Unraveling Race
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Unraveling Race
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Author : Tina-Desiree Berg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-05-16
Unraveling Race written by Tina-Desiree Berg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-16 with categories.
The purpose of this paper is to explore the history of racial taxonomy and its enduring adverse effects on society. Within the context of the current race debate, the question of whether race is a legitimate term rests on how we define it, and in turn, how we deploy it. Recent developments in the biomedical and genetic fields have only worked to complicate these matters. Superficially, it may seem that there are very real reasons to embrace the gene as an explanatory precept of race- but within the realm of biology, this conjecture has produced a fierce debate about both its scientific accuracy and social utility. It is clear that genotypes and ancestry do not necessarily correlate with phenotypes and visual traits (skin color, facial features, etc.). And, it is also clear that no one gene can account for the things that we define as being properties of race. As such, it seems that racial concepts, forged not from the natural sciences and biology but rather from the social concepts of law, politics and history, should be abandoned as a biological category altogether.
Unraveling Race Politics And Gender In Trinidad And Tobago S Economic Development
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Author : Jeetendra Khadan
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
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Unraveling Race Politics And Gender In Trinidad And Tobago S Economic Development written by Jeetendra Khadan and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Unraveling Somalia
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Author : Catherine Besteman
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2014-01-27
Unraveling Somalia written by Catherine Besteman and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-27 with Social Science categories.
In 1991 the Somali state collapsed. Once heralded as the only true nation-state in Africa, the Somalia of the 1990s suffered brutal internecine warfare. At the same time a politically created famine caused the deaths of a half a million people and the flight of a million refugees. During the civil war, scholarly and popular analyses explained Somalia's disintegration as the result of ancestral hatreds played out in warfare between various clans and subclans. In Unraveling Somalia, Catherine Besteman challenges this view and argues that the actual pattern of violence—inflicted disproportionately on rural southerners—contradicts the prevailing model of ethnic homogeneity and clan opposition. She contends that the dissolution of the Somali nation-state can be understood only by recognizing that over the past century and a half there emerged in Somalia a social order based on principles other than simple clan organization—a social order deeply stratified on the basis of race, status, class, region, and language.
Exotic No More
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Author : Jeremy MacClancy
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-04-08
Exotic No More written by Jeremy MacClancy and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-08 with Social Science categories.
Since its founding in the nineteenth century, social anthropology has been seen as the study of exotic peoples in faraway places. But today more and more anthropologists are dedicating themselves not just to observing but to understanding and helping solve social problems wherever they occur—in international aid organizations, British TV studios, American hospitals, or racist enclaves in Eastern Europe, for example. In Exotic No More, an initiative of the Royal Anthropological Institute, some of today's most respected anthropologists demonstrate, in clear, unpretentious prose, the tremendous contributions that anthropology can make to contemporary society. They cover issues ranging from fundamentalism to forced migration, child labor to crack dealing, human rights to hunger, ethnicity to environmentalism, intellectual property rights to international capitalisms. But Exotic No More is more than a litany of gloom and doom; the essays also explore topics usually associated with leisure or "high" culture, including the media, visual arts, tourism, and music. Each author uses specific examples from their fieldwork to illustrate their discussions, and 62 photographs enliven the text. Throughout the book, the contributors highlight anthropology's commitment to taking people seriously on their own terms, paying close attention to what they are saying and doing, and trying to understand how they see the world and why. Sometimes this bottom-up perspective makes the strange familiar, but it can also make the familiar strange, exposing the cultural basis of seemingly "natural" behaviors and challenging us to rethink some of our most cherished ideas—about gender, "free" markets, "race," and "refugees," among many others. Contributors: William O. Beeman Philippe Bourgois John Chernoff E. Valentine Daniel Alex de Waal Judith Ennew James Fairhead Sarah Franklin Michael Gilsenan Faye Ginsburg Alma Gottlieb Christopher Hann Faye V. Harrison Richard Jenkins Melissa Leach Margaret Lock Jeremy MacClancy Jonathan Mazower Ellen Messer A. David Napier Nancy Scheper-Hughes Jane Schneider Parker Shipton Christopher B. Steiner
The Illusion Of Color
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Author : Jesse Swanson
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2024-03-29
The Illusion Of Color written by Jesse Swanson and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-29 with History categories.
"The Illusion of Color: Unraveling the Truth About Race" is a groundbreaking exploration of the complexities surrounding race and identity in contemporary society. Authored by Jesse Swanson, this book challenges conventional notions of race as a fixed and immutable aspect of human identity, instead delving into the social, cultural, and historical constructs that shape our understanding of race. Through insightful analysis and compelling narratives, Swanson navigates the intricacies of racial inequality, systemic racism, and the power dynamics at play. This thought-provoking book offers readers a deeper understanding of the illusions of race and paves the way for a more inclusive and equitable future.
Unraveling Race Politics And Gender In Trinidad And Tobago S Economic Development
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Author : Jeetendra Khadan
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2024-05-29
Unraveling Race Politics And Gender In Trinidad And Tobago S Economic Development written by Jeetendra Khadan and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-29 with Social Science categories.
This book delves into Trinidad and Tobago's development with a fresh lens. It stands as the inaugural empirical exploration of the country's unique attributes, including its diversity, ex-British colony status, small-state categorization by population size, and its dependence on hydrocarbons. Through meticulous empirical analysis, this book scrutinizes the nation's economic, social, and political outcomes within the context of these four distinctive parameters, offering fresh insights into the country's development trajectory. What sets this book apart is its unwavering commitment to a data-driven approach. Drawing upon a vast array of databases from both international and national sources, it provides a thorough examination of development indicators, household welfare metrics, firm-level performance, and individual perspectives on a wide range of political, economic, and social issues. For scholars, policymakers, and anyone with an interest in understanding how unique contextual factors shape a Trinidad and Tobago's development, this book offers an enlightening and data-rich perspective on the nation's journey towards progress and prosperity.
Unraveling Assumptions
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Author : Karen L. Suyemoto
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-06-01
Unraveling Assumptions written by Karen L. Suyemoto and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-01 with Education categories.
Unraveling Assumptions: A Primer for Understanding Oppression and Privilege offers fundamental understandings of concepts and frameworks related to diversity and social justice. Aimed at university and community audiences, it offers an introductory exploration of power, privilege, and oppression as foundations of systems of inequality and examines complexities within meanings and lived experiences of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, disability, and social class. After considering why it is so difficult to engage these issues, the authors explore meanings and impacts of power, privilege, and oppression as a primary lens of analysis. Subsequent chapters offer definitions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, disability and social class, identifying erroneous assumptions and challenging the tendency to oversimplify and decontextualize. Meanings, identities, and effects of oppression and privilege are central foci within each chapter. The book ends with a chapter examining ways that individuals may take action as allies and advocates to resist oppression. Throughout the book, Unraveling Assumptions makes connections among individual, interpersonal, and systemic levels of inequality, while focusing on relational and psychological implications for lived experience—including the reader’s lived experience. By integrating social science research with concrete examples and personal reflection, this concise, introductory level text invites the reader to consider the costs of systemic hierarchies for all people and envision possible alternatives to participating in oppressive hierarchy. Unraveling Assumptions is a book for students and community to learn about privilege and oppression. The authors' companion book Teaching Diversity Relationally offers process-oriented guidance for educators teaching this material to successfully negotiate the inherent psychological and relational challenges.
Unraveling Gender Race And Diaspora
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Author : Obioma Nnaemeka
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Unraveling Gender Race And Diaspora written by Obioma Nnaemeka and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with African diaspora categories.
This title takes intersectionality to a new level, offering a global perspective on the identities of African women. Issues discussed include memory, space/location, time and human agency. The synergy created by bringing together people who never usually speak - working academics and public intellectuals - here causes new strides to be made in understanding how and why African women are seen as they are in the rest of the world.
Red Line
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Author : Joby Warrick
language : en
Publisher: Doubleday
Release Date : 2021-02-23
Red Line written by Joby Warrick and has been published by Doubleday this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-23 with Political Science categories.
In Red Line, Joby Warrick, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Black Flags, shares the thrilling unknown story of America’s mission in Syria: to find and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons and keep them out of the hands of the Islamic State. In August 2012, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was clinging to power in a vicious civil war. When secret intelligence revealed that the dictator might resort to using chemical weapons, President Obama warned that doing so would cross “a red line.” Assad did it anyway, bombing the Damascus suburb of Ghouta with sarin gas, killing hundreds of civilians, and forcing Obama to decide if he would mire America in another unpopular war in the Middle East. When Russia offered to broker the removal of Syria’s chemical weapons, Obama leapt at the out. So began an electrifying race to find, remove, and destroy 1,300 tons of chemical weapons in the midst of a raging civil war. The extraordinary little-known effort is a triumph for the Americans, but soon Russia’s long game becomes clear: it will do anything to preserve Assad’s rule. As America’s ability to control events in Syria shrinks, the White House learns that ISIS, building its caliphate in Syria’s war-tossed territory, is seeking chemical weapons for itself, with an eye to attack the West. Drawing on astonishing original reporting, Warrick crafts a character-driven narrative that reveals how the United States embarked on a bold adventure to prevent one catastrophe but could not avoid a tragic chain of events that led to another.
Unraveling Bias
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Author : Christia Spears Brown
language : en
Publisher: BenBella Books
Release Date : 2021-11-30
Unraveling Bias written by Christia Spears Brown and has been published by BenBella Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-30 with Social Science categories.
NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARD WINNER — PARENTING & FAMILY • 2022 IPPY AWARDS GOLD MEDALIST — PARENTING “Timely, informative, thought-provoking, inspirationally motivating.” —Midwest Book Review "[Brown] offers pragmatic advice for teachers on how to stand up for diversity and inclusiveness in the classroom." —San Francisco Book Review We need only scan the latest news headlines to see how bias and prejudice harm adults and children alike—every single day. Police shootings that give rise to the Black Lives Matter revolution . . . rampant sexual harassment of women and the subsequent #MeToo movement . . . extreme violence toward trans men and women. It would be easy to fix these problems if the examples stopped with a few racist or sexist individuals, but there are also biases embedded in our government policies, media, and institutions. As a developmental psychologist and international expert on stereotypes and discrimination in children, Dr. Christia Spears Brown knows that biases and prejudice don’t just develop as people become adults (or CEOs or politicians). They begin when children are young, slowly growing and exposed to prejudice in their classrooms, after-school activities, and, yes, even in their homes, no matter how enlightened their parents may consider themselves to be. The only way to have a more just and equitable world—not to mention more broad-minded, empathetic children—is for parents to closely examine biases beginning in childhood and how they infiltrate our kids’ lives. In her new book Unraveling Bias: How Prejudice Has Shaped Children for Generations and Why It's Time to Break the Cycle, Dr. Brown will uncover what scientists have learned about how children are impacted by biases, and how we adults can help protect them from those biases. Part science, part history, part current events, and part call to arms, Unraveling Bias provides readers with the answers to vital questions: • How do biased policies, schools, and media harm our children? • Where does childhood prejudice come from, and how do these prejudices shape children’s behavior, goals, relationships, and beliefs about themselves? • What can we learn from modern-day science to help us protect our children from these biases? Few issues today are as critical as being aware of bias and prejudice all around us and making sure our kids don’t succumb to them. To change lives and advance society, it’s time to unravel our biases—starting with the future leaders of the world.