Ethnic Community Builders

Author : Francisco Jiménez,Alma M. García,Richard A. Garcia
Publisher : AltaMira Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759113701

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Ethnic Community Builders by Francisco Jiménez,Alma M. García,Richard A. Garcia Pdf

Ethnic Community Builders: Mexican-Americans in Search of Justice and Power is an oral history of Mexican-American activism in San JosZ, California, over the last half century. The authors present interviews of 14 people of various stripes—teachers, politicians, radio personalities—who have been influential in the development of a major urban center with a significant ethnic population. These activists tell the stories of their lives and work with engaging openness and honesty, allowing readers to witness their successes and failures. This vivid ethnography of a Mexican-American community serves as a model for activism wherever ethnic groups seek change and justice.

Author : Darren Thiel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136313226

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Builders by Darren Thiel Pdf

Building workers constitute between five and ten per cent of the total labour market in almost every country of the world. They construct, repair and maintain the vital physical infrastructure of our societies, and we rely upon and trust their achievements every day. Yet we know surprisingly little about builders, their cultures, the organization of their work or the business relations that constitute their industry. This book, based on one-year’s participant observation on a London construction site, redresses this gap in our knowledge by taking a close-up look at a section of building workers and businessmen. By examining the organizational features of the building project and describing the skill, sweat, malingering, humour and humanity of the building workers, Thiel illustrates how the builders were mostly autonomous from formal managerial control, regulating their own outputs and labour markets. This meant that the men’s ethnic, class and gender-bound cultural activities fundamentally underpinned the organization of their work and the broader construction economy, and thereby highlights the continuing centrality of class-bound culture and social stratification in a post-industrial, late modern world. Thiel outlines the on-going connections and intersections between economy, state, class and culture, ultimately showing how these factors interrelated to produce the building industry, its builders, and its buildings. Based predominately on cultural and economic sociology, this book will also be of interest to those working in the fields of gender and organizational studies; social class and inequality; migration and ethnicity; urban studies; and social identities.

Author : Walter Pohl,Helmut Reimitz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004609518

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Strategies of Distinction by Walter Pohl,Helmut Reimitz Pdf

Between the fourth and the eight century, a number of 'experimental' polities had to create new forms of legitimacy and organisation to overcome a Roman world based on Empire, city and tribe. In the course of time, a new world developed that relied on Christendom, kingdom and people to pull an increased variety of local communities together. Of these three factors, the ethnic one certainly is the most elusive. This volume discusses the process of construction of ethnic identities. What did names, law, language, costume, burial rites, rhetoric, culture, royal representation or ideology mean, and to whom? This is the question that is common to the papers assembled here. Even though they span several centuries, and a geographic area from the Iberian peninsula to the Black Sea steppes, they all deal with the ways how ethnic distinction became a political factor in the post-Roman world.

Author : Marc A. Weiss
Publisher : Beard Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1587981521

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The Rise of the Community Builders by Marc A. Weiss Pdf

This is a reprint of a 1987 book * It is to be hand scanned, so as not to destroy the text or cover, and returned to Beard Books. The book deals with the evolution of real estate development in the United States, focusing on the rise of planned communities common in the American suburbs since the 1940s.

Author : Mbaye Lo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : NWU:35556041000951

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Muslims in America by Mbaye Lo Pdf

Author : Christian Ndubueze Anyanwu
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : Conflict management
ISBN : 9781449030612

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Creative Strategies for Conflict Management & Community Building by Christian Ndubueze Anyanwu Pdf

This book, in applying the asset mapping theory of Kretzmann and McKnight (1993), developed a positive communication strategy for minimizing conflicts and building a more Collaborative Communities in Organizations and Churches, with much emphasis on inclusivity, consensus and commitment to common vision and ideals. While critically reviewing the traditional conflict theories in their approaches to conflict management; the book uses the new lens provided by the asset mapping theory, to recommend for a paradigm shift in the way people look at organizations and conflicts. A new emphasis therefore is on the positive elements in organizations, the assets that lie within individuals and groups, as the key to minimizing conflict in organizations. Besides, unlike the traditional conflict theories which sees conflict as a problem, this new lens, sees conflict within organizations, as functional and opportunities for growth. The book equally identifies some of the significant factors that cause ethnic conflicts within organizations; such as, Prejudices among Ethnic Groups; Differences of Ethnic Groups; Power Struggle among Ethnic Groups; Discrimination and Injustice against Groups; Lack of Participatory Communication; and Lack of Participatory Leadership. Finally, in reviewing the relevant literatures on Community Building, the book underlines the various variables that make Community Building possible. Such variables include: Discovering and Mobilizing the Assets of Individuals and Groups within Organizations; Building Relationships among Individuals and Groups within Organizations; Building a more Participatory Leadership within Organizations; Building a more Participatory Communication within Organizations; Creating more Awareness on the necessity of Collaborative Initiatives, as well as, Promoting the Common Cultural Values and Ideals that holds Individuals and Groups together within Organization.

Author : Glenn E. Singleton
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781412992664

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More Courageous Conversations About Race by Glenn E. Singleton Pdf

In this companion to his best-selling book, Singleton presents first-person vignettes and a detailed case study showing educators how to usher in courageous conversations to ignite systemic transformation.

Author : Tom Borrup
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781618589149

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The Creative Community Builder's Handbook by Tom Borrup Pdf

Put the power of arts and culture to work in your community Part 1 of this unique guide distills research and emerging ideas behind culturally driven community development and explains key underlying principles. You'll understand the arts impact on community well-being and have the rationale for engaging others. Find inspiration and ideas from twenty case studies Part 2 gives you ten concrete strategies for building on the unique qualities of your own community. Each strategy is illustrated by two case studies taken from a variety of cities, small towns, and neighborhoods across the United States. You'll learn how people from all walks of life used culture and creativity as a glue to bind together people, ideas, enterprises, and institutions to make places more balanced and healthy. These examples are followed in Part 3 with six steps to assessing, planning, and implementing creative community building projects: 1. Assess Your Situation and Goals; 2. Identify and Recruit Effective Partners; 3. Map Values, Strengths, Assets, and History; 4. Focus on Your Key Asset, Vision, Identity, and Core Strategies; 5. Craft a Plan That Brings the Identity to Life; 6. Secure Funding, Policy Support, and Media Coverage. Detailed guidance, hands-on worksheets, and a hypothetical community sample walk you through the entire process. Each section includes additional resources as well as an appendix listing books, web sites, organizations, and research studies. By understanding the theoretical context (Part 1), learning from case studies (Part 2), and following the six steps (Part 3), you'll be able to build a more vibrant, creative, and equitable community.

Author : Fumiko Hosokawa
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0739143506

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Building Trust by Fumiko Hosokawa Pdf

This book studies five ethnic communities - South Asian Americans, African Americans, Japanese Americans, Mexican Americans, and Samoan Americans - to understand how their members feel about being studied by researchers. Focusing on trust-building as a necessary process in doing good community research, this book offers the reader culturally sensitive methods to approach interaction and interviewing members of each of these unique, multifaceted ethnic communities.

Author : Walter Pohl,Helmut Reimitz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004108467

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Strategies of Distinction by Walter Pohl,Helmut Reimitz Pdf

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Author : Francisco Jiménez,Alma M. García,Richard A. Garcia
Publisher : Altamira Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0759111006

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Ethnic Community Builders by Francisco Jiménez,Alma M. García,Richard A. Garcia Pdf

This book consists of fourteen interviews with Mexican-American community activists of various stripes in San JosZ.

Author : Rogers Brubaker
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674022317

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Ethnicity Without Groups by Rogers Brubaker Pdf

"Despite a quarter-century of constructivist theorizing in the social sciences and humanities, ethnic groups continue to be conceived as entities and cast as actors. Journalists, policymakers, and researchers routinely frame accounts of ethnic, racial, and national conflict as the struggles of internally homogeneous, externally bounded ethnic groups, races, and nations. In doing so, they unwittingly adopt the language of participants in such struggles, and contribute to the reification of ethnic groups. In this timely and provocative volume, Rogers BrubakerÑwell known for his work on immigration, citizenship, and nationalismÑchallenges this pervasive and commonsense Ògroupism.Ó But he does not simply revert to standard constructivist tropes about the fluidity and multiplicity of identity. Once a bracing challenge to conventional wisdom, constructivism has grown complacent, even cliched. That ethnicity is constructed is commonplace; this volume provides new insights into how it is constructed. By shifting the analytical focus from identity to identifications, from groups as entities to group-making projects, from shared culture to categorization, from substance to process, Brubaker shows that ethnicity, race, and nation are not things in the world but perspectives on the world: ways of seeing, interpreting, and representing the social world."

Author : Dell Upton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015011964445

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America's Architectural Roots by Dell Upton Pdf

Which ethnic groups introduced the log cabin? The front Porch? The sauna? Read about 22 different ethnic groups including Native Americans, African Americans, and Hawaiians who made significant contributions that still influence the face of America.

Author : Anthony P. Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134947485

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Symbolic Construction of Community by Anthony P. Cohen Pdf

Anthony Cohen makes a distinct break with earlier approaches to the study of community, which treated the subject in largely structural terms. His view is interpretive and experiential, seeing the community as a cultural field with a complex of symbols whose meanings vary among its members. He delineates a concept applicable to local and ethnic communities through which people see themselves as belonging to society. The emphasis on boundary is sensitive to the circumstances in which people become aware of the implications of belonging to a community, and describes how they symbolise and utilise these boundaries to give substance to their values and identities.

Author : Barbara Seals Nevergold
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0972297723

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Uncrowned Queens, Volume 3: African American Women Community Builders of Western New York by Barbara Seals Nevergold Pdf

Third volume of biographies of African American women community leaders in New York state.