Resurrecting Gaelic: Modernity And Heritage Language Revival In Scotland In A Comparative Perspective, Sean Coady

Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects

Many people from across the world have little or no connection to their heritage languages. Whether this loss is caused by conquest, colonialization, or simply lack of parent-child transmission, many believe that they are missing an integral part of their cultural identity and want to reclaim the languages of their forebearers. There is wide debate about how, why, and if this linguistic reclamation and revitalization should happen because, in the face of modernity and language evolution, the best solutions are not always clear. What constitutes successful language revitalization in the modern world, and why does it happen? Gaelic in Scotland …

Nationless States And Stateless Beings: The Politics Of Identity And Citizenship In Claudio Mir’S Mondongo Scam And Cheech Marin’S Born In East L.A., Rebecca A. Barnes

Vernacular: New Connections in Language, Literature, & Culture

In the colloquial sense of the term, the word citizen refers to an individual who belongs to a nation, either by birthright or by naturalization. Therefore, citizenship denotes a political and a social belonging, an ideological home, and, in most cases, a strong foundation for the development of one’s personal identity. However, since nations are inherently artificial structures, made only tangible in the present day by a few centuries of recorded history, a philosophical approach to the term citizen complicates this definition. Based off critics including Hannah Arendt, Homi Bhabha, Fernando Ortiz, and Jacques Derrida, this essay seeks to explore …

From Black Studies To Multiculturalism: The Evolution Of The Bolinga Black Cultural Resources Center At Wright State University, 1971-2018, Opolot Okia

History Faculty Publications

With the growth of Black studies departments and programs across the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the field developed with a prominent multidisciplinary focus and a mission to affect meaningful social change. Much of the literature on the Black studies movement has focused on the academic programs and departments established during this formative period. Outside of Ohio State University and Kent State University, little has been published on the development of Black studies in Ohio. Moving beyond academic programs, there is also very little research on Black cultural centers. Compounding this problem, the research on Black …

Res Historica, Volume 1, Lynneth Miller Renberg Phd, Alpha Rho Epsilon Phi Alpha Theta

Res Historica

The inaugural journal of historical research by Anderson University students, Res Historica.

The editorial team for this edition of Res Historica was Dr. Lynneth Miller Renberg, Hunter Curlee, and Johnathan Sorce. Cover art for this volume is the Phi Alpha Theta: Alpha Rho Epsilon logo created by Dr. Lynneth Miller Renberg.

U.S. Muslim College Students' Spatialization Of Their Muslimness: An Exploration Of Muslim Linguistic And Cultural Identities Across Social Spaces, Ibrahim Demir

Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies ETDs

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this multiple-case study was to explore how four US-born Muslim college students spatialized their linguistic and cultural identities within and across their social, academic, and religious spaces. The data were collected through detailed and in-depth data collection methods involving multiple sources of information: observations in the above-mentioned spaces, focus group interviews, autobiographies, drawings, images, and narratives. The data were analyzed through spatial analytical perspectives.

This study was drawn on Lefebvre's (1991) Spatial triad of perceived, conceived, and lived spaces, Soja's (1996) interpretation of spatiality and Thirdspace, and Bhabha's (2004) concept of Hybridity. This study presented how …

English And Cultural Studies, Spring 2022, English And Cultural Studies Department

Bryant University Communications and Press

No abstract provided.

_Las Vidas Negras_: Examining Identity Among Afro-Latinos In The Us In The Twilight Of Black Lives Matter, Victor Garcia

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This work seeks to name how the Black Lives Matter movement, and related movements for Black liberation and justice, has had an effect on the self-perception and identities of US-based Afrolatinos. Using survey and interview data, I tease out issues of ethnoracial dissonance, social identity, and the ways that Afrolatinos have used the context of Black Lives Matter to make sense of the antiblackness they have faced. This is a significant investigation because it speaks to the potential for a richer tradition of pan-Africanism taking root in Latin America and among Latin Americans of African descent.

Making A Way: An Auto/Ethnographic Exploration Of Narratives Of Citizenship, Identity, (Un)Belonging And Home For Black Trinidadian[-]American Women, Anjuliet G. Woodruffe

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The goal of this research study is to gather, convey and explore the lived experience related to transnational identity construction for Black Trinidadian[-]American women. I adopt an interdisciplinary approach to better understand what it means to live as, and be, a Black Trinidadian[-]American. Using auto/ethnography and interviews, I seek to answer the following research questions: (1) How do Black Trinidadian[-]American women describe their negotiation of cultural identity in Trinidad and the United States? (2) How do Black Trinidadian[-]American women describe “in-between” homeplaces within the intersectional context of gender, race, class, and culture? (3) How do Black, Trinidadian[-]American women describe transnational, …

Inés María Mendoza: Del Magisterio A La Escritura En La Fortaleza De San Juan De Puerto Rico, Sarah J. Monsalve R.

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Inés María Mendoza, la figura pública puertorriqueña, sigue siendo un misterio. A pesar de que se han abordado diferentes aspectos de su vida en otros estudios, en esta tesis el énfasis está puesto en rescatarla como escritora, fundamentalmente a través del análisis de dos géneros literarios en los que ella destacó: los artículos periodísticos y los ensayos, de los cuales hacemos un análisis exhaustivo a nivel retórico. Al rescatar el valor literario de su obra se propone leer a la autora dentro de la generación del 30. Sin embargo, para entender el fondo de su mensaje hemos recurrido al marco …

Translanguaging Space In A Bilingual Program In New York City Chinatown Middle School, Xiaodi Zhou, Danling Fu

Bilingual and Literacy Studies Faculty Publications

This study explores how translanguaging pedagogy was practiced in a New York City Chinatown middle school to engage emergent bilingual students (EBs) with diverse language literacy backgrounds in their study of the grade level social studies curriculum. The data were collected over the past two decades while we worked with classroom teachers in search of effective ways to improve EBs’ school performance. We revisited this data utilizing a translanguaging lens to reconceptualize this past work and reframe our analysis to deepen understanding of translanguaging teaching praxis. Therefore, this research not only seeks possible ways to meet challenges in the education …

Diversity And Multiculturalism In The 21st Century, Oluremi "Remi" Alapo

Publications and Research

This is a presentation on Diversity and Multi-Culturalism in the 21st Century related to the individual and society based on responses from in-class assignments during various semester course sessions [from 2019 to 2021] taught by the presenter at the York College [CUNY]. In the course in addition to culture, students learned about norms, values, systems of beliefs, social interaction, verbal and non-verbal communication, race and ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation and gender, technology and culture, cultural universalism and relativism, and how these affect our shared or distinct day to day cultural practices and social interaction in our various communities.

At the …

Nations Within Nations: The Heterogeneity Of Mexican Transnationals Of Indigenous Descent From Anzalduan Lenses, David Martinez-Prieto

Bilingual and Literacy Studies Faculty Publications

This chapter analyzes the significance and limitations of utilizing Gloria Anzaldúa’s framework when examining Mexican transnational communities of Mesoamerican ancestry after they return to Mexico. In this way, this chapter calls for a better understanding of the historical and political factors that impact the identities of Mexican transnationals of Indigenous origin. Based on data collected during three investigations with transnational (pre)service teachers from Indigenous communities in the Mexican states of Puebla (2017), Tlaxcala (2017), and Oaxaca (2018), the author analyzes the pertinence of Anzaldua’s framework in understanding the subjugation and internal differences of Indigenous transnational populations. This chapter also examines …

Liturgy And Musical Inculturation In A Post-Apartheid South African Catholicism, Austin Chinagorom Okigbo

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

There is a developing trend within mainstream South African Churches to incorporate styles of traditional African music and cultural elements in liturgical functions. This is happening in places where such ideas were hitherto unwelcome because mission churches witnessed the denigration of indigenous African cultures by Europeans during the eras of both colonialism and apartheid. Inculturation Theology underscores the current drive for liturgical transformation. It comprises a part of Black Theology in South Africa, which developed as an intellectual framework for liberation during the time of the anti-apartheid struggles. Using the ethnographic study of the cultural mass at Emmanuel Cathedral in …

العولمة والاتصال والثقافات الوطنية أية رهانات؟, محمد الإدريسي العلمي المشيشي

Dirassat

Globalization, Communication and National Cultures

This introductory lesson deals with the dialectic of the relationship between the globalization of communication and the patriotism of culture, at the level of content and form, and the stakes, and the attendant theoretical and conceptual problems and what this requires of keeping pace with theory and knowledge at the national and international levels.

From Rumi To The Whirling Dervishes: Music, Poetry And Mysticism In The Ottoman Empire, Walter Feldman

Music & Performance in Muslim Contexts

Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, whose life and mystical poetry provided the inspiration for the Mevlevi Sufi order, is one of the world's best-known poets.

Yet the centuries-long musical tradition cultivated by the Mevleviye remains much less known. In this deeply researched book, renowned scholar Walter Feldman traces the historical development of Mevlevi music and brings to light the remarkable musical and mystical aesthetics of the Mevlevi ayin – the instrumental and vocal accompaniment to the sublime ceremony of the 'Whirling' Dervishes.

This accessible introduction to the relationship between music and the performative elements of Sufi practice presents the biographies of the …

Book Review: Reckonings: Numerals, Cognition, And History By Stephen Chrisomalis, Milton Rosa, Daniel Clark Orey

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

This review of Reckonings shares our thoughts on the diverse insights presented by Stephen Chrisomalis’s version of the history of numerical notation. Chrisomalis suggests that members of distinct cultural groups write numbers as an active choice in accordance with their own sociocultural contexts, which reflect the influences of historical, cognitive, social, economic, political, environmental, and cultural factors. This book integrates comparative, cognitive, and evolutionary understandings on numerical cognition with historical and linguistic evidence on the use and transformation of numeral systems through the historical advancement of numeracy. Chrisomalis offers an interesting historical perspective on numbers that builds upon three main …

Pengaruh Kebijakan Laïcité Terhadap Muslim Di Institusi Pendidikan Negeri Prancis Pada Masa Pemerintahan Macron, Syifa Radhityani Esmano, Airin Miranda

Multikultura

Prinsip sekularisme yang dikenal dengan nama laïcité telah ada di Prancis sebagai representasi bangsanya, yang menekankan adanya pemisahan agama dengan negara di ruang publik termasuk pada institusi pendidikan negeri. Penelitian ini akan memperlihatkan bagaimana dampak dari implementasi kebijakan laïcité yang diatur dalam UU 1905 terhadap muslim di institusi pendidikan negeri Prancis pada masa pemerintahan Emmanuel Macron. Metode yang akan digunakan adalah kualitatif dengan teknik pengumpulan data secara kepustakaan yang dampak dari kebijakannya akan dilihat melalui artikel-artikel berita. Penelitian ini menghasilkan temuan bahwa Undang-Undang 1905 mengenai laïcité yang pada awalnya diterapkan untuk menghindari adanya perbedaan antar masyarakatnya dan memberikan landasan Bersama …

Diplomasi Publik Rusia Di Indonesia: Pendekatan, Aktor, Dan Instrumen, Reynaldo De Archellie

Multikultura

Komunikasi antarnegara dan antara negara dengan publik di negara lain diperlukan untuk mengkomunikasikan tujuan-tujuan politik luar negeri sebuah negara. Diplomasi publik merupakan instrumen kunci diplomasi yang digunakan sebuah negara untuk membangun opini publik di negara asing dengan cara menjelaskan konteks kebijakan dalam dan luar negeri yang telah diputuskan. Perubahan sosial secara global, seperti demokratisasi, globalisasi, dan revolusi teknologi information telah melahirkan pendekatan diplomasi publik baru/new public diplomacy yang ditandai dengan pendekatan multi-aktor dan formasi hubungan antaraktor melalui aktivitas dialogis dan berjaringan. Rusia sebagai negara great power berusaha memanfaatkan globalisasi dan kemajuan teknologi informasi untuk membuat dirinya diterima secara luas oleh …

Krisis Pariwisata Olahraga Jepang: Olimpiade 2020 Dan Pandemi Covid-19, Fiqih Rusdy Zulkarnain, Didit Dwi Subagio

Multikultura

Pada tahun 2013 International Olympic Committee (IOC) telah menetapkan Tokyo sebagai tuan rumah Olimpiade 2020. Tiga tahun kemudian Bank of Japan merilis laporan penelitian yang memproyeksikan pertumbuhan pariwisata Jepang pada tahun 2020. Namun laporan tersebut berbeda jauh dari proyeksinya, hal tersebut dikarenakan adanya pandemi COVID-19 yang menghancurkan sektor pariwisata dan pariwisata terkait olimpiade di Jepang. Penelitian ini membahas mengenai krisis pariwisata dan dampak yang ditimbulkan akibat adanya pandemi COVID-19, khususnya pada pariwisata terkait Olimpiade Tokyo 2020. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kuantitatif dan analisis deskriptif yakni dengan membandingkan data jumlah wisatawan asing dan pengeluaran wisatawan asing sebelum dan saat pandemi COVID-19 …

Analisis Semiotika Anggota Keluarga Dalam Iklan Natal Supermarket Di Belanda: Plus (2018), Jumbo (2019), Dan Albert Heijn (2019), Gabrielle Ratri Nurityasari, Fajar Muhammad Muhammad Nugraha

Multikultura

Penelitian ini membahas peran anggota keluarga di Belanda yang terdapat pada iklan natal supermarket PLUS (2018), JUMBO (2019), dan Albert Heijn (2019). Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengidentifikasi peran ayah, ibu, dan anak dalam keluarga Belanda. Penelitian ini menggunakan teori semiotika Roland Barthes. Agar fokus penelitian ini terjaga, maka adegan pada iklan yang dianalisis hanya yang menunjukkan sosok ayah, ibu, dan anak. Untuk mengidentifikasi mitos yang terdapat pada adegan mengenai peran ayah, ibu, dan anak, adegan-adegan tersebut melewati proses analisis makna denotasi dan konotasi. Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah ketiga iklan tersebut mencerminkan keadaan keluarga Belanda saat ini. Ayah …