Finding My Place

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Cahn
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Young Girl ◽  
Lesbian Identity ◽  
Girl Culture ◽  
Meaningful Activity ◽  
Basketball Game

In this chapter, the author shares her sports odyssey that began in suburban Chicago and ended in Buffalo, New York. The author recalls the time when, as a young girl, she spent many hours by herself. Her tomboy persona simply didn't fit in with the girl culture at her school and there were no alternative girl playmates in her neighborhood. Yet even as hery tomboyish love of sports contributed to her isolation, it also helped solve it. The author explains how sport provided her solace and joy. Her story is about sports played for different reasons in different communities. It is about coming to terms with her lesbian identity, finding supportive spaces comprised of people who respect difference, and a regular pickup basketball game at the Bob Lanier Center, known as “The Bob.” According to the author, “basketball at the Bob is about familiarity, a sense of belonging, meaningful activity, and ties that bind.” She concludes by reflecting on a contrasting vision of sport and community linked to sport spectatorship.

Syrian Christians and Arab-Islamic Identity: Expressions of Belonging in the Ottoman Empire and America

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-49
Author(s):  
Deanna Ferree Womack
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
Eastern Christianity ◽  
Islamic Identity ◽  
Nineteenth Century United States ◽  
Islamic Society

This essay examines the ways that Arab Christian immigrants in the late-nineteenth-century United States understood religious, cultural and national belonging. Focusing on migrants from Ottoman Syria (present day Lebanon and Syria) who referred to themselves as Syrians, it uses publications from the Arab renaissance in Beirut and early Arab American newspapers in New York to consider how these Christians grappled with their identities as subjects of the Ottoman Sultan, as Christians from various denominations, as citizens in an Islamic society and as newcomers to America. Defying Protestant missionaries’ simplistic depictions of Middle Eastern Christianity, such Syrian Christian authors expressed a sense of belonging in an interreligious environment and sought to inform American readers about the riches of Arab-Islamic heritage.

scholarly journals Blood Sinister by C. Rees

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlene BCR
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Young Girl ◽  
Blood Disease ◽  
Non Fiction

Rees, Celia. Blood Sinister. New York, Scholastic: 2007. Print. This is a novel about a young girl named Ellen Foster. She is suffering from a rare, un-diagnosed blood disease. She finds her great-great grandmother's diaries in the attic and reads them. Her great-great grandmother wrote them when she was a teenager. She wrote about a mysterious man who Ellen thinks is a vampire. Things get weird in her life as well. She dreams about what happens before she reads it. This book switches between modern and Victorian times.Recommended Reviewer: MarleneMy name is Marlene, my hobbies are volleyball and writing. I like to read non-fiction and horror books.

scholarly journals Review of Castaneda's A Place To Call Home

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nga Than
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Immigrant Incorporation ◽  
Latin Americans

In A Place to Call Home: Immigrant Exclusion and Urban Belonging in New York, Paris, and Barcelona, Ernesto Castañeda explores how immigrant incorporation and sense of belonging are shaped by social processes in different cities. The author explores city-level differences by drawing on original data including ethnography, interviews, and surveys, which he collected through years of research in sending and receiving countries. A comparative study of New York, Paris, and Barcelona and two groups, Latin Americans and North Africans, it contributes to the growing literature that compares how policies and contexts of migration affect immigrants’ and their descendants’ long-term settlement experiences on both sides of the Atlantic.

scholarly journals A Fine Dessert: Four Centuries, Four Families, One Delicious Treat by S. Jenkins

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanne Pearce
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
South Carolina ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Graphic Design ◽  
Young Girl ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The University ◽  
Whipped Cream

Jenkins, Sophie. 2015. Illus. Sophie Blackall. A Fine Dessert: Four Centuries, Four Families, One Delicious Treat. New York: Swartz & Wade Books. Print.A Fine Dessert is about “blackberry fool” a delicious dessert made from fresh blackberries and whipped cream. The story starts out in England in 1710 when a young girl and her mother pick blackberries with their hands. They have to milk the cows to get cream and whip it by hand with bundle of soft twigs. Then we are transported to Charleston, South Carolina in 1810 when another young girl and her mother pick blackberries from the garden at a plantation. A deliveryman brings them cream by horse and buggy and they must use a metal whisk by hand to get it whipped. Then we are in Boston in 1910 and a young girl and her mother buy their blackberries from the market. The deliveryman brings them cream and they use a mechanical whisk and ice box to make their dessert. Finally we are transported to San Diego and it is 2010. A young boy and his dad go to the supermarket to buy their blackberries. They look the recipe up on the Internet and use an electric mixer and refrigerator. Through one dessert, we see cooking and family life evolve over four hundred years.The concept of A Fine Dessert is brilliant as it presents an easy activity (cooking) that is mutual to all the centuries it depicts. The illustrations by Sophie Blackall are beautiful and tell their own story alongside the text. Period details and evocative facial expressions make these historical people come alive with elegant simplicity. This book is a fantastic way to teach history to children as it shows how even a mundane task such as cooking has changed over the centuries. While the story is about making a dessert there is so much more to the story. It opens the door to discussing social status, issues like slavery and gender roles. The book includes a recipe for blackberry fool and historical notes on the author’s research.Highly recommended: 4 out of 4 starsReviewer: Hanne PearceHanne Pearce has worked at the University of Alberta Libraries since 2004. Aside from being an avid reader, she has continuing interests in writing, photography, graphic design and knitting.

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