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Much More than a Song : The 1935 Campaign for a National Dixie Memorial
No full textThis article explores the ultimately unsuccessful 1935 campaign by Kentuckian Mary Darby Fitzhugh to erect a national memorial to honor the song Dixie and its Ohio-born composer, Daniel Decatur Emmett. Locating Fitzhugh\u27s campaign in the larger effort by Confederate heritage groups to promote a southern perspective on the Civil War, it examines why and how proponents of the Lost Cause came to embrace both the song Dixie and blackface performer Dan Emmett as symbols of sectional reconciliation. The story of the Dixie memorial also highlights the work of Confederate heritage groups outside the South and the ways in which their efforts shaped the commemorative culture in Emmett\u27s hometown of Mount Vernon, Ohio
“The more I hold myself close and fully embrace who I am, the more I thrive”: Trans Experiences in Collegiate Athletics at Oberlin College
No full textOver the past 10 years, the rise in visibility and representation of transgender athletes in collegiate and professional sport has increased public discussion and debate on the validity of these athletes existing in binary spaces. With this in mind, the scholarship on trans athletes competing in sport is growing, but lacks in-depth narratives of trans and gender non-conforming collegiate athletes. My study aims to respond to three research questions: 1) How do societal factors impact the experiences of Trans Athletes at Division III colleges and universities? 2) How is Oberlin a case study of an accepting Trans athletic community? And 3) What factors shape the experiences of Trans athletes at Division III colleges in Ohio? I interviewed six trans and gender non-conforming student-athletes at Oberlin to learn more about their experiences. This paper focuses on preliminary themes that emerged related to acceptance and exclusion. My respondents also speak to managing how they are perceived while competing on their home campus and traveling to conference opponents within and outside of Ohio
Positive Bystander Intervention Training for Allies to Gender Minorities
No full textPositive psychology seeks to improve wellbeing beyond the absence of distress, but interventions often do not address social environmental causes. Since belonging is a protective factor for mental health, gender minorities’ (e.g., trans, non-binary) wellbeing would benefit from allies actively working to increase environmental belonging for the community. However, some potential allies do not know how or are afraid to act. To address a gap in research on training allies to increase environmental belonging, this study tested a positive bystander intervention training. All participants (N = 109) first viewed a positive bystander training. Participants were then presented with an example scenario in one of three conditions: 1) a trans woman with an empathic joy prompt, 2) a trans woman with a control prompt, and 3) a disabled woman with a control prompt. At both time points (1 week apart) all participants wrote a response to scenarios about gender minorities and rated their bystander self-efficacy. There was an interaction between condition and Time 1 and Time 2 self-efficacy: participants in the disability control condition had higher self-efficacy at Time 2, but there were no other differences. A language analysis on pronouns, prosocial, and emotion words was also conducted using the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) program. There was a marginal difference between conditions in third person pronouns. Written responses were coded for themes, including 1) Character’s Comfort, 2) Conversation and Building Community, and 3) Providing Assistance. Future research can include organizational-level scenarios and explore intersections with other identities (e.g., race)
Mathematical Justifications for Musical Scales
No full textWe provide several mathematical characterizations of optimality for musical scales from existing literature, demonstrate their equivalence with each other, and describe additional features of optimal scales and their musical significance. We use a common framework based on the dynamical features of irrational rotation maps on the unit circle
Understanding the Acculturation of Jewish Communities in the Early American Southeast
No full textBeginning in Charleston in 1695, close-knit Jewish communities began to develop in Southern American port cities, and soon began to achieve full integration into the society as a whole. With this new level of integration and acculturation began a discussion of not only what exactly these communities achieved in a new land, but also how they created a brand new identity at the intersection of their Judaism and their Americanism. Other studies have discussed these achievements in a vacuum, seemingly highlighting the exclusively Jewish outlook of this communal development, with little consideration given to the regional circumstances that allowed Jewish settlers to effectively integrate into Southern society. In this thesis, I will analyze these methods of integration and acculturation, including Jewish participation in the American Revolution and the trade-based economies of the Southern colonies, while also describing the complex figures that emerged within the community. In particular, discussion of these figures and their complexities is generally lacking in the historical narrative of Jewish growth in the American South, with the narrative focusing especially on Jewish successes in the colonies. Ultimately, my thesis aims to answer the following question: how do we measure the social mobility and success of Jews in the colonial American south using their assimilation into colonial life as a metric
Capital Flow Freezes
No full textThe period following the 2008 financial crisis focused attention on twin-crises, where banking crises precipitate sovereign crises due to increased bank support. We show that when private sector debt is renegotiated centrally, and bargaining power is low, it results in suboptimally low levels of debt and default rates (haircuts). If, instead, the bargaining power is sufficiently high, the supply of debt exceeds its demand and capital inflows freeze . These inefficiencies arise because the decentralized borrowers fail to consider how their bond supply impacts debt renegotiation outcomes, affecting both bond prices and the asset span. These issues can be addressed through macroprudential policies in the form of taxing capital inflows
Review: Time of Anarchy: Indigenous Power and the Crisis of Colonialism in Early America
No full textA Bottom-up Approach to Lower Court Influence on the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
No full textDo lower court opinions in the United Kingdom influence the opinion content of the UK Supreme Court? Our project explores the dynamic relationship between the opinion writing tendencies of judges on the Court of Appeal of England and Wales and the content of decisions rendered by the still nascent UK Supreme Court. We offer a theoretical framework that accounts for the unique institutional design of the UK judiciary where professional norms, familiarity, and credibility should promulgate language adoption tendencies. Drawing on novel data from a diverse array of sources, our findings demonstrate that the language credibility of lower court opinions - characterized by its analytical, confident, and emotive attributes - affects the degree to which Supreme Court justices incorporate such language within their own opinions. Our work has new and important implications for studies on opinion writing, higher and lower court interactions, and comparative courts, more broadly
Waring\u27s Problem for Squares of the Hurwitz Quaternions
No full textThis paper considers sums of squares in quaternion rings with integral or half-integral coefficients and proves global bounds on the minimum number of squares needed to represent any such quaternion as the sum of squares