scholarly journals Tailoring Our Approach in Response to the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic and Transcending Science Outreach Modalities for Native American Students in a Cancer Research Education Program

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aislinn C. Rookwood ◽  
Liliana P. Bronner ◽  
Mariah A. Abney ◽  
Hannah S. Butler-Robbins ◽  
Misty S. Pocwierz-Gaines ◽  
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2017 ◽  
Vol 104 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alla Keselman, PhD, MA ◽  
Sanjana Quasem, BS ◽  
Janice E. Kelly, MLS ◽  
Gale A. Dutcher, MS, MLS, AHIP

Purpose: This paper presents a qualitative evaluation of a graduate-level internship for Latino and Native American library science students or students who are interested in serving those populations.Methods: The authors analyzed semi-structured interviews with thirteen internship program graduates or participants.Results: The analysis suggests that the program increased participants’ interest in health sciences librarianship and led to improved career opportunities, both in health sciences libraries and other libraries with health information programming. It also highlights specific factors that are likely to contribute to the strength of career pipeline programs aiming to bring Latino and Native American students and students who are interested in serving those communities into health librarianship.Conclusions: Exposing graduate-level interns to a broad range of health sciences librarianship tasks, including outreach to Latino and Native American communities and formal mentorship, is likely to maximize interns’ interests in both health sciences librarianship and service to these communities.


Author(s):  
Cristina Stanciu

This chapter focuses on the under-examined corpus of Carlisle poetry, viewing it as a vital archive for theorizing the role of the American Indian intellectual tradition in negotiating Americanization discourses at the turn of the twentieth century. Materials published in newspapers and magazines at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania (1879–1918) include “Carlisle poetry,” which encompasses original poetry by Native American students, reprints of poems by Indian authors, poems by school personnel, and poems by well-known American authors. This poetry, along with the letters and articles published in Carlisle newspapers and magazines, is complicit with the ideological underpinnings of the institution’s ambitious goals of “making” Indian students into Americans, even as elements of this literature critique the Americanization that Carlisle boarding school demanded of its students.


Author(s):  
Lucila T. Rudge

This study examines the differences in experiences and perceptions of campus climate of 38 minority students enrolled in a predominantly white institution (PWI). African American students, Native American students, gender and sexually diverse students, students with disabilities, Latinx students, and international students participated in the study. About half of the participants reported negative experiences with racism and discrimination on campus whereas the other half reported the opposite. Attribution to discrimination theory informed the theoretical framework of this study and the data analysis. Policy recommendations to improve the climate of diversity on university campus are provided.


Author(s):  
Sarah Anne Carter

This chapter considers the racial implications of object-based pedagogy at the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia. At Hampton, African American and Native American students were taught via a variation of object lessons and were referred to as living object lessons. At Hampton, this metaphor was employed to argue for the economic and political citizenship of its graduates and other educated African Americans and Native Americans, based on their appearances rather than their inherent civil rights. Object lessons were closely related to the school’s manual labor philosophy. This allowed the approach to be adapted for young children attending Hampton’s practice schools as well as for its own students. For example, the Kitchen Garden, a variation of object lessons organized around manual training and modeled on kindergarten, trained young children to become domestics. This chapter employs the photographs of Frances Benjamin Johnston, among other historical sources, to explore these topics.


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