Claiming Places

Claiming Places
Author: Eric C. Moore
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2020-09-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3161569857

"In this study, Eric C. Moore examines Acts of the Apostles against the backdrop of colonization in the ancient Mediterranean world. He shows how common cultural beliefs concerning the foundation of new communities shape Luke's account as well." --

Claiming My Place: Coming of Age in the Shadow of the Holocaust

Claiming My Place: Coming of Age in the Shadow of the Holocaust
Author: Planaria Price
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2018-03-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0374305293

Gucia Gomolinska grew up comfortably in Piotrkow, Poland, a devoted student, sister, daughter, and friend. Still, even in the years before World War II, she faced discrimination as a Jew--but with her ash-blond hair she was often able to pass as just another Pole. When her town was invaded by Nazis, she knew her Aryan coloring gave her an advantage, and she faced an awful choice: stay in the place she had always called home, or leave behind everything she knew to try to survive. She took on a new identity as Basia Tanska, and her journey led her directly into Nazi Germany. Planaria Price, along with Basia's daughter Helen West, tells this incredible life story directly in the first person. Claiming My Place is a stunning portrayal of bravery, love, loss, and the power of storytelling.

Claiming Place

Claiming Place
Author: Chia Youyee Vang
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2016-03-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1452950059

Countering the idea of Hmong women as victims, the contributors to this pathbreaking volume demonstrate how the prevailing scholarly emphasis on Hmong culture and men as the primary culprits of women’s subjugation perpetuates the perception of a Hmong premodern status and renders unintelligible women’s nuanced responses to patriarchal strategies of domination both in the United States and in Southeast Asia. Claiming Place expands knowledge about the Hmong lived reality while contributing to broader conversations on sexuality, diaspora, and agency. While these essays center on Hmong experiences, activism, and popular representations, they also underscore the complex gender dynamics between women and men and address the wider concerns of gendered status of the Hmong in historical and contemporary contexts, including deeply embedded notions around issues of masculinity. Organized to highlight themes of history, memory, war, migration, sexuality, selfhood, and belonging, this book moves beyond a critique of Hmong patriarchy to argue that Hmong women have been and continue to be active agents not only in challenging oppressive societal practices within hierarchies of power but also in creating alternative forms of belonging. Contributors: Geraldine Craig, Kansas State U; Leena N. Her, Santa Rosa Junior College; Julie Keown-Bomar, U of Wisconsin–Extension; Mai Na M. Lee, U of Minnesota; Prasit Leepreecha, Chiang Mai U; Aline Lo, Allegheny College; Kong Pha; Louisa Schein, Rutgers U; Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, U of Connecticut; Bruce Thao; Ka Vang, U of Wisconsin–Eau Claire.

Claiming the City

Claiming the City
Author: Mary Lethert Wingerd
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780801488856

The author brings together the voices of citizens and workers and the power dynamics of civic leaders including James J. Hill and Archbishop John Ireland.

Claiming Place

Claiming Place
Author: Marion Kilson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2000-11-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0313065071

Born in the 1960s, the middle-class Biracial Americans of this study are part of a transitional cohort between the hidden biracial generations of the past and the visible blended generations of the future. As individuals, they have variously dealt with their ambiguous status in American society; as a generation, they share common existential realities in relation to White culture. During the last decade of the 20th century public awareness of mixed race Americans increased significantly, in no small part because there has been a substantial increase in interracial marriages and offspring since 1960. This study, based on ethnographic interviews, provides an historical overview of the study of Biracial Americans in the social sciences, a sociological profile of project participants, sociocultural discussions of family and race as well as racial identity choices, and examinations of racial realities in adult lives and of recurrent systemic and personal life themes. The textual part of the book demonstrates the diversity of perception and experience regarding race and identity of these biracial young adults. The Epilogue not only reviews major findings pertaining to this transitional generation of Biracial Americans but discusses biraciality and the deconstruction of race in contemporary American society. An extensive bibliography of popular and scholarly sources concludes the book.

Claiming Your Place at the Fire

Claiming Your Place at the Fire
Author: Richard J. Leider
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2004-09-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 157675877X

Presents a different paradigm of successful aging for men and women entering into and moving through the second half of their lives. Through an exploration of key concepts like purpose and renewal, and by drawing upon the timeless metaphor of fire, this book enables readers to become what the authors call "new elders. & quot.

Claiming Your Place at the Fire

Claiming Your Place at the Fire
Author: Richard Leider
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2011-08-18
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1459626001

From the authors of the bestselling Repacking Your Bags and Whistle While You Work comes a new paradigm of successful aging for men and women entering into the second half of their lives....

Claiming Her Place in Congress

Claiming Her Place in Congress
Author: Katherine H. Adams
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2019-07-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1476677182

 The fall of 2018 saw an unprecedented number of women elected to Congress, changing estimates of how long it might take to achieve equal representation. For the first time, women candidates used techniques honed by America's political families, which have helped women enter politics since 1916. Drawing on extensive research and conversations with successful women politicians, this book offers a history of the political opportunities provided through familial connections. Family networks have a long history of enabling women to run for political office. There is much for the latest group of candidates to emulate.