Tag: Invisibility

Britain’s Anglo-Indians The Invisibility of Assimilation


Free Download Rochelle Almeida New York University, "Britain’s Anglo-Indians: The Invisibility of Assimilation"
English | ISBN: 1498545882 | 2017 | 240 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Anglo-Indians form the human legacy created and left behind on the Indian subcontinent by European imperialism. When Independence was achieved from the British Raj in 1947, an exodus numbering an estimated 50,000 emigrated to Great Britain between 1948-62, under the terms of the British Nationality Act of 1948. But sixty odd years after their resettlement in Britain, the "First Wave" Anglo-Indian immigrant community continues to remain obscure among India’s global diaspora.

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Invisibility Studies Surveillance, Transparency and the Hidden in Contemporary Culture


Free Download Invisibility Studies: Surveillance, Transparency and the Hidden in Contemporary Culture (Cultural History and Literary Imagination) edited by Henriette Steiner, Kristin Veel
English | December 16, 2014 | ISBN: 3034309856 | True EPUB/PDF | 358 pages | 7.8/4.8 MB
Invisibility Studies explores current changes in the relationship between what we consider visible and what invisible in different areas of contemporary culture. Contributions trace how these changes make their marks on various cultural fields and investigate the cultural significance of these developments, such as transparency and privacy in urban architecture and the silent invasion of surveillance technologies into everyday life.

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Erasing Invisibility, Inequity and Social Injustice of Africans in the Diaspora and the Continent


Free Download Peter Otiato Ojiambo Omiunota N. Ukpokodu, "Erasing Invisibility, Inequity and Social Injustice of Africans in the Diaspora and the Continent"
English | ISBN: 1443894974 | 2017 | 317 pages | PDF | 1221 KB
This volume engages the reader in understanding past and contemporary critical issues in African scholarship, both in the diaspora and on the continent, that have been marginalized, unexamined, and under-researched, and proposes ways to make them visible. The book is timely as it imagines and reimagines scholarship on Africans in the diaspora and on the continent. It is bold, and authentically unpacks African immigrants individual and collective cultural, educational, social, and institutional experiences, especially in the context of US Pk-12 schools as they navigate and negotiate transnational spaces regarding identity and shifting positionalities. The editors and contributors, who are themselves African immigrants, exemplify their spirits of Sankofa as they look back to their roots in order to give back to their Motherland by fighting for the visibility, equity and social justice of Africans in the diaspora and on the continent. The book proposes critical and insightful ideas that educators, researchers, policy makers, social and human services, and community leaders will find valuable.

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