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This book explores how cultural, social and political change
happens through a unique analysis of the ‘ethical turn’ in
skateboarding today. Insights shared by key change-makers and
industry insiders cover themes including First Nations, Black and
People of Color, skater-run creative innovations, anti-colonialism,
anti-racism initiatives, and a growing focus on equity and
empowering skaters historically discriminated against due to gender
and/or sexuality. These dynamic changes are also connected to
conceptual and theoretical frameworks from skate research,
journalism, and sociology. This is a must-read for anyone
interested in subcultures and social change.
Adoption and Multiculturalism features the voices of international
scholars reflecting transnational and transracial adoption and its
relationship to notions of multiculturalism. The essays trouble
common understandings about who is being adopted, who is adopting,
and where these acts are taking place, challenging in fascinating
ways the tidy master narrative of saviorhood and the concept of a
monolithic Western receiving nation. Too often the presumption is
that the adoptive and receiving country is one that celebrates
racial and ethnic diversity, thus making it superior to the
conservative and insular places from which adoptees arrive. The
volume’s contributors subvert the often simplistic ways that
multiculturalism is linked to transnational and transracial
adoption and reveal how troubling multiculturalism in fact can be.
The contributors represent a wide range of disciplines, cultures,
and connections in relation to the adoption constellation, bringing
perspectives from Europe (including Scandinavia), Canada, the
United States, and Australia. The book brings together the various
methodologies of literary criticism, history, anthropology,
sociology, and cultural theory to demonstrate the multifarious and
robust ways that adoption and multiculturalism might be studied and
considered. Edited by three transnational and transracial adoptees,
Adoption and Multiculturalism: Europe, the Americas, and the
Pacific offers bold new scholarship that revises popular notions of
transracial and transnational adoption as practice and phenomenon.
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