Author: Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135170711
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Mixed race studies is one of the fastest growing, as well as one of the most important and controversial areas in the field of race and ethnic relations. Bringing together pioneering and controversial scholarship from both the social and the biological sciences, as well as the humanities, this reader charts the evolution of debates on 'race' and 'mixed race' from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The book is divided into three main sections: tracing the origins: miscegenation, moral degeneracy and genetics mapping contemporary and foundational discourses: 'mixed race', identities politics, and celebration debating definitions: multiraciality, census categories and critiques. This collection adds a new dimension to the growing body of literature on the topic and provides a comprehensive history of the origins and directions of 'mixed race' research as an intellectual movement. For students of anthropology, race and ethnicity, it is an invaluable resource for examining the complexities and paradoxes of 'racial' thinking across space, time and disciplines.
Author: Sara K. Dorow
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814719724
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 341
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This book is an ethnographic study of China/U.S. adoption, the largest contemporary intercountry adoption program.
Author: Mary Nash
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : es
Pages : 244
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Este libro contribuye al debate sobre el multiculturalismo al abrir nuevas vías e instrumentos analíticos que ofrecen una visión plural sobre el tema. Inspirado en un enfoque interdisciplinario, recoge amplias perspectivas teóricas y estudios de casos que examinan las manifestaciones del multiculturalismo y género en ámbitos territoriales internacionales. Fundado en un enfoque del multiculturalismo como herramienta analítica transversal, aborda distintos procesos de construcción de la diversidad cultural y sus implicaciones tanto en el pasado como en la actualidad. El título Multiculturalismos y género refleja la manera de entender la expresión de la diversidad desde la pluralidad conceptual y una mirada transversal de género. Al cuestionar las definiciones simplificadoras del multiculturalismo, los estudios presentados en este volumen ponen de relieve las múltiples interpretaciones del concepto. La obra ofrece un conjunto de aportaciones en torno al multiculturalismo, las identidades y la construcción de categorías y modelos de género con el fin de generar un debate teórico abierto que enriquezca las orientaciones interpretativas actuales. El libro reúne una serie de estudios centrados en el entorno de "otras" culturas, espacios y dinámicas históricas -desde Argentina y Cuba hasta Marruecos y Mauritania-, y pone de manifiesto que nos enfrentamos a un fenómeno cultural, social, económico e histórico de dimensión mundial, que se inserta profundamente en sólidos enclaves históricos. Inscrita en los ámbitos de la cultura, la antropología, la geografía, la historia y los estudios de género, esta visión interdisciplinaria brinda nuevas orientaciones susceptibles de sentar las bases socioculturales necesarias para emprender desde el conocimiento y el reconocimiento políticas y proyecciones de futuro sobre el multiculturalismo y género y la convivencia intercultural en nuestra sociedad.
Author: Mary Nash
Publisher: Servicio Editorial Universidad del Pais Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : es
Pages : 242
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Realizado en el marco del Grupo de Investigación Multiculturalismo y Género de la Universidad de Barcelona dirigido por la doctora Mary Nash, este libro aporta un conjunto de estudios de historia y de geografía cultural que examinan mecanismos claves para la construcción sociocultural múltiple de la diferencia y de la otredad en España, Brasil y Argentina.
Author: Jessaca B. Leinaweaver
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822391503
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 243
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In this vivid ethnography, Jessaca B. Leinaweaver explores “child circulation,” informal arrangements in which indigenous Andean children are sent by their parents to live in other households. At first glance, child circulation appears tantamount to child abandonment. When seen in that light, the practice is a violation of international norms regarding children’s rights, guidelines that the Peruvian state relies on in regulating legal adoptions. Leinaweaver demonstrates that such an understanding of the practice is simplistic and misleading. Her in-depth ethnographic analysis reveals child circulation to be a meaningful, pragmatic social practice for poor and indigenous Peruvians, a flexible system of kinship that has likely been part of Andean lives for centuries. Child circulation may be initiated because parents cannot care for their children, because a childless elder wants company, or because it gives a young person the opportunity to gain needed skills. Leinaweaver provides insight into the emotional and material factors that bring together and separate indigenous Andean families in the highland city of Ayacucho. She describes how child circulation is intimately linked to survival in the city, which has had to withstand colonialism, economic isolation, and the devastating civil war unleashed by the Shining Path. Leinaweaver examines the practice from the perspective of parents who send their children to live in other households, the adults who receive them, and the children themselves. She relates child circulation to international laws and norms regarding children’s rights, adoptions, and orphans, and to Peru’s history of racial conflict and violence. Given that history, Leinaweaver maintains that it is not surprising that child circulation, a practice associated with Peru’s impoverished indigenous community, is alternately ignored, tolerated, or condemned by the state.
