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Migration And Cultural Identity: Performing The Afro-Caribbean Woman's Struggle, Elvinet Samantha Wilson

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Current research suggests a relationship between cultural identity negotiation and the phenomenon of border crossing. While a wealth of literature exists on the topic of migration, few studies reflect a scope that includes in-depth analysis of the experiences of Afro-Caribbean women in the United States.Through ethnographic and autoethnographic methodologies, and using a feminist theoretical lens, this study explores issues relating to cultural identity negotiation in the lives of 10 Black women from Jamaica, The Bahamas, and Trinidad, who now reside in the Midwest region of the United States. Analysis based on a grounded theory approach, allowed themes to emerge from …

Federal Acknowledgement Of Indian Tribes: Current Bia Interpretations Of The Federal Criteria For Acknowledgement With Respect To Several Northwest Tribes, Rosemary Sweeney

American Indian Law Review

No abstract provided.

Gabrielino/Tongva Bibliography, Brianne Gillen, G. Edward Evans

Librarian Publications & Presentations

This bibliography brings together publications about the Gabrielino/Tongva Nation of Southern California. It includes books, periodical and newspaper articles, dissertations, and government documents, and covers the Nation’s rich history, from prehistoric times to the present. The bibliography is inspired by Mary La Lone’s Gabrielino Indians of Southern California: An Annotated Ethnohistoric Bibliography, and continues where she left off in 1976. Her bibliography contained 182 items, all of which are included in this volume as well as 374 items post 1976.

One of the goals of the project was to acquire as many of the items for the Loyola Marymount University …

Public Outreach And The "Hows" Of Archaeology : Archaeology As A Model For Education, Jon Darin Daehnke

Dissertations and Theses

There is growing awareness of the importance of public outreach in archaeology. Many professional archaeologists argue that in order to ensure continued funding we must communicate the relevance of our discipline to the public in a more effective manner. Furthermore, it is often argued that public outreach and education provides perhaps the only reliable defense against looting and rampant psuedoarchaeology.

Current outreach activities, however, tend to focus on what archaeologists have discovered about the past. While this type of outreach is important, a more effective model for public outreach would focus on the methods of archaeology, rather than the results. …

Broad Are Nebraska's Rolling Plains: The Early Writings Of George Bird Grinnell, Richard Vaughan

Articles by Maurer Faculty

Profiles the life of writer George Bird Grinnell (1849-1938) and the influence his first trip to Nebraska had in shaping his early writings about the American West. Among the works he published were several groundbreaking books about the Plains Indians of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Not only did this 1870 trip to Nebraska, as a member of O. C. Marsh’s first Yale Paleontological Expedition, influence Grinnell's scholarly endeavors, but his deep interest in the state also influenced his lifelong devotion to environmental preservation and established him as an important advocate for the protection and welfare of Native …

Winning On For The Gipper: Diversity Strategies And Initiative At Notre Dame, Hugh R. Page Jr., Ph. D., Richard Pierce Ph. D., Gina Shropshire Ph. D., Lynn Todman Ph. D.

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)

One of the enduring images linked to the University of Notre Dame is that of injured football player George Gipp imploring Coach Knute Rockne to "Win One for the Gipper. " Similarly, people of color and conscience at Notre Dame struggle with formidable challenges in implementing diversity into areas of faculty retention, university initiatives and community outreach, all while remaining sane. The panelists will discuss innovative successes and continuing efforts that can be adapted by others seeking a game plan for diversity.

Academentia: Physiological Stress, Toxic Work Sites And The Neutralization Of Blackness By The Whiteness Standards Of Professionalization, Enoch H. Page Ph.D.

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)

Using auto-ethnographic methods, supplementing by current race theories, along with interviews from other scholars, I regard academentia as a form of professionalism most readily communicable to academics of color seeking advance. It can also infect those whose embrace of blackness (widely defined across cultures) is the least tolerant of the racial designs of white cultural practices. Where in the interest of students and colleagues, such academics challenge the whiteness criteria defining academic success, most of their peers adhere to the racial standards of professionalism.

Multiple Perspectives On A Failed Attempt At Diversity, Fay Akindes, Michele Gee Ph.D., Farida Khan, Mary Kay Schleiter Ph.D.

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)

Four faculty members from diverse disciplines and backgrounds use a polyvocal method of analysis to discuss a set of patterns which insure the failure of a campus to retain most faculty and teaching academic staff of color for more than a few years.

The Recruitment And Retention Of Students Of Color At Private Institutions, Anthony Cortese

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)

This session presents a longitudinal study of recruitment and retention of students of color at a predominantly white university in the American Southwest. The institution was able to increase minority student enrollment 14 percent in fewer than ten years. This was accomplished through the careful development, implementation and evaluation of a policy designed to recruit and retain minority students. The specifics of this policy and how it may be used as a model for other predominantly white institutions are discussed.

Making The Canon: Whose Postcolonial Literature Is It?, Sonia Delgado-Tall Ph.D.

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)

The presenter argues that post-colonial literatures are increasingly "culturally" appropriated by Western literacy critics and institutions. Their so-called incorporation into the category of World literatures has had little impact on North/South political and economic relations and Western representations of non-western cultures in popular culture. Moreover, the process of decolonization needs to be re-activated by African scholars from the South living in the North as well as within African universities.

Competing Interests: Strategies For Working With Diverse Minority Groups, Dorscine Spigner Littles Ph.D., Amelia M. Adams M.A.

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)

Intentionally or non-intentionally, budgetary constraints have caused ethnic groups on many predominantly white campuses to compete among themselves for a share of limited power and resources. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss strategies that will provide equitable access to resources, information, finances and opportunities to have a representative community that reflects the diverse populations on campuses.

Engaging In Difficult Dialogues Beyond Color: Where Do You Draw The Line Between Race, Gender And Authority In The Classroom?, Safoura A. Boukari

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)

Grounding the discussion in Check Anta Diop’s Cradle theory, this paper invites us for a critical thinking and questioning of the very existence, the relevance of the color concept itself alongside the negative and detrimental impacts color has on, especially, Black women in academia. Historical, anthropological, scientific findings and theorists of the “Monogenesis” like, Asa G. Hilliard III (Free Your Mind: Return to the Source) traced the human origin back to a single human being, a woman, more than 10.000 years ago. In reference to the current trend, skin color could be defined as nothing, but the result of an …

So You Think You Hired An American Indian, David Cornsilk, Dean Flechs, Mary Lee Johns, Helen Long Soldier

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)

This session will focus on the importance of ethnic identity as it pertains to American Indians. Most predominantly white institutions of higher education do not verify the self¬reported ethnicity of faculty, staff or students. Most tribally controlled institutions require documentation through enrollment/other proof How do universities verify Indian identity?

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 77, No. 15, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Bennett, Jacob. Village Idiots Get Fired – Adam Kelly, Jeremy Sharfe, New Rock 92
• Warren, Brandy. Western Asks for $80 Million from Council on Postsecondary Education
• Dittmeier, Kate. Campus Celebrates Coming Out Day
• Shinall, Dave. Military Enlistment Unaffected - Afghanistan
• Corbin, Brett. Counseling Available for Depression
• Who the Heck Are the Real idiots? – New Rock 92
• Grady, Brian. Editorial Cartoon re: Village Idiots
• Get Ready for When the Walls Come Down – Buildings
• Law, John. Shame on the College Heights Herald – Sexual Assault Reporting
• Meyer, Sherri. Caring …

Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 28, No. 3, October 2001, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

Noticias de NACCS Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Historiography Of The Dakota Conflict, Kellian Clink

Library Services Publications

I am honored to be allowed to address this group today. I am a librarian by trade and a historian by avocation. I have been studying history for something like 20 years as a student and a lay reader and am interested how history has changed during that period, but more generally, how it has changed and is changing throughout the history of our state. To this end, I decided to study a relatively finite event, the Dakota War, from the beginning of Minnesota’s historical writings to the present. My hypothesis was that I would find both overt racism as …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 77, No. 5, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Warren, Brandy. Unwritten Guidelines Changing; Attempts at Written Policy Fail – Alcohol
• Hall, Rex. Administrators Will Try to Stop Underage Drinking at Tailgating – Alcohol
• Dawes, Jennifer. Western Takes Lead in Energy Conservation
• Compton, Michael. World Wrestling Federation Tags out, Fans Stunned.
• Lord, Joseph. Olive Garden Closes, Smokey Bones Coming
• Look Out Washington, D.C. the Toppers Are Coming – Lobbying
• Grady, Brian. Editorial Cartoon – Big Red Bucks
• Bold Teachers Make the Hill a Cooler Place – Shelly Arsneault
• Corbin, Brett. You Clean, I’ll Write
• Corbin, Brett. Parking Patrols …

Imagining The South Seas: Thoughts On The Sexual Politics Of Paradise In Samoa, Sharon W. Tiffany

Pacific Studies

Controversy generated by criticism of research Margaret Mead conducted nearly three-quarters of a century ago reminds us that modern ethnography came of age with fieldwork conducted on the sexual lives of Pacific Islanders. The Samoa debate suggests that an exotic eroticism continues to inform representations of women in anthropological writings and popular culture, and that Samoa is a candidate for sexual paradise on earth. This article explores the image-making of paradise by examining book covers and photographs associated with Margaret Mead’s and Derek Freeman’s narratives of Samoa. As cultural artifacts, book covers and photographs offer an intriguing way of investigating …

Book Review Forum Response: John Lynch, John Lynch

Pacific Studies

Response of John Lynch to Book Review of "John Lynch, Pacific Languages: An Introduction"

Visual Media Reviews: Taking Pictures, Nancy Lutkehaus

Pacific Studies

Taking Pictures. 1996. Video, 56 min., color. Written, produced, and directed by Les McLaren and Annie Stivan. Distributed by First Run/Icarus Films (32 Court St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; fax: 718 – 488 – 8642; ; http://www.frif.com).

Reviewed by Nancy Lutkehaus, University of Southern California

Books Noted: Recent Pacific Islands Publications: Selected Acquisitions, January-June 2001, Riley M. Moffat

Pacific Studies

This list of significant publications relating to the Pacific Islands was selected from new acquisitions lists received from Brigham Young University– Hawai‘i, University of Hawai‘i at Mânoa, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, University of Auckland, East-West Center, University of the South Pacific, National Library of Australia, Melanesian Studies Resource Center of the University of California–San Diego, and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community Library. Other libraries are invited to send contributions to the Books Noted Editor for future issues. Listings reflect the extent of information provided by each institution.

Vol. 24 No. 3/4 (2001): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Pacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US $40.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, …

Book Review Forum: John Lynch, Pacific Languages: An Introduction, Susan U. Philips

Pacific Studies

Book review of "John Lynch, Pacific Languages: An Introduction" by Susan U. Philips

Germs Or Rations? Beriberi And The Japanese Labor Experiment In Colonial Fiji And Queensland, Judith A. Bennett

Pacific Studies

In the early 1890s, the Colonial Sugar Refinery Company (CSR) introduced Japanese men to their sugar plantations in Fiji and Queensland because man- agement believed they would prove to be superior workers to other “coloured” labor. In Fiji, an outbreak of beriberi killed many of the Japanese. The medical establishment attributed this to an infective agent, instead of diet, so there was fear the disease could spread. CSR quickly abandoned the costly “experiment” in Fiji. In Queensland, however, the company successfully controlled a beriberi outbreak by altering the rations, though for fear of contaminated food rather than for balanced diet. …

Legal Discretion In A Territorial Justice System: The Case Of The Territory Of Guam, Daniel A. Lennon

Pacific Studies

A sociologist examines the place of customs and tradition in the definition of “legal discretion” in the Territory of Guam, a dependency of the United States, utilizing the concept of double-institutionalism as the basis for such definition in the resolution of the dialectic between custom and law. The contemporary resolutions between customary practices and constitutional law in Guam are de- scribed and evaluated using both written and interview material. The findings suggest the internal politics of a state is the synthesis of this dialectic between custom and law. The absence of constitutional bases in law in any political state necessarily …

Book Review Forum: John Lynch, Pacific Languages: An Introduction, Richard Mcginn

Pacific Studies

Book review forum of "John Lynch, Pacific Language: An Introduction" by Richard McGinn

Book Review: Robert L. Welsch, Editor And Annotator, An American Anthropologist In Melanesia: A. B. Lewis And The Joseph N. Field South Pacific Expedition, 1909–1913. Volume 1, Field Diaries, Nick Stanley

Pacific Studies

Robert L. Welsch, editor and annotator, An American Anthropologist in Melanesia: A. B. Lewis and the Joseph N. Field South Pacific Expedition, 1909–1913. Volume 1, Field Diaries, pp. xxi, 632, maps, photographs, references, index; volume 2, Appendices, pp. 287, bibliography. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 1998. US$125 cloth.

Reviewed by Nick Stanley, University of Central England

Book Review Forum: John Lynch, Pacific Languages: An Introduction, Byron W. Bender

Pacific Studies

John Lynch, Pacific Languages: An Introduction. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 1998. Pp. xix, 359, preface, tables, figures, maps, appendices, notes, references, index. US$35 paperback.

Review: Byron W. Bender University of Hawai‘i

Book Review: Jane Samson, Imperial Benevolence: Making British Authority In The Pacific Islands, Sally Engle Merry

Pacific Studies

Jane Samson, Imperial Benevolence: Making British Authority in the Pacific Islands. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 1998. Pp. 256. US$35 cloth.

Reviewed by Sally Engle Merry, Wellesley College

Vol. 23 No. 1/2 (2000): Pacific Studies Front Matter, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Front Matter for the Vol. 23, No 1/2-Mar./Jun. 2000 edition of the Pacific Studies Journal.