Guest‚ Kenneth J. Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age. New York: W. W. Norton & Company‚ 2017. This book Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age by Kenneth Guest explores the expansion and development of Anthropology throughout the years. Reading this book shows the progress of culture anthropology presenting how to understand and engage today’s world. Using the skills provided in the reading will show insight how anthropologist can analyze and build experience around the
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As the Latino community increasingly grows in the U.S.‚ a large majority of individuals rejoice at the inevitable upcoming opportunities for political‚ economic‚ and social inclusion. This inevitable inclusion is obtainable primarily because the Latino community promotes itself and is promoted by others as a homogenous whole that is powerful in numbers. This homogeneity‚ although strategic also fails to recognize that through the same strategy it is also erasing and failing to allocate these future
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Poetic Justice: A Look at King and Anthony Every society determines what laws are necessary to preserve the natural‚ moral‚ and ethical rights of its constituents. Laws are social structures put in place to maintain order and balance. Often‚ however‚ there has been a discrepancy between the justice served and the justice deserved as the law has been manipulated by a powerful group to exploit a weaker group. For example‚ during the mid 19th Century there was a steady increase in efforts for women’s
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SOC 212: SEXUALITIES SPRING 2013 • T TH 12:30PM-1:45PM • 2LCC C003 Instructor: Ray Sin Teaching Assistant: Jessi Holzman Office: 4126C BSB Office: 4061 BSB Email: rsin2@uic.edu Email: jholzm2@uic.edu Office Hours: Mon 1pm-2pm Office Hours: Tues 2pm-3pm This syllabus outlines the content of this course and my expectations of you for the semester. This is a very important course resource‚ so please read through it carefully
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struggle. I think bell hooks’ work is a great example of how she was able to challenge feminist groups and successfully provide a valid reason that they should seriously consider gender’s relation to race‚ class‚ and sex‚ a concept coined as ‘intersectionality’. hooks makes a great point‚ in which she directs to all people—regardless of gender‚ by covering the significance of pushing for greater male
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While Greenberg‚ Grekul‚ and Nelson report on the social causes that lead Aboriginal youth to become involved in crime‚ Stoneman and Artz seek to demonstrate how young female offenders are treated more harshly than their male counterparts once a part of the youth justice system due to “moral panic” (pg. 173). The common‚ unsubstantiated fear remains that girls are committing more crimes and acts of violence (193). Statistics Canada (2012) reports that in reality‚ female youth account for just 3 percent
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The nation we live in is comprised of many different kinds of people with different kinds of cultures. In a society that is dominated by a system designed to perpetuate white privilege this then leads to the subjugation of certain cultures that do not adhere to the dominant white culture. This subjugation can lead to conflicts that arise when an oppressed population goes unheard. Becoming aware of this and trying to actively disrupt and challenge this system is immensely difficult (Xiong‚ 2017).
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Book reviews: Literature of the Indian Diaspora edited by O.P. Dwivedi. Vivek Kumar Dwivedi. Transnational Literature Vol. 4 no. 2‚ May 2012. http://fhrc.flinders.edu.au/transnational/home.html O.P. Dwivedi‚ Literature of the Indian Diaspora (Pencraft International‚ 2011) Literature of the Indian Diaspora constitutes a major study of the literature and other cultural texts of the Indian diaspora. It is also an important contribution to diaspora theory in general. Applying a theoretical framework
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to ask questions like “Why did I live in a world where teenage boys stood in the parking lot of the 7-eleven pulling out?” (Coates‚ p. 63). Knowledge and the status positions of college graduate and journalist are essential to unraveling the intersectionality
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The client‚ American University’s School of Communication (SOC) Diversity Committee‚ aims to create an atmosphere that supports and encourages diversity within the school’s student body‚ staff‚ academic programs‚ and service. To do so‚ the Committee hosts events for students specifically to improve diversity and inclusion efforts in SOC. However‚ the SOC Diversity Committee has had difficulty with student turnout at its events. In fact‚ the client noted that many SOC students do not know what the
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