Local Actions: Cultural Activism, Power, and Public Life in America - Softcover

Checker, Melissa

 
9780231128513: Local Actions: Cultural Activism, Power, and Public Life in America
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0231128517 ISBN 13: 9780231128513
Verlag: Columbia University Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Ten absorbing studies present activist groups across the country -- from transgender activists in New York City, to South Asian teenagers in Silicon Valley, to evangelical Christians and Palestinian Americans -- and examines a social change effort as it unfolds on the ground. Through their anthropological approach these portraits of American society suggest the inherent possibilities in identity-based organizing and offer crucial in-depth perspectives on such hotly debated topics as multiculturalism and the culture wars, the environment, racism, public education, Native American rights, and the Christian right.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Melissa Checker is assistant professor of applied anthropology at the University of Memphis. Her research on environmental justice activism is the subject of an upcoming ethnography and several articles. She has been involved as an activist in the environmental justice movement. In her own discipline she endeavors to bring anthropological voices into public policy.



Maggie Fishman is completing her doctoral dissertation on the contemporary arts education movement in New York City in the department of anthropology at New York University. She works evaluating arts-in-education programs in New York City public schools and has been active there in various causes, including the creation of a neighborhood school whose curriculum incorporates the tools of ethnography.

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Verlag
Columbia University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0231128517
ISBN 13 
9780231128513
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
276
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