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"The Most Hopeless Of Deaths... Is The Death Of Faith": Messianic Faith In The Racial Politics Of W. E. B. Du Bois, Marta Brunner
"The Most Hopeless Of Deaths... Is The Death Of Faith": Messianic Faith In The Racial Politics Of W. E. B. Du Bois, Marta Brunner
Marta Brunner
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Diversifying Shakespeare, Ruben Espinosa
Diversifying Shakespeare, Ruben Espinosa
Ruben Espinosa
Intersection Theory: A More Elucidating Paradigm Of Quantitative Analysis, Marla Kohlman
Intersection Theory: A More Elucidating Paradigm Of Quantitative Analysis, Marla Kohlman
Marla Kohlman
Intersection theory, a theoretical paradigm which calls attention to the interlocking forces of race, class, and gender, among other master status characteristics, is used to predict that respondents report having been targeted for sexual harassment under circumstances that are quite different from one demographic group to another. Sexual harassment is interpreted as primarily a power relation such that workers in less powerful positions are expected to be more vulnerable to targeting. This study may be distinguished from most studies utilizing intersection theory as a theoretical paradigm because it is a quantitative analysis of a broad, national set of data, the …
Race, Rank And Gender: The Determinants Of Sexual Harassment For Men And Women In The Military, Marla Kohlman
Race, Rank And Gender: The Determinants Of Sexual Harassment For Men And Women In The Military, Marla Kohlman
Marla Kohlman
Purpose – To ascertain how the institutional environment of the armed forces has differentially impacted men and women in their experiences of sexual harassment.
Methodology – Logistic regression analyses of the 1995 Armed Forces Sexual Harassment Survey and the 2002 Status of the Armed Forces Survey – Workplace and Gender Relations.
Findings – Gender does not override all other factors in determining who is most likely to be targeted for sexual harassment in the military. Gender is shown to be most informative about the likelihood of experiencing sexual harassment for women only when combined with race and rank. For men, …
“Turning To The Stranger In Shakespeare’S Henry V”, Ruben Espinosa
“Turning To The Stranger In Shakespeare’S Henry V”, Ruben Espinosa
Ruben Espinosa
This collection is currently under contract with MLA. With a twenty-first century American student demographic in mind, I aim to interrogate how attention to the negotiation of alterity in Henry V registers Shakespeare’s keen attention to the role of the immigrant/alien/stranger/other in the nation-building enterprise of the play, and also how it reveals the play’s rich cultural currency for today’s underrepresented students, whose own epistemological standpoints are informed by issues of immigration, xenophobia, and the imagined value of homogeneity.