scholarly journals Slaying the Monsters of Racism: A Geertzian Reading of Night of the Living Dead

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mengxi Chen
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Dynamic Process ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
The Other ◽  
Clifford Geertz ◽  
Civil Rights Movements ◽  
Living Dead ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The U.S

Religion and culture are interact with each other, and by the definition of Clifford Geertz, rituals can be expressed by quite a lot of ways in art. No one can doubt that in our world we are surrounded by religious symbols, which represent themselves via paintings, musics and movies. In this article, the author wants to elaborate how the horror movie, this unique movie genre, worked in illustrate social issues of civil rights movements of 1960s. In Night of the Living Dead, the zombies represent the middle class racism and the complacency about racism, which are  indifferent and bloodthirsty.  The dynamic process of killing the zombies presents the rituals of the U.S. that the heroes always conquer the evil. On the other hand, the evil always stands for the shortcoming of humans. The fighting between the righteous and the evil never stops.

The “Hollow Prospect” of Integration

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward G. Goetz
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Black Power ◽  
The Other ◽  
African American Community ◽  
Fair Housing ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The One ◽  
The U.S

This chapter describes the tension between integration and community development from the 1940s through the end of the 1960s. It describes the conflict within the African-American community between efforts to achieve integration on the one hand and building power and capacity within the community on the other. It describes the emergence and evolution of the fair housing movement in the U.S. Finally, the ways in which this conflict played out during the civil rights and Black Power eras is highlighted.

scholarly journals Between Nationalism and Beaconism

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Wang ◽  
Henry Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Chinese People ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Chinese College Students ◽  
Chinese University ◽  
Racial Issues ◽  
Civil Rights Movements ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The U.S

This study investigated how Chinese people in the U.S. view racism and racial issues from the perspective of Chinese university students in the U.S.. The research is based on Critical Race Theory (CRT) to define racism and found that the majority of Chinese college students regard the situation as a problematic one, and they are supportive of civil rights movements such as Black Lives Matter and Stop Asian Hate. Additionally, though most of the interviewees have not heard of CRT, through their responses to other questions, they show acceptance of the concepts of CRT; for example, almost all of the interviewees responded that they would consider racism as a social problem instead of a personal one.

8. Hate crime

2021 ◽  
pp. 211-235
Author(s):  
Angus Nurse ◽  
Mark Walters
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Hate Crime ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
The Public ◽  
Homophobic Violence ◽  
The Us ◽  
Civil Rights Movements ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Uk

This chapter addresses hate crimes, which are complex, as these offences can be linked to both personal gain or even profit, as well as concepts such as ‘difference’ and ‘othering’. This area of criminology came about primarily because the civil rights movements in the US and the UK raised the profile of racist and (later) homophobic violence so that they became important political and social issues. The chapter looks at a range of different types of hate crime, including offences based on prejudice towards victims because of their disability, race or ethnicity, religion or beliefs, sexual orientation, and gender identity. It also identifies some of the factors that can affect these offences in ways that are not immediately obvious. These elements include the influence politicians can have, especially when using language that excludes minority groups and portrays them as a threat to the public or as somehow being ‘Other’ (different and arguably not to be trusted).

Washington View

2018 ◽  
Vol 99 (6) ◽  
pp. 72-73
Author(s):  
Maria Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
School Choice ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Technical Education ◽  
School Funding ◽  
The Other ◽  
Career Technical Education ◽  
Every Student Succeeds Act ◽  
To Receive ◽  
The U.S

Maria Ferguson suggests that implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act, school choice, and career technical education will dominate the conversation about education policy in 2018. On the other hand, school funding inequities, as discussed at length in a recent report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, deserve more attention than they are likely to receive.

A Man of the Universal Church: Peter James Kenney, S.J., 1779–1841

1999 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 320-334
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Morrissey
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Small Business ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
The Other ◽  
House Of Commons ◽  
Catholic Colleges ◽  
The Government ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Definition Of

Kenney, Peter James (1779–1841), was born in Dublin, probably at 28 Drogheda Street, on 7 July, 1779. His father, Peter, and his mother, formerly Ellen Molloy, ran a small business. Apart from Peter, the other known children were Anne Mary, who joined the convent of the Sisters of St. Clare, and an older brother, or half-brother, Michael, who set up an apothecary’s shop in Waterford.Peter was born, therefore, in the decade which saw the American Revolution, the Suppression of the Jesuits and, in Ireland, the birth of Daniel O’Connell—destined to become ‘The Liberator’. The need to keep Ireland quiet during the American conflict, led to concessions to the Catholic population. The first of these was in 1778. Others followed when the French Revolution raised possibilities of unrest. In 1792 the establishment of Catholic colleges was allowed, and entry to the legal profession. These led to the founding of Carlow College and to Daniel O’Connell’s emergence as a lawyer. The following year the Irish parliament was obliged by the government to extend the parliamentary franchise to Catholics. Increased freedom, however, and the government’s connivance at the non-application of the penal laws, led to increased resentment against the laws themselves and, among middle-class Catholics, to a relishing of Edmund Burke’s celebrated reminder to the House of Commons in 1780, that ‘connivance is the relaxation of slavery, not the definition of liberty’.

OSCAR WILDE’S DE PROFUNDIS: HOMOSEXUAL SELF-FASHIONING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF SCANDAL

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 547-566 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael R. Doylen
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
The Other ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Gay Male ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
New Type ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Definition Of

THE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE for acts of “gross indecency” not only confirmed him as “the sexual deviant for the late nineteenth century” but also made him “the paradigmatic example for an emerging public definition of a new ‘type’ of male sexual actor: ‘the homosexual’” (Cohen 1–2). Given that De Profundis is the only major prose work that Wilde wrote on the other side of the scandals prompted by his 1895 trials,1 it is surprising that this text has received little serious consideration from scholars in gay male studies. To be sure, Wilde’s nonfiction prose and critical dialogues generally have not received the critical attention they deserve. But the neglect of De Profundis by gay male scholarship specifically is probably due less to the text’s marginal generic status than to the feeling that De Profundis betrays the iconoclastic image of Wilde dear to the hearts of twentieth-century gay men. In his letter to Lord Alfred Douglas, Wilde seems so — one almost hesitates to say it — sincere. Indeed, for critics such as Jonathan Dollimore, Wilde’s semblance of sincerity signifies a capitulation to the middle-class morality he otherwise resisted. De Profundis thus comes to mark a decisive break in Wilde’s oeuvre and to signal the end of his self-fashioning activities (95–98). However, the view that De Profundis represents Wilde’s sincere contrition does not originate with gay male studies but was, in fact, a popular response to the text upon its initial publication in 1905.

A Sum of Its Parts: Party Fit and Party Change in the U.S. House

2021 ◽  
pp. 1532673X2110068
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Lee ◽  
Sean M. Goff
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Legislative Behavior ◽  
Roll Call ◽  
Party Change ◽  
The Core ◽  
Ideological Polarization ◽  
Retirement Decisions ◽  
Bill Cosponsorship ◽  
The U.S

Previous research has noted the transformation of the American parties since the 1970s, as exhibited in their increased ideological polarization and transformation on social issues like civil rights, abortion, and the environment. We contribute to the literature on party change by theoretically stressing the decentralized and individualistic nature of American parties, while using a measure of party change that is based on legislative behavior beyond roll call voting. Our paper uses social network analysis to analyze the parties from the 93rd to 110th Congresses, utilizing bill cosponsorship to define connections between members. Our analysis illustrates how the core of the party, that is, who are most central in the cosponsorship network, has changed over time. We find evidence that party centrality influenced retirement decisions, thereby reinforcing and contributing to party change.

“The Other Sixteen Hours”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Bussel
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Union Member ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
The Other ◽  
World War ◽  
Narrow View ◽  
Civil Rights Movements

This chapter examines Teamsters Local 688's community stewards program, Harold Gibbons and Ernest Calloway's ambitious initiative to promote the exercise of working-class citizenship and the practice of total person unionism. Early in the 1950s, an internal Teamsters Local 688 memo discussed what it called “the wide view and the narrow view” of the union movement's mission. “The narrow view” “would train stewards to do the job in the shop and nothing else,” while the “wide view” states that “[the union member] is willing to assume his or her responsibility in the maintenance of a democratic union and a democratic society.” This chapter considers how the Teamsters's “wide view” of member responsibility led Gibbons and Calloway to establish a community stewards program that mobilized Local 688 members to address issues affecting their lives during the “other sixteen hours” they spent off the job. It also explores how Calloway's leadership role within the St. Louis NAACP created new possibilities for the labor and civil rights movements to shape social policy in St. Louis after World War II.

scholarly journals The right to life in the system of constitutional rights and freedoms of individual and citizen

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-41
Author(s):  
Oleg Amel'chakov
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
The Other ◽  
Constitutional Rights ◽  
Right To Life ◽  
Human Right ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Constitutional Right ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Right

The right to life is traditionally recognized as a natural and inalienable right of any person and citizen. It is intrinsically connected with realization of other rights and liberties. The aim of the article is to clarify the concept and the essential nature of the constitutional right to life, to define its place in the system of fundamental human and civil rights and liberties. The article analyses constitutional rights, reveals the difference from the other human and civil rights and liberties and analysis other approaches of constitutional rights theoretic to the definition of the notion «right to life» as a constitutional right. The research gives the monitoring of the main statutory documents that defines the legal «understructure» of fixation and content of the notion «right to life» and the review of the foreign constitutional statutory documents that are devoted to the different aspects of law. Based on the results of the research a conclusion was made that the right to life takes a special place in the system of the constitutional rights and freedoms. The right to life is the inherent human right and this is admitted on the international level. Being fundamental in nature, it is based on the constitutional norms and principles, which set up uniformity of appliance and mechanisms for ensuring and protecting the right to life.

Immunoferritin localization of intracellular antigens in positively stained frozen sections

1978 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-169
Author(s):  
K. T. Tokuyasu
Keyword(s):  
Surface Tension ◽  
Water Surface ◽  
Thin Layers ◽  
The Other ◽  
Positive Staining ◽  
Frozen Sections ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ultrathin Frozen Sections ◽  
Definition Of

During the past investigations of immunoferritin localization of intracellular antigens in ultrathin frozen sections, we found that the degree of negative staining required to delineate u1trastructural details was often too dense for the recognition of ferritin particles. The quality of positive staining of ultrathin frozen sections, on the other hand, has generally been far inferior to that attainable in conventional plastic embedded sections, particularly in the definition of membranes. As we discussed before, a main cause of this difficulty seemed to be the vulnerability of frozen sections to the damaging effects of air-water surface tension at the time of drying of the sections.Indeed, we found that the quality of positive staining is greatly improved when positively stained frozen sections are protected against the effects of surface tension by embedding them in thin layers of mechanically stable materials at the time of drying (unpublished).

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