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"Published in conjunction with the University of the Basque Country."
Racist and xenophobic hate against Asian Americans in the midst of the COVID pandemic has been a significant threat to Asian Americans’ health – stemming from a deeply rooted Yellow Peril ideology, which racializes Asians as a threat to United States and Western culture including re-imagining Asians as a diseased public health threat. Studies have documented that Asian Americans who have experienced anti-Asian racism during the pandemic report that they are more concerned about the racism than the pandemic itself, and nearly one in five Asian Americans who experienced racism display racial trauma – the psychological and emotional harm caused by racism.
This collection of essays introduces multiple social theories through discussions of ideas across national borders. In each of the nine sections, the first chapter introduces a theory in a context outside of the United States. The second chapter then responds to the first by refocusing the discussion inside the United States. It has long been understood that it is difficult to perceive one's own context as contingent on culture and history, thus, exploring social phenomena in a different context assists in perceiving the dynamics at play. Ultimately, though, social theory should be used to analyze one's own environment and understand how class, race, gender, sexuality, religion, etc., inform one's own culture. Examining Social Theory: Crossing Borders/ Reflecting Back brings together diverse perspectives on similarities and differences across borders and cultures, and provides a structure in which they juxtapose, align, contrast, and reverberate - the better for us to study, discuss, and understand.
Afirman los coordinadores de este libro que vivimos en un mundo fragmentado y neonómada en el que todas las cosas –y la educación en lugar privilegiado– cambian con extrema rapidez. Así pues, a un colectivo como el de los profesionales de la Teoría y la Historia de la Educación compete analizar –una y otra vez– la naturaleza de la educación, que constituye una de las dimensiones esenciales del quehacer humano. En la década de 1970, las discusiones epistemológicas emplearon mucha tinta en el ámbito de la educación. A la tradicional Pedagogía implantada en España a comienzos del siglo XX bajo el signo de la filosofía, siguieron nuevos planteamientos y, junto a ellos, nueva...
The newest volume of the benchmark bibliography of Latin American studies.