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A straightforward discussion of the issues surrounding immigration [/b][b] U.S. immigration has been the subject of furious debates for decades. On one side, politicians and the media talk about aliens and criminals, with calls to “deport them all.” On the other side, some advocates idealize immigrants and gloss over problems associated with immigration. Dialogue becomes possible when we dig deeper and ask tough questions: Why are people in other countries leaving their...
| Автор | David Wilson |
2006 American Book Award, presented by the Before Columbus Foundation Southern Italian emigration to the United States peaked a full century ago—;descendents are now fourth and fifth generation, dispersed from their old industrial neighborhoods, professionalized, and fully integrated into the “melting pot.” Surely the social historians are right: Italian Americans are fading into the twilight of their ethnicity. So, why is the American imagination enthralled by The...
| Автор | Thomas J. Ferraro |
Los Angeles is well-known as a temperate paradise with expansive beaches and mountain vistas, a booming luxury housing market, and the home of glamorous Hollywood. During the first half of the twentieth century, Los Angeles was also seen as a mecca for both African Americans and a steady stream of migrants from around the country and the world, transforming Los Angeles into one of the world’s most diverse cities. The city has become a multicultural maze in which many now fear that the...
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Though all women are women, no woman is only a woman, wrote Elizabeth Spelman in The Inessential Woman . Gone are the days when feminism translated simply into the advocacy of equality for women. Women's interests are not always aligned; race, class, and sexuality complicate the equation. In recent years, feminist ideologies have become increasingly diverse. Today, one feminist's most ardent political opponent may well be another feminist. As feminism grows increasingly diverse, the...
| Автор | Susan Ostrov Weisser |
In Russia, a group of leading Russian intellectuals and social scientists join with top researchers from around the world to examine the social, political, and economic transformation in Russia. This timely and important book of orginal essays makes clear that neither politics nor economics alone holds the key to Russia's future, presenting critical perspectives on challenges facing Russia, both in its domestic policies and in its international relations. It also explores how global...
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Winner Best Edited Book Award presented by the Society for Research on Adolescence Immigration to the United States has reached historic numbers— 25 percent of children under the age of 18 have an immigrant parent, and this number is projected to grow to one in three by 2050. These children have become a significant part of our national tapestry, and how they fare is deeply intertwined with the future of our nation. Immigrant children and the children of immigrants face unique...
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From the days of the Negro Leagues in baseball up to the present when collegiate basketball factories entice and then fail to educate young black men, sports in America have long served as a barometer of the country's racial climate. Just as blacks are generally absent from the upper echelons of corporate America, they are similarly underrepresented from the front offices of the sports industry as well. In this compact volume, Kenneth L. Shropshire confronts prominent racial myths head-on,...
| Автор | Kenneth L. Shropshire |
Read Moustafa's Op-ed on Trump's Executive Order Against Muslims in The Guardian Winner of the 2016 Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Arab American Book Award Over the last few years, Moustafa Bayoumi has been an extra in Sex and the City 2 playing a generic Arab, a terrorist suspect (or at least his namesake “Mustafa Bayoumi” was) in a detective novel, the subject of a trumped-up controversy because a book he had written was seen by right-wing media as pushing an...
| Автор | Moustafa Bayoumi |
An emotionally evocative, richly textured history based on autobiographical accounts of those who lived and shaped the struggle. The importance of many of Rogers' subjects and the uniqueness of New Orleans make this must reading for anyone interested in the history of the movement. But those interested in oral history and African-American autobiography will find riches aplenty as well. A welcome addition to a number of literatures– Doug McAdam, author of Freedom Summer Righteous Lives...
| Автор | Kim Lacy Rogers |
Thanks to breakthroughs in production and food science, agribusiness has been able to devise new ways to grow more food and get it more places more quickly. There is no shortage of news items on hundreds of thousands of hybrid poultry – each animal genetically identical to the next – packed together in megabarns, grown out in a matter of months, then slaughtered, processed and shipped to the other side of the globe. Less well known are the deadly pathogens mutating in, and...
| Автор | Rob Wallace |
America is currently in the midst of a major racial and ethnic demographic shift. By the twenty-first century, the population of Hispanics and Asians will increase significantly, while the black population is expected to remain relatively stable. Non-Hispanic Whites will decrease to just over half of the nation's population. How will the changing ethnic and racial composition of American society affect the long struggle for black political power and inclusion? To what extent will these...
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A provocative, must-read investigation that both appreciates the importance of—and punctures the hype around—big-time contemporary American athletics In an increasingly secular, fragmented, and distracted culture, nothing brings Americans together quite like sports. On Sundays in September, more families worship at the altar of the NFL than at any church. This appeal, which cuts across all demographic and ideological lines, makes sports perhaps the last unifying mass ritual of our era, with...
| Автор | Michael Serazio |
From youth culture to adolescent sexuality to the consumer purchasing power of children en masse, studies are flourishing. Yet doing research on this unquestionably more vulnerable—whether five or fifteen—population also poses a unique set of challenges and dilemmas for researchers. How should a six-year-old be approached for an interview? What questions and topics are appropriate for twelve year olds? Do parents need to give their approval for all studies?In Representing...
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Con el desarrollo de este proyecto de investigación se pretende aportar al accionar institucional, a la reflexión académica y al fortalecimiento de las comunidades. Desde el ámbito institucional, el Proyecto de Investigación fue planteado a partir del conocimiento del desarrollo de la Estrategia de Reconstrucción del Tejido Social – Entrelazando, construida e implementada por la Unidad para la Atención y Reparación Integral a las Víctimas, la cual se constituye en la medida de rehabilitación...
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Petrocalipsis es un análisis crudo y claro de las posibles alternativas a nuestro sistema energético actual. Frente al triunfalismo que muchas veces exhiben las noticias sobre la futura utilización de nuevas fuentes energéticas, el libro plantea con concisión por qué no funcionan ni funcionarán cada una de las falsas soluciones que se han venido discutiendo durante las últimas dos décadas. No hay soluciones sencillas ni atajos al dilema que plantea la transición energética, doblemente necesaria...
| Автор | Antonio Turiel |
¿El crimen también se globaliza? La pregunta que en tiempos actuales parece una afirmación es el punto de partida de esta publicación. Oscura globalización. Ensayos sobre el crimen como fenómeno mundial se compone de siete artículos con temas tan actuales como las representaciones de las organizaciones criminales en las industrias del entretenimiento contemporáneo. También, se ahonda en el «Fifa Gate», el caso más escandaloso sobre corrupción en el más grande organismo rector del balompié...
| Автор | Oscar Sánchez Benavides |
Esta compilación de ejercicios de investigación de los estudiantes de Comunicación Social de las sedes de Medellín, Montería y Bucaramanga de la Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, es una muestra de los intereses de investigación actuales en este campo del conocimiento. De tal manera, los 9 trabajos que se presentan, abordan la revisión de la creación artística como proceso comunicacional, así como la construcción de nuevos mensajes a partir de ésta; dan cuenta de las industrias culturales y las...
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En el marco de las celebraciones del Bicentenario de la Independencia de Colombia, la Universidad de La Salle se pregunta por el devenir del Desarrollo Humano a partir de este acontecimiento. La pregunta que se plantea, a manera de puerta de indagación, a un problema del presente que es posible rastrear desde el acontecimiento mismo de lo que hoy llamamos Colombia es: ¿Cómo se ha dado el desarrollo humano en el acontecer de 200 años de historia de Colombia para pensar nuestro presente y...
| Автор | Jorge Eliécer Martínez Posada |
Los trabajos que se recogen en este volumen abordan, desde distintas perspectivas, la relevancia del arbitraje en acción y no solo a partir de los textos normativos. Durante los últimos años, el arbitraje ha tenido una amplia difusión en el Perú, donde ha sido promovido por el Estado incluso con la incorporación de cláusulas arbitrales en una importante variedad de contratos estatales. ALFREDO BULLARD GONZÁLEZ es abogado por la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú y magíster por la...
| Автор | Alfredo Bullard |
How is knowledge measured? How long does it take us to reflect on something and how long to express our thoughts? Such is the dilemma that the human, social and economic sciences go through, since they face the challenge of understanding complex processes when confronting the urgency of standards, measurements and forms of qualitative and quantitative evaluation that respond to notions of utility, productivity and viability, defined within social, cultural and political realities discordant with...
| Автор | Peter Burke |
Ausgangssperren, Schul- und Geschäftsschließungen, Aufhebung der Versammlungs- und Bewegungsfreiheit, dicht gemachte Grenzen und der damit verbundene staatliche Zwang veränderten innerhalb weniger Wochen die Welt. Das Jahr 2020 bringt die heftigsten gesellschaftlichen Einschnitte seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Argumentierten die meisten Regierungen ihre in Windeseile verfügten Maßnahmen mit der Seuchenbekämpfung, so traf das Corona-Virus vor allem Länder, deren Gesundheitssysteme durch den...
| Автор | Rolf Gössner |
La lluita social que es manifesta al carrer, en grup i a cara descoberta, no és l'única via per reivindicar una altra realitat o capgirar-la. No hi ha acció política col·lectiva sense un veritable combat individual.En aquest assaig, Lluís Calvo ens proposa tres estratègies de resistència complementàries a les accions a camp obert: vagarejar, amagar-se i practicar la intrusió. Tres camins que no s'exclouen sinó que s'entrecreuen per potenciar-ne els efectes.Acompanyats de...
| Автор | Lluís Calvo Guardiola |
Hour of Hope is strictly sermons born from concrete experieces; relatively to the author's personal experiences and those gathered from others within the scope of his pastoral ministry. Hence, it is neither a systematic exegesis of the scriptures nor a doctrinal teaching, rather a look at human experiences of suffering and God's intervention in the light of the gospels. It is meant to encourage all who suffer that our God in Jesus Christ is always available to bring them comfort and...
| Автор | Lawrence C. Obilor |
Der sozialstaatliche Entwicklungsprozess war im Österreich der Nachkriegsjahrzehnte durch eine beachtliche Expansion gekennzeichnet. Vom «goldenem Zeitalter» war die Rede. Wirtschaftliche, soziale und politische Veränderungen brachten seit Mitte der 1980er Jahre beträchtliche Herausforderungen mit sich. Neben punktuellen Erweiterungen zeichnen sich deutlich restriktive Trends auf allen Ebenen des Sozialstaates ab. Eine Herausforderung einmaliger Art stellt die 2020 ausgebrochene Corona-Pandemie...
| Автор | Emmerich Tálos |