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Diversity and Community: An Interdisciplinary Reader

Philip Alperson (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-631-21946-0
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368 pages
December 2002, Wiley-Blackwell
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List of Contributors.

Preface.

Introduction: Diversity and Community: Philip Alperson (Temple University).

Part I: Community and Its Contestations:.

1. Communities and Community: Critique and Retrieval: Jean Bethke Elsthain (University of Chicago) and Christopher Beem (Johnson Foundation).

2. Community at the Margin: Crispin Sartwell (Maryland Institute College of Art).

3. Impure Communities: Maria Lugones (SUNY-Binghampton).

4. Identities: The Dynamical Dimensions of Diversity: Chuck Dyke (Temple University) and Carl Dyke (Methodist College).

5. From Village to Global Contexts: Ideas, Types, and the Making of Communities: D. A. Masolo (University of Louisville).

6. Obligation Across Generations: A Consideration in the Understanding of Community Formation: Lewis R. Gordon (Brown University).

Part II: Community, Constitutive Identities, and Resisting Subjects:.

7. Citizenship or Transgression?: Dilemmas of the US Movement for Lesbian/Gay Rights: Arlene Stein (Rutgers University).

8. Diversity, Inequality, and Community: African Americans and People of Color in the United States: J. Blaine Hudson (University of Louisville).

9. Renewing American Indian Nations: Cosmic Communities and Spiritual Autonomy: Duane Champagne (University of California at Los Angeles).

10. Nations and Nationalism: The Case of Canada/Quebec: Frank Cunningham (University of Toronto).

11. Love, Care, and Women’s Dignity: The Family as a Privileged Community: Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago).

12. Community and Society, Melancholy and Sociopathy: Osborne Wiggins (University of Louisville) and Michael A. Schwartz (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine).

Part III: Community, Culture, and Education:.

13. The Role of Art in Sustaining Communities: Marcia Muelder Eaton (University of Minnesota).

14. Images of Community in American Popular Culture: Eileen John (University of Louisville) and Nancy Potter (University of Louisville).

15. Virtual Communities: Chinatowns Made in America: Gary Y. Okihiro (Columbia University).

16. Villages, Local and Global: Observations on Computer-Mediated and Geographically Situated Communities: Samuel Oluoch Imbo (Hamline University).

17. The University as a Universe of Communities: Mary Hawkesworth (Rutgers University).

Index.

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