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The election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United
States has opened a new chapter in the country's long and often
tortured history of inter-racial and inter-ethnic relations. Many
relished in the inauguration of the country's first African
American president - an event foreseen by another White House
aspirant, Senator Robert Kennedy, four decades earlier. What could
have only been categorized as a dream in the wake of Brown vs.
Board of Education was now a reality. Some dared to contemplate a
post-racial America. Still, soon after Obama's election a small but
persistent faction questioned his eligibility to hold office; they
insisted that Obama was foreign-born. Following the Civil Rights
battles of the 20th century hate speech, at least in public, is no
longer as free flowing as it had been. Perhaps xenophobia, in a
land of immigrants, is the new rhetorical device to assail what
which is non-white and hence un-American. Furthermore, recent
debates about immigration and racial profiling in Arizona along
with the battle over rewriting of history and civics textbooks in
Texas suggest that a post-racial America is a long way off. What
roles do race, ethnicity, ancestry, immigration status, locus of
birth play in the public and private conversations that defy and
reinforce existing conceptions of what it means to be American?
This book exposes the changing and persistent notions of American
identity in the age of Obama. Amilcar Antonio Barreto and Richard
L. O'Bryant, and an outstanding line up of contributors examine
Obama's election and reelection as watershed phenomena that will be
exploited by the president's supporters and detractors to engage in
different forms of narrating the American national saga. Despite
the potential for major changes in rhetorical mythmaking, they
question whether American society has changed substantively.
The election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United
States has opened a new chapter in the country's long and often
tortured history of inter-racial and inter-ethnic relations. Many
relished in the inauguration of the country's first African
American president - an event foreseen by another White House
aspirant, Senator Robert Kennedy, four decades earlier. What could
have only been categorized as a dream in the wake of Brown vs.
Board of Education was now a reality. Some dared to contemplate a
post-racial America. Still, soon after Obama's election a small but
persistent faction questioned his eligibility to hold office; they
insisted that Obama was foreign-born. Following the Civil Rights
battles of the 20th century hate speech, at least in public, is no
longer as free flowing as it had been. Perhaps xenophobia, in a
land of immigrants, is the new rhetorical device to assail what
which is non-white and hence un-American. Furthermore, recent
debates about immigration and racial profiling in Arizona along
with the battle over rewriting of history and civics textbooks in
Texas suggest that a post-racial America is a long way off. What
roles do race, ethnicity, ancestry, immigration status, locus of
birth play in the public and private conversations that defy and
reinforce existing conceptions of what it means to be American?
This book exposes the changing and persistent notions of American
identity in the age of Obama. Amilcar Antonio Barreto, Richard L.
O'Bryant, and an outstanding line up of contributors examine
Obama's election and reelection as watershed phenomena that will be
exploited by the president's supporters and detractors to engage in
different forms of narrating the American national saga. Despite
the potential for major changes in rhetorical mythmaking, they
question whether American society has changed substantively.
Blood Wedding. Concerned with love that cannot become marriage
among the primitive hill people of Castile, this is a play of the
workings of tremendous passions and tribal ritual toward an
inescapable tragic end. Yerma. “The whole tragic burden of Yerma
is measured by the deepening of her struggle with the problem of
frustrated motherhood.” —From García Lorca, by Edwin Honig.
The House of Bernarda Alba. Again about “women whom love moves to
tragedy,” Bernarda Alba tells of the repression of five daughters
by a domineering mother, of how their natural spirits circumvent
her but bring violence and death.
This is a beautifully illustrated book that introduces children to
the wonder of nature in winter: A Fox Peeks Out of His Den at a
White Forest/ All is Silent/A Buck Stands Camouflaged/ A great
horned owl sits on a nearby branch/ The fox climbs out of this den/
He passes squirrels eating/ He passes mice foraging/ The fox
reaches a stream where he takes a cold drink/ A family of mallard
ducks swims by/ Across the stream, river otters rest on a rock/
Suddenly, the earth trembles. Towering over the fox, a moose takes
a cold drink/ His thirst quenched, the fox heads home/ He passes
rabbits hiding in a hollow tree/ Chattering crows greet the fox
outside his den/ After the snowfall.
This book has important information and current statistics on
health disparities within the United States. It identifies our most
vulnerable populations and offers guidelines on how to avoid
cultural incompetence and promote cultural proficiency. Cultural
Proficiency in Addressing Health Disparities will help us to
address Healthy People 2010, which challenges individuals,
communities, and professionals to take specific steps to ensure
that good health, as well as long life, is enjoyed by all. This
demands the ability to relate effectively to persons of many
different cultures to assure collaborative participation in
research (that must include minorities), clinical patient care and
disease prevention. Cultural Proficiency in Addressing Health
Disparities is written by experienced health care practitioners and
researchers who work every day to eliminate health disparities and
produce a culturally proficient health care environment for
patient, practitioner, and researchers. Physicians, researchers,
healthcare workers, health sciences educators and students,
community workers, advocates, planners, policy-makers and similar
professionals in non-profit and at the government level will
benefit from the information, insights and experiences recounted in
this book.
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