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  1. Trans : Gender and Race in an Age of Unsettled Identities

    Brubaker, Rogers, 1956-
    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]

    In the summer of 2015, shortly after Caitlyn Jenner came out as transgender, the NAACP official and political activist Rachel Dolezal was "outed" by her parents as white, touching off a heated debate in the media about the fluidity of gender and race. If Jenner could legitimately identify as a woman, could Dolezal legitimately identify as black?Taking the controversial pairing of "transgender" and "transracial" as his starting point, Rogers Brubaker shows how gender and race, long understood as stable, inborn, and unambiguous, have in the past few decades opened up-in different ways and to different degrees-to the forces of change and choice. Transgender identities have moved from the margins to the mainstream with dizzying speed, and ethnoracial boundaries have blurred. Paradoxically, while sex has a much deeper biological basis than race, choosing or changing one's sex or gender is more widely accepted than choosing or changing one's race. Yet while few accepted Dolezal's claim to be black, racial identities are becoming more fluid as ancestry-increasingly understood as mixed-loses its authority over identity, and as race and ethnicity, like gender, come to be understood as something we do, not just something we have. By rethinking race and ethnicity through the multifaceted lens of the transgender experience-encompassing not just a movement from one category to another but positions between and beyond existing categories-Brubaker underscores the malleability, contingency, and arbitrariness of racial categories.At a critical time when gender and race are being reimagined and reconstructed, Trans explores fruitful new paths for thinking about identity

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  2. What Unions No Longer Do

    Rosenfeld, Jake, 1978-
    Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

    From workers' wages to presidential elections, labor unions once exerted tremendous clout in American life. In the immediate post-World War II era, one in three workers belonged to a union. The fraction now is close to one in five, and just one in ten in the private sector. The only thing big about Big Labor today is the scope of its problems. While many studies have explained the causes of this decline, What Unions No Longer Do shows the broad repercussions of labor's collapse for the American economy and polity. Organized labor was not just a minor player during the middle decades of the twentieth century, Jake Rosenfeld asserts. For generations it was the core institution fighting for economic and political equality in the United States. Unions leveraged their bargaining power to deliver benefits to workers while shaping cultural understandings of fairness in the workplace. What Unions No Longer Do details the consequences of labor's decline, including poorer working conditions, less economic assimilation for immigrants, and wage stagnation among African-Americans. In short, unions are no longer instrumental in combating inequality in our economy and our politics, resulting in a sharp decline in the prospects of American workers and their familiesWhat Unions No Longer Do shows in detail the consequences of labor's decline: curtailed advocacy for better working conditions, weakened support for immigrants' economic assimilation, and ineffectiveness in addressing wage stagnation among African-Americans. In short, unions are no longer instrumental in combating inequality in our economy and our politics, and the result is a sharp decline in the prospects of American workers and their families.

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  3. Kolumbien heute: Politik, Wirtschaft, Kultur

    Fischer, Thomas
    [Place of publication not identified] : Vervuert Verlagsgesellschaft : Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2017.

    Durch die erfolgreichen Friedensverhandlungen steht Kolumbien derzeit wieder verstärkt im Fokus des internationalen Interesses. Die über 30 Beiträge dieses Bandes analysieren nach einer landeskundlichen Einführung Aspekte aus Politik und Gesellschaft (Geschichts- und Vergangenheitspolitik, Gewalt, Frauen, Kirche und Religion, Kolumbien als internationaler Akteur), Wirtschaft (Bergbau, Drogenhandel, Tourismus) und schließlich aus dem Komplex Kultur, Bildung und Wissenschaft (Sprachenpolitik, zeitgenössische kolumbianische Literatur, Kino, Kunst und Narcocultura). Der Band bietet wissenschaftlich fundierte und aktuelle Informationen, die ein umfassendes Bild der verschiedenen Bereiche der kolumbianischen Lebenswirklichkeit vermitteln. Eine Chronologie der kolumbianischen Geschichte seit der Unabhängigkeit sowie ein Personen- und Sachregister schließen den Band ab und machen ihn zu einem hilfreichen Handbuch und Nachschlagewerk.Tjerk Brühwiller, FAZ:"[...] den Konflikt in Kolumbien verstehen will, der muss Kolumbien als Ganzes verstehen. Einen umfassenden und vielseitigen Überblick über die Lebensrealität liefert das Nachschlagewerk "Kolumbien heute [...]."Brühwiller, Tjerk: Nüchterner Blick ins zerrüttete Land. Von Kirche bis Drogenwirtschaft - ein umfassendes und aktuelles Nachschlagewerk über Kolumbien, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 15.05.2018, Politik, Seite 6.

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