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Peasant and Peasantry in Anthropology

Anthropology for Beginners

The earliest of these village descriptions, Redfield's Tepoztlan (1930), emerged out of a concern with the 'human ecology' of communities, which marked the school of urban sociology developed at the University of Chicago under the auspices of Redfield's father-in-law, Robert E. What is a peasant? What are peasantries?

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What some colleges are quietly doing to help undocumented students

The Hechinger Report

One was that the university refuse to work with, or provide students’ immigration status to, government authorities. Some students are even afraid to apply for scholarships, not wanting to risk entering their personal information in databases they fear may fall into the hands of the federal government. “I

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Nearly all the seniors at this charter school went to college. Only 6 out of 52 finished on time

The Hechinger Report

She sat in the front row for the sociology and biology seminars, but couldn’t concentrate in a room with more than 30 classmates. Instead, in August 2013, she transferred to New Orleans’s Delgado Community College. Williams didn’t want to ask for help after she fell behind her first semester at UNO.

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HBCUs open their doors wider to international students

The Hechinger Report

In addition to the tuition money they often bring — many foreign students pay the full sticker price, often aided by their home countries’ governments — there are benefits for the HBCUs’ American students. The influx of foreign students to HBCUs includes a large number from the Middle East, thanks in part to government-funded scholarships.

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Deadlines, endless forms, constant college prep pressure: Is the finish line in sight?

The Hechinger Report

Not everyone at Match will make it: Of 78 students who entered Match in the fall of 2013 as ninth-graders, 16 have either moved, transferred or no longer attend. But she’s also balancing basketball practice, prom planning, step team and student government, while worrying about a low grade in Spanish. Keeping them motivated’.

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The Condemnation of Blackness: Lies We’re Told About Crime

Zinn Education Project

Coming out of the end of slavery, Black people made their freedom dreams manifest in attempts to own property, to negotiate their own labor agreements, to build institutions, to take their role in governance, both in state legislative houses as well as in Congress. 14, 2013: Jonathan Ferrell Killed by Police Aug. They went nowhere.