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    Slavery to Liberation: The African American Experience

    Slavery to Liberation: The African American Experience

    Slavery to Liberation: The African American Experience gives instructors, students, and general readers a comprehensive and up-to-date account of African Americans’ cultural and political history, economic development, artistic expressiveness, and religious and philosophical worldviews in a critical framework. It offers sound interdisciplinary analysis of selected historical and contemporary issues surrounding the origins and manifestations of White supremacy in the United States. By placing race at the center of the work, the book offers significant lessons for understanding the institutional marginalization of Blacks in contemporary America and their historical resistance and perseverance.

    Subjects:
    Area Studies and Sociology
    Keywords:
    Slavery African Americans History Textbooks
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    Speak Out, Call In: Public Speaking as Advocacy

    Speak Out, Call In: Public Speaking as Advocacy

    Speak Out, Call In: Public Speaking as Advocacy is a contemporary, interdisciplinary public speaking textbook that fuses rhetoric, critical/cultural studies, and performance to offer an up-to-date resource for students. With a focus on advocacy, this textbook invites students to consider public speaking as a political, purposeful form of information-sharing.

    Subjects:
    Sociology
    Keywords:
    Public speaking Textbooks Social advocacy
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    e-book
     
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    Child, Family, and Community

    Child, Family, and Community

    Over the years researchers have found the necessity to develop theories of behavior that are specific to family settings. These theories have been developed by people with a variety of areas of emphasis, from family therapists to gerontologists to child development specialists. In this chapter we will briefly discuss six such theories: Bioecological Model, Family Systems, Functionalism, Conflict Theory, Symbolic Interactionism, and Psychological Perspectives.

    Subjects:
    Sociology
    Keywords:
    Child rearing Families Socialization Textbooks
    Resource Type:
    e-book