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  • The Oppositional Culture Theory

    by Paul C. Mocombe, Carol Tomlin ...
    Mocombe and Tomlin explore the black/white achievement gap in America and Great Britain, gaining understanding through black bourgeois living and the labeled pathologies of the black underclass. Within the class dualism of capitalist social relations, blacks throughout the Diaspora attempt to exist in the world. Furthermore, blacks must construct their identities and be in the world by choosing ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Language, Literacy, and Pedagogy in Postindustrial Societies

    The Case of Black Academic Underachievement

    by Paul C. Mocombe, Carol Tomlin ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    In postindustrial economies such as the United States and Great Britain, the black/white achievement gap is perpetuated by an emphasis on language and language skills, with which black American and black British-Caribbean youths often struggle. This work analyzes the nature of educational pedagogy in the contemporary capitalist world-system under American hegemony. Mocombe and Tomlin interpret the ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Race and Class Distinctions Within Black Communities

    A Racial-Caste-in-Class

    Edited by Paul Camy Mocombe, Carol Tomlin, Cecile Wright ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity
    This book offers both a philosophical and sociological model for understanding the constitution of identity in general, and black social identity in particular, without reverting to either a social or racial deterministic view of identity construction. Using a variant of structuration theory (phenomenological structuralism) this work, against contemporary postmodern and post-structural theories, ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Understanding and Managing Sophisticated and Everyday Racism

    Implications for Education and Work

    by Victoria Showunmi, Carol Tomlin ...
    Series series Race and Education in the Twenty-First Century
    Sophisticated Racism: Understanding and Managing the Complexity of Everyday Racism adopts a fresh approach to the study of racism. Victoria Showunmi and Carol Tomlin identify the prevalence of sophisticated racism and explore how it manifests itself in society, particularly in the workplace.The authors narrate examples of everyday racism from the lived experiences of Black women. They take the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Jesus and the Streets

    The Loci of Causality for the Intra-Racial Gender Academic Achievement Gap in Black Urban America and the United Kingdom

    by Paul C. Mocombe, Carol Tomlin, Victoria Showunmi ...
    Against John Ogbu’s oppositional culture theory and Claude Steele’s disidentification hypothesis, Jesus and the Streets offers a more appropriate structural Marxian hermeneutical framework for contextualizing, conceptualizing, and evaluating the locus of causality for the black male/female intra-racial gender academic achievement gap in the United States of America and the United Kingdom. Positing ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The African-Americanization of the Black Diaspora in Globalization or the Contemporary Capitalist World-System

    by Paul C. Mocombe, Carol Tomlin, Christine Callender ...
    This work sets forth the argument that in the age of (neoliberal) globalization, black people around the world are ever-so slowly becoming “African-Americanized”. They are integrated and embourgeoised in the racial-class dialectic of black America by the material and ideological influences of the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism as promulgated throughout the diaspora by two social ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

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  • French Language Resources

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  • Democracy at Work

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    Homeless Families in America

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