Challenges of Diversity: Essays on America, Werner Sollors
Автор: Werner Sollors Название: Challenges of Diversity: Essays on America ISBN: 0813589339 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813589336 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 125400.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: What unites and what divides Americans as a nation? Who are we, and can we strike a balance between an emphasis on our divergent ethnic origins and what we have in common? Opening with a survey of American literature through the vantage point of ethnicity, Werner Sollors examines our evolving understanding of ourselves as an Anglo-American nation to a multicultural one and the key role writing has played in that process. Challenges of Diversity contains stories of American myths of arrival (pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, slave ships at Jamestown, steerage passengers at Ellis Island), the powerful rhetoric of egalitarian promise in the Declaration of Independence and the heterogeneous ends to which it has been put, and the recurring tropes of multiculturalism over time (e pluribus unum, melting pot, cultural pluralism). Sollors suggests that although the transformation of this settler country into a polyethnic and self-consciously multicultural nation may appear as a story of great progress toward the fulfillment of egalitarian ideals, deepening economic inequality actually exacerbates the divisions among Americans today.
Автор: Lepore Jill Название: The Story of America: Essays on Origins ISBN: 0691159599 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691159591 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 19000.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Offers an account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama`s 2009 inaugural address - to show how American democracy is bound up with the history of print. Part civics primer, part cultural history, this title excavates the origins of everything from the paper ballot and the Constitution to the I O U and the dictionary.
Автор: Schulman Bruce J. Название: Making the American Century: Essays on the Political Culture of Twentieth Century America ISBN: 0199845417 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199845415 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 29030.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In this volume, a group of distinguished historians revisit and revise many of the chestnuts of American political history. Blurring the boundaries between political, cultural, and economic history, the contributors raise penetrating questions and challenge readers` understanding of the broader narrative of twentieth-century U.S. history.
Studies challenging the idea that technology and science flow only from global North to South.
The essays in this volume study the creation, adaptation, and use of science and technology in Latin America. They challenge the view that scientific ideas and technology travel unchanged from the global North to the global South -- the view of technology as "imported magic." They describe not only alternate pathways for innovation, invention, and discovery but also how ideas and technologies circulate in Latin American contexts and transnationally. The contributors' explorations of these issues, and their examination of specific Latin American experiences with science and technology, offer a broader, more nuanced understanding of how science, technology, politics, and power interact in the past and present.
The essays in this book use methods from history and the social sciences to investigate forms of local creation and use of technologies; the circulation of ideas, people, and artifacts in local and global networks; and hybrid technologies and forms of knowledge production. They address such topics as the work of female forensic geneticists in Colombia; the pioneering Argentinean use of fingerprinting technology in the late nineteenth century; the design, use, and meaning of the XO Laptops created and distributed by the One Laptop per Child Program; and the development of nuclear energy in Argentina, Mexico, and Chile.
Contributors Pedro Ignacio Alonso, Morgan G. Ames, Javiera Barandiaran, Joao Biehl, Anita Say Chan, Amy Cox Hall, Henrique Cukierman, Ana Delgado, Rafael Dias, Adriana Diaz del Castillo H., Mariano Fressoli, Jonathan Hagood, Christina Holmes, Matthieu Hubert, Noela Invernizzi, Michael Lemon, Ivan da Costa Marques, Gisela Mateos, Eden Medina, Maria Fernanda Olarte Sierra, Hugo Palmarola, Tania Perez-Bustos, Julia Rodriguez, Israel Rodriguez-Giralt, Edna Suarez Diaz, Hernan Thomas, Manuel Tironi, Dominique Vinck
Автор: Grace D Dawson, Darryl Wieland Название: Cultural Diversity and Geriatric Care: Challenges to the Health Professions ISBN: 1138967076 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138967076 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 30630.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Learn how to manage effectively the concerns related to the aging of the multicultural population. As this population increases, health practitioners are dealing not only with more older patients, but also with greater diversity among older patients and their families. Socio-cultural factors such as race, ethnicity, culture, and religion affect health-promoting and health-seeking behaviors of individuals and institutionals and affect access and delivery of health services. Cultural Diversity and Geriatric Care provides an educational context in which readers can envision equitable and beneficial care of culturally diverse elderly people and helps readers face some of these concerns and share in their solutions. Cultural Diversity and Geriatric Care treats the subject from the perspective of cultural relativity and cross-cultural comparison. Chapters stress the importance of communication to bridge differing expectations, expressions, and experiences of health care. Covering an array of topics, the contributing authors: discuss cultural and social differences among elderly people and their health care providers review demographic and epidemiologic studies of differences in health status among major ethnic and minority categories of elders in the United States examine the elderly’s use of health care services, reasons for variations in use, and a framework for providers to address needs review benefits and problems created by diversity within interdisciplinary care teams and discuss ways to improve training effectiveness describe a three-year multidisciplinary program incorporating ethnic and cultural content into geriatric clinical education and training examine the relationship between family caregiving and health care professionals across settings of geriatric rehabilitation overview the rich diversity in cultural meanings and social actions attached to death and dyingTargeted research and education is necessary to assure that health professionals can provide care that is both high quality and equitable. Cultural Diversity and Geriatric Care is a valuable guide to help individuals working in the health care field better understand all their patients and thus provide more effective care.
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