wyszukanych pozycji: 116
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The Souls of Yoruba Folk: Indigeneity, Race, and Critical Spiritual Literacy in the African Diaspora
ISBN: 9781433126086 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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213,77 |
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Contesting the Myth of a 'Post Racial' Era: The Continued Significance of Race in U.S. Education
ISBN: 9781433115189 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Contesting the Myth of a Post Racial Era brings together educational scholars across disciplines in higher education to reframe the discourse on race and racism in education in the Obama era and to explore structural, environmental, cultural, and political implications of race and racism in education. The volume gives explicit attention to contesting the myth of post-racialism in U.S. education by examining racial inequality across the K-16 spectrum, through examination of classroom practices, educational policies, educational research, and equity and access. Policy makers, educators,...
Contesting the Myth of a Post Racial Era brings together educational scholars across disciplines in higher education to reframe the discourse o...
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741,70 |
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Contesting the Myth of a 'Post Racial' Era; The Continued Significance of Race in U.S. Education
ISBN: 9781433115172 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Contesting the Myth of a Post Racial Era brings together educational scholars across disciplines in higher education to reframe the discourse on race and racism in education in the Obama era and to explore structural, environmental, cultural, and political implications of race and racism in education. The volume gives explicit attention to contesting the myth of post-racialism in U.S. education by examining racial inequality across the K-16 spectrum, through examination of classroom practices, educational policies, educational research, and equity and access. Policy makers, educators,...
Contesting the Myth of a Post Racial Era brings together educational scholars across disciplines in higher education to reframe the discourse o...
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206,88 |
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The Black Imagination: Science Fiction, Futurism and the Speculative
ISBN: 9781433112423 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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701,60 |
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Teach for America Counter-Narratives: Alumni Speak Up and Speak Out
ISBN: 9781433128769 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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220,16 |
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Spiritual Discourse in the Academy: A Globalized Indigenous Perspective
ISBN: 9781433122316 / 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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848,45 |
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The (Re-)Making of a Black American; Tracing the Racial and Ethnic Socialization of Caribbean American Youth
ISBN: 9781433120732 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Historically, Blacks in the United States have been treated as a homogenous group with little regard for distinctions in ethnicity and immigrant status. However, the growing number of Black immigrants to the United States, and their location at the intersection of immigrant opportunity and racial barriers, has prompted increased interest in the group s integration experiences. Grounded in the notion that racism is an inescapable marker of the Black experience in the United States, The (Re-)Making of a Black American explores the ways children of Black immigrants from the...
Historically, Blacks in the United States have been treated as a homogenous group with little regard for distinctions in ethnicity and immigrant statu...
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213,77 |
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School Sucks!; Arguments for Alternative Education
ISBN: 9781433117046 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 425 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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1008,85 |
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Fighting for Our Place in the Sun: Malcolm X and the Radicalization of the Black Student Movement 1960-1973
ISBN: 9781433117718 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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848,45 |
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African and African American Children's and Adolescent Literature in the Classroom: A Critical Guide
ISBN: 9781433111969 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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701,60 |
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Shut Up and Listen: Teaching Writing That Counts in Urban Schools
ISBN: 9781433111211 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Less than fifty percent of African American students graduate from high school. Their educational failure is built into the racial structure of curriculum, standardized testing, teacher preparation programs, and even teacher recruitment pathways. Shut Up and Listen argues that African American students should be taught to navigate and resist the racism perpetuated in every aspect of society and schools, and that to do so requires the development and expression of a culturally-rooted voice as a foundation for multicultural, multilingual, democratic communities. Shut Up and Listen...
Less than fifty percent of African American students graduate from high school. Their educational failure is built into the racial structure of curric...
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186,70 |
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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. 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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197,68 |
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Learning to (Re)Member the Things We've Learned to Forget: Endarkened Feminisms, Spirituality, and the Sacred Nature of Research and Teaching
ISBN: 9781433112829 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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754,98 |
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«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. 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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220,16 |
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Reprocessing Race, Language and Ability: African-Born Educators and Students in Transnational America
ISBN: 9781433117510 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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206,88 |
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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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206,88 |
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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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575,94 |
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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. 10-14 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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206,88 |
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Sweetwater; Black Women and Narratives of Resilience
ISBN: 9781433117763 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 129 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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688,07 |
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Conducting Multi-Generational Qualitative Research in Education: An Experiment in Grounded Theory
ISBN: 9781433110207 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book outlines a methodology for viewing multiple generations of African Americans, specifically those who were called or called themselves Negro, Colored, Black, or African American (NCBAA). Within this framework, African Americans of varying ages describe their lives and educational experiences, allowing researchers to address a variety of questions: How are social and political contexts woven into the interpretation of life and educational experiences? Given the social, political, and educational climate experienced by each generation, what are the beliefs, assumptions, and intentions...
This book outlines a methodology for viewing multiple generations of African Americans, specifically those who were called or called themselves Negro,...
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701,60 |