1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456414103321

Titolo

African Americans in global affairs [[electronic resource] ] : contemporary perspectives / / edited by Michael L. Clemons

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hanover, NH, : University Press of New England, c2010

ISBN

1-282-66102-7

9786612661020

1-55553-731-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (406 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ClemonsMichael L

Disciplina

323.1196/073

Soggetti

African Americans - Politics and government

African American politicians

African American legislators

Political participation

World politics

International relations

Electronic books.

United States Politics and government

United States Foreign relations

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1: Racial Justice in Foreign Affairs: Ronald W. Walters; I: African American Foreign Affairs Participation: Nature and Dynamics; 2: Conceptualizing the Foreign Affairs Participation of African Americans: Michael L. Clemons; 3: From Anticolonialism to Anti-Apartheid: Ronald Williams II; II: Rise to Institutional Global Power Positions; 4: Congress and Africa's Constituency: William G. Jones; 5: The Making of African American Foreign Policymakers: Josephine A. V. Allen et al; 6: Colin L. Powell and the Iraq War: Michael L. Clemons

7: Condoleeza Rice and Madeleine Albright: Michael L. Clemons and Supad Ghose8: The Rise and Fall of Black Influence on U.S. Foreign Policy: Charles P. Henry; III: Transnational Activism and Globalization;



9: The Looming Quest for Global Reparations: Ife Williams; 10: The Emergence of a Legislative Caucus of Afro-Descendant Legislators in the Americas: Minion K. C. Morrison; 11: African Americans, Transnational Contention, and Cross-National Politics in the United States and Venezuela: Sekou M. Franklin; 12: The Assault of the Monkey King on the Hosts of Heaven: Robeson Taj P. Frazier

Epilogue: Toward Foreign Policy Justice in the Post-Bush Era: Michael L. ClemonsAbout the Contributors; Index; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

A long-overdue introduction to the multifaceted nature of African American participation in global affairs

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778026803321

Autore

Ridzi Frank

Titolo

Selling welfare reform [[electronic resource] ] : work-first and the new common sense of employment / / Frank Ridzi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2009

ISBN

0-8147-7737-6

0-8147-7633-7

1-4416-1566-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (330 p.)

Disciplina

362.5/5680973

Soggetti

Public welfare - United States

Welfare recipients - Employment - Government policy - United States

Poor - Government policy - United States

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. 291-313) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 “Selling Work-First” -- 2 “You’re All Doing the Wrong Thing” -- 3 “A New Way of Doing Business” -- 4 New Technology and New Customers -- 5 “We Are a Thorn in the Side of Those Who Won’t Change” -- 6 “Not Everybody Fits into Their Box” -- 7 “Don’t Blame Me, It Wasn’t Up to Me!” -- 8 Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author



Sommario/riassunto

The 1996 Welfare Reform Act promised to end welfare as we knew it. In Selling Welfare Reform, Frank Ridzi uses rich ethnographic detail to examine how new welfare-to-work policies, time limits, and citizenship documentation radically changed welfare, revealing what really goes on at the front lines of the reformed welfare system. Selling Welfare Reform chronicles how entrepreneurial efforts ranging from front-line caseworkers to high-level administrators set the pace for restructuring a resistant bureaucracy. At the heart of this remarkable institutional transformation is a market-centered approach to human services that re-framed the definition of success to include diversion from the present system, de-emphasis of legal protections and behavioral conditioning of poor parents to accommodate employers. Ridzi draws a compelling portrait of how welfare staff and their clients negotiate the complexities of the low wage labor market in an age of global competition, exposing the realities of how the new "common sense" of poverty is affecting the lives of poor and vulnerable Americans.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910970416303321

Autore

Esposito John L

Titolo

Makers of contemporary Islam / / John L. Esposito, John O. Voll

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001

ISBN

9780190286446

019028644X

9780198032397

0198032390

9780197669457

019766945X

9781280835001

1280835001

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 pages)

Collana

Oxford reference

Altri autori (Persone)

VollJohn Obert <1936->

Disciplina

305.552

297.2720922

Soggetti

Muslim scholars - Islamic countries

Intellectuals - Islamic countries

Islam and secularism - Islamic countries

Islam - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Also issued in print: 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-243) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Muslim activist intellectuals and their place in history Ismail Ragi al-Faruqi: pioneer in Muslim-Christian relations Khurshid Ahmad: Muslim activist-economist Maryam Jameelah: a voice of conservative Islam Hasan Hanafi: the classic intellectual Rashid Ghannoushi: activist in exile Hasan al-Turabi: the Mahdi-lawyer Abdolkarim Soroush and critical discourse in Iran / Valla Vakili Anwar Ibrahim: activist moderate Abdurrahman Wahid: scholar-president

Sommario/riassunto

Examining the development of contemporary Islamic movements and thought through the biographies of nine major activist intellectuals whose work provides the core of the Islamic resurgence, this text contributes new understanding.