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Cultural mobility and knowledge formation in the Americas
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ISBN: 3825378446 9783825378448 382536948X 9783825369484 Year: 2019 Publisher: Heidelberg

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This volume collects original contributions discussing aspects, dimensions, and major problems of cultural mobility and knowledge formation in the Americas from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective. Looking at the Americas as a site of multi-directional entanglement and interaction, the chapters highlight the non-English and non-European contexts of the United States from the 18th to the 20th century. They focus on processes of cultural hybridity resulting from the encounter of European, Native American, African, and Asian cultures in the Americas. Contributions to this volume come from the fields of history, political science, geography, literary criticism, and cultural studies. Besides investigating the intellectual construction of the Americas, the texts analyze the history of slavery and emancipation, trace African Diasporas in Colombia and Brazil, critically assess the problem of democracy in Latin America, and scrutinize phenomena of literary entanglements in the Western hemisphere.


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New Perspectives on Transatlantic Relations
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ISBN: 3825372510 9783825372514 3825347648 9783825347642 Year: 2021 Publisher: Heidelberg

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The State of Human Rights
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ISBN: 3825379345 9783825379346 3825347001 9783825347000 Year: 2020 Publisher: Heidelberg Universitätsverlag Winter

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Inequality in America
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ISBN: 3825377350 3825367894 9783825367893 9783825377359 Year: 2017 Publisher: Heidelberg Universitätsverlag Winter

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"In the United States, income inequality has increased significantly. For decades, wage growth has been especially slow for the middle class, whereas the top 10% of earners has benefitted the most from the economic upswing. The same is true for distribution of wealth. According to an analysis by the Pew Research Center, the wealth gap between America's upper-income and lower-income families has reached its highest level. There are not only disparities between regions of the United States, but also huge differences within American cities themselves that are often caused by urban governance and housing policies. All this is true for Canada and other countries of the Americas as well, but to differing degrees ... The essays collected in this book address inequality in America from a variety of perspectives, ranging from literary and cultural studies, sociology, economics, political science, history, geography, as well as museum studies"--Publisher's description.

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