Southern Border Formation Narratives: Controlling the Flow of People

2018 ◽  
pp. 27-54
Author(s):  
Mary Weaks-Baxter
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
Mexican Americans ◽  
Hispanic Americans ◽  
Southern History ◽  
Cultural Continuity ◽  
Black And White ◽  
History Of ◽  
Southern Border ◽  
Cabeza De Vaca ◽  
Looking Back

Looking back into Southern history, this chapter examines ways Border Formation Narratives disrupted cultural continuity for enslaved Africans, walled out “uncivilized” cultures, extended slavery into contested territories, and created the South’s borders. Examining hegemonic devices and struggles against them, this chapter analyzes early writings by Equiano, Wheatley, and Cabeza de Vaca, and an image of Pocahontas and then focuses on 19th Century border building that identified the Mason-Dixon as marker of Southern nationhood and pushed Native Americans and Hispanic Americans out of the Southern frame to solidify the region as based on polarities of black and white. The chapter examines Ruiz de Burton’s reflections on border circumstances of Mexican-Americans, Hentz’s fictional transformation of a Northern-born woman into a Southerner, and the revisionist history of the composition of the song “Dixie.” There is also discussion of attempts by Haley and Walker, and artist Tom Feelings to reclaim control of communal narratives.

Migrant Media

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Southern History ◽  
Black And White ◽  
History Of ◽  
Studio System ◽  
Southern Migrants ◽  
Ubiquitous Presence ◽  
Hollywood Studio System

Chapter 2 provides a history of southern migration and its impact on American culture at large. Most pointedly, black and white southern migrants to Los Angeles contributed in fundamental ways to the development of the Hollywood studio system, and the “southernization” of many of its institutions. Southern filmmakers included D. W. Griffith and many of his acolytes and younger peers. Other southerners occupied positions throughout the industry, and the enormous output of films registered southern history and culture in many ways: in the appearances of southern actors, in the presence of jazz, in films of every genre, and perhaps more than anything else in the ubiquitous presence of segregation, which the system as a whole had adopted for its own purposes.

F8 and HLA-II Haplotypes in the Hispanic Population: Implications for Inhibitor Risk Development in Hispanic Hemophilia A Patients

Blood ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 120 (21) ◽  
pp. 3365-3365
Author(s):  
Benjamin Kim ◽  
Zuben E. Sauna ◽  
Melanie A. Carless ◽  
Joanne E. Curran ◽  
Kevin R. Viel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Factor Viii ◽  
Mexican Americans ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Hemophilia A ◽  
Hispanic Americans ◽  
The United States ◽  
Nucleotide Polymorphisms ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Inhibitor Development ◽  
Black And White

Abstract Abstract 3365 Background: A recent study suggested an increased rate of inhibitor development among Hispanic compared to White hemophilia A (HA) patients; however, a possible mechanism was not proposed or explored. In light of findings implicating a role for race-specific distributions of factor VIII (F8) and class-II human-leukocyte antigen (HLA-II) haplotypes on the disparate risk of inhibitor development in the Black HA population, we sought to determine the distributions of F8 and HLA-II haplotypes among Hispanic Americans and compare them to that of Black and White Americans. Methods: Using archived genomic DNA samples from the 194 unrelated founders of the San Antonio Family Heart Study (SAFHS), a collection of 1431 people from 41 large Mexican American families, we re-sequenced all exons of F8 to genotype the known nonsynonymous-single nucleotide polymorphisms (ns-SNPs) and identify any novel ns-SNPs. We then performed high-resolution HLA-II genotyping to identify each founders' pair of HLA-DRB1 alleles to compare them against those found in other ethnic groups. Results: Among the 291 potentially distinct Mexican American X-chromosomes evaluated, we identified the H2 F8 haplotype, defined by D1241E, in 25.0% of the subjects, which is in between that observed in the White (7.4%) and Black (37.4%) populations. We also found H3 F8, defined by D1241E and M2238V, in two subjects, who represent the first non-Black individuals reported to carry this haplotype. Furthermore, we discovered a previously unreported ns-SNP (H1919N), whose minor allele was found in only one male and defines a ninth wild-type F8 haplotype (H9). Regarding HLA-II alleles, the distribution among Mexican Americans in the present study was quite different from those found in Black and White individuals in the National Marrow Donor Program registry (see Figure). Three of the 4 most common HLA-II alleles in the Mexican Americans (DRB1*0802, DRB1*0407 and DRB1*1406) were seen in < 1% of both Blacks and Whites. Discussion: This is the first study to report the haplotypic prevalence of F8 and HLA-II alleles in Mexican Americans, the largest Hispanic ethnic group in the United States. By informing specific wild-type factor VIII (FVIII) peptides for use in HLA-II binding and T-cell stimulation assays, these results may help to identify high risk combinations of FVIII therapeutics and individual HLA-II repertoires that contribute to the higher rate of inhibitor development observed in Mexican versus Caucasian American HA patients. Disclosures: Viel: Histonis, Incorporated: Employment. Howard:Haplomics, Inc.: Equity Ownership.

Migration and Modernities

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Racial Categories ◽  
Geographic Boundaries ◽  
The Us ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries

Migration and Modernities recovers a comparative literary history of migration by bringing together scholars from the US and Europe to explore the connections between migrant experiences and the uneven emergence of modernity. The collection initiates transnational, transcultural and interdisciplinary conversations about migration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, demonstrating how mobility unsettles the geographic boundaries, temporal periodization, and racial categories we often use to organize literary and historical study. Migrants are by definition liminal, and many have existed historically in the spaces between nations, regions or ethnicities. In exploring these spaces, Migration and Modernities also investigates the origins of current debates about belonging, rights, and citizenship. Its chapters traverse the globe, revealing the experiences — real or imagined — of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century migrants, from dispossessed Native Americans to soldiers in South America, Turkish refugees to Scottish settlers. They explore the aesthetic and rhetorical frameworks used to represent migrant experiences during a time when imperial expansion and technological developments made the fortunes of some migrants and made exiles out of others. These frameworks continue to influence the narratives we tell ourselves about migration today and were crucial in producing a distinctively modern subjectivity in which mobility and rootlessness have become normative.

Strategies for Survival of the World — Risk Management

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jovo Lojanica ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
National Level ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Management Standards ◽  
Family Level ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Iso 31000 ◽  
History Of ◽  
Personal Level

All management standards have requirements for different aspects of improvements on the personal level, family level, company level, in business and life. What is about national level and country level? Is it possible for today’s generations to learn history of nations and of civilizations? If it is — ok, let’s apply it on actual time and people to have less problems and difficulties — especially if is actual in field of risk management. Majority of people are occupied by today’s problems. They don’t consider past and future challenges. People from each country strive for better quality, better and cleaner environment, higher safety etc. historically and today. But could we remember: How did Genghis Khan conquer many regions and how was he defeated? How did Mayas and Aztecs die out? How were Native Americans in North America drastically reduced in numbers? How did the Roman Imperium vanish? How was the Ottoman Imperium established and how it vanished? How many people were killed in the wars in XX century, etc? In all these catastrophic changes risks were not considered in an adequate way. Requirements of risk management — Principles and guidelines — ISO 31000:2009 are very consultative. They could be used on country level, national level, regional level, continental and intercontinental level.

Peculiarities of the national Ukrainian culture in the artistic design of the publications of Kharkov cooperative publishing house «Rukh»

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Надія Подоляка
Keyword(s):  
Graphic Design ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Soviet Power ◽  
Theoretical Methods ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Teaching Aids ◽  
History Of ◽  
Graphic Elements ◽  
Visual Materials ◽  
Artistic Product

The purpose of the article is to investigate the peculiarities of the national Ukrainian culture in the artistic design of the editions of the Kharkov cooperative publishing house «Rukh». Research methods: Empirical-theoretical methods of analysis, synthesis, deduction are used. From the theoretical methods, a description and interpretation is applied. The use of these methods made it possible to prove that the publications of the Kharkov cooperative publishing house «Rukh» are a highly cultured artistic product, shrouded in the aura of the traditions of Ukrainian culture. It is proved that in the 20-ies. XX century. around the «Rukh» united a circle of like-minded writers, critics, editors, illustrators. Book covers were made by M. Samokish, S. Borovoy, V. Krichevsky. It is established that in the graphic design of the editions the editors used font ensembles, decorative elements and other visual materials created by the most prominent representatives of the artistic circles, in which the Ukrainian tradition is traced. In the design of covers used a variety of frames, ornaments of vegetable origin, stylized with letters. At the same time, minimalism of forms, compositions in a black and white version was quite common. Attention is focused on the works of the famous graphs of the era of the Ukrainian revival, created by the order of the Kharkiv cooperative publishing house «Rukh». The features of the national Ukrainian culture in the artistic design of publications are analyzed. Illustrations, graphic elements, style of execution and technique of the Ukrainian artists cooperating with the publishing house are characterized. The study significantly expands the view on publishing at the stage of the formation of Soviet power. The results can be used to write textbooks and teaching aids on cultural studies, the history of publishing and the history of Ukraine.

Race, Religion, and Documentary Film

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Weisenfeld
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Independent Films ◽  
History Of ◽  
Race And Religion

This chapter uses Ingagi and The Silent Enemy, both independent films released in 1930, to examine the intersections of race and religion in the context of American documentary film conventions. The filmmakers claimed documentary status for their films, despite the fact that both were largely scripted and contained staged representations. Many audience members and critics nevertheless took their representations of the religious practices of Africans and Native Americans to be truthful and invested in the films’ authenticity because their visual codes, narratives, and advertising confirmed accepted stereotypes about race, religion, and capacity for civilization. Examining these two films in the context of the broader history of documentary representations of race and religion—from travelogues, adventure, ethnographic, and expeditionary films through more recent productions—this chapter explores how the genre has helped to shape and communicate ideas about race and religion.

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