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Ethnicity, Religion and the State in Ghana and Nigeria: Perceptions from the Street
Objectively speaking, both Ghana and Nigeria are characterized by severe socioeconomic inequalities among their regions, ethnic groups and religions. Yet, as ultimately collective action depends on how social ...
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Art Is Indistinguishable from Life
Martha’s recording contains yet other segments that are of direct interest to the semiotician. There is one scene, for instance, where Cheryl takes out a photograph of a sculpture that she had made, showing it .....
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James Brown: Icon of Black Power
Upon his untimely passing on Christmas Day 2006, a flourish of James Brown retrospectives hit the airwaves and mainstream print. As a pop music star in the 1960s, James Brown was a part of the coming of age of .....
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Intermediary Space
Out of School Hours Care (OSHC) is first and foremost a social space. It is a place where children meet and pursue recreational or leisure-time activities. Among these activities, media play features prominent...
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The Power Of Dialogue In Social Systems
The primary challenge to global society, as we pass the threshold of a new millennium, is to transform existing social systems, and therefore American society, in such ways as to embody a more inclusive, democ...
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Music Theory and Phenomenology of Musical Performance
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Building the University of Michigan on a High School Foundation
Charles Kendall Adams arrived at the Bay City, Michigan, high school on the morning of June 5, 1884. Adams and his colleague, both professors at the University of Michigan, were there to inspect the school. Th...
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Emancipatory Praxis and Liberation for Oppressors
In an important essay on the liberation of oppressors, Jurgen Moltmann claims it is a sin for one human being to oppress another as scripture stipulates that if we do not practice love for persons whom we have...
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Conclusion – A Different Class
In the introduction to this work, the music journalist Anthony Thornton was quoted as saying that in British pop music culture ‘no one likes a smart-arse’ (2004). Certainly, contemporary British rock bands hav...
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“As Is the Teacher, So Is the School”: Future Directions in the Historiography of African American Teachers
From the 1880s through the 1920s, the adage, “As is the teacher, so is the school,” was commonplace in the rhetorical repertoire of African American educators in the South. The essence of its meaning lingered t.....
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Scant Sign of Thaw: Fear and Anxiety in the Representation of Foreigners in the Soviet Films of the Khrushchev Years
Nations and communities are broadly acknowledged to define themselves by contrast with a rejected Other, and the history of Russian film provides ample evidence of the use of foreign characters to help define...
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Bringing about Social Change: The Role of Community Research
As a university academic researcher and community activist, I have been researching, writing about, and working with marginalized and excluded groups and communities for over twelve years on the Kingsmead Hous...
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Why are Human Rights Violated with Impunity? Forced Displacement in India’s Narmada Valley
Displacement arising through the building of infrastructure projects such as mines, large dams and roads gives rise to radical and rapid changes in the environment, livelihood strategies, social and gender rel...
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The Presence of Parents and Childhood Survival: The Passage of Social Time and Differences by Social Class
This study focuses on the effects on survival of children of growing up in a family with or without both biological parents and/or stepparents. We use data from a representative sample of births from cohorts b...
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The Consolation of Beatrice and Dante’s Dream of the Siren as Vilification Cure
This chapter explores Dante’s use, in the Divina Commedia, of the Boethian pattern of a noble lady expelling meretricious rivals, and Beatrice’s implicitly therapeutic role in the poem.
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Introduction
The present volume contains selected papers from the conference on the acquisition of verb grammar and verb arguments held at the Research Center for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin in November, 2001. The main ...
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The Uses and Values of Literacy: Richard Hoggart, Aesthetic Standards, and the Commodification of Working-Class Culture
In chapter 1 of Capital, Volume I, Karl Marx famously depicts the commodity — the dominant kind of things produced under capitalism — as a mysterious, irrational, and contradictory being. The contradiction is bet...
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Portrait of Llambi S., Math Teacher, Member of~Albania’s Party of Labor, Olive Plucker, Construction Helper, Lottery Peddler, Café Proprietor
