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The Impact of Forced Displacement on Social Capital in Texas
Get PDFIn 2018, over 28 million persons were newly displaced globally, of which 1.2 million reside in the United States alone. Natural disasters, conflict and violence leads to forced displacement on a global scale. This displacement leads to increased vulnerabilities in terms of financial, human and social capital. To date, there has been extensive research on the impact relocation has had on the social capital of refugees and other migrant groups. However, there remains a significant gap in scholarship on the impact of forced, internal displacement has on an individual’s social capital.
The goal of the work is to contribute to the literature examining the effects displacement has on social capital when individuals are forced to displace during a natural disaster, conflict or due to violence. The primary question which this dissertation seeks to answer is: How is social capital affected when individuals and communities are forced to move within the borders of one country? Due to the broad nature of the question and the limited scope of previous research, this dissertation utilized a quantitative research approach with the goal of gaining an understanding of the impact forced displacement has had for individuals impacted Hurricane Harvey has had on their social capital. Specifically, this research study examined the effects forced displacement has on six dimensions of social capital, pre and post disaster, of individuals impacted by Hurricane Harvey in the Greater Houston Area. Primary data was collected in late 2019 from individuals receiving disaster recovery services from Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston- Houston.
The goal of this work, through an analysis of primary data collected from individuals forced to displace due to a natural disaster, is to contribute to the literature that examines the impact forced displacement has on social capital as well as contributing to social capital theory and literature on forced displacement. This understanding can be applied to displaced individuals and communities facing similar challenges throughout the world
Symbolism of The Body
Get PDFUsing a variety of print mediums and mixed media processes, I create dynamic imagery derived from my own evolving mythology and symbolist language. These highly decorative pieces are rich with motifs and patterns that have emerged through my personal narratives as well as pop cultural movements. The iconic, androgenous figures in my compositions help me tell stories of queer relationality, connection with self and the natural world, and the complexities of my emotional landscape. Using different tactics to create doorways and openings around and within these pieces, I invite the viewer to step into these alternate realities to find layered meaning and insight
In A House, On A Street, In My Mind
Get PDFIn this paper I will be discussing the process and methodology behind the film In A House, On A Street, In My Mind. Special emphasis will be put on the post-production process necessary for achieving a visual style and rhythm to the film itself. I will also address the failures and success within the creation of the film
Atypical Structural Neuroconnectivity Associated with Emotional Face Processing and Clinical Affect in Children with Chromosome 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome
Get PDFSchizophrenia spectrum disorder (SCZ) is a debilitating psychiatric disorder that affects approximately 1% of the general population. The etiopathology of this disorder is not fully understood with genetic and environmental factors underpinning vulnerability and disease progression. Children with chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11.2DS) are at ultra-high risk for developing SCZ with 30% developing the disorder in adolescence or young adulthood. To investigate associations with psychosis vulnerability, much work has been performed looking at neurological underpinnings between schizophrenia and 22q11.2DS to assess similarities between both genetic and idiopathic forms of schizophrenia in adults. However, many past studies have assessed this using isolated/region of interest assessments, which may miss more nuanced aspects of the ’dysconnectivity’ component of schizophrenia. One such method that incorporates a network approach to observation and assessment is that of graph theory, which is implemented on a matrix/network representation of the cortex, parcellated into meaningful regions, known as the connectome. In the current study, 39 individuals with 22q11.2DS and 38 age- and sex-matched healthy controls (HC) ages 7 to 17 years old, were assessed for anxiety and behavioral issues and performance on an emotional face processing task. Regional volumetric and white matter connectivity differences where compared between groups in relation to anxiety, behavior, and task performance. Children with 22q11.2DS had more behavioral problems and anxiety with poorer performance on the face task. Brain morphometric differences in relation to task performance and psychological measures included the anterior and posterior cingulate and the pericalcarine gyrus. Anxiety and behavioral problems were additionally associated with group differences in temporal and postcentral gyri. Children with 22q11.2DS had increased neural connectivity relative to HC in many brain regions but a clustering coefficient difference was evident in the right nucleus accumbens. Overall, the current study highlights the importance of midline structures in both group differences and their association with predicting emotion performance and clinical/behavioral issues, highlighting the nuanced information that can arise when utilizing a graph theory approach. This is the first study to appraise the association of connectome metrics with emotion performance and behavioral issues beyond psychosis in a pediatric sample of individuals with 22q11.2DS
And there I Was
Get PDFWorking with found imagery and objects, I explore sculptural processes and manipulated photographic methods as a metaphor for mental and physical transformation. Creating large scale cyanotypes that are exposed on painter’s linen, I have developed a unique process for stretching and coating linen that allows me to make images that feel more like paintings than photographs. Reflecting and analyzing aspects of my adult life, I present images and objects that challenge traditional gender roles that were impressed upon me throughout my up-bringing. My process is defined by experimentation. During the exposure of the image, dramatic shifts occur that allow for both distortion and a clarity of light within the final artwork. I convey ideas of shame, fear, and isolation related to the perpetual objectification of women in our modern world. While I certainly recognize this issue of subjugating women stems from a long history and has strongly impacted many groups of women, my work is a dissection of my own personal and direct experience with this topic
We Built This Kingdom
No full textWe Built This Kingdom is a collection of short stories which strive to examine the nuances of queer love, lust, connection, aggression, affection, masculinity, and heartache.
My intent is for these pieces to stand alone as short stories, but when read sequentially, the reader should be able to parse a connection between the texts and follow a tether from one to the other.
This collection of short fiction represents a cumulative body of work in partial completion of a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
Ladies First: The Ways Women and Girls Affected Change in the Civil Rights Movement in New Orleans
Get PDFNew Orleans Historical is a project of the Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies in the History Department of the University of New Orleans. This thesis and tour presents and discusses the “Ladies First” tour which contains seven tour stops on New Orleans Historical. The tour chronicles seven women and girls who have advanced the cause of equal rights and justice in the metropolitan region of New Orleans, Louisiana between 1950 and 1975. This thesis examines the work of seven key figures: Rosa Keller, Doratha “Dodie” Simmons, Marie Ortiz, Sybil Morial, and Dorothy Mae Taylor; and participants in the Civil Rights Movement, two young Black girls, Leona Tate and Ruby Bridges. These seven women’s activism centered on three principal areas: for education, resistance to segregation, and political participation.
Keywords: Activism, African American, Black, Civil Rights Movement, Women, Girls, New Orleans, Segregation, Integratio
Trail of Crumbs: Tracing the Lore, Labor, and History of Bread-Making in New Orleans
Get PDFThe cultural, social, and economic development of New Orleans—from a colonial port to an American city—can be traced through its history of bread baking. The public history thesis project, Trail of Crumbs: Tracing the Lore, Labor, and History of Bread-Making in New Orleans, is a tour on the Midlo Center’s digital site New Orleans Historical, mapping the spaces, events, and human stories behind one of the city’s oldest professions. Rooted in a French and Spanish colonial foundation, the bread-making traditions of New Orleans reveal the influence of forces such as the port, immigration, location, and labor. The tour applies primary sources --the “crumbs” (newspaper listings, photographs, census rolls, business records, notarial records) --to trace and reconnect New Orleans bread-making to its history. Trail of Crumbs highlights six locations in the French Quarter open between 1789 and 1970: Cadet’s, D’Aquin’s, Chretien’s/Francingues’, Bakers Union Hall, Lombardo’s, and Garic’s
Gender Inequality and Terrorism: The Impacts of Female Empowerment on Domestic and Transnational Terrorism
Get PDFIn the post-9/11 years, terrorism has emerged as an urgent issue with important national security and foreign policy ramifications. Within political science, terrorism research has likewise developed as a burgeoning subfield with the potential for significant contributions to policymaking worldwide. However, the literature has until recently generally neglected gender inequality as a structural antecedent to terrorism, despite studies which support a relationship between gender parity and conflict mitigation in other areas as well as increasing calls for the integration of gender measures into counterterrorism agendas and initiatives among scholars and policymakers. To address this gap in the literature, I introduce a theory linking gender inequality to terrorism characterized by the implications of substantial gender gaps in rights as well as participation in social, economic, and political arenas, which I refer to as “pull,” “push,” and “prevent” factors. I test the theory using both panel analyses and a case study examining the formation of Boko Haram in Nigeria. Results of the empirical analyses indicate that while facets of female empowerment, including higher education, paid employment, and social rights, have robust effects on both terrorist group formation as well as numbers of attacks, gender equality is not a panacea for terrorism. In addition, effects on groups and attacks are not homogenous across types of gender inequities, indicating the need for further research on the relationship between socioeconomic and political gender gaps and terrorism. Case study findings largely reflect results from the models, and a comparison of regions in Nigeria further reveals that temporal and spatial patterns of gender inequality generally align to the outbreak of terrorist violence. I conclude by offering several areas of future research generated by arguments and findings presented here and discussing ways in which interventions at the global, state, and local levels may close gender gaps which have salience for mitigating terrorism
“The Very Class for Our Country”: How the Cuban Exploitation of Chinese Coolie Laborers Inspired Louisiana Sugar Planters
Get PDFSugar planters in Louisiana during Reconstruction needed to replace the enslaved labor force that had fled the plantation system after the Civil War. These Louisiana planters took inspiration from the system of coolie labor in Cuba, wherein exploited Chinese indentured servants would work on sugar plantation alongside enslaved Africans. The white Cuban planters’ goal was to ethnically diversify their plantation labor force, thus making the existing power structures easier to maintain while avoiding slave uprising by manufacturing racial divisions among the labor force. Sugar planters in Louisiana intended to recreate the Cuban system to compel Freedmen to work for less than their worth by importing Chinese laborers, whom they thought would work for lower wages than Freedmen would have accepted otherwise. The Louisiana coolie experiment was an economic failure for sugar planters due to Republican intervention, white supremacist rhetoric, and resistance from the Chinese themselves