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The surprising effects of American TV on global viewers As a dominant cultural export, American television is often the first exposure to American ideals and the English language for many people throughout the world. Yet, American television is flawed, and, it represents race, class, and gender in ways that many find unfair and unrealistic. What happens, then, when people who grew up on American television decide to come to the United States? What do they expect to find, and what do they...
| Автор | Clara E. Rodríguez |
Teenagers have sex. While almost all parents understand that many teenagers are sexually active, there is a paradox in many parents’ thinking: they insist their own teen children are not sexual, but characterize their children’s peers as sexually-driven and hypersexual. Rather than accuse parents of being in denial, Sinikka Elliott teases out the complex dynamics behind this thinking, demonstrating that it is rooted in fears and anxieties about being a good parent, the risks...
| Автор | Sinikka Elliott |
Co-Winner, 2019 Latina/o Section Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association A portrait of two Mexican immigrant communities confronting threats of deportation, detention, and dispossession [/b][b] Everyday life as an immigrant in a deportation nation is fraught with risk, but everywhere immigrants confront repression and dispossession, they also manifest resistance in ways big and small. Immigrants Under Threat shifts the conversation...
| Автор | Greg Prieto |
They go by many names: helicopter parents, hovercrafts, PFHs (Parents from Hell). The news media is filled with stories of well-intentioned parents going to ridiculous extremes to remove all obstacles from their child’s path to greatness . . . or at least to an ivy league school. From cradle to college, they remain intimately enmeshed in their children’s lives, stifling their development and creating infantilized, spoiled, immature adults unprepared to make the decisions...
| Автор | Margaret K. Nelson |
Brothers Gonna Work It Out considers the political expression of rap artists within the historical tradition of black nationalism. Interweaving songs and personal interviews with hip-hop artists and activists including Chuck D of Public Enemy, KRS-One, Rosa Clemente, manager of dead prez, and Wise Intelligent of Poor Righteous Teachers, Cheney links late twentieth-century hip-hop nationalists with their nineteenth-century spiritual forebears.Cheney examines Black nationalism as an ideology...
| Автор | Charise Cheney |
The views and experiences of multiracial people as parents The world’s multiracial population is considered to be one of the fastest growing of all ethnic groups. In the United States alone, it is estimated that over 20% of the population will be considered “mixed race” by 2050. Public figures—such as former President Barack Obama and Hollywood actress Ruth Negga—further highlight the highly diverse backgrounds of those classified under the umbrella term of “multiracial.” Multiracial Parents...
| Автор | Miri Song |
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 |
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...
| Автор | Varios autores |
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...
| Автор | Varios autores |
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 |