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The Color Of Love reveals the power of racial hierarchies to infiltrate our most intimate relationships. Delving far deeper than previous sociologists have into the black Brazilian experience, Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman examines the relationship between racialization and the emotional life of a family. Based on interviews and a sixteen-month ethnography of ten working-class Brazilian families, this provocative work sheds light on how families simultaneously resist and reproduce racial hierarchies. Examining race and gender, Hordge-Freeman illustrates the privileges of whiteness by revealing how those with “blacker” features often experience material and emotional hardships. From parental t...
This Springer Handbook provides, for the first time, a complete and consistent overview over the methods, applications, and products in the field of marine biotechnology. A large portion of the surface of the earth (ca. 70%) is covered by the oceans. More than 80% of the living organisms on the earth are found in aquatic ecosystems. The aquatic systems thus constitute a rich reservoir for various chemical materials and (bio-)chemical processes. Edited by a renowned expert with a longstanding experience, and including over 60 contributions from leading international scientists, the Springer Handbook of Marine Biotechnology is a major authoritative desk reference for everyone interested or wor...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, REFSQ 2023, which took place in Barcelona, Spain, during April 17-20, 2023. The 12 full technical design and scientific evaluation papers, 8 short research previews and vision papers, and 5 experience reports presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Requirements communication and conceptualization; NLP and machine learning for AI; RE for artificial intelligence; crowd RE; and RE in practice.
Durante muito tempo, a publicitária Fernanda Soares de Lima, de 36 anos, teve um casamento estável, porém monótono. Quando o marido morre inesperadamente, a redoma de segurança que ela ergueu em torno de si é rompida e emoções há muito tempo adormecidas vêm à tona. A principal é a lembrança da única grande paixão da sua vida, Ricardo, que Fernanda conheceu no final da adolescência e nunca mais viu desde então. Esse, porém, está longe de ser o maior problema da sua nova fase de vida. Fernanda ainda tem que lutar contra o ódio doentio da sogra, Adelina Figueroa, que arquiteta um plano diabólico para destruir a nora. A situação se agrava quando a melhor amiga de Fernanda ...
Game Studies in Brazil: Book One ins an attempt to begin mapping out the research field of videogames ins Brazil by means of cartography of knowledge. Game Studies in Brazil: Book One contains five chapters written by Brazilian researchers in the fields of education, health sciences, games studies, poetics, and literature. The chapters in this book are about projects and experiences in using games for teaching literature in public schools, and serious games for public health awareness.
This book explores the perspective of individuals, families and groups of interest in their daily strive to survive an European pursuit of empire.