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France’s Exclusion Politics: Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and Political Capital (1972-2002)
No full textThis thesis explores the politics of exclusion in France, focusing on how immigrants have been marginalized due to politicians\u27 strategic use of anti-immigrant rhetoric. The study examines the rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen, and the increasing political capital gained through his xenophobic platform, highlighting the pivotal moment when other politicians began to adopt similar tactics to secure their own electoral success. By examining secondary sources and magazine articles from 1972 to 2002, this research investigates how the politicization of immigration issues contributed to the marginalization of immigrant communities in France. It argues that the exploitation of anti-immigrant sentiment, particularly after Le Pen\u27s electoral success, reshaped the political landscape, enabling the normalization of exclusionary discourse and policies
The Years of Blood [EXCERPT]
No full textWinner of the 2023-24 Poetic Justice Institute Editors Prize for a BIPOC Writer
ISELE MAGAZINE | EDITOR\u27S CHOICE: 25 MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2025 THE MODACULTURE | 10 ANTICIPATED AFRICAN BOOKS OF 2025 OPEN COUNTRY MAGAZINE | ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2025In this unflinching debut collection, Adedayo Agarau confronts the harrowing reality of ritual killings and child abductions that have terrorized Nigeria from the turbulent pre-democratic era to the present day. Set against the backdrop of rural Ibadan, The Years of Blood plunges readers into the depths of collective trauma where memory forsakes the body at the point where fear fills the body like air. These poems bear witness to unspeakable atrocities through dreamlike landscapes and surreal imagery that resist rational explanation. Memory is as vital as it is ungraspable. As the painful poem the abduction puts it, memory forsakes the body at the point where fear fills the body like air. Or, in Lilac, where the debris of memory / becomes the fog before you. Agarau\u27s lyrical language—at once rich and broken—captures both the violence witnessed and the guilt of survival through repetitions of words, phrases, and motifs.As both survivor and émigré to the U.S., Agarau explores the weight of disappearance [that] hangs heavy over memory, the ongoing trauma that cannot be shed, and the search for healing across continents. His poems attempt to wrest language out of terror\u27s domain, asking: How many ways can the poet craft an elegy? Above and beyond its art, The Years of Blood is essential reading for those interested in African literature, postcolonial studies, and the intersection of personal and political history and global literature. In its unyielding approach to its subject matter, this volume is a crucial interlocutor to conversations on trauma, grief, loss, absence, migration, loneliness, and African spiritualism.For readers of Ilya Kaminsky, Safia Elhillo, Ocean Vuong, and Claudia Rankine, this collection speaks to both specific cultural realities and universal human experiences through poetry that refuses easy consolation
Semblance of Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of Corporate Greenwashing in the United States
No full textThis paper addresses the problem of greenwashing, the unseen environmental issues associated with it, and it concludes with an offering of potential policy options that better protect consumers and promote sustainable business practices. Using quantitative data, Chapter 1 lays out the prevalence of greenwashing in U.S. industry in recent years. Additionally, this chapter scrutinizes the operating practices of the offending firms and how they degrade vital ecosystem services. Chapter 2 explores greenwashing through a historical lens, following the unethical practice shifts meaning over time into the current era. Chapter 3 utilizes an economic lens and cost-benefit analysis to reevaluate the total cost of operations for greenwashing firms and make clear to both sides of the market the cost society incurs from industry’s development. Chapter 4 examines greenwashing from a political angle and seeks to understand the U.S. Government’s role in the greenwashing epidemic and why its policy has failed to prevent and regulate corporate greenwashing, including how our legal system is manipulated to serve private interests and snuff out dissent. In a culmination of the understandings from chapters 1 through 4 chapter 5 offers a spread of policy options that not only combat greenwashing, but also incentivize the reduction of GHG emissions, protect and inform consumers, and create the liquidity needed to help government organizations regulate as intended
Journal for the Philosophical Study of Education
No full textJ P S E Journal for the Philosophical Study of Education
Vol. 5 (2025)
Editors:
Allan Johnston, Columbia College Chicago
Guillemette Johnston, DePaul University
Special Symposium Editor:
Sabrina Bacher, Universität Innsbruck
Outside Readers:
Marina Bacher, Universität Innsbruck
Sabrina Bacher, Universität Innsbruck
Erica Hagström. Luléa University of Technology
Christian Kraler, Universität Innsbruck
Elias Schwieler, Stockholm University
The Society for the Philosophical Study of Educatio
Dumy and the Nation: How Folklore and Folk Songs Help Compose a Distinct Ukrainian Narrative
No full textHistoriography and ethnography have played a critical role in the development of modern Slavic nationalisms, particularly in Ukraine. As these studies became increasingly popular in the nineteenth century, scholars and members of the bourgeoisie identified folk culture as the key component for the making of the modern nation. Viewed as an authentic window into national history and tradition due to their limited interaction with the modernizing world, rural folk offered the perfect opportunity to illustrate how Ukraine had always been distinct from Russia and its other historical oppressors. As folk culture fervor gripped the intellectual elite of Eastern Europe, however, the focus quickly turned to what specific aspects of rural culture could prove most useful in combating imperial narratives. As a result, history, national mythology, and language all became critical components of Ukrainian nation-building. One aspect of rural culture, however, managed to combine all three: folk songs, known in Ukraine as dumy. Unfortunately, little scholarly attention has been paid to these pieces in Western academia, leaving most non-Ukrainians unaware of the critical factors that distinguish Ukraine from other nations such as Russia. This paper seeks to remedy that deficit and its consequences by providing an accessible history and analysis of dumy. After contextualizing the need to define a distinct Ukrainian nation, it analyzes the intricate role that dumy have played in the making of Ukraine’s national identity, using the songs themselves—as well as their popular interpretations—as primary sources. It proceeds to examine the differences in dumy preferred by Ukraine’s folk versus elite. It then showcases how folk culture was ultimately translated into patriotic songs that glorified and affirmed a distinct Ukrainian identity. Finally, fulfilling its main purpose, it explores the resurgence of dumy’s popularity in light of Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, illustrating how these pieces have taken on new life in Ukraine and the Ukrainian diaspora
The Brilliant Muslim Students Transforming Educational Institutions In New York City and the Nation
No full textFor the last twenty years, as the Bronx African American History Project has taken its research findings into educational institutions as well as community organizations, I have spoken at or done teacher training in at least thirty schools in the Bronx, and been invited to quite a few schools outside the borough, including Stuyvesant High School. In doing this, one of the things that leaped out at me was not only the growing number of Muslim students in New York City Public Schools, but the number of Muslim students winning academic awards at those schools, particularly becoming class valedictorians and salutatorians. This experience, as it turns out, has been reinforced by my experience at Fordham where the growing number of Muslim students in my classes, many of them outstanding students, has been one of the biggest differences between what Fordham University was like twenty years ago, and what Fordham is like now
Maxine Agee and Kim McClain
No full textKim McClain and Maxine Agee, the second and third presidents of the Bronx chapter of Jack and Jill of America Inc, both have their own experiences with Jack and Jill of America Inc. that is indicative of a vibrant sense of community created by the women alongside those around them. Kim McClain spent a lot of time on her own or with her siblings growing up as she had busy, hardworking parents – her father was the first black firefighter in Queens, New York, with a bold personality and an eclectic music taste ranging from Johnny Cash to Nat King Cole. Her mother worked as an accountant and was putting in long hours at the office - leaving McClain and her siblings lots of time to ride her bike around the suburban neighborhood they grew up in. Although her parents were busy, McClain was always surrounded by a supportive community, and many people knew who she was because she was the daughter of her father, who was viewed as a neighborhood hero. Her father unfortunately passed away of a heart attack when she was in her late 20s, leading her to taking care of her mother, getting a degree, getting married, and moving to the Bronx in the Grand Concourse area.
Maxine Agee was born in North Carolina where her father and mother met. Eventually, they moved to the Bronx, where her father was a taxicab driver and her mother was a crossing guard. Although the Bronx was a stark contrast to the vastness of the South, Agee still felt a strong sense of community in her neighborhood despite the presence of gangs in her area. She spent lots of time in church as a child, and met most of her friends from singing gospel in the church choir. Like McClain, Agee’s father also passed away right before her high school graduation ceremony while doing his job. This was devastating, but she ended up working hard in college and marrying Tommy Agee, the New York Mets player, right after college. They ended up having a daughter who became a successful producer. Her husband ended up passing away from a heart attack later on, leaving her as a single mother with her daughter.
Both Agee and McClain got involved with Jack and Jill of America Inc. through Cheryl Oliver approaching them in the city and handing them her business card on separate occasions. Both women were drawn to become a part of the organization because they had children and believed that by working with Jack and Jill they and their children would be able to have access to opportunities that they would not have had otherwise. The women stayed in the company for years - serving in various roles and helping children gain access to new ways of education and familial support. Through Jack and Jill of America Inc, both Agee and McClain created a successful community in the Bronx for their children and those around them to flourish and succeed in.
Link to Video Recording: https://cdm17265.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/baahp/id/62/rec/
Jacqueline Brown Richardson, Patricia Ryan, Tanisha Hill, Jessica Rivera
No full textJacqueline Brown Richardson, known as Jackie, Patricia Ryan, known as Pat, Tanisha Hill and Jessica Rivera, lived and grew up in the Amsterdam Houses and Amsterdam Addition NYCHA projects in the Lincoln Square neighborhood which was once a part of the neighborhood known as San Juan Hill. Fordham students in VART 2222: The Art of the Interview, led by Professor Catalina Alvarez, interviewed them to hear their stories of growing up in the Amsterdam housing communities, the changes that have happened and strategies to support the community that they feel is in desperate need for uplift