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Why Are Writers Of Color Underrepresented Among Published Authors? One Poet's Questions And Possible Solutions, Clara B. Jones

The Review Review

On 7 November 2015, The Atlantic published an article by Kavita Das titled, “Writers shouldn't romanticize rejection: in the literary world, talent isn't hiding. It's being ignored.” The article advanced two major premises: that a minority “voice” may be “alien or unrecognizable” and that rejection is a function of “power” relations. In Das' words, “Is my voice going to be somehow alien or unrecognizable to the person I am submitting it to?” Though the author recognizes that her essay might apply to all writers from underrepresented groups, she directs her concerns primarily to “writers of color.” While I agree that …

"We Recognize And Aim To Foster Feminism In All Its Manifestations, Waves, And Expressions": A Chat With Monica J. Casper, Editor Of Trivia: Voices Of Feminism, Monica J. Casper, Alicia Cole

The Review Review

Monica J. Casper, Head of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona, has published five books and numerous articles, is co-editor of TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism, and is a managing editor of The Feminist Wire. Her creative writing has appeared in Mojave River Review, Slow Trains, Vine Leaves, The Linnet’s Wings, and elsewhere. Born and raised in the Midwest, she currently resides in Tucson with her partner, daughters, and two canines. For more information, visit www.monicajcasper.com.

Views Of The Highway: Infrastructure Reality, Perceptions, And Politics, Linda M. Fogg, Lawrence C. Hamilton, Erin S. Bell

Faculty Publications

Transportation infrastructure such as highways and bridges requires upgrades and maintenance. In many U.S. regions, these requirements have surpassed current funding, so new solutions are needed. One obvious though imperfect source is gasoline taxes, but raising these is politically risky, regardless of need. To illuminate this conflict, we analyze data from four random-sample telephone surveys (2016–2018, n = 2,035) that asked residents in the U.S. state of New Hampshire about their perceptions of highway and bridge conditions, and support for gas tax increases. About one third of the respondents counterfactually reported that highway and bridge conditions had improved compared with …

Defying Dementia: An Exploration Of Recovery, Deb Miller, Corey W. Johnson

The Qualitative Report

Exploring the human side of dementia helps put a face on this fast-growing affliction. This study reflects one elderly woman’s story of recovery from dementia that arose following a stroke. Painting a portrait of life with dementia can help us conceptualize the experience, how people live and how they would like to live. The woman is Marcia, my mom, and this is a qualitative inquiry with a collaborative narrative design to explore her experiences and to document my own. This study may help dementia patients and their support teams better understand the process of living with dementia and can perhaps …

The Meaning Of Javanese Adolescents' Involvement In Youth Gangs During The Discoveries Of Youth Identity: A Phenomenological Study, Enung Hasanah, Supardi Supardi

The Qualitative Report

Yogyakarta is a part of Javanese society. Javanese culture, which always enforces moral values, has a practical implication toward adolescents' views about their self-identity. Yogyakarta adolescents are well known to have positive self-identity, good behavior, and tend to become successful persons in their youth. In the past years, a phenomenon of youth gangs that often conduct irresponsible acts such as brawls, stabbing terror, and even murder has emerged. The question of the research is how adolescent members of a youth gang give meaning to their involvement in a youth gang. To answer the question, we used a phenomenological research method. …

Relationship-Enhancing Transcendent Religious Experiences Encourage Relational Meaning, Depth, Healing, And Action, David C. Dollahite, Loren D. Marks, Alyssa Banford Witting, Ashley B. Lebaron, Kaity Peal Young, Joe M. Chelladurai

Faculty Publications

Research on the relationship between religion, spirituality, and health suggests that religious involvement can help people deal with various kinds of adversity. Although there has been a great deal of work on the influence of religious involvement and religious and spiritual practices on physical, mental, and relational health, there exists a gap in the theoretical and empirical literature about the potential benefits of transcendent religious experiences on marriage and family relationships. We report some findings from a study of in-depth interviews with 198 religious American exemplar families from diverse religious, ethnic, and geographic backgrounds. The religious-ethnic make-up of the sample …

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol 54, Number 3, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

POPULATION STRUCTURE IN HISPANIC ST. AUGUSTINE, 1629-1763 Theodore G. Corbett
MADISON COUNTY’S SEA ISLAND COTTON INDUSTRY, 1870-1916 Clifton Paisley
THEODORE ROOSEVELT ENTERTAINS BOOKER T. WASHINGTON: FLORIDA’S REACTION TO THE WHITE HOUSE DINNER John K. Severn and William Warren Rogers
FORT FOSTER: A SECOND SEMINOLE WAR FORT Michael G. Schene
NOTES AND DOCUMENTS

• CIVIL WAR LETTERS OF COLONEL DAVID LANG Bertram H. Groene
• FLORIDA HISTORY RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

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The Bates Student - Volume 151 Number 01 - October 9, 2020, Bates College

The Bates Student

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Environmental Justice, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, And Native Hawaiians And Other Pacific Islanders, Michael S. Spencer, Taurmini Fentress, Ammara Touch, Jessica Hernandez

Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints

Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islanders, and the environment that they are in relationship with, have been the targets of exploitation, extraction, and destruction. Environmental atrocities throughout the Pacific have demonstrated the ways imperialism, capitalism and white supremacy drive destruction through efforts to dominate and exploit for material gain. The relationship between Pacific people and the environment, which defines who they are socially, spiritually, and ancestrally, continues to be damaged and even severed by these injustices. The purpose of this paper is to provide examples of major environmental injustices in the Pacific and to develop a deeper understanding of the …

Reimagining Disability: The Screening Of Donor Gametes And Embryos In Ivf, Isabel Karpin, Roxanne Mykitiuk

Articles & Book Chapters

In this article,we examine how disability is figured in the imaginaries that are given shape by the reproductive projects and parental desires facilitated by the bio-medical techniques and practices of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) that involve selection and screening for disability. We investigate how some users of ARTs understand and deploy these imaginaries in ways that are both concordant with and resistant to the understanding of disability embedded within the broader sociotechnical and social imaginaries. It is through users’ deliberations, choices, responses, and expectations that we come to understand how these imaginaries are perpetuated and resisted, and how maintaining them …

Jelani Cobb To Give Virtual Southtalks Lecture, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

University of Mississippi News

Freedom, race and justice will be discussed in Oct 19 session

The Diamond, October 9, 2020, Dordt University

Dordt Diamond

• Front Page: The Difference Between "The" and "A": Dordt's Marketing Team and Rankings; Dordt and Sioux Center COVID-19 Response; Trump Shop Comes to Sioux Center
• News: Donald Trump's Tumultous Week; Bubble or Tabernacle: Tent Name Causes Debate; Supreme Court Scramble Over Ginsburg's Empty Seat; Dordt Limits Food Options Due to COVID-19; Wastewater Treatment Facility Replaced after 39 Years; Local Churches and COVID-19 Precautions; First Monday Controversy; Q & A with Aaron Baart in Response to Jacob Hall
• Art & Entertainment: Henry Cavill Should be Used in More Period Dramas, Vis-a-vis Enola Holmes; A Society Facing Consequences - …

Can Writing Be Wrong? Collaborative Autoethnography As Critical Reflective Practice In Sport, Exercise, And Performance Psychology, Sae-Mi Lee, Janaina Fogaca, Marlen Harrison

The Qualitative Report

Critical reflective practice (CRP) facilitates macro-level reflections about social contexts and power structures through the interrogation of one’s own experiences (Knowles & Gilbourne, 2010). Despite the importance of CRP, examples of how one actually engages in CRP are scarce in sport psychology. Moreover, given that writing in academia is traditionally “author evacuated” (Knowles & Gilbourne, 2010, p. 512), it is questionable how traditional writing practices help facilitate critical reflections. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine how sport psychology professionals can engage in CRP through the use of author-centered writing. Specifically, we responded to Knowles and Gilbourne’s (2010) …

Exploring The Final Years Of The Life Of John F. Kennedy Jr.: A Mixed Methods Psychobiographical Case Study, Caitlin R. Ferrer, Joseph G. Ponterotto

The Qualitative Report

This present study utilized a mixed methods design to explore the inner emotional experiencing of John F. Kennedy Jr. during the last five years of his life. A large first-person data set culled from JFK Jr.’s letters and interviews was subjected to a qualitative theme analysis and the quantitative Linguistic Inquiry Word Count (LIWC) program (Pennebaker, Boyd, Jordan, & Blackburn, 2015). Among the major themes emerging from the qualitative analysis were JFK Jr.’s efforts to balance and integrate his public and private selves; navigating the Kennedy legacy and understanding his family’s place in political history; and establishing George magazine with …

I Am Not A Thief: Retelling My Story To Understand A Racist Encounter, Felicia Stewart

The Qualitative Report

In the United States, acts of prejudice occur in many situations and spaces. Scholars and researchers hypothesize that these acts are often due to the racism that permeates our country. When seemingly racist acts occur, they are sometimes unreported, misunderstood or simply not addressed. As a Black woman falsely accused of theft, I endured assumptions made about me, and I made assumptions about my accuser. We are often left to speculate as to what fuels acts of racism, whether in the form of microaggressions or overt acts. As we try to assign reasons for others’ behaviors, we must also inspect …

Sun Belt Conference Honors 187 Eagle Student-Athletes For Work In Classroom, Georgia Southern University

Athletics: News & Publications

• Sun Belt Conference Honors 187 Eagle Student-Athletes For Work in Classroom

Lucid Dreaming, Stevie Iseral

The Quatrain

Stevie Iseral is a junior majoring in interdisciplinary studies, with concentrations in photography, sociology, and marketing. She became interested in photography her freshman year of high school and started her own photography business the summer after her junior year. Stevie loves photography because it allows her to showcase the beauty of life through her lens.

Man With The Yellow Hat, Addison Lindsay

The Quatrain

Addison Lindsay is a first-year student at Louisiana Tech University majoring in psychology with a minor in sociology. She enjoys all things coffee, Enneagram, people, writing, music, podcasts, and unlikely friendships, as she likes to call them. Addison loves exploring the depths and color of life and stringing together beautiful words to embody the essence of something. She hopes it is said of her that she loves and welcomes people into any space well.

Euphoria, Stevie Iseral

The Quatrain

Stevie Iseral is a junior majoring in interdisciplinary studies, with concentrations in photography, sociology, and marketing. She became interested in photography her freshman year of high school and started her own photography business the summer after her junior year. Stevie loves photography because it allows her to showcase the beauty of life through her lens.

Contributor Biographies

The Quatrain

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A Different Perspective, Stevie Iseral

The Quatrain

Stevie Iseral is a junior majoring in interdisciplinary studies, with concentrations in photography, sociology, and marketing. She became interested in photography her freshman year of high school and started her own photography business the summer after her junior year. Stevie loves photography because it allows her to showcase the beauty of life through her lens.

We’Re Not Really Strangers, Addison Lindsay

The Quatrain

Addison Lindsay is a first-year student at Louisiana Tech University majoring in psychology with a minor in sociology. She enjoys all things coffee, Enneagram, people, writing, music, podcasts, and unlikely friendships, as she likes to call them. Addison loves exploring the depths and color of life and stringing together beautiful words to embody the essence of something. She hopes it is said of her that she loves and welcomes people into any space well.

Philosophical And Logical Analysis Of Sophistic Thinking In The Work “Sharh Al-Aqeed Annasafi” By The Great Thinker Sadeddin Taftazani, Mirzoqul Norqobilov

The Light of Islam

This article analyzes the socio-philosophical and logical aspects of sophistic thinking in the work of the thinker Saduddin Taftazani “Sharh al-Aka’id”, who defned knowledge as the essence of human life. Sophistic interpretations of various sociological considerations that have arisen in the context of the history of Islamic philosophy are described from a scientifc point of view. All the information presented in the article is covered based on comparative historical, logical methods, the attitude of representatives of the philosophy of the new period to the sophistic and scientifc approaches is theoretically analyzed. This study, which analyzes the scientifc signifcance of sophistic …

German Non-Classical Philosophical Concepts Of Religion And Islamic Culture, Asliddin Sultonov

The Light of Islam

A number of works are being carried out on the formation of high spirituality, ensuring freedom of conscience, and applying the principle of religious tolerance in Uzbekistan. The study and promotion of the rich religious and philosophical heritage created by our great ancestors, as well as the works of the world philosophy of religion, have become widespread. Teaching students the basics of religious studies, the history of world religions, and the philosophy of world religions is an important factor in forming a scientifc worldview in society and fostering a spirit of respect for religious feelings. In the speech of the …

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 50, Number 3, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

CLAUDE PEPPER AND THE FLORIDA CANAL CONTROVERSY, 1939-1943 Alexander R. Stoesen
SLAVETRADING IN ANTEBELLUM FLORIDA Julia F. Smith
NOTES AND DOCUMENTS

• TAMPA BAY IN 1757: FRANCISCO MARIA CELI’S JOURNAL AND LOGBOOK PART II John D. Ware
• THE LABOR LEAGUE OF JACKSONVILLE: A NEGRO UNION AND WHITE STRIKEBREAKERS Jerrell H. Shofner
• TACATACURU AND THE SAN PEDRO DE MOCAMO MISSION Jerald T. Milanich
• JOHN BULL'S STINGINESS IN EAST FLORIDA Claude C. Sturgill
• FLORIDA HISTORY RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

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Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 50, Number 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

CAPTIVES OF FLORIDA Eugene Lyon
THE FEMALE PROTECTION AND THE SUN LIGHT: Two CONTEMPORARY NEGRO MUTUAL AID SOCIETIES Bruce Ergood
EAST FLORIDA LAND COMMISSION: A STUDY IN FRUSTRATION George C. Whatley and Sylvia Cook
NOTES AND DOCUMENTS:

• How TO ESCAPE THE YANKEES: MAJOR SCOTT’S LETTER TO HIS WIFE AT TALLAHASSEE, MARCH 1864
• FLORIDA HISTORY IN PERIODICALS, 1970

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Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 47, Number 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

CELI 'S EXPEDITION TO TAMPA BAY: A HISTORICAL ANALYSIS Charles W. Arnade
A VIEW OF CELI'S JOURNAL OF SURVEYS AND CHART OF 1757 John D. Ware
FIGHTING MEN VIEW THE WESTERN WAR, 1862-1864 George C. Bittle
CONTRACT LABOR IN FLORIDA DURING RECONSTRUCTION Edward K. Eckert
FORT PIERCE AMERICAN GOLD FIND Carl J. Clausen
POSTSCRIPT TO JOHN BEMROSE'S Reminiscences John K. Mahon
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Spartan Daily, October 8, 2020, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2020

Volume 155, Issue 21

October 8, 2020, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2020-

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Daily Eastern News: October 08, 2020, Eastern Illinois University

October

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