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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455292603321

Autore

Lake Obiagele

Titolo

Blue veins and kinky hair [[electronic resource] ] : naming and color consciousness in African America / / Obiagele Lake

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn., : Praeger, 2003

ISBN

1-282-40905-0

9786612409059

0-313-05864-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 p.)

Disciplina

305.896/073

Soggetti

African Americans - Race identity

Names, Personal - African American

Race awareness - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [117]-134) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. Renaming African People; 2. Mulattoes and Color Consciousness in the United States; 3. Hair and Color Consciousness in African America; 4. Hair and Skin Color in Africa and the African Diaspora; 5. The Dekinking of African Hair; Appendices; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

The author explores how Africans in America internalized the negative images created of them by the European world, and how internalized racism has worked to fracture African American unity and thereby dilute inchoate efforts toward liberation. In the late 1960s, change began with the Black Is Beautiful slogan and new a consciousness, which went hand in hand with Black Power and pan-African movements. The author argues that for any people to succeed, they must first embrace their own identity, including physical characteristics. Naming, skin color, and hair have been topical issues in the Afri



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910349406203321

Titolo

Studies on Speech Production : 11th International Seminar, ISSP 2017, Tianjin, China, October 16-19, 2017, Revised Selected Papers / / edited by Qiang Fang, Jianwu Dang, Pascal Perrier, Jianguo Wei, Longbiao Wang, Nan Yan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

9783030001261

3030001261

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 237 p. 106 illus.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, , 2945-9141 ; ; 10733

Disciplina

006.454

Soggetti

Artificial intelligence

Natural language processing (Computer science)

Computer vision

Computer science - Mathematics

Computer networks

Artificial Intelligence

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Computer Vision

Mathematics of Computing

Computer Communication Networks

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 11th International Seminar on Speech Production, ISSP 2017, held in Tianjin, China, In October 2017. The 20 revised full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. They cover a wide range of speech science fields including phonology, phonetics, prosody, mechanics, acoustics, physiology, motor control, neuroscience, computer science and human interaction. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: emotional speech analysis



and recognition; articulatory speech synthesis; speech acquisition; phonetics; speech planning and comprehension, and speech disorder.