Papers by Charles Quist-Adade
So why do most Euro-Americans either engage in racial discrimination themselves or remain silent ... more So why do most Euro-Americans either engage in racial discrimination themselves or remain silent by choosing the path of least resistance? Let me again reiterate that most Euro-Americans are good people, infused with loving kindness and empathy for their fellow " Americans of colour. " Most choose the path of least resistance for a number of reasons. First, the system (the government and the corporate world) is too powerful to confront, hence they look for scapegoats whom they know are powerless and lack the resources and ability to strike back to blame for their woes. This behavior is explained by psychologists with the aggression-frustration-scapegoating theory, which posits that there is a tendency for individuals, when frustrated or unhappy, to displace aggression onto groups that are disliked, visible, and relatively powerless. For example, for years, Western governments in pursuit of their neoliberal agenda, have given away billions of tax dollars to corporations as incentive to create jobs for the local economy, only for these corporations to move their companies to the so-called Third World countries in order to exploit cheap labour in these countries to maximize their profits. Year in year out, the corporations keep feeding fat on government corporate welfare to the detriment of workers, who not only lose their jobs, but also see cuts in government social assistance programmes. Governments justify corporate welfare by invoking the trickledown economics doctrine by contending that giving tax breaks to corporations is a way to grow the economy, as corporations will plough back that money in creating more jobs. But instead of creating more jobs, a good chunk that money goes into offshore accounts and or line the pockets of owner and Chief Executive Officers. In many instances, workers are aware of these facts, but find the government and corporate America too powerful to confront, so they look for vulnerable targets—powerless, vulnerable, defenseless " undocumented " immigrants and other minorities to vent their anger on. Second, governments and corporations are led mostly by the kith and kin of Euro-American workers. In other words, the commanding heights of the government corporations are controlled by their parents, uncles, and other relatives. Combine this with the power of the power/ruling elite to use the media and other channels to buy workers' acquiescence or exact compliance through the process of hegemony. Remember what happened to the Occupy
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What have airstrikes, beheadings, and Ebola got in common? Of all the reports that have dominated... more What have airstrikes, beheadings, and Ebola got in common? Of all the reports that have dominated the international media during the past few months, perhaps the fearsome Ebola disease outbreak in West Africa, the gruesome beheadings of three Western citizens by Islamic States of the Levant (ISIL) and the US-led coalition of the willing devastating airstrikes against ISIL stand out.
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History was made in Vancouver, Canada, last Saturday when scholars and community activists from v... more History was made in Vancouver, Canada, last Saturday when scholars and community activists from various parts of Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom formed the Black Canadian Studies Association (BCSA).
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The best thing to have happened to Africans in this century is George Bush. Bush’s disastrous dom... more The best thing to have happened to Africans in this century is George Bush. Bush’s disastrous domestic and foreign policies made it possible for the first African American to be elected to the highest office in America. Bush’s political chicanery, failed leadership and jingoistic foreign policy conspired, as it were, to make Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of a colorblind America a reality faster than anticipated.
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They are compatriots and colleagues united by a mission of compassion and a desire to give back t... more They are compatriots and colleagues united by a mission of compassion and a desire to give back to their land of birth. Ghanaian-Canadian professors, Dr. Charles Quist-Adade and Dr. Kwawu Agbemenu of Kwantlen of University College in Surrey, British Columbia have for the past five years, been collecting books and computers for schools and libraries in Ghana.
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" …for the cultures of the " Global Village " to flourish in a tolerant, mutually beneficial fash... more " …for the cultures of the " Global Village " to flourish in a tolerant, mutually beneficial fashion, it is imperative that there be real sharing of ideas, knowledge, and values. " – Charles Quist-Adade (2008) Abstract " …the course was conceived on the basis of two ideas— " Classroom without Walls " and " Global Village. "-Charles Quist-Adade (2008) This paper presents preliminary overview and findings of a pilot course webconferencing course on Globalization involving largely students and instructors in Canada and Ghana.1 The overview will focus more on the planning and implementation stages of the course than on the delivery and content. It will highlight the challenges confronted, lessons learned and lessons unlearned throughout the more than two years planning and implementation of the project, whose principal objective was to create geographically distributed collaborative learning and teaching between students and faculty in developed and developing countries. The undergraduate and graduate course on Globalization (Sociology of Global Inequalities), which was implemented in the Spring of 2008 (from January 7 to April 21), was conceived on the basis of two ideas— " Classroom without Walls " and " Global Village. " It was designed, using a unique interactive multimedia approach to link students and faculty in two international locations—Ghana and Canada. The course, through the integrative information and educational technologies, aimed to break the boundaries of time, space and distance thereby facilitating the sharing of knowledge between the students at the three sites. What is more, it sought to create a " networked collaborative learning environment " for students and instructors at the University of Ghana and Kwantlen University College in British Columbia, Canada. The partially on-line course used a mixed mode delivery approach, combining synchronous video-audio streaming (videoconferencing), real chat, online materials, prepackaged online materials, as well as asynchronous chat sessions. The course had a classroom component at each of the host sites that was supported by a course web site. Interaction between learner and lecturer was primarily through text messaging and online chats during synchronous lecture sessions. Students also had to use online chat sessions and discussion forums with teaching assistants. The course had a mix of synchronous and asynchronous activities (i.e., some activities took place at the same time, same place; some at the same time, different place; and some at a different time, different place). The course provided continuous feedback, high levels of interaction and an emphasis on student work and group projects. In all 31 undergraduate students from Kwantlen University College (KUC) and six graduate students from the University of Ghana, Legon (UGL) took the course. The preliminary study showed that while the preparatory stage was quite daunting and the project leader had some harrowing experiences in finding collaborators, accessing funding, the overall benefits of the project to both students and instructors were quite substantial, making the efforts and sacrifices worthwhile.
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To me, the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) is a dynamic process of learning and unlea... more To me, the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) is a dynamic process of learning and unlearning, ongoing self-criticism and renewal, and sharing the resulting accumulated experiences between the teacher, students and the teaching community. SoTL revolves around three axes. It involves the production and transmission of theoretical and experiential knowledge. As well, it acts as a forum for self and collective actualization and growth, while reinforcing the link between the classroom and the real world.
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Against the backdrop of past and continued efforts by white supremacists and their institutions t... more Against the backdrop of past and continued efforts by white supremacists and their institutions to keep us down, Black people must stand up together as one to fight back just as Dr. Woodson did in his time. We must continue to research and write our own rich and diverse histories.
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The AIDS reader
HIV testing is an important step in the continuum of HIV care. It provides the opportunity to cou... more HIV testing is an important step in the continuum of HIV care. It provides the opportunity to counsel people who seek testing and links those who test positive to health services. To determine the number of adults who had ever been tested for HIV, compare the reasons they sought testing, and evaluate the policy implications of their decision, data from the 1998 and 2002 National Health Interview Surveys were analyzed. Of 31,138 adults interviewed in 1998, 9728 (31.2%) reported they had been tested for HIV, whereas 10,760 (34.7%) of the 31,044 adults interviewed in 2002 had been tested for HIV. Persons who were interviewed in 1998 and 2002 were similar with regard to sociodemographic characteristics (age, gender, ethnicity, education, and region of origin). The reasons for seeking HIV testing changed between 1998 and 2002. The proportion of adults who were tested for HIV "to find out if infected or not" declined significantly, from 33.9% in 1998 to 11.8% in 2002 (P < .05...
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Theory in Action, 2013
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Race & Class, 2005
... thinking') in international relations. When Gorbachev commenced his reforms, his team se... more ... thinking') in international relations. When Gorbachev commenced his reforms, his team set out to fashion a brand new foreign policy, which became increasingly western-oriented and pragmatic. The new Soviet planners announced ...
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Communicatio, 1994
... 2 COURTING AND PLATONIC FRIENDSHIP IN THE PRISM OF TIME: THE NASHI IDEOLOGY ... It was common... more ... 2 COURTING AND PLATONIC FRIENDSHIP IN THE PRISM OF TIME: THE NASHI IDEOLOGY ... It was common knowledge among Third World students that lecturers tended to be more friendly to students regarded as nashi, that is from satellite states of the Soviet Union. ...
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Africa Development, 2010
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Keynote speech at Young Pan-Africans' Dialogue Conference in Vancouver, January 31, 2015.
Many a... more Keynote speech at Young Pan-Africans' Dialogue Conference in Vancouver, January 31, 2015.
Many are embarrassed, to say the least, to be identified with Africa. Some go to all lengths to deny their African heritage. They claim they do not know what their heritage is or how proud they can be of their African heritage.
But such argument is a red herring. The real reason lies in the fact that much of Africa is in economic throes and socio-political turmoil. Were Africa to be flourishing economically, not many of us would disown the continent. We would all probably be competing to be called African.
That is why it is pertinent that Africans in Africa and those in the industrialized West must begin, as a matter of urgency, to build bridges of economic unity. We must begin to forge economic and commercial links through joint ventures.
Dr. Nkrumah once observed, emphasizing the need for African unity, that: “if in the past the Sahara Desert divided us, today it must unite us.” Thus today if the European slave trade and the Atlantic Ocean divided us, today they must bring us together.
We must organize joint micro-businesses across the Global African landscape. Africa is home to over 1.2 billion people. The economic and commercial potentials of the world’s second largest continent are enormous.
No man or woman of African descent will be free or will be able to walk chest up anywhere in the world unless Africa is politically and economically free.
A prosperous and booming Africa is a boon to all people of African descent.
As the legendary Bob Marley sang, “When the rain falls, it does not fall on one man’s house,” the glory of Africa will not shine on Africans on the continent alone, but on all Africa’s sons and daughters at every corner of the planet.
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This paper examines how homosexuality is represented in the Ghanaian media. More specifically, i... more This paper examines how homosexuality is represented in the Ghanaian media. More specifically, it focuses on newspaper articles from GhanaWeb for the years 2008-2011. The Ghana Web is an online news portal, which serves as repository and clearing house for current news from the major news outlets in Ghana. It also carries and publishes opinion and analytical articles from freelance writers, bloggers, and interviews from the major radio and television stations in the country. This research shows the prevalence of negative stereotypes of homosexuality in the Ghanaian media.
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Drafts by Charles Quist-Adade
Just a quick note to say hello and to let you know that my most recent book has been published by... more Just a quick note to say hello and to let you know that my most recent book has been published by Sense Publishers, From the Local to the Global Theories and Key Issues in Global Justice
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So why do most Euro-Americans either engage in racial discrimination themselves or remain silent ... more So why do most Euro-Americans either engage in racial discrimination themselves or remain silent by choosing the path of least resistance? Let me again reiterate that most Euro-Americans are good people, infused with loving kindness and empathy for their fellow " Americans of colour. " Most choose the path of least resistance for a number of reasons. First, the system (the government and the corporate world) is too powerful to confront, hence they look for scapegoats whom they know are powerless and lack the resources and ability to strike back to blame for their woes. This behavior is explained by psychologists with the aggression-frustration-scapegoating theory, which posits that there is a tendency for individuals, when frustrated or unhappy, to displace aggression onto groups that are disliked, visible, and relatively powerless. For example, for years, Western governments in pursuit of their neoliberal agenda, have given away billions of tax dollars to corporations as incentive to create jobs for the local economy, only for these corporations to move their companies to the so-called Third World countries in order to exploit cheap labour in these countries to maximize their profits. Year in year out, the corporations keep feeding fat on government corporate welfare to the detriment of workers, who not only lose their jobs, but also see cuts in government social assistance programmes. Governments justify corporate welfare by invoking the trickledown economics doctrine by contending that giving tax breaks to corporations is way to grow the economy, as corporations will plough back that money in creating more jobs. But instead of creating more jobs, a good chunk that money goes into offshore accounts and or line the pockets of owner and Chief Executive Officers. In many instances, workers are aware of these facts, but find the government and corporate America too powerful to confront, so they look for vulnerable targets—powerless, vulnerable, defenseless " undocumented " immigrants and other minorities to vent their anger on. Second, governments and corporations are led mostly by the kith and kin of Euro-American workers. In other words, the commanding heights of the government corporations are controlled by their parents, uncles, and other relatives. Combine this with the power of the power/ruling elite to use the media and other channels to buy workers' acquiescence or exact compliance through the process of hegemony. Remember what happened to the Occupy movement? The power elite unleashed a whole range of arsenals, including the media and law
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How I incorporate the Global Sociological Imagination, Global Social Justice and Action Research ... more How I incorporate the Global Sociological Imagination, Global Social Justice and Action Research into my research, scholarship and pedagogy.
A presentation at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Cape Coast during my semester-long sabbatical teaching stint
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Book Reviews by Charles Quist-Adade
In the first of his many part article on the links between Continental Africa and the African Dia... more In the first of his many part article on the links between Continental Africa and the African Diaspora, Dr. Charles Quist-Adade argued that while the situation of people of African descent seem desperate and hopeless, increasing numbers of black activists, philanthropists, scholars, and ordinary people are doing their share to improve the lives of their brethren on both sides of the Atlantic. What is need is a more organized, and planetary plan and action to make the disjointed efforts meaningful and fruitful.
In this part two, Dr. Quist-Adade reviews the works of late Dr. John Henrik Clarke, the great African American pan-Africanist historian and intellectual, with particular emphasis on his pamphlet entitled Can African People Save Themselves?
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Teaching Documents by Charles Quist-Adade
Our ever-globalizing, interacting, and interdependent world needs a new crop of leaders, who thin... more Our ever-globalizing, interacting, and interdependent world needs a new crop of leaders, who think and act as global citizens and who are equipped with the requisite skillset, mindset, and heartset, and are committed to stewarding our planet responsibly to meet the needs of the current generation without compromising those of future ones.
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Papers by Charles Quist-Adade
Many are embarrassed, to say the least, to be identified with Africa. Some go to all lengths to deny their African heritage. They claim they do not know what their heritage is or how proud they can be of their African heritage.
But such argument is a red herring. The real reason lies in the fact that much of Africa is in economic throes and socio-political turmoil. Were Africa to be flourishing economically, not many of us would disown the continent. We would all probably be competing to be called African.
That is why it is pertinent that Africans in Africa and those in the industrialized West must begin, as a matter of urgency, to build bridges of economic unity. We must begin to forge economic and commercial links through joint ventures.
Dr. Nkrumah once observed, emphasizing the need for African unity, that: “if in the past the Sahara Desert divided us, today it must unite us.” Thus today if the European slave trade and the Atlantic Ocean divided us, today they must bring us together.
We must organize joint micro-businesses across the Global African landscape. Africa is home to over 1.2 billion people. The economic and commercial potentials of the world’s second largest continent are enormous.
No man or woman of African descent will be free or will be able to walk chest up anywhere in the world unless Africa is politically and economically free.
A prosperous and booming Africa is a boon to all people of African descent.
As the legendary Bob Marley sang, “When the rain falls, it does not fall on one man’s house,” the glory of Africa will not shine on Africans on the continent alone, but on all Africa’s sons and daughters at every corner of the planet.
Drafts by Charles Quist-Adade
A presentation at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Cape Coast during my semester-long sabbatical teaching stint
Book Reviews by Charles Quist-Adade
In this part two, Dr. Quist-Adade reviews the works of late Dr. John Henrik Clarke, the great African American pan-Africanist historian and intellectual, with particular emphasis on his pamphlet entitled Can African People Save Themselves?
Teaching Documents by Charles Quist-Adade
Many are embarrassed, to say the least, to be identified with Africa. Some go to all lengths to deny their African heritage. They claim they do not know what their heritage is or how proud they can be of their African heritage.
But such argument is a red herring. The real reason lies in the fact that much of Africa is in economic throes and socio-political turmoil. Were Africa to be flourishing economically, not many of us would disown the continent. We would all probably be competing to be called African.
That is why it is pertinent that Africans in Africa and those in the industrialized West must begin, as a matter of urgency, to build bridges of economic unity. We must begin to forge economic and commercial links through joint ventures.
Dr. Nkrumah once observed, emphasizing the need for African unity, that: “if in the past the Sahara Desert divided us, today it must unite us.” Thus today if the European slave trade and the Atlantic Ocean divided us, today they must bring us together.
We must organize joint micro-businesses across the Global African landscape. Africa is home to over 1.2 billion people. The economic and commercial potentials of the world’s second largest continent are enormous.
No man or woman of African descent will be free or will be able to walk chest up anywhere in the world unless Africa is politically and economically free.
A prosperous and booming Africa is a boon to all people of African descent.
As the legendary Bob Marley sang, “When the rain falls, it does not fall on one man’s house,” the glory of Africa will not shine on Africans on the continent alone, but on all Africa’s sons and daughters at every corner of the planet.
A presentation at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Cape Coast during my semester-long sabbatical teaching stint
In this part two, Dr. Quist-Adade reviews the works of late Dr. John Henrik Clarke, the great African American pan-Africanist historian and intellectual, with particular emphasis on his pamphlet entitled Can African People Save Themselves?