring in Part and Dissenting (to accompany H.R. 6219) B. Title II: Expansion of the Voting Rights Act.' * Mc Donald, Laughlin. A Special Report from the American Civil Liberties Union, 'Voting Rights in the South.' Laughlin McDonald (January, 1982). * Ortiz, Daniel 'Note: Alternative Voting Systems as Remedies or Unlawful At-Large Systems.' Yale Law Journal (1982). Voting Rights Act Extension. Report of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 97th Congress, 2nd Session, Report no. 97-417, Calendar No. 598 May 25, 1982: 'Report of the Committee on the Judiciary on S. 1992 with Additional Minority ad Supplemental Views VI. Amendment to Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act,' and 'Additional Views of Senator Strom Thurmond.' * Low-Beer, John R. 'The Constitutional Imperative of Proportional Representation.' Yale Law Journal 94 (1984). Shapiro, Howard. 'Geometry and Geography: Racial Gerrymandering and the Voting Rights Act.' Yale Law Journal 94 (1984). * Note: The Disenfranchisement of Ex-Felons: Citizenship, Criminality and the 'Purity of the Ballot Box', ' Harvard Law Review (102) (1989). Strauss, David, A. 'The Myth of Colorblindness.' Supreme Court Review (1986). McCrary, Peyton and Pamela S. Karlan 'Book Review: Without Fear and Without Research: Abigail Thernstrom on the Voting Rights Act.' Journal of Law and Politics 4 (1988). McCrary, Peyton and J. Gerald Hebert 'Keeping the Courts Honest: The Role of Historians as Expert Witnesses in Southern Voting Rights Cases.' Southern University Law Review 16 (1989).
Atrocities by terrorists acting in the name of the 'Islamic State'
are occurring with increasing regularity across Western Europe.
Often the perpetrators are 'home grown', which places the
relationship between Muslims and the countries in which they live
under intense political and media scrutiny, and raises questions
about the success of the integration of Muslims of migrant origin.
At the same time, populist politicians try to shift the blame from
the few perpetrators to the supposed characteristics of all Muslims
as a 'group' by depicting Islam as a threat that seeks to undermine
liberal democratic values and institutions. The research in this
volume attempts to redress the balance by focusing on the views and
life experiences of the many 'ordinary' Muslims in their European
societies of settlement, and the role that cultural and religious
factors play in shaping their social relationships with majority
populations and public institutions. The book is specifically
interested in the relationship between cultural/religious distance
and social factors that shape the life chances of Muslims relative
to the majority. The study is cross-national, comparative across
the six main receiving countries with distinct approaches to the
accommodation of Muslims: France, Germany, Britain, the
Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland. The research is based on the
findings of a survey of four groups of Muslims from distinct
countries of origin: Turkey, Morocco, the former Yugoslavia, and
Pakistan, as well as majority populations, in each of the receiving
countries. This book was originally published as a special issue of
the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
This book offers a unique perspective on contemporary France by
focusing on racial diversity, race, and racism as central features
of French society and identity. Marie des Neiges Leonard critically
reviews contentious public policies and significant issues,
including reactions to the terrorist attack against satirical
magazine Charlie Hebdo and policies regarding the Islamic veil,
revealing how color-blind racism plays a role in the persistence of
racial inequality for French racial minorities. Drawing from
American sociological frameworks, this outstanding study presents a
new way of thinking in the study of racial identity politics in
today's France.
The controversies of redistricting have challenged America's commitment to participatory democracy and America's ability to account for its historical record of voting and racial discrimination. This three-volume set brings together all the major legal cases and the most influential articles on the legal and historical arguments of this issue. Available as a set or as single volumes.
Is community possible within culturally diverse societies? As humanity becomes increasingly interconnected through globalisation, this question is once more of concern in contemporary thought. Simpson traces the debate thorough the works of Arnold, Herder, Adorno, Habermas and others and proposes an alternative that bridges cultural differences without erasing them. He argues that in order to achieve cross-cultural understanding we must establish common aesthetic and ethical standards which incorporate sensitivity to difference.
One of the most heavily travelled migration routes from Old World
to New was the trajectory of slave ships that left the coast of
West Africa along the Bight of Benin and landed their human cargo
in Brazil. An estimated two million persons over the course of some
250 years were forced migrants along this route, arriving mainly in
the Brazilian province of Bahia. Earlier generations of scholars
studied this southern portion of the slave trade simply as an
east-west movement of enslaved persons stripped of identity and
culture, or they looked for possible retentions of Africa among
descendants of slaves in the Americas.
This book tells us how various global regions are dealing with
three major concerns within the field of multicultural education:
*the conceptualization and realization of "difference" and
"diversity";
*the inclusion and exclusion of social groups within a definition
of multicultural education; and
*the effects of power on relations between and among groups
identified under the multicultural education umbrella.
All of the chapter authors pay attention to these themes, but, at
the same time, they bring their particular interests and
perspectives to the book, addressing issues, such as linguistic,
racial, ethnic, and religious diversity; class; educational
inequalities; teacher education; conceptualizations of citizenship;
and questions of identity construction. In addition, the authors
offer both historical and social contexts for their analytical
discussion of the ideals and practices of multicultural education
in a particular region.
This is not a book that tells us about multicultural education
with an international "twist"; it provides readers with different
ways to think, talk, and do research about issues of "diversity,"
"difference," and the effects of power as they relate to
education.
This title was first published in 2000: This text deals with two
intertwined dimensions of multicultural citizenship of the European
Union. It studies the theoretical debate over how best to reconcile
multiculturalism, citizenship and the need for collective identity
at the European Union (EU) level by comparing EU citizenship with
cultural citizenship and multicultural studies in the United
States. In addition to this, through the study of EU documents, the
author contends that there exists such a thing as policies of
multicultural citizenship at the European Union level. He then goes
on to analyze their key aspects, such as the pursuit of symbolic
forms of multiculturalism and the arguments to support affirmative
action policies for women. The text also examines the steps taken
by certain EU institutions towards creating European identity and
improving awareness of citizenship and cultural heritage, while
meeting the test of subsidiarity. The author concludes that there
are competing discourses in EU institutions concerning the best
model for EU citizenship. Among other concepts, they construe
multiculturalism and transnationalism as contested and sometimes
opposing interpretations of citizenship. The text goes on to reveal
a lack of substantive connection between EU citizenship and
identity in the European Union, as well as the artificiality of EU
attempts to build it anew. It concludes that a plurality of
cultural constructions of EU citizenship, within the wider
framework of liberal culturalism, may be a viable model of EU
citizenship.
In recent years, reported racial disparities in IQ scores have been
the subject of raging debates in the behavioral and social sciences
and education. What can be made of these test results in the
context of current scientific knowledge about human evolution and
cognition? Unfortunately, discussion of these issues has tended to
generate more heat than light.
Now, the distinguished authors of this book offer powerful new
illumination. Representing a range of disciplines--psychology,
anthropology, biology, economics, history, philosophy, sociology,
and statistics--the authors review the concept of race and then the
concept of intelligence. Presenting a wide range of findings, they
put the experience of the United States--so frequently the only
focus of attention--in global perspective. They also show that the
human species has no races in the biological sense (though cultures
have a variety of folk concepts of race), that there is no single
form of intelligence, and that formal education helps individuals
to develop a variety of cognitive abilities. "Race and
Intelligence" offers the most comprehensive and definitive response
thus far to claims of innate differences in intelligence among
races.
This is the first book to explore the meaning of equality and
freedom of education in a global context and their relationship to
the universal right to education. It also proposes evaluating
school systems according to their achievement of equality and
freedom.
Education in the 21st century is widely viewed as a necessary
condition for the promotion of human welfare, and thus identified
as a basic human right. Educational rights are included in many
national constitutions written since the global spread of human
rights ideas after World War II. But as a global idea, the meaning
of educational rights varies between civilizations. In this book,
which builds on the concept of the universal right to education set
forth in Spring's "The Universal Right to Education: Justification,
Definition, and Guidelines, " his intercivilizational analysis of
educational rights focuses on four of the world's major
civilizations: Confucian, Islamic, Western, and Hindu.
Spring begins by considering educational rights as part of the
global flow of ideas and the global culture of schooling. He also
considers the tension this generates within different
civilizational traditions. Next, he proceeds to:
*examine the meaning of educational rights in the Confucian
tradition, in the recent history of China, and in the Chinese
Constitution;
*look at educational rights in the context of Islamic civilization
and as presented in the constitutions of Islamic countries,
including an analysis of the sharp contrast between the religious
orientation of Islamic educational rights and those of China and
the West;
*explore the problems created by the Western natural rights
tradition and the eventual acceptance of educational rights as
represented in European constitutions, with a focus on the
development and prominence given in the West to the relationship
between schooling and equality of opportunity; and,
*investigate the effect of global culture on India and the blend
of Western and Hindu ideas in the Indian constitution, highlighting
the obstacles to fulfillment of educational rights created by
centuries of discrimination against women and lower castes.
In his conclusion, Spring presents an educational rights statement
based on his intercivilizational analysis and his examination of
national constitutions. This statement is intended to serve as a
model for the inclusion of educational rights in national
constitutions.
Political Principles and Indian Sovereignty examines the connection between the well being of Indian people, the sovereignty of Indian Nations and the democratic principles on which the United States was founded. Problems faced by Native Americans in health, education and general welfare are linked to the loss of sovereignty caused by the U.S. Government.
This volume of the National Political Science Review, the
official publication of the National Political Science Association,
is anchored by a major symposium on The Politics of the Black
"Nation," the book authored by Matthew Holden in 1973, which is now
considered one of the most influential books in the field of black
politics. Twenty-five years provide a sufficient timespan on which
to base a retrospective of the book and simultaneously to reflect
upon the evolution of the black liberation struggle, more formally
called, African American politics. In the present age, there is not
much talk about "a black nation," certainly not as was heard during
the 1960s and mid-1970s. Yet there is a persistent sense of
separateness in that there is constant thought and talk of "Black
America" as a significantly separate communal entity. Black
Americans are seen as a racially and culturally distinct community
holding to social, political, economic interests which have special
significance and poignancy for them. Holden's perception of the
nature of the times in the early seventies stands in sharp contrast
to how contemporary analysts of African American politics tend to
perceive the nature of African Americans' role in political life
and their position in American society in the present age. In this
retrospective, readers have the opportunity to get a sense of what
Holden argued of the seven essays that make up his seminal volume
and to consider how well Holden's observations have stood the tests
of time. In addition to the essays presented at the symposium,
which pointedly discuss Holden's work, there are essays dealing
with "African American Politics in Constancy and Change," by
contributors including Charles Henry, David Covin, Robert C. Smith,
Clyde Lusane, Cheryl Miller, D'Linell Finley, and Sekou Franklin,
among others. Other features are a highly informative discussion of
the Literary Digest magazine's Straw-Vote Presidential Polls,
1916-1936, and a review essay by Peter Ronaye in which he discusses
"America as 'New World' Power: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold
War Era." The volume concludes with fifteen book reviews by
knowledgeable scholars. The Politics of the Black "Nation" is a
timely, thought-provoking volume. It will be of immense value to
ethnic studies specialists, African American studies scholars,
political scientists, historians, and sociologists. Georgia A.
Persons is professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia
Institute of Technology and the current editor of the National
Political Science Review.
Women in Islam investigates the ongoing debate, in both the Muslim world and the West, on the position of women in Islam. Anne-Sofie Roald illustrates how Islamic perceptions of women and gender relations change in Western Muslim communities. She shows how Islamic attitudes towards social concerns, such as gender relations, female circumcision and Islamic female dress emerge as responsive to culture and context, rather than rigid and inflexible, as is often perceived.
Contents: Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Kwik? Kwak!: Narrations of the Self Chapter 1. Talking Back to the bildunsroman Chapter 2. Negotiating Exile: Take Your Bundle and Leave and Go! Chapter 3. Slippery Tongues: Re/Claiming Orality as a Tactic of Intervention Chapter 4. W/righting History: Locating the Traveling Subject Chapter 5. Kwik? Kwak!: Infinite Chronicles of the World and the Word Bibliography Index
Poverty and race -- two of America's most salient, and seemingly
intractable, domestic problems -- form the cornerstone of this
volume. Featuring contributions by some of the most progressive
thinkers on these subjects, the book focuses on the key questions
as we begin the new century. From the possibility of achieving true
integration (as opposed to mere desegregation), environmental
justice, education and its role as counter to structural poverty,
to the promise (and lack thereof) of recent anti-poverty policies,
Challenges to Equality shines an unflinching light on some of the
most important issues we face as a society.
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