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Commonwealth Forum: Should State Government Subsidizee the Economic Development of Natural Gas Facilities?
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What Do Pennsylvania Voters Think about Gender and Women’s Representation? What We Learned from 2016 and 2018 Exit Polls
Get PDFDespite ongoing interest in the role of gender in American elections, highlighted most recently by Hillary Clinton’s historic bid for the presidency in 2016 and the 2018 “Year of the Woman” elections, recent studies have shown that gender alone is not enough to explain voter behavior. This is especially true in an increasingly ideologically polarized landscape in which party and ideology retain significant explanatory power regarding electoral outcomes. The saliency of gender identity and gender issues may also vary across time and context. Moreover, voters may not have full information about the underrepresentation of women or of the consequences of gender imbalances in elective institutions, raising uncertainty about whether women’s representation in politics matters to voters. In this article, using data from a unique exit poll, we examine the extent to which knowledge about women’s representation and perceptions about gender and women’s issues mattered to Pennsylvanians’ vote choice in the 2016 and 2018 elections. We find that neither gender nor party alone can explain men’s and women’s political behavior, but rather that gender and party interact in complex ways. Although party continues to be the best predictor of vote choice, gender matters to how voters understand and explain women’s underrepresentation in politics—a finding that has important implications for furthering gender equality in politics in the future
“Take the Mask Off”: Reconceptualising Paul Laurence Dunbar as a Biographical Subject
No full textOn March 10, 1895, a young woman named Maud Clark wrote a letter to writer, performer, and activist Paul Laurence Dunbar in which she told him to “take the mask off.” This article takes this phrase as its analytical point of departure, seeking to reconceptualise, retheorise, and reinvestigate Dunbar’s biography through Clark’s words and the symbol of the mask. Repositioning Dunbar’s biography within the political, aesthetic, and psychological realities of his world, the article takes the symbol of Paul Laurence Dunbar in new directions, recognising the limitations of traditional biography and instead working toward a new and multifarious understanding of the man and his many masks
The Escape from Life to Truth: Reimagining Josiah Henson and His Autobiographies
No full textWhilst The Life of Josiah Henson (1849), the first autobiography of the formerly enslaved founder of the Dawn Settlement in Canada, declares that it was recorded by a white amanuensis, the second, Truth Stranger than Fiction (1858), lists no author except Henson. Despite Truth’s lack of a proclaimed amanuensis, the authorship of the text has become contested ground, with the critical consensus appearing to be that Truth, like Life, was written by a white amanuensis. As an intervention in this debate, this article performs a comparative literary analysis on Life and Truth to consider what the differences between them can teach us about the authorship of Trut
Interview with Sir Geoff Palmer
No full textKalfou: What is the meaningful work that acts of historical commemoration can perform in the present?
Palmer: The plaque to Frederick Douglass in Edinburgh and the slavery plaque at Glasgow University are important because they reflect the conclusion that although we cannot change the past, we can change cruel consequences, such as racism, for the better. These plaques also tell us that truthful narratives on plaques inform the public of a history which says that although we are different, we have the same humanity. A diverse society requires diverse attention to be efficient and fair. A fairness which changes the evil of “go home” to the goodness of “come home.
The Category Is . . . Opulence! Performing Black Queer History in Baltimore’s “Cathedral of Books”
No full textIn recent years there has been a strong “public turn” within universities that is renewing interest in collaborative approaches to knowledge creation. This article draws on performance studies literature to explore the cross-disciplinary collaborations made possible when the academy broadens our scope of inquiry to include knowledge produced through performance. It takes as a case study the “Peabody Ballroom Experience,” an ongoing collaboration between the Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the Peabody Institute BFA Dance program, and Baltimore’s ballroom community—a performance-based arts culture comprising gay, lesbian, queer, transgender, and gender-nonconforming people of color