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UNINA9910463919603321 |
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Burma or Myanmar? [[electronic resource] ] : the struggle for national identity / / editor, Lowell Dittmer |
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Singapore ; ; Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific Pub. Co., c2010 |
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1-283-14474-3 |
9786613144744 |
981-4313-65-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (396 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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National characteristics, Burmese |
Electronic books. |
Burma Politics and government 1988- |
Burma Foreign relations 1948- |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Burma vs. Myanmar : what's in a name? / Lowell Dittmer -- Voting and violence in Myanmar : Nation building for a transition to democracy / Ian Holliday -- Ethnic conflict in Burma : the challenge of unity in a divided country / Tom Kramer -- Relieving Burma's humanitarian crisis / Christina Fink -- Daw Aung San Suu Kyi : a Burmese dissindent democrat / Kyaw Yin Hlaing -- Looking inside the Burmese military / Win Min -- Naypyidaw vs. Yangon : the reasons behind the Junta's decision to move the Burmese capital / Daniel Gomà -- Burma's poverty of riches : natural gas and the voracious state / Sean Turnell -- Myanmar/Burma : international trade and domestic power under an "isolationist" indentity / Jalal Alamgir -- China-Burma relations : China's risk, Burma's dilemma / Min Zin -- India's unquenched ambitions in Burma / Renaud Egreteau -- Burma and ASEAN : a marriage of inconvenience / Stephen McCarthy -- Conclusion / Lowell Dittmer. |
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Burma, also known as Myanmar, strategically located between China and India, is one of the largest and most richly endowed states in Southeast Asia. Yet it remains both economically and politically |
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underdeveloped. Why is this so? We argue that much of the reason has to do with an ongoing struggle for national identity. This struggle involves not only whether the state should be authoritarian or democratic, but how Burma's myriad ethnic minorities should be accommodated within it, what external reference national reference groups the country should identify and align with, and how it should mov |
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UNINA9910480897503321 |
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Autore |
Williamson Terrion L. |
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Scandalize My Name : Black Feminist Practice and the Making of Black Social Life / / Terrion L. Williamson |
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New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2016] |
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©2017 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (185 p.) |
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African American women - Social conditions |
African American women - Public opinion |
Stereotypes (Social psychology) - United States |
Feminism - United States |
Racism - United States |
Sexism - United States |
Public opinion - United States |
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United States Race relations |
United States Social conditions 1980- |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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SCANDALIZE MY NAME -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION. Back to Living Again -- 1. ON ANGER -- 2. GETTING HAPPY -- 3. THE WAY IT IS -- 4. BABY MAMA -- 5. IN THE LIFE -- AFTERWORD. We Gon’ Be Alright -- |
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- INDEX |
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From sapphire, mammy, and jezebel, to the angry black woman, baby mama, and nappy-headed ho, black female iconography has had a long and tortured history in public culture. The telling of this history has long occupied the work of black female theorists—much of which has been foundational in situating black women within the matrix of sociopolitical thought and practice in the United States. Scandalize My Name builds upon the rich tradition of this work while approaching the study of black female representation as an opening onto a critical contemplation of the vagaries of black social life. It makes a case for a radical black subject-position that structures and is structured by an intramural social order that revels in the underside of the stereotype and ultimately destabilizes the very notion of “civil society.”At turns memoir, sociological inquiry, literary analysis, and cultural critique, Scandalize My Name explores topics as varied as serial murder, reality television, Christian evangelism, teenage pregnancy, and the work of Toni Morrison to advance black feminist practice as a mode through which black sociality is both theorized and made material. |
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