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Political Black Girl Magic

The Elections and Governance of Black Female Mayors

Edited by Sharon D. Wright Austin ...

Political Black Girl Magic explores black women’s experiences as mayors in American cities. The editor and contributors to this comprehensive volume examine black female mayoral campaigns and elections where race and gender are a factor—and where deracialized campaigns have garnered candidate support from white as well as Hispanic and Asian American voters. Chapters also consider how Black female ... Read more

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Political Black Girl Magic explores black women’s experiences as mayors in American cities. The editor and contributors to this comprehensive volume examine black female mayoral campaigns and elections where race and gender are a factor—and where deracialized campaigns have garnered candidate support from white as well as Hispanic and Asian American voters. Chapters also consider how Black female
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Indigenous Motherhood in the Academy

by Robin Zape-tah-hol-ah Minthorn, Christine A. Nelson, Heather J. Shotton, Tiffany S. Lee, Leola Tsinnajinnie-Paquin, Susan Faircloth, Nicole Reyes, Nizhoni Chow-Garcia0, Michelle Johnson-Jennings1, Alayah Johnson-Jennings2, Ahnili Johnson-Jennings3, Dwanna L. McKay4, Miranda Belarde-Lewis5, Shelly Lowe6, Tria Blu Wakpa7, Symphony Oxendine8, Denise Henning9, Renée Holt0, Otakuye Conroy Conroy-Ben1, Theresa Gregor2, Sloan Woska-pi-mi Shotton3, Pearl Brower4, Erin Kahunawaika?ala Wright5, Kaiwipuni Lipe6, Charlotte Davidson7, Stephanie Waterman8 ...

Indigenous Motherhood in the Academy highlights the experiences and narratives emerging from Indigenous mothers in the academy who are negotiating their roles in multiple contexts. The essays in this volume contribute to the broader higher education literature and the literature on Indigenous representation in the academy, filling a longtime gap that has excluded Indigenous women scholar voices. ... Read more

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Indigenous Motherhood in the Academy highlights the experiences and narratives emerging from Indigenous mothers in the academy who are negotiating their roles in multiple contexts. The essays in this volume contribute to the broader higher education literature and the literature on Indigenous representation in the academy, filling a longtime gap that has excluded Indigenous women scholar voices.
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Crime, Second Chances, and Human Services

Creating a Pathway to Ordinary Life for the Convicted

by Fonkem Achankeng, Derek Dich, Michelle Devine Giese, Kendra Green, James Kevin Groves, Leslie A. Hagedorn, Alfred T. Kisubi, Melinda Kline, David Liners, Patricia McCourt0, Diane P. McMillen1, John Paulson2, Mark Rice3, Lynne M. Woehrle4, Pearl Wright5 ...

This book promotes the notion of second chances and the importance of human services within the communities most affected by crime and the criminal justice system. Recognition of the fallibility of humans and the necessity of redemption is the first step to change our attitude toward guilt and punishment. Barring citizens with criminal records from obtaining housing, employment, education, and ... Read more

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This book promotes the notion of second chances and the importance of human services within the communities most affected by crime and the criminal justice system. Recognition of the fallibility of humans and the necessity of redemption is the first step to change our attitude toward guilt and punishment. Barring citizens with criminal records from obtaining housing, employment, education, and
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Reclaiming Indigenous Research in Higher Education

by Heather J. Shotton, Charlotte Davidson, Stephanie Waterman, Erin Kahunawai Wright, Adrienne Keene, Amanda Tachine, Sweeney Windchief, Theresa Jean Stewart, David Sanders0, Matthew Van Alstine Makomenaw1, Natalie Rose Youngbull2, Christine A. Nelson3, Kaiwipuni Lipe4, Pearl Brower5, Robin Zape-tah-hol-ah Minthorn7 ...

Indigenous students remain one of the least represented populations in higher education. They continue to account for only one percent of the total post-secondary student population, and this lack of representation is felt in multiple ways beyond enrollment. Less research money is spent studying Indigenous students, and their interests are often left out of projects that otherwise purport to ... Read more

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Indigenous students remain one of the least represented populations in higher education. They continue to account for only one percent of the total post-secondary student population, and this lack of representation is felt in multiple ways beyond enrollment. Less research money is spent studying Indigenous students, and their interests are often left out of projects that otherwise purport to
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Natural Connections

Perspectives In Community-Based Conservation

by Jonathan Otto, Charles Zerner, John Robinson, Richard Donovan, Marianne Lavelle, R. Villarreal, Nick Salafsky, Janice Alcorn, Frances Seymour, Chuck Kleyneyer, Mary Pearl, Richard Bodmer, Kent Elbow, Kenneth Sayre, Daniel Bromley, Don Tuzin, Mark Poffenberger, Scott McCreary, Michael Hill, AJ Press, Fabio Feldmann, Derek Statham, Michael Wells, Marshall W. Murphree, Simon Metcalfe, Kent H. Redford, Owen Lynch, Peter Little ...

Both realism and justice demand that efforts to conserve biological diversity address human needs as well. The most promising hope of accomplishing such a goal lies in locally based conservation efforts -- an approach that seeks ways to make local communities the beneficiaries and custodians of conservation efforts.Natural Connections focuses on rural societies and the conservation of biodiversity ... Read more

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Both realism and justice demand that efforts to conserve biological diversity address human needs as well. The most promising hope of accomplishing such a goal lies in locally based conservation efforts -- an approach that seeks ways to make local communities the beneficiaries and custodians of conservation efforts.Natural Connections focuses on rural societies and the conservation of biodiversity
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Rising Star

The Making of Barack Obama

by David Garrow ...

New York Times BestsellerRising Star is the definitive account of Barack Obama's formative years that made him the man who became the forty-fourth president of the United States—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bearing the CrossBarack Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention instantly catapulted him into the national spotlight and led to his election four years later as A ... Read more

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New York Times BestsellerRising Star is the definitive account of Barack Obama's formative years that made him the man who became the forty-fourth president of the United States—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bearing the CrossBarack Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention instantly catapulted him into the national spotlight and led to his election four years later as A
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Multicultural China in the Early Middle Ages

by Sanping Chen ...

Series series Encounters with Asia
In contrast to the economic and cultural dominance by the south and the east coast over the past several centuries, influence in China in the early Middle Ages was centered in the north and featured a significantly multicultural society. Many events that were profoundly formative for the future of East Asian civilization occurred during this period, although much of this multiculturalism has long ... Read more

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In contrast to the economic and cultural dominance by the south and the east coast over the past several centuries, influence in China in the early Middle Ages was centered in the north and featured a significantly multicultural society. Many events that were profoundly formative for the future of East Asian civilization occurred during this period, although much of this multiculturalism has long
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Red Brother, White Brother

A Time for Atonement

by Dr. Jean Lafrance ...

Aboriginal families and communities are losing their children to child welfare systems at an alarming rate. Such children have very poor futures to look forward to; rejection, abuse and belonging to nowhere are too often the fate of children in care. Academic failure, poor self-esteem and loss of identity accompany them, often right into life on the streets, experiencing lateral violence, ... Read more

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Aboriginal families and communities are losing their children to child welfare systems at an alarming rate. Such children have very poor futures to look forward to; rejection, abuse and belonging to nowhere are too often the fate of children in care. Academic failure, poor self-esteem and loss of identity accompany them, often right into life on the streets, experiencing lateral violence,
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A More Beautiful and Terrible History

The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History

by Jeanne Theoharis ...

This “bracing corrective to national mythology” around the American civil rights movement “shows us how little we remember, and how much more there is to understand” (New York Times).“Theoharis’s view of history is expansive” as it reveals the diverse, unsung heroes of the movement and criticizes the oversimplification of complex figures like Martin Luther King, Jr. (O Magazine).The civil rights ... Read more

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This “bracing corrective to national mythology” around the American civil rights movement “shows us how little we remember, and how much more there is to understand” (New York Times).“Theoharis’s view of history is expansive” as it reveals the diverse, unsung heroes of the movement and criticizes the oversimplification of complex figures like Martin Luther King, Jr. (O Magazine).The civil rights
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A Jesuit in the Forbidden City

Matteo Ricci 1552-1610

by R. Po-chia Hsia ...

A 16th century Italian Jesuit, Matteo Ricci was the founder of the Catholic Mission in China and one of the most famous missionaries of all time. A pioneer in bringing Christianity to China, Ricci spent twenty eight years in the country, in which time he crossed the cultural divides between China and the West by immersing himself in the language and culture of his hosts. Even 400 years later, he ... Read more

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A 16th century Italian Jesuit, Matteo Ricci was the founder of the Catholic Mission in China and one of the most famous missionaries of all time. A pioneer in bringing Christianity to China, Ricci spent twenty eight years in the country, in which time he crossed the cultural divides between China and the West by immersing himself in the language and culture of his hosts. Even 400 years later, he
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Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education

Mapping the Long View

Edited by Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Eve Tuck, K. Wayne Yang ...

Series series Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education
Indigenous and decolonizing perspectives on education have long persisted alongside colonial models of education, yet too often have been subsumed within the fields of multiculturalism, critical race theory, and progressive education. Timely and compelling, Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education features research, theory, and dynamic foundational readings for educators and educational ... Read more

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Indigenous and decolonizing perspectives on education have long persisted alongside colonial models of education, yet too often have been subsumed within the fields of multiculturalism, critical race theory, and progressive education. Timely and compelling, Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education features research, theory, and dynamic foundational readings for educators and educational
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Please Stop Helping Us

How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed

by Jason L. Riley ...

Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries?In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for people who are already employed, but they price a disproportionate number of blacks out of the labor ... Read more

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Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries?In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for people who are already employed, but they price a disproportionate number of blacks out of the labor
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