Caenis limai sp. n. is described from the Veerapandi River in Theni, South India based on the larva, adult, and egg stages. The total number of Caenis species in India thereby is being augmented to ...eleven. The most closely related species to Caenis limai sp. n. is Caenis ulmeriana Malzacher,
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and the comparisons between both species are discussed herewith. The most important male subimaginal characters of Caenis americani Srinivasan et al., 2021 is described for the first time.
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The rise of cinema as the predominant American entertainment around the turn of the last century coincided with the migration of hundreds of thousands of African Americans from the South to the urban ..."land of hope" in the North. This richly illustrated book, discussing many early films and illuminating black urban life in this period, is the first detailed look at the numerous early relationships between African Americans and cinema. It investigates African American migrations onto the screen, into the audience, and behind the camera, showing that African American urban populations and cinema shaped each other in powerful ways. Focusing on Black film culture in Chicago during the silent era,Migrating to the Moviesbegins with the earliest cinematic representations of African Americans and concludes with the silent films of Oscar Micheaux and other early "race films" made for Black audiences, discussing some of the extraordinary ways in which African Americans staked their claim in cinema's development as an art and a cultural institution.
John Ogbu has studied minority education from a comparative perspective for over 30 years. The study reported in this book--jointly sponsored by the community and the school district in Shaker ...Heights, Ohio--focuses on the academic performance of Black American students. Not only do these students perform less well than White students at every social class level, but also less well than immigrant minority students, including Black immigrant students. Furthermore, both middle-class Black students in suburban school districts, as well as poor Black students in inner-city schools are not doing well. Ogbu's analysis draws on data from observations, formal and informal interviews, and statistical and other data. He offers strong empirical evidence to support the cross-class existence of the problem.
The book is organized in four parts:
*Part I provides a description of the twin problems the study addresses--the gap between Black and White students in school performance and the low academic engagement of Black students; a review of conventional explanations; an alternative perspective; and the framework for the study.
*Part II is an analysis of societal and school factors contributing to the problem, including race relations, Pygmalion or internalized White beliefs and expectations, levelling or tracking, the roles of teachers, counselors, and discipline.
* Community factors --the focus of this study--are discussed in Part III. These include the educational impact of opportunity structure, collective identity, cultural and language or dialect frame of reference in schooling, peer pressures, and the role of the family. This research focus does not mean exonerating the system and blaming minorities, nor does it mean neglecting school and society factors. Rather, Ogbu argues, the role of community forces should be incorporated into the discussion of the academic achievement gap by researchers, theoreticians, policymakers, educators, and minorities themselves who genuinely want to improve the academic achievement of African American children and other minorities.
*In Part IV, Ogbu presents a summary of the study's findings on community forces and offers recommendations--some of which are for the school system and some for the Black community.
Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagement is an important book for a wide range of researchers, professionals, and students, particularly in the areas of Black education, minority education, comparative and international education, sociology of education, educational anthropology, educational policy, teacher education, and applied anthropology.
Non è certo un caso che Dreams from My Father, singolare caso di autobiografia scritta a poco più di trent’anni, cominci con questo episodio: Barack Obama, futuro presidente degli Stati Uniti, e ...allora ventunenne studente di legge a New York, riceve una telefonata imprevista. E’ nella sua disadorna stanza di studente di legge a East Harlem, è mattina, sta preparando la colazione. La comunicazione è disturbata e breve. E dopo che la zia lontana gli ha comunicato in questo modo brusco e quasi surreale la notizia della morte del padre, Barack resta solo: “I sat down on the couch, smelling eggs burn in the kitchen, staring at cracks in the plaster, trying to measure my loss.” Obama prende le mosse da qui per narrare nel libro la storia della sua vita; che è anche e soprattutto la storia della sua famiglia, e al tempo stesso la storia della conquista della sua identità. Una storia che nasce da un albero genealogico così variegato e complesso che senza dubbio sarà difficilmente superato da quello di altri inquilini della Casa Bianca.
Le visits home dei soldati italo-americani durante la Campagna d’Italia (1943-1945). Tra turismo di guerra, homecoming e diaspora tourism Francesco Fusi, si è laureato in Scienze Storiche presso l’Università di Firenze e ha conseguito il Dottorato di ricerca in Storia presso l’Università di Pisa. Tra i suoi principali ambiti di studio vi sono la storia politica ed elettorale dell’Italia contemporanea, l’antifascismo, la Resistenza e la Seconda guerra mondiale. Collabora e ha collaborato con l’Istituto Storico Toscano della Resistenza e dell’età contemporanea ed è vincitore del Franklin Research Grant (2017-2018) dell’American Philosophical Society di Philadelphia. Tra le sue ultime pubblicazioni: L’Italia centrale. Estate 1944 in FULVETTI, Gianluca, PEZZINO, Paolo (a cura di), Zone di Guerra, Geografie di Sangue. L’Atlante delle stragi naziste e fasciste in Italia (1943-1945), Bologna, Il Mulino, 2017, pp. 267-280; (con PRETELLI, Marco), Fighting alongside the Allies in Italy: The War of Soldiers of Italian Descent against the Land of their Ancestors, in SICA, Emanuele, CARRIER, Richard (edited by), Italy and the Second World War: Alternative Perspectives, Leiden, Brill, 2018, pp 299-324.
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During the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of American soldiers of Italian origin were enrolled in the US Armed Forces. Among those who fought in the Italian Campaign (1943-1945), many used ...their leaves to visit the country and its natural and artistic sights, but foremost to travel to their places of origin. Their visits home, often lasting some days, established stable and continuous contacts in the post-war period as part of root tourism or war tourism. This essay analyzes the visits home of these Italian-American soldiers as a particular form of diaspora tourism, focusing on the way which homecoming engraved on their sense of identity and ethnic-cultural belonging.
This article examines Italian-Americans' reaction to the Fascist embrace of anti-Semitism in 1938, primarily by means of a perusal of the Italian-language press in the U.S. It argues that the ...newcomers and their offspring usually failed to distance themselves from the regime's racial turn because of pre-existing rivalries and resentment towards U.S. Jews. It also holds that, although Italian-Americans hardly subscribed to the Fascist ideology, which cannot be confined to anti-Jewish theories only, the notion that the Italian people were a race of their own helped the immigrants and their descendants strengthen a sense of ethnic identity based on their common national extraction and, thus, further allowed for the penetration of anti-Semitic propaganda into the Little Italies.
La rappresentazione degli italiani nell’immaginario statunitense Stefano LUCONI insegna storia degli Stati Uniti presso l’Università di Padova. I suoi principali campi di studio sono l’emigrazione italiana negli Stati uniti e il sistema politico americano. Tra le sue pubblicazioni: L’immigrazione negli Stati Uniti, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008; La questione razziale negli Stati Uniti. Dalla ricostruzione a Barack Obama, Padova, Cluep, 2008; (con Guido TINTORI) L’ombra lunga del fascio: canali di propaganda fascista per gli italiani d’America, Milano, M&B publishing, 2004; From Paesani to White Ethnics, New York, State University of New York Press, 2001.
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L’originario giudizio positivo della società statunitense verso gli italiani subì una progressiva involuzione a causa della provenienza dal Meridione di una crescente maggioranza degli immigrati che ...giunsero in America dall’Italia a partire dagli anni Settanta dell’Ottocento. Gli italiani e i loro discendenti furono a lungo considerati individui inferiori agli anglo-sassoni, difficilmente assimilabili, propensi alla violenza, inclini alla criminalità, fautori del radicalismo politico e concorrenti sleali sul mercato del lavoro. Tale valutazione fu alimentata in parte dalla scarsa considerazione di cui l’Italia godette negli Stati Uniti, ad eccezione di un breve periodo durante il fascismo, in parte dal lento inserimento sociale degli immigrati, e ha iniziato a essere superata soltanto alla fine del Novecento.
