scholarly journals Revising the Black decolonialization process: Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. and the poetics of violence

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-41
Author(s):  
Delia Grosu
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
X Ray ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Colonial Violence

Frantz Fanon’s writings on decolonization have constantly been read as a call for violence against oppressive colonial rulings. The choice that the subjugated individual must make between remaining a victim or using the colonial violence against those who originally initiated it represents one of Fanon’s main arguments in The Wretched of the Earth. Drawing on Kendrick Lamar’s music album DAMN. (2017), this article aims to show how the rapper rewrites the decolonization process in a poetic way, using metaphors, hyperboles and allegories. The interactions between white and Black individuals that Lamar examines in his songs provide an answer to Fanon’s urge to choose. Moving beyond the Fanonian binary thinking (Black/white, colonizer/colonized), DAMN. provides an insight on how whiteness and Blackness co-inhabit a space full of violent encounters. While presenting an X-ray image of the present-day United States of America, Lamar does not offer an answer on the questions on racism, but he delivers a vivid picture of the outcomes of personal choices, collective failures and perpetual violence.

scholarly journals Women in war work, 1914-1918

1919 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Mary Louise Reid Brown
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
Popular Belief ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Women In War ◽  
Conditions Of Work

Contrary to the popular belief that women in factories are doing men's work, are the facts which are brought to light as the conditions of work when the factory system was established in the United States of America. It is incontestible that when the factory system was first established women were urged to go into factories. Men were engaged in agriculture and the "Friends of Industry" replied to those citizens who declared that manufactures would ruin agriculture that "not one fourth of the employees in manufacture were able-bodied men fit for famring." Economic gains were at first used as an arguement. Gallatin in 1831 "concluded that the surplus product obtained by the employment of owmen in a single cotton mill of 200 employees was $14,000 annually." Another writer in the "Boston Centinel" said "that machinery enables women and children who are unable to cultivate the earth to make us indepdent of foreign supplies." This entrance of women into factories was not a hardhsip because women had done much of the hard work of spinning and weaving in the homes, and later the famer's daughter had worked in the "manufcatures."

An analysis of tidal strain observations from the United States of America: I. The laterally homogeneous tide

1975 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 1613-1629
Author(s):  
Christopher Beaumont ◽  
Jon Berger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Geological Structure ◽  
Ocean Tide ◽  
Earth Model ◽  
Ocean Tide Loading ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Love Numbers ◽  
Tidal Loading

abstract Tidal strain observations from seven observatories in the continental United States have been analyzed and the results compared with the tide predicted for a radially stratified earth model. Included in the predicted tide are the effects of ocean-tide loading for all of the major oceans. We find that on average the load strains contribute 44 per cent of the total M2 tidal strain and 13 per cent of the total O1 tidal strain. The differences between the predictions of the radially stratified earth model and the observations are significant. We conclude that: (1) Love numbers deduced from most strain observations are not representative of average earth properties. (2) The phase of the areal strain is neither independent of the tidal loading nor of the local geological structure. Hence, to use such phase observations as a measure of the anelastic properties of the Earth is incorrect.

scholarly journals The importance of wilderness landscape Analysis in development planning schemes for national parks, with special reference to the Mountain Zebra National Park

Koedoe ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Van Riet
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Special Reference ◽  
National Parks ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
National Park ◽  
The United States ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Wilderness Act ◽  
Definition Of

Definition of the Concept "Wilderness"The Wilderness Act of September 1964, of the United States of America, states that "... wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognised as an area where the earth and its community of life are not influenced by man and where man himself is a visitor who does not remain55 (Nash 1967). The Act also states that a wilderness "... must retain its primeval character and influence and that it must be protected and managed in such a way that it appears to have been effected primarily by the forces of nature.”

Thinking About Scots Law

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Rodger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
British Empire ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Case Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

This article is the revised text of the first W A Wilson Memorial Lecture, given in the Playfair Library, Old College, in the University of Edinburgh, on 17 May 1995. It considers various visions of Scots law as a whole, arguing that it is now a system based as much upon case law and precedent as upon principle, and that its departure from the Civilian tradition in the nineteenth century was part of a general European trend. An additional factor shaping the attitudes of Scots lawyers from the later nineteenth century on was a tendency to see themselves as part of a larger Englishspeaking family of lawyers within the British Empire and the United States of America.

Off to a bad start: John Adams’s tussle over titles

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
James C Alexander
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Vice President ◽  
The United States ◽  
John Adams ◽  
The Press ◽  
First Session

From the first days, of the first session, of the first Congress of the United States, the Senate was consumed by an issue that would do immense and lasting political harm to the sitting vice president, John Adams. The issue was a seemingly unimportant one: titles. Adams had strong opinions on what constituted a proper title for important officers of government and, either because he was unconcerned or unaware of the damage it would cause, placed himself in the middle of the brewing dispute. Adams hoped the president would be referred to as, “His highness, the President of the United States of America, and Protector of the Rights of the Same.” The suggestion enraged many, amused some, and was supported by few. He lost the fight over titles and made fast enemies with several of the Senators he was constitutionally obligated to preside over. Adams was savaged in the press, derided in the Senate and denounced by one of his oldest and closest friends. Not simply an isolated incident of political tone-deafness, this event set the stage for the campaign against Adams as a monarchist and provided further proof of his being woefully out of touch.

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