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Bernard Binlin Dadié, Le Père De La Littérature En Côte D’Ivoire, Claire L. Dehon 2014 Kansas State University

Bernard Binlin Dadié, Le Père De La Littérature En Côte D’Ivoire, Claire L. Dehon

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

To fully understand today’s literature in the Ivory Coast, it is important to remember its first steps. A general overview of the main ideas and characteristics of Bernard B. Dadié’s literary works demonstrates the audacity and originality of the first Ivorian who wrote in French, and who helped impose French as the national language in the Ivory Coast.


A New Mmpi-2 Measure Of Psychopathy: An Empirical Approach, Erin M. Greene 2014 Indiana State University

A New Mmpi-2 Measure Of Psychopathy: An Empirical Approach, Erin M. Greene

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The purpose of the current study was to develop a new scale on the MMPI-2 to identify individuals with global psychopathy, as measured by the PCL-R. The study consisted of four smaller studies, including 1) derivation of the scale 2) cross-validation 3) external validation, 4) factor analysis. The derivation sample consisted of male prison inmates (N = 170) and a second sample of male prison inmates (N = 126) was utilized for cross-validation. A third sample of male and female college students (N = 308) was utilized for the purpose of correlating the developed scale with existing measures of personality …


Multi-Timescale Dynamics Of Land Surface Temperature, Peng Fu 2014 Indiana State University

Multi-Timescale Dynamics Of Land Surface Temperature, Peng Fu

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Spatial and temporal patterns of land surface temperature (LST) have been used in studies of surface energy balance, landscape thermal patterns and water management. An effective way to investigate the landscape thermal dynamics is to utilize the Landsat legacy and consistent records of the thermal state of earth’s surface since 1982. However, only a small proportion of studies emphasize the importance of historical Landsat TIR data for investigating the relationship between the urbanization process and surface thermal properties. This occurred due to the lack of standardized LST product from Landsat and the unevenly distributed remote sensing datasets caused by poor …


A Qualitative Study Of Nursing Living-Learning Communities, Renee Noel Bauer 2014 Indiana State University

A Qualitative Study Of Nursing Living-Learning Communities, Renee Noel Bauer

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Living-learning communities, although not a novel concept, have been known to promote student performance and a sense of collegiality. Because nursing is essential to the medical profession, nursing student retention and pass rates are of paramount importance. Attrition tends to happen to nursing students in their first formative years (Newton & Moore, 2009). Therefore, this study was conducted to explore findings associated with living arrangements and residential factors promoting and deterring retention. Although most studies on this topic have utilized quantitative methods, this qualitative comparative case study, involving two universities in Indiana during the winter of 2014, examined the personal …


Seeking Infinity: Exploring The Meaning And Potential Of Young Adult Literature, Jacinta Yanders 2014 Indiana State University

Seeking Infinity: Exploring The Meaning And Potential Of Young Adult Literature, Jacinta Yanders

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The category of Young Adult (YA) Literature has experienced tremendous growth in terms of readership and works produced over the course of the last fifteen years or so. While there has been some scholarly work done on the category, the research pales in comparison to almost any other facet of literature. For whatever reasons, scholars have largely decided to ignore the changes that have occurred in YA. However, that has not stopped readers from continuing to read these books. In fact, this paper not only addresses the background and what I believe to be the defining characteristics of YA, but …


The Ecology And Morphology Of Deep-Sea Benthic Foraminifera: The Australian Margin And Epifaunal Pore Characteristics, Jake Willingham 2014 Indiana State University

The Ecology And Morphology Of Deep-Sea Benthic Foraminifera: The Australian Margin And Epifaunal Pore Characteristics, Jake Willingham

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The distribution and abundance patterns of modern benthic foraminifera are used by paleoceanographers to assess changes in ocean conditions over geologic time. Examination of modern foraminiferal analogs provides the means to determine how these single-celled protists record clues about ambient conditions in their morphology and abundance/distribution patterns. Abundance and vertical distribution patterns of deep-sea benthic foraminifera were examined along the South Australian Margin and Tasman Sea of Australia. This was one of the first studies to examine microhabitat preferences of living (Rose Bengal stained) deep-sea benthic foraminifera within the region. A total of 11 sediment cores were collected via multicorer. …


An Introduction To African-Centered Sociology: Worldview, Methodology And Social Theory, Karanja Keita Carroll 2014 CUNY Bernard Baruch College

An Introduction To African-Centered Sociology: Worldview, Methodology And Social Theory, Karanja Keita Carroll

Publications and Research

Current advances in Africana (Black) Studies utilize an African-centered conceptual framework in the study of Africana life, history, and culture. This conceptual framework has been utilized and expanded on by those developing scholarship in the sub-discipline areas of Africana Studies, including African-centered psychology, history, and literature. However, to date the articulation of an African-centered sociology, grounded in an African-centered conceptual framework, has not developed; neither has it occurred for African-centered sociology as a sub-discipline of Africana Studies, a sub-discipline of traditional sociology, or as a stand-alone discipline, itself. After a review of the worldview concept and framework and an analysis …


Righting/Writing The Black Female Body In Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Literature, Flávia Santos de Araújo 2014 University of Massachusetts Amherst

Righting/Writing The Black Female Body In Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Literature, Flávia Santos De Araújo

Africana Studies: Faculty Books

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An African-Centered Approach To Land Education, Salvotore Engel-DiMauro, Karanja Keita Carroll 2014 SUNY New Paltz

An African-Centered Approach To Land Education, Salvotore Engel-Dimauro, Karanja Keita Carroll

Publications and Research

Approaches to environmental education which are engaging with place and critical pedagogy have not yet broadly engaged with the African world and insights from Africana Studies and Geography. An African-centered approach facilitates people's reconnection to places and ecosystems in ways that do not reduce places to objects of conquest and things to be exploited for profitability and individual gain. Such an approach offers effective critiques of settler coloniser perspectives on the environment and deeper understandings of the relationship between worldview and ecologically sensitised education. Through examples from Africana Studies and Geography, this article provides an introduction to how an African-centered …


On The Impossibilities Of A Post-Racist America In The Obama Era, Karanja Keita Carroll 2014 CUNY Bernard Baruch College

On The Impossibilities Of A Post-Racist America In The Obama Era, Karanja Keita Carroll

Publications and Research

This chapter interrogates the reality of racism and white supremacy in what some today refer to as “the Obama era” and what others regard as evidence of a “post-racist America.” By utilizing an African-centered conceptual framework, centering on culture and worldview, this discourse constitutes a critical examination of the impossibilities of a post-racist America by investigating the lived experiences of African-descended people and other communities of color. Through this analysis, it will be evident that while we may be in “the Obama era,” we are far from a post-racist society. Thus, discussions of post-racism are assessed as conceptual masks used …


Black Gay Genius Interview With Lisa C. Moore, Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz 2014 CUNY Graduate Center

Black Gay Genius Interview With Lisa C. Moore, Shawn(Ta) Smith-Cruz

Publications and Research

An interview with the publisher of Redbone Press, the small press, black lesbian owned and operated, that republished the archival material of Joseph Beam, excavating the work of the gay black male icon and writer of Brother to Brother and In the Life.


Book Review Of: The African Genius: An Introduction To African Cultural And Social History, Basil Davidson, Tufail A. Qureshi 2014 Institute of Business Administration, Karachi

Book Review Of: The African Genius: An Introduction To African Cultural And Social History, Basil Davidson, Tufail A. Qureshi

Business Review

Book review, Africa, Culture, Social history


"'Jackin’ For Beats'": Djing For Citation Critique, Todd Craig 2013 CUNY New York City College of Technology

"'Jackin’ For Beats'": Djing For Citation Critique, Todd Craig

Publications and Research

A challenge in teaching English composition is helping students envision plagiarism as “borrowing” – showing love to author(s) and/or text(s) that further their argument(s), versus “stealing” – biting someone’s style and words. Alastair Pennycook (1996) and Sarah Wakefield (2006) have contributed pieces to the elaborate plagiarism/citation puzzle, while Houston Baker situated the hip-hop DJ in seminal text Black Studies, Rap and the Academy (1993). Merging these moments introduces critical questions: Did Diddy invent “the remix” or become the illest beat-biter ever? How did DJ/Producers Pete Rock and Large Professor pay homage to previous musical genres to further hip-hop remix production …


Morality, The Sacred And God In Ghanaian Hip- Hop, Harry N. K. Odamtten 2013 Santa Clara University

Morality, The Sacred And God In Ghanaian Hip- Hop, Harry N. K. Odamtten

History

The adoption of Hip-Hop by the world’s youth is a turning point in the history of youth culture in particular and global public culture in general. The embracing of Hip-Hop in the West African country of Ghana is exemplary of this worldwide transformation. The indigenous Ghanaian version of Hip-Hop is Hip-Life. This Ghanaian musical genre is a combination of Hip-Hop and High-Life. High-Life is also a Ghanaian genre with West African and Afro- Diaspora roots. It emerged in Ghana as part of the anti-colonial struggle in West Africa, and has spawned of many varieties until the emergence of Hip- Life. …


Teaching And Pedagogy In Africana Studies: Implications Of An African Worldview, Karanja Keita Carroll 2013 CUNY Bernard Baruch College

Teaching And Pedagogy In Africana Studies: Implications Of An African Worldview, Karanja Keita Carroll

Publications and Research

The African worldview has informed much of the African centered scholarship produced within contemporary Africana/Black Studies. In doing so, the African worldview has functioned as the methodological foundation for the production, interpretation and dissemination of knowledge related to people of African ancestry. Africana Studies instructors and professors can also utilize the philosophical assumptions that inform the African worldview to create and recreate dynamic, culturally centered teaching practices. Given the central role of teaching at the undergraduate level within the discipline of Africana Studies it is crucial that instructors and professors concentrate on the development of discipline-specific pedagogical practices. This essay …


A Nation In Name, A 'State' In Exile : The Frelimo Proto-State, Youth, Gender, And The Liberation Of Mozambique 1962-1975, Michael Gerald Panzer 2013 University at Albany, State University of New York

A Nation In Name, A 'State' In Exile : The Frelimo Proto-State, Youth, Gender, And The Liberation Of Mozambique 1962-1975, Michael Gerald Panzer

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

This dissertation analyzes the early political development of the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) during the 1960s. The thesis offers several new theoretical perspectives on the evolution of FRELIMO as a liberation front. While operating from military bases, settlement camps, and urban settings in Tanzania, FRELIMO functioned as a proto-state with authority derived from a contingent sovereignty. At the beginning of the anti-colonial war against Portugal in September 1964, FRELIMO was able to help organize and oversee the lives of thousands of Mozambican refugees who fled into Tanzania to escape the escalating violence. Many of these refugees became FRELIMO's revolutionary constituents …


James Baldwin, Flannery O’Connor, And The Ethics Of Anguish, Carole K. Harris 2012 CUNY New York City College of Technology

James Baldwin, Flannery O’Connor, And The Ethics Of Anguish, Carole K. Harris

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.


The Rebound Effect: The Use Of Short-Term Mating Strategies After The Dissolution Of A Significant, Loving Relationship, Sarah L. Pierce 2012 Indiana State University

The Rebound Effect: The Use Of Short-Term Mating Strategies After The Dissolution Of A Significant, Loving Relationship, Sarah L. Pierce

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No abstract provided.


Negrocity: An Interview With Greg Tate, Camille Goodison 2012 CUNY New York City College of Technology

Negrocity: An Interview With Greg Tate, Camille Goodison

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.


Introduction To Vo. 9 Of Du Bois Review, Michèle Lamont, Jessica S. Wellburn, Crystal M. Fleming 2012 Harvard University

Introduction To Vo. 9 Of Du Bois Review, Michèle Lamont, Jessica S. Wellburn, Crystal M. Fleming

Africana Studies: Faculty Publications

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