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Defining the main principles of a distinct African philosophy, this work rejects the idea that an African philosophy consists simply of the work of Africans writing on philosophy. It argues that critical analyses of specific traditional African modes of thought are necessary to develop a distinctively African philosophy.

A detailed ethnography exploring the professional skill of intimate care in nursing.

Featuring an analysis of immigration patterns in Washington DC, this book documents the predominance of women among Central American immigrants. It also plots the career trajectories of numerous Central American immigrant women and men to illustrate the array of women's responses.

In the midst of the Vietnam war, sit-ins, counter-culture, and campus rallies, the 1966 graduating class of a South New Jersey coast high school came of age on the margins of political and cultural upheaval. This study reveals this group to be conservative teenagers shaped by mainstream loyalties to God, country, and family.

Contains lessons about the conflicts between the needs of capitalism and the needs of community. This narrative tells the story of a community that overcame the odds against its own survival. Slated for total demolition, the neighborhood of Cedar-Riverside was saved by a powerful grass-roots movement.

The Redskins Encyclopedia brings to light the team's history and tradition in the most comprehensive account ever written about the storied NFL franchise. Readers are exposed to a treasure-trove of information about the Redskins.

Focusing on issues such as the nature of prediction, community, citizenship, consumption, and the nation, as well as the metaphors that have shaped public debates about technology, this title examines innovations in technology, from the telegraph and the portable television to the Internet.

Explores in descriptive and critical ways how transnational relationships and interactions in Asian American communities are manifested, exemplified, and articulated within the international context of the Pacific Rim. This title addresses various meanings and practices of Asian Americans in the global transformation of the post-Civil Rights.

How native-born rural adolescents adapt to new immigrants in their communities

From acclaimed writer Beth Kephart, author of A Slant of Sun, comes a short, imaginative telling of the life of the Schuylkill River, which has served as the source of Philadelphia's water, power, industry, and beauty for the city's entire life. Before that, it fed the indigenous people who preceded William Penn, and has since time immemorial shape our region.

From a celebrated scholar on race, a book on ways of seeing, and seeing through, whiteness

Examines how luck enters into moral character and considers how some of those who are oppressed can develop responsibility. The author takes as her paradigms the luck of middle and lower classes of women who face violence and exploitation, of lesbians who face continuing pressure to hide or self-destruct, and of adult survivors of child abuse.

Examines how McDonald's captures our imagination: as a shorthand for explaining the power of American culture; as a symbol of the strength of consumerism; as a bellwether for the condition of labor in a globalized economy; and often, for better or worse, a powerful educational tool that often defines the nature of culture for hundreds of millions.

Russian-Jewish immigrant Eddie Gottlieb was one of the most powerful non-playing sports figures in Philadelphia from the 1920s until his death in 1979. Drawing on interviews and archival sources, and featuring more than fifty photographs, this title portrays Eddie Gottlieb's pivotal role in both Philadelphia and American sports history.

This comprehensive book traces the history and development of visual traditions in the Kongo religions of Africa and Cuba (where it is known as Palo Monte).

How veterinarians and pet owners manage companion animal euthanasia

Argues that Communism produced a complex culture with a dialectical relation to both modernism and itself. Offering examples ranging from the Stalinist show trial to Franz Kafka's posthumous career as a dissident writer, this book says that Communism was an aesthetic project.

Deals with politics of competing cultures and myths in a colonized nation. The author considers the transformation of Hawaiian culture focusing on the indigenous population rather than on the colonizers. She describes how Hawaii's established religious, social, political, and economic relationships have changed in the past 200 years.

From Didinger's earliest days covering the Eagles, to the highs when Philadelphia was a city of champions, this book is a journey through the education of a writer and the love this city has always had with sports. It includes profiles of athletes, essays on wrestling, opinions on the Phillies, the Sixers, the Flyers, and the Eagles.

Explains what liberation theology is, how it arose, how it works in practice, and its implications. This book also examines how liberation theology functions at the village or barrio level, the political impact of liberation theology, and the major objections to it posed by critics.

Organized by major themes such as creation stories, and resistance to oppression, this collection gather together ancient, anonymous writers whose texts were originally written on stone and papyri, and the well-known public figures of more recent times whose spoken and written words have shaped the intellectual history of the diaspora.

How asset-based development efforts can be successful.

Reprint of the ed. published by University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1966.

Tells the story of two developments in the 1950s: the decline of classical Hollywood cinema and the emergence of the American teenager. This book interprets teenpic film types such as clean teenpics. It examines films in light of their impact on the motion picture industry and in terms of their role in validating the teenage subculture.

Service learning has become an institutionalized practice in higher education. Students are sent out to disadvantaged communities to paint, tutor, feed, and help organize communities. This book explores the impact of service learning on a community, and considers the unequal relationship between the community and the academy.