scholarly journals MARY WILLIAMSON'S LETTER, OR, SEEING WOMEN AND SISTERS IN THE ARCHIVES OF ATLANTIC SLAVERY

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 153-179
Author(s):  
Diana Paton
Keyword(s):  
White Men ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Sexual Encounters ◽  
Atlantic Slavery ◽  
Primary Focus

ABSTRACT‘I was a few years back a slave on your property of Houton Tower, and as a Brown woman was fancied by a Mr Tumming unto who Mr Thomas James sold me.’ Thus begins Mary Williamson's letter, which for decades sat unexamined in an attic in Scotland until a history student became interested in her family's papers, and showed it to Diana Paton. In this article, Paton uses the letter to reflect on the history and historiography of ‘Brown’ women like Mary Williamson in Jamaica and other Atlantic slave societies. Mary Williamson's letter offers a rare perspective on the sexual encounters between white men and brown women that were pervasive in Atlantic slave societies. Yet its primary focus is on the greater importance of ties of place and family – particularly of relations between sisters – in a context in which the ‘severity’ of slavery was increasing. Mary Williamson's letter is a single and thus-far not formally archived trace in a broader archive of Atlantic slavery dominated by material left by slaveholders and government officials. Paton asks what the possibilities and limits of such a document may be for generating knowledge about the lives and experiences of those who were born into slavery.

“Hidden” in Plain Sight

2019 ◽  
pp. 182-204
Author(s):  
Robert Trent Vinson
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Independent Schools ◽  
White Men ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
African Women ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Initial Attempt ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Independent Churches

This chapter is an initial attempt to recover the overlooked histories of Garveyite women in Africa. During the 1920s and 1930s, working within the South African Garveyite movement inaugurated by Wellington Buthelezi, African women in the Transkei indigenized global Garveyism to further their objective of African self-determination, particularly in their political, religious and educational lives. Regarded as apolitical tribal “natives” by government officials and as legal minors and social children by both black and white men, Garveyite women adopted transnational “American” identities to assert themselves as political actors, moving freely throughout the country to prophesy “American Negro” deliverance and to organize hundreds of independent churches and independent schools.

Candidacy in Contexts

2021 ◽  
pp. 47-68
Author(s):  
Christian Dyogi Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Asian Americans ◽  
Group Membership ◽  
White Men ◽  
Strong Sense ◽  
Candidate Emergence ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Immigrant Identity ◽  
Self Recognition ◽  
Individual Household ◽  
Primary Focus

Chapter 3 shifts and expands the lenses that extant scholarship has often relied on to explain candidate emergence. The chapter moves away from a primary focus on individual-level concerns like ambition, to an interactive set of considerations that engage individual, household, group, and macro contexts. Using national survey and interview data, the results and analysis in Chapter 3 affirm the utility of integrating individual-level concerns and domestic relationships with group membership and positioning in explaining variations in candidate emergence. Key findings include lower levels of ambition relative to white men among all other groups in the study, including groups of men, and asymmetrical impacts on domestic structures and relationships stemming from the decision to run. The chapter also relies on a feminist conceptualization of self-recognition to argue that a strong sense of immigrant identity plays a complex role in advancing the likelihood of candidacy among Asian Americans and Latina/os.

scholarly journals Adding Heart Disease Outcomes to REGARDS: The REGARDS Myocardial Infarction Ancillary Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 856-856
Author(s):  
Raegan Durant ◽  
Emily Levitan ◽  
Paul Muntner ◽  
Todd Brown ◽  
Monika M Safford
Keyword(s):  
Heart Disease ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
White Men ◽  
Ancillary Study ◽  
Ongoing Work ◽  
Artery Disease ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Ancillary Studies

Abstract The REGARDS-MI ancillary study provided new outcomes of heart disease events and adjudicated cause of death. A primary focus has been disparities in and risk factors for coronary artery disease. We demonstrated that compared to White men, Black men have a higher risk of fatal coronary heart disease (CHD) but a lower risk of non-fatal CHD. Ongoing work is investigating potential reasons for this. We have investigated the role of CHD in aging including the relationship between heart failure and cognitive function and the association of MI with functional status. The REGARDS-MI study has served as a platform for mentoring trainees and early stage investigators, many from underrepresented groups, and provided data to a large number of investigators to purse research in CHD. To date, REGARDS-MI has contributed to nearly 200 publications and spawned additional ancillary studies. This presentation will highlight some of these publications and other research in progress.

The Electoral Cycle and Patterns of American Politics

1979 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Allen Beck
Keyword(s):  
American Politics ◽  
Democratic Theory ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Principal Role ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Core ◽  
Electoral Cycle ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between citizens and leaders is the core concern of democratic theory and the primary focus of students of democratic politics. Competitive elections are typically assigned the principal role in structuring this relationship. They are a means by which the public can make government officials accountable and influence the policy directions of government. The case for how elections should link public and leaders is a familiar one. Not so obvious is the strength of this link, particularly the extent to which mass electoral forces may make for fundamental changes in the behaviour of leaders and the policies of governments.

How Race, Sex, and Age Frame the Use of Authority by Local Government Officials

2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (03) ◽  
pp. 603-623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon Portillo
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
White Men ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
Professional Norms ◽  
Local Government Officials

Thanks to the civil rights movement, women and racial and ethnic minorities increasingly hold positions of public authority—but they experience and exercise this authority differently from white men. Based on 162 narratives collected from 49 US local government officials (city administrators and police), I find that women, minorities, and younger officials in positions of authority face a paradox of rules. Because they have lower social status with the public and within their organizations, they must rely on formal and explicit rules as a key basis for their authority, but such reliance causes their very authority to be questioned. Social status based on implicit assumptions about social identities, including race or ethnicity, sex, and age, originates outside of organizations and has effects society wide. This study shows that social status continues to permeate US local government organizations in both subtle and explicit ways, even in bureaucratic settings that are formally committed to merit and professional norms.

What Does It Mean to Be Social? Defining the Social Landscape for Children With Childhood Apraxia of Speech

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 843-852 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Tarshis ◽  
Michelle Garcia Winner ◽  
Pamela Crooke
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Social Goals ◽  
Apraxia Of Speech ◽  
Childhood Apraxia Of Speech ◽  
Social Competencies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Landscape ◽  
Communication Challenges ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Speech Motor

Purpose What does it mean to be social? In addition, how is that different from behaving socially appropriately? The purpose of this clinical focus article is to tackle these two questions along with taking a deeper look into how communication challenges in childhood apraxia of speech impact social competencies for young children. Through the lens of early social development and social competency, this clinical focus article will explore how speech motor challenges can impact social development and what happens when young learners miss early opportunities to grow socially. While not the primary focus, the clinical focus article will touch upon lingering issues for individuals diagnosed with childhood apraxia of speech as they enter the school-aged years. Conclusion Finally, it will address some foundational aspects of intervention and offer ideas and suggestions for structuring therapy to address both speech and social goals.

Factors Influencing Electrophysiologic Responsivity in Normal Adults

1965 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 323-347
Author(s):  
Robert Goldstein ◽  
Benjamin RosenblÜt
Keyword(s):  
Conditioned Stimulus ◽  
White Light ◽  
Pure Tone ◽  
Alpha Rhythm ◽  
White Women ◽  
White Men ◽  
Inverse Relation ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Electrodermal Responses ◽  
Normal Adults

Electrodermal and electroencephalic responsivity to sound and to light was studied in 96 normal-hearing adults in three separate sessions. The subjects were subdivided into equal groups of white men, white women, colored men, and colored women. A 1 000 cps pure tone was the conditioned stimulus in two sessions and white light was used in a third session. Heat was the unconditioned stimulus in all sessions. Previously, an inverse relation had been found in white men between the prominence of alpha rhythm in the EEG and the ease with which electrodermal responses could be elicited. This relation did not hold true for white women. The main purpose of the present study was to answer the following questions: (1) are the previous findings on white subjects applicable to colored subjects? (2) are subjects who are most (or least) responsive electrophysiologically on one day equally responsive (or unresponsive) on another day? and (3) are subjects who are most (or least) responsive to sound equally responsive (or unresponsive) to light? In general, each question was answered affirmatively. Other factors influencing responsivity were also studied.

Race Difference in Auditory Sensitivity

1964 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
David C. Shepherd ◽  
Robert Goldstein ◽  
Benjamin Rosenblüt
Keyword(s):  
White Women ◽  
White Men ◽  
Sensitivity Study ◽  
Auditory Sensitivity ◽  
Race Difference ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Auditory Thresholds ◽  
Békésy Audiometry ◽  
Method Of Adjustment ◽  
Better Than

Two separate studies investigated race and sex differences in normal auditory sensitivity. Study I measured thresholds at 500, 1000, and 2000 cps of 23 white men, 26 white women, 21 negro men, and 24 negro women using the method of limits. In Study II thresholds of 10 white men, 10 white women, 10 negro men, and 10 negro women were measured at 1000 cps using four different stimulus conditions and the method of adjustment by means of Bekesy audiometry. Results indicated that the white men and women in Study I heard significantly better than their negro counterparts at 1000 and 2000 cps. There were no significant differences between the average thresholds measured at 1000 cps of the white and negro men in Study II. White women produced better auditory thresholds with three stimulus conditions and significantly more sensitive thresholds with the slow pulsed stimulus than did the negro women in Study II.

Audiology Service Models in a Family Physician Practice Setting

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sridhar Krishnamurti
Keyword(s):  
Pediatric Patients ◽  
Practice Patterns ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Direct Consequence ◽  
Direct Access ◽  
Practice Setting ◽  
Pediatric Populations ◽  
Family Practice Physicians ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Balance Problems

This article illustrates the potential of placing audiology services in a family physician’s practice setting to increase referrals of geriatric and pediatric patients to audiologists. The primary focus of family practice physicians is the diagnosis/intervention of critical systemic disorders (e.g., cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer). Hence concurrent hearing/balance disorders are likely to be overshadowed in such patients. If audiologists get referrals from these physicians and have direct access to diagnose and manage concurrent hearing/balance problems in these patients, successful audiology practice patterns will emerge, and there will be increased visibility and profitability of audiological services. As a direct consequence, audiological services will move into the mainstream of healthcare delivery, and the profession of audiology will move further towards its goals of early detection and intervention for hearing and balance problems in geriatric and pediatric populations.

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