scholarly journals Oceans Connect: The Indian Ocean and African Identities

PMLA ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 125 (3) ◽  
pp. 713-720 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gaurav Desai
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Coconut Oil ◽  
Open Hearth ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cotton Cloth ◽  
The World ◽  
African Slaves ◽  
The Indian Ocean

Readers of PMLA Recognize 26 Broadway, in New York City, as the Headquarters of the Mla, One of the Major Hubs of Intellectual work in literary and cultural studies in North America. But in the summer of 1840, 26 Broadway was a commercial hub that connected the world of the Atlantic Ocean with the world of the Indian Ocean. Here, in the offices of the New York firm Barclay and Livingston, Ahmad Bin Na'aman, special envoy of the sultan of Zanzibar, Sayyid Said, offered for sale merchandise that had been brought to the United States from Muscat and Zanzibar. The merchandise included “1,300 bags of dates, 21 bales of Persian wool carpets and 100 bales of Mokha coffee” that had been acquired at Muscat and “108 prime ivory tusks, 81 cases of gum copal, … 135 bags of cloves and 1,000 dry salted hides” from Zanzibar (Eilts 32). The cargo had come to New York on 30 April 1840 aboard the Sultanah, a bark owned by the sultan and commanded by William Sleeman, an Englishman. Except for two Frenchmen whose identities are uncertain and two Englishwomen who had sought passage to London, where the ship was headed, most of those on board were African slaves belonging to the ship's officers and hired lascars, Muslim seamen from the lower Konkan and Malabar coasts of India who had been signed on in Bombay, where the ship had been refitted for the transatlantic voyage and from which it first embarked (3). The slaves, we are told, were dressed in garments made of coarse cotton cloth “called merikani, after the country of its manufacture” (4). In his account of the voyage of the Sultanah, Hermann Frederick Eilts writes of “the pungent vapors of cloves, gum copal and coffee (from the ship's cargo), of tar and pitch, of open-hearth cooking in deep, acrid sheep tail's fat, called ghee, of primitive shipboard sanitation and of coconut oil” (4). This account of the “first Arab emissary and the first Arab vessel to visit American shores” is a rich reminder of the historical interconnections in the world (6).

scholarly journals Africa and the wider world: creole communities in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans

Tempo ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 465-481
Author(s):  
Malyn Newitt
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Eastern Africa ◽  
Cultural Appropriation ◽  
The World ◽  
African Slaves ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Sub Saharan

Abstract: Portuguese creoles were instrumental in bringing sub-Saharan Africa into the intercontinental systems of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean. In the Atlantic Islands a distinctive creole culture emerged, made up of Christian emigrants from Portugal, Jewish exiles and African slaves. These creole polities offered a base for coastal traders and became politically influential in Africa - in Angola creating their own mainland state. Connecting the African interior with the world economy was largely on African terms and the lack of technology transfer meant that the economic gap between Africa and the rest of the world inexorably widened. African slaves in Latin America adapted to a society already creolised, often through adroit forms of cultural appropriation and synthesis. In eastern Africa Portuguese worked within existing creolised Islamic networks but the passage of their Indiamen through the Atlantic created close links between the Indian Ocean and Atlantic commercial systems.

Days of Chess and Backgammon

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Zeitlin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Field Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
City Parks ◽  
The World ◽  
Chess Players ◽  
The Village

The author here considers the games of chess and backgammon. The author shares how he became fascinated by chess, intrigued by its philosophical side. He was twelve years old in 1959, when Bobby Fischer won the United States Chess Championship. As a folklorist, he did field research on chess havens in New York's West Village, interviewing the players in Washington Square Park and at the two warring chess clubs on Thompson Street, Chess Forum and the Village Chess Shop. He talks about the Capablanca table; José Raúl Capablanca, world chess champion from 1921 to 1927, is said to have won the World Chess Championship on that table. Fischer also played on that table, in New York in 1965. Chess, the author observes, seems to lend itself to grandiose metaphors. Metaphors abound in the down-and-dirty trash talk exchanged by the chess players in New York City parks. The author concludes by recalling how he and his father would engage in a gentle competition playing online backgammon games.

Predicting Hypertension in the United States

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-28
Author(s):  
Suzie Jean ◽  
Sukhen Dey
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Database ◽  
City Community ◽  
Community Health Survey ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Clinical Measures

This paper demonstrates the application of machine learning (ML) to predict patients with hypertension. The data was gathered from the New York City community health survey database for the 2018 survey year, which contains self-reported socio-demographic and health-related items. The study predicted individuals who were at risk of hypertensive conditions. Hypertensive respondents were identified using a battery of questions. The objective was to predict these individuals using social determinants of health (SDH) and clinical attributes. The analysis also shows the importance of clinical or pseudo-clinical measures to improve prediction accuracy. Our planet is under a severe pandemic, COVID-19. While this paper is on hypertension, a secondary conclusion was drawn. The world lacks a global database with clinical attributes for COVID-19 infected, recovered, and deceased patients. Machine learning with clinical data would immensely increase the potential for effective testing and a vaccine.

scholarly journals Reflections on a pandemic: Disruptions, distractions and challenges of a clinical social worker on the frontline in New York City

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 404-409
Author(s):  
Stephanie S Felder
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
The United States ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Education Practice ◽  
The World ◽  
Major Shift ◽  
Live Broadcast ◽  
Work Education

For many of us, COVID-19 markedly changed our world and how we operate in it daily. While the behavioral health ramifications of this pandemic are not fully known, they have clearly had an impact. For weeks, we all watched in disbelief as COVID-19 ambushed China, Italy, and other countries. When President Trump implemented the March 16, 2020, live broadcast detailing plans of how our nation would address COVID-19, we knew that it was just a matter of time before we began to experience what we saw happening around the world. Quickly, the escalation of COVID-19 in the United States caused a major shift for social work education, practice, and research. Social workers are serving in critical roles during this pandemic and providing care for COVID-19 patients and their families. The purpose of this article is to provide reflection on the disruptions, distractions, and challenges of a social worker serving in a leadership role on the frontlines at the Javits Center in New York during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Strings and Skins

2020 ◽  
pp. 54-81
Author(s):  
Benjamin Lapidus
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
York City ◽  
The United States ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Percussion Instruments ◽  
Latin Music

This chapter outlines the important history and role of craftsmen based in New York City who produced and repaired traditional instruments used in the performance of Latin music. It introduces individuals who came from Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Jewish communities, and examines how their instruments physically represented the actual sound of Latin Music to New York and the world on widely disseminated recordings. Many of these instrument makers also sold their instruments beyond New York City and the United States. The chapter also discusses the work of builders and musicians in New York City to create and modify the tools used to forge the sound of Latin music and diffuse both the instruments and their aesthetic throughout the world. Ultimately, the chapter seeks to unify into one coherent narrative, the efforts of folklorists, journalists, and authors who paid attention to the origins of hand percussion instruments in New York, their subsequent mass production, and the people who built the instruments used to play Latin music in New York City.

Ballet Theatre after Fifteen Years

Tempo ◽  
1955 ◽  
pp. 21-28
Author(s):  
R. J. Austin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
The United States ◽  
Metropolitan Opera ◽  
The World ◽  
Opera House

This year Ballet Theatre celebrates its fifteenth anniversary with a three-weeks' season in April at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. After fifteen years it still remains one of the greatest companies in the world, and if the New York City Ballet has become more widely accepted as America's leading company, there can be no doubt that the influence of Ballet Theatre has been decisive in establishing the popularity of ballet throughout the United States.

The Second SWIFT Agreement Between the European Union and the United States of America — An Overview

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 1173-1190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentin Pfisterer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
The United States ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The World ◽  
September 11 Attacks ◽  
Trade Center

The United States and other nations have taken numerous military, police and intelligence measures in order to counter terrorists’ threats in response to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Virginia as well as the attempted attack on a target in Washington, D. C.

Origins of the Political Philosophy of the A. F. of L., 1886–1896

1960 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 496-518
Author(s):  
Gerald N. Grob
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Trade Union Movement ◽  
Union Movement ◽  
The World ◽  
Middle West ◽  
Political Commitments ◽  
American Working Class

European socialists at the beginning of the twentieth century often expressed amazement at the fact that the United States, although one of the most advanced industrial nations in the world, also had one of the weakest socialist movements, as well as a trade union movement bent on avoiding any hard and fast political commitments. Yet, only a few short years before, it appeared as though the American working class had at last arrived at political maturity and was putting its potential voting strength to good advantage. In the elections of 1886, for example, labor tickets in the Northeast and Middle West polled substantial proportions of the vote and won some startling victories. In New York City, Henry George, running with labor and socialist backing, lost out in his race for mayor by only 22,000 votes, while in Chicago and Milwaukee a number of labor candidates swept to victory.

Federation Day at the World of Tomorrow

Zutot ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Marek S. Kopacz ◽  
Aleksandra D. Bajka-Kopacz
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
World History ◽  
The United States ◽  
World's Fair ◽  
World Congress ◽  
New York World's Fair ◽  
The World ◽  
National Convention ◽  
Polish Jews

Abstract Ninety years ago, the Federation of Polish Jews in America hosted their national convention and world congress in the New York City area. In this article, we will discuss some of what transpired at these events. Set at a tumultuous crossroads in world history, the Federation rallied Jewish groups throughout the United States and the world in humanitarian support for a war-torn Polish nation. The national convention and world congress were also set to have their own respective satellite sessions at the New York World’s Fair of 1939 and 1940. These satellite sessions are noteworthy in that they mark a Jewish presence at the Fair which extended beyond the Jewish Palestine Pavilion. They also mark a uniquely Polish presence, extending beyond Poland’s own Pavilion at the Fair.

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