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Race and ethnicity : cultural roles, spiritual practices and social challenges /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Nova Science Publishers, Inc.,
[2010]
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| Colección: | Social issues, justice and status series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- RACE AND ETHNICITY: CULTURAL ROLES, SPIRITUAL PRACTICES AND SOCIAL CHALLENGES ; RACE AND ETHNICITY: CULTURAL ROLES, SPIRITUAL PRACTICES AND SOCIAL CHALLENGES; Contents; Preface; Undoing the Toxic Doings of Race and Racism in a 'Post-Race' North America; Abstract; Introduction; Overview of the Race Debate; The Making and Becoming of Race; Old Wines in New Wineskins; Race and Racism as Moving Targets; Case Illustrations; Articulations of Contemporary Racisms; Myths and Discourses of Democratic Racism; Islamophobia and Arabiphobia; Impact of Race and Racism in Social Functioning.
- Reversing Race and RacismsStructural-Oriented Approaches to Social Change : An Overview; Conceptualizing the Integrative Counter-Racism Framework; Utility and Practice Implications of the ICR Model; Application of the ICR Model: General Considerations; Conclusion; References; Cultural Understanding in EFL Reading in Argentina: A Threshold of Cultural Awareness of Otherness; National University of La Plata and CONICET, Argentina; Abstract; Introduction; Background of the Study; Rationale; Conceptions of reading in this study; Cultural perspectives in L2 reading.
- Indeterminacy of InterpretationInsider and outsider perspectives in L2 reading; Distinguishing Features of This Study; Methodology; Research Question; Materials; Data Collection and Instrumentation; Primary data sources; Secondary data sources; Data Analysis; L1-L2 relationship; Global coherence; Cultural apprehension: A general model; Cultural idea units; Cultural apprehension: Specific reader behaviors; Visual reformulations: additional elements; Results; Results about the Primary Data Sources: Response Writing Tasks and the Visual Reformulations; Cultural apprehension; Reader behaviors.
- Results about the Secondary Data SourcesTwo Examples; Discussion; Note of Caution; Research Significance; Conclusion; References; Appendix; Sample of Multiple-Choice Questionnaires about Reading in Spanish and in English; Fragment from Desert Wife (Faunce, 1961: 173-181); Kismas; Terminology Discussion around the Native Americans; Appendix. Data Analysis; 1. Holistic Evaluation, Overall Impression or Global Coherence of the Participants' Productions; 2. Model of Cultural Apprehension; Level 0. Omission, total rejection, or total acceptance of cultural aspects.
- Level 1. Perception/identification of cultural differencesLevel 2. Identification of own values and ideas. Identification of the cultural assumptions behind one's own culture; Level 3. Perception of culture C2 from one's own frame of reference; Level 4. Perception of culture C2 from the frame of reference of members of culture C2; Level 5. Perception of culture C1 from the perspective of culture C2; 3. Cultural Apprehension: Specific Reader Behaviors; The Possible Selves of Diverse Adolescents: Content and Function across Gender, Race and National Origin; Abstract; What Are Possible Selves?