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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
Photo of the white two storey F. Morris house in Trinity, Trinity Bay
No full textScanned faded polaroid photograph of a white two storey house with two chimney stacks. A small building extension comes out of the side of the building. There is a road in the foreground in front of the side of the building, with two cars parked blocking the base of the building. Constructed in 1929 by F. Morris
George O. Morris Park plaques
No full textBlack-and-white photograph of two plaques for "The George O. Morris Park," to be installed in 1957
Unified mathematical treatment of complex cascaded bipartite networks: The case of collections of journal papers
No full textIn this study, a mathematical treatment is proposed for analysis of entities and relations among entities in
complex networks consisting of cascaded bipartite networks. This treatment is applied to the case of
collections of journal papers. In this case, entities are distinguishable objects and concepts, such as papers,
references, paper authors, reference authors, paper journals, reference journals, institutions, terms, and term
definitions. Relations are associations between entity-types such as papers and the references they cite, or
paper authors and the papers they write. An entity-relationship model is introduced that explicitly shows
direct links between entity-types and possible useful indirect relations. From this a matrix formulation and
generalized matrix arithmetic are introduced that allow easy expression of relations between entities and
calculation of weights of indirect links and co-occurrence links. Occurrence matrices, equivalence
matrices, membership matrices and co-occurrence matrices are described. A dynamic model of growth
describes recursive relations in occurrence and co-occurrence matrices as papers are added to the paper
collection. Graph theoretic matrices are introduced to allow information flow studies of networks of papers
linked by their citations. Similarity calculations and similarity fusion are explained. Derivation of feature
vectors for pattern recognition techniques is presented. The relation of the proposed mathematical
treatment to seriation, clustering, multidimensional scaling, and visualization techniques is discussed. It is
shown that most existing bibliometric analysis techniques for dealing with collections of journal papers are
easily expressed in terms of the proposed mathematical treatment: co-citation analysis, bibliographic
coupling analysis, author co-citation analysis, journal co-citation analysis, Braam-Moed-vanRaan (BMV)
co-citation/co-word analysis, latent semantic analysis, hubs and authorities, and multidimensional scaling.
This report discusses an extensive software toolkit that was developed for this research for analyzing and
visualizing entities and links in a collection of journal papers. Additionally, an extensive case study is
presented, analyzing and visualizing 60 years of anthrax research through a collection of journal papers.
When dealing with complex networks that consist of cascaded bipartite networks, the treatment presented
here provides a general mathematical framework for all aspects of analysis of static network structure and
network dynamic growth. As such, it provides a basic paradigm for thinking about and modeling such
networks: computing direct and indirect links, expressing and analyzing statistical distributions of network
characteristics, describing network growth, deriving feature vectors, clustering, and visualizing network
structure and growth
Evidence for a shift from true place navigation to directional responding in one variant of the morris water task.
No full textPrevious work from our laboratory has demonstrated that rats display a preference for directional responding over place navigation in a wide range of procedural variants of the Morris water task. A preference for place navigation has only been observed when the pool is reduced as a cue by filling it with water. Studies using dry-land mazes suggest that rats place navigate early in training and later switch to other forms of responding (e.g., motor). The present study evaluated whether rats switch from place navigation to directional responding in the “full pool” variant of the water task. Rats were given 12, 24, or 36 hidden platform training trials. Probe trials with the pool repositioned in the room revealed a preference for place navigation in rats given 12 trials, an equal division of response preferences in rats given 24 trials, and a preference for directional responding in rats given 36 trials. These results indicate that the early preference for place navigation in the full pool water task is transient and yields to a preference for directional responding with continued training
Black-White Wealth Accumulation: Does Veteran Status Matter?
No full textThesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2013University of Washington Abstract Black-White Wealth Accumulation: Does Veteran Status Matter? Judy Ann Loveless-Morris Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Professor Barbara F. Reskin Sociology Previous research has demonstrated that institutions can diminish or increase access to resources and opportunities that contribute to wealth outcomes. In this dissertation, I investigate the effects of having served in the military on the accumulation of wealth, with a focus on black and white men. To date, the potential effects of veteran status on wealth have largely been ignored. I use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and apply logistic and OLS regressions to examine the relationships between race, veteran status, and wealth from 1983 to 2007. Taken together, the empirical chapters demonstrate that the effect of veteran status on wealth and some of the factors that influence wealth, namely income, saving levels, homeownership and home equity varied by race and era. Specifically, veteran status was shown to have a positive effect on the total wealth of black and white pre-Vietnam veterans and white AVF veterans. In contrast, military service was associated with a negative effect on the wealth outcomes of black and white Vietnam veterans and black AVF veterans. Only one other study has examined the effects of military service on wealth accumulation and found veteran status was associated with a negative effect on wealth. By conducting separating analyses on the effect of veteran status on wealth and many of its determinants, I show that whether or not veterans gain advantages in their ability to build wealth over nonveterans is dependent on their race and their military era of service
Retelling racialized violence, remaking white innocence: the politics of interlocking oppressions in transgender day of remembrance
No full textTransgender Day of Remembrance has become a significant political event among those resisting violence against gender-variant persons. Commemorated in more than 250 locations worldwide, this day honors individuals who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. However, by focusing on transphobia as the definitive cause of violence, this ritual potentially obscures the ways in which hierarchies of race, class, and sexuality constitute such acts. Taking the Transgender Day of Remembrance/Remembering Our Dead project as a case study for considering the politics of memorialization, as well as tracing the narrative history of the Fred F. C. Martinez murder case in Colorado, the author argues that deracialized accounts of violence produce seemingly innocent White witnesses who can consume these spectacles of domination without confronting their own complicity in such acts. The author suggests that remembrance practices require critical rethinking if we are to confront violence in more effective ways. Description from publisher's site: http://caliber.ucpress.net/doi/abs/10.1525/srsp.2008.5.1.2
Depression in small-vessel disease relates to white matter ultrastructural damage, not disability.
No full textOBJECTIVE: To determine whether cerebral small-vessel disease (SVD) is a specific risk factor for depression, whether any association is mediated via white matter damage, and to study the role of depressive symptoms and disability on quality of life (QoL) in this patient group.
METHODS: Using path analyses in cross-sectional data, we modeled the relationships among depression, disability, and QoL in patients with SVD presenting with radiologically confirmed lacunar stroke (n = 100), and replicated results in a second SVD cohort (n = 100). We then compared the same model in a non-SVD stroke cohort (n = 50) and healthy older adults (n = 203). In a further study, to determine the role of white matter damage in mediating the association with depression, a subgroup of patients with SVD (n = 101) underwent diffusion tensor imaging (DTI).
RESULTS: Reduced QoL was associated with depression in patients with SVD, but this association was not mediated by disability or cognition; very similar results were found in the replication SVD cohort. In contrast, the non-SVD stroke group and the healthy older adult group showed a direct relationship between disability and depression. The DTI study showed that fractional anisotropy, a marker of white matter damage, was related to depressive symptoms in patients with SVD.
CONCLUSION: These results suggest that in stroke patients without SVD, disability is an important causal factor for depression, whereas in SVD stroke, other factors specific to this stroke subtype have a causal role. White matter damage detected on DTI is one factor that mediates the association between SVD and depression
[Apple Tree in Omaha (Morris County) Texas]
No full textBlack and white (faded) of Apple Tree which produced 18 bushels in Omaha (Morris County) Texas. Taken and collected by H.F.Browder, former county agent, Denton County
Morris, S.R. 1. Trinity Polaroid Scans
No full textA polaroid photo of a two-storey beige house with a grey roof and two brick chimneys. On the front of the house there are two windows on the second level and four visible windows on the first level. On the side of the house there is one window on the second level and two windows on the first level. Around the house a white fence and trees can be seen. There are two vehicles parked in front of the property - one white and one red. During this project the property was owned by Mr. S.R. Morris, previously owned by Mr. F. Morris. Built circa 1929
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