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The Implications of Skin Tone Stratification in Latinx Perspectives of Race
Get PDFThough decades of scholarly literature have examined racial discrimination against Black folx by non-Hispanic whites, much remains unknown about anti-Blackness and its influence on a skin tone stratification system, or colorism, within the Latinx community. To investigate how racism and colorism are intrinsically linked, this study examines how Latinx folx self-identify, interact socially, and define race. As many as 22 interviews were conducted to discuss the interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships respondents had with race. From these interviews, I gather three main findings: 1) Latinx people have a difficult time defining “race” both individually and collectively, and as a result, struggle to self-identify; 2) Self-identification is influenced by colorism, a skin tone hierarchy that demonizes darkness and Blackness, and results in Latinx individuals refusing to identify as Black; 3) The understanding of racial identification is impacted by the absence of a concrete definition for “race,” the implementation of a limited racial binary, and lack of conversations regarding racism in the Latinx community. By unpacking the often coded anti-Blackness present in the Latinx community, we can move towards disrupting racial hierarchies that invade one’s educational attainment, job opportunities, residential spaces, and psychological well-being
Assessment of the Owego Creek Stream Restoration Project, Park Settlement Road Site: A Reevaluation of Stream Habitat and Water Quality
Get PDFIn 2010 and 2011 flooding devastated the East Branch of Owego Creek, killing resident trout populations and destroying in-stream structure and habitat. Utilizing funding from the New York State “Millennium Stream Improvement Fund” Trout Unlimited in conjunction with the Tioga Country Soil & Water Conservation District restored two sections of the East Branch of Owego Creek where serious damaged had occurred. Restoration efforts included the stabilization of banks using the Rosgen Toe Wood Method, creation of deep pool habitat, and the construction of J-hooks. This study focuses on the effects of restoration efforts five years after the completion of the project at the Park Settlement Road Site. The study also intends to serve as a reference point for future research. Cross-sectional surveys, longitudinal surveys, and macrobenthic invertebrate sampling were completed between May and August 2020. Overall the Park Settlement Road Site was found to be fairly healthy, with populations of brown trout, brook trout, and smallmouth bass
A&Q Presents: February 26, 2020
No full textTina May Hall lives in upstate New York where she teaches creative writing and literature at Hamilton College. Her collection of stories, The Physics of Imaginary Objects, won the 2010 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. She was the recipient of an NEA fellowship in 2014 and has done residencies at Yaddo and Vermont Studio Center. Her stories have appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, The Collagist, Quarterly West, Black Warrior Review, Wigleaf, and other journals. Her novel, The Snow Collectors, was published by Dzanc Books in February 2020.
Reviewers have called it ‘gorgeously written’, a ‘wonder of a book’. It’s ‘lovely’, ‘lush’, ‘intoxicating’, ‘atmospheric’, ‘lyrical’, ‘clever’, ‘every sentence exquisite’ with ‘a magnificent heroine’. The Chicago Review of Books notes “Tina May Hall writes with the confidence of a prosaist who knows her novel is damn fun”
The “Christian German Agricultural and Benevolent Society of Ora et Labora”
Get PDFNew insights into the “Christian German Agricultural and Benevolent Society of Ora et Labora,” or simply Ora Labora (pray and work), are coming to light through Hamilton College’s acquisition of a rare manuscript recently added to its Communal Societies Collection. The 1862 communal settlement was on property adjoining Wild Fowl Bay in Huron County, Michigan. The community identified itself as culturally German and religiously Christian, with a Methodist twist; a benevolent society; and economically agrarian, organized as a joint-stock company.
The manuscript letter book contains the correspondence of Emil Gottlieb Baur (1831-1894), the inspiration behind Ora Labora and one of its founding members, for the years 1885 and into 1889. Since the colony disbanded in 1868, about twenty years earlier, why is it of interest for communal history and research? The answer is simple: Ora Labora’s debts took longer to die than its physical existence. During the years between 1868 and 1895, when the debt was retired, Baur not only became the land sales agent of the Harmony Society but he continued to visit and correspond with Harmony Society trustees. The relationship between the Harmony Society (1805-1905) and the Ora Labora colony (1862-1868), which officially began in 1862 and ended in 1895, is a story of personal friendships as well as a revealing glimpse into communal financial relationships
Feeding our Past, Nourishing our Future: a Decolonizing Podcast
No full textFeeding Our Past, Nourishing Our Future is a 10-part podcast series about food, land, identity, and indigenous people. Several conversations focused on loss and the sadness that comes from being disconnected from one’s culture. Yet, just as many focused on the joy that comes with discovering a new part of your history through food and the rediscovery of different food practices. Over two months, we reached out to scholars in environmental studies and local farmers. While the focus of our project was indigenous peoples, overall we wanted to highlight the relationship people of color have with food and identity. Through our conversations, we discovered the various meetings that a simple concept, such as food, can have for different people. Specifically, how food can act as a form of healing for Native peoples that have experienced historical traumas. For other conversations, we discussed how food can be used by diasporic communities to reclaim and reconnect their personal histories and cultures. The themes covered in this podcast include the importance of maintaining autonomy over the foods one consumes, developing a greater sense of community and solidarity through reclaiming your personal history, and the tie between Indigeneity and sustainability
Appendix 5: Copy of Statement presented to the Legislature of Massachusetts on behalf of the Societies of Shakers in Harvard and Shirley in said State in February 1840.
Get PDFGiving and Buying: Exploring College Students’ Construction of Moral Identity Through Moral Action
No full textThis study investigates how participation in moral action affects college students’ moral identity – focusing on ‘giving’ moral action like service work, and ‘buying’ moral action like ethical consumption. Using in depth interviews (N=10) with morally engaged students at an elite liberal arts college, the study found that students’ moral identities were profoundly shaped by service work: they learned how to communicate and connect with different populations, developing both empathy and boundary setting skills, and they gained perspective from their exposure to harsh realities, leading to reflection and changes to their understanding of social inequities. For most students, ethical consumption did not alter their existing moral identities, instead it functioned as a method to maintain and confirm their existing morals. By contrast, service work was found to have a more lasting and transformative effect on students as they felt they were able to have a direct impact with their work and engage socially with the world around them. The findings show a mutual interplay between identity and action, and suggest the adoption of a reciprocal model between moral identity and moral action – as opposed to the prevailing model of identity determining action. Additionally, the results support the incorporation of ethical consumption under the umbrella of moral action and a need for further research on the moral effects of ethical consumption, particularly as consumption becomes increasingly central to capitalist society. This study illustrates the importance of moral action for college students’ personal development, and contributes to an ongoing dialogue in the sociology of morality
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The White Water, Ohio, Shaker Community: A Newly Discovered 1877 Visitor’s Account
Get PDFWhite Water Village, located about twenty-five miles northwest of Cincinnati, was one of the smaller Shaker societies and was often overlooked by those seeking to learn more about the communal movement that practiced celibacy and held religious services that featured elaborate dance movements. Only three substantial accounts of visits to White Water are known to historians.
The article reprinted here by an author identified only as Kim was published in 1881 in the Westliche Blätter, a newspaper that catered to Cincinnati’s large community of German-Americans. The Westliche Blätter was the Sunday addition of a popular daily, the Volksblatt, and was designed to be a version of what was known in Europe at the time as a feuilliton, a section of a newspaper or a separate edition that focused on broad political, social, and cultural topics