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Transforming the Elite - Michelle A. Purdy - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Transforming the Elite - Michelle A. Purdy - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

When traditionally white public schools in the South became sites of massive resistance in the wake of the Supreme Court''s Brown v. Board of Education decision, numerous white students exited the public system altogether, with parents choosing homeschooling or private segregationist academies. But some historically white elite private schools opted to desegregate. The black students that attended these schools courageously navigated institutional and interpersonal racism but ultimately emerged as upwardly mobile leaders. Transforming the Elite tells this story. Focusing on the experiences of the first black students to desegregate Atlanta''s well-known The Westminster Schools and national efforts to diversify private schools, Michelle A. Purdy combines social history with policy analysis in a dynamic narrative that expertly re-creates this overlooked history. Through gripping oral histories and rich archival research, this book showcases educational changes for black southerners during the civil rights movement including the political tensions confronted, struggles faced, and school cultures transformed during private school desegregation. This history foreshadows contemporary complexities at the heart of the black community''s mixed feelings about charter schools, school choice, and education reform.

DKK 935.00
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Transforming the Elite - Michelle A. Purdy - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Transforming the Elite - Michelle A. Purdy - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

When traditionally white public schools in the South became sites of massive resistance in the wake of the Supreme Court''s Brown v. Board of Education decision, numerous white students exited the public system altogether, with parents choosing homeschooling or private segregationist academies. But some historically white elite private schools opted to desegregate. The black students that attended these schools courageously navigated institutional and interpersonal racism but ultimately emerged as upwardly mobile leaders. Transforming the Elite tells this story. Focusing on the experiences of the first black students to desegregate Atlanta''s well-known The Westminster Schools and national efforts to diversify private schools, Michelle A. Purdy combines social history with policy analysis in a dynamic narrative that expertly re-creates this overlooked history. Through gripping oral histories and rich archival research, this book showcases educational changes for black southerners during the civil rights movement including the political tensions confronted, struggles faced, and school cultures transformed during private school desegregation. This history foreshadows contemporary complexities at the heart of the black community''s mixed feelings about charter schools, school choice, and education reform.

DKK 347.00
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Making Home Work - Jane E. Simonsen - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Making Home Work - Jane E. Simonsen - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

During the westward expansion of America, white middle-class ideals of home and domestic work were used to measure differences between white and Native American women. Yet the vision of America as "home" was more than a metaphor for women''s stake in the process of conquest--it took deliberate work to create and uphold. Treating white and indigenous women''s struggles as part of the same history, Jane E. Simonsen argues that as both cultural workers and domestic laborers insisted upon the value of their work to "civilization," they exposed the inequalities integral to both the nation and the household.Simonsen illuminates discussions about the value of women''s work through analysis of texts and images created by writers, women''s rights activists, reformers, anthropologists, photographers, field matrons, and Native American women. She argues that women such as Caroline Soule, Alice Fletcher, E. Jane Gay, Anna Dawson Wilde, and Angel DeCora called upon the rhetoric of sentimental domesticity, ethnographic science, public display, and indigenous knowledge as they sought to make the gendered and racial order of the nation visible through homes and the work performed in them. Focusing on the range of materials through which domesticity was produced in the West, Simonsen integrates new voices into the study of domesticity''s imperial manifestations.

DKK 397.00
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No More Work - James Livingston - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

No More Work - James Livingston - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

For centuries we've believed that work was where you learned discipline, initiative, honesty, self-reliance — in a word, character. A job was also, and not incidentally, the source of your income: if you didn't work, you didn't eat, or else you were stealing from someone. If only you worked hard, you could earn your way and maybe even make something of yourself. In recent decades, through everyday experience, these beliefs have proven spectacularly false. In this book, James Livingston explains how and why Americans still cling to work as a solution rather than a problem — why it is that both liberals and conservatives announce that "full employment" is their goal when job creation is no longer a feasible solution for any problem, moral or economic. The result is a witty, stirring denunciation of the ways we think about why we labor, exhorting us to imagine a new way of finding meaning, character, and sustenance beyond our workaday world — and showing us that we can afford to leave that world behind.

DKK 200.00
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No More Work - James Livingston - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

No More Work - James Livingston - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

For centuries we’ve believed that work was where you learned discipline, initiative, honesty, self-reliance—in a word, character. A job was also, and not incidentally, the source of your income: if you didn’t work, you didn’t eat, or else you were stealing from someone. If only you worked hard, you could earn your way and maybe even make something of yourself. In recent decades, through everyday experience, these beliefs have proven spectacularly false. In this book, James Livingston explains how and why Americans still cling to work as a solution rather than a problem —why it is that both liberals and conservatives announce that “full employment” is their goal when job creation is no longer a feasible solution for any problem, moral or economic. The result is a witty, stirring denunciation of the ways we think about why we labor, exhorting us to imagine a new way of finding meaning, character, and sustenance beyond our workaday world—and showingus that we can afford to leave that world behind.

DKK 354.00
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Basic Concepts in Social Case Work - Herbert Aptekar - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Basic Concepts in Social Case Work - Herbert Aptekar - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Social case work is a young and rapidly changing profession in which differences of method and technique have been prominent. The author approaches this difficulty by a careful examination of fundamental aims. The psychological concepts of ambivalence, will and denial, relationship, movement, projection and identification, interpretation and recognition, focus, level, and casuality are defined.

DKK 496.00
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