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Sense Make Before Book, Bradley Sinanan

Theses and Dissertations

“Sense Make Before Book” is an Indo-Caribbean turn of phrase which refers to common sense being more important than book smarts. My sister sent me a post the other day on Instagram of an Trinidadian woman using this phrase, saying it was one of Indo-Caribbean origin. I was interested and asked my mom about it. My mom says that when she was younger my grandpa said it often around their house in Princes Town, Trinidad and Tobago. This adage feels charged thinking about the history of indenture and its effects on the Indo-Caribbean diaspora.

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2023-12-20 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

Staff Congress Records

A message from the President to the campus community on the passing of professor of emeritus Larry Albert on December 20, 2023.

2023-12-00 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress newsletter from December of 2023.

2023-11-27 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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A message from the President to the campus community on upcoming events.

Taking Dominion To End Dominion: The Mennonite Influence On The End Of Russian Serfdom, H. Michael Shultz Jr.

Bound Away: The Liberty Journal of History

Serfdom in Russia was abolished in 1861, only 76 years after the first Mennonites were invited into Russia by Catherine II. By examining the lifestyle of the Mennonites who settled in the agriculturally productive “New Russia” (modern-day Ukraine), as well as the impact that the Mennonites had on the Imperial family, peasantry, and government, it is evident that the Mennonites played a recognizable role in bringing about the abolition of serfdom across the empire.

2023-11-06 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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A message from the President to the campus community on upcoming events, recognitions, and a report on the Board of Regents meeting the week prior sent on November 6, 2023.

2023-11-00 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

Staff Congress newsletter from November of 2023.

2023-10-18 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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A message from the President to the campus community on the death of Jason Justice on October 18, 2023.

Casar Public Lecture: Mapping The Journeys Of Enslaved People From Zanzibar To The Gulf, The Prince Alwaleed Center For American Studies And Research Casar

Performances, Events, and Presentations

Part of the CASAR October lecture series and in partnership with AUC’s history department, this event featured guest scholar John Thabiti Willis, an associate professor of history at Clarendon College in Northfield Minnesota. For the last ten years Thabiti has dedicated himself to the study of African contributions to the history and heritage of pearling in the Gulf. In this event, AUC had the honor of listening to how Thabiti uses geographical information systems (GIS) to organize primary evidence gathered from manumission statements to analyze enslaved peoples journeys from Zanzibar to British political agents in Bahrain, Muscat, and Sharjah between …

2023-10-09 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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A message sent on October 9, 2023 from the President of Morehead State University to the campus community regarding upcoming dates and events. Plus, a summary of academic affairs leadership searches in progress.

2023-10-03 Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes from October 3, 2023.

2023-09-29 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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A message sent on September 29, 2023 from the President of Morehead State University to the campus community regarding upcoming dates and events. Plus, a summary of external grants and contracts received by the university.

2023-09-14 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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A message sent on September 14, 2023 from the President of Morehead State University to the campus community regarding upcoming dates and events.

2023-09-05 Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes from September 5, 2023.

‘Following The Line Of Least Resistance’: African American Women In Domestic Work, 1899–1940, Taylor Simsovic

Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History

This paper examines the challenges faced by African American women employed in domestic service between 1899 and 1940, with a focus on how race, class, and gender intersected to shape their experiences. Specifically, the study investigates how these women continued to perform reproductive labor as they migrated from the South to Northern states during the Great Migration. Drawing on a range of primary and secondary sources, the analysis argues that Black women's persistent employment in undervalued labor within white American homes was driven by the mutually constitutive systems of capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy. These systems channeled Black women into …

2023-09-00 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress newsletter from September of 2023.

Take Back The Power: The Fall And Rise And Fall Of New York City's Transport Workers Union Local 100, 1975–2009, Marc Kagan

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Take Back the Power: The Fall and Rise and Fall of Transport Workers Union Local 100, 1975-2009 tracks the history of this strategically significant union from the onset of New York City’s fiscal crisis in 1975 to the end, in 2009, of a second attempt to free transit workers from the grip of neoliberal economic austerity.

The first effort began in 1978 and culminated with the eleven-day 1980 transit strike, initiated by union dissidents over the opposition of the union president, but abruptly ended by him before a decisive victory could be won. That president, and his successors, reconciled themselves …

The State Of The Unions 2023: A Profile Of Organized Labor In New York City, New York State, And The United States, Ruth Milkman, Joseph Van Der Naald

Publications and Research

This report released by the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies, State of the Unions 2023: A Profile of Organized Labor in New York City, New York State, and the United States, is a part of an annual publication series, documents recent trends in unionization patterns. The overall level of unionization in both the City and State has been roughly double the national rate over the past two decades. But recently, union density has fallen more in New York City and New York State than in the United States as a whole. In the mid-2010s, both the City and …

2023-08-28 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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A message sent on August 28, 2023 from the President of Morehead State University to the campus community regarding upcoming dates and events, and the razing of Wetherby Gymnasium.

[Foreward To] Public Workers In Service Of America: A Reader, F. W. Gooding Editor, Eric S. Yellin Editor

Bookshelf

"From white-collar executives to mail carriers, public workers meet the needs of the entire nation. Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin edit a collection of new research on this understudied workforce. Part One begins in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth century to explore how questions of race, class, and gender shaped public workers, their workplaces, and their place in American democracy. In Part Two, essayists examine race and gender discrimination while revealing the subtle contemporary forms of marginalization that keep Black men and Black and white women underpaid and overlooked for promotion. The historic labor actions detailed …