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This edited collection describes and discusses the advances of
African Americans since the 1960s in the context of political
philosophy, specifically, utilitarian liberalism revisited as 1980s
and 1990s conservatism. Identifying the basic assumptions of
utilitarian liberalism with respect to governance and
representation, it uses these constructs to explain public policy
outcomes in African-American communities. The three core themes
are: governance and the role of the state; African American
responses and strategies for empowerment; and policy adjustments of
the state. It is a major contribution to the discourse on a problem
central to contemporary public policy debate: the appropriate role
of government in the regulation of public and private behavior to
achieve a balance between freedom and justice.
Radio surveys play an important role in observational cosmology.
However, until recently the surveys have been either of wide area
but with low sensitivity or of small area with high sensitivity.
Both limit the kinds of cosmology that can be carried out with
radio surveys. This situation has been revolutionised in the past
few years by the availability of new, large-area, high-sensitivity
radio surveys at both low and high radio frequencies. These
significant improvements allow studies based on both the statistics
of the surveys themselves and multiwavelength follow-up of the
galaxies and AGN responsible for the radio emission. It is
therefore an opportune time to summarise progress in this field
with a workshop. This book comprises the proceedings of the
Observational Cosmology with the New Radio Surveys' workshop, held
on Tenerife, January 13-15, 1997. Topics covered include: lessons
learned and important results from earlier surveys, descriptions of
some of the new surveys, clusters of galaxies and large-scale
structure, radio source evolution, CMB studies, gravitational
lensing and multiwavelength studies of distant radio sources.
Urbanization, everywhere, is of pressing concern to society. It is
now appreciated that politicies for urban growth cannot be confined
to the cities themselves, but mus extend outwards to include both
the city and its surrounding areas. Britain, with the help of North
American experience, has since 1965 pioneered new approacheds to
the city in its regional dimension. These contributions are
examined in this book. Its essential merit is that it shows how
planners think, and describes assumptions and the nature of
arguments used when determining the form and characteristics of
future urban environment in England. This book was first published
in 1972.
Contributors to the volume represent an international "who's who"
of research scientists from the fields of psychology and
measurement. It offers the insights of these leading authorities
regarding cognition and personality. In particular, they address
the roles of constructs and values in clarifying the theoretical
and empirical work in these fields, as well as their relation to
educational assessment. It is intended for professionals and
students in psychology and assessment, and almost anyone doing
research in cognition and personality.
Celebrants of an ever-emerging 'globalization' fly the banner of
free trade, the mass marketization of once faltering economies, and
rising economic and social standards for all. Many opponents to
globalization rightfully point out that borders still exist largely
for the purposes of keeping one 'commodity' in its place: the labor
commodity or, the more familiar, immigrant. Arguments of this type
are often steeped in economic and social discourse. Race and
ethnicity are seen as either being subsumed by this discourse or
are entirely ignored as incidental to this type of political
thought. In Ethnicity, Class and Nationalism: Caribbean and
Extra-Caribbean Dimensions specialists writing on the Caribbean
form of the nation-state place race and ethnicity along with class
in its proper context: at the very foundations of the modern
nation. Editor Anton L. Allahar has handpicked scholarship that is
both contemporary and expert in its consideration of Caribbean
geo-politics. Furthermore, essays in this volume include
comparative cases from around the globe. In the interest of
locating race and ethnicity as sociological and political
categories that are inimical to contemporary conceptions of the
nation state, Allahar explores spaces other than the Caribbean. The
result is a comparative study that is unique in scope and also in
its level of scholarly reflection. This book is the first of its
kind. It is essential reading for anyone interested in advancing
their analysis of political, economic, social, and cultural thought
in the Caribbean."
Contributors to the volume represent an international "who's who"
of research scientists from the fields of psychology and
measurement. It offers the insights of these leading authorities
regarding cognition and personality. In particular, they address
the roles of constructs and values in clarifying the theoretical
and empirical work in these fields, as well as their relation to
educational assessment. It is intended for professionals and
students in psychology and assessment, and almost anyone doing
research in cognition and personality.
Urbanization, everywhere, is of pressing concern to society. It is
now appreciated that politicies for urban growth cannot be confined
to the cities themselves, but mus extend outwards to include both
the city and its surrounding areas. Britain, with the help of North
American experience, has since 1965 pioneered new approacheds to
the city in its regional dimension. These contributions are
examined in this book. Its essential merit is that it shows how
planners think, and describes assumptions and the nature of
arguments used when determining the form and characteristics of
future urban environment in England. This book was first published
in 1972.
Radio surveys play an important role in observational cosmology.
However, until recently the surveys have been either of wide area
but with low sensitivity or of small area with high sensitivity.
Both limit the kinds of cosmology that can be carried out with
radio surveys. This situation has been revolutionised in the past
few years by the availability of new, large-area, high-sensitivity
radio surveys at both low and high radio frequencies. These
significant improvements allow studies based on both the statistics
of the surveys themselves and multiwavelength follow-up of the
galaxies and AGN responsible for the radio emission. It is
therefore an opportune time to summarise progress in this field
with a workshop. This book comprises the proceedings of the
`Observational Cosmology with the New Radio Surveys' workshop, held
on Tenerife, January 13-15, 1997. Topics covered include: lessons
learned and important results from earlier surveys, descriptions of
some of the new surveys, clusters of galaxies and large-scale
structure, radio source evolution, CMB studies, gravitational
lensing and multiwavelength studies of distant radio sources.
During the colonial period in Guyana, the country's coastal lands
were worked by enslaved Africans and indentured Indians. In Creole
Indigeneity, Shona N. Jackson investigates how their descendants,
collectively called Creoles, have remade themselves as Guyana's new
natives, displacing indigenous peoples in the Caribbean through an
extension of colonial attitudes and policies. Looking particularly
at the nation's politically fraught decades from the 1950s to the
present, Jackson explores aboriginal and Creole identities in
Guyanese society. Through government documents, interviews, and
political speeches, she reveals how Creoles, though unable to usurp
the place of aboriginals as First Peoples in the New World,
nonetheless managed to introduce a new, more socially viable
definition of belonging, through labor. The very reason for
bringing enslaved and indentured workers into Caribbean labor
became the organizing principle for Creoles' new identities.
Creoles linked true belonging, and so political and material right,
to having performed modern labor on the land; labor thus became the
basis for their subaltern, settler modes of indigeneity-a
contradiction for belonging under postcoloniality that Jackson
terms "Creole indigeneity." In doing so, her work establishes a new
and productive way of understanding the relationship between
national power and identity in colonial, postcolonial, and
anticolonial contexts.
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