Sharon Willis, High Contrast: Race and Gender in Contemporary Hollywood Film; Harry Stecopoulos and , Michael Uebel eds., Race and the Subject of Masculinities

Screen ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 410-415
Author(s):  
J. Thumim
Keyword(s):  
High Contrast ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Hollywood Film ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Gender

Chicano/a Challenges to Nineteenth-Century History

2012 ◽  
Vol 82 (4) ◽  
pp. 566-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raúúl A. Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Northern Mexico ◽  
Imperial Expansion ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The U.S

This article explores the usefulness of Chicano/a history to teaching and representing the nineteenth-century history of northern Mexico, U.S. imperial expansion, and the constructed nature of borders. Typically considered a twentieth-century discipline, Chicano/a historians have a long history of engaging the subject in the nineteenth century. This focus dovetails with recent critical works on race and gender in the U.S. West as well as transnational approaches to history. This article makes the case that the perspective on the nineteenth century provided by Chicano/a historians forces readers to reframe their understanding of the sweep of U.S. history.

scholarly journals Jean Rhys: the Writings of a Woman Touched by the British Empire

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 197
Author(s):  
Francisco Javier Gil Jacinto
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Jean Rhys ◽  
Representative Case ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Gender ◽  
British Colonies

The starting point of this essay is the assumption that The British Empire, while it lasted, but also after its collapse, produced literature extolling its virtues and faults, which influenced some English authors in favour of or against colonialism. Along with these authors it is necessary to consider those born in the British colonies. Some of whom, without dealing with the subject head on showed in their work the less amiable face of The Empire, and the consequences that this had on the lives of its citizens. A representative case is the Dominican writer Jean Rhys. Although her novels and short stories resist labels of race and gender, it is worth considering to what extent her colonial upbringing marked her life as a creole and a woman. To illustrate this impact, we look at one of her novels and analyse in detail her last collection of short stories. 

Two Paradigmatic Tales, between Genres and Genders

2019 ◽  
pp. 150-196
Author(s):  
W. Anthony Sheppard
Keyword(s):  
Silent Film ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Hollywood Film ◽  
French Film ◽  
Sound Film ◽  
Yellow Peril ◽  
Madame Butterfly ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter focuses on multiple versions of the Madame Butterfly narrative in Hollywood film and on multiple versions of Cecil B. DeMille’s 1915 silent film The Cheat. One focus is on the relationship between music in these films and Puccini’s Madama Butterfly and on how the Butterfly narrative was reworked to project developing perceptions of race and gender. The relationship between operatic and cinematic Orientalist representation is explored in the 1932 Madame Butterfly and the 1962 My Geisha. DeMille’s “The Cheat” inspired works stoking fears of the “Yellow Peril.” The story was transformed into a play (1918). Camille Erlanger’s “Forfaiture,” the first opera to be based on a film, premiered in Paris (1921). A silent film was released in 1923 and a sound film in 1931. In 1937, a French film starred Sessue Hayakawa, the Japanese actor who played the “villain” in 1915. This offers an opportunity to compare the role of music and realization of Orientalism in four genres.

scholarly journals The A-project and the B-project

2020 ◽  
pp. 358-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Richard
Keyword(s):  
Common Knowledge ◽  
Philosophical Analysis ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Gender

Ameliorative philosophical analysis elucidates a concept by looking at the purposes it has for its users. It evaluates them, and gives an analysis on the basis of the purposes the analyst thinks ought to control the concept’s use. As such it can look wildly revisionary, an attempt not to tell us what we mean but to change the subject. This chapter sketches a view of meaning on which ameliorative analysis can be understood as not at all subject changing: a word’s meaning is the evolving collection of presuppositions its users make, and expect to be recognized as made, when the word is used. Focusing on Sally Haslanger’s ameliorative accounts of race and gender, this chapter argues that ameliorative analysis is best understood not as a project that is successful only if it results in the concept’s reference reflecting the ameliorative analysis. Conceptual amelioration and engineering are attempts to foster a kind of evolution within a population, a change in the presuppositions that (it is common knowledge) accompany the concept’s use. This can be achieved and have worthwhile effects even while no shift in reference occurs.

Referral Patterns for Youths Identified at Risk for Suicide by Trained Gatekeepers

Crisis ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S. Rodi ◽  
Lucas Godoy Garraza ◽  
Christine Walrath ◽  
Robert L. Stephens ◽  
D. Susanne Condron ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Service Access ◽  
Referral Patterns ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Lee Smith ◽  
Prevention Behavior ◽  
Key Variables ◽  
And Gender ◽  
To Receive

Background: In order to better understand the posttraining suicide prevention behavior of gatekeeper trainees, the present article examines the referral and service receipt patterns among gatekeeper-identified youths. Methods: Data for this study were drawn from 26 Garrett Lee Smith grantees funded between October 2005 and October 2009 who submitted data about the number, characteristics, and service access of identified youths. Results: The demographic characteristics of identified youths are not related to referral type or receipt. Furthermore, referral setting does not seem to be predictive of the type of referral. Demographic as well as other (nonrisk) characteristics of the youths are not key variables in determining identification or service receipt. Limitations: These data are not necessarily representative of all youths identified by gatekeepers represented in the dataset. The prevalence of risk among all members of the communities from which these data are drawn is unknown. Furthermore, these data likely disproportionately represent gatekeepers associated with systems that effectively track gatekeepers and youths. Conclusions: Gatekeepers appear to be identifying youth across settings, and those youths are being referred for services without regard for race and gender or the settings in which they are identified. Furthermore, youths that may be at highest risk may be more likely to receive those services.

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