"Our richly illustrated volume takes a multifaceted approach to the giant continent of Africa, transcending prejudices and stereotypes through cultural history and contemporary art, constant shifts in perspective, and artistic diversity: human history encounters the colonial past and the omnipresenc
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e of Africa in countless regions of the world. On the one hand, surprising views of Africa are presented from Europe. On the other hand, works and installations created locally by Africans or members of the diaspora present ideas, impulses, and identities that all mean Africa. The texts illuminate the broad temporal arc from the first humans to Pan-Africanism and Afrofuturism and also offer literary and philosophical narratives. Artists: Dele Adeyemo, John Akomfrah, James Gregory Atkinson, Sammy Baloji, Arébénor Basséne, Memory Biwa, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Catpc, Omar Victor Diop, Sokari Douglas Camp, William Kentridge, Kongo Astronauts, Susana Pilar Delahanta Mantienzo, Roméo Mivekannin, Zanele Muholi, Josèfa Ntjam, Kaloki Nyamai, Emeka, Ogboh, Zineb Sedira, Sandra Seghir, Yinka Shonibare, The Singh Twins, Géraldine Tobe, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems." (Publisher description)
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"In this book, authors engage in an interdisciplinary discourse of theory and practice on the concept of personal conviction, addressing the variety of grey zones that mark the concept. Bias, Belief, and Conviction in an Age of Fake Facts discusses where our convictions come from and whether we are
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aware of them, why they compel us to certain actions, and whether we can change our convictions when presented with opposing evidence, which prove our personal convictions "wrong". Scholars from philosophy, psychology, comparative literature, media studies, applied linguistics, intercultural communication, and education shed light on the topic of personal conviction, crossing disciplinary boundaries and asking questions not only of importance to scholars but also related to the role and possible impact of conviction in the public sphere, education, and in political and cultural discourse. By taking a critical look at personal conviction as an element of inquiry within the humanities and social sciences, this book will contribute substantially to the study of conviction as an aspect of the self we all carry within us and are called upon to examine." (Publisher description)
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"Framing determines how we relate to other human beings. Public speakers, including the media, often frame communities in an irresponsible way either because of the lack of knowledge and professionalism, or as a tactic to gain profit through sensationalism and/or to drum up negative sentiment and di
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scriminate against others. As citizens, it is our duty to train ourselves not to be misled by words and identify and resist frames that intentionally or unintentionally generate hate and prejudice." (Page 6)
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"Language is one of the main ways that discrimination is enacted. In the discourse of discrimination there is a set of key words that denote the processes of prejudice. This book discusses the lexical semantics of this field of words and how, as a cognitive process, they underlie insults, hate speec
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h, slurs, derogatory phrases, terms of abuse and other linguistic acts of discrimination. Stollznow presents a semantic analysis employing reductive paraphrase, using data sourced from naturally occurring examples and corpora. Relevant semantic phenomena are also examined, such as synonymy, polysemy, metaphor, euphemism and dysphemism, semantic shift, pejoration, amelioration and reclamation. This book examines the way people enact racism, sexism, ageism and other forms of discrimination in language." (Publisher description)
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"This study contributes to the limited literature on race and crime in a multicultural Asian context. Based on a survey in Singapore, where multiracialism is a fundamental political pillar and yet discourse about race is mostly shunned, the findings suggest a relationship between media consumption a
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nd racial perceptions. Respondents who consume more race-specific media have less negative racial perceptions of their own race, and more negative racial perceptions about other races. Respondents who consume more crime-related media content on TV, newspapers, and social networking sites tend to be more racially prejudiced against other races. Those who pay more attention to crime-related media content hold more negative racial perceptions of other races, and have harsher criminal culpability judgments of other races while holding a diminished culpability judgment of one’s own race." (Abstract)
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"ERBOL, con el apoyo de Ibis Dinamarca, organizó un intercambio de periodistas de sus radios asociadas para que cumplan un objetivo subrayado: conocer otras regiones, reconocerse en aquellas otras personas y hacer conocer a sus audiencias que esos otros y esas otras son igales como seres humanos, p
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ero diferentes como seres culturales. Bajo esta premisa, los periodistas viajaron y permanecieron durante 15 días en lugares muy diferentes o extremos a sus regiones habituales [...] He aquí los testimonios de cada uno de los periodistas, que cumplieron esta interesante experiencia profesional y personal, a partir de sus particularidades culturales y su sentimiento de bolivianidad. He quí su visión de país después del intercambio, en realidad, luego de haber superado el prejuicio de lo desconocido." (Presentación)
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"Psychological study of the methods of combating deeply-rooted prejudices — Situation of the problem — The psychological mechanisms involved — Various types of possible cases — Deep roots of conformism." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing count
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ries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 543, topic code 09)
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