The Delectable Negro Woodard, Vincent; McBride, Dwight; Joyce, Justin A ...
06/2014, Volume:
34
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Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved persons claims of human consumption ...seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in which Blacks experienced their consumption as a fundamentally homoerotic occurrence.The Delectable Negroexplores these connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in the context of American literature and US slave culture.Utilizing many staples of African American literature and culture, such as the slave narratives of OlaudahEquiano, Harriet Jacobs, and Frederick Douglass, as well as other less circulated materials like James L. Smiths slave narrative, runaway slave advertisements, and numerous articles from Black newspapers published in the nineteenth century, Woodard traces the racial assumptions, political aspirations, gender codes, and philosophical frameworks that dictated both European and white American arousal towards Black males and hunger for Black male flesh. Woodard uses these texts to unpack how slaves struggled not only against social consumption, but also against endemic mechanisms of starvation and hunger designed to break them. He concludes with an examination of the controversial chain gang oral sex scene in Toni MorrisonsBeloved, suggesting that even at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century, we are still at a loss for language with which to describe Black male hunger within a plantation culture of consumption.
Black Germany Aitken, Robbie; Rosenhaft, Eve
09/2013
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This groundbreaking history traces the development of Germany's black community, from its origins in colonial Africa to its decimation by the Nazis during World War II. Robbie Aitken and Eve ...Rosenhaft follow the careers of Africans arriving from the colonies, examining why and where they settled, their working lives and their political activities, and giving unprecedented attention to gender, sexuality and the challenges of 'mixed marriage'. Addressing the networks through which individuals constituted community, Aitken and Rosenhaft explore the ways in which these relationships spread beyond ties of kinship and birthplace to constitute communities as 'black'. The study also follows a number of its protagonists to France and back to Africa, providing new insights into the roots of Francophone black consciousness and postcolonial memory. Including an in-depth account of the impact of Nazism and its aftermath, this book offers a fresh critical perspective on narratives of 'race' in German history.
http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1808-1711.2016v20n2p179 Duncan Pritchard has suggested that anti-luck epistemology and virtue epistemology are the best options to solve the Gettier problem. Nonetheless, ...there are challenging problems for both of them in the literature. Pritchard holds that his anti-luck virtue epistemology puts together the correct intuitions from both anti-luck epistemology and virtue epistemology and avoids their problems. Contra Pritchard, we believe that there is already a satisfactory theory on offer, namely, the defeasibility theory of knowledge. In this essay we intend (i) to examine Pritchard’s anti-luck virtue epistemology, and (ii) to defend the defeasibility theory of knowledge as an alternative to Pritchard’s theory. We will provide the reader with reasons for believing that the defeasibility theory is better than Pritchard’s theory because the former is more economic and more ecumenical than the latter, since it goes without non-epistemic notions and remains neutral as for the internalism vs. externalism debate.
Black holes are one of the most remarkable predictions of Einstein's general relativity. In recent years, ideas in brane-world cosmology, string theory and gauge/gravity duality have motivated ...studies of black holes in more than four dimensions, with surprising results. In higher dimensions, black holes exist with exotic shapes and unusual dynamics. Edited by leading expert Gary Horowitz, this exciting book is the first devoted to this new field. The major discoveries are explained by the people who made them: Rob Myers describes the Myers–Perry solutions that represent rotating black holes in higher dimensions; Ruth Gregory describes the Gregory–Laflamme instability of black strings; and Juan Maldacena introduces gauge/gravity duality, the remarkable correspondence that relates a gravitational theory to nongravitational physics. Accessible to anyone with a standard course in general relativity, this is an important resource for graduate students and researchers in general relativity, string theory and high energy physics.
The purpose of this contribution is to give an etymology to two Occitan words regarded as of unknown origin by the FEW. Velay
‘a kind of thrush’ is a regular issue of Old Occitan
‘of Provence’. The ...nasalized form
is a phono-stylistic and zoolectal variant of
Red clover is a perennial forage crop rich in isoflavones, the bioactive compounds with a positive effect on human and animal health. The aim of the research was to determine a variation in the ...isoflavone contents in the Croatian red clover collection and to identify the most promising materials to be used in the breeding program for the development of new cultivars for specific purposes. Leaf samples of 29 red clover cultivars/populations (two cultivars, twenty breeding populations, and seven local populations) were collected in a full flowering stage, and the identification and quantification of isoflavones was performed using the HPLC analysis. The most common isoflavones in the red clover cultivars/populations were formononetin and biochanin A. A significant variation among the cultivars/populations in the total and individual isoflavone content was determined. The populations with very high and low contents of both the total and of the individual isoflavones were identified to be used for the breeding purposes in order to develop new forage cultivars, or for specific goals in the pharmaceutical industry.
Crvena djetelina višegodišnja je krmna kultura bogata izoflavonima, bioaktivnim spojevima s pozitivnim utjecajem na zdravlje ljudi i životinja. Cilj istraživanja bio je utvrditi varijabilnost sadržaja izoflavona hrvatske kolekcije crvene djeteline te identificirati najzanimljivije materijale koji će se koristiti u oplemenjivačkome programu za razvoj novih sorata za specifične namjene. Uzorci lista prikupljeni su u stadiju pune cvatnje iz 29 sorata/populacija crvene djeteline (dvije sorte, dvadeset oplemenjivačkih populacija, sedam lokalnih populacija), a identifikacija i kvantifikacija izoflavona obavljena je pomoću HPLC analize. Najzastupljeniji izoflavoni u sortama/populacijama crvene djeteline bili su formononetin i biohanin A. Utvrđena je značajna varijabilnost među sortama/populacijama u sadržaju ukupnih i individualnih izoflavona. Identificirane su populacije s vrlo visokim i niskim sadržajem kako ukupnih, tako i pojedinačnih izoflavona koje će se koristiti u oplemenjivačke svrhe za razvoj novih krmnih kultivara ili za specifične namjene u farmaceutskoj industriji.
Istraživanje vegetativne razvijenosti i rodnosti sorti lijeske provedena su u dva pokusan voćnjaka u Istri. U prvom pokusnom voćnjaku istraživanja su obuhvatila sorte: Fertile de Coutard, Cosford, ...Gunslebert, Istarski duguljasti, Merveille de Bollwiller, Magonca i Tonda Gentile Romana na podlozi Corylus colurna, a uzgojene u obliku stabla s krošnjom u obliku vaze. Razmak sadnje je 5 x 5 m (400 stabala/ha). Sve su sorte postigle dobru vegetativnu razvijenost na kraju 6. vegetacije. Veću bujnost od ostalih 6 sorti, postigla je sorta Fertile de Coutard. Razlika je visoko signifikantna. Podjednaku vegetativnu razvijenost postigle su ostalih 6 sorti. Najveći prirod postigla je sorta Cosford, a slijede je Fertile de Coutard, Istarski duguljasti, Tonda Romana, Magonca i Gunslebert, a najmanji sorta Merveille de Bollwiller. U drugom pokusnom voćnjaku, istraživana je vegetativna razvijenost i rodnost sorti: Istarski duguljasti, Tonda Gentile Romana i Fertile de Coutard uzgojene na vlastitom korijenu u obliku grmolike vaze s razmakom 4,5 x 4,5 m (493 stabla/ha). Na kraju 6. vegetacije sve su sorte postigle dobru razvijenost. Veću bujnost od sorte Istarski duguljasti postigle su sorte Fertile de Coutard i Tonda Gentile Romana. Podjednak prirod utvrđen je za sorte na vlastitom korijenu. Usporedbom vegetativne razvijenosti stabala na vlastitom korijenu i podlozi Corylus colurna utvrđeno je da su sve tri sorte na podlozi Corylus colurna postigle znatno veću bujnost. Usporedbom rodnosti sorti Istarski duguljasti, Tonda Romana i Fertile de Coutard na vlastitom korijenu i istih sorti na podlozi Corylus colurna ustanovljeno je da su sve 3 sorte dale znatno veći prirod na podlozi Corylus colurna. Istraživanja su obuhvatila utjecaj podloge na kemijski sastav lišća sorti: Fertile de Coutard, Istarski duguljasti i Tonda Gentile Romana. Provedena je analiza uzroka prijevremenog opadanja plodova.
Malcolm X: From Political Eschatology to Religious Revolutionary offers a variety of historical, religious and philosophical perspectives into the significance of Malcolm X's life and thought today.
This monograph represents an expansion and deepening of previous works by Ole J. Benedictow - the author of highly esteemed monographs and articles on the history of plague epidemics and historical ...demography. In the form of a collection of articles, the author presents an in-depth monographic study on the history of plague epidemics in Scandinavian countries and on controversies of the microbiological and epidemiological fundamentals of plague epidemics.
Resumo Como escritora da literatura americana, sendo chinesa, Amy Tan nasceu e cresceu nos Estados Unidos. Em suas obras, nota-se, por vezes, o aparecimento de marcas da língua chinesa, que é ...evidente, por vezes, no discurso de uma pessoa bilíngue. Além disso, suas obras também estão repletas de palavras culturais fortemente ligadas à cultura tradicional chinesa que, ao serem traduzidas, encontram lacunas lexicais na língua alvo, produzindo divergências e perdas de significação. Através da análise do hibridismo linguístico e cultural na tradução portuguesa da The Joy Luck Club dela, pretendemos destacar como estes fenômenos híbridos são transpostos do texto-fonte para o texto-alvo, ajudando, assim, os leitores a compreender melhor as funções e os resultados tradutológicos destes fenômenos híbridos.
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