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Latino small businesses provide social, economic, and cultural comfort within their communities. Social work practitioners hoping to address such needs, not only among Latinos but in all communities of color, have a vested interest in seeing these businesses grow. Latino small businesses are excellent facilitators of community capacity, a major component of effective social work practice. Reviewing the latest research on formal and informal economies within urban communities of color, this book lays the demographic foundations for a richer collaboration between theory and practice.

More than just a box office flop that resurrected itself in the midnight movie circuit, Blade Runner (1982) achieved extraordinary cult status through video, laserdisc, and a five-disc DVD collector's set. Blade Runner has become a network of variant texts and fan speculations; a franchise created around just one film. Some have dubbed the movie ""classroom cult"" for its participation in academic debates, while others have termed it ""meta-cult, "" in line with the work of Umberto Eco. The film has also been called ""design cult, "" thanks to Ridley Scott's brilliant creation

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I How Whites See Themselves; 1 The End of the Great White Male; 2 White Racial Formation: Into the Twenty-First Century; 3 The Skin We're In; 4 The Way of the WASP; 5 Hiring Quotas for White Males Only; 6 Innocence and Affirmative Action; 7 Doing the White Male Kvetch (A Pale Imitation of a Rag); 8 Growing Up White in America?; 9 Growing Up (What) in America?; 10 White Images of Black Slaves (Is What We See in Others Sometimes a Reflection of What We Find in Ourselves?); Synopses of Other Important Works; From the Editors: Issues and Comments

The subject of how best to address the current and future health needs of older adult residents in this country's urban marginalized communities is one that has also received considerable attention in academic, policy, and practice arenas in the past decade

Demographics -- Social inequalities -- Political and ethical considerations -- High-profile health needs -- Low-profile health care needs -- Death & dying -- Approaches and service delivery models -- Expensive treatments to health care is a privilege or a right?