Language, Identity, and Schooling Among African American Children
In Speaking of Race, Jennifer B. Delfino draws on three years of teaching experience and ethnographic research to examine language and racial identity among African American children in a Washington, D.C.-based after school program. after school program. It is based on three years of the author's teaching and ethnographic research.
Argues that hate speech restrictions are not only dangerous, but counterproductive. Acknowledging the legitimacy of concerns that prompt speech codes and combining support for civil liberties with a concern for civil rights issues, this title demonstrates that it is difficult, to draw the line between unprotected insults and protected ideas.
At the University of Pennsylvania, a student is reprimanded for calling a group of African-American students water buffalo. Several prominent American law schools now request that professors abstain from discussing the legal aspects of rape for fear of offending students. As debates over multiculturalism and political correctness crisscross the ......
This book charts the trajectory of Heidegger's concept of silence by focusing on its relation to truth as the unconcealedness of being/beyng and language as disclosive sonorous saying. Wanda Torres Gregory concludes with critical reflections on the later Heidegger and proposes alternatives to his signature claims concerning silence.
This book charts the trajectory of Heidegger's concept of silence by focusing on its relation to truth as the unconcealedness of being/beyng and language as disclosive sonorous saying. Wanda Torres Gregory concludes with critical reflections on the later Heidegger and proposes alternatives to his signature claims concerning silence.
In Speaking of Sin, Barbara Brown Taylor brings her fresh perspective to a cluster of words that often cause us discomfort: sin, damnation, repentance, penance, and salvation.
Helping you gain insights into the world of the person with Alzheimer's, this title provides a view into the day-to-day experience of Alzheimer's through the reflections of 7 diverse individuals with the disease. Suitable for people with early-stage Alzheimer's and related dementias, it explores the many dimensions of the Alzheimer's experience.
Speaking Pictures explores the complex negotiations between seeing and hearing essential to the audiences' experience in any dramatic performance. Ranging chronologically from the Middle Ages to the present, the essays consider a variety of methods that help us recuperate the visual impact of theatrical spectacle before the age of video archives. ......
The Construction of Sustainability in Forests and Fisheries
Speaking Private Authority argues that to better understand the global governance phenomenon known as private authority, investigators must interrogate the strategic social maneuverings of actors-particularly how actors leverage discursive maneuverings to gain advantageous social positions to more effectively exercise private authority.
