From Lew Alcindor to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Race, Religion, and Representation in Basketball, 1968–1975

2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 437-470
Author(s):  
ARAM GOUDSOUZIAN
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Religious Conversion ◽  
Black Athlete ◽  
Name Change ◽  
Politics And Religion ◽  
Conversion To Islam ◽  
Authority Figures ◽  
The Press ◽  
Self Discovery ◽  
Over Time

From 1968 to 1975, Lew Alcindor/Kareem Abdul-Jabbar traveled a turbulent personal path toward self-discovery. His journey had profound implications for the larger cultural landscape of race, sport, politics, and religion. As he became professional basketball's chief superstar, he was framed by the press as sullen and solitary, and he served as the villain in a media-driven storyline informed by popular prejudices. Yet for many African Americans and other progressive fans, he exemplified the ideals that made black power uplifting and affirmative, rather than threatening. His conversion to Islam and his name change further shaped new cultural and political territory for the black athlete. It highlighted a personal struggle within Abdul-Jabbar – he sought a kind of personal freedom, even as he revealed a tendency to subsume himself before strong authority figures. He nevertheless stood, in this period, as the nation's most prominent face of classical Islam. His religious conversion further distanced him from much of the American public, but over time he presented an effective, progressive narrative about the place of Islam in American life.

Religious Conversion and Kinship Cohesion

10.1558/32187 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-45
Author(s):  
Audrey Allas
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Religious Conversion ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Marriage Contracts ◽  
Conversion To Islam ◽  
Kinship Relations ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
Over Time

This paper seeks to reveal the perceived significance of religious conversion in order to maintain social cohesion within British Pakistani Muslim kinship structures. The alternative to conversion is the prospect of re-structuring of kinship relations and social mores amongst British Pakistani Muslim communities, if indeed more individuals marry outside of Islam over time. Utilising ethnographic data, the author indicates that religious identity is meaningful for the cohesion of Pakistani Muslim kinship structures in Britain, not only for ideological reasons, but also for economic purposes. This paper begins its focus from an anthropological discussion of the role of kinship alliances. It then explores the various manifestations of religious conversion to Islam within the framework of intermarriage and kinship relations, examining contexts of gender responsibility and “spirituality.” Data collection concerning this endeavour was carried out qualitatively over the course of a year within a larger ethnographic study of British Pakistani Muslim marriages, and with a variety of respondents from diverse contexts and situations in life, but all of whom identify with British Pakistani Muslim belonging and with the general understanding of being in an mixed relationship, inclusive of British legal civil unions, nikah (legal sharia marriage contracts), and co-habiting relationships.

The Migration-Crime Nexus and the Press in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-181
Author(s):  
Alexander A Caviedes
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Organized Crime ◽  
Steady Increase ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Individual Country ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Press ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Over Time

This article explores the link between migrants and crime as portrayed in the European press. Examining conservative newspapers from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2016, the study situates the press coverage in each individual country within a comparative perspective that contrasts the frequency of the crime narrative to that of other prominent narratives, as well as to that in the other countries. The article also charts the prevalence of this narrative over time, followed by a discussion of which particular aspects of crime are most commonly referenced in each country. The findings suggest that while there has been no steady increase in the coverage of crime and migration, the press securitizes migration by focusing on crime through a shared emphasis on human trafficking and the non-European background of the perpetrators. However, other frames advanced in these newspapers, such as fraud or organized crime, comprise nationally distinctive characteristics.

Rebels, Believers, Survivors

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noel Malcolm
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Religious Conversion ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Napoleonic Wars ◽  
Conversion To Islam ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
External Powers ◽  
First Time ◽  
Modern Myth

This book of essays covers a wide range of topics in the history of Albania and Kosovo. Many of the essays illuminate connections between the Albanian lands and external powers and interests, whether political, military, diplomatic or religious. Such topics include the Habsburg invasion of Kosovo in 1689, the manoeuvrings of Britain and France towards the Albanian lands during the Napoleonic Wars, the British interest in those lands in the late nineteenth century, and the Balkan War of 1912. On the religious side, essays examine ‘crypto-Christianity’ in Kosovo during the Ottoman period, the stories of conversion to Islam revealed by Inquisition records, the first theological treatise written in Albanian (1685), and the work of the ‘Apostolic Delegate’ who reformed the Catholic Church in early twentieth-century Albania. Some essays bring to life ordinary individuals hitherto unknown to history: women hauled before the Inquisition, for example, or the author of the first Albanian autobiography. The longest essay, on Ali Pasha, tells for the first time the full story of the role he played in the international politics of the Napoleonic Wars. Some of these studies have been printed before (several in hard-to-find publications, and one only in Albanian), but the greater part of this book appears here for the first time. This is not only a contribution to Albanian and Balkan history it also engages with many broader issues, including religious conversion, methods of enslavement within the Ottoman Empire, and the nature of modern myth-making about national identity.

scholarly journals Social Representations of the Environment in Press Media

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (61) ◽  
pp. 261-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gislei Mocelin Polli ◽  
Brigido Vizeu Camargo
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Representational Content ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Qualitative Survey ◽  
The Press ◽  
Global Impacts ◽  
The Media ◽  
Over Time

Environmental issues are given prominence in the media and scientific circles. From the 60’s until early 2010 there were changes in the way people related to the environment, with a paradigm shift occurring regarding the environment. This study sought to identify the representational content disseminated by the press media on the environment in different periods. A qualitative survey was therefore conducted of documents, and data were obtained through texts published in a magazine with national circulation. The data were analyzed using the ALCESTE program with a Lexicographic Analysis. It was identified that the press media reflects the paradigm shifts, and publications dating from the late 60’s are compatible with the old paradigm, evolving over time, and are now compatible with the new environmental paradigm. The results indicate that currently the environment needs care in all its aspects and lack of care creates global impacts.

Forging a New Spain

2020 ◽  
pp. 227-280
Author(s):  
David M. Carballo
Keyword(s):  
Religious Belief ◽  
New Spain ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Religious Conversion ◽  
World History ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Global World ◽  
Do So ◽  
Hybrid Forms ◽  
Personal Adornment

Histories of the conquest often end with the fall of Tenochtitlan, but the forging of New Spain required decades of continued military invasions in which central Mexicans, in particular, played leading roles. This chapter examines how the Tlaxcalteca and other Native allies petitioned the Spanish Crown for certain rights and privileges, as a form of negotiation within a system of domination and oppression, even sailing across the Atlantic to Spain multiple times to do so in person. Imperial rule and religious conversion could occasionally be challenged or proactively shaped by Mesoamericans, generating hybrid forms of religious belief, public spectacles, art, architecture, diet, and personal adornment, all inscribed on Mexico’s natural and cultural landscape. Such exchanges also crossed the Atlantic, and eventually the Pacific, to begin a truly global world history.

scholarly journals NOTE SULL’ARCHITETTURA A MILANO NEL 1881

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amedeo Bellini
Keyword(s):  
Direct Consequence ◽  
Formal Structure ◽  
Economic Organization ◽  
Social Conscience ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Press ◽  
Form Part ◽  
Poetic Expression ◽  
Conservation Activity ◽  
Over Time

The 1881 exposition is presented by the press, both the popular and the specialized one, as the evidence of the progress made by Italy: the increase in the industrial production which reduces the dependence upon the foreigner, an opportunity for the rapprochement between the “different Italian peoples”. The leading function of Milan is extolled, as organizer of the great event, “moral capital” as the centre of progress of the production world. The observations about architecture form part of this perspective: both its being a utilitarian structure, thus at the service of people’s progress, for its function of fulfilling the needs more and more complex or more keenly felt by the social conscience, and as a formal structure, product of a history but also, as concerns this aspect, a direct consequence of the social and economic organization; however, generally speaking, with a distinction between “construction” and “architecture”, between utility and art, between poetic expression and economic requirements, therefore denying the fundamental premise of the positivist culture according to which art is the expression of a beauty variable over time, since it is the result of social conditions. Exemplary in this respect is the failure of the great enterprise of the monument to the “Cinque Giornate” which should have been simultaneously a celebratory architecture, a gateway representative of the modern city, a functional structure for excise services. In this context a particular relevance has the conservation activity which positively satisfies the need to get to know the process which leads to today, which purifies the document from tampering and takes it back to formal unity, so that art’s persuasive strength, highly influential upon everyone’s mind, may make people understand their belonging to a unitary civilization, may shape the Italians’ social conscience.

Maps in Newspapers

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-118
Author(s):  
André Reyes Novaes
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
World War ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Press ◽  
Over Time

Abstract Maps in newspapers generated many discussions among cartographers and geographers working from different approaches and theoretical backgrounds. This work examines these maps from a historiographical as well as a historical perspective. It considers three main questions, namely how maps in the press should be conceptualized, how cartographic images in newspapers have been studied, and how these images changed over time. In order to provide a perspective on the origins, development, and impact of war maps in the press, this work will explore maps representing three geopolitical conflicts for Brazilian audiences: The War of the Triple Alliance (1864–1870), World War II (1939–1945) and the War on Drugs in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas (1994–2010). By exploring these war maps, specific cartographic practices used in this genre as well as the connections that this mode has with other types of map production and consumption will be identified.

"Polemik im Concertsaal": Mahler, Beethoven, and the Viennese Critics

2006 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Knittel
Keyword(s):  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Concert Hall ◽  
Ninth Symphony ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Right ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Do So

"Polemic in the Concert Hall": the title of Richard Heuberger's article in the Neue freie Presse refers in no uncertain terms to the uproar surrounding Mahler's performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna. The two performances, on 18 and 22 February 1900, used Mahler's own orchestral re-touchings of Beethoven's work, and Mahler's biographers have often identified these concerts as the first sustained attacks by the press, attacks that would, over time, only continue to increase in severity and frequency. When these concerts are placed into the context of reactions to Mahler's other Philharmonic concerts, however, this narrative of a "fall from grace" proves impossible to sustain. Not only was Mahler denounced for reorchestrating other works from his very first concert with the Vienna Philharmonic, but the language used to do so remained consistent throughout Mahler's tenure. Mahler, as a Jew, was not perceived as having the "right" to "improve" Beethoven--or any other composer for that matter. Although not overtly anti-Semitic, the language of the reviews resembles that found in Wagner's essay "Das Judentum in der Musik," where he outlines the Jewish composer's supposed handicaps: an emphasis on detail to the detriment of the whole, the prevalence of intellect over feeling, and an understanding of culture as merely "learnt" but never "mother tongue." An examination of the critical reactions points out these similarities while also suggesting that, particularly given Wagner's own suggestions (in 1873) for the reorchestration of Beethoven's symphony, the uproar had very little to do with what anyone heard.

scholarly journals ‘We’ve got a file on you’: problematising families in poverty in four periods of austerity

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-244
Author(s):  
Nicola Horsley ◽  
Val Gillies ◽  
Rosalind Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Administrative Records ◽  
Perceived Needs ◽  
Authority Figures ◽  
Poor Families ◽  
Disadvantaged Families ◽  
Over Time

This article considers a genealogy of the governing by data of families in poverty; a case study of the codification of disadvantaged families and problematisation of their difficulties over the course of a century and a half. Influenced by Bacchi’s ‘what the problem is represented to be’ approach, we explore a genealogy of the micro acts of ruling that reveal the practice of constructing and governing of disadvantaged families. We draw on a case study analysis of materials recorded and collected by the Charity Organisation Society and its subsequent guises, during four major periods of recession in Britain, from the late 19th century to the early 21st century. We outline the ‘problematisation’ approach to governance that underpins our discussion before describing the administrative records with which we worked. We argue that the genealogy of the construction, positioning and governance of poor families over time in this case may be observed in terms of three key shifts in problematisation: (i) from the identification of deservingness towards the assessment of risk; (ii) from a gendered concentration of parents to the perceived needs of children; and (iii) from consultation of authority figures to a reliance on increasingly ‘professionalised’ data capture tools.

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