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Challenging Gender and Racial Stereotypes in Online Spaces. Alternative Storytelling among Latino/a Youth in the U.S.
(Nordicom Press, 2017)
Media play an important role in perpetuating racial and gender stereotypes that harm the self-esteem and self-concept of marginalized youth, especially for Latino/a youth in the US context. However, this article illustrates ...
People with disabilities and disasters
(Springer, 2017)
Investigations have collectively established that disasters affect people with disabilities both disproportionately and negatively. Relevant research is reviewed by academic genesis areas in this chapter, namely; 1) ...
Disaster and social vulnerability: The case of undocumented Mexican migrant workers
(Edwin Mellen, 2010)
The undocumented status of many immigrants disfranchises them from receiving most of the state and federal support offered to other members of their community. According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) ...
Communities of Information: Information Literacy and Discourse Community Instruction in First Year Writing Courses
(Purdue University Press, 2018)
The artifacts of discourse (print texts, recordings, Web documents, etc.) are information, and as such fall under the umbrellas of both discourse communities and information literacy. Since the product of a discourse ...
Exploring and Exchanging (Dis)ability and (Dis)aster
(Palgrave/MacMillan, 2015)
Concise Encyclopedia of Special Education
(2018-09-15)
Costa Rica is progressive in the area of special education. Special education services were formally established in 1939 when the Fernando Centeno Güell school for children with mental retardation was created near the ...
Showcasing Theatre Memories: A Case Study
(Theatre Library Association, New York, 2017)
From stage to archives, performing arts materials never stop to engage
with the audience. Even when they are archived, performing
arts documents and objects remain a source of research and inspiration
for theatre ...
Succession Planning in Academic Libraries: A Reconsideration
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2015)
It has been widely projected in the library literature that a substantial number of librarians will retire in the near future leaving significant gaps in the workforce, especially in library leadership. Many of those ...