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From Street Life to Spiritual Leadership: Analyzing Transformation, Faith, and Identity in “New Muslim Cool”
No full textIntroduction:
New Muslim Cool begins with Hamza Pérez, a Puerto Rican Muslim revert, as he rebuilds his life through Islam while balancing faith, family, and community. The documentary follows his journey from being involved in street life to becoming a faith-driven community leader and rapper. Hamza uses hip-hop and religion to connect with young people and challenge stereotypes about Muslims in America. The film primarily takes place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and explores themes of identity, redemption, and the pursuit of peace in the post-9/11 world. It is directed by Jennifer Maytorena Taylor and was released in 2009
LaVerne D. Best King
No full textSoror D. B. King served as the 14th Basileus from 2003-2006. She continued the legacy of outstanding service leading the chapter’s signature program AKATeens Rites of Passage.
During her administration, the chapter achieved the following:
The Chaplains committee was instituted.
The chapter won Chapter of the 2nd place,
Soror Pauline L Monsanto was awarded the Angel Award.
The chapter received an Educational Award for Reading One to One. 2004.
Soror Laverne remains dedication to the Chapter’s Signature Program, AKATeens Rites of Passage (ROP) program for high school girls, the program completed its 30th year helping girls develop leadership and life skills to build self-confidence and social responsibility. (Eta Omega Omega Chapter Of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated, 2018).
LINK TO VIDEO INTERVIEW: https://cdm17265.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/baahp/id/111/rec/4
Pauline Monsanto
No full textNow a Golden Soror with fifty years of service, Monsanto reflects on her legacy with pride. Her daughter, initiated into Alpha Kappa Alpha through the Delta Lambda Chapter at Delaware State University in 1994 and now a Silver Star member—continues the family’s commitment to the sorority, and Monsanto hopes her granddaughter will one day follow the same path. Monsanto ends her interview with optimism, expressing complete confidence in the next generation of talented and determined young women who will carry the sorority forward. Her life stands as a testament to how service, education, and sisterhood can shape not only a leader but an entire community, and more importantly, the next generations to follow.
LINK TO VIDEO INTERVIEW: https://cdm17265.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/baahp/id/110/rec/6
Marion Tiny Frampton, Wildman, and Mike Sherman - Part 2
No full textThis interview with early Black Spades members recounts old memories and new directions for the gang, serving as both an oral history and a set of future ambitions for New York communities and the Black Spades. Giving out food, telling New York and Black Spades histories, and fighting for community centers are just a few of the many thing’s TBS: New Direction does for New York. Just as Tiny recounts how his mom brought others together by, “feeding TBS members from across the city,” TBS New Direction is creating communities of New Yorker\u27s by giving back to the city. (Summary by Emma Garr, Intern, Bronx African American History Project.) The interviewers are Dr. Mark Naison, Professor of African & African American Studies and History at Fordham University & Director of The Bronx African American History Project and Dr. Steven Payne, Research Librarian and Archivist for The Bronx County Historical Society (Now Director of the BCHS). The Bronx African American History Project and the Bronx Hip Hop Oral History Project are projects of The Bronx County Archives at The Bronx County Historical Society Research Library.
LINK TO VIDEO INTERVIEW: https://cdm17265.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/baahp/id/100/rec/2
Revolution Beneath the Burqa: Afghan Women’s Grassroots Resistance and A Goal of Sustainable Change Under the Taliban (1990s-2000s)
No full textThis case study examines two juxtaposing initiatives; The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) and Beauty Without Borders, and their differing approaches to addressing systemic oppression and empowering Afghan women post-Taliban takeover in 1996. RAWA employs a grassroots model while Beauty Without Borders, a Western-led initiative, emphasizes beautification. The study considers RAWA’s effectiveness in addressing structural inequalities while highlighting the limitations of externally driven programs like Beauty Without Borders. This analysis contributes to understanding how grassroots movements can achieve sustainable systemic change, while the West’s continuous misinterpretation of cultures and lifestyles different from their own has perpetuated failed humanitarian efforts who provide women with, for example; a MAC lipstick in an effort to provide some sort of substitute for their lack of literacy
Consider the Culture: The Role of Local Engagement in Global Conservation
No full textThis paper discusses global conservation efforts, making a case for community-led conservation on the bases of efficacy and long-term sustainability. As environmental conservation grows ever-important, it’s imperative that the people local to these efforts are holistically integrated into the conservation work and considered as the stakeholders they are. Local human interests are a key condition to assess when aiming for lasting, practical conservation. This paper opens with a look at the reforestation of Gunung Palung National Park as a case study of successful community-led conservation. Chapter 1 outlines the harm of environmental degradation and habitat loss through quantitative data. Here, I also illustrate the efficacy of community-based conservation efforts. Chapter 2 will focus on eco-psychology, honing in on the value of engaging local communities in conservation projects, both through the specialized expertise they bring and the stake they hold in upkeeping the restoration. Chapter 3 focuses on community-led conservation through an economic lens, considering the different avenues of economic design conservation projects can take and the economic challenges associated with community-based conservation. Chapter 4 examines the politics of community-based conservation first at a lower (local) level, then at higher (regional, national, international) levels. To conclude, Chapter 5 will discuss how intentional project design can be the greatest tool in ensuring that a conservation project is effective, both on an ecological and a human front
Climate Change Behind Prison Walls: Environmental Justice, Prison Abolition, and Social Welfare
No full textUnbeknownst to many, human rights violations occur on a large scale behind prison walls. This paper examines some of these violations, especially those exacerbated by climate change, through an environmental lense in order to emphasize the need for social welfare-based solutions in the abolition of the prison industrial complex. It also seeks to illustrate the connection between the environmental justice movement and the prison abolition movement so that marginalized peoples may be free from shouldering disproportionate effects of environmental hazards and imprisonment. This paper is introduced with a brief overview of the human rights violations occurring in prisons. Using quantitative and qualitative data, chapter one explains the connections between prison abolition, environmental justice, and climate change. As well as detailing the negative impacts of prisons on ecosystem services. Chapter two explores the evolution of prisons in America, starting with their earliest form – plantations – and concluding with their current state: the industrial prison complex. In so doing, it depicts the longstanding relationship between prisons and the environment and disproves the notion that the criminal justice system is broken, instead showing that the system is working exactly as it is intended. Chapter three defines the environmental justice movement and the prison abolition movement. It ends with an analysis of a case study in which the two movements come together to fight a common enemy, to show that the movements can strengthen each other when they join forces. Chapter four explores the many environmental justice issues within prisons that threaten imprisoned people\u27s basic human rights– such as their placement near superfund sites, their allowance of contaminated water, and their lack of temperature control. The topics covered in previous chapters converge in chapter five, which suggests abolitionist policies to defund the industrial prison complex and redirect the funds into environmentally focused community welfare resources – education, housing, healthcare, and employment
The Italian Colony of São Paulo: Race, Class, and Cultural Capital in Brazil
No full textWINNER, 2024 ALDO AND JEANNE SCAGLIONE PUBLICATION AWARD FOR A MANUSCRIPT IN ITALIAN LITERARY STUDIES, MODERN LANGUAGES ASSOCIATIONIntroduces a way to study migration that privileges literary analysis over and against sociological data and insists on the importance of culture in the production of political identitiesThis book argues that Italians first became racialized as white in São Paulo, Brazil, at the turn of the twentieth century. Whereas Italians in the United States struggled with xenophobia and were often not fully acknowledged as white, in São Paulo, due to a series of social, economic, and cultural factors, Italians became closely associated with ideas of whiteness, modernization, and civilization. This book brings to light how the overlooked experiences of Italians in Brazil complicate conventional narratives about the racial ambiguity and oppression of Italians in the Americas, on the one hand, and the conflation of Italians with cultural and economic backwardness in Europe, on the other.In the book, close readings of a wide array of texts—the travel writings of Gina Lombroso Ferrero, the short stories of Antônio de Alcântara Machado, the columns of José Correia Leite, the political essays of Miguel Reale, and the memoirs of Zélia Gattai—trace a “New World Italian discourse,” or the overlapping narratives about Italian racial, economic, and cultural superiority that constructed and maintained Italians’ status as a model minority in São Paulo. These discursive practices represent essential antecedents to the racial nationalism that reared its ugly head in Italy throughout the twentieth century and remain central to contemporary debates about national identity in the Italian public sphere
Artificial Intelligence and Economic Development in Ghana: Assessing the Role of Government Policy and Regulation
No full textArtificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming economies worldwide, with profound implications for economic development in the Global South. Various questions arise regarding whether these changes will positively or negatively impact the economy and individuals worldwide. In this thesis, I examine how Ghana has implemented AI and utilized it to generate economic growth for all members of its society. I argue that through government regulation and framework Ghana was able to maximize the benefits AI has to offer while also minimizing the various risks it may bring. Ghana is a perfect example of how a country in the Global South despite a lack of resources (in comparison to the Global North) can facilitate equal growth through technological innovation. AI was successful in increasing employment and productivity while also decreasing socioeconomic disparities. This means that not only was Ghana successful in creating wealth but also in ensuring that all groups of society benefitted from these changes. Other countries in the Global South have the opportunity to follow Ghana’s lead and utilize AI to help raise their standards of living and allow them to catch up to those in the Global North. I recommend that countries emphasize education and equality. It is essential that countries ensure all members of society benefit from AI not only the wealthy/elite. Countries should create education plans that provide resources to all socioeconomic groups so they can learn how to work with and use AI to help them easily adapt to the new digital economy. This will not only allow them to increase productivity but mitigate the risk of them be replaced by technology. While AI does pose risks in terms of exploitation and inequality, through government policies and regulation the growth opportunities are endless