46 research outputs found
Author and neighborhood organizer
No full textIn this interview chapter, Yusef Bunchy Shakur discusses his life’s transformation from a gangster to a community organiser. He describes how meeting his father in prison had a tremendous impact on transforming and redeeming his life. Shakur has committed his life to making his community and neighbourhood a better place. He is also active in resisting gentrification and in this interview, he discusses the racial injustices of Detroit’s contemporary gentrification and renaissance.</p
Islam in black and brown: The making of Muslim communities, intra-faith relationships and diversity in East-Central Illinois
No full textThis project explores the origins of Muslim communities in East-Central Illinois with specific attention given to intra-faith relationships and diversity as experienced by African-American Muslim males. Employing an oral history methodology, this research explores the themes of identity, transitions, and diversity as narrated by the participants. Utilizing the theoretical framework of symbolic power to explore conceptions of “whiteness” while simultaneously addressing matters of privilege, and power, the accounts of the participants are placed in conversation with literature as well as concepts associated with symbolic power. Ultimately the findings of this research suggests that the differences among African-American Muslim and immigrant Muslim communities are byproducts of being fundamentally different in who they are historically, and culturally.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2020-05-01The student, Tseleq Yusef, accepted the attached license on 2018-04-19 at 20:09.The student, Tseleq Yusef, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2018-04-19 at 20:17.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2018-04-20 at 12:11.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #12393 on 2018-08-31 at 17:30:12Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-04T20:47:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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American Southern Great Chain of Being in Yusef Komunyakaa’s Magic City
No full textThis paper reviews the various modes of racist, sexist, classist, ageist, and interspecific oppression as well as occasional transgressions in the city of Bogalusa, Louisiana, as they are dramatized in the poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa, particularly in his 1992 memoirist volume Magic City. More than anything else, Komunyakaa remembers from his childhood days the discourses and practices of violence and control aimed at maintaining a rigid hierarchical structure regulating order between all forms of life and preserving the sense of identity of many. It is a realm of unrelenting terror in which all creatures must succumb to a regime bringing to mind the medieval great chain of being. Komunyakaa investigates thoroughly Southern morals to determine the extent of psychological and epistemic damage they [email protected] Kość is an Associate Professor teaching American literature, and the Director of the American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw, Poland. He is the author of two critical books—Robert Lowell: Uncomfortable Epigone of the Grands Maîtres (Peter Lang, 2005) and Robert Frost’s Political Body (Camden House, 2014). Recently, he has contributed essays to Papers on Language and Literature, Partial Answers, Wallace Stevens Journal, a/b:Auto/Biography Studies, and College Literature. Most importantly, he has coedited, with Steven Gould Axelrod, Lowell’s Memoirs, a new edition of the poet’s autobiographical prose published in 2022 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Besides, Kość has now coedited—with
Thomas Austenfeld of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland—Robert Lowell in Context for Cambridge University Press (2024).University of Warsaw, PolandAristotle. Nicomachean Ethics. Translated and edited by Robert C. Bartlett and Susan D. Collins, U of Chicago P, 2011.Baldwin, James. “On Being ‘White’ . . . And Other Lies.” Essence, vol. 14, no. 12, April 1984, pp. 90–92.Blake, William. The Poems of William Blake. Edited by W. H. Stevenson and David V. Erdman, Longman, 1971.Charmantier, Isabelle. “Linnaeus and Race,” The Linnean Society of London, 3 September 2020, https://www.linnean.org/learning/who-was-linnaeus/linnaeus-and-race. Accessed 25 Mar. 2024.Derricotte, Toi, and Yusef Komunyakaa. “Seeing and Re-Seeing: An Exchange between Yusef Komunyakaa and Toi Derricotte.” Callaloo, vol. 28, no. 3, 2005, pp. 513–18.Dowdy, Michael C. “Working in the Space of Disaster: Yusef Komunyakaa’s Dialogues with America.” Callaloo, vol. 28, no. 3, 2005, pp. 812–23.Fredrickson, George M. Racism: A Short History. Princeton UP, 2022.Hass, Robert, Yusef Komunyakaa, W. S. Merwin, Joyce Carol Oates, Gerald Stern, and Susan Steward. “‘How Poetry Helps People To Live Their Lives’: APR’s 25th Anniversary Celebration: A Special APR Supplement.” The American Poetry Review, vol. 28, no. 5, 1999, pp. 21–27.Henson, Josiah. “Uncle Tom’s Story of His Life”: An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson 1789–1876. Introduction by C. Duncan Rice, Frank Cass, 1971.Hill, Lance. Deacons of Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement. U of North Carolina P, 2004.Jordan, Winthrop D. White Over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550–1812. U of North Carolina P, 2012.Komunyakaa, Yusef. Magic City. Wesleyan UP, 1992.“More Than a State of Mind.” Studies in the Literary Imagination, vol. 35, no. 1, Spring 2002, pp. 163–64.Koppel, Lily. “Coffins and Buried Remains Set Adrift by Hurricanes Create a Grisly Puz zle.” The New York Times, October 25, 2005, https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/25/us/nationalspecial/coffins-and-buried-remains-set-adrift-by-hurricanes.html.Lovejoy, Arthur O. The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea; The William James Lectures Delivered at Harvard University, 1933. Harvard UP, 1976.Mitrano, G. F., and Yusef Komunyakaa. “A Conversation with Yusef Komunyakaa.” Callaloo, vol. 28, no. 3, 2005, pp. 519–30.Nelson, Stanley. Klan of Devils: The Murder of a Black Louisiana Deputy Sheriff. Louisiana State UP, 2021.Ovid. Metamorphoses: A New Translation. Translated and edited by C. Luke Soucy, U of California P, 2023.Plato. Timaeus and Critias. Translated by Robin Waterfield, edited by Andrew Gregory, Oxford UP, 2008.Read, William A. Louisiana Place Names of Indian Origin: A Collection of Words. Edited by George M. Riser, U of Alabama P, 2008.Ruskin, John. Modern Painters. Edited and abridged by David Barrie, Knopf, 1987.Sartre, Jean-Paul. “The Respectful Prostitute.” In Camera and Other Plays, translated by Kitty Black, Penguin Books, 1982, pp. 7–38.Smead, Howard. Blood Justice: The Lynching of Mack Charles Parker. Oxford UP, 1988.Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. “Can the Subaltern Speak?” Can the Subaltern Speak? Reflections on the History of an Idea, edited by Rosalind C. Morris, Columbia UP, 2010, pp. 22–78.Tyson, Timothy B. The Blood of Emmett Till. Simon and Shuster, 2017.Valadés, Diego. Rhetorica Christiana ad concionandi et orandi usum accommodate […] ex Indorum maximè deprompta sunt historiis. Petrus Jacobus Petrutius, 1579, https://archive.org/details/rhetoricachristi00vala/page/220/mode/2upWright, Richard. Uncle Tom’s Children. World Publishing, 1943.44 (1/2024)536
System-images
No full textThesis: S.M. in Art, Culture and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2017.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis. "June 2017."Includes bibliographical references (pages 56-58).System-Images capture the movements, behaviors, events and running commands of the city at any given moment; they are key software architectures to understand how machines and smart objects see and record today. Computers aren't the only ones communicating and backing up programs and operating systems to a hard disk or cloud. In today's cities, the objects that we would least suspect--parking meters, traffic lights, navigation systems, mobile phones, airplanes, alarm clocks, wireless routers, name tags, doors, virtual private networks (VPNs), steering wheels, game consoles, and even groceries-- take images of us, using hardware and software like sensors and behavioral algorithms, with human characteristics programmed into them. Whether the information logged is visual is beside the point; vital information in the form of visual cues, numbers, audio signals, colors, interaction time, computational identity and location are enough to coordinate an imprint of user and societal behavior. If collated, what kinds of narratives, philosophies and aesthetics would this data generate? System-Images provokes questions and fictions about our new spatial configuration and the nascent language it has birthed, hastened by technologies which do can everything that we can...and more.by Yusef Audeh.S.M. in Art, Culture and Technolog
The Criminalization of HIV Transmission in England and Wales: Questions of Law and Policy
No full textIn vitro antiviral activity of aqueous extract of Phaleria macrocarpa fruit against herpes simplex virus type 1
No full textHow African-American fiction writers used elements of American romanticism to evoke social change from 1852 to 1859, 2020
No full textThis dissertation examines the first four published fiction works by African-American writers. All of these works were published from 1852 to 1859, which most scholars consider the end of the literary movement of American Romanticism. The main objective of the dissertation is to examine the literary and rhetorical methods used in the aforementioned works and investigate the extent to which these writers used elements of American Romanticism, in addition to various other literary and rhetorical techniques, to influence nineteenth-century readers on the issue of slavery as well as a host of other concerns that specifically affected varied and diverse groups of African-Americans in the 1850s. The dissertation discusses the extent to which these writers conformed to the literary trends of their time, how and why they may have deviated from these trends, and the results of those choices. Based on a thorough review of the applicable literature, as well as a variety of scholarly journals, the study determines that each of the writers used various elements of Romanticism to appeal to broader audiences, but also utilized various nationalist and realist elements in order to address the varied and specific issues that the diverse groups of African-American characters face in each of the works. Historical and social implications are also evaluated in relation to the aforementioned works. Ultimately, the study illustrates the need for these early African-American fiction writers to be recognized among more popular nineteenth-century writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, not only for their contributions to their genres, but also for the ways in which they deviated from the applicable genres and, in turn, influenced the fiction of many other writers to come
Are doctoral studies in South Africa higher education being put at risk?
No full textCITATION: Waghid, Y. 2015. Are doctoral studies in South Africa higher education being put at risk? South African Journal of Higher Education, 29(5):1-7.The original publication is available at http://www.journals.ac.za/index.php/sajheInasmuch as many attempts are being made in South Africa to increase the
doctoral throughput rate, it appears as if the rush to produce doctoral (PhD)
qualifications might just be the biggest risk that confronts the pursuit of doctoral
studies. The author argues that, in the quest to accelerate the number of
doctorates produced in the country, higher education institutions (HEIs), in
particular administrators and – to a lesser extent – supervisors, run the risk
of trivialising doctoral education: because of an over-emphasis on throughput
rates alone, the purpose of the doctorate is assigned to a mere exercise of
technical compliance and completion. In this article, the author offers a word
of caution as to what the doctorate should not be subjected to if such a highlevel
achievement is to remain an aspiration of those serious about knowledge
construction, reconstruction and deconstruction.Publisher's versio
Elliston Project Podcast: Black History Month
No full textWe celebrate Black History Month with selections from fifty years of Elliston Poetry Room recordings.
Terrance Hayes, "The Rose Has Teeth" (2012)
Tracy K. Smith, "The Universe Is Expanding" (2012)
Roger Reeves, "Some Young Kings" (2014)
Nikki Giovanni, "Mothers" (1977)
Ishmael Reed, "The Author Reflects on His 35th Birthday" (1975)
Etheridge Knight, "For Langston" (1983)
Michael S. Harper, "Portrait of James Weldon Johnson" (1987)
Rita Dove, "Hully Gully" (1986)
Yusef Komunyakaa, "You and I Are Disappearing" (1990)
Jamaal May, "Hum for the Stone" (2015)Digital Collections Storage: elliston\2017-0
