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Get PDFBack cover illustration: The Bennett’s Brook Mill looking northeast from the Mill Pond’s south shore. Photo by Harrison E. Evans, June 1, 1907. Courtesy of the Ayer Library, Ayer, Mass
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Get PDFFront cover illustration: Unidentified photographer, Michael, Joseph, and Johanna Miller, Zoar Separatists. Sixth-plate daguerreotype (2.75 x 3.25 inches), Wm. B. Becker Collectio
Providing Improved Livelihoods for Muskoka’s Stakeholders in the Time of Two Global Crises
Get PDFClimate change and the coronavirus pandemic have drastically impacted the livelihoods of Muskoka’s stakeholders. Climate change has led to altered weather patterns and environments in Muskoka, which have negatively impacted stakeholders\u27 (defined as permanent residents, seasonal residents and tourists) built infrastructure, mental and physical health, and these effects are only expected to worsen in the coming decades. Similarly, the coronavirus pandemic has caused many physical and mental health problems for Muskoka\u27s stakeholders and has also led to tensions and anxieties regarding opinions about whether or not every stakeholder should be able to access the region during the pandemic. Although coronavirus cases are lower than prior months, the effects of the virus on stakeholders\u27 livelihoods merits closer attention and analysis. I, Andrew Court, am a stakeholder in the Muskoka, Ontario region who greatly cares about the health of the environment and the livelihoods of stakeholders. This summer, I had the privilege of living in Muskoka and studying the effects of these two global crises to provide stakeholders with a framework for adapting to climate change and managing tensions around the coronavirus. I love Muskoka and its citizens, and I hope they find these suggestions helpful in improving their livelihoods
An Incomprehensible Passage of Time: Authorial Control and Bewilderment in “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Swimmer”
No full textSoundscapes of Liberation: African American Music in Postwar France
No full textIn Soundscapes of Liberation, Celeste Day Moore traces the popularization of African American music in postwar France, where it signaled new forms of power and protest. Moore surveys a wide range of musical genres, soundscapes, and media: the US military\u27s wartime records and radio programs; the French record industry\u27s catalogs of blues, jazz, and R&B recordings; the translations of jazz memoirs; a provincial choir specializing in spirituals; and US State Department-produced radio programs that broadcast jazz and gospel across the French empire. In each of these contexts, individual intermediaries such as educators, producers, writers, and radio deejays imbued African American music with new meaning, value, and political power. Their work resonated among diverse Francophone audiences and transformed the lives and labor of many African American musicians, who found financial and personal success as well as discrimination in France. By showing how the popularity of African American music was intertwined with contemporary structures of racism and imperialism, Moore demonstrates this music\u27s centrality to postwar France and the convergence of decolonization, the expanding globalized economy, the Cold War, and worldwide liberation movements.https://digitalcommons.hamilton.edu/books/1109/thumbnail.jp
Six Scenes from the Sixties
Get PDFAs a veteran of the 1960s, I have been interested, over the years, to investigate the significance of those times, to look at the background from which they emerged, and to assess—to the extent possible after such a relatively short time—the effects of the political and social turmoil with which we associate them. In the essay that follows, I explore six experiences of my own, looking at how a time of activism and change affected the post-World War II generation, and might influence the world of today.
My experiences are drawn from the trajectory created, over the course of some fifteen years, launched from the point of view of a clueless youth in 1957, and ending in that of a back-to-the-land communard in the early 1970s. In between, high school, college, and a stint working in Boston intervene. At the time of my communal life, 1969 to 1973, Montague Farm on which I lived was touted as a model of progressive community living, and that is the end toward which the story here is told. The tale of the farm itself stretches far beyond that another thirty years, but this essay is focused on the decade of the 1960s, and so we will stop shortly after that period
Color Consciousness or Blindness in the Face of Race: White parent’s approach to race during the BLM protests of 2020
Get PDFThe summer of 2020 proved to be a season like no other. Complete with extended stay-at-home orders, and steadily increasing coronavirus positivity rates, no one was prepared for the peak of the Black Lives Matter movement to claim the world’s attention during the global pandemic. In the weeks following the murder of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin, half a million Americans participated in nationwide protests to demand an end to the use of excessive force against Black Americans by police. The continuous airing of coronavirus updates were suddenly replaced by media coverage of growing social unrest: footage of Black and police brutality against peaceful protestors, reporters being detained, and counter protests occupied every screen in America. The media coverage of social unrest combined with families quarantining at home created a unique moment for parenting. Parents and their homebound children were presented with an opportunity for racial socialization. Racial socialization refers to the way in which parents teach their child to understand and navigate their own race in reference to the rest of society, a process that differs significantly depending on the racial identity of the family. With the media existing as a crucial window into the rest of the world during the pandemic, parents had to make a decision--do they share the view with their children, or close the blinds
The Effects of Intergroup versus Intragroup Relations in Police Use of Force
Get PDFIntergroup relations between White police officers and Black citizens are often at the forefront of the discussion on police brutality. Intergroup racial bias, the of favoring one’s own racial group over others, can lead to policing practices that have damaging, or even deadly, effects on minority communities. Intragroup bias, the favoring and derogation of members within one’s ingroup, has not been investigated enough in examining police bias. This research utilized the NOPD’s publicly available “Use of Force Incidents” data in order to examine whether intergroup and intragroup bias can be observed within their policing. Variables such as the officer/suspect race, suspects build and height, whether the suspect was injured/hospitalized were analyzed and evidence of both intergroup and intragroup biases were found. Disproportionate treatment of Black suspects is apparent in the NOPD data, and White suspects overall were found to still experience better treatment in some areas
Race Talk Amongst White Families During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Get PDFThe year 2020 was a time of struggle, difficulty, and fear for many individuals due to the COVID-19 pandemic as victims of the virus increased dramatically throughout the year. As a result, many families have had to stay close together under the same roof to avoid the risk of infection. Along with the concern of the virus, protests against police brutality rose around the world after the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor in May and March, respectively, of 2020. The media heavily covered the protests throughout the summer, making the topic almost impossible to ignore, sparking conversations among families. But as I will argue further, talking about race and racism is new for many of the white parents we interviewed. Understanding perspectives from people who are color-blind or color-conscious during the summer of 2020 allows us to understand how some parents were willing or felt forced to have conversations about racial injustice with their children