Diversity and community : an interdisciplinary reader /
edited by Philip Alperson.
- Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2002.
- xiii, 351 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Communities and community: critique and retrieval / Jean Bethke Elshtain and Christopher Beem -- Community at the margin / Crispin Sartwell -- Impure communities / Maria Lugones -- Identities: the dynamical dimensions of diversity / Chuck Dyke and Carl Dyke -- From village to global contexts: ideas, types, and the making of communitites / D.A. Masolo -- Obligations across generations: a consideration in the understanding of community formation / Lewis R. Gordon -- Citizenship or transgression?: dilemmas of the US movement for lesbian/gay rights / Arlene Stein -- Diversity, inequality, and community: African Americans and people of color in the United States / J. Blaine Hudson -- Renewing American Indian nations: cosmic communities and spiritual autonomy / Duane Champagne -- Nations and nationalism: the case of Canada/Quebec / Frank Cunningham -- Love, care, and women's dignity: the family as a privileged community / Martha Nussbaum -- Community and society, melancholy and sociopathy / Osborne Wiggins and Michael A. Schwartz -- The role of art in sustaining communities / Marcia Muelder Eaton -- Images of community in American popular culture / Eileen John and Nancy Potter -- Virtual communities: Chinatowns made in America / Gary Y. Okihiro -- Villages, local and global: observations on computer-mediated and geographically situated communities / Samuel Oluoch Imbo -- The university as a universe of communities / Mary Hawkesworth.
"This is a collection of newly-commissioned essays that explore the notion of community in its many theoretical, practical, and cultural manifestations. It examines the nature of community, the relation of individual and group identity to community norms and values, and the possibilities for cross-cultural understanding. The volume deals with issues confronting many diverse communities including African, African-American, Asian-American, Native American, Latin-American, Anglo- and Franco-Canadian, Canadian Aboriginal, Japanese, gay and lesbian, computer-mediated, and counter-culture communities.It includes contributions from thinkers such as Martha Nussbaum, Jean Bethke Elsthain, D.A. Masolo, Mary Hawkesworth, Lewis Gordon, Maria Lugones, Crispin Sartwell, Duane Champagne, and Frank Cunningham, as well as work by several new theorists." -- Publisher's website.