The Measure: An Undergraduate Research Journal
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Racial Ambiguity to Racialized Identity Race Relations in the Texas Borderlands
Full text linkThis paper focuses on the concept of racial ambiguity and the shifting “racial border,” a phrase used by historian James Leiker. The study relies on primary documents, from a forty-five year period, including Texas laws and statutes, regional newspapers and editorials, and census data. The documents identify the trend of the shifting racial border, its effects on the transformative racial and ethnic relations historically, and how these groups interacted in the evolving Texas frontier. The trends discussed illuminate how race relations evolved in the state, as well as explain later patterns of structural occurrences. Texas is thus an integral actor in the history of the United States predicated on physical and cultural boundaries
Suicidality Detection in Therapeutic Settings
Full text linkThis prospectus attempts to offer an empirical rationale for the study of deception detection in the process of suicide risk assessment in therapeutic settings. Current practices, scales of measurement, and training programs are discussed, as well as shortcomings of each according to the current literature. A three-phase methodology is proposed that will collect qualitative data and cluster them into items that can be quantitatively assessed in order to make more accurate conclusions and improve positive outcomes for mental health service clients. Potential results and implications are also discussed
Foucault’s Panopticism Revisited Effects of Panoptic Practices in Modern Prisons
Full text linkIn his work Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, Michel Foucault outlines the history of the penal system and analyzes how its methods of disciplinary power are integrated into larger parts of society. His theory of Panopticism is based on the Panopticon model created by Jeremy Bentham that used strict surveillance as a means of disciplinary control. This essay reviews Foucault’s critique of the Panopticon and attempts to explain why Panoptic practices in modern prisons, such as heavy regulation and surveillance of inmates, do not reform criminal behavior. This essay argues that these practices have a negative impact on the psychological development of inmates, contribute to institutionalization, and lead to high rates of recidivism. Constant surveillance, along with being denied the right to make personal choices, strips autonomy and power away from inmates. This essay concludes that Panoptic practices have no place in modern prisons because they only seek to punish and contain inmates rather than deal with the underlying factors that contribute to criminal behavior
Youth-anizing Don Quixote A Look at the Noblest Knight in History as He Is Introduced to Young Readers
Full text linkAs Miguel de Cervantes’ satirical creation of the ingenious knight, Don Quixote de la Mancha, continues to be introduced to newer generations, this paper examines the image of Don Quixote as he enters the elementary school realm and highlights lessons Cervantes continues to teach over 400 years after its first publication. Through the lens of a comparative research approach, the findings show a shift from madness, mockery, and violence to self-discovery and loyalty, while the original master of the art, Don Quixote, teaches children to exercise their imaginations. In conclusion, this masterpiece of the Spanish Golden Age must modify certain elements when presented to a younger audience. The tragic composition of Cervantes’ Quixote must be “youth-anized,” temporarily put to sleep, while a more youthful, heroic Quixote makes the first introduction to the adventures hidden in La Mancha