1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910963662803321

Autore

Hanson Joyce Ann

Titolo

Mary McLeod Bethune & Black women's political activism / / Joyce A. Hanson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2003

ISBN

9780826264046

0826264042

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Disciplina

370/.92

B

Soggetti

African American women political activists

African American women educators

African American women social reformers

African American women - Political activity - History - 20th century

African Americans - Politics and government - 20th century

African Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-237) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Making of a Race Woman -- 2. Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Negro Girls -- 3. Mutual Aid, Self-Improvement, and Social Justice -- 4. In the National Youth Administration -- 5. The National Council of Negro Women -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

Sommario/riassunto

Mary McLeod Bethune was a significant figure in American political history. She devoted her life to advancing equal social, economic, and political rights for blacks. She distinguished herself by creating lasting institutions that trained black women for visible and expanding public leadership roles. Few have been as effective in the development of women's leadership for group advancement. Despite her accomplishments, the means, techniques, and actions Bethune employed in fighting for equality have been widely misinterpreted.   Mary McLeod Bethune and Black Women's Political Activism seeks to remedy the misconceptions surrounding this important political figure.



Joyce A. Hanson shows that the choices Bethune made often appear contradictory, unless one understands that she was a transitional figure with one foot in the nineteenth century and the other in the twentieth. Bethune, who lived from 1875 to 1955, struggled to reconcile her nineteenth-century notions of women's moral superiority with the changing political realities of the twentieth century. She used two conceptually distinct levels of activism-one nonconfrontational and designed to slowly undermine systemic racism, the other openly confrontational and designed to challenge the most overt discrimination-in her efforts to achieve equality.   Hanson uses a wide range of never- or little-used primary sources and adds a significant dimension to the historical discussion of black women's organizations by such scholars as Elsa Barkley Brown, Sharon Harley, and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn. The book extends the current debate about black women's political activism in recent work by Stephanie Shaw, Evelyn Brooks-Higginbotham, and Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore. Examining the historical evolution of African American women's activism in the critical period between 1920 and 1950, a time previously characterized as "doldrums" for both feminist and civil rights activity, Mary McLeod Bethune and Black Women's Political Activism is important for understanding the centrality of black women to the political fight for social, economic, and racial justice.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910967037403321

Autore

Iqbal Zubair

Titolo

Trade Reform and Regional Integration in Africa / / Zubair Iqbal, Mohsin Khan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 1998

ISBN

9786613847966

9781462346103

1462346103

9781455212446

145521244X

9781283535519

1283535513

9781455299140

1455299146

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (522 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KhanMohsin

Disciplina

382/.3/0967

Soggetti

Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics

Commercial policy

Currency

Environmental and Ecological Economics: General

Environmental management

Exports and Imports

Exports

Financial Aspects of Economic Integration

Foreign Exchange

Foreign exchange

Imports

International economic integration

International Economics

International economics

International Investment

International trade & commerce

International Trade Organizations

International trade

Long-term Capital Movements

Natural Resources

Public finance & taxation

Regional integration



Tariff

Tariffs

Taxation

Taxes

Trade liberalization

Trade Policy

Trade policy

Trade: General

Africa, Sub-Saharan Commercial policy Congresses

Africa, Sub-Saharan Economic conditions Regional disparities Congresses

Africa, Sub-Saharan Economic integration Congresses

Africa, Sub-Saharan Foreign economic relations Congresses

South Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Papers presented at the IMF, African Economic Research Consortium seminar on Trade reform and regional integration in Africa, December 1-3, 1997."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgment -- List of Abbreviations -- ; 1 Opening Address / Alassane Ouattara -- ; 2 Trade Reforms and Regional Integration : An Overview / Zubair Iqbal and Mohsin S. Khan -- ; Part I. Trade Reform, Macroeconomic Adjustment, and Growth -- ; 3 Trade Liberalization / Michael Mussa -- ; 4 Trade Liberalization in Sub-Saharan Africa / Robert Sharer -- ; 5 The Revenue Implications of Trade Liberalization / Liam P. Ebrill and Janet G. Stotsky -- ; 6 Globalization: Implications for Africa / Paul Collier -- ; 7 Why Is Trade Reform So Difficult in Africa? / Dani Rodrik -- ; 8 Africa's Role in Multilateral Trade Negotiations: Past and Future / Zhen Kun Wang and L. Alan Winters -- ; 9 Trade and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa Benno J. Ndulu and Njuguna S. Ndung'u -- ; 10 Africa: Industrialization Strategy in the Context of Globalization Charles / Chukwuma Soludo -- ; Part II. Regional Integration in Africa -- ; 11 Regional Integration: Lessons from Asia and the Western Hemisphere / Gary Hufbauer and Barbara Kotschwar -- ; 12 Trade Policy and Regional Integration in Sub-Saharan Africa / Ademola Oyejide -- ; 13 Beyond Trade: Regional Arrangements as a Window on Globalization / Christian A. Francois and Arvind Subramanian -- ; 14 Regional Integration, Trade, and Foreign Direct Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa / Ibrahim A. Elbadawi and Francis M. Mwega -- ; 15 Sub-Saharan African Experiences with Regional Integration / Ernest Aryeetey -- ; 16 Regional Integration Arrangements in Southern Africa: SADC and SACU / Trudi Hartzenberg and Gavin Maasdorp -- ; 17 Regional Trade Arrangements: The COMESA Experience / Louis A. Kasekende and Charles A. Abuka -- ; 18 The Role of ECOWAS in Trade Liberalization / Charles D. Jebuni -- List of Participants.

Sommario/riassunto

Edited by Zubair Iqbal and Mohsin Khan, this volume is a collection of papers given at a seminar on trade issues in Africa, conducted by the IMF nad the African Economic Research Consortium. It represents the



views of government officials, academics, and representatives from multilateral and regional agencies on issues relating to trade reform and regionalism in Africa. Issues include the role of trade liberalization in promoting sustained growth, interdependence of trade and macroeconomic policies, impediments to effective trade reforms, the steps needed to accelerate trade reform, and the importance of regional interaction.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910966708903321

Autore

Khrennikov A. (Andrei? IUr'evich) <1958, >

Titolo

Beyond quantum / / Andrei Khrennikov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : CRC Press : , : Pan Stanford Publishing, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-429-07366-6

981-4411-73-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 p.)

Disciplina

530.12

Soggetti

Quantum theory

Statistical physics

Probabilities

Quantum statistics

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.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Conventional Quantum Theory: Fundamentals; Chapter 3: Fundamentals of Prequantum Classical Statistical Field Theory; Chapter 4: Prequantum Dynamics from Hamiltonian Equations on the Infinite-Dimensional Phase Space; Chapter 5: Quantum Mechanics as Approximation of Statistical Mechanics of Classical Fields; Chapter 6: Supplementary Mathematical Considerations; Chapter 7: Mathematical Presentation for Composite Systems; Chapter 8: Phenomenological Detection Model; Chapter 9: Quantum Individual Events



References

Sommario/riassunto

The present wave of interest in quantum foundations is caused by the tremendous development of quantum information science and its applications to quantum computing and quantum communication. It has become clear that some of the difficulties encountered in realizations of quantum information processing have roots at the very fundamental level. To solve such problems, quantum theory has to be reconsidered. This book is devoted to the analysis of the probabilistic structure of quantum theory, probing the limits of classical probabilistic representation of quantum phenomena.