Report of Recommendations to the Iowa Department of Elder Affairs, June 30, 2004

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Report of Recommendations to the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs, June 30, 2004

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Social rationality and scales of action: inter-ethnic relations in cockfighting and game-fishing, Raiatea, French Polynesia

This article challenges the notion of economic rationality as a criterion for explaining ethnic boundary maintenance. It offers an ethnographic analysis of inter-ethnic relations in the context of games (cockfights and game-fishing contests) in the island of Raiatea (French Polynesia). Although all players engage in the same basic gambling practices, money is differentially scaled and mobilized by the Tahitian and Chinese participants. Building on recent pragmatic approaches to rationality, it is shown that the players' rationalities differ not from the point of view of economic maximization, but only in so far as they participate in social relations at different scales.

Teaching ethnic diversity in journalism school

It has been found that the symbolic elites have a prominent role in the discursive reproduction of racism in society, because they control the public discourse through which many ethnic prejudices are spread and shared. This special position of the mass media requires that the professional education of journalists, also featuring such topics as ethnic studies, diversity and racism, is optimally adapted to the multicultural societies in Europe, North America and Australia. This paper reports about an extensive research project examining ethnic education of journalists in these white-dominated countries, by examining the websites of many journalism and communication departments. Consistent with the general finding that white symbolic elites primarily deny or ignore (their) racism in society, none of the academic programs, anywhere in the world, mentions special classes on racism in the mass media. Finally, a practical proposal is made for a course on ethnic reporting in multicultural societies.

Department of Cultural Affairs Performance Report, FY 2004

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Elder Affairs Performance Report, FY 2004

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Elder Affairs Performance Report, FY 2005

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Human Rights Latino Affairs Performance Report, FY 2004

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Iowa Department of Veterans Affairs Performance Report, FY 2004

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Iowa Department of Elder Affairs Legislative Update, February 25, 2005, Vol. 1, no. 8

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Iowa Department of Elder Affairs Legislative Update, January 10, 2005, Vol. 1, no.1

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Iowa Department of Elder Affairs Legislative Update, January 14, 2005, Vol. 1, no.2

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Iowa Department of Elder Affairs Legislative Update, January 21, 2005, Vol. 1, no. 3

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Iowa Department of Elder Affairs Legislative Update, January 28, 2005, Vol. 1, no. 4

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Iowa Department of Eldar Affairs Legislative Update, February 4, 2005, Vol. 1, no. 5

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