Multicultural & Multiethnic

This report presents results of a follow-up survey of Federal Emergency Management Agency employees on workplace harassment and discrimination, employee reporting experiences, and workplace climate. About one in five employees experienced at least one gender-based/sexual or race/ethnicity-based civil rights violation in the year preceding the survey, a substantial decline from 2019 levels.

This volume is a pause, an attempt to create a cartography of the ever-shifting and ever-changing process of métissagebetween Blackness, Indigeneity and Hip-Hop. In essence, the volume is an ode to Hip-Hop, a gesture of love and an acknowledgement of that beautiful circle in and around which Blackness and Indigeneity meet by the grace of Hip-Hop. In and around that circle, Hip-Hop emerges as a site of identification and investment; that is, how and why Indigenous and Black youth are investing so heavily in Hip-Hop. As forms of worlding, Hip-Hop encodes processes and practices within the spoken words, the arrangement of bodies and beats- to choreograph consent- a practice inherent in the cypher. The volume brings innovative criticality to the intersections of Hip-Hop, Blackness and Indigeneity. These intersections are rarely explored and this volume is a rare attempt to explore how and why Hip-Hop emerges as a site of identification and investment for Black and Indigenous people, especially the young, as they journey in their social, historical and political struggle. WORD!

Bikulturalität ist für immer mehr Menschen in westlichen Ländern ein zentraler Teil ihres Alltags. Bikulturalität: Lost in Cultures? ist ein unverzichtbarer Beitrag zum tieferen Verständnis dieses Lebens in zwei Kulturen. Karin Schreiner geht der Frage nach, welche Auswirkungen die Sozialisierung in zwei Kulturen auf die Identität einer Person hat. Wie kann sie beide Kulturen in ihrer Identität in Einklang bringen? Wie erfolgt die Entwicklung von Bikulturalität, um ein kohärentes und konsistentes Ich im Spannungsfeld beider Kulturen auszubilden? Im Zentrum stehen Gespräche mit knapp 50 bikulturellen Personen, die einen Einblick geben, welche Wege sie gingen und gehen, um ihre beiden Kulturen in Einklang zu bringen und ihre bikulturelle Identität zu entwickeln. Ihre Interviews bringt die Autorin mit einer umfangreichen Recherche in den Bereichen Psychologie, Sozialpsychologie und Sozialanthropologie zusammen. So eröffnet sich auch ein Blick auf den gesellschaftlichen Rahmen des individuellen Aushandlungsprozesses, den ein weites Spannungsfeld zwischen kultureller Zugehörigkeit und sozialer Abgrenzung, Diskriminierung, globaler Mobilität und kulturellen Anpassungsprozessen beeinflusst. Ebenso wird der Umgang mit Mehrsprachigkeit ausführlich in den Gesprächen thematisiert, zeigt sie sich doch als untrennbar mit Bikulturalität verbunden.Deutlich wird, dass der bikulturelle Hintergrund von Menschen ein großer Mehrwert ist: Mit ihrem verinnerlichten Wissen aus verschiedenen Kulturen und Kenntnissen in meist zwei oder sogar mehr Sprachen können bikulturelle Menschen in besonderem Ausmaß Brückenbauer*innen zwischen Kulturen sein. Im gesellschaftlichen und beruflichen Miteinander stellen diese Fähigkeiten ein wichtiges, ja unverzichtbares Potenzial dar. Bikulturalität erweist sich so als zukunftsweisende Ressource für Individuen und die Gesellschaft.

Many of us think we know the American South. We can rattle off a list of signifiers: the Civil War, Gone with the Wind, the Ku Klux Klan, plantations, football, Jim Crow, slavery. But the idiosyncrasies, dispositions, and habits of the region are stranger and more complex than much of the country tends to acknowledge. In South to America, Imani Perry shows that the meaning of American is inextricably linked with the South, and that our understanding of its history and culture is the key to understanding the nation as a whole.<BR><BR>This is the story of a Black woman and native Alabaman returning to the region she has always called home and considering it with fresh eyes. Her journey is full of detours, deep dives, and surprising encounters with places and people. She renders Southerners from all walks of life with sensitivity and honesty, sharing her thoughts about a troubling history and the ritual humiliations and joys that characterise so much of Southern life.<BR><BR>Weaving together stories of immigrant communities, contemporary artists, exploitative opportunists, enslaved peoples, unsung heroes, her own ancestors, and her lived experiences, Perry crafts a tapestry unlike any other. With uncommon insight and breathtaking clarity, South to America shows that in order to envision a more humane future for the United States, we must shift our focus below the Mason-Dixon Line.

A graphic memoir-in-essays examining the in-betweenness of being mixed-race and the cultural confrontations inherent to forging one's identity <BR><BR>Who are you? What are you? And how does it feel to be you? Leise Hook was asked these intrusive questions so many times growing up that they haunted her like ghosts. Born to a Chinese mother and white American father, and growing up in Michigan, Tokyo, and Virginia, Leise Hook was never sure where she fit in. More white passing than her Chinese friends and family, but with the Mandarin skills of a native speaker, she was constantly exceeding some expectations while failing to meet others. From moving to Beijing, to dying her hair blonde, to exploring self portraiture, Hook struggles to figure out who she is and where she belongs.<BR><BR>In the vein of Cathy Park Hong and Gene Luen Yang, Hook's graphic memoir-in-essays rendered via her signature, award-winning style, explores what it means to come of age as a mixed-race woman, forging a singular identity in a world intent on putting her into ill-fitting boxes.

How do politicians and teachers perceive the role of ethnic and religious diversity in education? Drawing on a qualitative vertical case study of Berlin's secondary school ethics classrooms, this book argues that two distinct logics of diversity - one inclusive, one exclusive - prevail in political and educational spaces. These competing logics shape pedagogical practices in both diverse and non-diverse classrooms, ultimately contributing to the devaluation and partial exclusion of diversity-related content from the curriculum.

An imaginative retelling of London’s history, framed through the experiences of Indigenous travelers who came to the city over the course of more than five centuries<BR>  <BR>“Thrush has certainly offered a powerful corrective to the usual geographies imagined for Indigenous people in the past, as well as a new layer to the palimpsest history of Britain’s imperial capital.”—Kate Fullagar, William and Mary Quarterly<BR>  <BR> London is famed both as the ancient center of a former empire and as a modern metropolis of bewildering complexity and diversity. In Indigenous London, historian Coll Thrush offers an imaginative vision of the city’s past crafted from an almost entirely new perspective: that of Indigenous children, women, and men who traveled there, willingly or otherwise, from territories that became Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the United States, beginning in the sixteenth century. They included captives and diplomats, missionaries and shamans, poets and performers. Some, like the Powhatan noblewoman Pocahontas, are familiar; others, like an Odawa boy held as a prisoner of war, have almost been lost to history. In drawing together their stories and their diverse experiences with a changing urban culture, Thrush also illustrates how London learned to be a global, imperial city and how Indigenous people were central to that process.

Even before we get to introduce ourselves by name, our hair has already started to tell stories about who we are, where we are from and where we are at. Our hair is tangled up in the interplay of race, gender, class, nationality, sexuality, power and beauty. It is an avid storyteller and a consummate performer - whether we like it or not. If our hair could talk, what stories would it tell about us?<BR><BR>(Dis)entangled delves into the intricate and deeply personal relationship between Black individuals and their hair, exploring - through a collection of diverse experiences - the profound significance of hair as a conduit for self-expression, resilience, and collective memory within communities around the world. Each story illuminates the complex tapestry of experiences surrounding Black hair, shedding light on its intersections with gender, race and identity.<BR><BR>Through the voices of those who have walked this textured path, the book ultimately seeks to empower readers to embrace their own unique journey of self-discovery, one strand at a time.

From award-winning poet, educator, artist and 2026 Booker Prize judge, a groundbreaking memoir about family, identity, history and language. 'A big-hearted, transformative memoir' New York Times 'A quiet revolution' Irish Times'Searing . . . often heart-rending' GuardianRaymond Antrobus was diagnosed as deaf at the age of six. He discovered he had missing sounds - bird calls, whistles, kettles, alarms. Teachers thought he was slow and disruptive, some didn't believe he was deaf at all. The Quiet Ear tells his story - from childhood to fatherhood - and the stories of other D/deaf cultural figures, from painters to silent film stars, poets to performers - the inspiring models of D/deaf creativity Antrobus did not have growing up. Told with the electrifying prose of a poet, this groundbreaking and moving memoir explores family, identity, history and language, and what it means to be in a world saturated with noise.A TIME BOOK OF THE YEAR'Should force readers to pause and reflect' Independent'Wise, intimate and questing' Telegraph 'Read this book' Lemn Sissay 'An essential education' Safiya Sinclair 'Important, honest, eye-opening and beautifully written' Bernardine Evaristo 'A must read' Rose Ayling-Ellis 'A modern classic' Roger Robinson 'Changed the way I will move through the world' Clint Smith

Beyond Mount Kailash, the debut novel of Mitya New, follows a moving journey of family entanglements, spiritual growth, and the power of adoption. <BR>Maria has always suffered under the pressure of her domineering German family and her strict unloving mother, who hides from her own Nazi family background and seeks social acceptance. Pushed to the breaking point, Maria escapes to Hong Kong, where she finds freedom as she discovers a foreign culture. Yet the desire for her mother’s approval remains ever-present. In India, Maria and her husband decide to adopt a local girl. With her adopted daughter, Maria experiences the maternal love that she never received herself. When Maria’s mother opposes the adoption, leaving her torn on what to do, she retreats to an Indian ashram. In this moment of despair, she is persuaded to undertake a pilgrimage around the sacred Mount Kailash in Tibet. There, through selflessness and compassion, Maria ultimately finds the strength she has sought.  With rich storytelling and strong themes of familial conflict, spiritual growth, and the power of love through adoption, Beyond Mount Kailash invites readers on a transformative journey to discover how love transcends the boundaries of family and culture 

America Bleed A Lot is a collection of true accounts of unprovoked black on white violence as told by the victims themselves in their own words.

'A brilliantly readable and insightful book.' Mark Kermode, Observer'Deftly, delightfully, yet inexorably, Ellen E Jones shows us exactly what's wrong with the world as we usually see it on screen.

A collection of extraordinary 19th-century portraits that radically shifts our understanding of the presence and identities of the Black subject in Victorian Britain. These striking studio portraits, curated and brought together following ten years of research championed by Autograph, constitute the most comprehensive collection of 19th-century photography depicting the Black subject in the Victorian era, including some of the earliest known images of Black people photographed in Britain. The historically marginalized lives of both ordinary and prominent Black figures of African, Afro-Caribbean, South Asian and mixed heritage are seen through a prism of curatorial advocacy and experimental scholarly assemblage. Black Chronicles features high quality reproductions of plate negatives, cartes de visite and cabinet cards, many of which were buried deep in various private and public archives including the Hulton Archive's remarkable London Stereoscopic Company collection, unseen for decades. These photographs are linked with imperial and colonial narratives through newly commissioned essays and rare lecture transcripts, in-conversation and text interventions by Caroline Bressey, Henry Louis Gates Jr, Paul Gilroy, Stuart Hall, M. Neelika Jayawardane, Lola Jaye, Renée Mussai and Val Wilmer, and an afterword by Mark Sealy. Built upon groundbreaking, in-depth new research, Black Chronicles opens up photographic archives to expand and enrich photography's complex cultural histories and subjectivities, offering an essential insight into the visual politics of race, representation and difference in the Victorian era by addressing this crucial missing chapter. Introduction and texts by Renée Musai, Foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Text by Paul Gilroy, Text by Stuart Hall, Text by Caroline Bressey, Text by Lola Jaye, Text by M. Neelika Jayawardane, Afterword by Mark Sealy, Text by Val Wilmer Published by Thames & Hudson in partnership with Autograph.

Die beliebte Moderatorin über ihre zweite HeimatDer Libanon ist ein kleines Land voller Widersprüche: pulsierend, lebenslustig und gute Gerüche überall ... Auf der anderen Seite ein zerstörerischer Bürgerkrieg, dessen Narben auch noch immer deutlich sichtbar sind, Konflikte mit den Nachbarstaaten und Armut. Für Aline Abboud ist der Libanon ihre zweite Heimat: Geboren 1988 als Tochter eines Libanesen und einer Ostberlinerin verbrachte sie von klein auf ihre Sommerferien bei ihren Großeltern und ihren 15 Cousins und Cousinen im Libanon. Den Geschmack dieser unbeschwerten Monate, diese ganz eigene Mischung aus Hummus, Meersalz und labbrigen Pommes, hat sie noch immer im Gedächtnis. Aline Abboud begibt sich auf eine sehr persönliche Suche nach ihren Wurzeln, und ermöglicht zugleich einen anderen Blick auf den Libanon und seine Geschichte.

The world and its politics are becoming ever more polarised, leaving no room for the light and the shade. In The Half of It, Emma and Nicole explore race and identity through the lens of the mixed-race experience, creating a space for discussion and illuminating the true nuances of the mixed-race identity.In The Half of It, Emma and Nicole, hosts of the critically acclaimed podcast Mixed Up, discuss what it truly means to be mixed-race. They delve into everything from culture and identity to interracial relationships, to adoption, to understanding the historical context of mixed-race people - ultimately culminating in a rounder and deeper appreciation for the mixed-identity.Emma and Nicole want to break down barriers and open up a deeper dialogue of the mixed-race experience. Although this book was born out of a desire to speak directly to the mixed-race community, they discovered there is something in it for everyone. Whether you are mixed, you know someone mixed, if you have ever considered dating outside of your race, if you're a parent committed to sharing a more diverse view of the world with your child, or indeed an adult wanting to expand your views on culture and identity - then The Half of Itis for you.

This book presents current scholarship designed to decolonize, reform and confront the Euro-centric dominance in social work education and practice. This compact volume strings together new content from internationally recognised authors in the field of social work to address this need.Decolonising social work seeks to weaken the effect of colonialism and create opportunities to promote traditional practices in contemporary settings. Its focus is to draw attention to the effects of globalisation and the universalization of social work education, methods of practice and international development that fail to embrace and recognise local knowledges and methods by bringing new and fresh perspectives to social work. It can also be seen as a significant contribution to social work's more critical stance and long-standing struggle to challenge the hegemonic Euro-centric epistemology. With decoloniality becoming a global imperative, this collection brings together case studies from world scholars and decolonial voices in order to explore opportunities, challenges and trends to decolonize through culturally relevant curricula, including: Social Work and Decolonisation: Student Social Workers' Understanding of the Concepts of 'Culture', 'Cultural Identity' and 'Decolonisation' Developing Curriculum for Criminal Justice Social Work from the Field New Directions in Trauma Work? Cultural Trauma Theory as an Instrument to Contextualise and Address Histories of Pain in Global Communities Analysing and Understanding Intersections: Using Nayak's 'Intersectional Model of Reflection' in Social Work Teaching Decolonizing Social Work Education and Curriculum Utilizing Cultural Competemility and Professionalism ApproachExploring New Horizons for Decolonial Social Work Education is essential reading for practitioners, policy makers, instructors, researchers, and other social work professionals. The book may be used as a supplemental text for social work courses. The national and international focus of the volume will be highly relevant to all social work programmes across the globe.

Dive Deep into the Radiant Spectrum of Family LoveIn a world of increasing diversity, what does it mean to raise a child with a rich, multiracial heritage? "All the Colors of Love" opens up a treasure trove of wisdom, empathy, and practical strategies for those at the heart of nurturing the next generation in a racially conscious world. This insightful guide illuminates the path for parents, guardians, and educators alike, determined to celebrate the vibrancy of mixed heritage while effectively countering the challenges posed by societal perceptions of race and identity.Embark on a journey from the roots of the multiracial experience, exploring the history and language that color our understanding of race. Learn how to deftly navigate the societal categories that your child will encounter, and craft a family narrative that honors each strand in your child's tapestry of heritage. Focus on fostering a positive racial identity through cultural traditions, and empower your child with role models and affirmations that embrace their complete self.With each chapter, you will gain the confidence to engage in meaningful conversations about race, teaching your children resilience in the face of ignorance or prejudice. Equip yourself with the tools to advocate for your child in schools and communities, ensuring they're not just seen but celebrated for their full spectrum of identity. Join a chorus of voices advocating for acceptance and understanding as you connect with support networks tailored for the unique dynamics of multiracial families.As your child grows, the book doesn't just grow with them but evolves, addressing the unique complexities of teenage self-exploration and the journey towards adulthood. "All the Colors of Love" doesn't just offer you strategies; it offers a lifeline to self-care for the entire family, ensuring that your vibrant home fosters mental and emotional health for a brighter collective future.With comprehensive resources and heartfelt acknowledgments, this book is more than a guide-it's a compass for the heart, a manifesto of love in multi-chromatic splendor, and a testament to the power of embracing each and every color of love in a world learning to appreciate its full palette.<BR>

Singen, Tanzen, Reden, Rasen - und Karneval feiern? Die simple Erkenntnis lautet: Was wir tun, wenn wir Alkohol getrunken haben, ist alles eine Frage der Kultur.Aus eigener Erfahrung glauben wir zu wissen: Alkohol enthemmt. Schüchternheit, Vernunft, Anstand? Für ein paar Stunden vergessen! Das führt manchmal zu schönen Dingen wie einem ersten Kuss oder wilden Tanzflächen-stunts - und manchmal zu hässlichen, die vor Gericht landen und dort entschuldigt werden: It's the alcohol, stupid!Die amerikanischen Ethnologen MacAndrew und Edgerton zeigen unterhaltsam und überzeugend: Menschen auf der ganzen Welt betragen sich betrunken völlig unterschiedlich, und zwar je nach Tradition, Situation, historischen Umständen oder Vorbildern aggressiv oder friedlich, schweigsam oder redselig, sangeslustig oder gewalttätig, und sie sind dabei oft bemerkenswert fähig, selbst im Vollrausch noch zu unterscheiden, wen sie küssen oder schlagen - und wen nicht. Wir lesen erstaunliche, schöne und schreckliche Geschichten und erkennen verblüfft: Nicht der Alkohol ist verantwortlich für unser trunkenes Tun, wir haben es schlicht und einfach so gelernt.Lange nach der Veröffentlichung hat Jakob Hein diesen Wissensschatz wiederentdeckt und übersetzt, der unsere Auffassung von der 'enthemmenden' Wirkung des Alkohols bis hin zum Konzept der 'verminderten Schuldfähigkeit' radikal infrage stellt.