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Understanding The Public Health Role, Motivations, And Perceptions Of Community Health Workers Deployed To Low-Income Housing In Richmond, Virginia, Iyabo Obasanjo, Alison Scott, Monica Griffin, Amma Agyemang-Duah, Charlie Westhoff, Stephanie Toney, Patrice Shelton
Understanding The Public Health Role, Motivations, And Perceptions Of Community Health Workers Deployed To Low-Income Housing In Richmond, Virginia, Iyabo Obasanjo, Alison Scott, Monica Griffin, Amma Agyemang-Duah, Charlie Westhoff, Stephanie Toney, Patrice Shelton
Arts & Sciences Articles
Background
For the US health indicators to improve to the level of other developed countries, the use of Community Health Workers (CHWs) in vulnerable populations has been indicated as a possible long-term intervention. There are few models of long-term deployment of CHWs as part of the district level public health system in the US.Method
In this study we interviewed CHWs who served as neighborhood-integrated health district staff assigned to low-income housing in Richmond, Virginia for 10 years. Qualitative analyses of their taped and transcribed interviews resulted in 5 themes from the interviews. The themes were Activities, Satisfaction, Strengths, Facilitation/Resources …Black Lives, White Kids: White Parenting Practices Following Black-Led Protests, Allison P. Anoll, Andrew M. Engelhardt, Mackenzie Israel-Trummel
Black Lives, White Kids: White Parenting Practices Following Black-Led Protests, Allison P. Anoll, Andrew M. Engelhardt, Mackenzie Israel-Trummel
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Summer 2020 saw widespread protests under the banner Black Lives Matter. Coupled with the global pandemic that kept America’s children in the predominant care of their parents, we argue that the latter half of 2020 offers a unique moment to consider whites’ race-focused parenting practices. We use Google Trends data and posts on public parenting Facebook pages to show that the remarkable levels of protest activity in summer 2020 served as a focusing event that not only directed Americans’ attention to racial concepts but connected those concepts to parenting. Using a national survey of non-Hispanic white parents with white school-age …
Quality Of Communications Infrastructure, Local Structural Transformation, And Inequality, Camilo Acosta, Luis Baldomero-Quintana
Quality Of Communications Infrastructure, Local Structural Transformation, And Inequality, Camilo Acosta, Luis Baldomero-Quintana
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We analyze the causal impact of improvements in the quality of communication infrastructure on the structural transformation of US counties. Our treatment is the quality of communication infrastructure in a county, measured by the average Internet speed offered to businesses. We use as an instrumental variable the spatial structure of ARPANET, a network funded by the Department of Defense that is considered the precursor of the Internet, and whose location we determine using historical government documents. We show that faster Internet stimulates short-run growth and increases the shares of employment and GDP in high-skilled services, while negatively affecting sectors such …
Behind The Brick Walls: On “Hearth” And Slavery At The William & Mary, Terry L. Meyers
Behind The Brick Walls: On “Hearth” And Slavery At The William & Mary, Terry L. Meyers
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Excerpt from the article: "The William & Mary was the second university in the U.S. after Brown University to establish a funded, institutional examination of its dark history of complicity with slavery and Jim Crow segregation. After resolutions from the Student Assembly and Faculty Assembly, the Board of Visitors in 2009 established the Lemon Project: A Journey of Reconciliation, named after Lemon, a man enslaved by the College..."
The “Shoe Holly” And The “Dressing Trees” On Richmond Road, Terry L. Meyers
The “Shoe Holly” And The “Dressing Trees” On Richmond Road, Terry L. Meyers
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Excerpt from the article: "A site connecting the W&M campus and local Black history should be recorded--the “Shoe Holly” on Richmond Road, just off the corner of Bryan Hall..."
W&M’S Kkk Flagpole: Found?, Terry L. Meyers
W&M’S Kkk Flagpole: Found?, Terry L. Meyers
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Excerpt from the article: "Ever since 2008, when I wrote a piece for the Gazette about Williamsburg’s almost century old encounter with the KKK, I’ve been on a hunt for a flagpole. In 1926, 5000 Klansmen flocked to town to see W&M dedicate the Klan’s gift to the College—a huge American flag and a 70 foot flagpole to fly it. I wanted to know what became of that pole..."
The “Peculiar Institution” In And Near Williamsburg, Terry L. Meyers
The “Peculiar Institution” In And Near Williamsburg, Terry L. Meyers
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Excerpt from the article: "Slavery in Williamsburg and nearby—what was it like? Depends on who you ask..."
Scenes From Williamsburg’S 19th Century, Terry L. Meyers
Scenes From Williamsburg’S 19th Century, Terry L. Meyers
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Excerpt from the article: "When the capital of Virginia shifted from Williamsburg to Richmond in 1780, Williamsburg’s history shifted too, but did not end—three little known accounts of the town offer glimpses of life into the nineteenth century..."
W&M’S Memorials To Benjamin S. Ewell, Terry L. Meyers
W&M’S Memorials To Benjamin S. Ewell, Terry L. Meyers
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"As far as I can tell, Benjamin S. Ewell, the College’s sixteenth president (1854-1888), has been memorialized at William and Mary more than any other person. That is not surprising given his long tenure as president, his dedication to the College, and his titanic efforts on its behalf, especially in the decades after the Civil War..."
Speculations On Structures Once Near The Site Of Lemon Hall, Terry L. Meyers
Speculations On Structures Once Near The Site Of Lemon Hall, Terry L. Meyers
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"One of the most intriguing views of Williamsburg in antebellum days depicts a series of large and small structures along Jamestown Road, roughly between where Barrett Hall and Lemon Hall stand today.
Made between 1859 and 1862 by James Austin Graham (1814/15-1878), the panorama presents Williamsburg as viewed roughly from where the law school is today and sweeps along the entire southern edge of town, from the Capitol on the east to, on the west, about the site of the College’s Lemon Hall..."
On Joe And The Burial Place(S) Of The Enslaved At William & Mary, Terry L. Meyers
On Joe And The Burial Place(S) Of The Enslaved At William & Mary, Terry L. Meyers
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"It is possible that in the 17th or 18th century W&M opened a burial ground on its 330 acre campus and that it buried there those it enslaved over some 172 years. We have no documentation of that, although we have several references to the College’s providing coffins.1 Since those record no further expenses such as transport to the grave or digging the grave, I presume there would have been no such expenses--other of our enslaved would undertake such tasks as part of their job..."
The Prehistory Of The Hollywood Eastern Genre, John Eisele
The Prehistory Of The Hollywood Eastern Genre, John Eisele
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Writing At The Williamsburg Bray School?, Terry L. Meyers
Writing At The Williamsburg Bray School?, Terry L. Meyers
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"I’ve become interested recently in whether writing was taught to the pupils in the Williamsburg Bray School. I had assumed all along that it was, and that the discovery of 40 some slate pencils at the Bray School Dig was confirmation of that.
I’d not been alone in my assumption about the teaching of writing, for the great majority of those interested in the Bray School have affirmed that the curriculum included writing..."
Darkening Mirrors: Imperial Representation In Depression-Era African American Performance, Arthur Knight
Darkening Mirrors: Imperial Representation In Depression-Era African American Performance, Arthur Knight
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Excerpt from publication: "Darkening Mirrors takes off from Stephanie Leigh Batiste’s notice that an array of black performances from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s share a common interest in empire. Batiste includes a diversity of material in the category of 'black performance...'"
American Studies, Cultural History, And The Critique Of Culture, Richard S. Lowry
American Studies, Cultural History, And The Critique Of Culture, Richard S. Lowry
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For several decades historians have expressed reservations about how scholars of American studies have embraced theory and its jargons. The program for a recent American studies convention seems to confirm the field’s turn from history and its embrace of the paradigms and practices of cultural studies. The nature of this gap is complicated by comparing scholarly work published since 2000 on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era in the respective flagship journals of each field. Scholars in both fields are committed to the study of culture, but they differ in how they understand historical agency and subjectivity. A historical overview …
The Politics Of War: Race, Class, And Conflict In Revolutionary Virginia. By Michael A. Mcdonnell. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University Of North Carolina Press, 2007. Pp.568. $45.00.), Robert G. Parkinson
The Politics Of War: Race, Class, And Conflict In Revolutionary Virginia. By Michael A. Mcdonnell. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University Of North Carolina Press, 2007. Pp.568. $45.00.), Robert G. Parkinson
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Excerpt from publication: "When an author admits that what he has uncovered in the archives was “something of a surprise to [him],” chances are what follows will be promising (2). This certainly holds true for Michael A. McDonnell’s masterful new book...."