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Diversity and Community: An Interdisciplinary Reader is a collection of newly-commissioned essays that explore the notion of community in its many theoretical, practical, and cultural manifestations. The book examines the nature of community, the relation of individual and group identity to communit...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Alperson, Philip, 1946-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2002.
Subjects:
Communities > Philosophy.
Multiculturalism.
Identity (Psychology)
Social structure.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Communities and community: critique and retrieval / Jean Bethke Elshtain and Christopher Beem
  • Community at the margin / Crispin Sartwell
  • Impure communities / Maria Lugones
  • Identities: the dynamical dimensions of diversity / Chuck Dyke and Carl Dyke
  • From village to global contexts: ideas, types, and the making of communitites / D.A. Masolo
  • Obligations across generations: a consideration in the understanding of community formation / Lewis R. Gordon
  • Citizenship or transgression?: dilemmas of the US movement for lesbian/gay rights / Arlene Stein
  • Diversity, inequality, and community: African Americans and people of color in the United States / J. Blaine Hudson
  • Renewing American Indian nations: cosmic communities and spiritual autonomy / Duane Champagne
  • Nations and nationalism: the case of Canada/Quebec / Frank Cunningham
  • Love, care, and women's dignity: the family as a privileged community / Martha Nussbaum
  • Community and society, melancholy and sociopathy / Osborne Wiggins and Michael A. Schwartz
  • The role of art in sustaining communities / Marcia Muelder Eaton
  • Images of community in American popular culture / Eileen John and Nancy Potter
  • Virtual communities: Chinatowns made in America / Gary Y. Okihiro
  • Villages, local and global: observations on computer-mediated and geographically situated communities / Samuel Oluoch Imbo
  • The university as a universe of communities / Mary Hawkesworth.