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Surveys US cinema to argue that the white American self-concept depicted therein is, per Pierre Bourdieu (1977), a "sincere fiction" maintained by film's symbolic labor that conceals the brutality of US race relations & white hegemony behind a mask of naturalness & benevolence. Focus is on the propagandist image of the white messiah in various Hollywood films from Birth of a Nation (1915) to Three Kings (1999). J. Zendejas

Durante el 21 y 22 de junio de 1991 se llevo a cabo en la ciudad de Managua el Segundo Seminario sobre Izquierda Guerrillera y Oposicion Civica. El encuentro reunio a representantes del Frente Farabundo Marti para la Liberacion Nacional (El Salvador), la Coordinadora Guerrillera Simon Bolivar (Colombia), la Izquierda Unida (Peru) y el Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional (Nicaragua). Se reproducen las intervenciones de los representantes de las tres primeras agrupaciones

As a result of technological advances, music is presently widely available as a means of modifying social occasions. As with other artifacts, the use of music requires technical knowledge. Leaving aside the more crystallized segments of this knowledge, such as musical therapy and movie soundtracking, the study sought to explore the functional correlation college students established between types of music and social occasions. The existence of a body of consistent, though uncodified, technical knowledge is confirmed. This knowledge prescribes types of music appropriate for social occasions, and specifies the particular effects that can be obtained and the role played by some of the music's elements.

1. What is liberation sociology? -- 2. Improving human societies : reassessing the classical theorists -- 3. U.S. sociology from the 1890s to 1970s : instrumental positivism and its challengers -- 4. Sociology today -- 5. Sociology in action -- 6. Doing liberation social science : participatory action research strategies -- 7. Liberation theory and liberating action : the contemporary scene -- 8. Sociology, present and future : two sociologies -- 9. Epilogue : the challenges of teaching liberation sociology.

Probes the dynamics of racism in American society, examining a range of racist events and incidents across the United States, including protests over the Confederate battle flag in some southern states, the lynching death of James Byrd, Jr. in Texas, the Rodney King beating, and others

Data from a 1985 survey of 2,170 households in the industrial city of Monterrey in northern Mexico are drawn on to examine the relationship between objective & subjective effects on household spending in a situation of economic crisis. Historical developments in income are traced through a longitudinal study of income distributions, & family budgets are used to describe actual & expected effects of the crisis in terms of reductions in spending. Regression analyses demonstrate the relations between both kinds of effects & respondents' personal history, representing the individual counterpart of historical conditions. Neighborhood socioeconomic status & occupational level are found to be significant predictors of both objective & subjective deprivation. The best predictor of subjective effects are the actual ones. It is concluded that relative deprivation is conditioned by the context of societal development in this region. 5 Tables, 29 References. Adapted from the source document.