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It\u27s a Long Way to Ypsilanti, If you Start from Croydon, Outside Melbourne (Take a Cut Lunch, or Keep an Eye Out for New Friends)
Full text linkFordism is both a global and a local phenomenon. Here I look to make some connections between American and Australian experience, beginning with the social model indicated by Gramsci in interwar Italy; travelling on to visit the Australian model and its institutional field, especially the basic wage, before casting back to Detroit and again to the antipodes to close.
Keywords: Fordism, Americanism, Australia, Gramsci, social mode
How art centers in Michigan use social media to communicate mission
Full text linkThe use of social media for marketing purposes has become a widespread practice for nonprofit and for-profit organizations. Social media can assist in communication efforts in many ways, including communicating an art center\u27s mission. However, with limited documentation of the use of social media marketing within these organizations, it can be challenging to know how current art centers are using social media and if their social media marketing strategy is reaching their intended audiences. This research explores how art centers in Michigan use social media to communicate their mission to their audience and if it matches the organization’s original purpose and mission. “How do art centers in Michigan communicate their mission using social media?” is the question addressed using a mixed-methods approach combining a survey of 18 art centers, content analysis, observation, and interview protocol with 14 art centers in Michigan. The conclusions of this research provide observations about the social media usage of art centers, information regarding art center teams, and recommendations for social media best practices that may be used for current and future art centers to use and integrate into their marketing plans. Additionally, a call for continued research in this field is addressed
A narrative portrait of Black teachers mitigating deficit thinking through culturally responsive professional learning
Full text linkThis qualitative study was developed in response to the deficit thinking Black students experience, which stems from the historical and ongoing racism in the United States. As result of receiving my K-12 education and teacher education in this country, it is no surprise that I, along with other Black teachers, can also hold a deficit perspective of Black students. After engaging in equity-based professional learning, I had a shift in beliefs that made me curious about the experiences of other Black teachers participating in professional learning as well. A combined focus on culturally responsive leadership and deficit thinking informed the following research questions: In what ways can culturally responsive professional learning influence Black teachers’ beliefs and perspectives about their Black students? In what ways can culturally responsive professional learning influence Black teachers? I reflect on my experience conducting a book study in a K-8 school with a predominantly Black student body. I focused on the experiences of five Black teachers who participated in the school-wide professional learning. I utilized portraiture methodology to create narrative portraits for each participant. As central to portraiture methodology, I searched for goodness when analyzing the data by the guiding questions of “What is happening here? What is working and why?” Doing this focuses on the strengths and counters deficit narratives seen too often in research centering on Black students. Data collection encompassed written reflections by teachers, interviews, observational data, and teacher artifacts. Four themes emerged from the participants’ responses: Joyous and Jaded Moments of a Book Study, Impediments of an Inequitable System, the Cultural Power of Black Teachers, and Clouds of Joy: Teachers’ Beliefs About Black Students. I offer recommendations for practice in teacher preparation programs for aspiring educators, professional learning for in-service teachers, and directions for future research
Assessing relatedness of Copperbelly water snakes in a captive breeding program
Full text linkBreeding threatened and endangered animals in captivity and their subsequent release can help supplement wild populations. Within captive breeding programs, maintaining genetic diversity is an important consideration for ensuring the survival of a species as a whole. Preserving genetic diversity increases population persistence, as it may offer a better chance for a species to adapt to a changing environment. The Copperbelly Water Snake (Nerodia erythrogaster neglecta, CWS) is listed as threatened by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In an effort to aid CWS recovery efforts, the Toledo Zoo manages a captive breeding program initially consisting of nine adult and seventeen juvenile snakes. To choose breeding pairs, the zoo required relatedness estimates for the adult snakes, and the juveniles were used to determine if these snakes exhibit multiple paternity. These analyses will help inform the breeding plan so that the population retains the maximum amount of genetic diversity. We generated genetic data for seven polymorphic microsatellite loci and determined relatedness using the program COANCESTRY. Relatedness varied from -0.915 to 0.5747 among all the analysis methods, with the average sibling relatedness value from all analysis methods being 0.139. The best breeding pairs are the ones that minimize these values, as these pairs will likely yield offspring with the most genetic diversity. Multiple paternity was evaluated by comparing the genotypes of the juveniles and their mother. There was no evidence supporting multiple paternity in this clutch; however, it cannot be ruled out in this species due to the small sample size of this captive population. Captive breeding efforts informed by genotyping breeding animals, like this one, may help species recover from their threatened status
Allele-specific PCR (AS-PCR) assays for genetic variants associated with color morphs in ball pythons (Python regius)
Full text linkWhile the genetic basis of color morphs in ball pythons (Python regius) has become increasingly studied, rapid and accessible tools for genotyping these known mutations are still limited. Here, we developed allele-specific PCR (AS-PCR) assays for detecting genetic mutations associated with ten diUerent P. regius color morphs, providing a rapid and coste Uective genotyping tool. We first tested each color morph with diUerent combinations of AS-PCR primers to determine the optimal ones. Then, we performed AS-PCR again with a larger sample set after identifying optimal primers and amplification conditions specific to each morph-associated genetic variant. These AS-PCR assays distinguished wild-type and mutant alleles across multiple pigmentation-related genes, confirming their reliability. The mutations detected using AS-PCR included missense, deletion, nonsense, or splice site mutations. Our study demonstrates that AS-PCR is a time and cost-saving method for screening known mutations in ball pythons. This approach may be used to enhance breeding accuracy, large-scale genetic studies, and support future research on reptile pigmentation genetics
Muriel Rukeyser at Sarah Lawrence College
No full text“A day in Honor of Muriel Rukeyser, December 9, 1978, Sarah Lawrence College. Muriel Rukeyser is present in the photograph, sitting with her nephew Louis Rukeyser to her left, and the writer Alice Walker standing and facing Rukeyser. Alice Walker was a former student of Muriel Rukeyser at Sarah Lawrence College
Letter from Rukeyser to Kertesz, July 7 1975
No full textAn original, typewritten letter, dated July 7th, 1975. The letter is from Muriel Rukeyser to Louise Kertesz. In the letter, Rukeyser thanks Louise for sending her essay on Thoreau. Rukeyser also provides an answer to Louise’s question [how to access a copy of M.L Rosenthal\u27s 1949 thesis, Chief Poets of the American Depression: Contributions of Kenneth Fearing, Horace Gregory, and Muriel Rukeyser to Contemporary American Poetry ] and suggests that she write to M.L. Rosenthal at N.Y.U. and ask to borrow a copy of his thesis. Rukeyser ends the letter by saying that she is enclosing a copy of the issue of American Poetry Review that Louise had requested
List of friends in San Francisco 1944-1949 handwritten by Rukeyser
No full textUndated, labeled San Francisco 1944-1949. Handwritten by Muriel Rukeyser, it contains a list of people whom Muriel was close to and their occupations while she lived in S.F.: Herbert Evans, US anatomist, biologist; Marie de L. Welch, writer, poet, “close friend”; Matthew Barnes, painter, plasterer for Diego Rivera; Alfred Marshak, geneticist, U-C, radical; Glyn Collins, “painter, husband”; Donan Jeffers, “one of the twin sons of Robinson Jeffers–unique, wild, splendid, ‘out of time with the century’”; Kenneth Rexroth, “poet, scholar”; Freda Koblick, “sculptor, artist in plastics; Josephine Miles, poet; David Jenkins and Louise, California Labor School; Thomas Addis, renal scientist, radical; Emmy Lou Packard, artist, muralist; Dorothy Erskine, social activist, city planning; Lena [?] Goldsmith and Nancy Naumburg, “friends from earliest life in New York”; Dr. Eric Berne, psychiatrist Carmel–wrote Games People Play; Robert Duncan, poet. The list is stapled to a postcard from Muriel Rukeyer to Louise Kertesz in which she mentions additional people who “were important to me in California.
Letter from Kertesz to Rukeyser, September 11 1979
No full textAn original typewritten letter dated September 11th, 1979. The letter is from Louise Kertesz to Muriel Rukeyser. Louise begins the letter by saying that it was good to talk with Rukeyser last night. Louise had written to her editor at LSU Press, Marie Blanchard, and requested that they send Rukeyser a copy of the page proof when it is available. Louise is waiting for the review that Rukeyser spoke of on the phone. Louise was pleased to see the Thomas Lask review in the Times. She thinks that Lask will be able to use her book for better readings of some of the poems, such as “Pouring the Milk Away,” which he did not read in the context of all of Rukeyser’s work. Lask stated that “Every experience had to be significant. Kenneth Rexroth argues that the poems show “... a philosophy of life which comes out of [your] own flesh and bones.” Louise states that “...with your history and response to the times, every experience is significant, is political and personal. Louise does want her book to be useful to Rukeyser’s readers, and has been encouraged by Eberhart’s comments that it will be. Louise informs Rukeyser that Michael True of Assumption is receiving a copy of the page proof, and he says he will try to place a review in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Margaret Weeks at The Chronicle had also been informed by the Press of True’s interest in a follow-up of his review of Rukeyser’s Collected Poems. Some time ago, Louise and the Press had asked Jane Cooper if she would read the page proofs in order to review the book. Louise received no response from her. Louise had also contacted Grace Schulman and William Meredith, offering page proofs for advance comment. Louise does not know if they responded. Denise Levertov declined a request for advanced comment. Hayden Carrruth will get a copy of the book for a review. If there is anyone else that Rukeyser would recommend for a review, Louise will contact them. Louise ends the letter by saying that she hopes that Rukeyser is well, and that she will be pleased with the book when she sees it
13 Questions attached to a letter from Muriel Rukeyser
No full textThirteen typewritten questions with a handwritten note, Done, by Louise Kertesz on the upper right. This appears to have been the first set of questions since they address Rukeyser\u27s work in the 30s and 40s. Questions include: Would you please explain the connection between the man Noguchi and the poem? I understand the poem but I don\u27t see why it\u27s called Noguchi. The sheet of questions is attached to a letter from Rukeyser to Kertesz