By the beginning of the Civil War, African-American newspapers had become an indispensable ally for African Americans in their struggle for equal rights throughout the United States with at least ...thirty-eight of these papers printed and distributed throughout the nation and beyond.1 As self-proclaimed reformers, the African-American writers, publishers, and editors of the antebellum black press became the leaders of political mobilization efforts that cut across class, age, and gender, simultaneously fighting against slavery and the social and legal degradation of free blacks everywhere.2 Thus, the founders of the black press created newspapers both of and for black Americans, which were instrumental in black identity formation and in defense of the fundamental rights of African-descended people everywhere. In addition to serving an essential role in the abolitionist movement, these papers strove to give a public voice to blacks, to alleviate prejudice in American society, and to generally improve the condition of African Americans throughout the nation.4 Moreover, as this study demonstrates, the antebellum black press was fundamental in the political mobilization and empowerment of African Americans at both the community and national levels.
Events during the last several years—such as Hurricane Katrina, the earthquake in Haiti, the Southeast Asian tsunami, and continuing droughts in Africa—vividly illustrate the vulnerability of human ...society to environmental disturbances. That vulnerability lies in both the nature and magnitude of hazards in the environment and in the configurations (institutions, policies, practices) of human societies. We unintentionally play an essential role in creating our vulnerabilities. The concepts of resilience and vulnerability in coupled social-ecological systems have proved increasingly important for analyzing the human dimensions of environmental disturbance and change (Janssen and Ostrom 2006)—in the sense of this
High-Impact Practices for Regional Reform in Utah Morin, Matthew; Taylor, John R; Peeples, Jennifer ...
Peer review : emerging trends and key debates in undergraduate education,
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The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) Faculty Collaborative's initiative's charge to create sustainable networks for innovation across state systems invites the development of ...a new genre of higher education reform literature, a body of work directed toward high-impact practices that are systemic, regional in scope, and sustainable. ...the team gathered information and tested assumptions on teacher training and contingent faculty needs through workshops and questionnaires across Utah's institutions. ...the group needed to tie initiatives together, clarify how they communicate with and reinforce one another, and keep conversations focused on student learning and educational quality.
It is a challenging task to contribute something new to the literature on risk and subsistence in the U.S. Southwest. For the past 25 or 30 years Southwestern archaeologists have modeled, ...investigated, and published on this topic in entire volumes devoted to the issue (e.g., Gumerman 1988; Tainter and Tainter 1996) and in individual books and articles (e.g., Anschuetz 2006; Braun and Plog 1982; Ford 1992; Minnis 1985; Rautman 1993). In reviewing this literature, however, one area that appears to be in need of further consideration is the link between specific risks regarding agricultural production and specific strategies to mitigate
Life beyond the Boundariesexplores identity formation on the edges of the ancient Southwest. Focusing on some of the more poorly understood regions, including the Jornada Mogollon, the Gallina, and ...the Pimería Alta, the authors use methods drawn from material culture science, anthropology, and history to investigate themes related to the construction of social identity along the perimeters of the American Southwest.
Through an archaeological lens, the volume examines the social experiences of people who lived in edge regions. Through mobility and the development of extensive social networks, people living in these areas were introduced to the ideas and practices of other cultural groups. As their spatial distances from core areas increased, the degree to which they participated in the economic, social, political, and ritual practices of ancestral core areas increasingly varied. As a result, the social identities of people living in edge zones were often-though not always-fluid and situational.
Drawing on an increase of available information and bringing new attention to understudied areas, the book will be of interest to scholars of Southwestern archaeology and other researchers interested in the archaeology of low-populated and decentralized regions and identity formation.Life beyond the Boundariesconsiders the various roles that edge regions played in local and regional trajectories of the prehistoric and protohistoric Southwest and how place influenced the development of social identity.
Contributors
:Lewis Borck, Dale S. Brenneman, Jeffery J. Clark, Severin Fowles, Patricia A. Gilman, Lauren E. Jelinek, Myles R. Miller, Barbara J. Mills, Matthew A. Peeples, Kellam Throgmorton, James T. Watson
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