wyszukanych pozycji: 93
«By Our Own Strength»: William Sherrill, the Unia, and the Fight for African American Self-Determination in Detroit
ISBN: 9781433118098 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For almost four decades, William Sherrill was a critical leader of Marcus Garvey s Universal Negro Improvement Association(UNIA) and a leading African American intellectual and activist in 1930s and 1940s Detroit. But until now, Sherrill s leadership and activism has never been detailed. As the first biography of Sherrill, this book examines him as part of a historical tradition from which post-World War II Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism re-emerged. Sherrill represents a bridge between the African American self-determination of the1920s and 1930s and African American activism from the...
For almost four decades, William Sherrill was a critical leader of Marcus Garvey s Universal Negro Improvement Association(UNIA) and a leading African...
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301,76 zł |
Fighting for Our Place in the Sun: Malcolm X and the Radicalization of the Black Student Movement 1960-1973
ISBN: 9781433117701 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In Fighting for Our Place in the Sun, Richard D. Benson II examines the life of Malcolm X as not only a radical political figure, but also as a teacher and mentor. The book illuminates the untold tenets of Malcolm X s educational philosophy, and also traces a historical trajectory of Black activists that sought to create spaces of liberation and learning that are free from cultural and racial oppression. It explains a side of the Black student movement and shift in black power that develops as a result of the student protests in North Carolina and Duke University. From these acts of...
In Fighting for Our Place in the Sun, Richard D. Benson II examines the life of Malcolm X as not only a radical political figure, but also as ...
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301,76 zł |
Reprocessing Race, Language and Ability: African-Born Educators and Students in Transnational America
ISBN: 9781433117510 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book explores the unique experiences of African-born educators and students in North American K-12 classrooms, as well as those of education faculty and administrators. It identifies the conflicting attributes that African-born educators and students bring into American schools and the challenges of working in linguistically, racially and culturally regulated educational spaces. The collected essays examine how attributes assigned to immigrant teachers by the host community of students, colleagues and administrators can serve both as conduits and deterrents for effective teaching. In...
This book explores the unique experiences of African-born educators and students in North American K-12 classrooms, as well as those of education facu...
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288,00 zł |
Spiritual Discourse in the Academy: A Globalized Indigenous Perspective
ISBN: 9781433122309 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Spiritual Discourse in the Academy focuses on the value of spirituality as a subjugated knowledge from globalized contexts. The book's central tenet is that spirituality is the core of one's intellectual growth and that its inclusion in education acknowledges the sum total of who we are. It not only offers strategies for transformative education, but also embraces global diversity and inclusive education for the twenty-first century.
The book also provides a detailed examination of spirituality from a global context, acknowledges the detrimental legacies of colonialism on... Spiritual Discourse in the Academy focuses on the value of spirituality as a subjugated knowledge from globalized contexts. The book's central ...
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295,03 zł |
Ordinary Theologies; Religio-spirituality and the Leadership of Black Female Principals
ISBN: 9781433116353 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Through narrative analysis, Ordinary Theologies highlights the intersectionality of gender, race, and religio-spirituality. It examines the relationship of past and current religio-spiritual leadership understandings that contest the status quo in U.S. schools. The historicity and analysis of gender and race contributes to reconceptualizing educational and leadership by emphasizing the voices of Black female leaders, voices that provide alternative understandings of schooling, stressing the importance of gendered and raced voices in administration, and questioning formulaic models of...
Through narrative analysis, Ordinary Theologies highlights the intersectionality of gender, race, and religio-spirituality. It examines the rel...
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301,76 zł |
Sweetwater; Black Women and Narratives of Resilience
ISBN: 9781433117756 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 129 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book has won the 2014 Qualitative Book Award Sweetwater: Black Women and Narratives of Resilience is a multi-generational story of growing up black and female in the rural South. This book captures the artistry, strength, hope, sound, language, and creativity shared by first-hand accounts of black women in a familial village community in North Carolina. Sweetwater is about the black female experience as it relates to friendship, family, spirituality, poverty, education, addiction, mental illness, romantic relationships, raising children, and everyday survival....
This book has won the 2014 Qualitative Book Award Sweetwater: Black Women and Narratives of Resilience is a multi-generational stor...
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274,26 zł |
Teach for America Counter-Narratives: Alumni Speak Up and Speak Out
ISBN: 9781433128776 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In its twenty-five years of existence, Teach For America (TFA) has transformed from an organization based on a perceived need to ameliorate a national teacher shortage to an organization that seeks to systematically replace traditional fully-certified teachers while simultaneously producing alumni who are interested in facilitating neoliberal education reform through elected political positions. From its inception, TFA has had its share of critics; yet criticism of the organization by its own members and alumni has largely been silenced and relegated to the margins.
This book the first of... In its twenty-five years of existence, Teach For America (TFA) has transformed from an organization based on a perceived need to ameliorate a national...
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1141,32 zł |
Black Women in Reality Television Docusoaps: A New Form of Representation or Depictions as Usual?
ISBN: 9781433127779 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 137 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Black Women in Reality Television Docusoaps explores representations of Black women in one of the most powerful, popular forms of reality television - the docusoap. Viewers, critics, and researchers have taken issue with what they consider to be unflattering, one-dimensional representations. This book discusses images of Black women in reality television during the 2011 viewing year, when much criticism arose. These findings provide a context for a more recent examination of reality television portrayals during 2014, following many reality stars' promises to offer new representations....
Black Women in Reality Television Docusoaps explores representations of Black women in one of the most powerful, popular forms of reality telev...
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281,27 zł |
Black Males in the Green Mountains; Colorblindness and Cultural Competence in Vermont Public Schools
ISBN: 9781433117619 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 193 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Mention the state of Vermont and images of maple syrup, scenic mountains, and progressive politics come to mind. But in addition to skiing, farming, and fall foliage, there is also a startling history of racial and religious intolerance and bigotry. Burlington is known as the birthplace of John Dewey, whose enlightened views about education reached far beyond the Green Mountains to impact schools. Yet there exist many unsavory examples of equitable education deferred for a small but growing population. Black males, especially, have not been treated fairly suffering in silence as a...
Mention the state of Vermont and images of maple syrup, scenic mountains, and progressive politics come to mind. But in addition to skiing, farming, a...
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301,76 zł |
Boyhood to Manhood: Deconstructing Black Masculinity Through a Life Span Continuum
ISBN: 9781433125607 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Boyhood to Manhood: Deconstructing Black Masculinity through a Life Span Continuum seeks to foster an open and honest discussion about the intersection of multiple identities found among Black males. The book explores topics such as what it means to be a Black male; race and ethnicity; health; dis]ability; athletics; socioeconomic status; historical accounts; employment; religion and sexual identity. Many Black men share the experience of being members of cultures that are guided by strict gendered norms. These norms often require men to conform to -masculine- behaviors, which may...
Boyhood to Manhood: Deconstructing Black Masculinity through a Life Span Continuum seeks to foster an open and honest discussion about the inte...
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1072,28 zł |
The Black Imagination; Science Fiction, Futurism and the Speculative
ISBN: 9781433112416 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This critical collection covers a broad spectrum of works, both literary and cinematic, and issues from writers, directors, and artists who claim the science fiction, speculative fiction, and Afro-futurist genres. The anthology extends the discursive boundaries of science fiction by examining iconic writers like Octavia Butler, Walter Mosley, and Nalo Hopkinson through the lens of ecofeminist veganism, post-9/11 racial geopolitics, and the effect of the computer database on human voice and agency. Contributors expand what the field characterizes as speculative fiction by examining for the...
This critical collection covers a broad spectrum of works, both literary and cinematic, and issues from writers, directors, and artists who claim the ...
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253,79 zł |
The Rhizome of Blackness: A Critical Ethnography of Hip-Hop Culture, Language, Identity, and the Politics of Becoming
ISBN: 9781433126024 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Rhizome of Blackness is a critical ethnographic documentation of the process of how continental African youth are becoming Black in North America. They enter a social imaginary where they find themselves already falling under the umbrella of Blackness. For young Africans, Hip-Hop culture, language, and identity emerge as significant sites of identification; desire; and cultural, linguistic, and identity investment. No longer is plain Canadian English a site of investment, but instead, Black English as a second language (BESL) and Hip-Hop all da way baby (as one student put it)....
The Rhizome of Blackness is a critical ethnographic documentation of the process of how continental African youth are becoming Black in North A...
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301,76 zł |
The Revelations of Asher: Toward Supreme Love in Self - (This Is an Endarkened, Feminist, New Literacies Event)
ISBN: 9781433122002 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Revelations of Asher: Toward Supreme Love in Self is an endarkened, feminist, new literacies event. It critically and creatively explores Black women s terror in love. With poetry, prose, and analytic memos, Jeanine Staples shows how a group of Black women s talk and writings about relationships revealed epistemological and ontological revelations, after 9/11. These revelations are presented in the context of a third wave new literacies framework. They are voiced and storied dynamically by the women s seven fragmented selves. Through the selves, we learn the five ways the women...
The Revelations of Asher: Toward Supreme Love in Self is an endarkened, feminist, new literacies event. It critically and creatively explores B...
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1285,83 zł |
School Sucks!; Arguments for Alternative Education
ISBN: 9781433117053 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 425 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. School Sucks is designed to complement the dominant discourse of school reform by presenting a compendium of critical pedagogical writings that analyze the current issues in urban education and demonstrate alternative praxis for failing schools. The two editors of this volume also serve as the series editors for Peter Lang Publishing s Educational Psychology and Black Studies and Critical Thinking series, giving them remarkable resources from which to draw this selection of writings that represent the very best concepts of pedagogy and praxis. School Sucks furthers the reader's...
School Sucks is designed to complement the dominant discourse of school reform by presenting a compendium of critical pedagogical writings tha...
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363,77 zł |
Black Women in Reality Television Docusoaps: A New Form of Representation or Depictions as Usual?
ISBN: 9781433127786 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 137 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Black Women in Reality Television Docusoaps explores representations of Black women in one of the most powerful, popular forms of reality television the docusoap. Viewers, critics, and researchers have taken issue with what they consider to be unflattering, one-dimensional representations. This book discusses images of Black women in reality television during the 2011 viewing year, when much criticism arose. These findings provide a context for a more recent examination of reality television portrayals during 2014, following many reality stars promises to offer new representations. The...
Black Women in Reality Television Docusoaps explores representations of Black women in one of the most powerful, popular forms of reality telev...
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1072,28 zł |
Learning to (Re)Member the Things We've Learned to Forget: Endarkened Feminisms, Spirituality, and the Sacred Nature of Research and Teaching
ISBN: 9781433112812 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Feminist research has both held and contested experience as a category of epistemological importance, often as a secular notion. However, spirituality and sacred knowing are also fundamental to a Black/endarkened feminist epistemology in teaching and research, given the historical and cultural experiences of African ascendant women worldwide. How can (re)membering bear witness to our individual and collective spiritual consciousness and generate new questions that inform feminist theory and practice? Learning to (Re)member the Things We've Learned to Forget explores that question....
Feminist research has both held and contested experience as a category of epistemological importance, often as a secular notion. However, spirituality...
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281,27 zł |
African and African American Children's and Adolescent Literature in the Classroom: A Critical Guide
ISBN: 9781433111952 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The essays in this collection discuss multicultural issues in children s and adolescent literature, focusing particularly on African and African American cultures. They challenge our understanding of what, in an age of globalization, multicultural texts really are. Cumulatively, these essays illustrate multicultural literature s power to educate young readers about the numerous and varied perspectives on their own cultures and roles in society, as well as those of other cultures. The scholarship presented here makes it clear that not only should multicultural literature be integrated within...
The essays in this collection discuss multicultural issues in children s and adolescent literature, focusing particularly on African and African Ameri...
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253,79 zł |
D.I.V.A. Diaries: The Road to the Ph.D. and Stories of Black Women Who Have Endured
ISBN: 9781433123849 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Distinguished, Intellectual, Virtuous, Academic Sistas (D.I.V.A.S.) is a group of Black women who formed a bond with one another as doctoral students as a means of support on their journey through the academy. The acronym defines the women individually and as an entire group. This anthology can be used as a practical, student-centered sourcebook for Black female doctoral candidates. By providing narratives about the importance of race, class, culture, religion, socioeconomics, and nationality, this book aims to encourage more Black women to pursue a terminal degree and to continue...
The Distinguished, Intellectual, Virtuous, Academic Sistas (D.I.V.A.S.) is a group of Black women who formed a bond with one another as doctoral stude...
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267,53 zł |
«By Our Own Strength»: William Sherrill, the Unia, and the Fight for African American Self-Determination in Detroit
ISBN: 9781433118081 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For almost four decades, William Sherrill was a critical leader of Marcus Garvey s Universal Negro Improvement Association(UNIA) and a leading African American intellectual and activist in 1930s and 1940s Detroit. But until now, Sherrill s leadership and activism has never been detailed. As the first biography of Sherrill, this book examines him as part of a historical tradition from which post-World War II Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism re-emerged. Sherrill represents a bridge between the African American self-determination of the1920s and 1930s and African American activism from the...
For almost four decades, William Sherrill was a critical leader of Marcus Garvey s Universal Negro Improvement Association(UNIA) and a leading African...
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1003,54 zł |
The World of Stephanie St. Clair: An Entrepreneur, Race Woman and Outlaw in Early Twentieth Century Harlem
ISBN: 9781433123863 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Born in Guadeloupe in 1897, Stephanie St. Clair entered the United States thirteen years later. By 1923 at the age of twenty-six she would create and manage a highly lucrative policy bank in Harlem - earning a quarter of a million dollars a year. To this day, she remains the only black female gangster to run an operation of that size. Infamous gangster Dutch Schultz invited himself to share in the Harlem profits. Unlike other Harlem bankers, St. Clair resisted. Despite Schultz's threats, many of her male employees remained with her. Some said she paid them high wages and challenged them by...
Born in Guadeloupe in 1897, Stephanie St. Clair entered the United States thirteen years later. By 1923 at the age of twenty-six she would create and ...
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295,03 zł |