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Discursive Incarceration: Black Fragility In A Divided Public Sphere, Meili Steele
Discursive Incarceration: Black Fragility In A Divided Public Sphere, Meili Steele
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The expression of fragility has always been a difficult and complex matter for African Americans, for the discourse of mainstream media is set up to both sustain and misrecognize their fragility . Even though the black public sphere split off from the dominant public sphere after the Civil War to enable distinctive forms of expression, the “practiced habits” of which Coates speaks continued working within the structures of the dominant discourse. My essay will analyze the structure of America’s indifference to fragility in six parts. In the first section, I will introduce a normative problematic that can track how the …
Teaching Italian Romanticism Through Philately And Choral Works, Ilona Klein
Teaching Italian Romanticism Through Philately And Choral Works, Ilona Klein
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Philately and choral works can be excellent integrative pedagogical tools when teaching Italian Romanticism at the undergraduate level. In the classroom, postage stamps provide an historical narrative for students and can help clarify the political, artistic and cultural mood of the time. The intrinsic symbolism of stamps represents the way a nation wants to be seen by the rest of the world. Instrumental and choral music, in their infinite combination of tones, combine sound with sung words, creating an artistic subtext that reveals the complexity and variety of human aesthetic expression. For the current generation of students accustomed to visual …
“You Shall Not Kill” Or “You Shall Not Murder”? The Meaning Of Ratsakh In The Sixth Commandment, Jiří Moskala
“You Shall Not Kill” Or “You Shall Not Murder”? The Meaning Of Ratsakh In The Sixth Commandment, Jiří Moskala
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Remember My Chains: New Testament Perspectives On Incarceration, Matthew L. Skinner
Remember My Chains: New Testament Perspectives On Incarceration, Matthew L. Skinner
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Understanding the physical realities and social attitudes concerning incarceration in the ancient world provides a fuller context to the New Testament’s unadorned and ambiguous references to people’s experience of being held in custody. The context is crucial for interpreting biblical passages that commend caring for prisoners, that reaffirm God’s strength and nullify the ignominy associated with incarceration, and that declare God’s power over the means and motives of imperial coercion. Such passages also compel the contemporary church to advocate on behalf of prisoners and to denounce the systems that regularly victimize them.
Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Changing The Social Order, Daniel Pollack-Pelzner
Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Changing The Social Order, Daniel Pollack-Pelzner
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Daniel Pollack-Pelzner views the first four plays of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2018 season (Karen Zacarías's Destiny of Desire, Kate Hamill's adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, Othello, and Henry V) as expressions of social change.
Pursuing Racial Justice In The Us: What Religious Educators Need To Learn From The Blacklivesmatter Movement, Mary E. Hess
Pursuing Racial Justice In The Us: What Religious Educators Need To Learn From The Blacklivesmatter Movement, Mary E. Hess
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This is a prepress version of a chapter that will appear in a book, focused on religious education and human rights.
Social Imaginaries And The Theory Of The Normative Utterance, Meili Steele
Social Imaginaries And The Theory Of The Normative Utterance, Meili Steele
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Theorists of the social imaginary, such as Benedict Anderson, Charles Taylor, Cornelius Castoriadis, and Marcel Gauchet have given us new ways to talk about the structures of the shared meanings and practices of the West. As a group, they have directed their arguments against the narrow horizons of meaning oyed by deliberative political theories in developing their basic normative concepts and principles. Anderson speaks of the new shapes of time and space provided by the novel and newspaper; Taylor and Gauchet discuss the ontological importance of the emergence of secularity, the public sphere, popular sovereignty, and the market; Castoriadis places …
White Religious Educators Resisting White Fragility: Lessons From Mystics, Mary E. Hess
White Religious Educators Resisting White Fragility: Lessons From Mystics, Mary E. Hess
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Decades of work in dismantling racism have not yielded the kind of results for which religious educators have hoped. One primary reason has been what scholars term “white fragility,” a symptom of the structural racism which confers systemic privilege upon White people. Lessons learned from Christian mystics point to powerful ways to confront and resist the siren call of such formation and instead to make resisting racism an integral part of Christian identity for White people.
Economies Of Violence, John Protevi
Economies Of Violence, John Protevi
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I discuss "economies of violence," comparing non-state (acephalic forager bands and horticultural chiefdoms) and state societies. Capital punishment and tolerated personal revenge in forager bands is both anti-war and anti-state, while some chiefdoms practice war as an anti-state practice.
Institutional Racism: Perspectives On The Department Of Justice's Investigation Of The Ferguson Police Department., Cassandra Chaney Phd
Institutional Racism: Perspectives On The Department Of Justice's Investigation Of The Ferguson Police Department., Cassandra Chaney Phd
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On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown, an 18-year old Black man, was fatally shot by Darren Wilson, a white policeman with the Ferguson Police Department. The incident sparked protests and acts of vandalism in Ferguson as well as widespread calls for an investigation into the incident. On September 3, 2014, The Justice Department announced that it would open a broad civil rights investigation that would examine whether the Ferguson police had a history of discrimination or misuse of force beyond the Michael Brown case. On March 4. 2015, Attorney General Eric H. Holder publicly criticized the Ferguson Police Department …
In Solidarity: Collaborations In Lgbtq+ Activism, Lisa M. Tillmann Ph.D., Kathryn L. Norsworthy
In Solidarity: Collaborations In Lgbtq+ Activism, Lisa M. Tillmann Ph.D., Kathryn L. Norsworthy
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What follows is a fictional account. Our “characters” bear our real names; the other eight are composites of students we have taught and from whom we have learned; activists with whom we have worked; and staff, faculty, and administrators we have trained in venues such as Safe Zone. We portray our ally (Lisa)-lesbian (Kathryn) relationship this way for two reasons: one, we had not secured permission from real students, colleagues, or community members to represent their lives and experiences, and two, we seek a way to show our partnership, both personal and professional since 2000, in action. To each of …
2 Corinthians, David E. Fredrickson
The Benefits Of A For-Credit Course For New Writing Center Staff, Richard Benjamin Crosby
The Benefits Of A For-Credit Course For New Writing Center Staff, Richard Benjamin Crosby
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Some questions about writing center theory and praxis never seem to change: how do we prepare for our clientele? How do we engage them? What questions should we ask? When should we direct them? And when should we encourage them to direct us? The list goes on. Fortunately, we consider it a virtue that we continue interrogating the same issues. As students of rhetoric, we realize that the answers to these questions often depend on the contexts in which they are asked. Thus, we give ourselves over to principles of adaptability. Instead of establishing rigid, universal rules that do not …
Justice By Paperwork: A Day In The Life Of A Court Scribe In Bourbon Mexico City, Michael C. Scardaville
Justice By Paperwork: A Day In The Life Of A Court Scribe In Bourbon Mexico City, Michael C. Scardaville
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The Power Of Apology And The Process Of Historical Reconciliation, Robert R. Weyeneth
The Power Of Apology And The Process Of Historical Reconciliation, Robert R. Weyeneth
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The article analyzes one of the ways that history makes the headlines today: in discussions of whether the present can--and should--apologize for the past. It examines this recent phenomenon by asking if historical apologies have the ability to facilitate a process of historical reconciliation. In its first three sections, the article explores the range and forms of apologies reported in the press during the last decade or so, the motives and goals of apologists, and the reasoning of those with misgivings about the utility and wisdom of apologies. A fourth section assesses the efficacy of historical apologies. Is an apology …
Making Our Home In The Works Of God: Lutherans On The Civil Use Of The Law, Marie A. Failinger, Patrick R. Keifert
Making Our Home In The Works Of God: Lutherans On The Civil Use Of The Law, Marie A. Failinger, Patrick R. Keifert
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No abstract provided.
New Voices In The Nation: Women And The Greek Resistance, 1941-1964, By Janet Hart, Gerasimos Augustinos
New Voices In The Nation: Women And The Greek Resistance, 1941-1964, By Janet Hart, Gerasimos Augustinos
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Reviews the book New Voices in the Nation: Women and the Greek Resistance, 1941-1964, by Janet Hart.
History, He Wrote: Murder, Politics, And The Challenges Of Public History In A Community With A Secret, Robert R. Weyeneth
History, He Wrote: Murder, Politics, And The Challenges Of Public History In A Community With A Secret, Robert R. Weyeneth
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No abstract provided.
"Official Science Often Lacks Humility": Humor, Science, And Technology In Levi's Storie Naturali, Ilona Klein
"Official Science Often Lacks Humility": Humor, Science, And Technology In Levi's Storie Naturali, Ilona Klein
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Primo Levi's third book, written under the pseudonym of "Damiano Malabaila," was published for the first time in the fall of 1966 by Einaudi. Storie naturali is a collection of fifteen short stories which represent the beginning of a new Cours in the author's narrative. After the autobiographical Survival in Auschwitz of 1947 and his second book of 1963 The Reawakening–both dealing with the Holocaust and its aftermath–Storie Naturali ("Natural Stories," not yet published in English) represented such a break in the literary patter established by Levi up to that point, that the author decided to use a …