African American folk healing / / Stephanie Y. Mitchem |
Autore | Mitchem Stephanie Y. <1950-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : New York University Press, , 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (ix, 189 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 398.2089/96073 |
Soggetto topico |
African Americans
African Americans - Medicine Medicine shows - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
African
American Mitchem about aspects between culture delineating disjunctures epistemology expressions faith healing holistic illness institutional linked medicine pointing practices shows simply that these they those views wellness |
ISBN |
0-8147-9635-4
0-8147-5962-9 1-4356-0736-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Historical paths to healing -- Stories and cures : defining African American folk healing -- Healing, the Black body, and institutional medicine : contexts for crafting wellness -- Healing in place : from past to present -- Today's healing traditions -- Healing and hybridity in the twenty-first century -- Healing the past in the present -- Religion, spirituality, and African American folk healing -- Hoodoo, conjure, and folk healing -- Conclusion. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778103103321 |
Mitchem Stephanie Y. <1950-> | ||
New York : , : New York University Press, , 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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After the war on crime [[electronic resource] ] : race, democracy, and a new reconstruction / / edited by Mary Louise Frampton, Ian Haney López, and Jonathan Simon |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
Disciplina | 364.973 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
FramptonMary Louise
Haney-LópezIan SimonJonathan |
Soggetto topico |
Crime - Government policy - United States
Crime - Political aspects - United States Criminal justice, Administration of - United States Discrimination in criminal justice administration - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
After
Crime Despite beyond dangerous declare impact inaccurate incident over rates reaches reveals statistics that this |
ISBN |
0-8147-2782-4
0-8147-2850-2 81-472-7824-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Introduction; Part I: Crime, War, and Governance; The Place of the Prison in the New Government of Poverty; America Doesn't Stop at the Rio Grande: Democracy and the War on Crime; From the New Deal to the Crime Deal; The Great Penal Experiment: Lessons for Social Justice; Part II: A War-Torn Country: Race, Community, and Politics; The Code of the Streets; The Contemporary Penal Subject(s); The Punitive City Revisited: The Transformation of Urban Social Control; Frightening Citizens and a Pedagogy of Violence; Part III: A New Reconstruction; Smart on Crime
Rebelling against the War on Low-Income, of Color, and Immigrant Communities Of Taints and Time: The Racial Origins and Effects of Florida's Felony Disenfranchisement Law; The Politics of the War against the Young; Transformative Justice and the Dismantling of Slavery's Legacy in Post-Modern America; Afterword: Strategies of Resistance; Contributors; Index |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996571867103316 |
New York, : New York University Press, c2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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After the war on crime [[electronic resource] ] : race, democracy, and a new reconstruction / / edited by Mary Louise Frampton, Ian Haney López, and Jonathan Simon |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
Disciplina | 364.973 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
FramptonMary Louise
Haney-LópezIan SimonJonathan |
Soggetto topico |
Crime - Government policy - United States
Crime - Political aspects - United States Criminal justice, Administration of - United States Discrimination in criminal justice administration - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
After
Crime Despite beyond dangerous declare impact inaccurate incident over rates reaches reveals statistics that this |
ISBN |
0-8147-2782-4
0-8147-2850-2 81-472-7824-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Introduction; Part I: Crime, War, and Governance; The Place of the Prison in the New Government of Poverty; America Doesn't Stop at the Rio Grande: Democracy and the War on Crime; From the New Deal to the Crime Deal; The Great Penal Experiment: Lessons for Social Justice; Part II: A War-Torn Country: Race, Community, and Politics; The Code of the Streets; The Contemporary Penal Subject(s); The Punitive City Revisited: The Transformation of Urban Social Control; Frightening Citizens and a Pedagogy of Violence; Part III: A New Reconstruction; Smart on Crime
Rebelling against the War on Low-Income, of Color, and Immigrant Communities Of Taints and Time: The Racial Origins and Effects of Florida's Felony Disenfranchisement Law; The Politics of the War against the Young; Transformative Justice and the Dismantling of Slavery's Legacy in Post-Modern America; Afterword: Strategies of Resistance; Contributors; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781811703321 |
New York, : New York University Press, c2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Against health [[electronic resource] ] : how health became the new morality / / edited by Jonathan M. Metzl and Anna Kirkland |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (228 pages) |
Disciplina | 362.1 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
MetzlJonathan <1964->
KirklandAnna Rutherford |
Collana | Biopolitics, medicine, technoscience, and health in the 21st century |
Soggetto topico |
Health - Moral and ethical aspects
Medical ethics Health services accessibility Social medicine |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
Against
argues assumption bodily concept good health ideological invisible monolithic norm often practices rendered that universal whose work |
ISBN |
0-8147-5963-7
0-8147-6110-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Why "Against Health"?; PART I: What Is Health, Anyway?; 2 What Is Health and How Do You Get It?; 3 Risky Bigness: On Obesity, Eating, and the Ambiguity of "Health"; 4 Against Global Health? Arbitrating Science, Non-Science, and Nonsense through Health; PART II: Seeing Health through Morality; 5 The Social Immorality of Health in the Gene Age: Race, Disability, and Inequality; 6 Fat Panic and the New Morality; 7 Against Breastfeeding (Sometimes); PART III: Making Health and Disease; 8 Pharmaceutical Propaganda
9 The Strangely Passive-Aggressive History of Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder10 Obsession: Against Mental Health; 11 Atomic Health, or How The Bomb Altered American Notions of Death; PART IV: Pleasure and Pain after Health; 12 How Much Sex Is Healthy? The Pleasures of Asexuality; 13 Be Prepared; 14 In the Name of Pain; 15 Conclusion: What Next?; About the Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458733303321 |
New York, : New York University Press, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Against health [[electronic resource] ] : how health became the new morality / / edited by Jonathan M. Metzl and Anna Kirkland |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (228 pages) |
Disciplina | 362.1 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
MetzlJonathan <1964->
KirklandAnna Rutherford |
Collana | Biopolitics, medicine, technoscience, and health in the 21st century |
Soggetto topico |
Health - Moral and ethical aspects
Medical ethics Health services accessibility Social medicine |
Soggetto non controllato |
Against
argues assumption bodily concept good health ideological invisible monolithic norm often practices rendered that universal whose work |
ISBN |
0-8147-5963-7
0-8147-6110-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Why "Against Health"?; PART I: What Is Health, Anyway?; 2 What Is Health and How Do You Get It?; 3 Risky Bigness: On Obesity, Eating, and the Ambiguity of "Health"; 4 Against Global Health? Arbitrating Science, Non-Science, and Nonsense through Health; PART II: Seeing Health through Morality; 5 The Social Immorality of Health in the Gene Age: Race, Disability, and Inequality; 6 Fat Panic and the New Morality; 7 Against Breastfeeding (Sometimes); PART III: Making Health and Disease; 8 Pharmaceutical Propaganda
9 The Strangely Passive-Aggressive History of Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder10 Obsession: Against Mental Health; 11 Atomic Health, or How The Bomb Altered American Notions of Death; PART IV: Pleasure and Pain after Health; 12 How Much Sex Is Healthy? The Pleasures of Asexuality; 13 Be Prepared; 14 In the Name of Pain; 15 Conclusion: What Next?; About the Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791678303321 |
New York, : New York University Press, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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American constitutionalism heard round the world, 1776-1989 [[electronic resource] ] : a global perspective / / George Athan Billias |
Autore | Billias George Athan <1919-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (561 p.) |
Disciplina | 346.73029 |
Soggetto topico |
Constitutional history - United States
Constitutional history Constitutional law - United States Constitutional law World politics - To 1900 World politics - 1900-1945 World politics - 1945-1989 Civilization, Modern - American influences |
Soggetto non controllato |
1989
American Billiass Western change constitutionalism during era global history important landmark major played point reached readers role story study tells that this turning view will |
ISBN |
0-8147-3901-6
1-4416-2177-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 Of Constitutions and Constitutionalisms -- 2 American Constitutionalism Defined -- 3 First Echo -- 4 Second Echo -- 5 European Interlude -- 6 Third Echo -- 7 European Interlude -- 8 Fourth Echo -- 9 Fifth Echo -- 10 Sixth Echo -- 11 Seventh Echo -- 12 Global Consciousness -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778323503321 |
Billias George Athan <1919-> | ||
New York, : New York University Press, 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Americans without law [[electronic resource] ] : the racial boundaries of citizenship / / Mark S. Weiner |
Autore | Weiner Mark Stuart |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
Disciplina | 323.17309 |
Soggetto topico |
Minorities - Government policy - United States
Minorities - Legal status, laws, etc - United States Minorities - United States - Politics and government |
Soggetto non controllato |
Argues
citizenship economic growth juridical modern modernization national nexus power practices professionalization race racialism sciences self served shows social state story that |
ISBN |
0-8147-9509-9
0-8147-8470-4 1-4356-0741-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Laws of development, laws of land -- Teutonic constitutionalism and the Spanish-American War -- The biological politics of Japanese exclusion -- Culture, personality, and racial liberalism. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778103903321 |
Weiner Mark Stuart | ||
New York, : New York University Press, c2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Becoming Bicultural : Risk, Resilience, and Latino Youth / / Paul R. Smokowski, Martica Bacallao |
Autore | Smokowski Paul R. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2011] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (254 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.800973 |
Soggetto topico |
Assimilation (Sociology) - United States
Hispanic Americans Minority youth - United States Biculturalism - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
Becoming
Drawing behind bicultural both consequences data development dynamics explores factors family immigrant individual lead light messages negative positive psychology qualitative quantitative sheds societal that youth |
ISBN |
0-8147-0879-X
0-8147-8359-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. From Melting Pot to Simmering Stew: Acculturation, Enculturation, Assimilation, and Biculturalism in American Racial Dynamics -- 2. Enculturation after Immigration: How Latino Family Systems Change and How They Stay the Same during the Diffuse, Bifurcated Stage of Acculturation Contact -- 3. From Contact to Conflict: How Assimilation Mechanisms Underpin the Exploration and Adaptation Stage in Bicultural Development -- 4. Balancing between Two Worlds: The Integration Stage of Bicultural Development -- 5. Cultural Adaptation Styles and Health: Risks of Staying Separate or Assimilating -- 6. The Benefits of Biculturalism: Savoring the Flavors in the Simmering Stew -- 7. Entre Dos Mundos/Between Two Worlds: A Bicultural Skills Training Prevention Program to Help Immigrant Families Cope with Acculturation Stress -- References -- Index -- About the Authors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791650303321 |
Smokowski Paul R. | ||
New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2011] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Black Los Angeles [[electronic resource] ] : American dreams and racial realities / / edited by Darnell Hunt and Ana-Christina Ramón |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (448 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.896/073079494 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
HuntDarnell M
RamónAna-Christina |
Soggetto topico | African Americans - California - Los Angeles |
Soggetto non controllato |
African
American Angeles Bunche Center Ralph Studies UCLA analysis black contemporary contours culmination from groundbreaking historical in-depth life presents project research that |
ISBN |
0-8147-9092-5
0-8147-7306-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Race, Space, and the Evolution of Black Los Angeles -- Chapter 2. From Central Avenue to Leimert Park -- Chapter 3. The Decline of a Black Community by the Sea -- Chapter 4. “Blowing Up” at Project Blowed -- Chapter 5. Out of the Void -- Chapter 6. Imprisoning the Family -- Chapter 7. Black and Gay in L.A. -- Chapter 8. Looking for the ’Hood and Finding Community -- Chapter 9. Playing “Ghetto” -- Chapter 10. Before and After Watts -- Chapter 11. SOLAR -- Chapter 12. Killing “Killer King” -- Chapter 13. Bass to Bass -- Chapter 14. Concerned Citizens -- Chapter 15. A Common Project for a Just Society -- Chapter 16. Reclaiming UCLA -- Bibliography -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791651303321 |
New York, : New York University Press, c2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Black Los Angeles : American dreams and racial realities / / edited by Darnell Hunt and Ana-Christina Ramón |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (448 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.896/073079494 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
HuntDarnell M
RamónAna-Christina |
Soggetto topico | African Americans - California - Los Angeles |
Soggetto non controllato |
African
American Angeles Bunche Center Ralph Studies UCLA analysis black contemporary contours culmination from groundbreaking historical in-depth life presents project research that |
ISBN |
0-8147-9092-5
0-8147-7306-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Race, Space, and the Evolution of Black Los Angeles -- Chapter 2. From Central Avenue to Leimert Park -- Chapter 3. The Decline of a Black Community by the Sea -- Chapter 4. “Blowing Up” at Project Blowed -- Chapter 5. Out of the Void -- Chapter 6. Imprisoning the Family -- Chapter 7. Black and Gay in L.A. -- Chapter 8. Looking for the ’Hood and Finding Community -- Chapter 9. Playing “Ghetto” -- Chapter 10. Before and After Watts -- Chapter 11. SOLAR -- Chapter 12. Killing “Killer King” -- Chapter 13. Bass to Bass -- Chapter 14. Concerned Citizens -- Chapter 15. A Common Project for a Just Society -- Chapter 16. Reclaiming UCLA -- Bibliography -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808602503321 |
New York, : New York University Press, c2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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