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Jim Crow and John Bull in London: Transatlantic Encounters with Race and Nation in the Second World War
Get PDFThe arrival of a segregated American army on British shores during the Second World War forced the UK government and the public to confront questions of race and nation in new ways. This article places London, the imperial metropolis, in a central role in this wartime drama by deploying evidence compiled as part of the Mapping Black London in World War II digital history project. The article reveals a hitherto under-acknowledged range and scale of African American activity in the capital, with a cast of characters including newspaper correspondents, musicians, social workers, nurses, political activists and, of course, many thousands of service personnel – both men and women. For an African American public back home, these metropolitan activities were viewed both as part of the international war effort and also from the perspective of a domestic American scene affected by rural to urban migration and an upsurge in racial protest and tension. The result was a short, sharp but transformative transatlantic encounter that highlights the connections between historical trajectories often considered in separate terms: the US civil rights movement, British domestic race relations, and the international forces – not least the decline of European empire fomented by war – that bound them together
Hegel's Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic by Karen Ng (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Get PDFThe use of scaling properties to detect relevant changes in financial time series: A new visual warning tool
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Experiences of Students of African Descent at a Post-1992 University in England
Get PDFIn recent years, considerable progress has been made to widen the participation of ethnic minority students in UK higher education, in the past few months alone, the Covid-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement have shone a stark light on the racial inequalities that exist throughout all sections of UK society, including within higher education. Higher education (HE) has the potential to break intergenerational poverty by bringing about social mobility and justice. Thereby, transforming the lives of many from disadvantaged background, the wider society and particularly the students of African descent who may face some level of prejudice. In this paper, the holistic experiences of students of African descent attending a Post-1992 University in Britain have been explored. Findings reveal that substantial inequalities persist throughout their student lifecycle exposing systemic discrimination, broader political and social realities evident on the campus
Understanding the EU’s changing trade policy strategy towards the Asia-Pacific region from a role-theory perspective
Get PDFAge-related differences in richness and diversity of Russian color lexicon
Get PDFIn the present study, we investigated age-related differences in richness and diversity of color lexicon in Russian native speakers. Color names were elicited in 2018–2020 in an ongoing web-based psycholinguistic experiment (https://colournaming.com). An unconstrained color-naming method was employed. A final dataset contained responses of 1,967 native Russian speakers (1,280 females, 677 males, 10 non-binary), from various locations of the Russian Federation, aged 16–98 years. Participants were stratified into seven age groups (years): 16–19 (M=17.59 ± 1.19), 20–29 (M=24.86 ± 3.11), 30–39 (M=35.04 ± 2.89), 40–49 (M=45.18 ± 2.86), 50–59 (M=55.63 ± 2.90), 60–69 (M=65.05 ± 2.87) and ≥70 (M=78.20 ± 4.97). To estimate heterogeneity of color lexicon in each age group, we applied the Margalef and Simpson indices broadly used for measuring ecological diversity. The indices enabled gauging richness of color lexicon, i.e., the number of word types in the dataset, and color-term evenness, i.e., the relative abundance of different color terms. Our analysis of synchronic variability provides evidence that color vocabulary develops actively throughout the entire adult life and remains relatively stable in both richness and diversity up to the old age. Respondents of the three younger groups, under 40 years, revealed the greatest color lexicon diversity. In comparison, in the 40–59-yearold the diversity index was lower, and decreased dramatically in respondents of 60 years and older. The apprehended dynamics reflects intergenerational differences as such, but even more so dramatic changes of sociocultural reality in the post-Soviet era (after 1991)
Intergenerational differences in Russian color naming in the globalized era: linguistic analysis
Get PDFThe present study is an apparent-time analysis of color terms in Russian native speakers (N = 1927), whose age varied between 16 and 98 years. Stratified sampling was employed with the following age groups: 16–19, 20–29, and so on, with the oldest group of 70 years and over. Color names were elicited in a web-based psycholinguistic experiment (http://colournaming.com). Participants labeled color samples (N = 606) using an unconstrained color-naming method. Color vocabulary of each age group was estimated using multiple linguistic measures: diversity index; frequency of occurrences of 12 Russian basic color terms (BCTs) and of most frequent non-BCTs; color-naming pattern. Our findings show intergenerational differences in Russian color-term vocabulary, color-naming patterns, and object referents. The CT diversity (measured by the Margalef index) progressively increments with speakers’ juniority; the lexical refinement is manifested by the increasing variety of BCT modifiers and growing use of non-BCTs, both traditional and novel. Furthermore, the most frequent Russian non-BCTs sirenevyj “lilac”, salatovyj “lettuce‐colored”, and birûzovyj “turquoise” appear to be the emerging BCTs. The greatest diversity and richness of CT inventory is observed in Russian speakers aged 20–59 years, i.e., those who constitute the active workforce and are enthusiastic consumers. In comparison, speakers of 60 and over manifest less diverse color inventory and greater prevalence of (modified) BCTs. The two youngest groups (16–29 years) are linguistic innovators: their color vocabulary includes abundant recent loanwords, predominantly from English and, not infrequently, CTs as nouns rather than adjectives. Moreover, Generation Z (16–19 years) tend to offer highly specific or idiosyncratic color descriptors that serve expressive rather than informative function. The apprehended dynamics of color naming in apparent time reflects intergenerational differences as such, but even more so dramatic changes of sociocultural reality in the post-Soviet era, whereby Russian speakers, in particular under 60 years, were/are greatly impacted by globalization of trade: new market product arrivals resulted in adoption of novel and elaboration of traditional CTs for efficient communication about perceived color