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Women: Images & Realities, A Multicultural Anthology
Amy Kesselman , Lily D McNair , and Nancy Schniedewind Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0073127647 |
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This best-selling anthology is a unique introduction to feminism and women’s studies. It presents a multidisciplinary collection of academic essays and analyses, personal narratives, and fiction and poetry about women’s lives. The selections illustrate the variety of women’s experiences, primarily in the United States, considering both commonalities and differences among women and appreciating women’s diverse approaches to living and fostering change.Customer Reviews:
Aishe Berger Is a Wonderful Poet.......2005-02-26
Feminists buy this book.......1999-04-26
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Developing Positive Self-Images and Discipline in Black Children
Jauanza Kunjufu Manufacturer: African American Images ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
Accessories: ASIN: 0913543012 |
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This book discusses what's the relationship between selfesteem and student achievement? Find the answers to this and other questions in this book.Customer Reviews:
Positive Black Images.......2006-11-10
"A Parenting Must".......2000-04-22
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Screaming Monkeys: Critiques of Asian American Images
Manufacturer: Coffee House Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1566891418 |
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When a restaurant review referred to a Filipino child as a "rambunctious -little monkey," Filipino Americans were outraged. Sparked by this racist incident, Screaming Monkeys sets fire to Asian American stereotypes as it -illuminates the diverse and often neglected history and culture within the Asian American diaspora. Poems, essays, paintings, and stories break down and challenge "found" articles, photographs, and headlines to create this powerful anthology with all the immediacy of social protest. By closely critiquing a wealth of material, including the judge's statement of apology in the Wen Ho Lee case, the media treatment of serial killer Andrew Cunanan, and the image of Asian Americans in major U.S. marketing campaigns, Screaming Monkeys will inspire all its readers.
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PALH-EZINE'S REVIEW (by Rocio G. Davis).......2004-02-04
Sunaina Maira, noting the "rise of Indo-chic" in the last couple of years, "part of a wider marketing of `Asian cool' in fashion, music, and film," asks the crucial question: "So what kinds of representations do we, and can we, construct in response?" Here is the answer: M. Evelina Galang and her amazing team of editors have constructed an anthology of a wide range of texts and images that illustrate how Asian America has been uncritically represented in the media and in art, to challenge those representations with art itself. The juxtaposition of creative modes-fiction, poetry, essay, art with advertisements and critical pieces-provides a nuanced perspective of the vexed position of Asian Americans in mainstream America, and obliges us to rethink our manner of cultural classifications. The range and quality of the contributions is to be applauded-texts by established writers such as Carlos Bulosan, Maxine Hong Kingston, Gish Jen, Hisaye Yamamoto, and Li-Young Lee dialogue with work by young artists, "found" images and texts that include a Skyy Vodka ad, a photograph of Madonna "channeling her inner geisha" (488), a reproduction of a Newsweek article from 2000 that claims that Asian men are the latest trophy boyfriends, Bill Clinton's apology to Japanese America, and critical or personal essays, like Wen Ho Lee's account of his interrogation by the CIA and an essay by David Mura where he explains why he's glad he didn't get a role in Fargo. As such, the anthology's vital metacritical design is to make Asian American voices (screams!) heard-loudly! These texts subvert stereotypical images by presenting them in a new strategic light: they show how the media invents, advocates, and sustains the stereotypes of Asians in America precisely because they have misunderstood, ignored or trivialized the presence of Asians in American history, culture, cities, sports, and entertainment. And it allows Asian Americans to speak for themselves, though an extraordinary assemblage of artistic modes. The selections are warm and funny, cynical and offensive, suspect and strange, but, as a whole, the anthology will not leave one indifferent. Galang's intelligent and thoughtful anthology is a vital contribution to the development of Asian American cultural studies.
(by Rocio G. Davis, for PALH-EZINE)
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How We See God and Why It Matters: A Multicultural View Through Children's Drawings and Stories
Robert J. Landy Manufacturer: Charles C. Thomas Publisher ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0398071713 |
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This is a book about seeing the ultimate mystery as represented by the figure of God. It is not about religion per se, although it makes reference to many of the great religious traditions of the world and their gods. Rather, it is about the presence of the spiritual world and its inhabitants. The author's aim is to attempt to answer the question, How do we see God? through engaging with the images created by a group of children from a number of different cultures and spiritual backgrounds. Through a two-year period, the author travelled the world interviewing more than 500 children, asking them to draw a picture of God, to act and speak as God, and to tell a story about God. This text is a documentation of that journey into the lives and spiritual beliefs of children. Throughout the book, a broad selection of pictures and stories by the children is reproduced and paraphrased. The author offers his own commentaries, not as an analyst in a psychological sense or critic in a literary one, but as a God-seeker trusting in the power of the image to reveal meaning. This unique book will be of primary interest to professionals in the field of psychology, especially child and family therapists, as well as art and drama therapy, sociology, and theology. The book will also have appeal to parents and children who are looking for ways to understand their belief systems in relationship to others.
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The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America (Harvard Univ. Kennedy School of Gov't Goldsmith Book Prize Winner; Amer. Political Science ... in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion)
Robert M. Entman , and Andrew Rojecki Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0226210766 |
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Valuable but Naively Assimilationist in Tone.......2002-03-11
Rightly reserving the use of the counterproductive term "racist" for those who feel Blacks are a "lower order of humanity," the authors develop a framework for categorizing White American views of the African American population from "low denial" (enlightened) to "high denial" (overtly racist) (chapter 2).
In their view, most whites fall between these poles--termed by the authors as "ambivalent" (a mix of positive and negative views about Blacks.)
Unapologetically integrationist (assimilationist?) in their views, the authors see "low denial" whites as those folks who view African Americans sympathetically and empathetically, (as brothers/sisters), who share fundamental interests, but who suffer unique barriers to equal opportunity.
What seems to differentiate the "low-denial" whites from their well-meaning but "ambivalent" peers is that low-denial whites uncritically accept the victimization explanation for the social problems of the Black community.
This is where the trouble begins...
According to the authors, enlightened Whites see the Black community as largely helpless in the face of White dominated society. Hence, for example, high rates of crime and non-marital births stem from forces external to the Black community. These "enlightened" Whites appear to believe that if anti-Black stereotypes and discrimination were to end, the social problems experienced by African Americans would be resolved.
On the other hand, the mass of "ambivalent" whites is less likely to let struggling Black folks off the hook. They tend to see each person as a moral agent with the freedom to make choices even in the face of discrimination and inequality. They also feel that the stereotypes of Black folks have a grain of truth to them--e.g., that blacks do tend to be, say, less educated, more violent, more likely to bear children out of wedlock than Whites or Asians, as evidenced by empirical evidence reported in the media. These folks wonder (rightly in my opinion) whether current discrimination is really so powerful and dehumanizing as to engender the social problems of the black community.
The weakness of this morally laden framework is that it perceives folks who have honest questions about the role of individual choice and moral responsibility (i.e., character) in shaping life chances as somehow unenlightened ("in denial"). With the huge social problems associated with the Black community, I think it is fair to say that "ambivalent" attitudes towards blacks are justified. Indeed, survey evidence suggests that African Americans also share ambivalent attitudes towards their own racial group. (Even Jesse Jackson has made public his personal ambivalence towards young black men, admitting that he often has felt relieved to discover that the stranger walking towards him on a darkened street is not Black.)
If the majority of African Americans also recognize that endemic social problems exist within poor black communities, does that mean that they too are "in denial?"
Later in the book the authors go on to encourage the media to construct positive images that encourage "racial comity." They frame this as an ethical and political responsibility. But because the authors emphasize IMAGE over REALITY, the book often takes on an Orwellian tone. In my opinion, if the media seeks honest portrayals of African Americans, it will often reflect the reality of difference.
The authors seem to assume assimilation as a valued goal by finding flaw with any racial differentiation in fictional portrayals in movies and television. While multiculturalism celebrates group differences, the authors find problematic any racial differentiation whatsoever. This is a flawed perspective. African Americans are have a distinct history and culture and are not simply white folks in dark face. I suspect the authors would erase expression of these existential differences from the media if given the chance.
So while the book is a valuable contribution (as discussed by the previous reviewer), it suffers from a naively self-righteous and assimilationist perspective.
Long needed research........2000-06-06
As a teacher who is studying widely literature about the media, I found Entman and Rojecki's work useful for providing a lens to better analyze media representations of Black and White people. The authors contend that "Blacks now occupy a kind of limbo status in White America's thinking, neither fully accepted nor wholly rejected by the dominant culture. The ambiguity of Blacks' situation gives particular relevance and perhaps potency to the images of African Americans in the media."
They show that though representations of Black people are quantitatively better than in the past, these representations still convey stereotypical or ambiguous images of Blacks. For example, though there has been sharp increase of Black male actors in movies, their roles still revolve around plots that focus on sports, crime, and violence. In the area of news media, Blacks are usually presented as sources of disruption, as victims, and as complaining supplicants. These type of images, they contend, help to maintain a gap in what they refer to as comity on the part of Whites toward Blacks and other racial minorities in this country.
They provide a well known but much needed reiteration of why the media maintains these stereotypes and marginalizations of racial minorities: largely it's eoncomics."Media workers," they argue, "seek to make money for their organizations and advance their own careers. That means that they must stay vigilantly attuned to the presumed tastes of their target audiences. These creators operate in a professional culture and organizationl milieu that transmits lessons about what attracts and sells, what upsets and repels. Ratings and market research increasingly inform decisions, whether about news coverage or entertainment plots." They argue that political and White ethnocentricism play an equal role as well
Though critics may disagree with some of the authors'analysis and conclusions, this book deserves wide reading in media studies, communications, ethnic studies, and sociology courses. It should be read as a useful resource by concerned teachers and media activists.
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Curriculum And the Cultural Body (Complicated Conversation: a Book Series of Curriculum Studies)
Manufacturer: Peter Lang Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0820486868 |
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Curriculum and the Cultural Body extends the discussion of body knowledge by attending to the unspoken questions and practices in education that silence, conceal, and limit bodies. The collection of essays exemplifies a new genre of interdisciplinary writing, drawing on such diverse discourses as curriculum studies; cultural studies; film studies; media and technology studies; feminist theory; queer theory; phenomenology; a/r/tography; and art education. The authors in this edited book explore the multiplicities and complexities of the body in learning and knowing. Each engages with questions that relate the practices of culture to a re-conceptualization of the body in and as curriculum.
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Lives of Images (Reaktion Books - Picturing History)
Peter Mason Manufacturer: Reaktion Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 1861891148 |
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Race Code War: The Power of Words, Images, and Symbols on the Black Psyche
Khari Enaharo Manufacturer: African American Images ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0913543845 |
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There are more than 200 negative words associated with the word black and more than 100 positive meanings or synonyms attributed to the word white. This analysis of semantics and semiotics illustrates how words are not racially neutral and can convey negative values within the African American community or any community of color. Also examined are the impact of images, from paintings of Jesus to images of Santa Claus, and how they have shaped the way blacks are viewed and how they view themselves. This is not a book on political correctness, but rather a guide to becoming more aware of and sensitive to the impact that words and images can have on the psyche.Customer Reviews:
You've got to be kidding!.......2003-09-01
Among the lists of words and phrases throughout the book, I did identify with some of them. And the few illustrations were great examples. However, for the most part I thought the majority of the examples given were WAY over the top.
Let's be honest, anyone can attach a racial meaning to a word, phrase, item, or image if they really put their mind to it (right after reading the book I attached a racial meaning to my black umbrella, the author didn't use them). I felt that most of the examples used in the book were really assumptions(the racial connections between candy, toothpaste, soap, computers, among others). But, the section on color codes in movies was almost on target (especially his viewpoint on The Wiz).
Also, I felt that the author was TOO afrocentric for my taste. I'm for my people and culture, but like my mother told me: "Too much of anything is not good".
Another drawback to the book was that the author failed to fully address the issue of black athletes, actors, singers, and others who willing allow themselves to be placed in racially embarrassing situations. The author did use some really good examples of how these people allow sterotypes of blacks to continue, but didn't clearly state that they are equally responsible too, or why they do it.
This book would have gotten a lower rating then it did if it wasn't for the last chapter. There the author suggested ways to combat racial code words, and I thought they were really good examples.
Overall, I would suggest this book. Like I stated in the beginning, the topic is unique and insightful. Just be prepared for the rest.
Bitingly insightful and an articulate warning.......2003-08-10
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Bears on Bears: Interviews and Discussions
Ron Jackson Suresha Manufacturer: Alyson Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1555835783 |
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Bears, for the uninitiated, are gay men who defiantly challenge society's ideal of physical appearance, who celebrate the fact that they are often large, hairy, and don't give a hoot about what fashions are parading down the runway. Ron Suresha's thought-provoking, humorous long-form interviews with men, including editor David Bergman, cartoonist Tim Barela, and comedian and writer Bruce Vilanch examine questions of gay male stereotyping, commodification of the human body, the oppressiveness of the "physical ideal," and how body image affects personal growth.
??Ron Suresha's work has appeared in American Bear, The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, In Newsweekly, Gay Community News, White Crane Journal , Art & Understanding , The Bear Book, and The Bear Book II. He lives in Boston.
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A Insightful look at a part of the Gay Sub Culture.......2004-08-14
Bears and Bears.......2004-03-17
GRRRRRReat & Insightful Reading.......2003-07-04
very well done.......2003-02-22
A Bear on "Bears on Bears".......2002-04-13
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Contempt and Pity: Social Policy and the Image of the Damaged Black Psyche, 1880-1996
Daryl Michael Scott Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 080784635X Release Date: 1997-04-02 |
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For over a century, the idea that African Americans are psychologically damaged has played an important role in discussions of race. In this provocative work, Daryl Michael Scott argues that damage imagery has been the product of liberals and conservatives, of racists and antiracists. While racial conservatives, often playing on white contempt for blacks, have sought to use findings of black pathology to justify exclusionary policies, racial liberals have used damage imagery primarily to promote policies of inclusion and rehabilitation.In advancing his argument, Scott challenges some long-held beliefs about the history of damage imagery. He rediscovers the liberal impulses behind Stanley Elkins's Sambo hypothesis and Daniel Patrick Moynihan's Negro Family and exposes the damage imagery in the work of Ralph Ellison, the leading anti-pathologist. He also corrects the view that the Chicago School depicted blacks as pathological products of matriarchy. New Negro experts such as Charles Johnson and E. Franklin Frazier, he says, disdained sympathy-seeking and refrained from exploring individual pathology. Scott's reassessment of social science sheds new light on Brown v. Board of Education, revealing how experts reversed four decades of theory in order to represent segregation as inherently damaging to blacks.
In this controversial work, Scott warns the Left of the dangers in their recent rediscovery of damage imagery in an age of conservative reform.
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A passionate and erudite work........1999-12-01
Essential to the History of Racial Progress.......1999-10-17
A Big Disappointment.......1999-02-19
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