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The Relationship Between Blast-Related Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Executive Function is Associated with White Matter Integrity
Get PDFThis project details the outcomes of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) including injury mechanism, immunological response, and cognitive performance. The study investigates if the integrity of certain brain regions influences the association between remote mTBI and executive function. Based on data from 182 veterans from the Minneapolis VA Medical Center, an association between blast injury severity and executive function was found to be moderated by white matter integrity of the right hippocampal cingulum in veterans with blast exposure history, such that those with higher blast severity showed a greater effect of the association between lower integrity and worse performance
The Effect of Race on the Evaluation of Quarterbacks
Get PDFBlack quarterbacks have faced stereotypes and biases about their performance for decades. While Black quarterbacks are more common in the NFL nowadays, it is not clear whether their performance is being evaluated without bias. Black quarterbacks are often discussed in ways that emphasize their physical abilities but criticize their mental attributes. This current study sought to investigate the effect of race on quarterback evaluation. Study 1 examined the effect of race on fans’ evaluations of quarterbacks; Study 2 looked at the effect of race on evaluations by high school football coaches. Participants completed an online experiment in which they were presented with identical player profiles, except for manipulations of race and perceived athleticism, then were asked to listen to in-game commentary about the player and evaluate his performance. Player race affected the fans’ evaluations of quarterbacks, but not coaches’ evaluations. Future research would benefit from the use of visual stimuli and samples of participants who work in higher levels of football to increase generalizability of findings
Sprouting SEAD: Exploring Youth Southeast Asian Leadership Towards Abolitionist Futures
Get PDFAfter a whirlwind summer with the Southeast Asian Diaspora Project, I reflect on my experiences there as a young Southeast Asian woman who is in youth work. Through analyzing the potential of queer activism, the history of Asian activism, the Stop AAPI Hate movement, and Asian solidarity with other BIPOC specifically right after the murder of George Floyd, I aim to provide suggestions for how Southeast Asian youth organizing could look like in the future to maintain an abolitonist vision and a strong dedication to the community. I emphasize the importance of grounding future activism outside of identity, the potential of horizontal leadership, and why youth must be the leaders of these future movements. I also provide examples of current Southeast Asian or BIPOC and queer organizations like PrYSM and Freedom Inc that are youth led that are good signs for the future. This is only the beginning of a much longer conversation and I intend to take my findings from this paper to apply to my own curriculum building for youth leadership programming
Productivity and Protest: The Institutionalization of Activism
Get PDFUnder capitalism, time spent being productive and effective is the ultimate goal of human life and interaction. What can be produced or accomplished and how much it is worth is the guiding principle of labor, governance, and now, protest. Over time, protest culture and activism have been institutionalized and fallen into the same patterns of the systems they intend to change. The demand to be productive results in activists pulling long hours for underpaid or even unpaid labor, with a focus on filling canvassing quotas, and counting donations, rather than engaging in meaningful community-based action. This inevitably leads to the burnout of activists, and actively stifles the revolutionary potential of movements by centering hours spent and accolades rather than the goal of worldchanging. This phenomenon is a result of colonial white supremascist culture inside of activist spaces that must be expunged if movements are to be truly radical spaces. To respond to this, I offer an alternative worldchanging strategy based in community care and sustainable, communal work
Loveliness Far Above Them All: Women and Wives of the Genesis Apocryphon
Get PDFThe retelling of the bible is a common method of biblical interpretation within the Dead Sea Scrolls library. Stories, events, ideas, and characters are re-imagined by the authors of texts who pay homage to what we consider the “canonical” biblical story. In the process, characters and stories are reinterpreted. This reinterpretation provides insight into a community’s understanding of itself, and of the roles that its members play. I am interested in the re-imagined women of Genesis that appear in the Genesis Apocryphon. I will compare both of them (Bitenosh and Sarai) to their counterparts in the book of Genesis, and analyze how they reflect the biblical material as well as differing attitudes towards women and wives that existed in the author’s community. Bitenosh, as the wife of Lamech, has almost no role in Genesis. Sarai, the wife of Abram, plays a significantly larger role—but the story related in the Apocryphon exists in Genesis in only a few verses (Gen. 12:10- 13). In the Genesis Apocryphon, both of these women appear in roles much expanded from their mention in Genesis. Bitenosh, for example, is not even named in the Torah. Sarai’s sojourn with Abram into Egypt is somewhat longer in the Genesis Apocryphon, and includes an expanded section of erotic love poetry inserted into the middle. I’m curious about how these different retellings reflect differing interpretations of Sarai and Bitenosh. Why are these women and stories singled out for detail? What does the erotic poetry in Sarai’s story signify? Even more importantly, why are Sarai and Bitenosh reinterpreted, and what is accomplished through this retelling? What does this tell us about the community that produced the Genesis Apocryphon
Audio Virology and Affect Contagion in the Times of Preemptive Power and Sonic Futurism: The Sonic Warfare of Fatima Al Qadiri
Get PDFThis project examines the State’s use of sound technologies in particular to conjure affects facilitative of the maintenance and control of human bodies and political activities. In tension with this current, it will also study the subversion of sonic war machinery by cultural workers and musicians in the production of transnational political solidarities against the state militarization/securitization of life and preemption/commodification of death–a socio-economic paradigm fed by the (neo)colonial underbellies of capitalist modernity, from the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the colonization and military exploitation of the ‘Middle East’
Comment raconter autrement l’expérience migratoire ? Une analyse croisée de trois romans francophones
Get PDFAujourd’hui, l’État et les médias français visent à réduire au silence les immigrés africains, ou bien visent à s’approprier leurs mots à d’autres fins. Néanmoins, le genre romanesque permet aux immigrés de prendre la parole, donnant un visage à la masse anonyme et menaçante des immigrés que montrent les médias français. Le ventre de l’Atlantique par Fatou Diome, Comment immigrer en France en 20 leçons par Luc Bassong et Debout-Payé par Gauz font justement cela. En analysant les représentations des subjectivités des immigrés-personnages, les performances des rôles attribués aux immigrés-personnages et les déconstructions des stéréotypes ethnographiques présentées dans ces trois ouvrages, on rencontre une humanisation des immigrés africains en France.
Today, the French state and media aim to silence African immigrants or appropriate their words to different ends. The novel genre, however, provides space for migrants to speak for themselves, countering dominant negative narratives and giving a human face to the menacing mass of immigrants French media portrays. Le ventre de l’Atlantique by Fatou Diome, Comment immigrer en France en 20 leçons by Luc Bassong, and Debout-Payé by Gauz exemplify this counter-hegemonic capacity. These novels’ representations of their characters’s subjectivity, performance of the roles attributed to migrants, and deconstruction of ethnographic stereotypes humanize the African immigrant in France
Did the Clean Air Act Improve Environmental Justice Disparities?
Get PDFThis paper analyzes the differential impacts of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) on the racial pollution exposure gap, also known as the Environmental Justice (EJ) gap. Using recently developed, Census tract-level satellite data of PM2.5 pollution, I test whether CAAA non-attainment status and resulting State Implementation Plans decreased pollution in high-percentage Black and Hispanic areas more than in non-high percentage Black and Hispanic tracts. My results confirm that the CAAA reduced overall pollution concentrations in the U.S. and decreased the absolute level of the Environmental Justice gap. A heterogeneity analysis provides evidence that the results are primarily driven by air quality gains in Black communities in California and the Rust Belt
An Application of Prospect Theory: The Effect of Trailing at Halftime on Winning NFL Games
Get PDFTrailing in sports is associated with losing, but can trailing operate as a powerful motivator that leads to winning? Based on research by Berger and Pope (2011), this study applies Prospect Theory and loss aversion to football to test if trailing by a small margin can motivate success. This relationship is analyzed based on teams’ point differentials at halftime since halftime operates as a salient reference point and a time for teams to regroup and strategize. Analysis of over 12,000 NFL games found no significant effect of trailing at halftime on the likelihood of winning. That is, there is little evidence that Berger and Pope’s (2011) finding for a motivational effect of losing in basketball exists in football. I offer several reasons why key differences between football and basketball may account for the null result in football and suggest that future research is needed in prospect theory’s application to football on a play-by-play basis