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"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.
Between the turn of the twentieth century and the Brown v. Board of
Education decision in 1954, the way that American schools taught
about "race" changed dramatically. This transformation was
engineered by the nation's most prominent anthropologists,
including Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead, during
World War II. Inspired by scientific racism in Nazi Germany, these
activist scholars decided that the best way to fight racial
prejudice was to teach what they saw as the truth about race in the
institution that had the power to do the most good-American
schools. Anthropologists created lesson plans, lectures, courses,
and pamphlets designed to revise what they called "the 'race'
concept" in American education. They believed that if teachers
presented race in scientific and egalitarian terms, conveying human
diversity as learned habits of culture rather than innate
characteristics, American citizens would become less racist.
Although nearly forgotten today, this educational reform movement
represents an important component of early civil rights activism
that emerged alongside the domestic and global tensions of wartime.
Drawing on hundreds of first-hand accounts written by teachers
nationwide, Zoe Burkholder traces the influence of this
anthropological activism on the way that teachers understood,
spoke, and taught about race. She explains how and why teachers
readily understood certain theoretical concepts, such as the
division of race into three main categories, while they struggled
to make sense of more complex models of cultural diversity and
structural inequality. As they translated theories into practice,
teachers crafted an educational discourse on race that differed
significantly from the definition of race produced by scientists at
mid-century.
Schoolteachers and their approach to race were put into the
spotlight with the Brown v. Board of Education case, but the belief
that racially integrated schools would eradicate racism in the next
generation and eliminate the need for discussion of racial
inequality long predated this. Discussions of race in the classroom
were silenced during the early Cold War until a new generation of
antiracist, "multicultural" educators emerged in the 1970s."
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Although historians and literary theorists have long participated
in discussions about race, it is only recently that philosophers
have returned to the topic. The main focus of their attention has
been the question of what one means by race now that its biological
basis has been discredited, and under what conditions a
non-essentialist concept of race can be sustained.
This volume provides an introduction to the concept of race
within philosophy. It gives an overview of the most important
contributions by continental philosophers to the understanding of
race - focusing on Kant, Du Bois, Senghor, and Sartre - as well as
presenting a general review of recent philosophical discussions. In
addition, it moves the debate forward by including new
contributions by some of today's leading theorists.
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.
Riveting and inspiring first-person stories of how "taking a knee"
triggered an awakening in sports, from the celebrated sportswriter
"The Kaepernick Effect reveals that Colin Kaepernick's story is
bigger than one athlete. With profiles of courage that leap off the
page, Zirin uncovers a whole national movement of citizen-athletes
fighting for racial justice." -Ibram X. Kendi, National Book
Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an
Antiracist In 2016, amid an epidemic of police shootings of African
Americans, the celebrated NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick began a
series of quiet protests on the field, refusing to stand during the
U.S. national anthem. By "taking a knee," Kaepernick bravely joined
a long tradition of American athletes making powerful political
statements. This time, however, Kaepernick's simple act spread like
wildfire throughout American society, becoming the preeminent
symbol of resistance to America's persistent racial inequality.
Critically acclaimed sports journalist and author of A People's
History of Sports in the United States, Dave Zirin chronicles "the
Kaepernick effect" for the first time, through interviews with a
broad cross-section of professional athletes across many different
sports, college stars and high-powered athletic directors, and high
school athletes and coaches. In each case, he uncovers the
fascinating explanations and motivations behind a mass political
movement in sports, through deeply personal and inspiring accounts
of risk-taking, activism, and courage both on and off the field. A
book about the politics of sport, and the impact of sports on
politics, The Kaepernick Effect is for anyone seeking to understand
an essential dimension of the new movement for racial justice in
America.
Exploring the issue of Islamophobic attacks against Sikhs since
9/11, this book explains the historical, religious and legal
foundations and frameworks for understanding race hate crime
against the Sikh community in the UK. Focusing on the backlash that
Sikhs in the UK have faced since 9/11, the authors provide a
theological and historical backdrop to Sikh identity in the global
context, critically analysing the occurrences of Islamophobia since
9/11, 7/7 and most recently post-Brexit, and how British Sikhs and
the British government have responded and reacted to these
incidents. The experiences of American Sikhs are also explored and
the impact of anti-Sikh sentiment upon both these communities is
considered. Drawing on media reporting, government policies, the
emerging body of inter-disciplinary scholarship, and empirical
research, this book contributes to the currently limited body of
literature on anti-Sikh hate crime and produces ideas for policy
makers on how to rectify the situation. Providing a better
understanding of perceptions of anti-Sikh sentiment and its impact,
this book will of interest to scholars and upper-level students
working on identity and hate crime, and more generally in the
fields of Religion and Politics, Cultural Studies, Media Studies,
and International Studies.
A shocking depiction of one of the world's most ruthless regimes -
and the story of one woman's fight to survive. I will never forget
the camp. I cannot forget the eyes of the prisoners, expecting me
to do something for them. They are innocent. I have to tell their
story, to tell about the darkness they are in. It is so easy to
suffocate us with the demons of powerlessness, shame, and guilt.
But we aren't the ones who should feel ashamed. Born in China's
north-western province, Sayragul Sauytbay trained as a doctor
before being appointed a senior civil servant. But her life was
upended when the Chinese authorities incarcerated her. Her crime:
being Kazakh, one of China's ethnic minorities. The north-western
province borders the largest number of foreign nations and is the
point in China that is the closest to Europe. In recent years it
has become home to over 1,200 penal camps - modern-day gulags that
are estimated to house three million members of the Kazakh and
Uyghur minorities. Imprisoned solely due to their ethnicity,
inmates are subjected to relentless punishment and torture,
including being beaten, raped, and used as subjects for medical
experiments. The camps represent the greatest systematic
incarceration of an entire people since the Third Reich. In prison,
Sauytbay was put to work teaching Chinese language, culture, and
politics, in the course of which she gained access to secret
information that revealed Beijing's long-term plans to undermine
not only its minorities, but democracies around the world. Upon her
escape to Europe she was reunited with her family, but still lives
under the constant threat of reprisal. This rare testimony from the
biggest surveillance state in the world reveals not only the full,
frightening scope of China's tyrannical ambitions, but also the
resilience and courage of its author.
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.
"Natural Hierarchies" adopts a highly original approach to trace
the emergence and development of social rank in our present-day
world. The author draws upon traditional methods used in the social
sciences, detailed accounts of historical events in Europe, the
Indian subcontinent, the Caribbean, and mainland America, to
illustrate how meanings of race and caste have been transformed
mainly through political struggles, and particularly in the context
of colonialism.
This new and highly provocative analysis looks at ideas of
hierarchy in the light of the latest historical, anthropological,
and sociological evidence to generate understanding of present
struggles in race and ethnic relations. It is a well-reasoned
account that illuminates the strong historical links between the
idea of hierarchy and concepts of race and caste.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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).
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Before the Civil War, upstate New York earned itself a nickname: the burned-over district. African Americans were few in upstate New York, so this book focuses on reformers in three predominately white communities. At the cutting edge of revolutions in transportation and industry, these ordinary citizens tried to maintain a balance between stability and change.
This book provides a diverse collection of studies reporting the
effects of social influence processes in multiple cultures at both
the universal and culture-specific levels. The book is
characterized by three distinct features. First, the social
influence process is considered as a ubiquitous and pervasive
feature of human interaction. Second, the book represents a
multicultural approach which includes both cross-cultural and
culture-focused examinations. Third, the book emphasizes practical
implications of the research presented.
This volume incorporates theory and research stemming from three
different approaches to social influence: social influence
"principles" across cultures, social influence and social change
across cultures, and culture and moral perspective in the social
influence process. Because each of these three parts encompasses a
considerable variety of research methodologies, social contexts,
and cultures, each is proceeded by an integrative commentary
authored by one of the book editors. These essays provide syntheses
of the topics and themes within the corresponding sections and
within the book as a whole. They also offer critical commentaries
on both theoretical and methodological issues, raise suggestions
for future research, and focus on practical applications.
This book is intended for both scholars interested in cross- and
multicultural research into the mechanisms of the social influence
process and for the professional whose mission is to make planned
changes in a society. Knowledge about the influence process,
especially regarding how it works in different cultures and within
several cultural groups, facilitates this goal. The practical
implications ending each chapter serve as encouraging instructions
for such applications.
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