wyszukanych pozycji: 116
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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196,30 |
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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205,43 |
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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205,43 |
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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683,25 |
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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205,43 |
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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696,70 |
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Masculinity in the Black Imagination: Politics of Communicating Race and Manhood
ISBN: 9781433112485 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) How do Black men imagine who they are and what they must do ...within their families, communities, and the world?
The essays in this collection both ask and attempt to answer this question. Based in communication, and drawing from diverse disciplines, Masculinity in the Black Imagination seeks to address identity, race, and gender by examining the communicative dimensions of Black manhood. The collection works to define, deconstruct, and contextualize the interactive practice of masculinity as both a local and global phenomenon. How do Black men imagine who they are and what they must do ...within their families, communities, and the world?
The essays in this collection bo... |
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749,70 |
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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217,35 |
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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. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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185,40 |
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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212,28 |
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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571,91 |
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The Black Imagination; Science Fiction, Futurism and the Speculative
ISBN: 9781433112416 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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185,40 |
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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835,17 |
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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696,70 |
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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842,52 |
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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749,70 |
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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835,17 |
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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736,51 |
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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cena:
835,17 |
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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789,77 |