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Sears, Laurie J. "Racial Slurs and Whispers in Situated Testimonies of Dutch Imperial Fiction." positions: asia critique 29, no. 1 (2021): 67–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10679847-8722784.
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Storytelling brings into vivid focus the emotions and affects that different classes and races of people experienced in the imperial Dutch Indies island worlds. The storyteller explored in this article is Maria Dermoût (1888–1962), a mixed-race Dutch woman (Indo) who was born and raised on Java in the Dutch East Indies and who spent more than thirty years there. This article argues that Dermoût is a key writer for understanding affective economies, because she devotes significant time and effort in her fiction to fleshing out Native characters, something that few writers of her time did. The novella Toetie, one of Dermoût’s last works, uncovers Indies and Dutch attitudes toward race and color, moving her work from the genre of Indies Letters, or Dutch colonial literature, to that of postcolonial critique, with an exploration of forms of servitude, affect, and the social relations of her time.
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Alibhai-Brown, Yasmin, and Maria P. P. Root. "Racially Mixed People in America." Feminist Review, no. 48 (1994): 128. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1395176.
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Alibhai-Brown, Yasmin. "Racially Mixed People in America." Feminist Review 48, no. 1 (1994): 128–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/fr.1994.49.
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Powell, William E. "Book Review: Racially Mixed People in America." Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 75, no. 3 (1994): 187–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/104438949407500309.
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Hernández, Tanya Katerí. "Racially-Mixed Personal Identity Equality." Law, Culture and the Humanities 16, no. 3 (2017): 354–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1743872117699894.
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A growing number of commentators view discrimination against multiracial (racially-mixed) people as a distinctive challenge to racial equality. This perspective is based on the belief that multiracial-identified persons experience racial discrimination in a manner that makes it necessary to reconsider civil rights law. This article disputes that premise and deconstructs its Personal Identity Equality approach to anti-discrimination law and demonstrates its ill effects reflected in Supreme Court affirmative action litigation.
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Olmos Aguilera, Miguel. "Las creencias indígenas y neo-indias en la frontera MEX/USA." Revista Trace, no. 54 (July 5, 2018): 45. http://dx.doi.org/10.22134/trace.54.2008.310.
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En este artículo se analizan y describen las creencias indígenas originarias de la frontera norte, así como algunas creencias mestizas de tipo popular. Se hace hincapié en las creencias vinculadas con nuevas formas de identidad indígena y mestiza que se mueven en el terreno de la ficción. La identificación “neoindia” no es construida por los grupos indígenas, sino por mestizos que sin una identidad anclada en la memoria tradicional suelen adherirse a una identidad ancestral generada en múltiples religiones del escenario fronterizo o del imaginario mítico de la mesoamérica mexica. La Frontera Norte, como lugar donde las referencias culturales se pierden y transforman rápidamente, tanto la cultura indígena como la mestiza, se han convertido en un terreno fértil para la invención del “otro” mediante la transformación constante de sus prácticas religiosas.Abstract: This article analyzes and describes the native beliefs of the North Border, as well as some popular racial mixed beliefs. Emphasizing in the ones linked with new forms of racial mixed and native identity in the fiction area. The identification of “neoindia” is not built for native but for racially mixed groups that, without an identity anchored in the traditional memory, are used to adhere to an ancient identity generated from multiple religions of the border or of the mythical imaginary of Mexica Mesoamerica. The North Border, a place where cultural references are lost and quickly transformed, both native and racially mixed cultures have become a fertile land for the invention of the “Other” through the constant transformation of its religious practices.Résumé : Dans cet article, on analyse et on décrit les croyances indiennes de la Frontière Nord du Mexique, ainsi que quelques croyances métissées de type populaire. On s’intéresse en particulier aux croyances en relation avec de nouvelles formes d’identité indiennes et métisses qui se déploient sur le terrain de la fiction. L’identification “néo-indienne” n’est pas construite par les groupes indiens, mais par les métis dont l’identité n’est pas ancrée dans la mémoire traditionnelle et qui se réfèrent souvent à une identité ancestrale, générée dans de multiples religions du cadre frontalier ou de l’imaginaire mythique de la Mésoamérique mexicaine. À la Frontière Nord, en tant que lieu où les références culturelles se perdent et se transforment rapidement, les cultures indiennes et métisses se sont converties en un terrain fertile pour l’invention de l’« Autre » par l’entremise de la constante transformation des pratiques religieuses.
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Rosenthal, Aaron. "INVESTMENT AND INVISIBILITY." Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 16, no. 2 (2019): 511–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1742058x19000298.
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AbstractDoes political distrust generate a desire to engage in the political process or does it foster demobilization? Utilizing a theoretical framework rooted in government experiences and a mixed-methods research design, this article highlights the racially contingent meaning of political distrust to show that both relationships exist. For Whites, distrust is tied to a perception of tax dollars being poorly spent, leading to increased political involvement as Whites to try to gain control over “their” investment in government. For People of Color, distrust of government is grounded in a fear of the criminal justice system, and thus drives disengagement by motivating a desire for invisibility in relation to the state. Ultimately, this finding highlights a previously unseen racial heterogeneity in the political consequences of distrust. Further, it demonstrates how the state perpetuates racially patterned political inequality in a time when many of the formal laws engendering this dynamic have fallen away.
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Iankilevitch, Maria, Lindsey A. Cary, Jessica D. Remedios, and Alison L. Chasteen. "How Do Multiracial and Monoracial People Categorize Multiracial Faces?" Social Psychological and Personality Science 11, no. 5 (2019): 688–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1948550619884563.
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Due to their awareness of multiraciality and their perceptions of race categories as fluid, multiracial individuals may be unique in how they racially categorize multiracial faces. Yet race categorization research has largely overlooked how multiracial individuals categorize other mixed-race people. We therefore asked Asian, White, and multiracial individuals to categorize Asian-White faces using an open-ended response format, which more closely mirrors real-world race categorizations than forced-choice response formats. Our results showed that perceivers from all three racial groups tended to categorize Asian-White faces as monoracial Asian, White, or Hispanic. However, multiracial perceivers categorized the Asian-White faces as multiracial more often than monoracial perceivers did. Our findings suggest that multiracial individuals may approach racial categorization differently from either monoracial majority or minority group members. Furthermore, our results illustrate possible difficulties multiracial people may face when trying to identify other multiracial in-group members.
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Beall, Julianne. "Racially Mixed People, DDC Table 5 Ethnic and National Groups, and MARC 21 Bibliographic Format Field 083." Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 47, no. 7 (2009): 657–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01639370903112005.
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Okajima, Isa. "Is COVID-Somnia Fact or Fiction?" Sleep Medicine Research 13, no. 3 (2022): 121–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.17241/smr.2022.01466.
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Over 2 years have passed since the COVID-19 outbreak, and perceptions of coronavirus and lifestyles have changed. The purpose of this study was to review how sleep problems during the COVID-19 pandemic, commonly known as ‘COVID-somnia,’ are interpreted. In a systematic review of cross-sectional studies, the prevalence rate of COVID-somnia has been reported to be 35.7% for people with insomniac symptoms. However, the prevalence of insomnia symptoms did not significantly increase in longitudinal studies. It has also been reported that 50% of individuals with COVID-somnia improved after 5 months. Thus, COVID-insomnia is probably a mixed concept, consisting of conventional chronic insomnia and temporary insomnia. It is possible that most cases are illusory and only a few people actually are going to suffer from an insomnia disorder. For the chronic insomnia, cognitive behavioral therapy is effective. Temporary insomnia is likely to decrease with accurate knowledge of the coronavirus and effective infection control strategies. In the future, it is necessary not only to examine the prevalence of insomniacs during COVID-19, but also to examine the proportion of insomniacs with high anxiety about infection and its impact on daily functioning.
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Haakenstad, Magdalena K., Maria B. Butcher, Carolyn J. Noonan, and Amber L. Fyfe-Johnson. "Outdoor Time in Childhood: A Mixed Methods Approach to Identify Barriers and Opportunities for Intervention in a Racially and Ethnically Mixed Population." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20, no. 24 (2023): 7149. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20247149.
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A growing body of literature suggests that outdoor time is beneficial for physical and mental health in childhood. Profound disparities exist in access to outdoor spaces (and the health benefits thereof) for children in communities of color. The objectives of this research were to: (1) identify challenges and solutions to outdoor time for children; (2) assess the importance of outdoor time for children; and (3) evaluate results stratified by race/ethnicity. Using a convergent mixed methods approach, we conducted a thematic analysis from 14 focus groups (n = 50) with outdoor educators, parents with children attending outdoor preschools, and community members with children. In addition, 49 participants completed a survey to identify challenges and solutions, perceived importance, and culturally relevant perspectives of outdoor time. The main challenges identified for outdoor time were safety concerns, inclement weather, lack of access to outdoor spaces, and parent work schedules. The primary proposed solution was integrating outdoor time into the school day. Nearly all participants, independent of racial identity, reported that outdoor time improved physical and mental health. Overall outdoor time was lower in participants from communities of color (~8 h/week) compared to their White counterparts (~10 h/week). While 50% of people of color (POC) reported that outdoor time was an important cultural value, only 18% reported that people in their respective culture spent time outside. This work contributes to accumulating knowledge that unique barriers to outdoor time exist for communities of color, and the children that live, learn, and play in these communities. Increasing outdoor time in school settings offers a potential solution to reduce identified barriers and to promote health equity in childhood.
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Duong-Pedica, Anaïs. "Unsettling ‘we’re all mixed-race’: Métis.se/colonial futurity, settler colonialism and the countering of Kanak sovereignty." International Journal of Francophone Studies 25, no. 3 (2022): 211–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ijfs_00051_1.
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This article aims to uncover the colonial character of the statement ‘on est tous métis’ (‘we’re all mixed-race’) in Kanaky/New Caledonia, a racially and politically polarized space where there is an ongoing struggle for independence led by Indigenous Kanak people. It uses data gathered in semi-structured interviews with self-identified ‘mixed-raced’ people during a six-month stay in Kanaky/New Caledonia before and after the November 2018 referendum for independence. It also uses ethnographic material and, more specifically, encounters with the figure of the ‘mixed-race’ person in political debates, campaigns as well as art and media that signal an investment in the idea that, in Kanaky/New Caledonia, ‘we are all mixed-race’. The article exposes the political discourse of multiracialism as exclusionary and as a mechanism of Indigenous disappearance in the settler colonial context. It also sheds light on the way in which settler anxiety feeds the multiracial discourse. In challenging and deconstructing the orientations towards a multiracial or métis.se future, that individuals and institutions imagine, wish or advocate for, the article aims to call for a desolidarization from modes of thinking and being that support the French colonial project, even when it masks itself as inclusive.
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Yao, Xine. "Desire and Asian Diasporic Fiction: Democracy and the Representative Status of Onoto Watanna’s Miss Numè of Japan (1899)." American Literary History 35, no. 1 (2023): 97–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajac154.
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Abstract “Onoto Watanna,” the pseudo-Japanese penname of the mixed-race Chinese Winnifred Eaton, acts as a “Bad Grandma” of the Asian North American literary tradition. Building upon Susan Koshy’s and Lisa Lowe’s accounts of the Asian American novel, I approach Watanna’s Miss Numè of Japan (1899) as the “first Asian American novel” representative of an accommodationist, rather than resistant, tendency “Asian American” representation that anticipates the aggregate and disaggregate problems and possibilities of that political formation in US liberal democracy. The novel, a tale of interracial romances set in Japan, tracks the uncomfortable tensions and convergences of desire and Asian diasporic fiction that speaks to the heteronormative bourgeois construction of anti-Black settler colonial “Asian America.” By tapping into the seduction and marriage plot traditions of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century (white) domestic fiction, Miss Numè racially recodes the genre’s processes of meaning-making about freedom, coercion, and material stability onto a comparative global stage. The romances allegorize negotiations between Japan and the US as two rising global imperialist powers, asymmetries of power coded as Asiatic racialized gender. Miss Numè traces fantasies of individualist desire inextricable from the novel’s status as a compromised origin for the Asian American novel and Asian Americanist coalitional politics.With this “bad” early entry in the Asian American literary tradition, the beginnings of a cross-ethnic Asian sensibility reveals the bourgeois fantasies of diasporic desire at its very emergence, not as a postlapsarian ossification.
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Gardner, Daniel S., and Meredith Doherty. "EXPLORING PALLIATIVE CARE DISPARITIES IN RACIALLY AND ETHNICALLY DIVERSE COMMUNITY-DWELLING OLDER ADULTS." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (2019): S746. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.2734.
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Abstract Despite the growth and recognized benefits of palliative care for people with serious illness and their families, there are significant racial and ethnic disparities in access to and utilization of services, particularly among older adults living in impoverished, medically-underserved communities. This paper presents preliminary findings from a mixed-method, CBPR study exploring the experiences, supportive care needs, and service use of diverse older adults living with serious illness in an urban, medically-underserved community in the U.S. Systematic analyses of focused, semi-structured interviews with 45 older adults identified cultural, environmental, financial, and structural barriers to palliative care, and identified the critical importance of familial, social, spiritual, and formal networks of support in coping with serious illness and associated symptoms. The investigators describe implications for practice and policy that addresses palliative care disparities, and strategies for engaging with communities to extend culturally-sensitive palliative care to diverse, community-dwelling older adults and their social networks.
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Pomfret, David M. "Raising Eurasia: Race, Class, and Age in French and British Colonies." Comparative Studies in Society and History 51, no. 2 (2009): 314–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417509000140.
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Sexual relationships between European men and indigenous women produced racially mixed offspring in all of Europe's empires. Recent interdisciplinary scholarship has shown how these persons of mixed race, seen as transgressing the interior frontiers of supposedly fixed categories of racial and juridical difference upon which colonizers' prestige and authority rested, posed a challenge to the elaborate but fragile sets of subjective criteria by which “whiteness” was defined. Scholars critiquing the traditional historiography of empire for its tendency to present colonial elites as homogeneous communities pursuing common interests have emphasized the repertoire of exclusionary tactics, constructed along lines of race, class, and gender, devised within European colonial communities in response to the presence of “mixed bloods.” This article aims to show that the presence of people of biracial heritage inspired collaborative as well as exclusionary responses in outposts of European empire during the late imperial era. It also illustrates how, with white prestige and authority at stake, age, age-related subcategories, and in particular childhood and adolescence, powerfully underpinned responses to the threat this group posed to the cultural reproduction of racialized identity.
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Chong, Kelly H., and Miri Song. "Interrogating the ‘White-Leaning’ Thesis of White–Asian Multiracials." Social Sciences 11, no. 3 (2022): 118. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci11030118.
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The study of multiracial people in the United States has typically focused on the experiences of Black–White racially-mixed individuals. In this article, we review and analyze the theoretical and evidence base for the White-leaning characterization of Asian–White multiracials. Historically, Asian Americans have been positioned as a “racial middle” group in relation to White and Black Americans. In line with this perceived racial position, Asian–White multiracials have been generally characterized as being more White than Black–White multiracials, as well as “leaning White” in terms of self-identification. While there is growing recognition of the variability of experiences among Black–White multiracials, the depiction of Asian multiracials as White-leaning—though based on limited empirical evidence—continues to be prominent, revealing the tendency to view Asian–White individuals through a “White racial frame.” The racial identifications and experiences of Asian–White multiracials are far more complex than such a view suggests. We argue for the need to advance studies on Asian mixed-race people to accurately capture their racial positioning within a system of White supremacy, including the diversity of their identifications, political views, and racialized experiences.
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Giliomee, Hermann. "Afrikaners and the Making of a Radical Survival Plan." Itinerario 27, no. 3-4 (2003): 112–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0165115300020799.
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The debate over modern South Africa has been dominated by the question whether continuities between apartheid and segregation existed. Much of apartheid was a tightening or an elaboration of segregation, but there were also features that made it unique. The one was the systematic classification in statutory groups of the entire population, including people of racially mixed origins, which resembles the rule of the Cape by the VOC or Dutch East Company that distinguished among legal status groups. The other distinctive feature of apartheid was its concern with the rehabilitation of subordinate communities up to the point where they could become nations. Using the terminology of German romantic nationalism and mission doctrine rather than that of British indirect rule, apartheid substituted culture and ultimately nation for race.
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Burgess, Rochelle A., Nancy Kanu, Tanya Matthews, et al. "Exploring experiences and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on young racially minoritised people in the United Kingdom: A qualitative study." PLOS ONE 17, no. 5 (2022): e0266504. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266504.
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Within high-income-countries, the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted people from racially minoritised backgrounds. There has been significant research interrogating the disparate impact of the virus, and recently, interest in the long-term implications of the global crisis on young people’s mental health and wellbeing. However, less work explores the experiences of young people from racialised backgrounds as they navigate the pandemic, and the specific consequences this has for their mental health. Forty young people (age 16–25) from Black, mixed and other minority backgrounds and living in London, participated in consecutive focus group discussions over a two-month period, to explore the impact of the pandemic on their lives and emotional wellbeing. Thematic analysis identified seven thematic categories describing the impact of the pandemic, indicating: deepening of existing socioeconomic and emotional challenges; efforts to navigate racism and difference within the response; and survival strategies drawing on communal and individual resources. Young people also articulated visions for a future public health response which addressed gaps in current strategies. Findings point to the need to contextualize public health responses to the pandemic in line with the lived experiences of racialised young people. We specifically note the importance of long-term culturally and socio-politically relevant support interventions. Implications for policy and practice are discussed.
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Frost, Ginger. "‘Vindictiveness on Account of Colour’?: Race, Gender, and Class at the English Divorce Court, 1872–1939." Genealogy 4, no. 3 (2020): 82. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy4030082.
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This article uses 116 divorce or separation cases involving people of color between 1872 and 1940 to interrogate the role of the state in adjudicating racially mixed marriages in Britain. These examples demonstrate the rising population of imperial subjects within the U.K., but also that marital cases could reverse in-migration, due to embarrassment and expense for all parties. In addition, gender and class factors limited the impact of race in the court. Men’s advantages in bringing cases overcame some racial prejudices, and rich men, whatever their color, could hire effective representation. Race only impacted divorce cases when women could play on stereotypes of violent men, or when men of color were co-respondents and thus broke up homes. Still, the number of undefended cases limited the influence of race in most divorce suits.
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Cuerden, Gareth, and Colin Rogers. "Exploring Race Hate Crime Reporting in Wales Following Brexit." Review of European Studies 9, no. 1 (2017): 158. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/res.v9n1p158.
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Most countries consist of many diverse races and cultures, based on historical political decisions, wars or economic changes. Throughout Europe over the past decades the policy of free movement for work as part of the EU agreements has encouraged this activity. Indeed this has been a fundamental idea behind the European Union ever since its inception. However, what can the consequences be for those individuals who, encouraged by such policies, find themselves located in a country which has decided to no longer be part of that system? In particular what impact does this decision appear to have on the way those considered to be “racially different” are treated by others? This article explores the impact the recent decision by Great Britain took to leave the EU (so called Brexit) and its impact upon the number of racially recorded hate crimes in Wales. Using examples from terrorist incidents in Europe, along with the Brexit result, as examples, it provides clear evidence that when certain incidents occur in wider society, there is an impact upon the way in which so called non-indigenous people are treated, which results in an increase in criminality. These results will have resonance for other countries with a mixed population, as well as having implications for those agencies involved in the protection and safety of all inhabitants in their country.
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Gonlin, Vanessa. "Mixed-Race Ancestry ≠ Multiracial Identification: The Role Racial Discrimination, Linked Fate, and Skin Tone Have on the Racial Identification of People with Mixed-Race Ancestry." Social Sciences 11, no. 4 (2022): 160. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci11040160.
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Mixed-race identification may be complex, in that people with mixed-race ancestry may or may not identify as multiracial. Social experiences, such as experiencing racial discrimination, believing that your fate is connected with specific racialized others, and personal characteristics, such as skin color, all have been theorized to play a role in identification. The Mixed-Race Ancestry Survey (2019) conducted on Mechanical Turk allows me to ask unique questions with a large enough sample of this understudied population to disaggregate by racial ancestries. Only people with mixed-race ancestry are included in this study, but respondents may identify mono- or multiracially. Binary logistic regression models reveal that increased linked fate with a specific racial group is associated with greater odds of racially identifying, at least in part, with that group (e.g., among Asians, greater linked fate with Asians is associated with greater odds of identifying as mono- or multiracially Asian). Increased linked fate with multiracials as a group is also connected to greater odds of identifying as multiracial. In addition, personally experiencing racial discrimination is associated with a greater likelihood of identifying as Black and slightly lower odds of identifying as White or as Latinx. Finally, as skin tone darkens the odds of identifying as Black increase three-fold and the odds of identifying as multiracial increase by 1.3 times. I discuss these findings by racial ancestry groups, noting that being aware of having mixed-race ancestry does not in and of itself predict multiracial identification. Rather, in a social structure that uplifts Whiteness, feeling linked fate, experiencing discrimination, and having darker skin tone are important predictors of identification. These findings highlight the mechanisms connected to racial identification for a population that may feel tied to multiple racial groups and is navigating identification within a White-centric nation.
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Nandi, Shibasambhu. "Science Fiction and Film: An Analytical Study of Two Select Indian Movies." International Journal of English Learning & Teaching Skills 5, no. 4 (2023): 3438–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.15864/ijelts.5407.
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Science fiction is a genre of art that caters to the popular taste of the people. It presents a world mixed with science and fictional elements. It can be taken as a microcosm of fictional literature. It uses to present unfamiliar and unknown things in a familiar and known way. It provides its diverse themes and issues not only in texts but also in films. When science fiction is adapted into movies, it is able to attract a large number of audiences specially the young generation of writers. Science fictional films cover the issues like future society, challenges created by scientific developments, human enhancement through science and technology, human-machine clash, hybrid identity, world of aliens, and Artificial Intelligences. There are many films in western countries covering the issue of science fiction. Production houses designed the films in such a way that it can make an appeal to the audience. Even in India, there are several science fiction films. From 1952 to the present, Indian cinema contributes a lot by producing one after another attracting films on the theme of science fiction. The present paper is going to analyze two films Koi...Mill Gaya and its sequel Krish 3 from the perspectives of science fiction. The paper will also try to present the history of science fiction films in India and in the West. It attempts to depict the science fictional elements and new techniques shown in the films. These films are the representations of future society which accepts the inhabitation of different beings like modified human, superhuman and aliens.
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Khan, Ambreen, Gammon Amanda, and Joanne M. Jeter. "Review of cohort diversity in the development and validation of cancer risk assessment models." Journal of Clinical Oncology 39, no. 15_suppl (2021): e18570-e18570. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jco.2021.39.15_suppl.e18570.
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e18570 Background: Multiple validated models have been proposed to quantify an individual's lifetime risk of breast and colon cancer. However, an evaluation of the race and ethnicity of the cohorts studied in the development and validation of each of these models has not been reviewed. Predicting cancer risks accurately in Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) can be crucial in helping to reduce cancer mortality rates and improving access to preventative care for these individuals. Methods: A literature search was conducted to identify published development and validation studies for the following cancer risk assessment models: Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium (BCSC) Risk Calculator, Tyrer-Cuzick, Gail, Claus, CanRisk/BOADICEA, BRCAPRO and MMRPRO. Articles included were identified through review of a number of electronic databases and websites for the cancer risk prediction models. Authors were contacted for data not readily available through literature search. Results: A total of 15 development studies and 19 validation studies of the cancer risk prediction models were reviewed for the seven models listed above. Out of the 19 validation studies, seven were internal and twelve were external validation studies. 80% (12/15) of development studies and 68% (13/19) of validation studies did not include information on racial and ethnic composition of the cohorts. After obtaining additional information from authors, 53% (8/15) of the development studies were conducted solely in non-Hispanic White (NHW) cohort. The development cohorts ranged from 50%-100% NHW, 0%-7% non-Hispanic Black (NHB), 0%-8% Hispanic/Latinx, 0%-3% Asian and 0%-1% Indigenous participants. 58% (7/12) of external validation studies included ethnically and racially diverse populations compared to 14% (1/7) of internal validation studies. The BCBS, Gail, BRCAPRO and MMRPRO models were the only models with external validation studies conducted in ethnically or racially diverse populations. Overall, the model that had the most diverse cohort for its development and internal validation studies was the BCBS with 70% NHW, 6.7% NHB, 7.5% Hispanic/Latinx, 2.7% Asian, 0.8% Indigenous and 11.5% mixed/other ethnicities. Conclusions: The majority of the models reviewed did not have ethnically or racially diverse populations in their development and validation cohorts. Awareness of the under-representation of ethnically and racially diverse populations in these models is an important precaution for extrapolating data when using these models in medical decision making for BIPOC individuals. Although several barriers exist for participation of BIPOC individuals in clinical studies, these findings highlight the critical, yet unmet need for the development and use of appropriate cancer risk models in racially and ethnically diverse populations as a means to reduce health-related disparities.
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Ghosh, Mina Ikemoto. "The Dividual." After Dinner Conversation 2, no. 8 (2021): 61–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/adc20212875.
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How do people come to terms with the different aspects of their personality? What happens if we “cut away” the parts of ourselves we don’t like? In this work of philosophical short fiction, the world has two related species, humans as we know them, and “dividuals.” Dividuals are related to humans, but, unlike humans, have a trunk with different people, representing the different aspects of their personalities. Seizo is a medical student who is selected for an exchange program to work with, and learn from Osqaris, a dividual he is to have ongoing interactions with. Over time, they become friends. In the end, Seizo learns that he is part dividual, with mixed parents, but was born primarily human. Osqaris was also born of mixed parents, but born primarily dividual. They both, it seems, have struggled to come to terms with how to show, and cut out, the parts of their personality they wish to hide.
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Morland, Kimberly, and Susan Filomena. "Disparities in the availability of fruits and vegetables between racially segregated urban neighbourhoods." Public Health Nutrition 10, no. 12 (2007): 1481–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1368980007000079.
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AbstractObjectivePublic health professionals continue to see the benefits of fruit and vegetable consumption on population health. While studies that evaluate the availability of produce are sparse in the medical literature, disparities in availability may explain the disproportional intake of produce for some people. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the availability and variety of produce located in two racially and economically diverse urban neighbourhoods.DesignA cross-sectional study was conducted in which 50% of the supermarkets, small grocery stores, delicatessens, and fruit and vegetable markets located in specific neighbourhoods were randomly sampled and surveyed between September 2004 and July 2005. Food stores were evaluated for the availability of 20 types of fresh fruits and 19 types of fresh vegetables, as well as their varieties and whether they were canned, frozen or previously prepared. 2000 US Census information was used to determine characteristics of the geo-coded census tracts where the food stores were located.SettingBrooklyn, New York.ResultsA supermarket was located in approximately every third census tract in predominantly white areas (prevalence = 0.33) and every fourth census tract in racially mixed areas (prevalence = 0.27). There were no supermarkets located in the predominantly black areas. With the exception of bananas, potatoes, okra and yucca, a lower proportion of predominantly black area stores carried fresh produce, while supermarkets carried the largest variety of produce types. Canned and frozen fruits and vegetables were found in the majority of stores, whereas prepared and organic produce was limited to predominantly white area stores.ConclusionsThese data demonstrate that the availability and variety of fresh produce is associated with neighbourhood racial composition and may be a factor contributing to differences in intake among residents.
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Farooq, Hamzah Z., Vanessa Apea, Bakita Kasadha, et al. "Study protocol: the ILANA study – exploring optimal implementation strategies for long-acting antiretroviral therapy to ensure equity in clinical care and policy for women, racially minoritised people and older people living with HIV in the UK – a qualitative multiphase longitudinal study design." BMJ Open 13, no. 7 (2023): e070666. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-070666.
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IntroductionCabotegravir and rilpivirine (CAB+RPV long-acting (LA)) is recommended as a treatment for HIV-1 allowing people living with HIV to receive 2 monthly injectable treatment, rather than daily pills. Providing injectable therapy in a system designed to provide and manage study participants on oral treatments poses logistical challenges namely how resources are used to accommodate patient preference within constrained health economies with capacity limitations. In this pragmatic multicentre study, we aim to understand the implementation of CAB-RPV-LA administration in two settings via mixed methods to explore perspectives of participants and the clinical team delivering CAB+RPV LA.Methods and analysisWomen, racially minoritised people and older people are chronically under-represented in HIV clinical trials so the ILANA trial has set recruitment caps to ensure recruitment of 50% women, 50% ethnically diverse people and 30% over 50 years of age to include a more representative study population. Using a mixed-methods approach, the primary objective is to identify and evaluate the critical implementation strategies for CAB+RPV LA in both hospital and community settings. Secondary objectives include evaluating feasibility and acceptability of CAB+RPV LA administration at UK clinics and community settings from the perspective of HIV care providers, nurses and representatives at community sites, evaluating barriers to implementation, the utility of implementation strategies and adherence.Ethics and disseminationEthical approval has been obtained from the Health Research Authority Research Ethics Committee (REC reference: 22/PR/0318). The dissemination strategy has been formulated with the SHARE Collaborative Community Advisory Board to maximise the impact of this work on clinical care and policy. This strategy draws on and leverages existing resources within the participating organisations, such as their academic infrastructure, professional relationships and community networks. The strategy will leverage the Public Engagement Team and press office to support dissemination of findings.Trial registration numberNCT05294159.
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Hesse-Biber, Sharlene, Memnun Seven, Hannah Shea, Madeline Heaney, and Andrew A. Dwyer. "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Genomic Healthcare Utilization, Patient Activation, and Intrafamilial Communication of Risk among Females Tested for BRCA Variants: A Mixed Methods Study." Genes 14, no. 7 (2023): 1450. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes14071450.
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This study aimed to gain a deeper understanding of genomic healthcare utilization, patient activation, and intrafamilial risk communication among racially and ethnically diverse individuals tested for BRCA variants. We employed an explanatory, sequential, mixed-methods study guided by the Theory of Planned Behavior. Participants completed an online survey, including sociodemographic, medical history, and several validated instruments. A subset of participants participated in in-depth, semi-structured interviews. A total of 242 women were included in the quantitative analyses. The majority of survey participants identified as non-Hispanic white (NHW) (n = 197, 81.4%) while 45/242 (18.5%) identified as black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC). The NHW participants were more likely to communicate genetic test results with healthcare providers, family, and friends than BIPOC participants (p < 0.05). BIPOC participants had lower satisfaction with testing decisions and significantly higher ratings of personal discrimination, fatalism, resilience, uncertainty, and lower patient activation scores (p < 0.05). Participants with higher education, greater satisfaction with testing decisions, and lower resilience are more likely to communicate BRCA test results with family members through the mediating effect of patient activation. Bridging disparities to ensure that genomic healthcare benefits all people may demand theory-driven, multi-level interventions targeting the individual, interpersonal, and healthcare system levels.
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Wells, Amy Stuart, Jacquelyn Duran, and Terrenda White. "Refusing to Leave Desegregation Behind: From Graduates of Racially Diverse Schools to the Supreme Court." Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education 110, no. 12 (2008): 2532–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016146810811001204.
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Background/Context In light of the June 2007 U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Louisville and Seattle voluntary school desegregation cases, making it more difficult for district officials to racially balance their schools, this article presents an analysis of prior research on the long-term effects of attending racially diverse schools on their adult graduates as well as new data from interviews with graduates of desegregated schools in Louisville and Seattle. Although the bulk of research on school desegregation examines what is happening to students while they are still in school and their immediate academic outcomes, the growing body of research on the long-term effects of attending racially diverse schools on adult graduates is powerful and significant and, thus, should play a central role in public debates about the future of racial integration in American schools following the Court's ruling in these cases, referred to as Parents Involved. Taken together, findings from this research on the long-term effects of school desegregation speak to both of the central themes to emerge from the larger body of research on racial integration within public schools or universities: 1. the “legacies of structural inequality” theme, which addresses the need for race-conscious policies to overcome decades of perpetuated racial inequality and 2 the “diversity rationale,” which focuses on preparing young people for a diverse society. The new interview data from Louisville and Seattle confirm these prior findings and add new insights. Purpose Knowing that prior research on the long-term effects of school desegregation spoke to the central legal issue in the cases before the Supreme Court in the Parents Involved cases, we wanted to explore the two prominent themes from that literature — “structural inequality” and the “diversity rationale” — as they related to the life experiences of Louisville and Seattle graduates of racially diverse schools. Participants We interviewed 42 graduates—classes of 1985 and 1986—of six high schools: Central, Fern Creek, and Louisville Male high schools in Louisville, and Franklin, Garfield, and Ingraham high schools in Seattle. These six schools were selected because in each city, they represented a wide range of student experiences given their different geographic locations within their districts, their curricular programs, and the social class and racial make-up of their student bodies by the mid-1980s. Still, in each of these schools, no one ethnic group made up more than 75% of the student body at the time these graduates attended them. Research Design Qualitative, in-depth interviews with a random sample of adult graduates (graduating classes of 1985 and 86) from six racially diverse high schools, which were purposively sampled to reflect the different experiences of student who went to public high schools in Louisville and Seattle at that time. Data Collection and Analysis Using a semi-structured, open-ended interview protocol, the authors interviewed a total of 19 graduates from the three Louisville high schools and 23 graduates from the Seattle high schools. In terms of the racial/ethnic identities of these 42 graduates from the six high schools across the two cities, 22 identified themselves as White, 14 as African Americans, 4 as Asian/Pacific Islanders, and 2 as mixed race, including one who was half Latino and half White. Each interview lasted approximately 45 minutes—although they varied in length from 20 minutes to more than an hour—and was tape-recorded and transcribed verbatim. The transcripts were coded for themes that emerged from the interviewees’ responses across schools and context, and the following findings emerged as the most salient experiences of graduates across the six schools. Findings/Results 1. Graduates of racially mixed schools in Louisville and Seattle said they learned to be more accepting of and comfortable with people of other racial backgrounds. Like their counterparts in the six cities of the Wells et al. (in press) study, the Louisville and Seattle graduates we interviewed said they believe that their day-to-day experiences attending diverse public schools as children and adolescents did indeed change them, making them more open-minded and thus more accepting of people who differ from them racially and in terms of their background and culture. 2. Louisville and Seattle graduates and the diversity rationale: Desegregated public schools prepared them for a global economy and society. Preparation for working in a diverse setting—the “diversity rationale”—was, for these graduates, by far the most obvious and pragmatic outcome of their experiences in desegregated public schools. The vast majority of graduates we interviewed in Louisville and Seattle said that at work in particular, they draw on the skills they learned in their desegregated public schools, skills of getting along and feeling comfortable with people of divergent backgrounds and cultures. 3. Overcoming structural inequality: Without diverse public schools, most graduates would have grown up in race isolation. In a society in which housing patterns, places of worship, and social circles are often segregated by race, diverse public schools have been, for many students, the only institutions in which cross-racial interaction and understanding can occur. They have also too often been historically the only institutions in our society in which students of color can gain access to predominantly White and prestigious institutions—in K–12 schooling or higher education. Conclusions/Recommendations We argue, based on our research and that of many others, that in an era when technology and free trade are breaking down physical and economic barriers across cultures and traditions, to not prepare our children to embrace and accept differences to the extent possible—the diversity rationale—is shortsighted and irresponsible. But even more important, we need to question how we can maintain a healthy democracy in a society so strongly divided by race, social class, and ideology now that the Supreme Court's decision has made it increasingly difficult to challenge such structural inequality, in spite of a compelling rationale for greater school-level diversity.
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S, Ramesh. "History of the Badagas in the Novel "Kurinjitthen"." International Research Journal of Tamil 4, S-10 (2022): 21–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.34256/irjt22s104.
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Rajam Krishnan's fiction "Kurinjitthen" describes the lives of three generations of the Badagas ethnic community who migrated from the state of Karnataka after the tenth century AD. Through this novel, the cultural elements of three generations of the Badagas community are shared. It can be seen that the attachment of the first generation to the land is diminishing in the succeeding generations. Later, their culture was also mixed due to foreign contact. People who live in a materialistic society are greedy for money and start cultivating tea in their land. The Kurinji flower land is occupied by the tea plants. Rajam Krishnan constructs the struggle between old and new in fiction through characters. Time creates the environment for the next generation to accept the change. In this novel, Rajam Krishnan has written everything about the life, culture, change of time, and generation gap of Badagas. The core of the story is a tender love specific to the land of Kurinji and its disappointment. The literary space of Rajam Krishnan is also explored through this novel.
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Della Valle, Paola. "Chris Baker’s Kokopu Dreams: A Prophetic View of a Disrupted Post-Pandemic World." Altre Modernità, no. 28 (November 30, 2022): 273–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.54103/2035-7680/19131.
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The global pandemic, with its multiple and far-reaching disruptions, has forced us to rethink and rewrite the world we live in. Chris Baker’s novel Kokopu Dreams (2000) sounds somehow prophetic today in the aftermath of the Covid-19 crisis. His work could be labelled as “speculative fiction” and placed among the umbrella categories of magic realism, science fiction and post-apocalyptic fiction. Set in Aotearoa New Zealand, the story focuses on the life of the few human survivors of a rapidly-spreading deadly illness caused by the rabbit calicivirus, illegally introduced into the country. The calicivirus has mutated and killed almost all the human population, who is now living in a land controlled by animals and spirits. The novel is also a template of transcultural writing, mixing Māori creation stories, Christian and Celtic mythologies, scientific issues and aspects of everyday life. Having grown up in a contact zone of different cultures―Baker is of Polynesian (Samoan), Anglo-Saxon and Celtic origin, but regards himself as a “Pacific” person―he shares that multiplicity of belonging which is a typical condition in the Pacific region today. Baker deals with a physical and cultural collective trauma, and the process of re-signification of the ethos in a bi-cultural country made of people of mixed ancestry, European and Māori. The re-elaboration of the epidemic experience is therefore based on both a Western rational representation and an indigenous mythical one.
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Laurence, Elizabeth. "English with an accent: Language, ideology, and discrimination in the United States." Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal 15, no. 2 (2014): 310. http://dx.doi.org/10.14483/udistrital.jour.calj.2013.2.a012.
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The inherent versatility exhibited in the various writing genres of talented linguist, Rosina Lippi-Green, is as remarkable as her seemingly random interest in quilting. Her ability to make connections with many things, in addition to fabric, is neither coincidental nor haphazard. It is far from surprising, therefore, that this independent scholar claiming “mixed European ancestry” utilizes three authorial guises: two for penning historical fiction and a third for academic writing endeavors, the most recent being English with an accent: Language, ideology, and discrimination in the United States.Extensive documentation and factual data are but two persuasive means of support she utilizes to focus on and convince readers that the power of language upon social structures, especially in the discrimination and subordination of others, remains more strongly embedded than most people realize.
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Robbins, Sarah Ruffing. "Elaine Goodale Eastman’s Yellow Star as Counter-Narrative for American Indian History-Telling." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 23, no. 1 (2024): 26–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1537781423000361.
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AbstractIn 1911, Elaine Goodale Eastman, longtime editor of writing by her husband, Indigenous writer Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa), published Yellow Star, a narrative for white family audiences. Both the Eastmans’ already-troubled marriage and their parenting of mixed-race children illuminate the text, as does their history of linked authorial experiences. Anticipating twenty-first-century battles over competing historical narratives about Indigenous peoples in school curricula and public discourse, Yellow Star’s depiction of history-in-the-making underscores intersections between the domestic and the public, as well as between communal lived experience and larger social issues. The text simultaneously claims a potential role for young people’s literature in the cultural construction of historical understanding. Eastman’s main character, Stella/Yellow Star, arrives in a fictional New England village as an orphan of the Wounded Knee Massacre. Determined to continue valuing her Indigenous community, Stella models both a particular brand of assimilation and resistance to its would-be totalizing power. Before returning west to teach children of her tribe, she also articulates an alternative historical voice. Yellow Star draws on Eastman’s background as a white woman involved in assimilationist education. Progressive in her commitment to on-reservation learning rather than boarding schools, Goodale Eastman was nonetheless implicated in white culture’s racial hierarchies.
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Watson, Karriem S., Leilah D. Siegel, Vida A. Henderson, et al. "The SHARED Project: A Novel Approach to Engaging African American Men to Address Lung Cancer Disparities." American Journal of Men's Health 14, no. 5 (2020): 155798832095893. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1557988320958934.
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Black men are disproportionately impacted by lung cancer morbidity and mortality. Low-dose helical computed tomography (LDCT) lung cancer screening has demonstrated benefits for reducing lung cancer deaths by identifying cancers at earlier, more treatable stages. Despite the known benefits, LDCT screening is underutilized in black men. Studies in racially heterogeneous populations have found correlations between screening behaviors and factors such as physician trust, physician referral, and a desire to reduce the uncertainty of not knowing if they had lung cancer; yet little is known about the factors that specifically contribute to screening behaviors in black men. Community engagement strategies are beneficial for understanding barriers to health-care engagement. One community engagement approach is the citizen scientist model. Citizen scientists are lay people who are trained in research methods; they have proven valuable in increasing communities’ knowledge of the importance of healthy behaviors such as screening, awareness of research, building trust in research, and improving study design and ethics. This paper proposes an intervention, grounded in community-based participatory research approaches and social network theory, to engage black men as citizen scientists in an effort to increase lung cancer screening in black men. This mixed-methods intervention will examine the attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs of black men related to uptake of evidence-based lung cancer screening.
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Taylor, Dorceta E., Katherine Allison, Tevin Hamilton, and Ashley Bell. "Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Food Access in Two Predominantly White Cities: The Case of Lansing, East Lansing, and Surrounding Townships in Michigan." Sustainability 15, no. 20 (2023): 15065. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su152015065.
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Access to fresh, healthy, affordable foods is a pressing concern in cities worldwide. American cities are no exception. Although many scholars study food access in large cities, small and mid-sized American cities can provide valuable information about inequities in the food system. This paper focuses on two adjoining, racially mixed Mid-Michigan cities—Lansing and East Lansing. It examines the extent to which different food outlets exist in the cities and surrounding townships. It probes the following questions: (1) How are food outlets distributed throughout the cities and suburbs? (2) What is the relationship between neighborhood demographic characteristics and the distribution of food outlet types? We collected data on food outlets from September 2020 to June 2022 using Data Axle as our primary source of information. We used ArcGIS 10.8.1 for the spatial mapping and SPSS 28 for statistical analyses. We conducted regression analyses to identify the difference in the likelihood of finding food retailers in census tracts where 0–20% of the residents were People of Color (VL-POC), 20.01–40% of the inhabitants were People of Color (L-POC), 40.1–60% of the residents were People of Color (H-POC), and more than 60% of residents were People of Color (VH-POC). There were 1647 food outlets in the study area: 579 were in Lansing, 220 were in East Lansing, and the remaining 848 were in the surrounding townships. Restaurants dominated the food landscape, while small groceries and convenience stores were the grocery sector’s most common food outlet types. Supermarkets and large grocery stores comprised only 5.6% of the study area’s food outlets. The study finds a nonlinear relationship between the racial composition of census tracts and the prevalence of food outlets. The VH-POC census tracts had very few food outlets. For instance, the tracts had no supermarkets, mass merchandisers or supercenters, small grocery or convenience stores, pharmacies or drug stores, or farmers’ markets. The findings illustrate the diversity and complexity of the Lansing–East Lansing metropolitan area’s food landscape.
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Moore, Wendell. "“Class D coloureds”: The establishment of Noordgesig, 1939-1948." New Contree 77 (December 30, 2016): 22. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/nc.v77i0.114.
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Noordgesig Township is situated on the edge of Soweto, bordering the better known Orlando Township. This article pieces together the history of the township and its residents from the late 1930s to the beginning of the apartheid government in 1948. This is the first academic study of Noordgesig, and the first to include the township in the historical analysis of Soweto. The article is a contribution to the under-researched history of coloured townships in the Johannesburg area. It explores the heterogeneous categories of class and race that influenced government policies and propelled some urban township dwellers into a vaguely defined group termed “Class D coloureds”: those classified as “near native”, “families of mixed race as cannot be classified as either coloured or native” or “racially mixed coloureds” were considered for housing in Noordgesig and regarded as “Class D coloureds”. Furthermore, the article highlights the various class, race and skin colour distinctions used at the time the township was established to decide who could reside there. This complex politics of identification was further complicated by the then current idea that coloureds should not live close to blacks. This notion of racial proximity as a factor governing the relationship between the coloured inhabitants of Noordgesig and the black township residents of Orlando was put to the test with the construction of the township. In the article it is argued that these spurious distinctions based on class, race and skin colour were used to justify the placement of Noordgesig next to Orlando, which had lasting implications for both the state and residents. It is further contended that the perceived differences between the types of coloured people housed in Noordgesig influenced the creation of a unique identity experience among so-called “Class D coloureds” which problematises the grand narrative of coloured identity based largely on experiences from the Cape region.
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Van Rij, Vivien Jean. "Minions, masters, and migration: Challenging power structures in Gavin Bishop's Cook's cook: The cook who cooked for Captain Cook." Waikato Journal of Education 27, no. 1 (2022): 79–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.15663/wje.v26i1.900.
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Arguably New Zealand’s best loved picturebook author/illustrator, Gavin Bishop invariably challenges populist power structures in his fiction and non-fiction. As such, his books are ideal vehicles for teaching children about such broad topics as race relations, colonisation, migration, class conflicts, gender relationships, environmental issues and spiritual beliefs. The fact that Bishop often addresses several of these simultaneously, and draws on found texts to do so, paves the way for the teacher to encourage the child to read not only the lines and images but between and beyond these in order to construct a fuller meaning.
This article will discuss Bishop’s (2018a) picturebook, Cook’s Cook: The Cook Who Cooked for Captain Cook, which qualifies as “faction”, a genre that mixes fact and fiction, with Bishop reproducing historical events and characters whilst investing them with an imaginative dimension. Most obviously, the selected book portrays migration, including the colonisation of New Zealand and the Pacific, and its longer-term effects. Hence, it focuses on the subjugation of the indigenous people, culture, flora and fauna to those that are imported, as well as the domination of the working class by the upper class. However, Bishop is too skilful an author/artist to suggest that everything is black and white. Rather, through paralleling and fusing the aforementioned foci, and in the ways in which the print and pictures work separately, together, sometimes against each other, and in interaction with fore texts, he suggests that dichotomies are mixed.
The article will examine those portrayed as minions and masters (whether human or non-human), their conflicts and conflations, and Bishop’s use of verbal and visual techniques and fore texts to challenge dominant power structures. It will also argue that, while emphasising dichotomies, Bishop, the master storyteller and artist, creates structures that ensure his picturebook is balanced and whole and that, rather than treating the reader as a minion, allow him or her to become a master of meaning making.
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Gaidash, Anna. "LITERARY GERONTOLOGY: DEFINITION, HISTORY, CONCEPTS." LITERARY PROCESS: methodology, names, trends, no. 13 (2019): 18–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.28925/2412-2475.2019.133.
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The goal of the article is to provide an extended definition and in-depth description of literary gerontology as a branch of humanities. Contemporary world witnesses how the number of elderly people increases that makes the research relevant. Literary gerontology forms in the mid-1970s in the framework of age studies. Scholars of literary gerontology examine the gerontological markers in fictional texts. Unlike sociologists or medical gerontologists who regard biological aging as involution of the body/brain and degradation of the individual, the literary scholars consider fictional representations of late adulthood in a much more contrastive and tragic focus: elderly people are forced to deal with numerous negative stereotypes of old age in a youth-oriented culture. Therefore the key concept of literary gerontology studies is ageism which etymology is traced in the lexical unit of “age”. Its initial meaning “lifetime; maturity; vital force” is lost over time, acquiring the connotation of “decline” (feebleness; senility). One of the problems of literary gerontology studies is the widespread use of ageist euphemisms in fiction. The methods used in the paper are mixed: historical data processing, analyses of interdisciplinary resources (literary gerontology, social gerontology, age studies). The results can be practical for classes of theory of literature and social gerontology. The findings of the paper inform of the origin of literary gerontology studies, its key concept of ageism and a set of semantic and poetic tools for further research.
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Peté, Stephen Allister, and Paul Swanepoel. "In-Between Black and White: Defining Racial Boundaries in Colonial Natal at the Turn of the Twentieth Century — Part Two." Fundamina 29, no. 1 (2023): 53–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.47348/fund/v29/i1a3.
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Mahmood Mamdani has argued that a system of “define and rule” lay at the heart of a revamped system of British colonial rule – indirect as opposed to direct rule – which developed from the middle of the nineteenth century onwards. In analysing parliamentary discussions and case law concerning definitions of “race” dating from the turn of the twentieth century in the colony of Natal, as well as examining concerns amongst the colonists at that time about the matter of racially mixed marriages, this contribution supports Mamdani’s general thesis and provides examples of the practical and ideological difficulties that arose in the process of attempting to define people according to “race” and “tribe”. It is the contention of this contribution that Mamdani is correct in his assessment that “define and rule” lay at the heart of the British colonial project, particularly in Africa. This contribution asserts, however, that the process of definition was messy, ambiguous, contradictory and never fully resolved on the ground. Certain individuals and groups tended to fall between broad definitions of “race” and “tribe”, both of which illustrated the ideological fault lines inherent in a system based upon racial categorisation, giving rise to practical problems of law and governance. The contribution looks at a number of different themes that all relate to the above general issue. First, it discusses a number of judgments of the Supreme Court of Natal during that period that concerned various individuals and groups who did not neatly fit into any of the formal definitions of race in use at the time. Secondly, it examines a fairly extensive debate that took place in the Legislative Assembly of the colony of Natal in 1905 regarding the Native Definition Bill. Thirdly, it examines the related theme of mixed marriages, of which a number were reported in the colony’s newspapers around that time. Even though there may have been relatively few individuals who fell “in-between” the generally accepted racial and tribal divisions, the fact that there was uncertainty about where such persons fitted within the system was profoundly unsettling to the colonial authorities, since it suggested that the entire structure of colonial society was not based on a secure ideological footing.
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Peté, Stephen Allister, and Paul Swanepoel. "In-Between Black and White: Defining Racial Boundaries in Colonial Natal at the Turn of the Twentieth Century – Part One." Fundamina 28, no. 2 (2022): 43–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.47348/fund/v28/i2a2.
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Mahmood Mamdani has argued that a system of “define and rule” lay at the heart of a revamped system of British colonial rule – indirect as opposed to direct rule – which developed from the middle of the nineteenth century onwards. In analysing parliamentary discussions and case law concerning definitions of “race” dating from the turn of the twentieth century in the colony of Natal, as well as examining concerns amongst the colonists at that time about the matter of racially mixed marriages, this contribution supports Mamdani’s general thesis and provides examples of the practical and ideological difficulties that arose in the process of attempting to define people according to “race” and “tribe”. It is the contention of this contribution that Mamdani is correct in his assessment that “define and rule” lay at the heart of the British colonial project, particularly in Africa. This contribution asserts, however, that the process of definition was messy, ambiguous, contradictory and never fully resolved in practice. Certain individuals and groups tended to fall between broad definitions of “race” and “tribe”, both of which illustrated the ideological fault lines inherent in a system based upon racial categorisation, giving rise to practical problems of law and governance. The contribution looks at a number of different themes that all relate to the above general issue. First, it discusses a number of judgments of the Supreme Court of Natal during that period that concerned various individuals and groups who did not neatly fit into any of the formal definitions of race in use at the time. Secondly, it examines a fairly extensive debate that took place in the Legislative Assembly of the colony of Natal in 1905 regarding the Native Definition Bill. Thirdly, it examines the related theme of mixed marriages, of which a number were reported in the colony’s newspapers around that time. Even though there may have been relatively few individuals who fell “in-between” the generally accepted racial and tribal divisions, the fact that there was uncertainty about where such persons fitted within the system was profoundly unsettling to the colonial authorities, since it suggested that the entire structure of colonial society was not based on a secure ideological footing.
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Kaye, Richard A. "THE WILDE MOMENT." Victorian Literature and Culture 30, no. 1 (2002): 347–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150302301177.
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IS THERE A VICTORIAN WRITER who has won as much attention in the last few years, critical or popular, as Oscar Wilde? One or two decades ago, Hardy, Dickens, and the Brontës were the Victorians that large numbers of people wanted to read, discuss, and see on film and stage. It seems like another era that saw Nicholas Nickelby ruling on the Great White Way. The decline of Dickens’s mass appeal was probably signaled some time ago with an episode of the TV series Law and Order in which a murder case resulted from a business feud over a disastrous Broadway production of Bleak House. The Brontës have fared no better; the musical Jane Eyre, after some of the worst reviews ever to have greeted a musical, recently closed on Broadway, its producers in its last weeks having resorted to advertising on milk cartons. Although Hardy reportedly continues to top the sales of nineteenth-century British classics, Michael Winterbottom’s 2001 film adaptation of The Mayor of Casterbridge, set during the California Gold Rush, played to mixed reviews and nearly empty theaters, its gloomy fealty to the spirit of Hardy’s fiction, not unlike Winterbottom’s brooding version of Jude the Obscure, an evident obstacle for most audiences.
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Martz, Flora, Kara McMullen, Gretchen J. Carrougher, et al. "77 Impacts of Financial Assistance on Quality of Life Among People Living with Burn Injury." Journal of Burn Care & Research 43, Supplement_1 (2022): S51—S52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jbcr/irac012.080.
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Abstract Introduction Financial toxicity negatively impacts recovery after injury. Financial assistance (FA; e.g., disability income, food stamps, low-income housing voucher) may mitigate the impacts of financial toxicity. We aimed to describe FA after burn injury and its association with health-related quality of life (HRQL) and return to work. Methods Data from adult participants participating in a multicenter longitudinal database from 2015 to 2021 were used for complete-case analysis. Participants were separated into two groups: those who received any form of financial assistance due to their burn injury, and those who did not. The cohort and FA were described. Multi-level, mixed-effects, linear regression was performed to assess the associations of FA with VR-12 Physical and Mental Health Component Summary scores (PCS, MCS) and return to work. Lastly, a propensity score analysis matched 3:1 on age, gender, pre-injury PCS and MCS, burn size, length of hospital stay, and the number of operations as a result of burn injury was used to maximally reduce potential confounding. Results The analysis included 1,237 participants [725 who received FA, 512 who did not receive FA (NFA)]. Participants who received FA due to their burn injury were more likely to be younger (median 42 FA vs 48 NFA, p-value < 0.001), racially minoritized (19.2% FA vs 14.3% NFA, p-value < 0.001), have larger injuries (21% FA vs. 10% TBSA NFA, p-value < 0.001), longer hospital stays (median 29.5 days FA vs. 17 days NFA, p-value < 0.001), more days before returning to work (median 220 days FA vs 79 days NFA, p-value < 0.001), and have a workers compensation insurance payer (23.6% FA vs. 9.38% NFA, p-value < 0.001) compared to peers who did not receive FA. The number of participants who received new FA decreased after the 6-month time point: 11% at discharge, 33% at 6 months, and 15% at 12 months. Propensity score analysis demonstrated that receiving FA was associated with lower PCS and MCS scores at all time points and longer time to return to work (Table 1). Conclusions Given that financial toxicity is associated with unsatisfactory recovery after injury, efforts to reduce financial stressors are needed. FA seems somewhat matched to patients with greater recovery challenges (e.g., larger injuries, more complex hospitalizations). Additionally, most patients do not receive FA for a prolonged period (e.g., >6 months). While FA is associated with lower HRQL and longer return to work, these data may represent improvement compared to what people living with burn injury might have experienced without FA and represent unmeasured confounding.
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Pope, Catherine, and Joanne Turnbull. "Using the concept of hubots to understand the work entailed in using digital technologies in healthcare." Journal of Health Organization and Management 31, no. 5 (2017): 556–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jhom-12-2016-0231.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the human work entailed in the deployment of digital health care technology. It draws on imagined configurations of computers and machines in fiction and social science to think about the relationship between technology and people, and why this makes implementation of digital technology so difficult. The term hubots is employed as a metaphorical device to examine how machines and humans come together to do the work of healthcare. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses the fictional depiction of hubots to reconceptualise the deployment of a particular technology – a computer decision support system (CDSS) used in emergency and urgent care services. Data from two ethnographic studies are reanalysed to explore the deployment of digital technologies in health services. These studies used comparative mixed-methods case study approaches to examine the use of the CDSS in eight different English NHS settings. The data include approximately 900 hours of observation, with 64 semi-structured interviews, 47 focus groups, and surveys of some 700 staff in call centres and urgent care centres. The paper reanalyses these data, deductively, using the metaphor of the hubot as an analytical device. Findings This paper focuses on the interconnected but paradoxical features of both the fictional hubots and the CDSS. Health care call handling using a CDSS has created a new occupation, and enabled the substitution of some clinical labour. However, at the same time, the introduction of the technology has created additional work. There are more tasks, both physical and emotional, and more training activity is required. Thus, the labour has been intensified. Practical implications This paper implies that if we want to realise the promise of digital health care technologies, we need to understand that these technologies substitute for and intensify labour. Originality/value This is a novel analysis using a metaphor drawn from fiction. This allows the authors to recognise the human effort required to implement digital technologies.
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Teslenko, Oxana. "Lesya Ukrainka's drama "Lisova Pisnya" in literature lessons." 89, no. 89 (December 13, 2021): 37–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.26565/2227-1864-2021-89-06.
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The purpose of the article is to substantiate the choice of methods and ways of analyzing Lesya Ukrainka's drama-extravaganza "Forest Song" in the context of a competency-based approach to teaching and educating young people by means of the art of words. The statistic looks at the genre-style and the novels of the drama-extravaganza "Lisova Pisnya", the individual style of writing, the artistic officials, the character of creation of characters, the particularity of the problematic of the composition of the work. Typically, I mean those that in the new protist two light – light of reality with living people and light of nature with biological sources, which is the result of the development of science fiction. The main conflict is the struggle against stupidity, youthfulness for a high world, vitality and beauty, for harmony, happiness in life. The compositional structure of the work is enhanced by the role of the prologue-singing as a kind of prelude to future conflicts, the opposition of will and captivity, movement and stagnation; conflict between man and nature: the meeting of the forest child Mavka and the village boy Lukash, the birth and flowering of love, the development of the conflict between poetry and prose, dream and everyday life, the vicissitudes of love, which are the plot of the drama. Its feature is emphasized by two culminating peaks, which in the third act reach the deepest struggle of passions. The article offers methodical recommendations for the analysis of the drama extravaganza "Forest Song" in accordance with the requirements of the competence approach to the literary education of students: take advantage of the mixed path of analysis of a literary work.
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BUDICK, EMILY MILLER. "Hawthorne, Pearl, and the Primal Sin of Culture." Journal of American Studies 39, no. 2 (2005): 167–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875805009679.
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In his long critical essay entitled simply “Hawthorne” (published in 1879), Henry James narrates the story of his own coming to know Hawthorne's most famous work of fiction, The Scarlet Letter. Speaking in an impersonal third person, James, “who was a child at the time,” explains that heremembers dimly the sensation that book produced, and the little shudder with which people alluded to it, as if a peculiar horror were mixed in its attractions. He was too young to read it himself, but its title, upon which he fixed his eyes as the book lay upon the table, had a mysterious charm. … Of course it was difficult to explain to a child the significance of poor Hester Prynne's blood-coloured A. But the mystery was at last partly dispelled by his being taken to see a collection of pictures (the annual exhibition of the National Academy), where he encountered a representation of a pale, handsome woman, in a quaint black dress and white coif, holding between her knees an elfish-looking little girl, fantastically dressed and crowned with flowers. Embroidered on the woman's breast was a great crimson A, over which the child's fingers, as she glanced strangely out of the picture, were maliciously playing. I was told that this was Hester Prynne and little Pearl, and that when I grew older I might read their interesting history.
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Benson, Koni. "Graphic Histories of Solidarity, in Solidarity." Kronos 50, no. 1 (2024): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2309-9585/2024/v50a13.
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Revolutionary experiments require building revolutionary relationships. This praxis of material and social creativity to reorganise power dynamics and weave connections across weaponised divides, are evident in the content, the form and the backstory woven into Janet Biehl's Their Blood Got Mixed: Revolutionary Rojava and the War on ISIS. Written and illustrated by Janet Biehl, it is a graphic memoir that can be read as both an historical narrative and a blueprint of a contemporary revolutionary experiment that combines political theory and graphic art to tell the story of how ISIS has been driven back in Northern Syria by people fighting for a society based on principles of direct democracy, political secularism, gender equality, and ecological sustainability. Whereas in the past, after the liberation of Rojava in 2012, Biehl spent time interviewing leadership, this book relays her interviews with women across the region and across the various projects of reorganising and defending social, political, cultural and economic life in 2019 after four years of warfare against ISIS and the Turkish state. Reflecting on the relationships that make revolutionary history, and that produce artistic histories of revolutionary experiments, this review article considers the history in this book and of this book, in conversation with recently published graphic non-fiction, and draws on engaged scholarship concerned with the politics of collective knowledge production in and for movements of solidarity urgently needed in the face of the imploding crisis of colonial borders.
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Walters, Alisha. "A “WHITE BOY . . . WHO IS NOT A WHITE BOY”: RUDYARD KIPLING'S KIM, WHITENESS, AND BRITISH IDENTITY." Victorian Literature and Culture 46, no. 2 (2018): 331–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150318000037.
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Rudyard Kipling's final novel, Kim (1901), begins with an intriguing – if paradoxical – description of the eponymous Kim, or Kimball O'Hara: he is an “English” boy with an Irish name and Irish parentage who speaks “the [Indian] vernacular by preference” (1). While the narrator hastens to reassure the reader that Kim is both “white” and “English,” Kim is also “burned black as any native” and speaks his supposed “mother tongue,” English, in an “uncertain sing-song” (1). If we are to take Kipling's assertion at face value, that Kim is, indeed, “English,” then certainly this is a kind of Englishness that is divorced completely from the racially pure ideals of Anglo-Saxon whiteness that were privileged by many racial theorists earlier in the nineteenth century. As an Irish Celt, Kipling's protagonist is always already at a layer of remove from ideals of pure Englishness, but Kipling renders Kim's racial identity even more complicated in the text. The manuscript of Kim gives us some telling clues about the contexts that inform Kipling's peculiar descriptions of “burned black” whiteness in his finished novel. While the published text baldly declares that “Kim was English. . . . Kim was white” (1; ch. 1; emphasis mine), parts of the manuscript are much less certain of this fact, as that document asserts that Kim “looked like a half caste” (Kipling, Kim o’ the ‘Rishti n. 3). And while Kipling ultimately removed this explicit link between Kim and Eurasian bodies in the opening of his published text, this disavowal is neither complete nor convincing throughout Kim. For instance, in the novel, the narrator later describes a “half-caste woman who looked after [Kim . . . and] told the missionaries that she was Kim's mother's sister” (1; ch. 1). While this woman is not, in fact, the boy's aunt, Kim's near-familial tie with her underlines the intimate connection between him and the hybridized subjects of empire. Indeed, Kim demonstrates ideological and affective links to non-white Others and to people of mixed race, and this connection between whiteness and racial hybridity is of central importance to Kipling. If Kim is tenuously white, then he can only perform this whiteness in immediate proximity to racial hybridity, with which whiteness is ideologically contiguous in this text. As I contend in this paper, Kim reveals the under-examined links between early twentieth-century ideas of white British identity and descriptions of imperial miscegenation. In Kim, “White” and “English” emerge as a vexed pair of signifiers that reveal unprecedented traces of racial and national hybridization.
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Stallings, Sarah C., Andrew Ciupek, Kemberlee Bonnet, et al. "Abstract A087: "Trust is built in teaspoons and it's lost in buckets": Clinical trial recruitment of Black individuals with lung cancer." Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention 32, no. 12_Supplement (2023): A087. http://dx.doi.org/10.1158/1538-7755.disp23-a087.
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Abstract Black individuals with cancer are underrepresented in clinical trials, which has implications for understanding how therapies work in all patient populations. To achieve representative trial enrollment of Black persons with cancer, it is critical to understand the barriers to participation in this population. Due to stigma from perceptions around lung cancer’s association with smoking behavior, the barriers in this population may be complex compared to other cancer types. This study utilized a mixed-methods approach to decipher provider-reported barriers and facilitators to trial participation specificly among Black lung cancer patients. Providers across three institutions in the Southeastern US were interviewed using a semi-structured interview guide. Recorded and transcribed interviews and free text responses were analyzed by an independent coder using NVivo. Themes were generated using a content analysis approach. Data triangulation was achieved via anonymous surveys which were administered via REDCap. Across three institutions, 38 total, eligible, providers were recruited, having an average of 8.8 years of clinical practice. Nearly half (n=17, 44.7%) self-identified as Medical Oncologists. In the survey data barriers to clinical trial participation noted by the providers as expressed most often by black people with lung cancer were “being worried about the ’experimental nature’ of clinical trial treatments” and “not wanting to be a ’research subject’. The barrier least reported was “being worried about having to see another provider for the trial”. Provider perception of the reason that most contributes to lower trial participation of black people with lung cancer was “lack of trust in the medical system” (n = 18). Interestingly, when asked about perceptions of operational or system level barriers that contributed to lower clinical trial participation among lung cancer patients that identify as Black, providers reported “lack of appropriate trials” and “low numbers of Black patients seen”. Three overarching themes emerged from the qualitative interview data (i) Barriers to recruitment were seen at individual, institutional and structural levels. (ii) Facilitators were seen mostly at the individual provider level and were predominantly based on engendering trust between the patient and provider. (iii) Solutions were largely related to increasing awareness around clinical trials using community engagement. Providers in our study reported patient centric barriers to recruitment such as lack of trust and systems barriers such as not having appropriate trials available locally. Providers reported facilitators to increasing recruitment of Black individuals with lung cancer via community outreach and building provider/patient trust. Institutions should develop culturally appropriate outreach programs to enroll racially diverse patients to lung cancer trials and trialists should explore strategies to increase trial offering and access in key communities. Citation Format: Sarah C. Stallings, Andrew Ciupek, Kemberlee Bonnet, David G. Schlundt, William Opoku-Agyeman, Jennifer C. King, Nagla Abdel Karim, Christine M. Lovly, Melinda C. Aldrich, Soumya J. Niranjan. "Trust is built in teaspoons and it's lost in buckets": Clinical trial recruitment of Black individuals with lung cancer [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 16th AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved; 2023 Sep 29-Oct 2;Orlando, FL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2023;32(12 Suppl):Abstract nr A087.
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Akhmetova, Ainur. "The Image of the Turkestan Region’s Youth and the Independence Period Society in the Novel “Not Afraid” by Javlon Jovliyev." Eurasian Journal of Philology: Science and Education 194, no. 2 (2024): 134–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.26577/ejph.2024.v194.i2.ph013.
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For the past thirty years, writers of post-Soviet Central Asia, in addition to touching on various topics in fiction, have paid particular attention to presenting historical topics, thereby trying to show the causal relationships of traumas caused by (post)colonialism. Even though states have declared farewell to colonial power, the traumas preserved in society’s memory, remaining from the colonial trace, cause post-colonialism syndrome in various spheres of society. As its apparent signs can be highlighted, the facts that to this day, the Russian language dominates in society, representatives of the people have separated from their inherent national and historical identity, as globalization has grown, mixed identity, cultural and intellectual backwardness in sections of society, weakening of common values due to divisions of language and religion and that members of the society initiated to seek happiness in other parts of the world. Apart from colonialism, it has also been greatly affected by the causes and factors of globalization. Similarly, some writers, with the aim of decolonizing colonial thinking, present victorious events of history through their literary products as role models. In the twentieth century, to “awaken” the Turkestan region - the contemporary Central Asian region - representatives of the Jadidist direction made great efforts to promote sectors of society. Some contemporary writers interpret the reform activities of the Jadids through the novel to decolonize people’s minds by addressing the social problems of modern society. In the twentieth century, the Jadids raised funds to strengthen national potential and decided to train seventy students from the Turkestan region in Berlin. The students wanted to use the knowledge gained in the West in their homeland. The Jadids sought to develop Central Asia by supplying it with educational resources. The efforts of the patriotic Jadids on the path to enlightenment influenced the Uzbek writer Javlon Jovliev to write the novel “Not Afraid.” The novel depicts seventy students from the Turkestan region who were subjected to Stalinist violence for studying in Berlin and serving their country, and parallel scenes of a society consisting of “people who have been exposed to liver disease” describe images of students in an independent state in the 21st century. Since the novel is multifaceted, the context of the text points to different meanings. When the novel was published, many readers, the literary area, and the research community paid attention, but the novel’s discourse was not considered from a postcolonial perspective. This article examines the novel “Not Afraid” from the perspective of postcolonial criticism, receptive aesthetics, and new criticism.
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Brion-Meisels, Gretchen. "“It Starts Out with Little Things”: An Exploration of Urban Adolescents’ Support-Seeking Strategies in the Context of School." Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education 118, no. 1 (2016): 1–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016146811611800101.
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Background Student support systems have become a permanent structure in most U.S. public schools, responsible for ensuring equal access to support services. Typically utilized before special education is deemed necessary, these supports often include a range of school- and community-based services such as tutors, mentors, out-of-school time providers, and mental health clinicians. Unfortunately, little is known about how adolescents make decisions about choosing and using these supports in the context of schools. Purpose This article shares findings from a study investigating how adolescents make meaning of the supports available to them. Specifically, this article outlines a set of questions that adolescents appear to ask themselves as they make decisions about when and where to access support. Setting Data are drawn from a collaborative research project conducted with a team of adolescent researchers in a midsized urban community in the Northeast. The standardized test scores in this racially and socioeconomically diverse community reflect persistent achievement gaps across demographic groups; however, the community has many youth serving organizations that offer local adolescents access to support services. Two sets of young people represent the participants in the study: the youth researchers and local adolescents who were recruited by them to be study participants. Both the youth researchers and the study participants were ages 14–19; their identities largely reflected the diversity of the community. Research Design The study design was mixed-methods in nature. It included the collection of survey data to provide quantitative information about patterns in support-seeking behaviors, as well as interviews and focus groups to provide qualitative data about local adolescents’ experiences with learning supports. Data Analysis The findings presented in this article come from a secondary analysis of these data conducted by the study's principal investigator. This analysis builds on the work of the research team, but adds additional dimensions to the work by using grounded coding strategies and discourse analytic methods. In addition, it draws upon ethnographic data and exit interviews with the youth researchers. Findings Findings provide evidence of a set of questions that many adolescents appear to ask themselves as they make decisions about support seeking. These questions highlight the importance of adolescents’ interpretations of a specific problem or need, the context in which this problem is occurring, and the available support providers. Regarding the latter, findings highlight the importance of trust, relational style, and expertise. Recommendations Implications include the importance of consulting adolescents about their support-seeking needs, particularly in the context of school. Schools might collect data about how students construct support, make support-seeking decisions, and experience available supports. In addition, schools should consider including adolescents in meetings about their own support service plans.
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Derkachova, Olga, and Oksana Tytun. "LITERARY FAIRY TALE AS A MEANS OF FORMING THE TOLERANCE IN PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN." Mountain School of Ukrainian Carpaty, no. 29 (December 11, 2023): 104–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.15330/msuc.2023.29.104-110.
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The article deals with the study of the pedagogical potential of a literary fairy tale as a means of forming tolerance in primary school children. As illustrative material, the authors use LGBT fairy tales that actually reflect the topics that previously considered taboo. The aim of the research is to analyze modern queer tales considering social and literary tendencies, to determine the thematic section and to investigate the peculiarities of character creating process, as well as to generalize and systematize the literary experience of queer texts and trace how such fairy tales help to form a tolerant attitude towards others. The object of research is modern queer tales, which have become significant in culture and have caused mixed reaction. The research methodology involves historical-comparative, existential, hermeneutic and culturological methods. In postmodern world, there are significant changes in a person’s awareness of his/her place in the family and among people, there is also a search for self-identification and understanding of what is moral or immoral. The changes in social, value, and morality are reflected in fiction, which captures “possible – impossible”, “right – wrong”, “bad – good” at certain stages of development of the society. The appearance of queer literature and discussions around them testify to the readiness of the society for dialogue and understanding that the world is beautiful in its diversity. A person with his/her qualities, values, uniqueness and desire to be useful to the society in queer tales occupies an important place. Equally important is the issue of freedom to choose a life path, life purpose, a partner, as well as the right to self-expression. The origin and development of the issue is researched, the first LGBT books for children are briefly analyzed, and the most recent and most popular tales are focused on. Among them are “King and King” by Linda De Haan and Stern Nijland (2002), “The bravest Knight that Ever Lived” by Daniel Errico (2014), “The Princes and the Treasure” by Jeffrey A. Miles (2014), “Princess Princess Ever After” by Katie O’Neill (2016). The narrative features of these tales are elucidated, a comparative analysis of the folklore tale and a new literary one is carried out. The structural matrix of the queer tale has been determined as a traditional one: tasks, hero and helper, journey, initiation, magic objects and happy end. Attention is focused on the characteristics of queer characters: their traits, actions, relationship with people. The problems and the leading motives of the tales are identified, and it is emphasized that the purpose of such literature is to show the world in its diversity, where there is a place for everyone. It is also advisable to focus on the deeds and actions of the characters but not on their sexual preferences.