Down in New Orleans [[electronic resource] ] : reflections from a drowned city / / Billy Sothern ; photographs by Nikki Page |
Autore | Sothern Billy <1977-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (370 p.) |
Disciplina | 976.3/35064 |
Soggetto topico |
Hurricane Katrina, 2005
Hurricanes - Louisiana - New Orleans Disaster victims - Louisiana - New Orleans Emergency management - Government policy - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
apocalypse
class war climate change disenfranchisement environmental activism flooding iranian latin americans latino latinx levy break louisiana mardi gras middle eastern author natural disaster natural disasters new orleans post apocalyptic scenario post-katrina race and racism southern cities trailer park university textbook |
ISBN |
1-282-76228-1
9786612762284 0-520-93384-2 1-4356-0200-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Chapter 1. A Man Leaves Home -- Chapter 2. A Stranger Comes to Town -- Chapter 3. "This Blues Is Just Too Big" -- Chapter 4. A Dollar Short -- Chapter 5. Poor, Nasty, Brutish, and Short -- Chapter 6. Not in My Backyard -- Chapter 7. Left to Die -- Chapter 8. Bring the War Home -- Chapter 9. The Dry Run of the Apocalypse -- Chapter 10. History Repeats Itself -- Chapter 11. Going Home -- Chapter 12. Oxford Town -- Chapter 13. I Do Believe I've Had Enough -- Chapter 14. Everyday Reminders -- Chapter 15. Second Line -- Chapter 16. Gideon's Blues -- Chapter 17. Live from the Circle Bar -- Chapter 18. Corporate Limits -- Chapter 19. Fat Tuesday -- Chapter 20. Hard Lot -- Chapter 21. La Nueva Orleans -- Chapter 22. Yours in Struggle -- Chapter 23. In the Parish -- Chapter 24. Not Resigned -- Chapter 25. Epitaph -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778116803321 |
Sothern Billy <1977-> | ||
Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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How many languages do we really need? : the economics of linguistic diversity / / Victor Ginsburgh, Shlomo Weber |
Autore | Ginsburgh Victor |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (247 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.44 |
Altri autori (Persone) | WeberShlomo |
Soggetto topico | Language and languages |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
European Union
Eurovision Song Contest Newton's law communication indices core language cultural distance culture disenfranchisement indices disenfranchisement economic progress efficiency foreign language fractionalization indices genetics global economy group identity individual identity inter-country differences international trade language learning language policy language proficiency language standardization language linguistic distance linguistic diversity linguistic policy literary translation migration multilingual community multilingualism polarization indices universal gravitation voting behavior |
ISBN |
1-283-05179-6
9786613051790 1-4008-3890-8 |
Classificazione | ES 470 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. My Language IsMy Homeland -- 2. Linguistic Policies, Disenfranchisement, and Standardization -- 3. Linguistic, Genetic, and Cultural Distances: How Far Is Nostratic? -- 4. Distances Matter -- 5. Individual Communicative Benefits -- 6. Diversity and Disenfranchisement Indices -- 7. Diversity and Disenfranchisement: Applications -- 8. Multilingualism in the European Union: A Case Study in Linguistic Policy -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460455803321 |
Ginsburgh Victor | ||
Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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How many languages do we really need? : the economics of linguistic diversity / / Victor Ginsburgh, Shlomo Weber |
Autore | Ginsburgh Victor |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (247 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.44 |
Altri autori (Persone) | WeberShlomo |
Soggetto topico | Language and languages |
Soggetto non controllato |
European Union
Eurovision Song Contest Newton's law communication indices core language cultural distance culture disenfranchisement indices disenfranchisement economic progress efficiency foreign language fractionalization indices genetics global economy group identity individual identity inter-country differences international trade language learning language policy language proficiency language standardization language linguistic distance linguistic diversity linguistic policy literary translation migration multilingual community multilingualism polarization indices universal gravitation voting behavior |
ISBN |
1-283-05179-6
9786613051790 1-4008-3890-8 |
Classificazione | ES 470 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. My Language IsMy Homeland -- 2. Linguistic Policies, Disenfranchisement, and Standardization -- 3. Linguistic, Genetic, and Cultural Distances: How Far Is Nostratic? -- 4. Distances Matter -- 5. Individual Communicative Benefits -- 6. Diversity and Disenfranchisement Indices -- 7. Diversity and Disenfranchisement: Applications -- 8. Multilingualism in the European Union: A Case Study in Linguistic Policy -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789851203321 |
Ginsburgh Victor | ||
Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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How many languages do we really need? : the economics of linguistic diversity / / Victor Ginsburgh, Shlomo Weber |
Autore | Ginsburgh Victor |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (247 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.44 |
Altri autori (Persone) | WeberShlomo |
Soggetto topico | Language and languages |
Soggetto non controllato |
European Union
Eurovision Song Contest Newton's law communication indices core language cultural distance culture disenfranchisement indices disenfranchisement economic progress efficiency foreign language fractionalization indices genetics global economy group identity individual identity inter-country differences international trade language learning language policy language proficiency language standardization language linguistic distance linguistic diversity linguistic policy literary translation migration multilingual community multilingualism polarization indices universal gravitation voting behavior |
ISBN |
1-283-05179-6
9786613051790 1-4008-3890-8 |
Classificazione | ES 470 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. My Language IsMy Homeland -- 2. Linguistic Policies, Disenfranchisement, and Standardization -- 3. Linguistic, Genetic, and Cultural Distances: How Far Is Nostratic? -- 4. Distances Matter -- 5. Individual Communicative Benefits -- 6. Diversity and Disenfranchisement Indices -- 7. Diversity and Disenfranchisement: Applications -- 8. Multilingualism in the European Union: A Case Study in Linguistic Policy -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824977903321 |
Ginsburgh Victor | ||
Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Race for Citizenship : Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America / / Helen Heran Jun |
Autore | Jun Helen Heran |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2011] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.896073 |
Collana | Nation of Nations |
Soggetto topico |
Orientalism - United States - History
Asian Americans - Social conditions African Americans - Social conditions Citizenship - United States - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
19th
African American Asian II-era Negro Problem Question Rights World Yellow acutely around became century citizenship disenfranchisement examines globalization identity late loyalty mid- moments national post-Civil questions race three under visible when |
ISBN | 0-8147-4332-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Press for Inclusion. Nineteenth-Century Black Citizenship and the Anti-Chinese Movement -- 2. “When and Where I Enter . . .”. Orientalism in Anna Julia Cooper’s Narratives of Modern Black Womanhood -- 3. Blackness, Manhood, and the Aftermath of Internment in John Okada’s No-No Boy (1957) -- 4. Becoming Korean American. Blackface and Gendered Racialization in Ronyoung Kim’s Clay Walls (1987) -- Introduction -- 5. Black Surplus in the Pacific Century. Ownership and Dispossession in the Hood Film -- 6. Asian Americans in the Age of Neoliberalism. Human Capital and Bad Choices in a.k.a. Don Bonus (1995) and Better Luck Tomorrow (2002) -- Afterword -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996582064803316 |
Jun Helen Heran | ||
New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2011] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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