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Retelling the Classics: The Harlem Renaissance, Biblical Stories, and Black Peoplehood
Get PDFApplying social identity theory to the process of creating peoplehood can illustrate the positive power that literature has in uplifting marginalized communities by showing their worth. James Weldon Johnson’s “The Creation” and Zora Neale Hurston’s Moses, Man of the Mountain, both composed during the Harlem Renaissance, offer one way to create Black peoplehood by creating depictions of God’s love for His Black people through the repurposing of biblical stories. Through the implementation of social identity theory to Hurston’s Moses, Man of the Mountain and Johnson’s “The Creation,” I argue that these two authors addressed the need among African Americans to be viewed, and to see themselves, as a unified people after a history of exclusion from the dominant group. Johnson’s poem depicts a human-like God with infinite love for His people which would have told Black people that they were important to the God who created them. Hurston forged connections between the Hebrews in the Exodus and African Americans to show their worth and potential as a people through the special place that God’s attention gave them. Both works helped to establish Black people as people who deserved a positive, unique social identity because of God’s love
Peter Olof Hansen; Augustana Alum of 1886
Get PDFPeter Olof Hansen graduated from Augustana in June of 1886. We have researched his immigration to the United States, his family history and genealogy, and his career as a pastor after Augustana
Sunset in Santorini
No full textThis is a photo of a sunset in Santorini.https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/studyabroadphotos/1029/thumbnail.jp
El cambio de código dentro de una compañía bilingüe
No full textLas personas bilingües frecuentemente se pueden encontrar en una situación en que cambian de un idioma a otro. Con la población de hispanohablantes aumentando rápidamente en los Estados Unidos, se nota el “cambio de código” entre inglés y español en contextos laborales. ¿Cómo y cuando ocurren cambios de código? ¿Porque ocurren? ¿Qué significa para el ambiente laboral? Este ensayo argumentará que el cambio de código se puede usar dentro de un ambiente formal por varias razones, sin que sea por falta de conocimiento lingüístico. Primero se analizará la historia de cambio de código y cómo difiere del espanglish. Se explicará qué es un “in-group” (grupo de pertenencia) y por qué afecta el uso de cambio de código. Hay diferentes lugares donde alguien podría cambiar de idioma, y no existe muchas investigaciones sobre cambios de código dentro de ambientes formales. Comparando el cambio de código entre diferentes ambientes, se descifrará el debate académico para averiguar si el uso de espanglish es incorrecto. No es raro que alguien piense que cambiar idiomas es algo que se hace por la falta de educación y conocimiento del idioma, pero se debe notar que se usa en ciertas situaciones por estilo y para énfasis. Se combinará esa información con un estudio dentro de una estación de noticias bilingüe, Telemundo Chicago. Usando transcripciones de juntas editoriales dentro de Telemundo, se analizarán las situaciones en que se cambia de código, y se verá cómo se puede usar el cambio de código como un registro informal en un trabajo
King and Queen of Sweden
No full textMeeting the Association of Americans Interned in Sweden (1943-1945) during their Västerås Reunion, 1990. From MSS P:309 Sune Lundberg papers, ph 51https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/swensonexhibits_wwii/1011/thumbnail.jp
Exhibit poster
No full textKing of Sweden in the Augustana College library in Denkmann Hall, 1976. From MSS P:283 Magnusson photographs, ph37.https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/swensonexhibits_royalvisits/1000/thumbnail.jp
U.S. military members
No full textWith Swedish newspaper Expressen’s Miss China 1945 and Charlie Chaplin impersonator, ca. 1945. From MSS P:309 Sune Lundberg papers, ph 45https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/swensonexhibits_wwii/1009/thumbnail.jp
Sr. Sara: 21st Century Catholic Education
Get PDFThis paper gives a snippet of the life, discernment, and practices of Sr. Sara. Within this paper, Sr. Sara wrestles with her own discernment story and discusses how she believes Catholic education today should look like
Sr. Sage: Teaching the Word
Get PDFThis paper highlights an interview with Sister Sage and the experiences she has had as an educator in the Catholic school system. After 52 years of service, the retired sister reflects on her career’s successes and what it meant to her
Website: Womanist Empowerment
No full textWomanism is feminism for women of color.
According to Floyd-Thomas, radical subjectivity is described as “bonds of learning and growth from mature to immature beings as a way to actualize agency and a subjective view of the world/self for black women, rather than see themselves as victims of circumstance. It gives the black woman a sense of identity that goes beyond racist, sexist, and classicism categories they are often unwillingly ascribed to.” Our website is an attempt to empower Black women and fight against negative stereotypes. It is meant to embody this idea of radical subjectivity in a fun and informative way through the Personality Quiz. A major source of influence for this project was Emilie Townes, as she also attempts to positively redefine Black women stereotypes in her book, Womanist Ethics and the Cultural Production of Evil. We created this website in order to shed light on the different kinds of Womanist out in the world and the personalities that are accompanied with them