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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The restaurant industry is one of the few places in America where workers from lower-class backgrounds can rise to positions of power and prestige. But what determines who succeeds or fails in this pressure-cooker environment Through extensive interviews and fieldwork, sociologist Ellen Meiser discovers how status in the kitchen is tied to knowledge, interpersonal skills, and emotional labor.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - East Harlem native Christopher Bell takes you on three separate walking tours of his beloved neighborhood, sharing fascinating stories about its theatres, museums, art spaces, schools, churches, mosques, and synagogues. You'll also learn about the people who have lived in this famously diverse community, including actress Cecily Tyson and opera singer Marian Anderson.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 2015, Ben Miller moved from New York City to Sioux Falls, South Dakota to focus on his writing. Working a day job in a hospital, he had a front-row seat to the Covid-19 pandemic. His book gives voice to the doctors, nurses, staff, and patients he observed.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is also freely available online as an open-access digital edition:https://manifold.ecds.emory.edu/projects/finding-god-in-all-the-black-places(https://dhjhkxawh e8q4.cloudfront.net/rup-wp-v2/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/281 32142/9781978839809.pdf) In Finding God in All the Black Places, Beretta E. Smith-Shomade contends that Black spirituality and Black church religiosity are the critical crux of Black popular culture. She argues that cultural, community, and social support live within the Black church and that spirit, art, and progress are deeply entwined and seal this connection. Including the work of artists such as Mary J. Blige, D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, Prince, Spike Lee, and Oprah Winfrey, the book examines contemporary Black television, film, music and digital culture to demonstrate the role, impact, and dominance of spirituality and religion in Black popular culture. Smith-Shomade believes that acknowledging and comprehending the foundations of Black spirituality and Black church religiosity within Black popular culture provide a way for viewers, listeners, and users not only to endure but also to revitalize.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Embracing Queer Students' Diverse Identities at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: A Primer for Presidents, Administrators, and Faculty serves as a resource for Historically Black College and University (HBCU) stakeholders and highlights fundamental concerns and urgent topics regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) HBCU constituents.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book describes the lives of children in rural communities of the Andes Mountains of Peru. It foregrounds the children's own perceptions and feelings, so far as they can be known by researchers using ethnographic methods. It shows the great variety of Andean childhoods some happy, others harsh and demanding and suggests the options children face: follow the many to migrate to the city or risk their hopes on a better future in the rural setting.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Conceptualizing remittance as an expression of migrants' belonging, this book presents detailed accounts of the emergence, growth, decline, and revival of remittance as a function of transformations in Bangladeshi migrants' sense of belonging to home.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Aging is not only reserved for humans. Similarly, how humans age is often a process in which other-than-humans be it other species or technology become entangled or carved out. The contributions to this edited volume open a conversation about how aging is always a hybrid, more-than-human process.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Anthropologists have long considered kinship as the basis for social solidarity. But, what about when it is not What about instances when kinship is characterized by neglect, violence, negative affect, or a lack of care This edited volume, featuring slim and cutting-edge essays from a diverse group of anthropologists at different career stages, explores situations when kinship is experienced as difficult and ambivalent.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Background Artisttells the inspiring story of Tyrus Wong, a Chinese immigrant who eventually became a best-selling greeting card designer, Warner Bros. sketch artist, and instrumental influence on the beloved Disney animated film,Bambi. Covering his remarkable 106-year life, this book celebrates a multi-talented and pioneering Asian-American artist whose work shaped the American imagination.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In recent years, the world has been shaken by numerous events that have caused and continue to cause massive human suffering, from the COVID-19 pandemic to intrastate and interstate armed conflicts. These crises confound definition and label, but now is the time to think about current manifestations of genocide and those likely to emerge in the future.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 2015, Ben Miller moved from New York City to Sioux Falls, South Dakota to focus on his writing. Working a day job in a hospital, he had a front-row seat to the Covid-19 pandemic. His book gives voice to the doctors, nurses, staff, and patients he observed.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book describes the lives of children in rural communities of the Andes Mountains of Peru. It foregrounds the children's own perceptions and feelings, so far as they can be known by researchers using ethnographic methods. It shows the great variety of Andean childhoods some happy, others harsh and demanding and suggests the options children face: follow the many to migrate to the city or risk their hopes on a better future in the rural setting.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Conceptualizing remittance as an expression of migrants' belonging, this book presents detailed accounts of the emergence, growth, decline, and revival of remittance as a function of transformations in Bangladeshi migrants' sense of belonging to home.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Embracing Queer Students' Diverse Identities at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: A Primer for Presidents, Administrators, and Faculty serves as a resource for Historically Black College and University (HBCU) stakeholders and highlights fundamental concerns and urgent topics regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) HBCU constituents.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The restaurant industry is one of the few places in America where workers from lower-class backgrounds can rise to positions of power and prestige. But what determines who succeeds or fails in this pressure-cooker environment Through extensive interviews and fieldwork, sociologist Ellen Meiser discovers how status in the kitchen is tied to knowledge, interpersonal skills, and emotional labor.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Aging is not only reserved for humans. Similarly, how humans age is often a process in which other-than-humans be it other species or technology become entangled or carved out. The contributions to this edited volume open a conversation about how aging is always a hybrid, more-than-human process.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Using a media studies lens of television, film, music, and digital culture, Finding God in All the Black Places argues that Black spirituality and church religiosity bolster audiences' understanding of and cultural competence with Black popular culture.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Anthropologists have long considered kinship as the basis for social solidarity. But, what about when it is not What about instances when kinship is characterized by neglect, violence, negative affect, or a lack of care This edited volume, featuring slim and cutting-edge essays from a diverse group of anthropologists at different career stages, explores situations when kinship is experienced as difficult and ambivalent.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In recent years, the world has been shaken by numerous events that have caused and continue to cause massive human suffering, from the COVID-19 pandemic to intrastate and interstate armed conflicts. These crises confound definition and label, but now is the time to think about current manifestations of genocide and those likely to emerge in the future.