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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
    Resource Type:
    e-book
     
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    Beyond Race: Cultural Influences on Human Social Life

    Beyond Race: Cultural Influences on Human Social Life

    The book is supported by discussion of relevant theory and research in cultural sociology.Beyond Race: Cultural Influences on Human Social Life has stressed learner-centered teaching with the instructor taking on the role of a facilitator of learning. As such, it is expected the instructor will serve as the mediator between the content of this book and learners’ understanding of material on multiple and higher levels. This book does not offer a set of rules in teaching cultural sociology, but rather suggests content and applications to consider and modify as needed by the ever-changing dynamics of instructors and learners.

    Subjects:
    Sociology and Society and Culture
    Keywords:
    Culture Textbooks Sociology
    Resource Type:
    e-book