1.

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



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910886096303321

Titolo

Tourism and Hospitality for Sustainable Development : Volume Two: Emerging Trends and Global Issues / / edited by Emmanuel Ndhlovu, Kaitano Dube, Catherine Muyama Kifworo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024

ISBN

3-031-63073-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 pages)

Disciplina

910.684

Soggetti

Tourism

Management

Industries

Environmental geography

Tourism Management

Sector and Industry Studies

Integrated Geography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Tourism and Hospitality Trends and Sustainable Development: Emerging Issues in the Digital Era -- Chapter 2: Assessment of the Adoption of Technologies to Promote Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13 on Climate Action by Wildlife-Based Tourist Destinations in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe -- Chapter 3: Tourist perspectives on the use of electric cars in game lodges in Sub- Saharan Africa -- Chapter 4: Innovation and Technology Integration in the Hospitality Industry in Response to Climate Change  -- Chapter 5: Digitalisation and Technological Integration for Sustainable Tourism in South Africa -- Chapter 6: Information security in the Zimbabwean hotel sector -- Chapter 7: Digitalisation as Potential Tool for Post-COVID-19 Tourism Recovery and Resilience in South Africa -- Chapter 8: Adoption of Contemporary Technologies among hotels in Zimbabwe: A case of city hotels in Harare -- Chapter 9: The Transformational Influence of Digitalization on the Revival of Africa's Travel and Tourism Industry in the Post-COVID-19 Era -- Chapter 10: The state of



technology deployment in South Africa's tourism and hospitality industry -- Chapter 11: The use of electronic diaries in qualitative hospitality research: A methodological reflection -- Chapter 12: The Fourth Industrial Revolution Technologies in the Tourism Sector in African Countries: Opportunities, Barriers and Ethical Considerations -- Chapter 13: Exploring the impacts of AI and IoT in the South African tourism and hospitality industry -- Chapter 14: A Descriptive Analysis of Social Media Use By a Selected Sample of Generation Z Travellers -- Chapter 15: Conclusion: Digitalisation as a driver of sustainable development in tourism and Hospitality.

Sommario/riassunto

The tourism and hospitality industry is rapidly undergoing a disruptive transformation owing to advances in information and communications technology. This book aims to highlight how the unfolding digital transformation trends help the industry attain sustainable development by taking full account of its current and future economic, social, and environmental impacts and addressing the needs of tourists, the industry, the environment, and destinations. With the advent of digital technologies following the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), there has been a rapid change in how customers and businesses interact regarding the timeliness and relevance of communication. Although the positive effects of digital transformation have received sustained scholarly interest, its adverse effects, as well as how the digitisation of tourism operations can enable the achievement of sustainable development, have attracted limited academic focus. The book comprises contributions that generate theoretical insights, empirical findings, and evidence-based recommendations by focusing on emerging and forecasted technologies used in the tourism and hospitality industry, such as blockchains, robots, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, big data, and analytics. The book could be helpful for future research to focus on the impact of different forms of digital technology by examining their sociocultural and environmental effects. Building on prior research, the chapters in this volume extrapolate current studies on digital development to provide more links to tourism and hospitality.



3.

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.