Jennifer L Harris: 7 books

Book cover of Disability, Policy and Professional Practice
by Jennifer L. Harris, Alan Roulstone
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010

This is the first book on working with disabled people to take an aspirational, outcomes-focused approach to professional practice. It forms the first attempt to grapple with the massive legislative and policy shifts in the Disability field in the last 15 years and provides an up-to-date, positive approach...
Book cover of African American Fraternities and Sororities
by Gloria Harper Dickinson, Craig L. Torbenson, Jessica Harris
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012

The first African American fraternities and sororities were established at the turn of the twentieth century to encourage leadership, racial pride, and academic excellence among black college students confronting the legacy of slavery and the indignities of Jim Crow segregation. With a strong presence...
Book cover of Stories of Home

Stories of Home

Place, Identity, Exile

by Jennifer L. Adams, Myrdene Anderson, Timothy Baird
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015

Notions of home are of increasing concern to persons who are interested in the unfolding narratives of inhabitation, displacement and dislocation, and exile. Home is viewed as a multidimensional theoretical concept that can have contradictory meanings; homes may be understood as spaces as well as...
Book cover of United States–Latin American Relations, 1850–1903
by Don M. Coerver, Louis A. Perez Jr., Helen Delpar
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2014

During the second half of the 19th century several forces in the United States, Latin America, and Europe converged to set the stage for the establishment of a more permanent relationship between the United States and Latin America. The key factors--security, economics, and modernization--created...
Book cover of African American Students’ Career and College Readiness
by Brandee Appling, Elizabeth Auguste, Christopher T. Belser
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015

African American Students’ Career and College Readiness: The Journey Unraveled explores the historical, legal, and socio-political issues of education affecting African American students and their career and college readiness. Each chapter has been written based on the authors’ experience and...
Book cover of Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization

Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization

Exploring the Fandemonium

by Roger C. Aden, Greg G. Armfield, David E. Beard
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011

Identity and socialization among sports fans are burgeoning areas of study among a growing cadre of scholars in the social sciences and beyond. Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization, edited by Adam C. Earnheardt, Paul Haridakis, and Barbara Hugenberg, is an eclectic collection of new studies from...
Book cover of Adventures in Shondaland

Adventures in Shondaland

Identity Politics and the Power of Representation

by Michaela D.E. Meyer, Rachel Alicia Griffin, Richard G Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018

Shonda Rhimes is one of the most powerful players in contemporary American network television. Beginning with her break-out hit series Grey’s Anatomy, she has successfully debuted Private Practice, Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder, The Catch, For The People, and Station 19. Rhimes’s work...
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