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Celebration of Black Catholic History Month
No full textJoin our celebration of Black Catholic History Month. Students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels in Dr. Ben Heidgerken\u27s courses on The Beloved Community, Black Religious Experience, and Theology and Race will share research posters along Dorsey Way. Dr. Heidgerken will provide an orientation to the students\u27 work in ASC 202 at noon and again at 5:30
The Late W.E.B. Du Bois and the Practice of Mutual Comradeship
No full textThe American Culture and Difference Program is excited to bring Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly to campus for this in-person talk.
This talk examines the mutual comradeship between W.E.B. Du Bois and his vast network of comrades during four episodes of political repression. Mutual Comradeship can be understood as radical African descendants\u27 political and ethical practice of collaboration, reciprocal care, and learning in community rooted in political work, organizing, and movement building on behalf of the racialized, colonized, and oppressed. The first episode was Du Bois\u27s ouster from Atlanta University, when he was retired for old age in 1944 not least because of his radical politics. The second was his firing from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1948 primarily because of his support for the Progressive Party presidential candidate, Henry Wallace. The third was his indictment and trial in 1951 for being an agent of a foreign power due to his work in the short-lived Peace Information Center. The fourth was the cancellation of his passport in 1952 by the U.S. government to prevent him from spreading his radical message abroad. In each of these antiradical attacks, Du Bois received overwhelming support nationally and internationally based on contacts he had developed through his extensive organizing on behalf of Pan-Africanism, anti-racism, peace, and economic democracy.
About Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University. She is the co-author, with Gerald Horne, of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History (ABC-CLIO, 2019) and the co-editor of Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women\u27s Political Writings with Jodi Dean (Verso, 2022) and Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State with Percy C. Hintzen and Aaron Kamugisha (University of Mississippi Press, 2022). In 2021, she guest edited the Claudia Jones: Foremother of World Revolution speical issue of The Journal of Intersectionality. Her peer-reviewed articles can be found in journals including Small Axe, Souls, Du Bois Review, Socialism & Democracy, International Journal of Africana Studies, and CLR James Journal and her public scholarship has appeared in venues such as Essence Magazine, Monthly Review, Boston Review, Black Perspectives, and Black Agenda Report. Dr. Burden-Stelly has also published several edited volume chapters, offered more than fifty invited talks, public lectures, and conference presentations, and has been the recipient of numerous grants, fellowships, and travel awards.
This talk is sponsored by the American Culture & Difference program, with support from the Diversity Activities Board and the departments of English, Justice and Peace Studies, Political Science, Art History, History, Theology, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Interoception, Emotions, and Mental Health: Implications for Training Counseling Psychologists
No full textThe five senses orient us to the elements of the surrounding environment, making it possible to distinguish between danger, safety, and everything in between. But what about our ability to sense what is happening inside our bodies? This less well-known ability is called interoception and involves sensing internal physiological signals (via afferent or ascending pathways), interpreting and integrating these signals in the brain which can then send signals to help regulate physiological systems (via efferent or descending pathways). The primary structure implicated in the “interoceptive nervous system” is the insular cortex—an area of the brain that serves many different purposes from sensory processing to emotion processing to facilitating complex social functions like empathy. Researchers have examined interoceptive ability with a focus on different systems, including gastrointestinal functions or gastroception, excitation of the sympathetic nervous system via adrenergic stimulation, respiratory load including dyspnea (i.e., shortness of breath), and most commonly, cardiac interoception or cardioception. Interoceptive dysfunction has also been implicated across several diagnostic categories of psychopathology, highlighting the importance of understanding the relationship between interoception and emotions to inform mental health professionals’ selection of effective interventions. This original contribution to practice reviews the literature examining the relationships between interoception, emotions, and mental health, argues for teaching the transdiagnostic relevance of interoception to counselors-in-training, and presents a preliminary framework for a single class curriculum on the subject
Hemingway\u27s Marlin and Pound\u27s Canto 40
No full textThis essay focuses on an allusion to Hemingway\u27s deep-sea fishing in Pound\u27s Canto 40. The most direct source for Pound\u27s allusion is probably Hemingway\u27s letter to Pound dated 22 July 1933, in which he refers to his catching a world-record seven marlin in one day. Set in context, Pound\u27s line about the record-setting, unnamed marlin fisherman groups him with monopolists who extracted natural resources such as oil for their private profits at the expense of the common good. Pound\u27s reference in Canto 40 to Hemingway as a record-breaking marlin fisherman reflects tensions between the two writers that deepened in the 1930s
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No full textCasas reflects on Hemingway\u27s popular image in Cuba and on how his work has influenced Cuban writers
Revisiting and Rereading Hemingway\u27s A Moveable Feast and McLain\u27s The Paris Wife
No full textIn The Paris Wife (2012), a work of historical fiction, Paula McLain offers a response to Ernest Hemingway\u27s memoir A Moveable Feast, published posthumously in 1964. McLain elaborates on the Paris years, focusing on Hemingway\u27s first wife Hadley Richardson. I argue that McLain positions herself as an ideal reader of A Moveable Feast and invites her readers to engage in a similar process of discovery. Readers with a keen knowledge of Hemingway\u27s memoir can grippingly see what McLain is writing against, complementing and creatively completing. Further, current debates on sexual politics allow readers to approach The Paris Wife from new perspectives
Use of Self Online
Get PDFThis study explores and documents the experiences and life changes of women who belong to the fastest-growing racial-ethnic group. Between 2000 and 2019, the Asian population in America grew by 81 percent (Budiman & Ruiz, 2021). Asian American women account for 19 percent of all immigrants between 2010 and 2015 (Neilsen, 2017). Just under 40 percent of Asian-American women identify themselves as entrepreneurs, which is more than any other group of women in the United States (Neilsen, 2017).
This study presents the results of qualitative research that examines whether, and if so, how Hmong American women digital entrepreneurs embody the use of self (UoS) in their work. In-depth narrative inquiry is selected as the research methodology to explore Hmong women digital entrepreneurs’ stories of self-inquiry and personal growth. To elicit conversation, semi-structured open-ended interviews were conducted with five study participants. Participant story elements were compiled into fuller narratives coded for select elements within the stories and analyzed for themes across all of the stories.
The research draws on two theoretical foundations to examine both data collection and data analysis. The theories include the over-arching constructivist perspective known as symbolic interactionism and feminist standpoint theory. The philosophy that one’s comprehension of reality occurs with reflexive engagement upon life experience through interaction with others is used to guide this research study (Bazeley, 2021). C. Wright Mills (1959) refers to this as “the sociological imagination” (p. 5), which is the ability to comprehend one’s own lived experience and situate it temporally and contextually. Standpoint theory, says 2 that knowledge develops from and is determined by social position, addresses the underlying epistemological issues with normative models and structures that do not describe the experiences of women (Sorell & Montgomery, 2001). This perspective sheds light on larger issues such as voice, belonging, discourse, power, and issues central to female development.
The findings of this research reveal four broad themes that provide insight into similarities and differences in participant stories. The four themes that emerged from the data analysis include passion, connection, authenticity, and creative process. The participants in this study support previous findings that suggest there is an interconnectedness between participants’ identities, behavior, and stories. The construction of self online for these five women is not only an expression of their identity but also the embodiment of the best version of themselves. Furthermore, three main themes emerged as participants discussed how they engaged in self-inquiry and personal growth including critical self-reflection, outsider and well-being. As such, this study expands the research on use of self by studying Hmong American women, which is an understudied population and taking the research into the understudied context of digital media
