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Comparing African Cultural Retention And Its Effect On Racial Attitudes In The Music And National Identities Of Cuba And The United States, Lucie Turkel

Honors Scholar Theses

This project investigates to what extent the African roots of popular music in Cuba and the United States are acknowledged and examines if this level of cultural acknowledgement has any influence on the postcolonial social, cultural, and economic treatment of African Americans and Afro-Cubans. Does a greater and/or more widespread acceptance of African cultural retention and overall African heritage in a country’s national identity help alleviate racism in that country? Using primary sources from Cuban and American music and cultural periodicals, economic statistics, and political and cultural histories, I have determined that Cuba has a higher level of African cultural …

Colby College Presentation--“Who Gets To Tell Story”, Rhea Cote Robbins

Rhea Cote Robbins

Coptic Scriptorium, Caroline T. Schroeder, Amir Zeldes

Department of Religious Studies Faculty Digital Projects

Coptic SCRIPTORIUM is a platform for interdisciplinary and computational research in texts in the Coptic language, particularly the Sahidic dialect. As an open-source, open-access initiative, our technologies and corpus facilitate a collaborative environment for digital research for all scholars working in Coptic. We provide:

• tools to process Coptic texts
• a searchable, richly-annotated corpus of texts using the ANNIS search and visualization architecture
• visualizations of Coptic texts
• a collaborative platform for scholars to use and contribute to the project research results generated from the tools and corpus

Coptic SCRIPTORIUM is a collaborative, digital project created by Caroline T. Schroeder (University of …

Coptic Scriptorium

Caroline Schroeder

• tools to process Coptic texts
• a searchable, richly-annotated corpus of texts using the ANNIS search and visualization architecture
• visualizations of Coptic texts
• a collaborative platform for scholars to use and contribute to the project research results generated from the tools and corpus

Empire And Romance: John Masters's Nightrunners Of Bengal, Fikret Mehmet Arargüc

Fikret Mehmet Arargüc

This article discusses the importance of romance in the fictional representations of the Indian Uprising in 1857 and the Raj in general. The uprising deeply impacted the psyche of both British and Indian writers; however, until the end of the Raj’s rule, only British and Anglo-Indian romances comprised the (official) literary output of the event. Bearing this in mind and considering that the literary and ideological format of romance with its emphasis on wish-fulfilment had stimulated a widespread imperial utilization, and that these romances later turned into highly influential historical documents, Arargüç contends that the romance became the authoritative narrative …