Anthropology and Public Policy in Alaska

1982 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-5
Author(s):  
Kerry Feldman ◽  
Steve Langdon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Small Population ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The People ◽  
The Future ◽  
High Level

This special issue of Practicing Anthropology includes seven papers which cover a broad spectrum of anthropological practice in Alaska, but share a common orientation toward public policy. We have chosen to focus on anthropology and public policy in Alaska for several reasons. First, there appears to be a high level of anthropological involvement in and impact on Alaskan public policy compared to other regions of the United States. Second, that involvement and influence is not limited to one or two topics but ranges over a variety of issues. Finally, we feel that because of the nature of contemporary Alaska—its size, small population, ethnic diversity, present economy, and youth as a state—public directions taken at this time will be crucial to the future of the people who are presently residents of Alaska. A sense of that urgency as well as of the powerful forces at work comes through in a number of the articles.

scholarly journals How Trade Hurt Unskilled Workers

1995 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 57-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Wood
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The United States ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
The Future ◽  
Unskilled Workers ◽  
Economic Position

This paper argues that the main cause of the deteriorating economic position of unskilled workers in the United States and other developed countries has been expansion of trade with developing countries. In the framework of a Heckscher-Ohlin model, it outlines the evidence in support of this view, responds to criticisms of this evidence, and challenges the evidence for the alternative view that the problems of unskilled workers are caused mainly by new technology. The paper concludes with a look at the future and at the implications for public policy.

Chapter 1: 21st Century Physical Education in the United States: Introduction to the Special Issue

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Phillip Ward ◽  
Hal A. Lawson ◽  
Hans van der Mars ◽  
Murray F. Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Doctoral Programs ◽  
The United States ◽  
Teacher Education Programs ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Past ◽  
School Programs ◽  
The Future

In this chapter, we examine the system of physical education with a Janus-like perspective. We focus on examining and learning from the past as we anticipate what society, school systems, and the physical education system might look like in the future. Drawing on futuristic scenarios developed for this special journal issue, we ask a timely, pivotal question. What does all of this mean for the future of the field of physical education, including its school programs, teacher education programs, doctoral programs, and salient public policies? The several chapters in this special issue can be viewed as a response to this question—and with a delimited focus on the unique context of the United States. This chapter is structured to provide an overall context for these other contributions. It includes a discussion of relevant theories provided in this special issue and a representative summary of the other articles. Selectivity is apparent and unavoidable in every article, and it can be viewed variously as a strength or limitation.

Introduction: Becomingswith Hybrid Bodies—Immigration, Public Policy, and the In-Between

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 147-151
Author(s):  
Gaile S. Cannella ◽  
Mary Esther Soto Huerta
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Liminal Spaces ◽  
New Locations

This article is the introduction to the special issue of Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies that focuses on the lives, feelings, and circumstances experienced by the largest group of people around the globe who must deal with unthought and unexpected liminal spaces, knowledges, values, and impositions. Identified as immigrants, and sometimes migrants, these individuals and groups move, or are moved without choice, to new locations for a variety of reasons. This introduction first briefly describes the liminal, hybrid positions lived and experienced by immigrants. The issue articles are then introduced as they predominantly focus on immigrant public policy and daily liminalities of immigrant life in the United States.

In Their Own Words: Erasing Deficits and Exploring What Works to Improve K–12 and Postsecondary Black Male School Achievement

2016 ◽  
Vol 118 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Chezare A. Warren ◽  
Ty-Ron M. O. Douglas ◽  
Tyrone C. Howard
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Black Males ◽  
Black Male ◽  
School Achievement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Men Of Color ◽  
What Works ◽  
K 12

This article outlines the imperative for strengths-based research to counter deficit perceptions and perspectives of Black males in contemporary discussions of their school achievement in the United States. The importance of young men of color in shaping research agendas, practice, and public policy is argued followed by a brief overview of the papers featured in the special issue “Erasing the Deficits: My Brother's Keeper and Contemporary Perspectives on Black Male School Achievement.”

scholarly journals INTERSECTIONALITY

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devon W. Carbado ◽  
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw ◽  
Vickie M. Mays ◽  
Barbara Tomlinson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Global Engagement ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
Do So

Very few theories have generated the kind of interdisciplinary and global engagement that marks the intellectual history of intersectionality. Yet, there has been very little effort to reflect upon precisely how intersectionality has moved across time, disciplines, issues, and geographic and national boundaries. Our failure to attend to intersectionality's movement has limited our ability to see the theory in places in which it is already doing work and to imagine other places to which the theory might be taken. Addressing these questions, this special issue reflects upon the genesis of intersectionality, engages some of the debates about its scope and theoretical capacity, marks some of its disciplinary and global travels, and explores the future trajectory of the theory. To do so, the volume includes academics from across the disciplines and from outside of the United States. Their respective contributions help us to understand how intersectionality has moved and to broaden our sense of where the theory might still go.

scholarly journals Presidential Address: Fourth Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association: The Future of Representative Government

1908 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. N. Judson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Political Science Association ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Representative Government ◽  
The People ◽  
The Future ◽  
Representative System ◽  
American Political Science

In the United States we have seen a revival of the ancient discussion concerning the line of demarcation between national and State authority under our complex federal system, but there is an underlying question which cannot have escaped the thoughtful observer involved in the growing popular distrust of the representative system whereon both federal and State governments are based. This tendency is being manifested in very material modifications in representative government, as understood by the founders of our government, and I therefore ask your attention to the consideration of The Future of Representative Government.This form of government, wherein the sovereign power of law-making is wholly delegated to deputies elected by the people, is of comparatively modern origin, and in the modern sense of the term it was unknown to the ancients. While its origin is obscure, we know that it was in England that representative government found its development in the form in which it was so greatly impressed upon the framers of our Constitution. Sir Henry Maine in his Popular Government says that it was virtually England's discovery of government by representation which caused parliamentary institutions to be preserved in England from the destruction which overtook them everywhere else, and to devolve as an inheritance upon the United States.

America's Rôle in the League of Nations

1929 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-31
Author(s):  
Manley O. Hudson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
International Organization ◽  
Cooperative Action ◽  
Present Purpose ◽  
The People ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Government

Whatever may be the present attitude of the people of the United States toward the League of Nations, it now seems clear that the Government of the United States has come to feel the necessity for such an international organization. For several years past, official American coöperation with the League has steadily increased. The situation has now developed to a point where the current formulae for explaining the official attitude are to some extent misleading, and it may serve a useful purpose to trace the changes which have occurred since 1920, to survey the situation as it now exists, and to forecast some of the probabilities for the future.Let us start with the fact that the United States has not ratified the Covenant of the League of Nations and has not accepted the place provided for her in the Assembly and the Council of the League. It is beside the present purpose to explain that fact, to attempt to say whether it is due to drift or to design, or to offer any argument for changing it. Whatever the seven millions of voters who constituted President Harding's majority in 1920 may have desired at that time, the Government of the United States has since interpreted their votes as a determination that the United States should not accept membership in the League, and it has proceeded on the theory that that issue is closed. But if this fact is to be taken as the starting-point, there still remains a question as to the account to be taken by the Government of the United States of other important facts, viz., that the League of Nations continues to exist, that more than fifty governments are vigorously pushing its work and effecting through it their coöperative action, and that much of the organized international life of our time is centered at Geneva.

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