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  • 1
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    Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub
    ISBN: 0631197656 , 0631197664 , 0470996382 , 9780470996386
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxiii, 412 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Philosophers and their critics 11
    Parallel Title: Print version Dworkin and his critics
    DDC: 303.3/72/01
    Keywords: Dworkin, Ronald William ; Right to life ; Social justice ; Social ethics ; Right to die ; Equality ; Bibliografie ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Expensive taste rides again / G.A. Cohen -- Talent, slavery, and envy / Miriam Cohen Christofidis -- Equality of resources versus undominated diversity / Philippe Van Parijs -- Liberty, equality, envy, and abstraction / Michael Otsuka -- Cracked foundations of liberal equality / Richard J. Arneson -- A puzzle about ethics, justice, and the sacred / Matthew Clayton -- Dworkin on freedom and culture / Will Kymlicka -- Justice in health care : can Dworkin justify universal access? / Lesley A. Jacobs -- Equality of resources and procreative justice / Paula Casal and Andrew Williams -- Morality and the "new genetics" / Justine Burley -- Autonomy, beneficence, and the permanently demented / Seana Valentine Shiffrin -- Ronald Dworkin's views on abortion and assisted suicide / F.M. Kamm -- Reverence for life and the limits of state power / Eric Rakowski -- Associative obligations and the state / Leslie Green -- Speaking with one voice : on Dworkinian integrity and coherence / Joseph Raz -- Integrity : justice in workclothes / Gerald J. Postema -- The rule of law as a theater of debate / Jeremy Waldron -- Ronald Dworkin replies / Ronald Dworkin
    Description / Table of Contents: Expensive taste rides again / G.A. CohenTalent, slavery, and envy / Miriam Cohen Christofidis -- Equality of resources versus undominated diversity / Philippe Van Parijs -- Liberty, equality, envy, and abstraction / Michael Otsuka -- Cracked foundations of liberal equality / Richard J. Arneson -- A puzzle about ethics, justice, and the sacred / Matthew Clayton -- Dworkin on freedom and culture / Will Kymlicka -- Justice in health care : can Dworkin justify universal access? / Lesley A. Jacobs -- Equality of resources and procreative justice / Paula Casal and Andrew Williams -- Morality and the "new genetics" / Justine Burley -- Autonomy, beneficence, and the permanently demented / Seana Valentine Shiffrin -- Ronald Dworkin's views on abortion and assisted suicide / F.M. Kamm -- Reverence for life and the limits of state power / Eric Rakowski -- Associative obligations and the state / Leslie Green -- Speaking with one voice : on Dworkinian integrity and coherence / Joseph Raz -- Integrity : justice in workclothes / Gerald J. Postema -- The rule of law as a theater of debate / Jeremy Waldron -- Ronald Dworkin replies / Ronald Dworkin.
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  • 2
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    Malden, MA : Blackwell
    ISBN: 0631236139 , 0631236120 , 0470755725 , 9780470755723
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (ix, 253 p) , ill , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: The language library
    Parallel Title: Print version Multilingualism in the English-speaking world
    DDC: 306.44/6
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    Keywords: Multilingualism ; Linguistic minorities ; Language and education ; Englisches Sprachgebiet ; Mehrsprachigkeit
    Abstract: With a flurry of recent public controversy surrounding legislation on language in education and the workplace, observers are beginning to assess the likely consequences of the shift in balance when speakers of English as a second and foreign language outnumber native speakers. At the same time there is a growing appreciation of the benefits which multilingualism brings for both minority language speakers and the wider English-speaking community in terms of business, the arts, diplomacy and defence. "Multilingualism in the English-speaking World: Pedigree of Nations" looks at the everyday realities for people living in 'inner-circle' English-speaking countries from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Accessibly written and drawing on real-life examples from North America, the British Isles, Australia and New Zealand, this book discusses the theoretical issues that underpin the current debates, drawing on the research literature on societal multilingualism, language maintenance and shift, language policy, language and power, and language and identity
    Abstract: With a flurry of recent public controversy surrounding legislation on language in education and the workplace, observers are beginning to assess the likely consequences of the shift in balance when speakers of English as a second and foreign language outnumber native speakers. At the same time there is a growing appreciation of the benefits which multilingualism brings for both minority language speakers and the wider English-speaking community in terms of business, the arts, diplomacy and defence. "Multilingualism in the English-speaking World: Pedigree of Nations" looks at the everyday realities for people living in 'inner-circle' English-speaking countries from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Accessibly written and drawing on real-life examples from North America, the British Isles, Australia and New Zealand, this book discusses the theoretical issues that underpin the current debates, drawing on the research literature on societal multilingualism, language maintenance and shift, language policy, language and power, and language and identity
    Description / Table of Contents: The myth of monolingualismRoots of diversity -- Language and the provision of services -- Language in the family -- Language and education : a history -- Language and education in the modern world -- Minority languages and majority speakers -- Language and the economy -- Language and the media -- Language and the arts -- Language, diplomacy, and defence -- Is life really too short to learn German?
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  • 3
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    Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub
    ISBN: 0631225846 , 0631225854 , 0470775831 , 1281310859 , 9780470775837 , 9781281310859
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (x, 314 p) , ill , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Cultural bodies
    DDC: 306.4
    Keywords: Human body Social aspects ; Ethnology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: "Cultural Bodies: Ethnography and Theory" is a unique collection that integrates two increasingly key areas of social and cultural research: the body and ethnography. "The body" continues to be a central theme of debate and research across the humanities and social sciences and in subjects such as gender, race, identity, and science and technology. However, existing literature on the body has taken a largely theoretical direction. "Cultural Bodies" breaks new ground by refusing to neglect the experiential and the empirical. Bringing together an international and multidisciplinary team of scholars, "Cultural Bodies" draws on ethnography as a useful means of exploring our everyday social and cultural environments and, in doing so, demonstrates the constant need for researchers and their research to be made accountable to readers. In this way, ethnography reveals as much about the frameworks of social research as it does about the societies that they move in and out of. By focusing on the body and ethnography, "Cultural Bodies" constitutes an important step in developing these two key areas of study and the relationship between them
    Abstract: Inscriptions of love / Les Back ; photography by Paul Halliday -- From catwalk to catalog : male fashion models, masculinity, and identity / Joanne Entwistle -- Reading racialized bodies : learning to see difference / Suki Ali -- Narratives of embodiment : body, aging, and career in Royal Ballet dancers / Steven P. Wainwright and Bryan S. Turner -- Being a body in a cultural way : understanding the cultural in the embodiment of dance / Sally Ann Allen Ness -- Bare life / Nigel Thrift -- Lolo's breasts, cyborgism, and a wooden Christ / Simon Shepherd -- Talking back to neuro-reductionism / Emily Martin -- Eating for a living : a rhizo-ethology of bodies / Elspeth Probyn -- Health and the holy in the Afro-Brazilian candomblé / Thomas J. Csordas -- Here comes the sun : shedding light on the cultural body / Simon Carter and Mike Michael -- Reaching the body : future directions / Jamilah Ahmed
    Description / Table of Contents: Inscriptions of love / Les Back ; photography by Paul HallidayFrom catwalk to catalog : male fashion models, masculinity, and identity / Joanne Entwistle -- Reading racialized bodies : learning to see difference / Suki Ali -- Narratives of embodiment : body, aging, and career in Royal Ballet dancers / Steven P. Wainwright and Bryan S. Turner -- Being a body in a cultural way : understanding the cultural in the embodiment of dance / Sally Ann Allen Ness -- Bare life / Nigel Thrift -- Lolo's breasts, cyborgism, and a wooden Christ / Simon Shepherd -- Talking back to neuro-reductionism / Emily Martin -- Eating for a living : a rhizo-ethology of bodies / Elspeth Probyn -- Health and the holy in the Afro-Brazilian candomblé / Thomas J. Csordas -- Here comes the sun : shedding light on the cultural body / Simon Carter and Mike Michael -- Reaching the body : future directions / Jamilah Ahmed.
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  • 4
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    Wiesbaden : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
    ISBN: 9783322805980
    Language: German
    Pages: Online-Ressource (372 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science
    DDC: 301
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kultur ; Handlungstheorie
    Abstract: Die Kulturbetriebslehre befasst sich mit den vielfältigen Organisationsformen der Produktion, Distribution und Rezeption von Kulturgütern. Tasos Zembylas verfolgt systematisch die Frage nach der Konstitution von Kulturgütern und betont dabei die Bedeutung der Praxis (Regeln, Institutionen, Praktiken) bei der Entstehung von Werten, Präferenzen und Denkstilen. Kulturgüter sind Ergebnisse kollektiver Prozesse und somit "res publica". Präzise philosophische Argumentationen und zahlreiche praktische Beispiele schaffen die Basis für eine Repositionierung der kulturpolitischen und kulturökonomischen Diskussionen der Gegenwart
    Description / Table of Contents: Einführende BemerkungenI - Kulturbegriff(E) -- 1 Zur Vieldeutigkeit des Kulturbegriffs -- 2 Aspekte der Kultur -- 3 Grundlagenfragen der Kulturforschung -- 4 Institutionelle Annäherung -- II - Kunstbegriff(E) -- 5 Die Grenzen der bisherigen kunstphilosophischen Theorien -- 6 Praxisorientierte Analyse der Kunst -- 7 Die Konfliktträchtigkeit der Kunst -- 8 Das Neue als Leitbegriff der Moderne -- 9 Kunst als evaluatives Konzept -- III - Handlungen, Tätigkeiten, Kulturelle Praktiken -- 10 Die epistemologischen Grundlagen der Handlungstheorie -- 11 Die sozialwissenschaftlichen Grundlagen von Tätigkeiten und Praktiken -- 12 Marksteine für die Erklärung und Interpretation des sozialen Handelns im Kulturbetrieb -- 13 Bewertung und Rechtfertigung von Handlungen -- Nachwort -- Sachwortverzeichnis -- Personenverzeichnis.
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  • 5
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    Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub
    ISBN: 1405116048 , 1405116056 , 0470773898 , 1280198761 , 1405143614 , 9780470773895 , 9781280198762 , 9781405143615
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (ix, 184 p) , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Bauman, Richard World of others' words
    DDC: 398.014
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    Keywords: Cross-cultural orientation ; Oral tradition ; Intertextuality ; Communication in folklore ; Communication in anthropology ; Intertextualität ; Gesprochene Sprache ; Ethnologie ; Anthropologie
    Abstract: Drawing on a broad range of oral performances and literary records from Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, North America, Ghana, and Fiji, linguistic anthropologist and folklorist Richard Bauman presents a series of ethnographic case studies that offer an innovative and illuminating look at intertextuality as communicative practice. Bauman uses his introduction to lay a framework for the analysis of genre, performance, and intertextuality as discursive accomplishments. He goes on to examine the ways that performers blend genres and then explores how they manage intertextual links or gaps by aligning texts in discursive practice. Finally, Bauman draws together these threads and turns his insights to a critical consideration of ethnographic practice itself, bringing into reflexive awareness the ways that ethnography positions us in a world of others' words
    Abstract: Introduction : Genre, performance, and the prduction of inrertxtuality -- "And the verse is thus" : Icelandic stories about magical poems -- "I'll give you three guesses" : the dynamics of genre in the riddle tale -- "What shall we give you?" : calibrations of genre in a Mexican market -- "Bell, you get the spotted pup" : first person narratives of a Texas storyteller -- "That I can't tell you" : negotiating performance with a Nova Scotia fisherman -- "Go, my reciter my words" : mediation, tradition, authority -- Epilogue
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : Genre, performance, and the prduction of inrertxtuality"And the verse is thus" : Icelandic stories about magical poems -- "I'll give you three guesses" : the dynamics of genre in the riddle tale -- "What shall we give you?" : calibrations of genre in a Mexican market -- "Bell, you get the spotted pup" : first person narratives of a Texas storyteller -- "That I can't tell you" : negotiating performance with a Nova Scotia fisherman -- "Go, my reciter my words" : mediation, tradition, authority -- Epilogue.
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  • 6
    ISBN: 1405116366 , 1405116374 , 0470753056 , 1281322806 , 9780470753057 , 9781281322807
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxiii, 312 p) , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: RGS-IBG book series
    Parallel Title: Print version Geographies and moralities
    DDC: 305.5
    Keywords: Distributive justice ; Regional disparities ; Geography Moral and ethical aspects ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This topical book addresses contemporary concern with the interconnections between geography and morality. It recognizes that there are 'moral geographies', involving differences in moral values and practices from place to place. It also recognizes that there are moralities in geography, in the sense of research methods and practices which may be subject to normative evaluation and codes of professional ethics. After a foreword by Revaz Gachechiladze and an introductory chapter by the editors explaining the academic context and approach adopted, contributors from a number of different countries provide international perspectives on the issues, supported by case studies from their own original research. These case studies deal with a wide range of controversial topics, including global inequalities, uneven development in Europe, struggles over human rights in Nigeria, territorial conflict in Israel and land reform in post-apartheid South Africa
    Abstract: Introduction : Geographies of morality and moralities of geography / Roger Lee and David M. Smith -- Globalization, production and the (im)morality of uneven development / Peter Dicken -- Regional inequality, convergence and enlargement in the European Union / Nigel Spence -- Moral problems of eastern wilderness : European core and periphery / Bolesław Domańksi -- Where the grass is greener in Poland : regional and intra-urban inequalities / Grzegorz Węcławowicz -- Social exclusion, health and health care : the case of the national health service in England / Sarah E. Curtis --The problem with welfare / Susan J. Smith and Donna Easterlow -- Struggles over human rights in Nigeria : questions of scale in moral geography / Rex Honey -- Valuing land and distributing territory / Avery Kolers -- When two rights collide : some lessons from Jerusalem / Shlomo Hasson -- Land reform policy in post-apartheid South Africa : the elusive quest for social justice? / Brij Maharaj -- Waiting in line, or the moral and material geographies of queue-jumping / Stuart Corbridge -- Moral geographies of sexual citizenship / Gill Valentine -- 'But tight jeans are better!' Moral improvisation and ethical judgement in local planning decision-making / Jean Hillier -- The quality of ethics : moral causation, method and metatheory in the interdisciplinary science of geography / William S. Lynn -- On the pavement : reflections on fieldwork with urban poor Black women street traders in Durban, South Africa / Priscilla Cunnan -- Disciplinary change and career paths / Ron Johnston -- From location theory to moral philosophy : views from the fringe / David M. Smith
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : Geographies of morality and moralities of geography / Roger Lee and David M. SmithGlobalization, production and the (im)morality of uneven development / Peter Dicken -- Regional inequality, convergence and enlargement in the European Union / Nigel Spence -- Moral problems of eastern wilderness : European core and periphery / Bolesław Domańksi -- Where the grass is greener in Poland : regional and intra-urban inequalities / Grzegorz Węcławowicz -- Social exclusion, health and health care : the case of the national health service in England / Sarah E. Curtis --The problem with welfare / Susan J. Smith and Donna Easterlow -- Struggles over human rights in Nigeria : questions of scale in moral geography / Rex Honey -- Valuing land and distributing territory / Avery Kolers -- When two rights collide : some lessons from Jerusalem / Shlomo Hasson -- Land reform policy in post-apartheid South Africa : the elusive quest for social justice? / Brij Maharaj -- Waiting in line, or the moral and material geographies of queue-jumping / Stuart Corbridge -- Moral geographies of sexual citizenship / Gill Valentine -- 'But tight jeans are better!' Moral improvisation and ethical judgement in local planning decision-making / Jean Hillier -- The quality of ethics : moral causation, method and metatheory in the interdisciplinary science of geography / William S. Lynn -- On the pavement : reflections on fieldwork with urban poor Black women street traders in Durban, South Africa / Priscilla Cunnan -- Disciplinary change and career paths / Ron Johnston -- From location theory to moral philosophy : views from the fringe / David M. Smith.
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  • 7
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    Malden, Mass : Blackwell
    ISBN: 063123621X , 0631236228 , 0470774339 , 1405143347 , 1280197706 , 9780470774335 , 9781405143349 , 9781280197703
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (ix, 153 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Blackwell manifestos
    Parallel Title: Print version Hardt, Hanno Myths for the masses
    DDC: 302.23
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    Keywords: Mass media Political aspects ; Mass media Social aspects ; Communication Social aspects ; Massenmedien ; Massenkommunikation
    Abstract: With a lively and engaging style, Myths for the Masses provides a critical, interdisciplinary, and historically informed statement about the rise of mass communication in Western societies, and its impact on contemporary life. Written by one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, this book ponders the dominant and the detrimental effects of the mass-produced message in a contemporary age over-run by telecommunications and consumerism. The author convincingly argues that the active presence of media organizations rather than the collective will of the people, forms and re-forms the social, cultural, economic and political landscapes of society. The book exposes mass communication to a close examination of many of its real or assumed functions in a modern world, and re-evaluates its traditional role as a bastion of democracy and a celebrant of mass society
    Abstract: Mass communication and the promise of democracy -- Mass communication and the meaning of self in society
    Description / Table of Contents: Mass communication and the promise of democracyMass communication and the meaning of self in society.
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  • 8
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    Princeton, N.J : Princeton University Press
    ISBN: 0691091897 , 0691122504 , 9781283291057 , 9781400841318 , 9780691091891 , 9780691122502
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvi, 229 p) , ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Princeton studies in American politics : historical, international and comparative perspectives
    DDC: 305.26/0973
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    Keywords: Social security ; Older people Political activity ; Political planning
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  • 9
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    Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub
    ISBN: 1405105852 , 1405105860 , 0470773723 , 9780470773727
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xi, 287 p) , ill , 24 cm
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    Series Statement: Antipode book series 2
    Parallel Title: Print version McDowell, Linda, 1949- Redundant masculinities?
    DDC: 305.242/0973
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    Keywords: Men, White Psychology ; Masculinity ; Men, White Employment ; High school dropouts Employment ; Young men Employment ; Minorities Employment ; Großbritannien ; Männliche Jugend ; Arbeiterklasse ; Identitätsentwicklung ; Arbeitswelt
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : young, white, male and working classThe rise of poor work : employment restructuring and changing class and gender identitiesThe contemporary crisis of masculinity : it's hard to be(come) a man or the problem of/for boysLiving on the edge : marginal lives in Cambridge and SheffieldLeaving school : pathways to employment and further educationActively seeking employment : committed workers and reluctant learnersUncertain transitions : accidental and incidental workers, the excluded and escape attemptsPerforming identity : protest and domestic masculinitiesConclusions :What is to be done about boys?
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  • 10
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    Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub
    ISBN: 0631207287 , 0631207295 , 0470773324 , 9780470773321
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (ix, 217 p) , 24 cm
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    Series Statement: RGS-IBG book series
    Parallel Title: Print version Allen, John, 1951- Lost geographies of power
    DDC: 303.3
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    Keywords: Human geography ; Power (Social sciences) ; Macht ; Raumverhalten ; Sozialgeografie
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    San Francisco : Jossey-Bass
    ISBN: 0787967440
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xv, 297 p) , 24 cm
    Edition: 1st ed
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    Parallel Title: Print version Overcoming Our Racism : The Journey to Liberation
    DDC: 305.8/00973
    Keywords: Racism ; United States Race relations
    Abstract: This extraordinary book by Derald Wing Sue, a highly-regarded academic and author, helps readers understand and combat racism in themselves. It defines racism not only as extreme acts of hatred, but as "any attitude, action or institutional structure or social policy that subordinates a person or group because of their color." This landmark work offers an antidote to this pervasive social problem. Shows how each of us has a role in the oppression of others, and what we can do about itOffers a way to overcome racism on a very intimate levelOutlines specific guidelines and suggested activities
    Description / Table of Contents: Are you a racist?What is racism? -- Do you oppress? -- What is your racial reality and that of white America? -- Isn't racism a white problem? -- What does in mean to be white? -- What is white privilege? -- How do you develop a nonracist white identity? -- What must you do to combat racism? -- What must society do to combat racism? -- What must people of color do to overcome racism? a personal message to my brothers and sisters of color.
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    Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub
    ISBN: 0631230580 , 0631230599 , 0470756152 , 9780470756157
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (ix, 229 p) , 24 cm
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    Parallel Title: Print version Ways of aging
    DDC: 305.26
    Keywords: Aging ; Older people ; Loneliness ; Aged ; Aging psychology ; Adaptation, Psychological ; Bereavement ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic resource ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Altern ; Alter
    Abstract: Ways of Aging is an engaging collection of ten original essays on the experience of aging. Written and edited by social gerontologists, and focusing on everyday life, these essays draw from original case studies to feature diverse ways of growing and being older. Through in-depth interviews and first-person accounts, each essay gives a voice to the elderly, stressing the distinct and assorted identities that people develop as they grow older under different circumstances. In straightforward and compelling prose, the authors feature the varied experiences of widows, African Americans, Native Americans, nursing home residents, gay and lesbian elders, and others. The essays provide vivid illustrations of both the complex differences of the aging experience and the surprising commonalities. The theme of a diverse, multifaceted aging experience links the various presentations. Countering familiar stereotypes, Ways of Aging offers a unique perspective on the different pathways that may be taken through the later years
    Abstract: Ways of Aging is an engaging collection of ten original essays on the experience of aging. Written and edited by social gerontologists, and focusing on everyday life, these essays draw from original case studies to feature diverse ways of growing and being older. Through in-depth interviews and first-person accounts, each essay gives a voice to the elderly, stressing the distinct and assorted identities that people develop as they grow older under different circumstances. In straightforward and compelling prose, the authors feature the varied experiences of widows, African Americans, Native Americans, nursing home residents, gay and lesbian elders, and others. The essays provide vivid illustrations of both the complex differences of the aging experience and the surprising commonalities. The theme of a diverse, multifaceted aging experience links the various presentations. Countering familiar stereotypes, Ways of Aging offers a unique perspective on the different pathways that may be taken through the later years
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Narratives of forgiveness in old age / Helen K. Black2. Elderhood in contemporary Lakota society / Joan Weibel-Orlando -- 3. Claiming identity in a nursing home / Debora A. Paterniti -- 4. Three childless men's pathways into old age / Tanya Koropeckyj-Cox -- 5. Constructing community from troubles / Christopher A. Faircloth -- 6. Family lives of aging black Americans / Colleen L. Johnson and Barbara M. Barer -- 7. Aging and change in a religious community / Sarah Matthews -- 8. Identity careers of older gay men and Lesbians /Dana Rosenfeld -- Expectations and experiences of widowhood / Deborah Kestin van den Hoonard -- 10. Positive aging / Mary Gergen and Kenneth J. Gergen.
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    ISBN: 0631223304 , 0631223312 , 0470753544 , 0470703369 , 128132258X , 9780470753545 , 9780470703366 , 9781281322586
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (viii, 304 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Print version Learning for life in the 21st century
    DDC: 306.43
    Keywords: Educational anthropology ; Education Aims and objectives ; Learning ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Lernen ; Zukunft
    Abstract: Education is about developing minds that are ready to thrive in the complex uncertainties of the postmodern world: minds that are curious, confident, critical and collaborative. But how is that to be achieved? What are the implications for schools and teachers of rethinking education in this way? In Learning for Life in the 21st Century, a collection of distinguished international educators and researchers bend their minds to this problem - and come up with solutions and suggestions that are practical, challenging, and sometimes surprising. The book starts from the premise that the most significant factors in shaping minds are the cultural setting in which learning takes place, the activities in which participants engage, and the discourse among them. Underlining the wide acceptance of this perspective, the contributors are drawn from a range of countries: Australia, Denmark, Finland, Italy, New Zealand, Spain, the UK and the US . Each chapter explores the ideas and challenges that a sociocultural perspective raises for different aspects of schooling and lifelong education. What emerges is a coherent and comprehensive picture of what education needs to become in the context of escalating relativism and diversity in the world. The contributions are written in a thoughtful, engaging style, free from unnecessary technological jargon, and the volume is structured clearly to correspond to the chronological organization of education
    Abstract: Education for the learning age : a sociocultural approach to learning to learn / Guy Claxton -- Becoming the village : education across lives / Jay L. Lemke -- The gift of confidence : a Vygotskian view of emotions / Holbrook Mahn and Vera John-Steiner -- From activity to directivity : the question of involvement in education / Pablo del Río and Amelia Álvarez -- Sociocultural perspectives on assessment / Caroline Gipps -- Teaching, learning, and development : a post-Vygotskian perspective / Anna Stetsenko and Igor Arievitch -- Emerging learning narratives : a perspective from early childhood education / Margaret Carr -- Semiotic mediation and mental development in pluralistic societies : some implications for tomorrow's schooling / Ruqaiya Hasan -- Learning to argue and reason through discourse in educational settings / Clotilde Pontecorvo and Laura Sterponi -- Developing dialogues / Neil Mercer -- Supporting students' learning of significant mathematical ideas / Paul Cobb and Kay McClain -- A developmental teaching approach to schooling / Seth Chaiklin -- Standards for pedagogy : research, theory and practice / Stephanie Stoll Dalton and Roland G. Tharp --Inquiry as an orientation for learning, teaching and teacher education / Gordon Wells -- Can a school community learn to master its own future? An activity-theoretical study of expansive learning among middle school teachers / Yrjö Engeström, Ritva Engeström and Arja Suntio -- Cultural historical activity theory and the expansion of opportunities for learning after school / Katherine Brown and Michael Cole -- Building a community of educators versus effecting conceptual change in individual students : multicultural education for pre-service teachers / Eugene Matusov and Renée Hayes -- Organizing excursions into specialist discourse communities : a sociocultural account of university teaching / Andy Northedge
    Description / Table of Contents: Education for the learning age : a sociocultural approach to learning to learn / Guy ClaxtonBecoming the village : education across lives / Jay L. Lemke -- The gift of confidence : a Vygotskian view of emotions / Holbrook Mahn and Vera John-Steiner -- From activity to directivity : the question of involvement in education / Pablo del Río and Amelia Álvarez -- Sociocultural perspectives on assessment / Caroline Gipps -- Teaching, learning, and development : a post-Vygotskian perspective / Anna Stetsenko and Igor Arievitch -- Emerging learning narratives : a perspective from early childhood education / Margaret Carr -- Semiotic mediation and mental development in pluralistic societies : some implications for tomorrow's schooling / Ruqaiya Hasan -- Learning to argue and reason through discourse in educational settings / Clotilde Pontecorvo and Laura Sterponi -- Developing dialogues / Neil Mercer -- Supporting students' learning of significant mathematical ideas / Paul Cobb and Kay McClain -- A developmental teaching approach to schooling / Seth Chaiklin -- Standards for pedagogy : research, theory and practice / Stephanie Stoll Dalton and Roland G. Tharp --Inquiry as an orientation for learning, teaching and teacher education / Gordon Wells -- Can a school community learn to master its own future? An activity-theoretical study of expansive learning among middle school teachers / Yrjö Engeström, Ritva Engeström and Arja Suntio -- Cultural historical activity theory and the expansion of opportunities for learning after school / Katherine Brown and Michael Cole -- Building a community of educators versus effecting conceptual change in individual students : multicultural education for pre-service teachers / Eugene Matusov and Renée Hayes -- Organizing excursions into specialist discourse communities : a sociocultural account of university teaching / Andy Northedge.
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    Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub
    ISBN: 0631219463 , 0631219471 , 0470756101 , 9780631219460 , 9780470756102
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiii, 351 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Diversity and community
    DDC: 307
    Keywords: Multiculturalism ; Identity (Psychology) ; Social structure ; Communities Philosophy ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Diversity and Community: An Interdisciplinary Reader is a collection of newly-commissioned essays that explore the notion of community in its many theoretical, practical, and cultural manifestations. The book examines the nature of community, the relation of individual and group identity to community norms and values, and the possibilities for cross-cultural understanding. Throughout, the volume deals with issues confronting many diverse communities including African, African-American, Asian-American, Native American, Latin-American, Anglo- and Franco-Canadian, Canadian Aboriginal, Japanese, gay and lesbian, computer-mediated, and counter-culture communities. Including contributions from thinkers such as Martha Nussbaum, Jean Bethke Elsthain, D.A. Masolo, Mary Hawkesworth, Lewis Gordon, Maria Lugones, Crispin Sartwell, Duane Champagne, and Frank Cunningham, as well as work by several new theorists, this book is a solid, comprehensive investigation into an important issue
    Abstract: Diversity and Community: An Interdisciplinary Reader is a collection of newly-commissioned essays that explore the notion of community in its many theoretical, practical, and cultural manifestations. The book examines the nature of community, the relation of individual and group identity to community norms and values, and the possibilities for cross-cultural understanding. Throughout, the volume deals with issues confronting many diverse communities including African, African-American, Asian-American, Native American, Latin-American, Anglo- and Franco-Canadian, Canadian Aboriginal, Japanese, gay and lesbian, computer-mediated, and counter-culture communities. Including contributions from thinkers such as Martha Nussbaum, Jean Bethke Elsthain, D.A. Masolo, Mary Hawkesworth, Lewis Gordon, Maria Lugones, Crispin Sartwell, Duane Champagne, and Frank Cunningham, as well as work by several new theorists, this book is a solid, comprehensive investigation into an important issue
    Description / Table of Contents: Communities and community: critique and retrieval / Jean Bethke Elshtain and Christopher BeemCommunity at the margin / Crispin Sartwell -- Impure communities / Maria Lugones -- Identities: the dynamical dimensions of diversity / Chuck Dyke and Carl Dyke -- From village to global contexts: ideas, types, and the making of communitites / D.A. Masolo -- Obligations across generations: a consideration in the understanding of community formation / Lewis R. Gordon -- Citizenship or transgression?: dilemmas of the US movement for lesbian/gay rights / Arlene Stein -- Diversity, inequality, and community: African Americans and people of color in the United States / J. Blaine Hudson -- Renewing American Indian nations: cosmic communities and spiritual autonomy / Duane Champagne -- Nations and nationalism: the case of Canada/Quebec / Frank Cunningham -- Love, care, and women's dignity: the family as a privileged community / Martha Nussbaum -- Community and society, melancholy and sociopathy / Osborne Wiggins and Michael A. Schwartz -- The role of art in sustaining communities / Marcia Muelder Eaton -- Images of community in American popular culture / Eileen John and Nancy Potter -- Virtual communities: Chinatowns made in America / Gary Y. Okihiro -- Villages, local and global: observations on computer-mediated and geographically situated communities / Samuel Oluoch Imbo -- The university as a universe of communities / Mary Hawkesworth.
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    Oxford : Blackwell
    ISBN: 0631222278 , 063122226X , 047075351X , 9780631222262 , 9780470753514
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxiii, 305 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Print version Philosophers on race
    DDC: 305.8
    Keywords: Physical anthropology ; Race ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This volume adds a new dimension to current research on race theory by examining its historical roots in the works of major Western philosophers. The essays included in this book span a wide range of topics, including the opposition between Greek and "barbarian" in the works of Plato and Aristotle, the notion of racial difference employed in medieval Islamic thought, as well as the existence of racial categories within the social contract and Enlightenment theories of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Kant. The readings also discuss repercussions in the post-Enlightenment period in the views of Nietzsche, Mill, and Carlyle, and twentieth-century reflections on race in the thought of Heidegger, Dewey, Sartre, and Beauvoir
    Abstract: This volume adds a new dimension to current research on race theory by examining its historical roots in the works of major Western philosophers. The essays included in this book span a wide range of topics, including the opposition between Greek and "barbarian" in the works of Plato and Aristotle, the notion of racial difference employed in medieval Islamic thought, as well as the existence of racial categories within the social contract and Enlightenment theories of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Kant. The readings also discuss repercussions in the post-Enlightenment period in the views of Nietzsche, Mill, and Carlyle, and twentieth-century reflections on race in the thought of Heidegger, Dewey, Sartre, and Beauvoir
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Distinction without a difference? Race and Genos in Plato , Ethnos in the Politics : Aristotle and race , Medieval Muslim philosophers on race , Patriarchy and slavery in Hobbes's political philosophy , "Aninconsistency not to be excused" : on Locke and racism , Locke and the dispossession of the American Indian , Between primates and primitives : natural man as the missing link in Rousseau's Second discourse , Kant as an unfamiliar source of racism , "Thegreat play and fight of forces" : Nietzsche on race , Liberalism's limits : Carlyle and Mill on "The negro question" , Heidegger and the Jewish question : metaphysical racism in silence and word , Sartre on American racism , Sartrean bad faith and antiblack racism , Beauvoir and the problem of racism , Dewey's philosophical approach to racial prejudice , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    Ames, Iowa : Iowa State Press
    ISBN: 9780813809236 , 0813808693 , 0470384964 , 0813809231 , 9780470384961 , 9780813809236
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxvii, 224 p)
    Edition: 1st ed
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version The Environment, Our Natural Resources and Modern Technology
    DDC: 304.2
    Keywords: Human ecology ; Environmentalism
    Abstract: Always controversial, Thomas DeGregori has released another classic volume that is sure to inform, confound, and present new perspectives on todays environmental issues. This time he is taking on the environmentalists, naturalists, green consumerists, and those that hail the natural lifestyle as the healthy, politically correct thing to do. DeGregori examines the economics of green consumerism, the reality of saving the environment, how historical cultures may have influenced environmental damage, and how being ecologically correct may have a more damaging effect on our environment. Not just a
    Description / Table of Contents: The Environment, Our Natural Resources, and Modern Technology; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Green Consumerism; 2. Racism, Elitism, and Environmentalism; 3. Life in the Bush; 4. Paradise in the Pacific?; 5. The American Indian: The "Original Ecologist"?; 6. Demystifying the Environment; 7. Technology and the "Primitive"; 8. The Human Endeavor as a Creative Force; 9. Technology and the Promise of Modernity; References; Index
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    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishers
    ISBN: 0631225889 , 0631225897 , 0470756187 , 9780631225881 , 9780470756188
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiii, 318 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Interpreting ancient history
    Parallel Title: Print version Sexuality and gender in the classical world
    DDC: 305.4/09
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    Keywords: Sex role History To 1500 ; Sex role History To 1500 ; Women History To 500 ; Sex role in literature ; Classical literature History and criticism ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This volume provides essays that represent a range of perspectives on women, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, tracing the debates from the late 1960s to the late 1990s
    Abstract: Classical Greek attitudes to sexual behaviour / K.J. Dover -- Double consciousness in Sappho's lyrics / J.J. Wrinkler -- Bound to bleed: Artemis and Greek women / H. King -- Playing the other: theatre, theatricality, and the feminine in Greek drama / F.I. Zeitlin -- The silent women of Rome / M.I. Finley -- The body female and the body politic: Livy's Lucretia and Verginia / S.R. Joshel -- Mistress and metaphor in Augustan Elegy / M. Wyke -- Pliny's Brassiere / A. Richlin -- The voice of the shuttle is ours / P.K. Joplin
    Description / Table of Contents: Classical Greek attitudes to sexual behaviour / K.J. DoverDouble consciousness in Sappho's lyrics / J.J. Wrinkler -- Bound to bleed: Artemis and Greek women / H. King -- Playing the other: theatre, theatricality, and the feminine in Greek drama / F.I. Zeitlin -- The silent women of Rome / M.I. Finley -- The body female and the body politic: Livy's Lucretia and Verginia / S.R. Joshel -- Mistress and metaphor in Augustan Elegy / M. Wyke -- Pliny's Brassiere / A. Richlin -- The voice of the shuttle is ours / P.K. Joplin.
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    Malden, MA : Blackwell
    ISBN: 0631226176 , 0631226184 , 0470753560 , 9780470753569
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (312 p)
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    Parallel Title: Print version European Union
    DDC: 306.2/094
    Keywords: European Union ; Civil society ; Globalization ; European Union countries Social conditions ; Electronic resource ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The European Union is the first full-length treatment of European integration from a sociological perspective. It redirects the core concerns of political sociology away from nationally bounded societies towards a "sociology beyond societies," capable of making a valuable contribution to thinking about the nature and problems of the European Union. Within this broad objective the book concerns itself with such key issues as the relation between the EU and globalization, the nature of the EU state, and the question of whether a European society can be said to exist. Students, scholars, and soci
    Abstract: The European Union is the first full-length treatment of European integration from a sociological perspective. It redirects the core concerns of political sociology away from nationally bounded societies towards a "sociology beyond societies," capable of making a valuable contribution to thinking about the nature and problems of the European Union. Within this broad objective the book concerns itself with such key issues as the relation between the EU and globalization, the nature of the EU state, and the question of whether a European society can be said to exist. Students, scholars, and soci
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover13;Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: A New Approach to Studying European Integration -- 2 The European Union and Globalization -- 3 The Question of the European State -- 4 European Society -- 5 Unemployment, Social Exclusion, and Citizenship -- 6 Cohesion Policy and Regional Autonomy -- 7 Rethinking Core8211;Periphery Relations -- 8 Europe and Democracy -- 9 EU Enlargement -- 10 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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    Malden, MA : Blackwell
    ISBN: 0631217886 , 0470998806 , 0470998792 , 9780631217886 , 9780470998809 , 9780470998793
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xv, 579 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Blackwell companions in cultural studies 3
    Parallel Title: Print version Companion to cultural studies
    DDC: 306/.071
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    Keywords: Sociology Study and teaching ; Culture Study and teaching ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books Handboeken (vorm) ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 531-552) and index , 1.What it is and what it isn't : introducing cultural studies , 2.Interdisciplinary , 3.Is there a cultural studies of law , 4.The renewal of the cultural in sociology , 5.Sociology, cultural studies, and disciplinary boundaries , 6.Notes on the traffic between cultural studies and science and technology studies , 7.Political economy within cultural studies , 8.Cultural studies and philosophy : an intervention , 9."X" never, ever marks the spot : archaeology and cultural studies , 10.The unbalanced reciprocity between cultural studies and anthropology , 11.Media studies and cultural studies : a symbiotic convergence , 12.Comparative cultural studies traditions : Latin America and the US , 13.Can cultural studies speak Spanish , 14.Australasia , 15.Peripheral vision : Chinese cultural studies in Hong Kong , 16.Decentering the centre : cultural studies in Britain and its legacy , 17.European cultural studies , 18.Let's get serious : notes on teaching youth culture , 19.Looking backwards and forwards at cultural studies , 20.Close encounters : sport, science, and political culture , 21.Intellectuals, culture, policy : the practical and the critical , 22.Listening to the state : culture, power, and cultural policy in Columbia , 23.Museum highlights : a gallery talk , 24.The scandalous fall of feminism and the "first Black president" , 25.Rap and feng shui : on ass politics, cultural studies, and the timbaland sound , 26.Fashion , 27.Cultural studies and race , 28.Globalization and culture , 29."Cricket, with a plot" : nationalism, cricket, and diasporic identities , 30.Bibliographical resources for cultural studies. , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    New York : Columbia University Press
    ISBN: 0231110588 , 0231110596 , 9780231504744 , 9780231110587 , 9780231110594
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 401 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Russia and the Idea of the West : Gorbachev, Intellectuals, and the End of the Cold War
    DDC: 303.48/24701821
    Keywords: Intellectuals Political activity ; Europe, Western - Relations - Soviet Union ; Soviet Union Politics and government 1953-1985 ; Philosophy ; Europe, Western Relations ; Soviet Union Relations ; United States Relations ; Soviet Union Relations ; Soviet Union Politics and government 1985-1991 ; Philosophy
    Abstract: An intriguing "intellectual portrait" of a generation of Soviet reformers, this book is also a fascinating case study of how ideas can change the course of history. In most analyses of the Cold War's end the ideological aspects of Gorbachev's "new thinking" are treated largely as incidental to the broader considerations of power?as gloss on what was essentially a retreat forced by crisis and decline. Robert English makes a major contribution by demonstrating that Gorbachev's foreign policy was in fact the result of an intellectual revolution. English analyzes the rise of a liberal policy-acade
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    Philadelphia [Pa.] : University of Pennsylvania Press
    ISBN: 081223541X , 0812217225 , 9780812217223
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (371 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: New cultural studies
    DDC: 305.8/00941/09033
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    Keywords: English fiction History and criticism 18th century ; Race awareness History 18th century ; Race in literature ; Difference (Psychology) History 18th century ; Great Britain Race relations 18th century ; History ; Great Britain Social conditions 18th century ; Great Britain Civilization 18th century
    Abstract: Biographical note: Roxann Wheeler teaches English at Ohio State University.
    Abstract: Main description: In the 1723 Journal of a Voyage up the Gambia, an English narrator describes the native translators vital to the expedition's success as being "Black as Coal." Such a description of dark skin color was not unusual for eighteenth-century Britons—but neither was the statement that followed: "here, thro' Custom, (being Christians) they account themselves White Men." The Complexion of Race asks how such categories would have been possible, when and how such statements came to seem illogical, and how our understanding of the eighteenth century has been distorted by the imposition of nineteenth and twentieth century notions of race on an earlier period. Wheeler traces the emergence of skin color as a predominant marker of identity in British thought and juxtaposes the Enlightenment's scientific speculation on the biology of race with accounts in travel literature, fiction, and other documents that remain grounded in different models of human variety. As a consequence of a burgeoning empire in the second half of the eighteenth century, English writers were increasingly preoccupied with differentiating the British nation from its imperial outposts by naming traits that set off the rulers from the ruled; although race was one of these traits, it was by no means the distinguishing one. In the fiction of the time, non-European characters could still be "redeemed" by baptism or conversion and the British nation could embrace its mixed-race progeny. In Wheeler's eighteenth century we see the coexistence of two systems of racialization and to detect a moment when an older order, based on the division between Christian and heathen, gives way to a new one based on the assertion of difference between black and white.
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