The Unacknowledged Disaster concerns two huge and closely-tied but widely ignored problems that plague the U.S. On the one hand, America tolerates a massive amount of youth poverty, while on the other, youth poverty is the major social factor generating failure in the country’s education. (More than one-fifth of American youths are now impoverished–a poverty rate far worse than those for American adults or the elderly and more than twice the size of youth poverty rates in other advanced nations–and poverty generates most educational failure effects in the U.S. often assigned to such factors as student race, broken homes, and the supposed failures of teachers and school administrators.) These problems have been studied extensively, and the tragedies they create are well known to scholars, but they are often misrepresented, misunderstood, or unacknowledged by far-right advocates, media figures, policy makers, and those concerned with serious problems that now beset the United States. This book reviews evidence concerning these problems and their dire effects, discusses ineffective or tragic outcomes that result when these problems are ignored, assesses why these problems are so often unacknowledged in the United States, and sets forth clear, evidence-based policies that can reduce the disastrous scope of American youth poverty and its destructive effects in education.
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<p>Organization leaders typically look at each job position, characterized as identical based on pay and job description, in the same way. They hire employees to do that particular job and often do not consider other capabilities that the employees may possess. This book examines how to optimize workforce performance by understanding the diversity of skills and competencies of employees.</p> <p>Diversity is generally explored in terms of gender, race, nationality, disability, and other physical characteristics that differentiate one legally protected group of people from another. In the workplace, however, diversity can take on a different meaning, describing not only physical differences but also work performance characteristics unique to each individual employee. Inter-personnel diversity seeks to explore those diverse characteristics and begin to understand each employee’s strengths and weaknesses so that they can be developed to benefit the employee and the organization. This much-needed text will inform scholars and scholar-practitioners in HRD and workforce development how to use these differences to enhance the individual and the organization.</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p>
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Von Robotern auf der Bühne, Computerspielen im Theater und Zuschauern im Netz Algorithmen werden angesichts steigender Datenmengen und künstlicher Intelligenzen auch außerhalb der Computer zunehmend sinnstiftend. Was das für das Theater heißt, erläutert der vorliegende Band, der sich freien Theaterproduktionen der letzten Jahre widmet, die mit Algorithmen, Computerspielen und sozialen Netzwerken in Theaterräumen experimentieren. Anhand ausgewählter Arbeiten von Turbo Pascal, machina eX, Interrobang, Rimini Protokoll u. a. wird die Schnittstelle von Technik und Ästhetik in den Blick genommen und weitergedacht. "Die Frage nach der Technik ist auch immer eine politische Frage, die, abgesehen von Implikationen in Hinblick auf ›race‹, class, gender &c., unser Verhältnis zur Welt maßgeblich mitbestimmt." Ulf Otto
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<div> <p></p> <p>This book is a critical study of the development of a racialised nationalism in China, exploring its unique characteristics and internal tensions, and connecting it to other forms of global racism. The growth of this discourse is contextualised within the party-state’s political agenda to seek legitimacy, in various groups’ efforts to carve their demands in a divided national community, and has directly affected identity politics across the global diasporic Chinese community. While there remains considerable debate in both academic literature and popular discussion about how the concept of ‘race’ is relevant to Chinese expressions of identity, Cheng makes a forceful case for the appropriateness of biological and familial narratives of descent for understanding Chinese nationalism today. </p> <p>Grounded in a strong conceptual framework and substantiated with rich materials, <i>Discourses of Race and Rising China </i>will be an important contribution to international studies of racism, and will appeal to academics and students of contemporary China, historians of modern China, and those who work in the fields of critical race, ethnicity, and cultural studies.  </p> <br> <p></p> </div>
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The story of gay rights has long been told as one of single-minded focus on the fight for sexual freedom. Yet its origins are much more complicated than this single-issue interpretation would have us believe, and to ignore gay liberation's multidimensional beginnings is to drastically underestimate its radical potential for social change. Ferguson shows how queer liberation emerged out of various insurgent struggles crossing the politics of race, gender, class, and sexuality, and deeply connected to issues of colonization, incarceration, and capitalism. Tracing the rise and fall of this intersectional politics, he argues that the one-dimensional mainstreaming of queerness falsely placed critiques of racism, capitalism, and the state outside the remit of gay liberation. As recent activism is increasingly making clear, this one-dimensional legacy has promoted forms of exclusion that marginalize queers of color, the poor, and transgender individuals. This forceful book joins the call to reimagine and reconnect the fight for social justice in all its varied forms.
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Das Buch beschreibt die chronologische Entwicklung des Blues bis in unsere Zeit. Der Leser erfährt, was der Blues für die Menschen damals bedeutete und das Wort " Blues" eigentlich nur ein Markenzeichen der race labels war. Es wird versucht, eingefahrene Bilder über diese Musikrichtung zu korrigieren. Für den Blueskenner ist dieses Buch bestimmt eine Ergänzung zu seinem Wissensstand. Für den Laien ist dieses Buch eine Entdeckungsreise und natürlich eine interessante Lektüre. Aus dem Blues sind eine Vielzahl neuer Musikstilrichtungen entstanden; farbige Portraits der erwähnten Musiker sind als Acrylgemälde oder Kreidegemälde abgebildet; hinzu kommen Genre-Aquarelle und Kohlezeichnungen. Um das Bild abzurunden, sind Texte verschiedener Songs abgedruckt.
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Interaktive Web-2.0-Tools wie Blogs oder Twitter haben einen Paradigmenwechsel vollzogen. Die bisher praktizierte, klassische Einweg-Kommunikation verliert an Bedeutung. Stattdessen sammeln sich Interessierte in sozialen Netzwerken, um sich auszutauschen. Dies eröffnet neue Möglichkeiten für das Kulturmarketing. Erstmalig für den deutschsprachigen Raum führt dieser reich bebilderte Band in die kultur- und medientheoretischen Grundlagen ein und stellt aktuelle Entwicklungen sowie Trends vor. Am Beispiel erfolgreicher Projekte werden die Potenziale von Web-2.0-Strategien für Kultureinrichtungen verdeutlicht. Anschaulich und praxisnah wird gezeigt, wie Kulturmanager_innen mithilfe von Online-Tools Beziehungen zu neuen Zielgruppen knüpfen und vertiefen können. Eine wertvolle Handreichung für Kultureinrichtungen und Kulturschaffende, die die Chancen des Web 2.0 nutzen möchten.
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"The Moon Pool" deals with an advanced race which has developed within the Earth's core. Eventually their most intelligent members create an offspring. This created entity encompasses both great good and great evil, but it slowly turns away from its creators and towards evil. The entity is called either the Dweller or the Shining One. "Dwellers in the Mirage" Leif Langdon is an American explorer who discovers a warm valley in Alaska. Two races inhabit the valley, the Little People and a branch of an ancient Mongolian race; they worship the evil Kraken named Khalk'ru which they summon from another dimension to offer human sacrifice. The inhabitants recognize Langdon as the reincarnation of their long dead hero, Dwayanu. Dwayanu's spirit possesses Langdon and he starts a war with the Little People. Civilization
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