wyszukanych pozycji: 116
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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789,77 |
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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842,52 |
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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198,59 |
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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 (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. 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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789,77 |
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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 (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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842,52 |
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Racialism and the Media: Black Jesus, Black Twitter, and the First Black American President
ISBN: 9781433172885 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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204,16 |
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The Black Professoriat: Negotiating a Habitable Space in the Academy
ISBN: 9781433110283 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Although Black faculty have been present in the academy since the late nineteenth century, it has been during the twentieth century that they have established a presence which has had political, cultural, and epistemological implications. This book focuses on contemporary, successful Black scholars in the academy: they have become tenured and promoted; been recognized as noteworthy scholars, researchers, and as excellent teachers; and have served in leadership capacities. Through autoethnographic narratives that illustrate and interrogate experiences about being in the academy as gendered,...
Although Black faculty have been present in the academy since the late nineteenth century, it has been during the twentieth century that they have est...
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690,10 |
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Teach for America Counter-Narratives: Alumni Speak Up and Speak Out
ISBN: 9781433128776 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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842,52 |
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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. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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218,62 |
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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. 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 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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218,62 |
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Artful Stories; The Teacher, the Student, and the Muse
ISBN: 9781433114083 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 149 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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749,70 |
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School Sucks!; Arguments for Alternative Education
ISBN: 9781433117053 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 425 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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265,28 |
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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. 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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224,45 |
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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1001,79 |
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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 (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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696,70 |
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The Revelations of Asher: Toward Supreme Love in Self - (This Is an Endarkened, Feminist, New Literacies Event)
ISBN: 9781433121999 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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268,92 |
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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736,51 |
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Boyhood to Manhood: Deconstructing Black Masculinity Through a Life Span Continuum
ISBN: 9781433125607 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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789,77 |
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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205,43 |
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Black Feminism in Education; Black Women Speak Back, Up, and Out
ISBN: 9781433126055 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In Black Feminism in Education: Black Women Speak Back, Up, and Out, authors use an endarkened feminist lens to share the ways in which they have learned to resist, adapt, and re-conceptualize education research, teaching, and learning in ways that serve the individual, community, nation, and all of humanity. Chapters explore and discuss the following question: How is Black feminist thought and/or an endarkened feminist epistemology (EFE) being used in pre-K through higher education contexts and scholarship to marshal new research methodologies, frameworks, and pedagogies? At...
In Black Feminism in Education: Black Women Speak Back, Up, and Out, authors use an endarkened feminist lens to share the ways in which they ha...
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842,52 |