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No Use to the State: Phrasing Escape and a Black Radical Epistolary of Disability in Early Twentieth-Century Alabama Prisons
No full textThis article explores how Black women experienced and theorized disability from within Alabama’s prisons in the early twentieth century. Early-twentieth-century custodial prisons were a primary place in which disabled, southern Black women encountered the state. Some women entered prison disabled and many left with disabilities they had not had before. Indeed, disability was a condition of incarceration: a function of its punitive labor demands and the violence used to enforce disciplinary measures. Black women intimately understood and resisted this multifaceted violence and attempted to negotiate with the state for their release. Their handwritten letters, an archive that was unintentionally preserved by the state, demonstrate that incarcerated Black women’s articulation of uselessness was a profound critique of racial, carceral capitalism. Through close reading of recursive strategies, this article examines incarcerated Black women’s textual invocations of unproductivity as a disruption of the binary of metaphor and materiality in racial studies of disability
This graph stinks . . . but I fixed it: A lesson on data representation
No full textThis article shares a lesson on data representation. Designed for high school mathematics classrooms, the lesson begins by exploring data from the 2020 presidential election. Then, students have the opportunity to find other misleading graphs, analyze how/why they are misleading, and create a revised version of the graph that more accurately shares the data. Throughout the article, we share details of how the lesson was implemented with a group of preservice mathematics teachers. We also share student reactions/work and recommendations for teaching this lesson within a high school setting
Commentary on Lee and Zaryab: Does groove really influence sexual selection?
No full textMusic is a stimulus that is known to have manipulative potential in different societal contexts. Misattributed arousal is one mechanism through which music may affect perception and behavior. Lee and Zaryab (this volume) present a study that examined the influence of groove on sexual selection in a simulated speed-dating paradigm, building upon research by Marin et al. (2017) and Chang et al. (2021). Their results indicate that groove ratings predicted sexual attraction among males, but not among females. This commentary discusses several methodological issues and suggests possible refinements for future studies on music-induced arousal transfer, which may ultimately enhance our understanding of how music can affect mate choice. Finally, I discuss the topic in the context of the origins of music and musicality
Species Delimitation of Eastern Pinesnake Complex (Pituophis melanoleucus)
No full textThe eastern Pinesnake (Pituophis melanoleucus) is found throughout eastern United States. Taxonomy in this group has been controversial with several conflicting species designations. Three subspecies of the eastern Pinesnake have prevailed in the literature to their geographic locations and scale coloration: the northern Pinesnake (P. m. melanoleucus), the Florida Pinesnake (P. m. mugitus), and the Black Pinesnake (P. m. lodingi). Within the region, there are several major barriers to dispersal, particularly major river drainage systems and human modification of the longleaf pine habitat. Consistently, a lack of phylogenetic resolution has plagued these taxa in prior studies. The goal of this study was to examine the taxonomic validity of the eastern Pinesnake complex using single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) isolated from ultra-conserved elements (UCEs) in phylogenetic and population genetic approaches. Molecular species delimitation approaches indicated that the population of eastern Pinesnake exhibits population structure across its range that may rise to the level of being new species
Landownership within Amish Settlements in Wisconsin: An Exploratory Study
Get PDFThis study examines patterns of landownership within 18 Amish settlements in Wisconsin, including nine of the state’s ten largest settlements, plus nine smaller settlements. Landownership was plotted for 2,048 Amish households, who collectively owned over 115,000 acres. These households were drawn from 105 church districts, representing 58.7 percent of the state’s total. The study utilized three types of data: the recent Amish directory for Wisconsin, plat atlases showing landownership for selected counties, and detailed satellite imagery provided by Google Maps.
Average acreage per household ranged from 27.7 to 86.6 acres among the settlements. Differences in acreage owned per household appear related to occupations. Average acreage of Amish-owned land per survey section ranged from 41.6 to 201.2 acres. The maximum acreage of Amish-owned land in each settlement’s survey sections ranged from 120 to 639 acres. Amish landholdings exceeded 160 acres in 30.3 percent of the sections having Amish lands, with the settlements’ proportions ranging from 0 to 55.2 percent.
Interspersal of Amish lands among lands owned by non-Amish people is the norm, but differences in the density of Amish holdings, displayed by owned maximum acreage per section and average landholdings per section, are related to founding date and settlement size. Settlements established before the mid-1980s display greater clustering of Amish landownership. Newer settlements display many noncontiguous sections with Amish-owned lands not adjacent on their sides or corners to other sections having Amish lands. This pattern is particularly conspicuous within the Platteville-Darlington and Fennimore settlements
Family History as Disability History: Native Hawaiians Surviving Medical Incarceration
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Perspectives of two college students labeled with intellectual disability: Supports during the moving in and through stages of transition
No full textAn increasing number of students labeled with intellectual disability are attending colleges and universities. Yet, their perspectives are underrepresented in the research. Grounded in Disability Studies in Education and Schlossberg's Transition Theory, this study reports on the transitional experiences of two emerging adults labeled with intellectual disability at a large public university with a particular focus on how the participants conceptualized their support systems during the moving in and through stages of transition to university. Three themes are discussed: supports the students brought with them to the university, reciprocal supports with peer mentors, and university-provided supports. As such, the findings contribute to and expand existing scholarship dedicated to the experiences of emerging adults labeled with intellectual disability at postsecondary institutions. Aligning with the research question and blended theoretical framing, implications for practice and research are discussed