Tell Me Who You Are

2021-02-02
Tell Me Who You Are

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  • Author: Winona Guo
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • ISBN: 059333017X
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 401

An eye-opening exploration of race in America In this deeply inspiring book, Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi recount their experiences talking to people from all walks of life about race and identity on a cross-country tour of America. Spurred by the realization that they had nearly completed high school without hearing any substantive discussion about racism in school, the two young women deferred college admission for a year to collect first-person accounts of how racism plays out in this country every day--and often in unexpected ways. In Tell Me Who You Are, Guo and Vulchi reveal the lines that separate us based on race or other perceived differences and how telling our stories--and listening deeply to the stories of others--are the first and most crucial steps we can take towards negating racial inequity in our culture. Featuring interviews with over 150 Americans accompanied by their photographs, this intimate toolkit also offers a deep examination of the seeds of racism and strategies for effecting change. This groundbreaking book will inspire readers to join Guo and Vulchi in imagining an America in which we can fully understand and appreciate who we are.

Bookishness

2020
Bookishness

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  • Author: Jessica Pressman
  • Publisher: Literature Now
  • ISBN: 9780231195133
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 288

Jessica Pressman explores the rise of "bookishness" as an identity and an aesthetic strategy that proliferates from store-window décor to experimental writing. Ranging from literature to kitsch objects, stop-motion animation films to book design, she considers the multivalent meanings of books in contemporary culture.

The Pandemic Reader

2020-12-31
The Pandemic Reader

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  • Author: Mako Fitts Ward
  • Publisher: Dio Press Incorporated
  • ISBN: 9781645041184
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 298

Pandemic Pedagogies invites readers to consider how the COVID-19 pandemic has radically altered every facet of social life. From education and communication to structures of government, health systems, social and recreational services, the justice system, and the global economy, educators are forced to consider new ways of teaching and learning in the midst of survival. Drawing on the public writing of scholars, journalists, health professionals, public intellectuals, and activists, the essays in this collection explore the transformations and consequences of pandemics, along with evidence-based responses, critical analysis, and sociohistorical framing, all necessary tools for situating the disparate impacts and contributing to public debates. In nine sections, the book addresses grammars of negation, the pandemic of racism, investments in coronavirus capitalism, the politics of exposure and protection, the politics of space, ecologies of justice, crises in leadership, narratives of resilience, and tools and strategies for teaching about the pandemic. Pandemic Pedagogies offers critical perspectives on the sweeping injustices intensified by COVID-19 and the resurgence of racialized state violence. It offers context, data, viewpoints and solutions to collectively teach, learn, and thrive. It takes up abolitionist teaching methodologies-focusing not only on the many ways the pandemic has exacerbated injustice, but also on how individuals and communities are healing, expressing vulnerability, and building community-to amplify intersectional racial justice strategies across learning spaces. This collection is a pedagogical intervention to locate how individuals and communities propel us forward through the multiple pandemics of 2020.

Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic

2022-11-17
Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic

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  • Author: Ben Davies
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0192857681
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 214

Drawing on an ethnographic study of novel readers in Denmark and the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic, this book provides a snapshot of a phenomenal moment in modern history. The ethnographic approach shows what no historical account of books published during the pandemic will be able to capture, namely the movement of readers between new purchases and books long kept in their collections. The book follows readers who have tuned into novels about plague, apocalypse, and racial violence, but also readers whose taste for older novels, and for re-reading novels they knew earlier in their lives, has grown. Alternating between chapters that analyse single texts that were popular (Albert Camus's The Plague, Ali Smith's Summer, Charlotte Brönte's Jane Eyre) and others that describe clusters of, for example, dystopian fiction and nature writing, this work brings out the diverse quality of the Covid-19 bookshelf. Time is of central importance to this study, both in terms of the time of lockdown and the temporality of reading itself within this wider disrupted sense of time. By exploring these varied experiences, this book investigates the larger question of how the consumption of novels depends on and shapes people's experience of non-work time, providing a specific lens through which to examine the phenomenology of reading more generally. This timely work also negotiates debates in the study of reading that distinguish theoretically between critical reading and reading for pleasure, between professional and lay reading. All sides of the sociological and literary debate must be brought to bear in understanding what readers tell us about what novels have meant to them in this complex historical moment.

Reading Habits in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Reading Habits in the COVID-19 Pandemic

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  • Author: Abigail Boucher
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3031527534
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 151

The Covid-19 Reader

2020-12-30
The Covid-19 Reader

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  • Author: William C. Cockerham
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1000332608
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 251

This reader offers some of the most important writing to date from the science of COVID-19 and what science says about its spread and social implications. The readings have been carefully selected, introduced, and interpreted for an introductory or graduate student readership by a distinguished medical sociology and political science team. While some of the early science was inaccurate, lacking sufficient data, or otherwise incomplete, the author team has selected the most important and reliable early work for teachers and students in courses on medical sociology, public health, nursing, infectious diseases, epidemiology, anthropology of medicine, sociology of health and illness, social aspects of medicine, comparative health systems, health policy and management, health behaviors, and community health. Global in scope, the book tells the story of what happened and how COVID-19 was dealt with. Much of this material is in clinical journals, normally not considered in the social sciences, which are nonetheless informative and authoritative for student and faculty readers. Their selection and interpretation for students makes this concise reader an essential teaching source about COVID-19. An accompanying online resource on the book’s Routledge web page will update and evolve by providing links to new readings as the science develops.

Outbreaks

2021
Outbreaks

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  • Author: Madhu Singh
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9789382178354
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :

What Is COVID-19? (Engaging Readers, Level 4)

2020-04-28
What Is COVID-19? (Engaging Readers, Level 4)

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  • Author: Alexis Roumanis
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781774372722
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 48

COVID-19 has disrupted the lives of children around the world. In this Level 4 reader, children will learn how COVID-19 spreads, and how to stop the spread of the virus. They will also learn how their actions are helping to keep hospitals from getting too busy. Included is a step-by-step guide on how children can wash their hands to kill a virus.

Life During the Coronavirus Pandemic

2020-08-03
Life During the Coronavirus Pandemic

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  • Author: Audrey M Virges
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781951300128
  • Category : Poetry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 104

This book is a collection of poems that tells about life during the pandemic. It tells about the many challenges that were brought about by the COVID-19 virus. The reader will enjoy reading this book because the poems are so heartfelt. The reader will also be reminded of how quickly a pandemic can change the world.

Covidslayers

2020-11-18
Covidslayers

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  • Author: Mba Mohan, MD
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 180

COVIDSLAYERS is a must read for every American and all who have been directly or indirectly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. COVIDSLAYERS brings to the surface the heroism and professionalism of doctors, nurses, and other healthcare personnel - the only source of inspiration during this pandemic. It depicts how they went above and beyond the call of duty in the face of adversity for their fellow Americans. The book is inspired by stories, events, and people that influence American lives everyday but are lost in the maze and cacophony of the superficial and make-believe. It brings you face-to-face with the stoicism and resilience of healthcare warriors, the courage and brilliance of Americans in white coats and scrubs, and their compassion and sacrifice in the face of anguish and pain which is raw and difficult to ignore. COVIDSLAYERS portrays triumph of good over evil. The book is a story of the war against the COVID-19 pandemic from the frontlines and from war rooms. It is a unique perspective from a practicing physician and a physician leader - and those of his colleagues at various hospitals and medical practices. COVIDSLAYERS provides to the reader a firsthand account from the inside, taking the reader for a thrilling and emotional ride that is sure to challenge the reader's sensibilities. Devoid of excessive medical jargon, the fast pace of this hard to put down quick read is maintained by the author's deft use of simple, yet pointed language to narrate the tale, toll, and trajectory of the pandemic. COVIDSLAYERS takes the reader on an emotional roller-coaster ride that no one would expect from a book on a pandemic or healthcare. This apolitical book also talks about how the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the weaknesses of the U.S. healthcare system. Did the U.S. healthcare system fail its fearless healthcare warriors? Did the healthcare system fail Americans? The book shows how a bloated healthcare administration has incapacitated a healthcare system that has been the envy of the world. The pandemic is raging, especially in the U.S. Will the second surge be worse than the first surge? Will there be a third surge? With more than 240,000 Americans dead in just 9 months of this pandemic, will we allow more American lives to be devoured by this pandemic? Are we going to succumb or surrender or are we going to rise together as Americans and defeat this virus? COVIDSLAYERS provides and explains strategies to contain and defeat this virus - some of them that are tried and proven, some of them are innovative. It makes clear to the reader what needs to be done to prevent the virus from taking over our lives and our livelihoods.