wyszukanych pozycji: 116
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Herstories: Leading with the Lessons of the Lives of Black Women Activists
ISBN: 9781433111938 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The field of leadership has often been criticized for excluding voices that are not White and male. Not only are women specifically Black women poorly represented in leadership positions and the field s knowledge base, they are vastly underrepresented in the actual content of leadership courses and texts.
This book analyzes the transformational leadership, servant leadership, and social justice leadership found in the lives of Fannie Lou Hamer, Septima Clark, Mary McLeod Bethune, Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, and Audre Lorde. The book not only chronicles the careers and professional... The field of leadership has often been criticized for excluding voices that are not White and male. Not only are women specifically Black women poorly...
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695,06 |
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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. 10-14 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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204,95 |
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Alchemy of the Soul: An African-Centered Education
ISBN: 9781433126987 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 161 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. It started with a dream, a dream in the night that challenged the dream of the author's life. That dream, which evolved through her personal experiences, was to start an African-centered school. The dream in the night ignited the journey that led to this book, which was to discover answers to critical questions such as: What is an African-centered education model? How do former students perceive this experience? And can, or even should, this educational model be effectively adopted in traditional public schools? Joyce Piert offers this book as a critical resource to parents, educators,...
It started with a dream, a dream in the night that challenged the dream of the author's life. That dream, which evolved through her personal experienc...
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cena:
216,85 |
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The Dialectics of African Education and Western Discourses: Counter-Hegemonic Perspectives
ISBN: 9781433113796 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The Dialectics of African Education and Western Discourses addresses how continental Africans who have worked or are currently working in the Canadian academy address their dual legacy of African and Euro-American knowledge paradigms. Reflecting a range of approaches to hegemonic Euro-American paradigms that can be summarized as -appropriation, ambivalence and alternatives, - the authors bring African indigenous knowledge and praxes into play in addressing issues in various sub-fields of education from philosophy and gnosis to teacher education and classroom practice, memory work and...
The Dialectics of African Education and Western Discourses addresses how continental Africans who have worked or are currently working in the C...
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747,94 |
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Spiritual Discourse in the Academy: A Globalized Indigenous Perspective
ISBN: 9781433122309 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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211,79 |
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Racialism and the Media: Black Jesus, Black Twitter, and the First Black American President
ISBN: 9781433172892 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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570,57 |
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«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. 10-14 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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734,78 |
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Alchemy of the Soul: An African-Centered Education
ISBN: 9781433126994 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 161 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. It started with a dream, a dream in the night that challenged the dream of the author s life. That dream, which evolved through her personal experiences, was to start an African-centered school. The dream in the night ignited the journey that led to this book, which was to discover answers to critical questions such as: What is an African-centered education model? How do former students perceive this experience? And can, or even should, this educational model be effectively adopted in traditional public schools? Joyce Piert offers this book as a critical resource to parents, educators,...
It started with a dream, a dream in the night that challenged the dream of the author s life. That dream, which evolved through her personal experienc...
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cena:
833,21 |
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Black Males in the Green Mountains; Colorblindness and Cultural Competence in Vermont Public Schools
ISBN: 9781433117626 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 193 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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747,94 |
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The Rhizome of Blackness: A Critical Ethnography of Hip-Hop Culture, Language, Identity, and the Politics of Becoming
ISBN: 9781433126031 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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...
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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cena:
840,55 |
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Reprocessing Race, Language and Ability: African-Born Educators and Students in Transnational America
ISBN: 9781433117503 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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787,92 |
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The World of Stephanie St. Clair: An Entrepreneur, Race Woman and Outlaw in Early Twentieth Century Harlem
ISBN: 9781433123870 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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833,21 |
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Black Megachurch Culture: Models for Education and Empowerment
ISBN: 9781433109096 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book identifies how church cultural components are created, developed, and used to educate and empower adherents, and whether and how these tools are associated with the historic Black Church. The book is particularly interested in how large Black congregations megachurches use rituals found in worship, theology, racial beliefs, programmatic efforts, and other tools from their cultural repertoire to instruct congregants to model success in word and deed. The book s findings illustrate that Black megachurches strive to model success on various fronts by tapping into effective historic...
This book identifies how church cultural components are created, developed, and used to educate and empower adherents, and whether and how these tools...
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cena:
635,34 |
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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. 16-18 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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1176,53 |
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D.I.V.A. Diaries: The Road to the Ph.D. and Stories of Black Women Who Have Endured
ISBN: 9781433123856 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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833,21 |
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The Dialectics of African Education and Western Discourses: Counter-Hegemonic Perspectives
ISBN: 9781433113789 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The Dialectics of African Education and Western Discourses addresses how continental Africans who have worked or are currently working in the Canadian academy address their dual legacy of African and Euro-American knowledge paradigms. Reflecting a range of approaches to hegemonic Euro-American paradigms that can be summarized as -appropriation, ambivalence and alternatives, - the authors bring African indigenous knowledge and praxes into play in addressing issues in various sub-fields of education from philosophy and gnosis to teacher education and classroom practice, memory work and...
The Dialectics of African Education and Western Discourses addresses how continental Africans who have worked or are currently working in the C...
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cena:
204,95 |
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Ordinary Theologies; Religio-spirituality and the Leadership of Black Female Principals
ISBN: 9781433116360 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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cena:
840,55 |
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Artful Stories: The Teacher, the Student, and the Muse
ISBN: 9781433114076 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 149 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. These are the stories of four arts practitioners from Trinidad and Tobago a lighting designer, a dancer, a jazz musician and a choreographer who have made names for themselves internationally. The book centers on their role as educators in their fields; their unique and individual journeys exemplify the classic role artists have (always) played as teachers. Artful Stories is a timely and profound work that captures the teacher-student dynamic. It fills a void by recognizing the contributions of Caribbean artists to U.S. and European artistic scholarship. This book will be a valuable...
These are the stories of four arts practitioners from Trinidad and Tobago a lighting designer, a dancer, a jazz musician and a choreographer who have ...
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198,11 |
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The Souls of Yoruba Folk: Indigeneity, Race, and Critical Spiritual Literacy in the African Diaspora
ISBN: 9781433126093 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 169 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The Souls of Yoruba Folk explores the spiritual lives and experiences of sixteen Africans of Yoruba descent in Canada, and investigates how they make meaning of their Indigenous heritage within the geopolitical space of Eurocentric Canadian culture. The book highlights how Yoruba peoples in the African diaspora strategically utilize their Indigenous spiritual knowledges as decolonizing tools of navigation, subversion, and resistance to colonial oppression in the purportedly multicultural space of Canada. The author powerfully weaves together literature of Yoruba peoples from multiple...
The Souls of Yoruba Folk explores the spiritual lives and experiences of sixteen Africans of Yoruba descent in Canada, and investigates how the...
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cena:
787,92 |
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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. 10-14 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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cena:
787,92 |