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A Place to Be Navajo - Rough Rock and the Struggle for Self-Determination in Indigenous Schooling (Hardcover): Teresa L. McCarty A Place to Be Navajo - Rough Rock and the Struggle for Self-Determination in Indigenous Schooling (Hardcover)
Teresa L. McCarty
R4,501 Discovery Miles 45 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"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.

Writing Games - Multicultural Case Studies of Academic Literacy Practices in Higher Education (Paperback): Christine Pears... Writing Games - Multicultural Case Studies of Academic Literacy Practices in Higher Education (Paperback)
Christine Pears Casanave
R1,847 Discovery Miles 18 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Telling Our Stories - The Lives of Latina Women (Hardcover): Theresa Baron-McKeagney Telling Our Stories - The Lives of Latina Women (Hardcover)
Theresa Baron-McKeagney
R1,295 Discovery Miles 12 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days


Stereotypes of Mexican American women and the lack of their representation in research literature contribute to misrepresentations of Mexican American culture and their invisibility. In this qualitative study, Mexican American women were interviewed and their life histories examined using an ethnographic and hermeneutical phenomenological approach.

Martyrdom and Noble Death - Selected Texts from Graeco-Roman, Jewish and Christian Antiquity (Hardcover): Friedrich Avemarie,... Martyrdom and Noble Death - Selected Texts from Graeco-Roman, Jewish and Christian Antiquity (Hardcover)
Friedrich Avemarie, Jan Willem Van Henten
R4,496 Discovery Miles 44 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days


This volume explores the fascinating phenomenon of noble death through pagan, Jewish and Christian sources. Today's society is uncomfortable with death, and willingly submitting to a violent and ostentatious death in public is seen as particularly shocking and unusual. Yet classical sources give a different view, with public self-sacrifice often being applauded. The Romans admired a heroic end in the battlefield or the arena, suicide in the tradition of Socrates was something laudable, and Christians and Jews alike faithfully commemorated their heroes who died during religious persecutions. The cross-cultural approach and wide chronological range of this study make it valuable for students and scholars of ancient history, religion and literature.

Mixed/Other - Explorations of Multiraciality in Modern Britain (Hardcover): Natalie Morris Mixed/Other - Explorations of Multiraciality in Modern Britain (Hardcover)
Natalie Morris
R490 R446 Discovery Miles 4 460 Save R44 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

How does it feel when your heritage isn't listed as an option on an identification form? What is it like to grow up as the only person in your family who looks like you? Where do you belong if you are simultaneously seen as being 'too much' of one race and 'not enough' of another to fit neatly into society's expectations? 'A rare find' - Loyle Carner The mixed population is the fastest-growing group in the U.K. today, but the mainstream conversation around mixedness is stilted, repetitive and often problematic. At a time when ethnically ambiguous models fill our Instagram feeds and our high street shop windows, and when children of interracial relationships are lauded as heralding in the dawn of a post-racial utopia, journalist Natalie Morris takes a deep dive into what it really means to be mixed in Britain today. From blackfishing to the fetishisation of mixed babies; from the complexities of passing and code-switching to navigating the world of work and dating, Natalie explores the ways in which all of these issues uniquely impact those of mixed heritage. Drawing from a wealth of research, interviews and her own personal experiences, in Mixed/Other, Natalie's aims to dismantle the stereotypes that have plagued mixed people for generations and to amplify the voices of mixed Britons today, shining a light on the struggles and the joys that come with being mixed.

Covert Racism: Theories, Institutions, And Experiences - Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 32 (Paperback): Rodney D... Covert Racism: Theories, Institutions, And Experiences - Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 32 (Paperback)
Rodney D Coates
R877 Discovery Miles 8 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The question of covert racism has been splashed across the headlines in recent times through incidents in football, with John Terry, Stan Collymore and Luis Suarez all involved; politics, with Dianne Abbott accused of racism; and the metropolitan police with two of Stephen Lawrence's killers put behind bars and allegations of `institutional racism' resurging. Covert Racism tackles our cultural norms and acceptances in a 'post-racial' society.

Pachappa Camp - The First Koreatown in the United States (Hardcover): Edward T. Chang Pachappa Camp - The First Koreatown in the United States (Hardcover)
Edward T. Chang
R2,853 Discovery Miles 28 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Through new research and materials, Edward T. Chang proves in Pachappa Camp: The First Koreatown in the United States that Dosan Ahn Chang Ho established the first Koreatown in Riverside, California in early 1905. Chang reveals the story of Pachappa Camp and its roots in the diasporic Korean community's independence movement efforts for their homeland during the early 1900s and in the lives of the residents. Long overlooked by historians, Pachappa Camp studies the creation of Pachappa Camp and its place in Korean and Korean American history, placing Korean Americans in Riverside at the forefront of the Korean American community's history.

Black and Brown in Los Angeles - Beyond Conflict and Coalition (Hardcover): Josh Kun, Laura Pulido Black and Brown in Los Angeles - Beyond Conflict and Coalition (Hardcover)
Josh Kun, Laura Pulido
R1,795 Discovery Miles 17 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Black and Brown in Los Angeles is a timely and wide-ranging, interdisciplinary foray into the complicated world of multi ethnic Los Angeles. The first book to focus exclusively on the range of relationships and interactions between Latinas/os and African Americans in one of the most diverse cities in the United States, the book delivers supporting evidence that Los Angeles is a key place to study racial politics while also providing the basis for broader discussions of multi ethnic America. Students, faculty, and interested readers will gain an understanding of the different forms of cultural borrowing and exchange that have shaped a terrain through which African Americans and Latinas/os cross paths, intersect, move in parallel tracks, and engage with a whole range of aspects of urban living. Tensions and shared intimacies are recurrent themes that emerge as the contributors seek to integrate artistic and cultural constructs with politics and economics in their goal of extending simple paradigms of conflict, cooperation, or coalition. The book features essays by historians, economists, and cultural and ethnic studies scholars, alongside contributions by photographers and journalists working in Los Angeles.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 - Race, Voting, and Redistricting (Hardcover): Marsha Darling The Voting Rights Act of 1965 - Race, Voting, and Redistricting (Hardcover)
Marsha Darling
R5,783 Discovery Miles 57 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days


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.

Enforcing and Challenging the Voting Rights Act - Race, Voting, and Redistricting (Hardcover): Marsha Darling Enforcing and Challenging the Voting Rights Act - Race, Voting, and Redistricting (Hardcover)
Marsha Darling
R5,524 Discovery Miles 55 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days


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).

Rethinking the African Diaspora - The Making of a Black Atlantic World in the Bight of Benin and Brazil (Paperback, Digital... Rethinking the African Diaspora - The Making of a Black Atlantic World in the Bight of Benin and Brazil (Paperback, Digital Print)
Edna G. Bay, Kristin Mann
R1,599 Discovery Miles 15 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Walk with Me - A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer (Hardcover): Kate Clifford Larson Walk with Me - A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer (Hardcover)
Kate Clifford Larson
R764 R683 Discovery Miles 6 830 Save R81 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

She was born the 20th child in a family that had lived in the Mississippi Delta for generations, first as enslaved people and then as sharecroppers. She left school at 12 to pick cotton, as those before her had done, in a world in which white supremacy was an unassailable citadel. She was subjected without her consent to an operation that deprived her of children. And she was denied the most basic of all rights in America-the right to cast a ballot-in a state in which Blacks constituted nearly half the population. And so Fannie Lou Hamer lifted up her voice. Starting in the early 1960s and until her death in 1977, she was an irresistible force, not merely joining the swelling wave of change brought by civil rights but keeping it in motion. Working with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which recruited her to help with voter-registration drives, Hamer became a community organizer, women's rights activist, and co-founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. She summoned and used what she had against the citadel-her anger, her courage, her faith in the Bible, and her conviction that hearts could be won over and injustice overcome. She used her brutal beating at the hands of Mississippi police, an ordeal from which she never fully recovered, as the basis of a televised speech at the 1964 Democratic Convention, a speech that the mainstream party-including its standard-bearer, President Lyndon Johnson-tried to contain. But Fannie Lou Hamer would not be held back. For those whose lives she touched and transformed, for those who heard and followed her voice, she was the embodiment of protest, perseverance, and, most of all, the potential for revolutionary change. Kate Clifford Larson's biography of Fannie Lou Hamer is the most complete ever written, drawing on recently declassified sources on both Hamer and the civil rights movement, including unredacted FBI and Department of Justice files. It also makes full use of interviews with Civil Rights activists conducted by the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress, and Democratic National Committee archives, in addition to extensive conversations with Hamer's family and with those with whom she worked most closely. Stirring, immersive, and authoritative, Walk with Me does justice to Fannie Lou Hamer's life, capturing in full the spirit, and the voice, that led the fight for freedom and equality in America at its critical moment.

The Unfinished Project - Toward a Postmetaphysical Humanism (Paperback, 3 Ed): Lorenzo C. Simpson The Unfinished Project - Toward a Postmetaphysical Humanism (Paperback, 3 Ed)
Lorenzo C. Simpson
R1,292 Discovery Miles 12 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days


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.

Race and Intelligence - Separating Science From Myth (Hardcover): Jefferson M. Fish Race and Intelligence - Separating Science From Myth (Hardcover)
Jefferson M. Fish
R4,528 Discovery Miles 45 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Windward Family - An atlas of love, loss and belonging (Paperback): Alexis Keir Windward Family - An atlas of love, loss and belonging (Paperback)
Alexis Keir
R262 R240 Discovery Miles 2 400 Save R22 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'It took two decades for me to go in search of the parts of myself I had left behind in the Caribbean. What ghosts were waiting for me there? There was a thick, black journal in my flat, stuffed with letters, postcards, handwritten notes and diary entries. For the first time in years, I opened it.' Twenty years after living there as a child, Alexis Keir returns to the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent. He is keen to uncover lost memories and rediscover old connections. But he also carries with him the childhood scars of being separated from his parents and put into uncaring hands. Inspired by the embrace of his relatives in the Caribbean, Alexis begins to unravel the stories of others who left Saint Vincent, searching through diary pages and newspaper articles, shipping and hospital records and faded photographs. He uncovers tales of exploitation, endeavour and bravery of those who had to find a home far away from where they were born. A child born with vitiligo, torn from his mother's arms to be exhibited as a showground attraction in England; a woman who, in the century before the Windrush generation, became one of the earliest Black nurses to be recorded as working in a London hospital; a young boy who became a footman in a Yorkshire stately home. And Alexis's mother, a student nurse who arrives in 1960s London, ready to start a new life in a cold, grey country - and the man from her island whom she falls in love with. From the Caribbean to England, North America and New Zealand, from windswept islands to the rainy streets of London, and spanning generations of travellers from the 19th century to the present, Windward Family takes you inside the beating heart of a Black British family, separated by thousands of miles but united by love, loss and belonging. Read what everyone is saying about Windward Family: 'Being Black British is more than an identity, it is a journey into uncharted waters of personal history. Alexis Keir's deeply moving account will ring true for all of those navigating their own stories.' David Lammy 'Poignant... like reading about your own ancestors, who were once lost but now found and brought to life... a joy to read.' Anni Domingo, actor, director and author of Breaking the Maafa Chain 'Brilliant... Profound... written in lyrical cinematic prose. I reread many passages strictly for their beauty.' H. Nigel Thomas 'A beautiful, illuminating read. Full of heart and wisdom.' Irenosen Okojie 'Very powerful and gripping.' Goodreads reviewer 'I fell in love with this story.' Goodreads reviewer 'A labour of love, and every word is heartfelt.' Goodreads reviewer 'Moving... eye opening... A very special story by a talented author.' Goodreads reviewer

Globalization and Educational Rights - An Intercivilizational Analysis (Paperback, New Ed): Joel Spring Globalization and Educational Rights - An Intercivilizational Analysis (Paperback, New Ed)
Joel Spring
R1,378 Discovery Miles 13 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 (Hardcover): Thurman Lee Hester Jr Political Principles and Indian Sovereignty (Hardcover)
Thurman Lee Hester Jr
R4,478 Discovery Miles 44 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days


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.

Monotheism, Biblical Traditions, and Race Relations (Paperback, New Ed): Yung-Suk Kim Monotheism, Biblical Traditions, and Race Relations (Paperback, New Ed)
Yung-Suk Kim
R492 Discovery Miles 4 920 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In the Hebrew Bible, various aspects of theism exist though monotheistic faith stands out, and the New Testament largely continues with Jewish monotheism. This Element examines diverse aspects of monotheism in the Hebrew Bible and their implications to others or race relations. Also, it investigates monotheistic faith in the New Testament writings and its impact on race relations, including the work of Jesus and Paul's apostolic mission. While inclusive monotheism fosters race relations, exclusive monotheism harms race relations. This Element also engages contemporary biblical interpretations about the Bible, monotheistic faith, and race/ethnicity.

The Politics of the Black Nation - A Twenty-five-year Retrospective (Paperback): Georgia A. Persons The Politics of the Black Nation - A Twenty-five-year Retrospective (Paperback)
Georgia A. Persons
R1,506 Discovery Miles 15 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Global Constructions of Multicultural Education - Theories and Realities (Paperback): Carl A. Grant, Joy L Lei Global Constructions of Multicultural Education - Theories and Realities (Paperback)
Carl A. Grant, Joy L Lei
R1,483 Discovery Miles 14 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Global Constructions of Multicultural Education - Theories and Realities (Hardcover): Carl A. Grant, Joy L Lei Global Constructions of Multicultural Education - Theories and Realities (Hardcover)
Carl A. Grant, Joy L Lei
R3,166 R2,819 Discovery Miles 28 190 Save R347 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Understanding the Black Flame and Multigenerational Education Trauma - Toward a Theory of the Dehumanization of Black Students... Understanding the Black Flame and Multigenerational Education Trauma - Toward a Theory of the Dehumanization of Black Students (Hardcover)
June Cara Christian; Contributions by Mary Rogers-Grantham
R3,172 Discovery Miles 31 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Unlike any text to date, this revolutionary study surveys Black research and literature to determine the processes formal education uses to dehumanize Black students. This is a socio-historical analysis of the Black Flame trilogy (BFT), W. E. B. Du Bois's unparalleled, thirty-year study of Atlanta, Georgia from Black Reconstruction (1860 - 1880) to 1956. W.E.B. Du Bois is one of the most prescient sociologists of the twentieth century in his research of Black people in America. These ground-breaking novels establish racialization, colonization, and globalization as processes that continue to dehumanize Black students in education. Africana critical theory (ACT), critical race theory (CRT), and Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (PTSS) privilege the research, voice, and experiences of Blacks. These theoretical frames speak to the pain and effects of the impact of unchecked, gross, voyeuristic violence that helps define the White supremacist patriarchal culture in which we live. Straight forward and direct, this book show how the processes of dehumanization contribute to the legacy of trauma White supremacy exacts upon Black people and their humanity. This study is aimed at highlighting the stark disparities in Black and White education over times. This book offers a candid look at how the myth of Black inferiority and the metaphor of the achievement gap describe conscious economic deprivation, mob violence and intimidation, and White supremacist curricula, yet continues to imply long-standing cultural notion of Blacks intellectual inferiority. This research is offered to help mitigate the multigenerational education trauma Blacks have experienced since Reconstruction to envision a educational system that is efficacious and socially just in the distribution of resources, expanding diversity in curricula, and exposing pedagogical biases that traumatize not only Black people but all people.

Women in Islam - The Western Experience (Paperback, New): Anne-Sofie Roald Women in Islam - The Western Experience (Paperback, New)
Anne-Sofie Roald
R1,484 Discovery Miles 14 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days


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.

Making Homes in the West/Indies - Constructions of Subjectivity in the Writings of Michelle Cliff and Jamaica Kincaid... Making Homes in the West/Indies - Constructions of Subjectivity in the Writings of Michelle Cliff and Jamaica Kincaid (Hardcover)
Antonia Macdonald-Smythe
R4,496 Discovery Miles 44 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days


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

Tackling Militant Racism (Paperback): Peter Jepson Tackling Militant Racism (Paperback)
Peter Jepson
R1,131 Discovery Miles 11 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This title was first published in 2003. Militant racism is concerned with antagonism and hostility associated with racist activity. Within a society it is expressed by material that may stir up racial hatred and/or discrimination. It can also be seen on the streets and, indeed, the alleged racist criminality orchestrated by militant gangs. After examining the possible causes of militant racism and its effects, this book considers the new laws designed to tackle racially-motivated crime found in the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act. A central theme of the book is the balance between freedom of expression and penalizing racially-offensive expression.

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