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SameDiff Comparison: Trump, Obama, and the Ku Klux Klan
No full textPresentation by Ozakh Ahmed ('17) and Sydnee Haley ('20) delivered at the Digital Preservation and Scholarship Summer symposium.Using a public poll and SameDiff, a word analysis tool, we attempted to determine similarities and differences between modern day right-wing political text and 20th century Ku Klux Klan text. First, we gauged public perception of the similarities of these texts. Next, we used a data analysis tool in order to look specifically at word usage and patterns. Our findings suggest that KKK speech narratives were more similar to right-wing text or text from President Trump's 2017 inaugural speech as opposed to President Obama's 2009 inaugural speech. Further research should take a more thematic approach by using a database such as NVIVO in order to determine similarities and differences in each time period's narrative.
https://databasic.io/en/samediff
"The One Who Looks, Looks Upon The One Who Looks Upon The One Who Looks Upon..." exhibition image
No full textThis digital image was taken by Chip Pankey and uploaded to DLynx by the Visual Resources Center in July 2022.This is an image documenting the "The One Who Looks, Looks Upon The One Who Looks Upon The One Who Looks Upon..." exhibition, which was held in the Clough-Hanson Gallery from January 25 through March 21. This exhibition was created by "poly artists" Kuperus & Miller, who together make up Adult, as an extension of their then-upcoming album Perception as/is/of Deception. This exhibition uses built environments as well as decieving two-dimensional pieces to toy with the act of looking and the resultant, often unacknowleded, of being looked back at as well as that which goes unseen. Both artists focus on a different objective with their pieces in one singular exhibition, thus leaving the audience to discern the expected engagement with the space and message of the works
Edward S. Curtis and the American Indian Booklet
No full textThis digital image was scanned by Grayson Burke and uploaded to DLynx by the Visual Resources Center in Spring 2020.This is a booklet outlining Edward S. Curtis's work and its relation to the American Indian
"The One Who Looks, Looks Upon The One Who Looks Upon The One Who Looks Upon..." exhibition image
No full textThis digital image was taken by Chip Pankey and uploaded to DLynx by the Visual Resources Center in July 2022.This is an image documenting the "The One Who Looks, Looks Upon The One Who Looks Upon The One Who Looks Upon..." exhibition, which was held in the Clough-Hanson Gallery from January 25 through March 21. This exhibition was created by "poly artists" Kuperus & Miller, who together make up Adult, as an extension of their then-upcoming album Perception as/is/of Deception. This exhibition uses built environments as well as decieving two-dimensional pieces to toy with the act of looking and the resultant, often unacknowleded, of being looked back at as well as that which goes unseen. Both artists focus on a different objective with their pieces in one singular exhibition, thus leaving the audience to discern the expected engagement with the space and message of the works
Master's Thesis: "Obviously, You Play Football, Right?" Black Masculinity Constructed in the Face of Racism: An Autoethnographic Study
No full textThis autoethnographic study explores how Black masculinity is constructed and performed by Black male student-athletes at Division III predominantly White institutions (PWIs), a population often overlooked in existing research. Using Critical Race Theory (CRT) as a framework, Sherrell reflects on his own experiences as a football player at a small liberal arts college in Memphis, Tennessee, to examine how racism, stereotyping, and institutional structures shape identity and behavior. The study identifies three key areas of marginalization: classroom stereotyping, racial hostility within athletic spaces, and the symbolic violence of racist campus landmarks. Sherrell argues that Black male athletes are often forced to suppress their racial identity to gain acceptance in White spaces, while simultaneously being excluded from Black student communities due to athletic obligations. The thesis calls for systemic change in higher education to support the emotional and academic well-being of Black male student-athletes and to dismantle the normalized racism embedded in campus culture
Master's Thesis: Experiential Learning and Its Manifestation in Different Contexts
No full textThis thesis explores how experiential learning—learning through direct, hands-on experience—is implemented in suburban and urban K—12 schools, highlighting disparities in access and application. Drawing on the theories of John Dewey and David Kolb, the study emphasizes the transformative potential of experiential learning for academic, social, and emotional development. Through a literature review of empirical studies, the author identifies successful models of experiential learning, such as service learning, STEM projects, and career and technical education, while also noting barriers like funding, time, and lack of professional development. The research underscores the importance of adapting experiential learning to urban contexts, where students often face systemic inequities. Ultimately, the thesis advocates for institutional support and policy changes to make experiential learning more accessible and impactful for all students
Granule neuron differentiation status and substrate modulate the Netrin-1 signaling response in the cerebellum
No full textPresentation by Lelo Shamambo ('20) delivered at the Rhodes College Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Symposium (URCAS) as part of the St. Jude Summer Plus Fellowship.During development, granule neuron progenitors often have to migrate over long distances from their germinal zone to their final location. They navigate by integrating chemorepulsive or chemoattractive guidance cues, which sometimes come from the germinal zone through guidance molecules. However, it is unclear how neurons, upon differentiation, modulate their response to a given signal. In this study, we focus on the guidance-signaling protein Netrin-1 (Ntn1) and its role in mouse cerebellar development. Using FACS sorting to isolate the granule neurons of Atoh1-GFP transgenic mice cerebella based on their differentiation status, we ran an in vitro granule neurons display different migration behaviors in response to Ntn1 depending on their
differentiation status and the surrounding substrate. We show that gradient assay to track the netrin-driven migration patterns of different stages of granule neurons based on their GFP fluorescence on two substrates: laminin and vitronectin
A White Man's World: The Sexual Exploitation of Enslaved Women in the Urban Deep South
No full textIn the nineteenth century southern United States the role of the female slave had a dual nature. Enslaved women played an important role in the daily operations of domestic life and were typically used to provide labor in spheres that were not particularly physically demanding. Added to their roles as domestic laborers, enslaved women were often expected to, by virtue of their bodies, perpetuate slavery and improve the lives of white slaveholding men. For slave owners, the inherent value of enslaved women was connected to their reproductive abilities. White slave traders and white slave owners often exploited female slaves for their own monetary or personal gain. To explore the experiences of enslaved women who lived in the urban Deep South, the slave trade and population of four regionally important cities will be discussed. Memphis, Tennessee; Nashville, Tennessee; Vicksburg, Mississippi; and Mobile, Alabama, were each home to large slave populations and booming slave trades. The lives of women enslaved in these urban environments were inherently different from their plantation counterparts. The density of urban environments and the organization of domestic urban slavery allowed white men uninterrupted access to the women of color they owned. This allowed for the exertion of physical dominance over enslaved women which often ended in sexual violence. Due to the urban living structure, enslaved women in Memphis, Nashville, Vicksburg, and Mobile experienced a considerable amount of sexual assault at the hands of their owners. Evidence of this sexual exploitation and abuse is attested to in the businesses records of the slave trade, former slaves' personal accounts of mistreatment, and can be inferred from the population statistics of mixed-race slave populations present in all four cities
Dredge, November 17, 2020, Vol. 3
No full textThis image was uploaded to DLynx in the Visual Resources Center in October 2025, by Wyatt Bigner '27. This volume of Dredge is from the Rhodes College Archives.This volume "...continues to upliftup-and-coming artists from the Rhodes and Memphis community we also celebrate those artists who have continued to create intentional, raw, and thought-provoking pieces just as we seem to need art the most." - Editor's Not