31,176 research outputs found
The Flat Pack Session
No full textDelta House Studios, London.
Artists: Jake Clark, Laura White, Paul Housley, Martin Newth and Michael Samuels.
Curated by Garaint Evan
Figures Don't Lie: Spatial Humanities and Technology as Critical Thinking Tools
No full textThis presentation demonstrates the potential use of spatial humanities as both a critical thinking exercise and a computational tool in digital humanities pedagogy. “Figures Don’t Lie” presents a map of the United States that labels each state as a foreign nation according to the correlation between the GDPs of each state and their assigned countries. The map may spark classroom discussions about a range of humanities topics. Revealing the map’s underlying data shows how facts can be spun and helps students understand how the “facts” presented in the media may not be what they appear.Presented at Rutgers University's "Digital Humanities Showcase: New Methods and New Media" on January 29, 2014 (New Brunswick, N.J.)
Calculating All That Jazz: Linking Technical Specifications to the Management of Digitization Projects
No full textThe purpose of this session is to educate librarians and archivists about the technical aspects of the digitization process and demonstrate how deeper understanding of those aspects can be used to evaluate the appropriateness of digitization standards, project scope, quality of digitization equipment and storage needs for digitization projects involving photographs and documents. Most scholarship on archival-quality digitization has focused on either elements of digital library project management or on technical specifications and how to digitize materials. "Calculating All That Jazz" focuses on presenting a formula for calculating digital storage space based on analog still images and documents, demonstrating how deeper understanding of the technical elements of digitization in the formula applies directly to crucial project management considerations
The workshop as the work: white anti-racism organising in 1960s, 70s, and 80s US social movements
No full textThis thesis explores the rise of anti-racism workshops developed by white activists in various United States social movements from the late 1960s through the mid-1980s. The shifting ideology of the black freedom movement in the late 1960s, from integration to Black Power, transformed white activists‘ place within racial justice struggles. While recent scholarship has begun to turn its attention towards whites‘ ongoing racial justice activities, one of the most radical and widespread of these efforts is consistently overlooked: anti-racism workshops. Increasingly prevalent from the late 1960s through to the diversity-trainings explosion of the 1990s, this thesis demonstrates that these workshops had their roots in the black freedom, women‘s liberation and gay liberation movements. White activists from these movements led these workshops in order to examine white racial domination and privilege within both leftist social movements and larger US society.
Analysing case studies from the black freedom, women‘s liberation and gay liberation/rights movements, this thesis explores the foundational assumptions of anti-racism workshops. It seeks to explain how and why these efforts sought to frame race and racism as issues of knowledge and consciousness and why such efforts constituted radical praxis. It is argued that early anti-racism workshops were pedagogical projects that sought to confront the racial ignorance that structured the lives of whites in the US, including progressives and their liberation movements. This thesis draws attention to the efficacy and power of these workshops in terms of their epistemological effects, in the transformations they brought about in whites‘ understanding, or awareness, of racial realities
W. Evan Mannakee
No full textBlack and white photograph of William Evan Mannakee, Instructor in Theater Arts, 1969-1974.https://thekeep.eiu.edu/archives_faculty_mr/1010/thumbnail.jp
Evan Schumann, AFROTC dining out at Norwich University, 1987
No full textBlack-and-white photograph from Air Force ROTC Dining Out at Woodbury Hall on the Norwich University campus in Northfield, Vermont, in 1987 (original negative enclosures dated 23 April 1987). Includes: Evan Schumann (Class of 1988)
Espousing Ezili: Images of a Lwa, Reflections of the Haitian Woman
No full textThis article examines the iconography of the two main female divinities in Haitian Vodou, Ezili Danto and Ezili Freda, using common chromolithographs of each personality. Images of the Ezilis are analyzed in the context of visual culture to discern how iconography informs viewers about the political position of Haitian women of the past and present. To realize this goal, the author addresses some of the complex dynamics that shaped the lives of colonial Haitian women as well as the contemporary factors affecting women's lives today.This article was originally published in Journal of Haitian Studies, http://www.research.ucsb.edu/cbs/publications/johs/Peer reviewe
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Flyer Detail E. Stephens in Lady\u27s Costume
No full textBlack and white photograph, crop of page 84 of the book "The Children Sang: the life and music of Evan Stephens image of flyer for a Concert to be held at the Haverly Salt Lake Theater featuring Evan Stephens first children\u27s singing class (200 students), Evan Stephens will appear in "Lady\u27s Costume" and sin
Name Dictionaries for "wru" R Package
No full textWe provide four dictionaries that provide the racial distributions associated with names in the United States. These dictionaries are used by the latest iteration of the "WRU" package (Khanna et al., 2022) to make probabilistic predictions about the race of individuals, given their names and geolocations. The probabilities cover five racial categories: White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, and Other.
We provide two surname dictionaries. The first provides entries P(race | surname) for about 160K names, derived from the 2010 Census surname list, aggregated with the Census Spanish surname list. The second provides analogous probabilities for 1.48MM surnames. This dictionary is created by starting with the Census-based dictionary and supplementing it with race distributions estimated from the voter files of six Southern states -- Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina -- that collect race data.
We also provide dictionaries estimating P(race | first name) and P(race | middle name). These dictionaries -- which contain 1.04MM and 1.16MM names respectively -- are sourced exclusively from the voter files of the six Southern states.
References
Kabir Khanna, Brandon Bertelsen, Santiago Olivella, Evan Rosenman and Kosuke Imai (2022). wru: Who are You? Bayesian Prediction of Racial
Category Using Surname, First Name, Middle Name, and Geolocation. R package version 1.0.0. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=wr
- …
