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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Review Of The Book The Source: A Guidebook To American Genealogy, 3rd Ed., John A. Drobnicki
Review Of The Book The Source: A Guidebook To American Genealogy, 3rd Ed., John A. Drobnicki
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Review of the book The source: A guidebook to American genealogy, 3rd ed.
Dust And Smoke: Desertification, Fire And Elephants In Togo, West Africa, Aaron Barlow
Dust And Smoke: Desertification, Fire And Elephants In Togo, West Africa, Aaron Barlow
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Dust and smoke: from desert and fire. Everyone south of the Sahara in Africa, and not just those in the region where I lived, knows them intimately. From Abidjan to Mombassa, Africans understands what these twinned hazes mean to their lives, their futures. Dual signs of the destruction of the savanna—born of the over-use of farmland and of wood burned as fuel—they’ve become omens, precursors of the desert sands certain to follow. Signals, they are, that life in the villages will only get harder as time passes. This is a story of dust and smoke--and elephants--in one small area in …
The Golden Dawn, Carlo Alvaro
Review Of The Website Cyndi’S List Of Genealogy Sites On The Internet, John A. Drobnicki
Review Of The Website Cyndi’S List Of Genealogy Sites On The Internet, John A. Drobnicki
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Review of the website Cyndi’s list of genealogy sites on the internet.
"Whether Beast Or Human": The Cultural Legacies Of Dread, Locks, And Dystopia., Kevin Frank
"Whether Beast Or Human": The Cultural Legacies Of Dread, Locks, And Dystopia., Kevin Frank
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Analyzing the ongoing problem of Caribbean racial exploitation, particularly fear signified through one of the most potent Caribbean symbols, dreadlocks, Kevin Frank offers a paradigm shift in arguing that Medusa's alterity is altered by Rastafarians' snake-like hair, but the transformative power of Rasta dreadlocks is contested through certain cinematic depictions of dread.
New York Placenames In Film Titles, Jay H. Bernstein
New York Placenames In Film Titles, Jay H. Bernstein
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From 1914 to 2006, 396 feature films with titles containing New York place names were released. This pattern emerged during the silent era, peaked from the late 1920s to the early 1940s, and then dropped off steadily before rebounding in the 1970s. This article discusses the cinematic representation of cities and urban life in the movies and the special place of New York as an “imagined city” and a cultural icon. New York’s associations in the popular imagination help explain the frequent occurrence of themes of negativity, violence, nightlife, and grandiosity (royalty or divinity) in these titles. The use of …
Rock Music Scholarship, Monica Berger
Rock Music Scholarship, Monica Berger
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My challenge is to take my master’s thesis, a lengthy annotated bibliography of academic monographs on rock in American culture, and make it come alive and, in the process, provide a sense of how the academic rock discourse has evolved.
Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid In Post-Civil Rights America And Unfinished Business: Closing The Racial Achievement Gap In Our Schools, Kristopher B. Burrell
Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid In Post-Civil Rights America And Unfinished Business: Closing The Racial Achievement Gap In Our Schools, Kristopher B. Burrell
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This book review of Segregated Schools and Unfinished Business assesses each author's views on the question: can schools be agents of social change? Both books also illustrate that there is much more work that needs to be done in order to fulfill the letter and spirit of the Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954.
Female Agency And Oppression In Caribbean Bacchanalian Culture: Soca, Carnival, And Dancehall, Kevin Frank
Female Agency And Oppression In Caribbean Bacchanalian Culture: Soca, Carnival, And Dancehall, Kevin Frank
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In this essay Kevin Frank discerningly analyzes agency and gender in public sexual performances emanating out of what Paul Gilroy identifies as part of the compensatory politics of the subordinated within Black Atlantic culture, Jamaican dancehall (dancehall reggae/ dancehall queens).
Introduction: The Sexual Body, Shelly J. Eversley, Jennifer L. Morgan
Introduction: The Sexual Body, Shelly J. Eversley, Jennifer L. Morgan
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Introduction to the special issue, "The Sexual Body," edited by Shelly Eversley and Jennifer L. Morgan.
Review Of The Database Proquest Obituaries, John A. Drobnicki
Review Of The Database Proquest Obituaries, John A. Drobnicki
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Review of the database ProQuest obituaries.
Mode, Melody, And Harmony In Traditional Afro-Cuban Music: From Africa To Cuba., Peter L. Manuel
Mode, Melody, And Harmony In Traditional Afro-Cuban Music: From Africa To Cuba., Peter L. Manuel
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No abstract provided.
Harlem, New York, Kristopher B. Burrell
Harlem, New York, Kristopher B. Burrell
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This encyclopedia entry takes a brief span of the history of the Harlem neighborhood in New York City from the 17th century until the present day.
Fifth Millennium Anthropomorphic Figurines In Southeastern And Central Anatolia: Comparative Museum Research., Ellen H. Belcher
Fifth Millennium Anthropomorphic Figurines In Southeastern And Central Anatolia: Comparative Museum Research., Ellen H. Belcher
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The Halaf cultural horizon occurred during the fifth millennium B.C. (uncalibrated) and extended throughout upper Mesopotamia, including southeastern Anatolia. Halaf material culture is well-known for its imaginative and beautifully made architecture, polychrome-painted pottery, geometric stamp seals and figurines. The regional character and variation of Halaf figurine assemblages however, is poorly understood, particularly in southeastern Anatolia. My research and study of these figurines reveals distinct southeastern Anatolian styles and technologies, some of which demonstrate direct connections to central Anatolia.
This article presents preliminary conclusions from a comparative analysis of contemporaneous anthropomorphic figurines belonging to the Halaf and Chalcolithic cultures …
From The Scenes Of Queens: Genre, Aids And Queer Love, Alexandra Juhasz
From The Scenes Of Queens: Genre, Aids And Queer Love, Alexandra Juhasz
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No abstract provided.
The Missing Child In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Thomas R. Frosch
The Missing Child In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Thomas R. Frosch
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The Indian boy over whom the king and queen of fairies quarrel is the most important of several characters in A Midsummer Night's Dream who do not appear on stage: his parents, who form with him a missing nuclear family; a child god, Cupid; and a female authority figure, the dowager to whose property the lovers Lysander and Hermia flee. In its narrative structure the play presents a healing regression to the early mother and the primary process. However, the regressive movement has disturbing, as well as adaptive, elements; in addition, while the characters are still in the forest, the …
The New York Police Officer: Democratic And Moral Accountability In Conflict, Sarah Ryan, Dan Williams
The New York Police Officer: Democratic And Moral Accountability In Conflict, Sarah Ryan, Dan Williams
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The following case draws upon two views of accountability. One is democratic accountability the other is accountability to one's own moral conscience. As the story unfolds, other facts may get in the way but these central views should not be forgotten. The focus of this case is on the individual. However, the material also covers institutional decisions and policies that deserve considering. The institutional story is the background, not the foreground, of this case. Yet, when the institutional features are considered, they may give new insight to the individuals' decisions.
Joan Beverly Kroc, John A. Drobnicki
Joan Beverly Kroc, John A. Drobnicki
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Joan Kroc, who was the third wife of McDonald’s Corporation founder Ray Kroc, was a peace advocate and philanthropist.
Review Of The Page Turner, Michael Adams
Review Of The Page Turner, Michael Adams
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Review of Denis Dercourt's 2006 film: http://www.media-party.com/discland/2007/07/the-page-turner.html
Review Of Pretty Things, Michael Adams
Review Of Pretty Things, Michael Adams
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Review of Gilles Paquet-Brenner's Pretty Things: http://www.media-party.com/discland/2007/12/pretty-things.html
Madame De Staël, The Protestant Reformation And The History Of ‘Private Judgement’, Helena Rosenblatt
Madame De Staël, The Protestant Reformation And The History Of ‘Private Judgement’, Helena Rosenblatt
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It is a well-known fact that Madame de Staël held the Protestant Reformation in high regard and preferred Protestantism to all other religions. To her, Protestantism was the most moral and the most enlightened religion available; it was the the religion most compatible with, and even conductive to, progress.
But why was this so, and what exactly did Madame de Staël mean by Protestantism? It is an important question, because answering it will shed light on the nature of her liberalism and, more particularly, on the interconnectedness of her religious and her political views.
Embracing Diversity For The Sake Of Unity: Linguistic Hegemony And The Pursuit Of Total Spanish, José Del Valle
Embracing Diversity For The Sake Of Unity: Linguistic Hegemony And The Pursuit Of Total Spanish, José Del Valle
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This article analyzes the linguistic ideologies associated with the international promotion of Spanish and with the constitution of a panhispanic community. It focuses of the ideological dimension of diversity within these linguistic ideologies.
Review Of Hamlet, Michael Adams
Review Of Hamlet, Michael Adams
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Review of Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet: http://www.media-party.com/discland/2007/09/hamlet-1996.html
Review Of Help!, Michael Adams
Review Of Help!, Michael Adams
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Review of Richard Lester's Help!: http://www.media-party.com/discland/2008/01/help.html
On The Intellectual Sources Of Laïcité: Rousseau, Constant, And The Debates About A National Religion, Helena Rosenblatt
On The Intellectual Sources Of Laïcité: Rousseau, Constant, And The Debates About A National Religion, Helena Rosenblatt
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That French Protestants gave strong support to laïcité is by now well established. In recent work, Patrick Cabanel has even made a compelling case for the Protestant sources of laïcité, placing particular emphasis on the Protestant entourage of Jules Ferry (1832-1893) and stressing the inspiration provided by the pro-Protestant intellectual, Edgar Quinet (1803-1875.)
This article suggests that we look even earlier in time for the intellectual sources of laïcité. Seminal ideas can be found in the writings of two liberal Protestants, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) and Benjamin Constant (1767-1830.) Rousseau is usually counted among the opponents, and not the …
Roots Of Modern Arabic Script: From Musnad To Jazm, Saad D. Abulhab
Roots Of Modern Arabic Script: From Musnad To Jazm, Saad D. Abulhab
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No abstract provided.
Stonewall, Polly Thistlethwaite
Stonewall, Polly Thistlethwaite
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This is a brief history of the Stonewall Inn in New York City's Greenwich Village, site of massive resistance to police harassment in June 1969. The Stonewall Riot immediately became a rallying point for U.S. gay liberation movements. The Stonewall resistance is commemorated by annual gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) protests and celebrations around the world.
Review Of The Book Ancestral Trails: The Complete Guide To British Genealogy And Family History, 2nd Ed., John A. Drobnicki
Review Of The Book Ancestral Trails: The Complete Guide To British Genealogy And Family History, 2nd Ed., John A. Drobnicki
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Review of the book Ancestral trails: The complete guide to British genealogy and family history, 2nd ed.
Cuban Femininity And National Unity In Louisa May Alcott's Moods And Elizabeth Stoddard's "Eros And Anteros", Nina Bannett
Cuban Femininity And National Unity In Louisa May Alcott's Moods And Elizabeth Stoddard's "Eros And Anteros", Nina Bannett
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This book chapter compares the depictions of Cuban women in Louisa May Alcott's first adult novel Moods (1864) and Elizabeth Stoddard's short story "Eros and Anteros" (1862). Both writers configure a love triangle between an Anglo man and two women, one Anglo and one Cuban. In both texts, the Cuban woman is rejected as an unsuitable choice for an Anglo man. Alcott’s and Stoddard’s decision to re-value the Anglo woman as the more appropriate choice can be read as a rejection of the popular nineteenth-century political doctrine of manifest destiny and, at least with Alcott, of the United States’s dependence …
"Unrighteous Compact": Louisa May Alcott's Resistance To Contracts And Promises In Moods, Nina Bannett
"Unrighteous Compact": Louisa May Alcott's Resistance To Contracts And Promises In Moods, Nina Bannett
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Alcott’s first adult novel, Moods, initially published in 1864, presents oral promises between women as extralegal alternatives to standard legal contracts between men and women. In the 1864 edition of Moods, Alcott's protagonist, Sylvia Yule, fails to understand the constraints of marriage as a type of contract, and the results are dramatic. In fact, Alcott undermines the idealized marriage plot so crucial to her later, wildly popular works like Little Women (1868-69). In the 1864 Moods, Alcott boldly questions both legal contracts and oral promises characteristic of nineteenth-century conceptions of romantic love and heterosexual friendship.