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MDOCS Poster-2018-03-22, No Mas Bebes
Get PDFNo Más Bebés tells the story of a little-known but landmark event in reproductive justice, when a small group of Mexican immigrant women sued county doctors, the state, and the U.S. government after they were sterilized while giving birth at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Marginalized and fearful, many of these mothers spoke no English, and charged that they had been coerced into tubal ligation — having their tubes tied — by doctors during the late stages of labor. Often the procedure was performed after asking the mothers under duress.
The mothers’ cause was eventually taken up by a young Chicana lawyer armed with hospital records secretly gathered by a whistle-blowing doctor. In their landmark 1975 civil rights lawsuit, Madrigal v. Quilligan, they argued that a woman’s right to bear a child is guaranteed under the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade.
The filmmakers spent five years tracking down sterilized mothers and witnesses. Most were reluctant at first to come forward, but ultimately agreed to tell their story. Set against a debate over the impact of Latino immigration and overpopulation, and the birth of a movement for Chicana rights and reproductive choice, No Más Bebés revisits a powerful story that still resonates today. The Filmmakers
Renee Tajima-Peña (Producer/Director) is an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker whose directing credits include Calavera Highway (PBS), “The Mexico Story” of The New Americans series (PBS), My Journey Home (PBS), Labor Women (PBS), Skate Manzanar (performance and installation), My America...or Honk if You Love Buddha (PBS), The Last Beat Movie (Sundance Channel), The Best Hotel on Skid Row (HBO), and Who Killed Vincent Chin? (PBS), which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary. Her films have premiered at Sundance, Cannes, San Francisco, New Directors/New Films, Toronto, the Whitney Biennial and festivals around the world. Among her honors are a USA Broad Fellowship, a Peabody Award, a DuPont-Columbia Award, an Alpert Award in the Arts, an IDA Achievement Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Virginia Espino (Producer) conducted original research on the Madrigal case that formed the basis for No Más Bebés. Her work was published in Las Obreras: Chicana Politics of Work and Family, edited by Vicki L. Ruiz, and Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia. She is the Program Coordinator for Latina/o History at the UCLA Center for Oral History Research where she has interviewed the leading figures in contemporary Mexican American history. Espino received her PhD in History from Arizona State University
“Influence of Locality” in Dickens, Austen, and Hardy: Placing Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Get PDFTim Cresswell explains in his book Place: A Short Introduction (2004) that “Place is how we make the world meaningful and the way we experience the world. Place, at a basic level, is space invested with meaning in the context of power” (19). In fiction, place influences how we experience a constructed narrative. In the nineteenth-century British novel, place becomes a part of the narrative, and the narrative, in turn, informs England’s geographical heritage making.
This exhibition explores how three nineteenth-century British authors—Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and Thomas Hardy—use the natural geography of Southern England in various ways to affect characterization, plot, and theme. The Cobb at Lyme Regis in Austen’s Persuasion (1818), the River Thames in Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend (1865), and Stonehenge in Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891) are natural landscapes built upon by human experiences: the Thames has locks and boats, the Cobb its steep constructed steps, and Stonehenge its carefully arranged ancient monoliths. These landscapes are representative of an English heritage that is tied to place as part of its identity: its urban and rural geographies, its cultural and religious heritage, and its economic history. The nineteenth century saw the final stages of the Industrial Revolution in England, which disrupted the country’s social and economic systems. England experienced a mass migration out of the countryside and into industrial urban centers such as London. However, literary critic Raymond Williams argues in The Country and the City that a sense of rural heritage never left the English zeitgeist. It appears in the writings of Austen, Dickens, and Hardy, although the idealized and beloved countryside of pre-industrial England essentially disappeared long before any of these authors were writing.
These three novels that span the long nineteenth century preserve and redefine real locations in England and have inspired literary tourism where visitors can reenact Louisa Musgrove’s fall from the steps of the Cobb, walk along the banks of the Thames that Lizzie and Gaffer Hexam dredged for corpses, and stand on the Great Plain of Stonehenge while listening to the dramatic climax of Tess through an audio guide. Fiction thus perpetuates what can now be thought of as the myth of the idealized English countryside. That myth becomes for the modern reader a reality in Persuasion, Our Mutual Friend, and Tess of the D’Urbervilles. Likewise, the Cobb, the Thames, and Stonehenge become places engrained in English culture and heritage for perpetuity
Written from the Margins: The Power of Chicana Voices in Defining Their Own Feminism
Get PDFChicana feminist organizing, beginning in the 1970s and continuing as a movement today, exposes the exclusionary nature of the various currents of White feminism at the time, and the structures of racism and classism faced by Mexican-American women. Why would the cause of feminism, the pursuit of women’s equality as seen by White feminists, ignore the intersection of oppressions present in marginalized women’s lives? White women’s focus on gender identity, setting aside other parts of identity such as race, ethnicity, class, education, religion, or citizenship, causes undue detriment to identity-based empowerment. The rhetoric and understandings of positionality circulating through Chicana living rooms, meetings, and social justice initiatives articulate what Gloria Anzaldúa termed interlocking oppressions, the lived experience of multiple oppressions based on social and economic categories. As White women were focused on pursuing workplace equality and ways out of 1950s housewifery, there were, and continue to be, less publicized, increasingly radical movements among marginalized women. The experiences shared by Chicana women in intellectual, social, and emotional circles during the 1960s and 1970s, gave birth to new lenses, voices, and intricacies in gender theory, revolutionary feminism, and the politics of change
Anti-Transgender Hate Speech and Hate Crime: A Ten-Year Analysis of the Relationship Between Local Attitudes and Violent Hate Crime
Get PDFAnti-Transgender hate crimes have been on the rise in recent years, but the reasons for this are unclear. The main question this thesis works to answer is: How do state-by-state variations in hate speech, as measured by Google searches for derogatory transgender terminology, relate to hate crimes in that state, as measured by reported hate-motivated murders of transgender people, in the United States from 2008-2017? This analysis utilizes data of reported hate crimes against transgender people, taking into account the identity of that individual, along with the economic, social, and political climate of the state in the year the victim died. Overall, the findings are inconclusive and point to a need for further research. However, discrimination against the transgender community is still well-documented and, combined with this analysis, leads to the need to research more. Moving forward, data collection on transgender people needs to become more robust to help with further analyses and to further reinforce the need for legal protection of transgender people. Finally, this thesis provides potential areas of further research as well as policy recommendations to protect the transgender community in the United States
An Empirical Analysis of the Contract Year Phenomenon in the National Football League
Get PDFThis paper seeks to find evidence of the contract year phenomenon in the National Football League. The contract year phenomenon is the idea that players outperform their usual level of performance in the season prior to their free agency eligibility. Furthermore, the concept is predicated on fluctuations in effort exerted by players. The best method for measuring these fluctuations in effort is through performance statistics. In this study, I chose to measure player productivity in terms of an advanced performance statistic. For the empirical analysis, I studied 59 players from different offensive positions who signed contracts under the 2011 Collective Bargaining Agreement. The results suggest that being in a contract year has a positive effect on player productivity, while being in the season after signing a new contract has a negative effect on player productivity. However, my analysis yielded no statistically significant results
The Value of Bitcoin: A Closer Look at How Investor Attention Affects the Value of Bitcoin
Get PDFThis paper looks at two measure of the value of Bitcoin (the price and volume traded in the last month of Bitcoin) and sees if investor attention causes any changes in the values of Bitcoin. This paper also adds exchange rates, the S&P 500, and the price of gold as other possible explanations for the value of Bitcoin. This paper examines the variables at a worldwide level and at the countries with the top 10 GDP in the world. The results of this paper find that investor attention has a significant positive relationship with the value of Bitcoin. Specifically at the country level, Russia consistently has a significant relationship with the value of Bitcoin
Queen of Heart
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Five Lace Umbrellas -1
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