Refactoring and representation independence for class hierarchies

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leila Silva ◽  
David A. Naumann ◽  
Augusto Sampaio
Keyword(s):  
Class Hierarchies

Persuasion: Fellow Creatures

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pam Morris
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Class Relations ◽  
Narrative Perspective ◽  
Class Hierarchies ◽  
A Chain ◽  
Porous Boundaries

Persuasion overtly foregrounds the self as embodied: physical accidents and sickness are recurrent. Sir Walter Eliot’s belief in the time-defying bodily grace of nobility is subject to Austen’s harshest irony. The transition from vertically ordered place to horizontal space in Persuasion is more extreme than in any other of the completed novels. Anne Elliot’s movement from social exclusiveness to socially inclusive possibility allows Austen to challenge gender and class hierarchies traditionally held to be inborn. Her writerly experimentation expands the possibilities of narrative perspective to encompass the porous boundaries of the physical, the emotional and the rational that constitute any moment of consciousness. Her focalisation techniques in the text look directly towards Woolf’s stylist innovations. A chain of references to guns and shooting gathers into the novel contentious contemporary discursive networks on class relations, notions of masculinity and the nature of creaturely life.

Women, the Civil War, and Reconstruction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Rosen
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Native American Women ◽  
Black And White ◽  
The Us ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Class Hierarchies ◽  
Us Civil War

The rapid transformations brought on by the US Civil War and its aftermath touched women’s lives in contradictory ways. The disruption caused by war and the destruction of slavery opened up space, and at times created the necessity, for radically new roles for women that challenged antebellum gender norms and racial and class hierarchies. This essay examines the wartime and postwar experiences primarily of black and white but also Native American women. In this period, many women faced new circumstances that inspired them to confront power in novel ways—by, for instance, fleeing slavery, petitioning governors, organizing bread riots, participating in political parades, or protesting segregation. The chapter also explores political violence in the postwar period that affected women differently across class, race, and region and that eventually helped to shut down the radical potential of the era.

Abstract class hierarchies, factories, and stable designs

2000 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 109-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Friedrich Steimann
Keyword(s):  
Class Hierarchies ◽  
Abstract Class

“They Want the Spanish but They Don’t Want the Mexicans”: Whiteness and Consumptive Contact in an Oregon Spanish Immersion School

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Woody
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Historically White ◽  
Interracial Contact ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Communities Of Color ◽  
The Social ◽  
Class Hierarchies ◽  
Politics Of Race ◽  
Depth Interviews

Drawing from in-depth interviews with 18 white, black, Latinx, and multiracial parents whose children attend a Spanish immersion elementary school, the author examines the politics of race, class, and resistance in a historically white community that is experiencing an influx of nonwhites. Parental narratives reveal that many whites enrolled their children in Spanish immersion to capture cultural and economic benefits they associate with bilingualism and diversity. Interviews also suggest that white support for diversity is contingent on the condition that nonwhites provide carefully controlled diversity: one that benefits whites without threatening race and class hierarchies. The maintenance of white spatial and social segregation allowed whites to engage with families of color at the school primarily through consumptive contact, a form of interracial contact predicated upon whites’ perceptions about the material benefits their children will acquire through exposure to diversity and bilingualism. Consumptive contact allows whites to selectively consume aspects of Latin American cultures without facilitating the social and institutional inclusion of the groups associated with those cultures. Findings illuminate distinct economic motivations behind whites’ engagement communities of color, adding a material dimension to our understanding of whites’ racialized consumptive practices.

scholarly journals “Go where the Love Is”: Failed Emotional Negotiations of Space and Identity in Tessa McWatt's This Body

2013 ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Elena Igartuburu García
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Subject Position ◽  
Subjective Perception ◽  
Love Relationship ◽  
Class Hierarchies ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
The Way ◽  
Normative Ideals

Identity, space and emotions, although traditionally all traditionally naturalized and delinked from the construction of one another, might also be read as formed by intertwined processes that are guided and shaped by hegemonic powers. Nonetheless, as they delineating difference within and among themselves, the consideration of these three fields and the way they work together in these shaping opens up new ways to approach the split between normative categories of identity, assigned location and adequate feelings, and their subjective perception. Tessa McWatt’s novel This Body presents the reader with two Guyanese characters, Victoria and her nephew Derek, that undergo, at many different levels, this split between subjectivity and a socially and culturally given subject position. Challenging normative ideals, Victoria struggles with her categorization as Other; an endeavour marked by her trajectories and experiences as she negotiates and redeploys a physical as well as a social space of her own in the city of London. Still, her love relationship with a British man would make her drift towards assimilation inasmuch as this affair relocates Victoria within dominant gender, ethnic and class hierarchies.

APPROXIMATE INFORMATION FILTERING WITH MULTIPLE CLASSIFICATION HIERARCHIES

2002 ◽  
Vol 02 (03) ◽  
pp. 295-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
HEINER STUCKENSCHMIDT
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Information Filtering ◽  
Web Page ◽  
Multiple Classification ◽  
Class Hierarchies ◽  
Boolean Queries ◽  
The Web

Web page categorization is an approach for improving precision and efficiency of information retrieval on the web by filtering out irrelevant pages. Current approaches to information filtering based on categorization assume the existence of a single classification hierarchy used for filtering. In this paper, we address the problem of filtering information categorized according to different classification hierarchies. We describe a method for approximating Boolean queries over class names across different class hierarchies.

Feminist desires and collective reading in the work of Laura Mulvey

2018 ◽  
pp. 232-266
Author(s):  
Kimberly Lamm
Keyword(s):  
Post Partum ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Narrative Cinema ◽  
Visual Pleasure ◽  
Class Hierarchies ◽  
Collective Reading ◽  
Maternal Bond ◽  
Maternal Desires

Chapter 6 focuses on Laura Mulvey’s theoretical writings on film and her essay film Riddles of the Sphinx (1977), which it reads in relation to the feminist collaboration between Kelly and Mulvey that took place at the height of Women’s Liberation in Britain. Like Post-Partum Document, Riddles of the Sphinx creates a hieroglyphic aesthetic that mines the feminist possibilities of repressed maternal desires and draws out their connections to British colonial history. Replete with images of writing, the consistent attention to text in Riddles is the means by which Mulvey represents the pleasures of the maternal bond and transfers them into a form of fetishisation that opens onto collaborations between women that move across the lines of race and class. By placing the hieroglyph and the colonial extractions for which it figures in the context of women’s atomised struggles with reproductive labour in late capitalism, Riddles writes collective feminist reading practices that might allow women to correspond across the divisions created by colonial, racial, and class hierarchies and therefore create what Mulvey identifies in ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ (1975), as a ‘new language of desire.’

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