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'High-Topped Shoes' and Other Signifiers of Race, Class, Gender and Ethnicity in Selected Fiction by William Faulkner and Toni Morrison - Tommie Lee

'High-Topped Shoes' and Other Signifiers of Race, Class, Gender and Ethnicity in Selected Fiction by William Faulkner and Toni Morrison - Tommie Lee

"High-topped Shoes" and Other Signifiers of Race, Class, Gender, and Ethnicity in Selected Fiction by William Faulkner and Toni Morrison examines the means through which individuals, historically, have constructed their social and personal identities. Focusing primarily on selected fiction by William Faulkner and Toni Morrison, the work explores the myths embedded in historical and modern artifacts, such as the high-topped shoe and high-heeled slipper, and their impact on the construction of ethnic and gender roles. Combining anthropology and women''s studies, this work is an interesting new study of race, gender, class, and ethnicity in literature.

DKK 370.00
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A Collective Biography of Twelve World-Class Leaders - John R. Shoup - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

A Collective Biography of Twelve World-Class Leaders - John R. Shoup - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This collective biography on twelve world-class leaders provides timeless principles on how families, as well as educational, civic, religious, and military organizations, can facilitate the development of exemplary leaders. The biographies and autobiographies of great leaders reveal the importance of an involved parent, happy childhood, plethora of "apprenticeships," rich formal and informal education, a steady stream of prodigious patrons, gracious critics, and a favorable fate. In addition to biographical data, this study synthesizes the various trends in leadership studies to develop a comprehensive model. A coherent theory on leadership has been elusive because scholars have focused on specific parts of leadership without recognition of the whole. The biographical data and synthesis of various leadership theories demonstrates that leaders share similar story lines in their development. The seven identified influences and the three stages of leadership development outlined in the book illustrate themes necessary for true leadership qualities to emerge within an individual. This book is intended for anyone interested in developing exceptional leaders.

DKK 379.00
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Strangers in Paradise - Charles Sackrey - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Strangers in Paradise - Charles Sackrey - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

In this second edition, twenty-four college professors, with roots in the working class, discuss the experience of significant upward mobility and the problems of adjustment to life in the academy. This collection of stories provides revelations about the social class system and academic life in the United States. Each of the autobiographies is prefaced with thoughtful discussions of how certain historical forces have affected the experiences of working class academics and how the United States'' social class system is tied to higher education. The book connects these twenty-four personal experiences with three themes. First is the dual estrangement theme, whereby the upwardly mobile person lives in two very different worlds. The second theme explores internalized class conflict, where in many cases the different worlds are in serious conflict with each other. Finally the impostor phenomenon theme describes the event of an upwardly mobile person surviving the new environment by becoming someone else all the time. Strangers in Paradise will provide excellent text for courses and seminars in sociology, economics, and education. In addition, almost any person in the academy with working class roots will find some personal interest in this probing and relevant analysis.

DKK 662.00
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Transforming American Realism - Lisa Orr - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Transforming American Realism - Lisa Orr - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

At the turn of the twentieth century, realism meant drunken laborers participating in sordid sex and violent acts. As the century progressed, however, the workers seized the pen and forcibly changed the genre. When today''s critics label realism a reactionary attempt to squelch social change, they ignore how working-class writers transformed it to fit their own interests. In doing so, they altered the course of American realism. Working-class women bent to their own purposes several variants of realism, including naturalism, proletarian realism, and magic realism. From the 1903 best-seller by two socialites who posed as ''factory girls'' and wrote about their experiences, to the depression-era authors who tried to include women in the proletariat by writing about sex, to the later writers who incorporated their cultural heritage to create precursors of magic realism, the rise of working-class fiction has helped realism remain fresh, relevant, and lucrative.

DKK 361.00
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Voices from Beneath the Veil - Michael E. Hodge - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Voices from Beneath the Veil - Michael E. Hodge - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This book is about race relations that tell the stories of successful African Americans as they negotiate through the turbulence of everyday life. The author conducted a national interview with over two hundred middle class African American respondents. The experiences of these middle class African Americans suggest the need for: -an Afrocentric perspective of the Black experience -a reconstruction of assimilation and marginality theories to more adequately account for the experiences of African Americans -a theory of oppositional culture that demonstrates how African Americans are resisting and changing the traditional ways of thinking about Black/White relations.

DKK 361.00
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Those Winter Sundays - - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Those Winter Sundays - - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This collection of memoirs examines the relationship between daughters with academic degrees and their working-class parents. Each contributor explores the influence that higher education has had on her relationship with her parent(s), as well as their influence on her academic work. In writing that is akin to archeological work, each writer sifts through layers of experience and draws on the lessons and language of home to consider what working-class parents provide beyond food and shelter for their academically inclined child, and what personal cost is exacted of parent and child in the process. Their stories provoke anyone who has gone to college — woman or man — to consider the influence of their parents on their academic career. The themes in the collection fall into five broad categories: the value and power of bringing the lessons and language of working-class parents into the academy; the psychology of class learned from a parent; the ambivalence of love and pain associated with a parent''s sacrifice and the process of becoming an academic; the balancing act of straddling the worlds of academia and home; and definitions of work that either complement or conflict with those learned from parents. The memoirs acknowledge in retrospect how each writer''s understanding of her parent(s) shapes her views on education and work.

DKK 618.00
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The African-Americanization of the Black Diaspora in Globalization or the Contemporary Capitalist World-System - Christine Callender - Bog -

The African-Americanization of the Black Diaspora in Globalization or the Contemporary Capitalist World-System - Christine Callender - Bog -

This work sets forth the argument that in the age of (neoliberal) globalization, black people around the world are ever-so slowly becoming “African-Americanized”. They are integrated and embourgeoised in the racial-class dialectic of black America by the material and ideological influences of the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism as promulgated throughout the diaspora by two social class language games of the black American community: the black underclass (Hip-Hop culture), speaking for and representing black youth practical consciousness; and black American charismatic liberal/conservative bourgeois Protestant preachers like TD Jakes, Creflo Dollar, etc., speaking for and representing the black bourgeois (educated) professional and working classes. Although on the surface the practical consciousness and language of the two social class language games appear to diametrically oppose one another, the authors argue, given the two groups’ material wealth within the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism of corporate (neoliberal) America, they do not. Both groups have the same underlying practical consciousness, subjects/agents of the Protestant Ethic and the spirit of capitalism. The divergences, where they exist, are due to their interpellation, embourgeoisement, and differentiation via different ideological apparatuses of the society: church and education, i.e., schools, for the latter; and prisons, the streets, and athletic and entertainment industries for the former. Contemporarily, in the age of globalization and neoliberalism, both groups have become the bearers of ideological and linguistic domination in black neoliberal America, and are antagonistically, converging the practical consciousness of the black or African diaspora towards their respective social class language games. We are suggesting that the socialization of other black people in the diaspora ought to be examined against and within the dialectical backdrop of this class power dynamic and the cultural and religious heritages of the black American people responsible for this phenomenon or process of convergence we are referring to as the “African-Americanization” of the black diaspora.

DKK 273.00
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A Sleeping Tiger - Clare L. Boulanger - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

A Sleeping Tiger - Clare L. Boulanger - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

A Sleeping Tiger is a rare book-length treatment of urbanization among Dayaks and also offers a fresh perspective on ethnicity, class, and the context in which they function to the benefit of some and the great detriment of others. Although readers may never have heard of Dayaks (the indigenous, largely non-Muslim peoples of Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo), they have surely witnessed the impact of ethnicity and class on the world today. Dayaks have hardly been spared this impact. Formerly forest dwellers in the main, Dayaks have been migrating en masse into Sarawak''s towns and cities, but despite their better efforts to succeed in the urban environment, they feel demeaned and disadvantaged relative to the other ethnic groups of Malaysia.

DKK 423.00
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The Soul of Methodism - Philip F. Hardt - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Soul of Methodism - Philip F. Hardt - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

A weekly ''class meeting'' among Methodists in early 19th-century New York formed the basis for growth and unity in the small Christian sect. Author Rev. Dr. Philip F. Hardt describes these meetings as a means to close personal relationships among class members. They also provided a place in which lay leadership could emerge and monitor behavior among members. Hardt connects the decline in Methodist membership over the years with the dissolution of the weekly meeting. This book advocates a return to the meetings as a means to increase church membership. It is Rev. Hardt''s belief that a weekly meeting can revitalize the church''s efforts to initiate people into the faith and assimilate them into the body of Christ.

DKK 521.00
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Seeds of Cynicism - Sara Ellen Amster - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Seeds of Cynicism - Sara Ellen Amster - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Based on a three-year ethnographic study, this book traces the operations of three high-school newspaper programs in Southern California: one serving a working-class Latino population and two serving primarily Caucasian and upper-middle class students. Seeds of Cynicism explores the differences in educators'' approaches toward young journalists in each school, including their use of professional standards to explain issues of newspaper ethics, fair play, and sensationalism. The success or failure of school newspapers is based on a multiplicity of factors that influence student motivation—from each teacher''s level of interest in journalism to financial issues to the top school officials'' attitudes about journalism. This timely study finds that two of the three schools actually may increase student disinterest in news and politics in an era when political interest and newspaper readership is waning.

DKK 468.00
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En un golpe de tos sintio volar la vida - Johnny Webster - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

En un golpe de tos sintio volar la vida - Johnny Webster - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

En un golpe de tos sintió volar la vida is an in-depth discussion of Panamanian poet Gaspar Octavio Hernández. From early in his career, Hernández received accolades for his poetry and subsequently gained nationwide recognition. The author places Hernández''s poetry in a cultural framework. Issues of class and race are discussed in the context of his work. (TEXT IN SPANISH)

DKK 503.00
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Women and the Media - - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Women and the Media - - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Women and the Media: Diverse Perspectives is an innovative collection of 19 descriptive and empirical articles examining media depictions and highlighting significant contributions. This anthology has a cultural focus and addresses issues of race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality. With this book, the editors initiate a global dialogue about women and the media, broaden an insular American perspective, and contribute to a growing body of scholarship.

DKK 547.00
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Protecting One's Turf - Judith Desena - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Protecting One's Turf - Judith Desena - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Protecting One''s Turf is a qualitative study that both analyzes informal residential segregation and investigates the effects of racial segregation. The focus of the study is Greenpoint, a working-class neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. The book''s first edition chronicled the community-wide strategies employed to maintain a predominantly white community in Greenpoint. The revised edition examines the community''s continuing gentrification.

DKK 388.00
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The Dominican Republic and the Beginning of a Revolutionary Cycle in the Spanish Caribbean - Luis Alvarez Lopez - Bog - University Press of America -

The Dominican Republic and the Beginning of a Revolutionary Cycle in the Spanish Caribbean - Luis Alvarez Lopez - Bog - University Press of America -

In this book, Álvarez-López details the history of revolution in the Dominican Republic, which was an infant independent nation struggling to preserve its political independence from Haiti and from the expansionist policies of northern European countries and the United States. In 1861, the Dominican Republic was annexed to Spain. The Spanish empire expansionist policy sought to preserve Cuba and Puerto Rico, and the acquisition of the Dominican Republic strengthened Spain''s hold on the Antilles Empire. Spain''s policies strengthened the political objectives of the Dominican ruling class, which were political stability and control of the political power under a Caucasian empire. While both these objectives were achieved, the new colonial experiment was a total failure. The exclusion of the native ruling class, over taxation, economic exploitation, coercive imposition of the Catholic Church customs, prejudice against blacks and mulattos led to war, ending with the defeat of the Spanish Empire. This defeat opened a revolutionary cycle in the Spanish Caribbean.

DKK 361.00
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Logic and Critical Thinking - Rod Jenks - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Logic and Critical Thinking - Rod Jenks - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This work is an introduction to informal and formal logic. It covers what is usually taught in the first term of a two-term sequence in logic at community colleges and at four-year colleges and universities. Following treatment of the nature of argument, this book distinguishes induction from deduction. The book then covers how to fill out argument fragments (or enthymemes) and how to recognize, as well as how to avoid constructing, deceptive or mistaken arguments (informal fallacies). Aristotle''s class logic is canvassed, specifying rules for constructing valid arguments, and identifying formal fallacies committed when these rules are broken. Boole''s modifications of class logic and the formal system are also introduced. Under the heading of the formal system, truth trees, the truth table method for determining validity, and finally, proof construction are all covered. The section on proof construction walks students through the process of building a demonstration in logic.

DKK 388.00
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Cricket's Child, 1945-1955 - Janice Saunders - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Cricket's Child, 1945-1955 - Janice Saunders - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Centered on a little girl raised in the Appalachian region of North Carolina and then Virginia, Cricket''s Child offers a mid-twentieth century social history. The narrative illuminates how historical milestones such as the emergence of a Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union impacted personal experiences in a working class, southern family. After the development of atomic weapons in the 1940''s, the specter of a nuclear holocaust loomed ominously in American culture, as well as in the universe of the pivotal character in this story. This is a chronicle about how ordinary people went about their daily lives, how they earned a living, what diseases they suffered, what they ate, wore, enjoyed, believed, and feared during an extraordinary decade in U.S. history. Other issues which added to the general anxiety of the era, such as the polio epidemic, religious repression, and inequalities in social class, gender, and race are also explored in this book.

DKK 388.00
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Apocryphal Science - Neil Derosa - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Apocryphal Science - Neil Derosa - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This book is a review of extraordinary new hypotheses that might reasonably be characterized as ''dissenting science.'' It spotlights the principal scientists—world-class thinkers all—who have proposed these theories, and the difficulties they encountered in their conclusions'' challenges to existing paradigms. By laying out these theories in terms that any intelligent reader can understand, they become accessible to the non-specialist who is then able to evaluate them on their merits.

DKK 423.00
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The Rise of Marginal Voices - Anne Statham - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Rise of Marginal Voices - Anne Statham - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This book represents ten years of data collection and analysis on the topic of women managers, using an evolving feminist framework which urges that we consider the dimensions of race, class, and gender simultaneously. The author examines the interplay of class issues (worker participation) with gender issues (women managers), pulling together literatures that are usually seen as separate. The interplay of race is also discussed. Contents: Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter One: Moving Back to the Future; PART I: A First Look at Difference; Chapter Two: The Missing Feminine; Chapter Three: Are Women Different?; Chapter Four: The Problem of Difference: Remnants and Transformations; Chapter Five: The Female as Problematic; PART II: Gender and Intertwined Oppressions; Chapter Six: A Focus on Work; Chapter Seven: The Intertwining of Capitalism and Patriarchy: Is Capitalism Particularly Cruel to Women?; Chapter Eight: The Link with Race; PART III: Gender in Broader Context; Chapter Nine: Leadership in Native American Context: Foregrounding Cultural Background; Chapter Ten: The New Workplace; Chapter Eleven: How Change Happens; Chapter Twelve: Implications for Society; Appendix: Methodology, Chronology, Supplemental Findings from Studies; Bibliography; Index.

DKK 710.00
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African Mathematics - Abdul Karim Bangura - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

African Mathematics - Abdul Karim Bangura - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This is the first comprehensive text on African Mathematics that can be used to address some of the problematic issues in this area. These issues include attitudes, curriculum development, educational change, academic achievement, standardized and other tests, performance factors, student characteristics, cross-cultural differences and studies, literacy, native speakers, social class and differences, equal education, teaching methods, knowledge level, educational guidelines and policies, transitional schools, comparative education, other subjects such as physics and social studies, surveys, talent, educational research, teacher education and qualifications, academic standards, teacher effectiveness, lesson plans and modules, teacher characteristics, instructional materials, program effectiveness, program evaluation, African culture, African history, Black studies, class activities, educational games, number systems, cognitive ability, foreign influence, and fundamental concepts. What unifies the chapters in this book can appear rather banal, but many mathematical insights are so obvious and so fundamental that they are difficult to absorb, appreciate, and express with fresh clarity. Some of the more basic insights are isolated by accounts of investigators who have earned their contemporaries' respect. Winner of the 2012 Cecil B. Currey Book Award.

DKK 430.00
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Estrategias - Edward T. Harvey - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Estrategias - Edward T. Harvey - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This book, written in Spanish, is a text on composition or creative writing using a word processor. The book aids students to develop writing abilities through grammar study and in-class peer critique sessions. Included are strategies on how to get started; how to handle introductory paragraphs; how to make good transitions; how to employ a rich lexicon; how to practice thinking in patterns of association, comparison and contrast, process, classification, argument and persuasion; and how to practice extensively.

DKK 653.00
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Jesus and the Streets - Carol Tomlin - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Jesus and the Streets - Carol Tomlin - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Against John Ogbu’s oppositional culture theory and Claude Steele’s disidentification hypothesis, Jesus and the Streets offers a more appropriate structural Marxian hermeneutical framework for contextualizing, conceptualizing, and evaluating the locus of causality for the black male/female intra-racial gender academic achievement gap in the United States of America and the United Kingdom. Positing that in general the origins of the black/white academic achievement gap in both countries is grounded in what Paul C. Mocombe refers to as a “mismatch of linguistic structure and social class function.” Within this structural Marxist theoretical framework the intra-racial gender academic achievement gap between black boys and girls, the authors argue, is a result of the social class functions associated with industries (mode of production) and ideological apparatuses, i.e., prisons, the urban street life, athletics and entertainment, where the majority of urban black males in the US and UK achieve their status, social mobility, and economic gain, and the black church/education where black females in both countries are overwhelmingly more likely to achieve their status, social mobility, and drive for economic gain via education and professionalization.

DKK 331.00
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American Government and the Vision of the Democrats - Mark Louis Latour - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

American Government and the Vision of the Democrats - Mark Louis Latour - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This work is a comprehensive introduction to the most important issues facing American citizens and their government. It addresses various interpretations of the proper role of government with a view towards the Democrats re-working of such integral issues as: ·States'' rights ·Societal affluence and social needs ·Campaign finance reform ·Media Consolidation ·America''s climbing debt ceiling ·China''s military and political expansion ·Manufacturing''s decline ·Job outsourcing ·The disappearance of pension plans ·The whittling away of America''s middle class ·America''s inadequate health care system ·Environmental degradation ·America''s vanishing family farms

DKK 653.00
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