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Being Triggered as Faculty of Color: Reflections on Teaching Diversity during the Trump Era
Get PDFMuch has been written about the Black academic’s experiences of teaching in predominately White spaces. However, less has been shared about being triggered, especially when teaching during the time of the Trump administration. This essay discusses an email encounter with a White female student who was enrolled in a graduate diversity issues course. As articulated in her email response, after declining an informal conferencing opportunity with the instructor, the student critiqued the tenets of the course because of her own conceptions of Whiteness. Many of the comments made were similar to the onslaught of hate-speech and racial bias and intimidation that was propagated by the Trump administration. After providing context for the course, statements from the response email will be contextualized in conjunction with trending national news, executive orders, and existent literature on race-based perspectives
Déjà vu or the Repetitive Nature of Microaggressions: An Account of Two Life Changing Experiences, 10 Years Apart
No full textAccording to American Psychologist Angela Lee Duckworth (2016), grit is often described as passion and perseverance for very long-term goals, while encompassing courage, conscientiousness, perseverance, resilience, and passion. Embodying such characteristics has supported me in thriving in various conditions and situations as an African American girl, then a woman. Grit further assisted in me overcoming many obstacles while remaining resilient, open-minded, and inquisitive. At various points in my education, more specifically my time in undergraduate and graduate schooling, and further in my pursuit of tenure as a young professor, I was met with overt and covert exposures to microaggressions of many kinds that could have changed the course of my life. Here, two of those life-changing experiences are shared. One from my perspective while earning an education and the other after becoming an educator and psychologist
AN ANALYSIS OF LOBLOLLY PINE AND SHORTLEAF PINE HYBRIDIZATION USING CHROMATOGRAPHY AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS: A CASE STUDY IN EAST TEXAS
No full textEast Texas forests contain three native pine species known to hybridize when site conditions are suitable. Due to increased gene flow from hybridization, quantifying hybridization spatially is a growing concern as southeastern United States pine forests are increasingly influenced by improved pine genetics and warmer, drier conditions from climate change. High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) and spatial interpolation using Inverse Distance Weighted were conducted using terpenes extracted from needles of shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata), loblolly pine (Pinus taeda), and putative hybrid individuals sampled in Atlanta State Park, Tyler State Park, and Mission Tejas State Park (n =24; 14 overstory;10 advanced regeneration individuals). Through HPLC, 14 chromatogram peaks were identified and measured for intensity. T-Tests for overstory and advanced regeneration at each site indicated no significant differences for peak intensity between forest strata. Two-way ANOVA indicated the significance of six peaks for the site variable, five peaks for the species class variable, and one peak for their interaction. Tukey HSD tests indicated that the shortleaf pine to shortleaf x loblolly pine comparison was the most consistently significant when mean peak values were compared. From spatial interpolation, peak intensity was generally highest at the northeast, decreasing towards the southwest. Patterns of population scale species differentiation and individual responses to environmental stressors is implied, with increased sample quantity and geographic coverage recommended for more accurate representation. Understanding spatial patterns of species identity and resiliency to environmental stressors is valuable for the sustainable management of forests facing rapidly changing genetic compositions and climatic conditions
Close Encounters: Mass Incarceration Tactics
Get PDFAs a Black man living in America, my Christian faith walk began at an early age. Growing up in a suburban environment, I had several encounters with law enforcement that shaped my belief system. These encounters were and still are a stark reminder that Black boys and men are under attack. Policing negatively impacts Black boys and men when compared to other races of people. I realized that I was in their cross hairs and I was almost consumed by the criminal justice system on many occasions. Through the lens of Critical Race Theory, this work focused on the centrality of race and racism in society. As a tool for analysis, CRT provided a foundation for exploring the current climate in which mass incarceration developed and continues to thrive. My work offers four unique experiences with law enforcement officers that illustrate how the door of the pipeline was open to transform me, as a young Black boy, into another statistic. Accordingly, my personal narrative supports considerable research regarding mass incarceration tactics used by law enforcement
First, But Not The Last: The First-Generation College Student Experience
No full textAbstract: Every year, the amount of people attending and graduating from institutions of higher education increases. Although this may be true, there continues to be a community of people who are the first in their families to pursue a degree at a college or university. This is a great accomplishment that is accompanied by a great amount of pressure to succeed and to be a role model for all future generations. This pressure, along with having to navigate institutions of higher education alone, leads to issues regarding mental health, retention rates, identity, and more. There are many struggles faced by first-generation college students, but every one of them has a solution that can be implemented by the students themselves, professors, and everyone involved at a college or university
Lighting Visualization Software: Digital Exploration
Get PDFThis project provided opportunities for students in the THR 480 Advanced Lighting Technology Class to develop experience in programming and designing complex lighting rigs on both the ETC EOS and GrandMA lighting consoles. The project consisted of designing on both consoles a lighting rig with over 60 advanced lighting fixtures, programming to music, and syncing the music to the cues via time code. Throughout the project in the Advanced Lighting Technology class, Carson gained knowledge in patching, effect creation, 3D rendering, time coding, time management, and pixel mapping
Digitizing Gilcrease Museum’s Lemley Collection: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives from Native Artists and Scholars
Get PDFIn 2014, The Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art received a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to fund a project that created a multidisciplinary, searchable online catalogue of ancient Mississippian and Caddo ceramic vessels, the largest of its kind to date. This paper provides a summary of the history of the Lemley collection, its contributions to Caddo archaeology, and the development of the digitization program at the Gilcrease Museum. This work also highlights the major contributions made through the collaborative effort between museum experts, Native American artists, tribal representatives, and Dr. Ann Early, the project’s lead archaeological expert and advisor
Fluvial Sequencing and Caddo Landform Modification at the Crenshaw Site (3MI6)
Get PDFThe Red River in southwest Arkansas creates a changing environment that has had a large impact on those who lived there, including floods, channel movements, and the erosion of whole landforms. River movements, and the resulting oxbow lakes, create an environment favorable to fishing. This study uses historical documents, lidar data, and coring methods to sequence past river movements around a multiple-mound Caddo ceremonial center, the Crenshaw site. This information is used to determine the likely location of the Red River at the time the ancient Caddo constructed the mounds and to note where portions of the ancient site may have been destroyed by subsequent river migration. The cores indicate that the Red River cut off an active channel on the west side of Crenshaw, creating an oxbow lake. The Caddo (or their antecedents) constructed Mound A and the causeway on the point bar surface of a meander bend that has not been buried by significant overbank sediment. This suggests that the Caddo constructed Mound A, the causeway, and Mound E (on the south end of the point bar) after the channel was abandoned and became an oxbow lake. Areas to the east, northeast, northwest, and to the south were destroyed by more recent river movements that crosscut landforms on which the Caddo built the mounds, suggesting that the site was larger than what remains today. Clearly, the Caddo were active managers of their environment. Linear topographic patterns indicate large portions of the landscape, beyond the mounds, were crafted by the ancient Caddo
Motifs in Motion: An Iconographic Evaluation of Spiro Engraved Production and Distribution between the Northern and Southern Caddo Areas
Get PDFSpiro Engraved, characterized by restricted set of curvilinear motifs, is viewed as one of the ceramic hallmarks of the Early Caddo period (A.D. 950-1150). Spatial variation in Spiro Engraved vessels has been well-documented through various provenance and stylistic studies across the northern and southern Caddo areas. However, almost no analyses of Spiro Engraved vessels have considered variation in motif occurrence and expression between the northern and southern Caddo areas. In this study, I review the most robust and comprehensive sample of Spiro Engraved vessels throughout the Caddo world to understand motif variation within the region. The results show that northern Caddo people may have chosen specific Spiro Engraved motifs to be included as part of their mortuary programs at ceremonial mound sites, while southern Caddo people seemed to have incorporated the full spectrum of Spiro Engraved motifs for domestic, ceremonial, and mortuary purposes