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Thompson, Becky was born on June 22, 1959 in Logan, Utah, United States. Daughter of David and Sally Jane Wangsgaard.
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Beyond A Dream Deferred: Multicultural Education and the Politics of Excellence by Becky Thompson (1993-09-30)
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A Hunger So Wide And So Deep: A Multiracial View of Women's Eating Problems by Becky Thompson (1996-07-15)
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Beyond A Dream Deferred: Multicultural Education and the Politics of Excellence
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"Beyond A Dream Deferred" is a multidisciplinary work that consolidates progressive perspectives on multicultural education, establishing it as a crucial sphere in a society charged with reimagining its national identity in all its increasing diversity. Fourteen essays offer moral and political visions of progressive education and institutional changes of the past 20 years. Drawing on the perspectives of faculty, administrators, and students - both activists and intellectuals - Thompson and Tyagi situate current controversies within larger issues of citizenship, the economy, demographic changes, and conflicts over the unequal distribution of power. The contributors, including Troy Duster, Evelyn Hu-Dehart, Earl Jackson Jr, Chandra Mohanty, and Cornel West, are recognized both as established spokespeople as well as new voices who work to promote progressive educational change. Adroitly gathering contemporary philosophical, theoretical and political examinations of multicultural education, "Beyond A Dream Deferred" offers a timely directive for scholars and students involved in change both within and outside the academy.
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By Becky Thompson - Hunger So Wide And So Deep: A Multiracial View of Women's Eating Problems (1st Edition) (6/15/96)
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A Hunger So Wide And So Deep: A Multiracial View of Women's Eating Problems
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The first of its kind, A Hunger So Wide and So Deep challenges the popular notion that eating problems occur only among white, well-to-do, heterosexual women. Becky W. Thompson shows us how race, class, sexuality, and nationality can shape women's eating problems. Based on in-depth life history interviews with African-American, Latina, and lesbian women, her book chronicles the effects of racism, poverty, sexism, acculturation, and sexual abuse on women's bodies and eating patterns. A Hunger So Wide and So Deep dispels popular stereotypes of anorexia and bulimia as symptoms of vanity and underscores the risks of mislabeling what is often a way of coping with society's own disorders. By featuring the creative ways in which women have changed their unwanted eating patterns and regained trust in their bodies and appetites, Thompson offers a message of hope and empowerment that applies across race, class, and sexual preference.
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Becky Thompson
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Becky Thompson, American Sociology educator. National Endowment for Humanities summer fellow, 1994. Member American Association of University Women (Dissertation award 1989), American Sociological Association (Latino section county 1993-1994), Southern Poverty Law Center, White Women Challenging Racism.
Education
Bachelor in Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1983; Master of Arts in Sociology, Brandeis U., Waltham, Massachusetts, 1986; Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology, Brandeis U., Waltham, Massachusetts, 1991.
Career
Instructor sociology, U. Massachusetts, Boston, 1988-1990; visiting assistant professor sociology, Fitchburg (Massachusetts) State College, 1990-1991; visiting assistant professor sociology, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine., 1991-1992; Rockefeller postdoctoral fellow in African-American studies, Princeton (New Jersey) U., 1992-1993; assistant professor sociology, Center for Research on Women, U. Memphis, 1993-1994; visiting assistant professor sociology and African-American studies, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, since 1994.
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Beyond A Dream Deferred: Multicultural Education and the Politics of Excellence
("Beyond A Dream Deferred" is a multidisciplinary work tha...)
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A Hunger So Wide And So Deep: A Multiracial View of Women's Eating Problems
(The first of its kind, A Hunger So Wide and So Deep chall...)
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By Becky Thompson - Hunger So Wide And So Deep: A Multiracial View of Women's Eating Problems (1st Edition) (6/15/96)
(Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
- Beyond a Dream Deferred: Multicultural Education and the Politics of Excellence
- Beyond A Dream Deferred: Multicultural Education and the Politics of Excellence by Becky Thompson (1993-09-30)
- A Hunger So Wide And So Deep: A Multiracial View of Women's Eating Problems by Becky Thompson (1996-07-15)
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Beyond A Dream Deferred: Multicultural Education and the Politics of Excellence
Membership
Member American Association of University Women (Dissertation award 1989), American Sociological Association (Latino section county 1993-1994), Southern Poverty Law Center, White Women Challenging Racism.
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