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Always Passing, Alan Clinton

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

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The essay leading off this issue of Reconstruction, "History, Ethnicity and Religion and the Sudanese North-South Conflict," points out not only the slipperiness of race, but the fact that it is erased and reappears depending on various political contexts. Muslims in Northern Sudan, although claiming an ethnic identity, "are not Arab in a genetic sense." Rather, the goal was to pass as Arab in order to gain status (trade relationships, escape from slavery) with Muslims in the Arabian Peninsula. Yet, what may have begun for many as a pragmatic conversion has in turn passed into an identity claimed …

Contributors, Alan Clinton

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

Information about editors and contributors to articles in volume 8, issue 4 of Reconstruction.

Soc 3420 : Sociology Of Popular Culture, Sociology And Anthropology

Approved Course Proposals

No abstract provided.

¿Qué Nos Cuentan Los Jeroglíficos? Arqueología E Historia En Caracol, Belice, Diane Z. Chase, Arlen F. Chase

Anthropology Faculty Research

No abstract provided.

Jeroglíficos Y Arqueología Maya ¿Colusión O Colisión?, Arlen F. Chase, Diane Z. Chase, Rafael Cobos

Anthropology Faculty Research

No abstract provided.

To Keep You Is No Gain, To Destroy You Is No Loss : A Study Of The Historical And Behavioral Roots Of Cambodian Genocide Under Democratic Kampuchea, Jennifer Croslow

Honors Capstones

This essay is a study on totalitarianism and genocide through the lens of historical manipulation and cultural behavior unique to Cambodia (later called Democratic Kampuchea under the Khmer Rouge). The purpose is to describe the cause and effect that colonial machinations and native social behaviors had on the development and perpetuation of the Khmer Rouge. The study is limited by time and research capabilities, as I do not yet speak, read, or write Khmer or Vietnamese. Because the topic spans over two-hundred years, the research focuses on the two endpoints of colonialism and totalitarianism and neglects the time continuum in-between. …

The Cultural Commons: An Interview With Michael Denning, Victor Cohen

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

Michael Denning is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American Studies at Yale University. His first two books, Cover Stories: Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller (Routledge, 1987) and Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working Class Culture (Verso, 1987), examined the politics of popular fiction. He followed them up with The Cultural Front: Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (Verso, 1998), which has become the encyclopedic study of the culture of the American Popular Front. Denning's most recent work, Culture in an Age of Three Worlds (Verso, 2004), analyses the rise and fall of American …

Report, Assessment Plan, 2008-2009, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Nelson Poynter Memorial Library

All-Library Assessments Reports, Summaries & Misc Reports

An assessment of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's Nelson Poynter Memorial Library.

Torture And The Biopolitics Of Race, Dorothy Roberts

University of Miami Law Review

No abstract provided.

Creating Masculine Identities: Bullying And Harassment "Because Of Sex", Ann C. Mcginley

University of Colorado Law Review

This Article deals with group harassment of women and men in the workplace under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, the Supreme Court held that Title VII forbids harassment by members of the same sex, but it also emphasized that Title VII is implicated only if the harassment occurs "because of sex." Oncale's "because of sex" requirement has spawned considerable confusion in same-sex and different sex harassment cases. This Article focuses on four fact patterns that confuse courts, scholars, and employment lawyers. In the first scenario, men harass women in traditionally male …

Tms : L'Influence Des Représentations De La Maladie, De La Douleur Et De La Guérison Sur Le Processus De Réadaptation Au Travail, Raymond Baril, Marie-José Durand, Marie-France Coutu, Daniel Côté, Geneviève Cadieux, Annick Rouleau, Suzy Ngomo

Rapports de recherche scientifique

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Problématique de santé et sécurité du travail et objectifs spécifiques :

Les troubles musculo-squelettiques (TMS) affectent une grande proportion des travailleurs du Québec et engendrent des coûts humains, sociaux et financiers très importants. Ces troubles laissent des séquelles persistantes chez une proportion non négligeable de travailleurs. Afin d’effectuer un retour au travail sain et sécuritaire, ceux-ci doivent souvent avoir recours à un processus de réadaptation. Le processus de réactivation et de retour au travail n’est pas nécessairement linéaire. Les travailleurs passent plutôt par des phases caractérisées par une évolution physique, psychologique …

Avant-Propos , Olivier Moréteau

Journal of Civil Law Studies

No abstract provided.

Analyzing Property In Different Societies , Jacques Vanderlinden

Journal of Civil Law Studies

No abstract provided.

Rethinking Civil-Law Taxonomy: Persons, Things, And The Problem Of Domat’S Monster, Eric H. Reiter

Journal of Civil Law Studies

No abstract provided.

Robert Anthony Pascal: Writings About Law, 1937-2008

Journal of Civil Law Studies

No abstract provided.

Extreme Precipitation Trends In New England, Susan Grace Spierre

Master's Theses and Capstones

Decision-makers require current data and analysis on extreme precipitation events and trends to facilitate effective adaptation. Here, multiple definitions of extreme precipitation (accumulations of one-inch, two-inch and four-inches, ten-, five- and one-yr. recurrence intervals, and the 99th percentile of events) are used to examine changes in the frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation events in New England over the past 60-100 years. Correlations of trends in extreme precipitation events with temperature and with indices of atmospheric circulation patterns are also investigated.

Predominately positive trends were found for all extreme precipitation definitions. For example, increases of 1 events/decade in one-inch events …

A Study Of Organizational Culture In Campus Recreation: A Competing Values Approach, Scott Butch

Master's Theses and Capstones

The purpose of this study was to assess organizational culture in campus recreation departments and its links with organizational effectiveness. The competing values theory and subsequent framework was used to determine if there were significant differences in the organizational cultures of campus recreation departments based upon specified dependent variables including their administrative unit (academics, athletics, business operations or student affairs), their institutional size (small, medium, medium-big, or large), and their institutional control (public or private). A quantitative survey instrument based upon the competing values framework was used to sample campus recreation directors and professional staff members in institutions of higher …

"The Invisible Lines Between Us": Border-Making In Anglo-America, 1750--1800, Cameron B. Strang

Master's Theses and Capstones

This thesis explores how the boundary-making practices of white officials came to be the dominant way of dividing and claiming the American landscape. It argues that, in the late colonial era, neither Indians nor officials could actualize their desired boundaries. Indians' map-based boundaries were annulled by white officials while officials' land surveys were subject to onsite termination and manipulation by Indian groups. White frontier settlers, however, developed powerful ways to establish their land claims---namely informal delineations backed by actual settlement---that could not be prevented by officials or Indians. In the final years of the colonial era and the first decades …

Upstairs, Downstairs: Subnational Incorporation Of International Human Rights Law At The End Of An Era, Martha F. Davis

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Scale Of Networks?: Local Climate Change Coalitions, Hari M. Osofsky, Janet Koven Levit

Chicago Journal of International Law

Spring 2007 was a heady time for climate advocates. The fourth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change expressed an overwhelming scientific consensus that anthropogenic climate change is a serious problem. The US Supreme Court not only addressed climate change for the first time, but also found that the US Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") had abused its discretion in denying a petition asking it to regulate motor vehicle emissions . The UN Security Council also took an initial look at climate change, with a ranging debate over its security implications. Amid that furor, it is perhaps unsurprising that another …

Proceedings Of The 102nd Asil Annual Meeting, New Voices Inspire New Directions, Mark A. Drumbl

Scholarly Articles

The participants in this New Voices panel inspire theoretical innovation. They contest orthodoxies and align new visions. Each of the papers is complex and nuanced while delivering precise and tangible arguments.

John And Qumran: Discovery And Interpretation Over Sixty Years, Paul N. Anderson

Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology

No abstract provided.

No.5 - January 2008, Center Of Civil Law Studies

The Center of Civil Law Studies Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Vico, Llewellyn And The Task Of Legal Education, Francis J. Mootz Iii

Scholarly Works

Legal education fails students by not appreciating the rhetorical basis of legal reasoning and argumentation. I draw from Vico's "On the Study Methods of Our Time" and Llewellyn's legal realism; both argued that law and legal reasoning are exemplary sites of rhetoric. I suggest that contemporary cognitive studies of the metaphorical structure of human understanding and the initiatives of the "new legal realism" carry forward the insights of Vico and Llewellyn. This re-orientation corrects the shallow and instrumentalist outlook of most lawyers.

Survey Of Forensically-Important Calliphoridae In Kingston And St. Andrew, Jamaica, West Indies, Wayne Anthony Cranston

LSU Master's Theses

The first research to be done in Jamaica on forensically-important species was conducted at the Government of Jamaica Forensic Laboratory in Kingston and St. Andrew in two phases. Phase 1was conducted from July 5 to July 24, 2007, and phase 2 was conducted from February 11 to February 28, 2008. In the phase 1 study, one local black colored Landrace pig (Sus scrofa L.) carcass that weighed 21kg was used as a model for human bodies to determine the rate of decomposition and the pattern of insect succession on decomposing bodies in Jamaica. Ants were the first arthropods to arrive …

Salient Experiences That Shape My Pedagogy, Frances S. Adeney, William A. Benfield

The Asbury Journal

Predicated upon Plato's dialogical method of inquiry, this professor's teaching style acknowledges the value found in community dialogue and the importance of incorporating Bloom's six levels of cognitive thinking in the classroom. Rejecting rote memorization and one-way dialogue, she explores truth in fiction and narrative and often uses the dramatic moment as a teaching tool- finding and using a key moment in a scholar's discovery, a contradiction in a text ,or a face-off of the "truth" of opposing positions to unveil prejudicial attitudes, reveal places where a student's thinking is struck, or show the irreducible complexity of an ethical issue.

Mckillop Library Newsbrief Jan 2008

McKillop Library Newsbrief

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Where Do You Get Your Produce? Participation In The Farmer’S Market In Santa Elena, 2008, Allison Cantor, Charlotte Noble, Aidan Seale-Feldman, Caitie Trucksess, Dawn Waltonbaugh

Monteverde Institute: Culture, Community, and Health

A study on the participation at the farmer's market in Santa Elena.

Coping With Everyday Classism: Exeriences Of Low-Income People In A Southeastern Rural Community, Susan Faye Ritz

Open Access Dissertations

The present research provided an in-depth look at experiencing and coping with everyday classism in a sample of low-income. people in a mid-size southeastern rural United States community. The study employed a qualitative methodology consisting of semi-structured interviews and analyzing the collected data using Grounded Theory Method. Of 50 participants selected for an interview, 40 described experiences with classism, each discussing two incidents, for a total of 80 incidents shared. Seven of the remaining 10 participants felt that they had not experienced class ism, but at the same time, they provided insight into one proactive coping strategy that they appeared …

Constitutional Possibilities, Lawrence B. Solum

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

What are our constitutional possibilities? The importance of this question is illustrated by the striking breadth of recent discussions, ranging from the interpretation of the United States Constitution as a guarantee of fundamental economic equality and proposals to restore the lost constitution to arguments for the virtual abandonment of structural provisions of the Constitution of 1789. Such proposals are conventionally understood as placing constitutional options on the table as real options for constitutional change. Normative constitutional theory asks the question whether these options are desirable--whether political actors (citizens, legislators, executives, or judges) should take action to bring about their plans …