Dominican Women’s Refracted African Diasporas

2018 ◽  
pp. 153-180
Author(s):  
Dixa Ramírez
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
White Supremacist ◽  
Cultural Expressions ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Dominican Women ◽  
The U.S

This chapter engages the creative and anti-hegemonic apertures that become possible from a diasporic space and imaginary by analyzing the cultural expressions, including literature, music, and performance, of several diasporic Dominican women. Building on black diasporic feminist theory, the chapter explores how diasporic Dominicans engage with, adopt, or refuse definitions of blackness as they predominate in the U.S. through the writings of Chiqui Vicioso and the performances of musical artists Amara la Negra and Maluca Mala. Because they all resist to some extent the white supremacist and patriarchal ideologies that govern dominant paradigms throughout the hemisphere, the chapter locates improper behavior as the primary vehicle in which these artists invert and/or refuse the gendered, classed, and raced scripts expected from Dominican women. Together, these diasporic subjects (in the sense of the Dominican and the African diaspora) evince the prismatic nature of the African Diaspora.

Habeas Ficta

2018 ◽  
pp. 166-184
Author(s):  
Tavia Nyong'o
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Black Feminist Theory ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
And Performance

This chapter engages recent developments in black feminist theory, in particular those that emphasize the pornotroping of the flesh, in order to outline a new theory of fictive ethnicity. Noting how black ethnicity has emerged as an issue in film and performance, the chapter suggests that a fabulation of ethnicity (as well as race) is critical to an understanding of angular socialities in the contemporary African diaspora.

scholarly journals Development, selection criteria, and performance of Composite IV sheep at the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center1,2

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S150-S154
Author(s):  
Thomas W Murphy ◽  
Brad A Freking ◽  
Gary L Bennett ◽  
John W Keele
Keyword(s):  
Selection Criteria ◽  
Animal Research ◽  
Meat Animal ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The U.S

On improving the training of aircraft engineers

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 865-885
Author(s):  
Leonid B. SOBOLEV
Keyword(s):  
Aviation Industry ◽  
Information Protection ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Space Industry ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Military Aviation ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Performance Results ◽  
The Military ◽  
The U.S

Subject. The article continues the discussion about the method of training aircraft engineers to work in the military and civil segments of aviation and rocket-and-space industry. Objectives. The purpose is to improve the training of Russian engineers to work in the competitive market environment, on the basis of the analysis of experience in training the aviation engineers in leading foreign technical universities. Methods. The study rests on the comparative analysis of implementation of major projects in the military and civil segments of aviation in the U.S. and Russia, as well as programs for training aircraft engineers in both countries. Results. The analysis shows that the duration of modern large military aviation projects in both countries is the same (the comparison of cost is impossible, due to information protection in Russia), while in the civil segment of the aviation industry, Russia's lagging behind is significant both in terms of the duration of projects and performance results. One of the reasons is in the poor training of aircraft engineers to work in the competitive environment. Conclusions. It is crucial to reform Russian aviation universities in terms of conformity to global trends in multidisciplinarity and differentiation of financing and research base.

scholarly journals Big Data Analytics in E-commerce for the U.S. and China Through Literature Reviewing

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-44
Author(s):  
Weiqing Zhuang ◽  
Morgan C. Wang ◽  
Ichiro Nakamoto ◽  
Ming Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Big Data Analytics ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Theoretical Comparison ◽  
Statistical Analysis Method ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The U.S

Abstract Big data analytics (BDA) in e-commerce, which is an emerging field that started in 2006, deeply affects the development of global e-commerce, especially its layout and performance in the U.S. and China. This paper seeks to examine the relative influence of theoretical research of BDA in e-commerce to explain the differences between the U.S. and China by adopting a statistical analysis method on the basis of samples collected from two main literature databases, Web of Science and CNKI, aimed at the U.S. and China. The results of this study help clarify doubts regarding the development of China’s e-commerce, which exceeds that of the U.S. today, in view of the theoretical comparison of BDA in e-commerce between them.

The Volkswagen Emissions Scandal

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Luann J. Lynch ◽  
Almand R. Coleman ◽  
Cameron Cutro ◽  
Cameron Cutro
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Protection Agency ◽  
Protection Agency ◽  
Top Executives ◽  
Performance Targets ◽  
The World ◽  
Hazardous Gases ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The U.S

In September 2015, VW had admitted to United States regulators that it had deliberately installed “defeat devices” in many of its diesel cars, which enabled the cars to cheat on federal and state emissions tests, making them able to pass the tests and hit ambitious mileage and performance targets while actually emitting up to 40 times more hazardous gases into the atmosphere than legally allowed. The discovery had prompted the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to halt final certification of VW’s 2016 diesel models, and VW itself had halted sales of its 2015 models. As fallout from the defeat devices developed, VW posted its first quarterly loss in more than 15 years, and its stock plummeted. Top executives were replaced, and VW abandoned its goal of becoming the world’s largest automaker. Stakeholders around the world had been asking since the scandal broke: “How could this have happened at Volkswagen?”

The African Choreographer’s Envisioning

2019 ◽  
pp. 166-179
Author(s):  
Naomi Gedo Johnson Diouf
Keyword(s):  
African Diaspora ◽  
Dance Music ◽  
African Dance ◽  
Dual Perspective ◽  
The U.S

In Kariamu Welsh’s essay, “The ‘Gospel’ of Memory; Memory as ‘Trace’,” the foundational understandings of African dance in the U.S. are dissected and analyzed. Welsh’s emphasis straddles two objectives, one historical and one theoretical. She unpacks terminology for African dance from her long-term, dual perspective of both researcher and performer; she names and records the African dance/music masters who have contributed to the implantation and dispersal of African dance and gives her explanations regarding notions of Africa and the African Diaspora. Then, she proceeds philosophically to offer a “Gospel of African dance,” that is, fluid and malleable interactions of memory and ‘trace’ in their crucial positions, which affects the collective energy of Africa, both past and future.

Teaching to Digress

2015 ◽  
pp. 120-145
Author(s):  
Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis ◽  
Roselyn K. Banda ◽  
Sarah A. Kinley
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Educational Experiences ◽  
Black Feminist Theory ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
College Curriculum ◽  
Traditional Course ◽  
Collective Inquiry ◽  
Oppositional Discourse ◽  
The U.S

This chapter explores the challenge of creating a “liberated” classroom, one that digresses from the norm in both content and structure according to feminist principles. This teaching project was designed to create a unique learning environment through the use of black feminist pedagogy. Charged with teaching a cross-listed course (Women's Studies, Black Studies) entitled “Black Feminist Theory,” the teaching team consisted of a professor, a graduate student, and an undergraduate student. The team came together from a diversity of educational experiences in the U.S. and Africa. This chapter is a reflection of the team's experiences co-teaching a “non-traditional” course as well as a collective inquiry about the strategic importance of incorporating oppositional discourse into the college curriculum.

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