Constructing a Kongo Identity: Scholarship and Mythopoesis

2016 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wyatt MacGaffey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Art History ◽  
Atlantic Coast ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Image ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Identity Based

AbstractThe past thirty years have seen, particularly in the United States, a transformation in the public image of “Kongo,” an ill-defined entity (a tribe, a kingdom, a culture, a region?) on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa. The efforts of R. F. Thompson, professor of art history at Yale, and A. Fu-kiau, himself Kongolese, have done much to popularize a “Kongo” characterized more by its romantic appeal than by historical or ethnographic verisimilitude. Elsewhere in the Americas, the reputation of “Kongo” has suffered by comparison with “Yoruba,” another historically emergent Atlantic identity, based in West Africa. These identities, and the supposed contrast between them, are products of an increasingly complex trans-Atlantic discourse.

scholarly journals United States response to the COVID-19 pandemic, January–November 2020

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Mathew Alexander ◽  
Lynn Unruh ◽  
Andriy Koval ◽  
William Belanger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Contact Tracing ◽  
Public Health Response ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Health Response ◽  
Physical Infrastructure ◽  
Key Policy ◽  
United States Healthcare

Abstract As of November 2020, the United States leads the world in confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases and deaths. Over the past 10 months, the United States has experienced three peaks in new cases, with the most recent spike in November setting new records. Inaction and the lack of a scientifically informed, unified response have contributed to the sustained spread of COVID-19 in the United States. This paper describes major events and findings from the domestic response to COVID-19 from January to November 2020, including on preventing transmission, COVID-19 testing and contact tracing, ensuring sufficient physical infrastructure and healthcare workforce, paying for services, and governance. We further reflect on the public health response to-date and analyse the link between key policy decisions (e.g. closing, reopening) and COVID-19 cases in three states that are representative of the broader regions that have experienced spikes in cases. Finally, as we approach the winter months and undergo a change in national leadership, we highlight some considerations for the ongoing COVID-19 response and the broader United States healthcare system. These findings describe why the United States has failed to contain COVID-19 effectively to-date and can serve as a reference in the continued response to COVID-19 and future pandemics.

scholarly journals The North Atlantic Coast Fisheries Arbitration

1911 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Lansing
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Atlantic Coast ◽  
The United States ◽  
Arbitral Tribunal ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
The Hague ◽  
The North Atlantic ◽  
Constant Source

The Arbitral Tribunal of the Permanent Court at The Hague, by its award of the 7th of last September, in the case of the North Atlantic Coast Fisheries, brought to a close a controversy which in its various phases has been an almost constant source of vexatious dispute between the United States and Great Britain for the past seventy years.A treaty, granting exceptional rights, such as that which this Tribunal was called upon to consider, is peculiarly susceptible to different interpretations as the course of time brings new conditions not contemplated by its negotiators. The relations of the parties are changed. A liberty which at the date of the treaty was considered indispensable may become worthless, while one which was deemed insignificant may in years assume a place of vital importance to the beneficiaries under the grant. This change of conditions and of the value of rights has been especially true of the liberties acquired by the United States for its inhabitants under the first article of the Treaty of October 20, 1818.

Technique for Prediction of Outcome of Election of National Leaders

1968 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 1003-1009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter F. Merenda ◽  
Walter V. Clarke
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Image Analysis ◽  
Presidential Elections ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Party Affiliation ◽  
Personality Profiles ◽  
Public Office ◽  
Presidential Candidates ◽  
The Public

A technique is presented for evaluating the degree of support a candidate for national public office is likely to have at the polls. The technique involves the use of an adjective check list, Activity Vector Analysis (AVA), for which forms are available in French, Spanish, German, and Italian. Data are presented and discussed relative to a study made by the authors using this technique of public-image analysis just prior to the 1964 presidential elections in the United States. The data are based on the personality profiles of Johnson and Goldwater obtained from the public images held of these two candidates by 672 adults drawn from a population of voters representing a wide geographical distribution in the United States. From comparisons of the Ss' perceptions of Johnson and Goldwater and of the public image of each with an “ideal” President's profile established in an earlier study, no wide discrepancies were found between the public perceptions of the two major Presidential candidates in the 1964 elections in the U.S. However, the broad implications of the study are that, in forecasting the outcomes of the presidential elections, public-image analysis is likely to be confounded by the phenomenon of selective perception as it is related to party affiliation. The technique has promise as a possible method for evaluating the relative appeal of candidates for public office.

scholarly journals Socioeconomic factors of the instances of crime among “new” immigration in the United States (late XIX – early XX centuries)

2020 ◽  
pp. 11-22
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Kostyleva
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Criminal Activity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Situation ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Southeast Europe ◽  
Important Place ◽  
The Public ◽  
Xix Century

The primary task of this research is to elucidate the reasons for stereotyping “new” immigrants as dangerous criminals and anarchists in society of the United States. The subject of this research is criminality within the immigration environment, while the object is the immigrants from Southeast Europe and Asia who came to the United States in the second half of the XIX century and surpassed the immigrants from Western and Northern Europe. The author refers to the analysis of social and economic situation of “new” immigrants as the factors that impacted the rise of crime rate in the immigrant quarters. Special attention is given to organized criminal activity and radical political movements, as well as their influence upon the public image of “new” immigrants. The conclusion is made that the representatives of “new” immigration were involved in various unlawful actions, from minor administrative offenses and crimes against private property to murders, robberies and creation of organized criminal communities. An important place among the factors that affected criminalization of immigrants from Southeast Europe and Asia was held by social isolation of immigrant communities, problematic assimilation, and tough economic situation due to intense competition on the job market and high unemployment rate. At the same time, “new” immigrants were no different from the local dwellers in disposition to commit crime: criminal rate among immigrants did not exceed average in the country.

The public image of NATO in the United States

1982 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-85
Author(s):  
Werner J. Feld ◽  
John K. Wildgen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Image ◽  
The Public

scholarly journals A new causative agent of epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis. As reported by the Bureau of the Public Health Service

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-91
Author(s):  
Z. B.
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Causative Agent ◽  
Public Health Service ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Very High

According to the Bureau of the Public Health Service (Washington), over the past five years, the number of diseases in the United States has been epidemic. cerebrospin. meningitis was very high (numbers not indicated), exceeding the number of diseases in the period since the beginning of the worlds, war.

scholarly journals Controlling Goods or Promoting the Public Good: Choices for Special Collections in the Marketplace

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-63
Author(s):  
Michelle Light
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Rare Books

For the past few decades, many special collections repositories in the United States have charged licensing or use fees to those patrons who use or publish special collections materials for commercial purposes. In fact, about fifteen years ago the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries charged an ad hoc committee, the Licensing and Reproductions of Special Collections Committee, to “create a reasoned and articulate defense of libraries’ right to charge licensing fees for commercial uses of their materials.”2 The Committee noted that, historically, libraries allowed scholars to publish freely from the content they . . .

scholarly journals Bat bites and rabies: the Canadian scene

FACETS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 367-380
Author(s):  
M. Brock Fenton ◽  
Alan C. Jackson ◽  
Paul A. Faure
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
Small Mammals ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Human Rabies ◽  
Postexposure Prophylaxis ◽  
The Public

Bats are susceptible to rabies. Although bats may appear to be asymptomatic carriers of rabies for a few days, eventually they fall ill to the viral infection and die. Two of at least four bat-specific variants of rabies virus in Canada have killed humans. Rabies is usually transmitted by biting, but bats are small mammals so their bites may go unnoticed. People exposed to rabid animals should receive postexposure prophylaxis (PEP). With 60 known human deaths from 1950 to 2009, rabies is rare in Canada and the United States of America compared with India where it kills over 100 people annually. In Asia and Africa, most human rabies is acquired from dog bites. In Brazil, dog and bat bites together account for >80% of human rabies. In Canada, rabies is a disease primarily confined to wildlife (foxes, racoons, skunks, and bats). The public image of bats is negatively affected by their association with diseases. Too often bats are victimized by allegations of their role in deadly diseases such as rabies, Ebola, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). In general, bats are not dangerous, but humans should seek treatment if they are bitten by one. (Graphical abstract shows a 4-g elegant myotis biting MBF’s finger—photo by Sherri and Brock Fenton.)

Ivor Noël Hume: Historical Archaeologist

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivor Noël Hume ◽  
Henry M. Miller
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
North America ◽  
Historical Archaeology ◽  
The United States ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Colonial Archaeology ◽  
Research Findings

Abstract Ivor Noël Hume is one of the founders of historical archaeology in North America and has long championed the integration of documentary and archaeological evidence for understanding the past. As the chief archaeologist at Colonial Williamsburg for three decades, he directed numerous excavations and literally wrote the book on colonial artifacts. Committed to sharing research findings with the public, he led the way through varied publications and films and developed the first major exhibits about colonial archaeology in the United States. His most well-known project is the exploration and exhibition of the early seventeenth-century Virginia settlement of Martin's Hundred.

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