Resultados para "Me" en Sociología

Historias sobre despedidas, lo que sea que eso pueda significar para cada uno de los autores.

UMA ANÁLISE CRÍTICA E NECESSÁRIA SOBRE RAÇA, PODER E IDENTIDADE NO BRASILEscrito pela intelectual Bárbara Carine, ganhadora do Jabuti de Educação em 2024, Raça social é um livro que contribui para os debates crescentes acerca da identidade racial brasileira, a partir do acúmulo...

Many bemoan the decline of the church. We hear a steady stream of reports about how droves of people, especially younger generations, are abandoning Christianity. But new research shows that unchurched Americans are surprisingly more receptive and open to the Christian faith than is commonly assumed. Researcher and practitioner Rick Richardson unveils the findings of the Billy Graham Center Institute's groundbreaking studies on the unchurched.

Labels, Labels Labels! They can be helpful when shopping for clothes and food, but on people can be a little restrictive. Given to us by society, given to us by family, or even social media - what do any of them actually mean? And how far do they go in defining who we really are? Two black British millennials, Lady T and Tobi Rachel, explore labels and identity in conversation with someone they’ve admired from afar for years. Adjoa Andoh is a star of stage and screen.

Black Panther and Cuban exile, Assata Shakur, has inspired multiple generations of radical protest, including our contemporary Black Lives Matter movement. Drawing its title from one of America’s foremost revolutionaries, this collection of thought-provoking essays by award-winning Panther scholar Donna Murch explores how social protest is challenging our current system of state violence and mass incarceration. Assata Taught Me offers a fresh and much-needed historical perspective on the fifty years since the founding of the Black Panther Party.

What happens when Boomers and Gen Z finally sit at the same table, only to realise they've been speaking different languages all along?

Caliph Washington's life was never supposed to matter. As a Black teenager from the vice-ridden city of Bessemer, Alabama, Washington was wrongfully convicted of killing an Alabama policeman in 1957. Sentenced to death, he came within minutes of the electric chair - nearly a dozen times. A Kafka-esque legal odyssey in which Washington's original conviction was overturned three times before he was finally released in 1972, his story is the kind that pervades the history of American justice.

La nuova serie di Bigiotteria allarga lo sguardo sulle giovani generazioni: insieme a Gianluca Nicoletti ci sarà anche suo figlio Filippo. Ogni settimana parleranno di studi, sogni e aspirazioni, disegneranno scenari utopici e si scambieranno opinioni su come è cambiato il mondo. E alla fine verrà da chiedersi: chi dei due è l'adulto?

It is easy to be depressed if you live in a neighborhood that has few supportive resources available or is marred by gun violence. We are able to diagnose people with depression, but how does one heal a neighborhood? This City Is Killing Me brings policy and psychology together. Through case studies, Jonathan Foiles opens up his therapy door to allow us to overhear the stories of individual poor Chicagoans. Through statistics and the example of Chicago, he teaches us how policy decisions have contributed to these individuals’ suffering.

Does God really send people to hell? Doesn't science disprove Christianity? Why are there so many hypocrites in the church? Isn't the Bible full of errors? Cliffe Knechtle has been handling these and other tough questions everywhere he goes for years. In Give Me an Answer, Knechtle answers forty...

The promises of the Christian gospel are never more precious or more beautiful than in the context of death and burial. And yet current burial practices in Western society are archaic and impersonal. They fail to confront us with the reality of death, and they make it harder to process death or to grieve properly.

Is white privilege in the United States creating another slave "caste" with the the War on Drugs by targeting only people of color?Drug war and prison expert Glenn Langohr says no. He illustrates that drug addiction is colorblind. Using his life in and out of prison as a meth dealer, Glenn outlines how political "tough on crime" platforms and a 99% conviction rate have more to do with mass incarceration.

When Stephanie Kiser moves to New York City after college to pursue a career in writing, she quickly learns that her entry-level salary won't cover the cost of living. But there is one in-demand job that pays enough to allow Stephanie to stay in the city: nannying for the 1%. Desperate to escape the poverty of her own childhood, Stephanie falls into a job that hijacks her life for the next seven years: a glorified personal assistant to toddlers on Manhattan's Upper East Side.

Tad Friend's family is nothing if not illustrious: his father was president of Swarthmore College, and at Smith his mother came in second in a poetry contest judged by W. H. Auden -- to Sylvia Plath. For centuries, Wasps like his ancestors dominated American life. But then, in the '60s, their fortunes began to fall. As a young man, Friend noticed that his family tree, for all its glories, was full of alcoholics, depressives, and reckless eccentrics.

Alisado. Estigmatizado. «Domado». Celebrado. Borrado. Gestionado. Apropiado. Siempre incomprendido. El pelo negro nunca es «solo pelo». Este libro trata de por qué el cabello negro es importante y de cómo puede considerarse un modelo de descolonización. A lo largo de una serie de ensayos irónicos e informados, Emma Dabiri nos lleva desde el África precolonial, pasando por el Renacimiento de Harlem, el Black Power y hasta el actual movimiento del pelo natural, la apropiación cultural y más allá.

Brought to you by Penguin. LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION What if you dared to want more – from love, from life, from yourself? Deepa Paul rises from her boyfriend’s bed in the early hours of dawn. She gets dressed, slips away with a kiss and cycles home, where she is...

Texas businessman Mike Fechner had it all. Money. Investments. Prestige. Until he did the unthinkable. He sold his company and poured his life's earnings into a ministry for the poor. With a strong faith in God at his core, this millionaire turned missionary envisioned a long future serving the urban Dallas poor and the people of poverty-stricken Africa.

Me and White Supremacy became one of the most talked about books of 2020. It isn't just an audiobook that you listen to, it is an audiobook that you do, and it has the power to make you question the world you live in whilst giving you the tools to do something to change it. In this young-adult edition, Layla has completely reworked the original to address listeners of 11 and above, and of all races, to help them explore and better understand racism. 

In Cry Me a River, acclaimed journalist Margaret Simons takes a trip through the Basin, all the way from Queensland to South Australia. She shows that its plight is environmental but also economic, and enmeshed in ideology and identity. Her essay is both a portrait of the Murray–Darling Basin and an explanation of its woes. It looks at rural Australia and the failure of politics over decades to meet the needs of communities forced to bear the heaviest burden of change.

White supremacy is a violent system of oppression that harms Black, Indigenous and People of Colour, and if you are a person who holds white privilege, then you are complicit in upholding that harm, whether you realise it or not. And if you are person who holds white privilege, the question you should be asking isn't whether or not this is true, but rather, what are you going to do about it?