Bøger udgivet af Temple University Press,U.S.

"As the Occupy movements take on economic inequality, organizers must confront participants frustrated with inequality within the movement related to gender, race, sexuality, and other identities. The negotiations between participants over leadership, messaging, inclusivity, and harassment offer lessons for the future of big-tent organizing in progressive movements"--

"Explores the past, present, and future of Palestinian identity and culture through film and other media objects, drawing connections to Black radical thought and European cultural theory."--Provided by publisher.

The Parent-Child Home Program is a low-cost pre-preschool intervention to help parents prepare their toddlers for school. This title presents an overview of one of the home visiting programs, emphasizing school readiness and early literacy in infants and toddlers.

Deniz Kandiyoti was formerly a member of the Social Science Departments of the Middle East Technical University in Ankara and Bogazici University in Istanbul, and she served as chairperson of the research committee on women and society of the International Sociology Association from 1982 to 1986. She currently resides in England.

Examining the ways in which philosophers from Plato onwards have used the concept of power, this work develops a field theory of power that rejects many of the reigning assumptions made about power. Incorporating the insights of feminist theorists, it argues that power has a positive as well as a negative role to play in social relations.

Drawing on contemporary and historic literary and media examples of Western colonialism and Anglophone writings, Disability, the Environment, and Colonialism traces how the perverse nature of colonialism continues to dominate the globe today. The editors and contributors provide a careful analysis of the intersection of disability, the environment, and colonialism to understand issues such as eco-ableism, environmental degradation, homogenized approaches to environmentalism, and climate change. They also look at the body as a site of colonial oppression and environmental exploitation. Contributors: Holly Caldwell, Matthew J. C. Cella, John Gulledge, Memona Hossain, Nancy J. Hirschmann, Iain Hutchison, Andrew B. Jenks, Suha Kudsieh, Gordon M. Sayre, Jessica A. Schwartz, Anna Stenning, Aubrey Tang, Alice Wexler, and the editor.

Attempts to reconstruct social theory in a way that enables it to speak to contemporary environmental issues. After reviewing existing sociological traditions, the author draws on the early work of Karl Marx to suggest that processes and relations in the workplace are the main source of people's separation from nature.

Looks at the ways politicians and others concerned with the workforce systems have helped or hindered that process. This book examines the systems that are in place and the potential for systemic reform through case studies of Denver, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, St Louis, and Seattle.

How six industrial cities in the American Rust Belt reacted to deindustrialization in the years after World War II

As Africana Studies celebrates its fiftieth anniversary throughout the United States, this invigor ating collection presents possibilities for the future of the discipline’s theoretical paths. The essays in Africana Studies focus on philosophy, science, and technology; poetry, literature, and music; the crisis of the state; issues of colonialism, globalization, and neoliberalism; and the ever-expanding diaspora. The editor and contributors to this volume open exciting avenues for new narratives, philosophies, vision, and scale in this critical field of study—formed during the 1960s around issues of racial injustice in America—to show what Africana Studies is already in the process of becoming.Africana Studies recognizes how the discipline has been shaped, changing over the decades as scholars have opened new modes of theoretical engagement such as addressing issues of gender and sexuality, politics, and cultural studies. The essays debate and (re)consider black and diasporic life to sustain, provoke, and cultivate Africana Studies as a singular yet polyvalent mode of thinking.Contributors: Akin Ade¿¿kan, John E. Drabinski, Zeyad El Nabolsy, Pierre-Philippe Fraiture, Kasareka Kavwahirehi, Gregory Pardlo, Radwa Saad, Sarah Then Bergh, and the editor

Offers a collection of essays which consider the history as well as the historiography of the queer identities and struggles that developed in the United States in the midst of widespread upheaval and change.

A critical appraisal of the career of Zane L. Miller, one of the founders of the new urban history

A critical appraisal of the career of Zane L. Miller, one of the founders of the new urban history

Who would ever think that a mouse could play football?

Offers essays written by women who changed their lives through the pathway of higher education. This volume presents a testimony of the importance of higher learning, as well as a critique of the programs designed to alleviate poverty and educational disparity.

Remembers the heart events and people from our past.

Interrogates issues of gender, national identity, race, ethnicity, and class to show the impossibility of projecting a singular Hispanic or Latina Lesbian. Examining the works of a range of lesbian writers and performance artists, this title creates a picture of the contributions of Latina and Hispanic lesbians to literature and culture.

Demonstrates how difficult it is to maintain a position outside the mainstream, but also how important it is for the press, citizens and scholars to actively search out such voices. This title provides an introduction to analyzing the spoken and written word that constitutes political debate in contemporary U.S. culture.

Storytelling is perhaps the most common way people make sense of their experiences, claim identities, and "get a life." So much of our daily life consists of writing or telling our stories and listening to and reading the stories of others. This book deals with this topic.