Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong, Mathews Gordon

Автор: Vergara Camilo Jose
Название: Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto
ISBN: 0226853365 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226853369
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: For more than a century, Harlem has been the epicenter of black America, the celebrated heart of African American life and culture - but it has also been a byword for the problems that have long plagued inner-city neighborhoods: poverty, crime, violence, disinvestment, and decay. This title offers an unprecedented record of urban change.

Автор: Peschel Lisa
Название: Performing Captivity, Performing Escape: Cabarets and Plays from the Terezin/Theresienstadt Ghetto
ISBN: 0857420003 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857420008
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: The concentration camp and Jewish ghetto at Terezin, or Theresienstadt, in what is now the Czech Republic, was a site of enormous suffering, fear, and death; but in the midst of this was a thriving and desperately vibrant cultural life. This book collects eleven theatrical texts written by Czech and Austrian Jews.

Автор: Eason John M.
Название: Big House on the Prairie: Rise of the Rural Ghetto and Prison Proliferation
ISBN: 022641034X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226410340
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Описание: Now more than ever, we need to understand the social, political, and economic shifts that have driven the United States to triple its prison construction in just over three decades. John Eason goes a very considerable distance here in fulfilling this need, not by detailing the aftereffects of building huge numbers of prisons, but by vividly showing the process by which a community seeks to get a prison built in their area. What prompted him to embark on this inquiry was the insistent question of why the rapid expansion of prisons in America, why now, and why so many. He quickly learned that the prison boom is best understood from the perspective of the rural, southern towns where they tend to be placed (North Carolina has twice as many prisons as New Jersey, though both states have the same number of prisoners). And so he sets up shop, as it were, in Forrest City, Arkansas, where he moved with his family to begin the splendid fieldwork that led to this book. A major part of his story deals with the emergence of the rural ghetto, abetted by white flight, de-industrialization, the emergence of public housing, and higher proportions of blacks and Latinos. How did Forrest City become a site for its prison? Eason takes us behind the decision-making scenes, tracking the impact of stigma (a prison in my backyard-not a likely desideratum), economic development, poverty, and race, while showing power-sharing among opposed groups of elite whites vs. black race leaders. Eason situates the prison within the dynamic shifts rural economies are undergoing, and shows how racially diverse communities can achieve the siting and building of prisons in their rural ghetto. The result is a full understanding of the ways in which a prison economy takes shape and operates."

Автор: Person Katarzyna
Название: Assimilated Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940-1943
ISBN: 0815633343 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815633341
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Jews in Nazi-oppupied Warsaw during the 1940s were under increasing
threat as they were stripped of their rights and forced to live in a guarded
ghetto away from the non- Jewish Polish population. Within the ghettos,
a small but distinct group existed: the assimilated, acculturated, and baptized
Jews. Unwilling to integrate into the Jewish community and unable to
merge with the Polish one, they formed a group of their own, remaining
in a state of suspension throughout the interwar period. In 1940, with the
closure of the Jewish Residential Quarter in Warsaw, their identity was
chosen for them.
Person looks at what it meant for assimilated Jews to leave their prewar
neighborhoods, understood as both a physical environment and a mixed
Polish Jewish community, and enter a new, Jewish one. She reveals the
diversity of this group and how its members' identity shaped their involvement
in and contribution to ghetto life. In the first English-language study
of this small but influential group, Person illuminates the important role of
the acculturated and assimilated Jews to the history and memory of the
Warsaw ghetto.

Автор: Wells
Название: The Metabolic Ghetto
ISBN: 1107009472 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107009479
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Chronic diseases have rapidly become the leading global cause of morbidity and mortality, yet there is poor understanding of this transition, or why particular social and ethnic groups are especially susceptible. In this book, Wells adopts a multidisciplinary approach to human nutrition, emphasising how power relations shape the physiological pathways to obesity, diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Part I reviews the physiological basis of chronic diseases, presenting a 'capacity-load' model that integrates the nutritional contributions of developmental experience and adult lifestyle. Part II presents an evolutionary perspective on the sensitivity of human metabolism to ecological stresses, highlighting how social hierarchy impacts metabolism on an intergenerational timescale. Part III reviews how nutrition has changed over time, as societies evolved and coalesced towards a single global economic system. Part IV integrates these physiological, evolutionary and politico-economic perspectives in a unifying framework, to deepen our understanding of the societal basis of metabolic ill-health.