scholarly journals Black Women in Computing and Technology: Identity affirmation and Resistance

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mory Marcia de Oliveira Lobo ◽  
Karen Figueiredo ◽  
Cristiano Maciel
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Black Identity ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Racial Segregation ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Research Subject ◽  
Resistance Strategies ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Women In Computing

Considering black women in Brazil as a research subject involves new challenges about topics that are increasingly complex. In this sense, pertinent questions arise in seeking to comprehend contemporary phenomena and, consequently, leave room for disputable formulations, especially in areas of which science and technology have little understanding. This article offers a bibliographical essay that aims to begin the path to include black women in computing and technology, in a social background of sexism and racial segregation. Furthermore, it presents a summary of the resistance strategies used in black women’s course in this area by analyzing the elements of black identity strengthened by these initiatives in Brazil and abroad.

scholarly journals Racism and Social Segregation in Maya Angelo’s “Caged Bird”

2021 ◽  
pp. 24-28
Author(s):  
Khalil Bakheet Khalil Ismail
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Black Identity ◽  
Racial Segregation ◽  
New Historicism ◽  
Main Thrust ◽  
Class Discrimination ◽  
Social Segregation

The main thrust of this paper is to examine the issue of racial segregation in Maya Angelou’s “Caged Bird” via exploring the poem in relation to the circumstances that typify life and existence in the African American context. An attempt is made to situate this poem within the heat of racism, oppression, and class discrimination as well as the search for black identity. The paper relies on New Historicism as the scope of exploration owing to the chunk of influence that history and society bears on African American writing. Then literary critical analysis is made to verify the different aspects of racism and social segregation as represented in the poem.

scholarly journals Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Fear? Tools and Suggestions for Digital Data Protection

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jedidiah Anderson ◽  
Erik Skare ◽  
Courtney Dorroll
Keyword(s):  
Data Protection ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Research Subject ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Cyber Infrastructure

The developing cyber-infrastructure has provided new tools, methods, and opportunities to conduct research. However, the Snowden leaks and subsequent developments proved that the same infrastructure has made all-encompassing surveillance possible – posing new challenges for researchers when engaging with those they are obligated to protect. As the cyber-infrastructure simultaneously opens up new possibility-spaces for circumventing structures of surveillance, while drawing on the authors’ own experiences, this article presents a number of tools and suggestions that will aid the researcher to engage more responsibly and safely with the research subject digitally.

Financing for Innovation in China

2021 ◽  
pp. 167-186
Author(s):  
Jin Chen ◽  
Liying Wang
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Capital Market ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Financial Innovation ◽  
Financing System ◽  
Important Player ◽  
New Challenges

Technology and capital are two fundamental factors in economic growth; each and every technological and industrial revolution has gone hand in hand with new financial patterns since the First Industrial Revolution in Britain. As a latecomer, China is firmly committed to science and technology (S&T) innovation through innovative financial services. First, by combining fiscal and taxation policies with market capital, China has put in place its own financing system for S&T innovation. Second, fiscal and taxation policies play a fundamental and guiding role. Third, myriad innovative business models, such as “investment-lending-guarantee,” provide examples of diverse ways to support S&T activities through financial innovation. Fourth, corporate internal finance has become an important player in S&T innovation. Fifth, digital financial platforms have been playing an increasingly important role and created some new challenges. Sixth, much room is left for the capital market to play an even bigger role in S&T innovation.

Universities as Social Background in “Trading Zone” Creation

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 493-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evgeny Maslanov
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Social Background ◽  
University Education ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Trading Zone ◽  
Trading Zones ◽  
New Challenges

The article analyzes the conception of a trading zone as a space of action and belief coordination. P. Galison proposed the conception based on anthropological and linguistic analogies. The article reviews the anthropological analogies aimed at building up the conception and the legitimacy of their use. The conclusion is that the analogies used are not accurate enough. If the tribes interacting in trading zones have a common history, material culture, and practices, they can hardly have significant differences. If they are not in possession of all these characteristics, they are unlikely to remind us of different groups of scientists who participate in common researches. The article also contains the hypothesis that acceptance of a common habitus is a condition subject to which the scientists can arrange the mutual understanding space. It issues new challenges to the scientific community, as all people related to university education also accept the scientists’ habitus.

scholarly journals Formulating Black Womanhood: A Study on Beyoncé’s Hip-Hop Song Lyrics in Beyoncé Platinum Edition Album

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Ika Ayu Larasati
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Social Background ◽  
African American Culture ◽  
Black Womanhood ◽  
Mother And Daughter ◽  
Song Lyrics ◽  
Music Lyrics ◽  
The Relationship

This article aims at understanding the Black womanhood concept through Hip-Hop song lyrics, since song lyrics are not only a part of art but also a media to express people’s feelings, education, therapy and entertainment. This article also helps the readers to understand that sexuality portrayed in Hip-Hop song lyrics stands for something and has a function because music is related to the social background, message, function, and effect generated from the artwork.The qualitative method and interdisciplinary approach are used in conducting this article, which involves the literature, history, culture, sociology, and to enhance the understanding of multi-ethnic America, especially about Black womanhood. The article starts with introduction, a discussion about African American culture in general. To produce an up to date writing, the article choses the recent popular singer, Beyonce. In finding Black womanhood concepts in Beyonce’s lyrics. One thing that also needs to be highlighted is Black women’s sexuality.The findings are about Black womanhood from Beyonce’s standpoint, such as the Black woman’s self-definition, the sisterhood, the relationship between mother and daughter, and the relationship with Black men. In addition, since it highlights the Black woman’s sexuality in Hip-Hop that is based on Beyonce’s songs, it indicates that recently Black women began to realize that they have power over their own body.Keywords: Black womanhood, sexuality, Hip-Hop music, Lyrics

Intersections in Subaltern Urbanism: The narratives of women in urban occupations in Brazil

2019 ◽  
pp. 239965441988796
Author(s):  
Mariana de Moura Cruz ◽  
Natália Alves da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Resistance Strategies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Belo Horizonte ◽  
Construction Knowledge ◽  
Theoretical Category ◽  
And Gender

In the past decade in Brazil, we have witnessed the rise of a new subaltern space, which has prompted a new theoretical category, incorporated in the contemporary epistemologies of Subaltern Urbanism: Urban Occupations. These new terrains of livelihood and self-organization have prompted a series of new resistance strategies, everyday practices and narratives that must be understood and decodified. The Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte—third largest in the country—accounts for over 25 housing occupations in its territory, more than half of which settled in the last five years. Occupation Rosa Leão, established in 2013, is one of them. As it happens in many other occupations, most of its dwellers are black women. They constitute majority in the coordination groups and are often more closely involved in the collective necessities of the community. The present article draws upon the experiences of these women as subjects of their own history to showcase urban occupation as a powerful place for understanding and dismantling the always existing but often overlooked intersection between coloniality and gender. It relies on the activist and academic engagement of both authors in these territories, and specifically in the experience with a women-only self-construction workshop organized in October 2017. Through this workshop, we sought to understand how “usually male” construction knowledge was employed (or not) by women, how it could be used as a tool for domination/emancipation and how gender relations intertwined with such issues in the process.

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