College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University
College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University: DigitalCommons@CSB/SJUNot a member yet
8817 research outputs found
Sort by
Am I Not A Student: Black Students Speak about their Experiences Dealing with Tokenism at a PWI
No full textThe Black Student Union hosts its first ever event in a major yearly series founded to uplift the Black population at CSB+SJU. Am I not a Student? was a panel event that addresses the major problem of tokenizing Black students at predominantly white institutions.
The panel included the following:
Durran Thompson, SJU Senate President.Andrenique Rolle, CSB Senate President.Dee Khalil, Black Student Union President.Christianna Wallace, Afro-Stem President.Elijah Browne, Executive Producer Johnnie-Bennie Campus Medi
Through Pearl S. Buck\u27s Writing: Women with Bound Feet in the Republic of China
Get PDFThis paper focuses on Pearl Buck’s writing on women with bound feet in the Republic of China. In the 1920s and 1930s, a prominent theme in the would-be Nobel Prize Laureate Pearl Buck’s writing was the capricious fates of women with bound feet. Asia magazine published some of Buck’s earliest literary creations. Among them, “A Chinese Woman Speaks” (1926), “New Modes of Chinese Marriage” (1927), and “The First Wife” (1931 and 1932) gave sympathetic accounts of the mental and physical suffering of women whose hobbled feet became symbols of old fashions and ignorance in the new Republic. Through her keen observations, Pearl Buck called attention to the bodily, marital, and life crises that these women were going through, asking for compassion and solicitude. Although Buck was not the first Asia magazine contributor who wrote on Chinese women with bound feet, her voice was distinctive in that it came from the discernment of her lived experiences. Additionally, it is a realistic reflection of men’s privileges and women’s subjugation in the shifting marital relationships in Republican China
Gendered Political Violence as a Legal Framework: An Analysis of the Brazilian Reality
Get PDFIn August of 2021, the Brazilian government sanctioned in the Electoral Code and the Penal Code the typification of violence against women in politics (VAWIP) as a punishable crime. This research provides a critical analysis of the implementation of the 2021 Law n. 14.192 that typifies VAWIP as a crime. To do so we discuss how the law addresses, in theory, the types of VAWIP identified in the extant literature (physical, psychological, sexual, economic, and semiotic). We then discuss Brazil’s VAWIP law contextualizing it within the Brazilian political landscape, regional (as well as global) perspectives on the issue, and comparing Brazil’s law with the Inter-American model law on the prevention, punishment, and eradication of violence against women in political life. We argue that Brazil’s VAWIP law provide the legal basis for addressing the issue, but the ambiguous and broad language used in the law leaves a lot of room for interpretation of what will typify this kind of violence
Food Insecurity, Racial Diversity, and Reservation Land: Relationships with the Credit Security Index
Get PDFThe Fair Housing Act and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act prohibit banks from discriminating based on race, gender, national origin, and other protected categories. Are these laws enough to mitigate the multigenerational impacts of discrimination experienced by these communities? To address this question, this project examined whether unequal access to credit persists in communities on or adjacent to Indian reservations, communities with high levels of racial diversity, and communities where women are a greater percentage of the population than men
Hindu Nationalism and Indian Christian Response!
Get PDFIndian democracy is fast recast as Hindu nationalism which neither honors the country’s constitutional secularity nor upholds its tradition of diversity (religious, cultural, and linguistic), inclusivity, and pluralism. The forged uniformity avowedly seeks to construct the “one” India - one religion (Hindu), one culture (Hindu), and one language (Hindi). Falsely representing a Hinduism under attack from ‘invader’ religions, nationalist ideologues arouse the base emotions of the unsuspecting majoritarian community and stoke their fears against the minorities, particularly Christians. Conscientious challenging of such imposed homogeneity is met with charges of sedition and profiling as anti-national foreign stooge. At this critical juncture, various historical, theological, and contextual factors necessitate Indian Church’s political response through representation in parliament and state legislatures and entering the bureaucracy, not just to counter the systemic spread of the hegemonic ideology but also to safeguard her identity, particularity, rights, and freedom
Grand Illuminations | Good Grief: Grace Born From Subtraction
No full textThe Grand Illuminations: Speaking from the Heart lecture series continues with Karen Cherewatuk, Marie Malmin Meyer Professor of English at St. Olaf College. Cherewatuk will present “Good Grief: Grace Born of Subtraction. Her lecture will focus on how suffering and loss, fearful as they are, can also be a kind of saving grace. As she suggests, we can be our best selves on “the other side of sadness.” Using literary texts from John’s Gospel to Derek Walcott’s contemporary epic Omeros, Cherewatuk redefines grief as good
Spotlight on Brazil Series - Social inequalities in Brazil: Effects and Outcomes in Life and Health Conditions
No full textDr. Clarice Mota is an Anthropologist with a master\u27s degree in Collective Health, PhD in Sociology from the Federal University of Bahia and a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of York (UK). Since 2009, she is a full-time professor at the Institute of Collective Health – UFBA in the Department of Public Health and serves as the vice-coordinator of the Integrated Program for Research and Technical Cooperation Community, Family and Health (FASA). Her research focuses on communities and groups affected by social vulnerability, racial inequality, and neglected diseases, and she has done extensive studies on social protection policies, therapeutic itineraries of Sickle Cell Disease, and institutional racism
Christian Asceticism
Get PDFThe experience of the desert and wildlife was one of the hallmarks of early Christian monasticism. This paper offers a few vignettes about how animals and the natural world influenced the spirituality and writing of the ascetic life of early Christian monastics