As Karyn R. Lacy's innovative work in the suburbs of Washington, DC, reveals, there is a continuum of middle-classness among blacks, ranging from lower-middle class to middle-middle class to ...upper-middle class. Focusing on the latter two, Lacy explores an increasingly important social and demographic group: middle-class blacks who live in middle-class suburbs where poor blacks are not present. These "blue-chip black" suburbanites earn well over fifty thousand dollars annually and work in predominantly white professional environments. Lacy examines the complicated sense of identity that individuals in these groups craft to manage their interactions with lower-class blacks, middle-class whites, and other middle-class blacks as they seek to reap the benefits of their middle-class status.
Land in Transition Ravallion, Martin
2008, 04-08-2008, 20080101
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This book is a case study of Vietnam's efforts to fight poverty using market-oriented land reforms. In the 1980s and 1990s, the country undertook major institutional reforms, and an impressive ...reduction in poverty followed. But what role did the reforms play? Did the efficiency gains from reform come at a cost to equity? Were there both winners and losers? Was rising rural landlessness in the wake of reforms a sign of success or failure?Land in Transition investigates the impacts on living standards of the two stages of land law reform: in 1988, when land was allocated to households administratively and output markets were liberalized; and in 1993, when official land titles were introduced and land transactions were permitted for the first time since communist rule began. To fully assess the poverty impacts of these changes, the authors' analysis of household surveys is guided by both economic theory and knowledge of the historical and social contexts. The book delineates lessons from Vietnam's experience and their implications for current policy debates in China and elsewhere.
Black Sexual Politics Collins, Patricia Hill
2004, 20040802, 2004-03-18, 2004-08-02
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In Black Sexual Politics, one of America's most influential writers on race and gender explores how images of Black sexuality have been used to maintain the color line and how they threaten to spread ...a new brand of racism around the world today.
Vietnam Gainsborough, Martin
2010., 2010, 2010-08-12, 2013-07-04, 20100101
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Vietnam: Rethinking the State offers an exciting and up-to-date look at the politics of this fascinating country as it seeks to make the transition from war-torn economic backwater to a dynamic and ...modern society.
Porta Palazzo Black, Rachel E; Petrini, Carlo
04/2012
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Porta Palazzo, arguably Western Europe's largest open-air market, is a central economic, social, and cultural hub for Italians and migrants in the city of Turin. Open-air markets like Porta Palazzo ...have existed for centuries in Europe; although their function has changed over time-traditional markets are no longer the primary place to buy food-they remain popular destinations. In an age of supermarkets and online commerce, markets offer unique social and cultural opportunities and bring together urban and rural worldviews. These factors are often overlooked in traditional economic studies of food distribution, but anthropologist Rachel E. Black contends that social relations are essential for building and maintaining valuable links between production and consumption. From the history of Porta Palazzo to the current growing pains of the market, this book concentrates on points where trade meets cultural identities and cuisine. Its detailed and perceptive portraits of the market bring into relief the lives of the vendors, shoppers, and passersby. Black's ethnography illuminates the daily work of market-going and the anxieties of shoppers as they navigate the market. It examines migration, the link between cuisine and cultural identity, culinary tourism, the connection between the farmers' market and the production of local food, and the urban planning issues negotiated by the city of Turin and market users during a recent renovation. This vibrant study, featuring a foreword by Slow Food Movement founder Carlo Petrini, makes a strong case for why markets like Porta Palazzo are critical for fostering culinary culture and social life in cities.
A much-needed behind-the-scenes survey of an emerging Asian
power The eyes of the West have recently been trained on
China and India, but Vietnam is rising fast among its Asian peers.
A breathtaking ...period of social change has seen foreign investment
bringing capitalism flooding into its nominally communist society,
booming cities swallowing up smaller villages, and the lure of
modern living tugging at the traditional networks of family and
community. Yet beneath these sweeping developments lurks an
authoritarian political system that complicates the nation's
apparent renaissance. In this engaging work, experienced journalist
Bill Hayton looks at the costs of change in Vietnam and questions
whether this rising Asian power is really heading toward capitalism
and democracy. Based on vivid eyewitness accounts and pertinent
case studies, Hayton's book addresses a broad variety of issues in
today's Vietnam, including important shifts in international
relations, the growth of civil society, economic developments and
challenges, and the nation's nascent democracy movement as well as
its notorious internal security. His analysis of Vietnam's "police
state," and its systematic mechanisms of social control, coercion,
and surveillance, is fresh and particularly imperative when viewed
alongside his portraits of urban and street life, cultural
legacies, religion, the media, and the arts. With a firm sense of
historical and cultural context, Hayton examines how these issues
have emerged and where they will lead Vietnam in the next stage of
its development.
This book examines how the political period in Spain following Franco's death, known as the Transición, is being remembered by a group of writers, filmmakers and TV producers born in the sixties and ...early seventies. Reading against the dominant historical account that celebrates Spain’s successful democratisation, this study reveals how recent television, film and fiction recreate this past from a generational perspective, linking the experience of the Transición to the country’s present political and financial crises. Privileging above all an emotional connection, these artists use personal feelings about the past to analyse and revisit the history of their coming-of-age years. Lost in Transition considers the implications of adopting such a subjective positioning towards history that encourages an unending narrative, always in search of more meaningful and intimate connections with the past. Taking into account recent theoretical approaches to memory studies, this book proposes a new look at the production of memory in contemporary Spain and its close relationship to popular culture, shifting the focus from what is remembered to how the past is recalled affectively to be made part of an ongoing and enduring everyday experience.
En los 27 años de vida de Guaraguao, nunca el Estado español había dejado de proteger a las revistas culturales -las no comerciales, aquellas que no llevan publicidad de relojes, o coches, o whisky o ...de lo que sea-. Aquí estamos con 58 cartas del asombroso José Lezama Lima; una antología de las poetas puertorriqueñas de hoy, compuesta por la mirada instruida y sabia de Áurea Sotomayor; una amplia entrevista a Gerald Martin, el principal latinoamericanista inglés vivo, biógrafo de Asturias, García Márquez y Vargas Llosa; dos artículos, frutos de largas investigaciones y meditaciones, sobre Rubén Darío y el desastre español en Cuba, el uno, y los orígenes de la escritura poética femenina en América, tema nunca antes abordado, el otro. Y seguimos con las portadas del artista Marco Alvarado, que nos acompaña desde hace muchos años, y nos postula imágenes que, según dice, «no están de acuerdo con el orden de la física "natural" newtonian ».
