242 research outputs found
Margaret Swett Henson (1924-2001) Collection
No full textMaterials in the collection range from 1838-1850, and 1938-2000. The bulk of the collection comprises the works of Margaret Swett Henson including her book reviews, research notes on various topics, manuscripts and genealogies which she prepared. Included are literary works by others which she apparently used in her research. Of particular interest are the numerous drafts leading up to her last monograph: "Understanding Lorenzo Zavala."Texas historian Margaret Swett Henson lived from 1924 to 2001. She lived and worked in the Houston area but her historical research and writing embraced all of Texas. She was a member of the Tejano Association for Historical Preservation and active in many historical associations and a prolific author
Rezension: Gloaming: von Keaton Henson
No full textDer Band „Gloaming“ des britischen Musikers und Autors Keaton Henson lässt inmitten urbaner Wirklichkeiten eine Geisterwelt auftauchen. Thomas Ballhausen hat den Band für die MEDIENIMPULSE rezensiert.The book "Gloaming" by British musician and author Keaton Henson reveals a world of spirits in the midst of urban realities. Thomas Ballhausen has reviewed "Gloaming" for MEDIENIMPULSE
Home of Josiah Henson
No full text1883 photograph of the home of Josiah Henson, a former slave, author, abolitionist, and minister upon whose life Uncle Tom\u27s Cabin was based.https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/civilwar_exhibit/1001/thumbnail.jp
Kenny Henson : Let Us Become Man : A Multi-media Human Symphony
No full textItem located in file hy-dm-finch-henson-1947-2007-001. Not all items in folder uploaded.Gibbon writes about his friend Kenny Henson in 1975 and 1976 which had yet to be released by the time of the publication. He reflects on his frustration of Henson as he believes that his live performances were much better than his recorded compositions. The author does however commend Henson on his "Let Us become Man" album which in his opinion was "very very good"
Misconduct in Washington Unemployment Compensation Law—Henson v. Employment Security Department, 113 Wash. 2d 374, 779 P.2d 715 (1989)
No full textUnemployment compensation may be denied to employees dismissed for misconduct. In Henson v. Employment Security Department, the Washington Supreme Court misapplied the misconduct doctrine by blurring the distinction between on-duty and off-duty misconduct. This Note compares past Washington misconduct doctrine with its application in Henson and discusses the potential equal protection implications of this decision. The author concludes that Henson adversely affects employees and confuses the misconduct doctrine in Washington. Further, while there was no equal protection violation in Henson, the court\u27s result opens the door to future equal protection challenges and violations
Matthew A. Henson (1866-1955)
No full textAmerica\u27s only famous Negro polar explorer was the co-author to the major geographical quest of the century - the search for the North Pole. ... At the age of 12 he escaped a loveless home - he never knew his mother, who died when he was two - and found his way to Baltimore and the benign Captain Childs, master of the ship Katie Hines. Befriending the frail, hungry, frightened boy, Capt. Childs bent the rules in signing Matt on as cabin boy; he recorded Henson\u27s age as 15 rather than the illegal age of 12. In the five years that Matt sailed on the Katie Hines, Childs taught the young Negro reading, writing, mathematics, navigation, and general proficiency at the sailor\u27s varied trade. These skills would ultimately prove indispensable in Henson\u27s travels with Robert Peary. ... After proving his value to Peary during a year in the Nicaraguan jungle, Henson worked alongside him in a Philadelphia shipyard until Peary took another leave of absence to return to Greenland in 1891. Henson joined the party. His ocher-coloured skin, far from an asset in the racist U.S., helped him in the Arctic. To the Eskimo, Henson was not a white man but a prodigal brother who had forgotten his native tongue and the ways of survival in the harsh northern environment. In successive expeditions, his rapidly growing skills in speaking the Eskimo language, driving dogsleds, hunting, and trading for dogs and furs proved invaluable. In a short time "Miy Paluk", as the Eskimos called him, was to become hero and legend. He was the most important member of the seven expeditions spread over a period of 18 years. One expedition alone lasted four years, during which Matt\u27s courage, sacrifice and physical strength saved Peary\u27s life and the lives of others more than once. ... In 1898 the Navy granted Peary a four-year leave of absence to search for the Pole once more. Peary planned to approach his goal this time via the frozen arctic sea. ... Henson selected the field teams, choosing the best and strongest Eskimo hunters, skilled sledge builders and dog handlers. The Eskimos were loyal to Matt, who now spoke their language fluently. ... On the next-to-last march of the successful expedition, Henson knew at the outset how far the last day\u27s journey would be, and his experience told him how many hours it would take to travel that distance. The sun was his clock. Sighting the position of the sun as he started that final advance on 6 April 1909, Matt knew where it would be when he had reached the Pole. Thus it was that he arrived 45 minutes before Peary, who, after taking an instrument sighting, said "This is it, the Pole at last". ... Back in the States, Matt drifted into semi-obscurity. In 1913, President Taft appointed him to a Civil Service job as a messenger boy at the New York Customs House. Over the ensuing years, as many as six bills were introduced in Congress to retire Matt with honour and a pension, but all failed. ..
The Escape from Life to Truth: Reimagining Josiah Henson and His Autobiographies
No full textWhilst The Life of Josiah Henson (1849), the first autobiography of the formerly enslaved founder of the Dawn Settlement in Canada, declares that it was recorded by a white amanuensis, the second, Truth Stranger than Fiction (1858), lists no author except Henson. Despite Truth’s lack of a proclaimed amanuensis, the authorship of the text has become contested ground, with the critical consensus appearing to be that Truth, like Life, was written by a white amanuensis. As an intervention in this debate, this article performs a comparative literary analysis on Life and Truth to consider what the differences between them can teach us about the authorship of Trut
Mechanisms of top-down facilitation in perception of visual objects studied by fMRI
No full textPrior knowledge regarding the possible identity of an object facilitates its recognition from a degraded visual input, though the underlying mechanisms are unclear. Previous work implicated ventral visual cortex but did not disambiguate whether activity-changes in these regions are causal to or merely reflect an effect of facilitated recognition. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to study top-down influences on processing of gradually revealed objects, by preceding each object with a name that was congruent or incongruent with the object. Congruently primed objects were recognized earlier than incongruently primed, and this was paralleled by shifts in activation profiles for ventral visual, parietal, and prefrontal cortices. Prior to recognition, defined on a trial-by-trial basis, activity in ventral visual cortex rose gradually but equivalently for congruently and incongruently primed objects. In contrast, prerecognition activity was greater with congruent priming in lateral parietal, retrosplenial, and lateral prefrontal cortices, whereas functional coupling between parietal and ventral visual (and also left lateral prefrontal and parietal) cortices was enhanced in the same context. Thus, when controlling for recognition point and stimulus information, activity in ventral visual cortex mirrors recognition success, independent of condition. Facilitation by top-down cues involves lateral parietal cortex interacting with ventral visual areas, potentially explaining why parietal lesions can lead to deficits in recognizing degraded objects even in the context of top-down knowledge
Rediasporizing Bahia: the lived experiences of blackness and the cultural politics of Bahian hip-hop
No full textThis dissertation analyzes how Blacks in Salvador da Bahia are disrupting dominant representations of Afro-diasporic cultures and race in Brazil’s most “African” locale. Cultural representations, tourism groups, and government agencies commonly portray Salvador as brimming with exotic and premodern Africanisms through the retention of African roots, traditions, and origins. This uses essentialist tropes that Blacks in the African Diaspora are connected together by a common ancestry and culture. This has in turn been used to reify popular Brazilian mythologies of racial harmony, a mestiço racial identity, and an African-derived ethnicity. These cultural representations of the African Diaspora in Salvador have been used to argue that race relations in Brazil are far superior to the United States and that racism is not a problem. However, this obscures the social stigma of Blackness, as a queer subaltern figure and sociocultural threat to civilization, and how antiblack racism structures everyday life in Salvador.
Drawing on Black feminism, African Diaspora studies, media studies, and race relations studies, this dissertation is a study that links the social realities of race and Afro-diasporic expressions by examining the local hip-hop movement, its Afro-diasporic reception and production of hip-hop media cultures. Drawing on social anthropological and media studies approaches to ethnography, it explores how Black hip-hop artists are using and producing, thus produsing, the African Diaspora to speak back against the silences and invisibility of antiblack racism. To do so, it probes how Blacks in the Bahian hip-hop movement are rediasporizing Bahia by situating it between race relations and Black Atlantic cultures. Using race relations studies and African Diaspora studies, it contextualizes the historical layers of socially articulated structures and processes of race; the lived experiences of Blackness; and the symbolic and material violence of antiblackness in Bahia. Drawing on media studies and Black feminist studies, it then explores how Blacks under these racial regimes are using Afro-diasporic hip-hop cultures in local contexts to articulate a subaltern Blackness that is part of a diasporic experience. It also illuminates how Blacks are producing their own Afro-diasporic hip-hop texts to challenge local knowledges of race, culture, and diaspora in Bahia. It calls for attention to the lived experiences and imaginaries of Blacks who are most invisible and marginal at diasporic and local levels. Finally, it strongly argues for emphasis on the role of media uses, cultural productions, and technology in the study of the African Diaspora.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2018-12-01The student, Bryce Henson, accepted the attached license on 2016-08-30 at 16:09.The student, Bryce Henson, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2016-08-30 at 16:15.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2016-10-04 at 14:29.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #10134 on 2017-02-28 at 14:40:46Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-01T17:00:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3
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