Resisting Fragmentation,Living Whole

SUMMARY

This paper presents interviews with four male-to-female transgender students of color under the age of 21 at an alternative school in the Northeast. The interviews expose the need to advocate for education that acknowledges and addresses the ways that race, sexuality, class, ethnicity, and gender together inform life experience and identity, especially within the context of educational institutions. These interviews point to the need to include an activist-oriented curriculum in schools, a curriculum relevant to the lives of gay, lesbian, and transgender students of color.     

The Structural Components of Violence in Black Male-Female Relationships

Abstract

An Afrocentric perspective provides a point of departure for the understanding of black male-female violence. American society is defined by and derived from core or dominant values, which have differentially impacted its diverse populations. The Lens Model presented in this discourse focuses on these values as being counterproductive for black male-female relationships. Capitalism, racism, sexism and the Judeo-Christian ethic comprise the four-prong institutional or structural value components of the Lens Model. This dynamic framework is instructive as it helps social scientists view domestic violence in black adult relationships from a different perspective. The Lens Model has a connection to the “scientific method” which purports detachment, objectivity, and impartiality.     

No brokeback for black men: pathologizing black male (homo)sexuality through down low discourse

In recent years, the down low phenomenon has received unprecedented attention in both the popular and academic press. However, much of this work has focused on exploring whether men on the down low present a unique threat for HIV infection to black women. Currently, there exist very few scholarly or popular works exploring the meaning attached to the down low, not only by those who promote the label for academic studies or for media dispersal. In this essay, I shed new light on the meanings attached to the down low by the popular press, critically evaluating how it is used to create a category that is marked by an undesirable categorization of black men, and provide an argument as to why black men who have sex with men may adopt the label for themselves.     

Transit justice as spatial justice: learning from activists

ABSTRACT

The provision of mass urban transit is frequently tied to agendas of social justice and equity. Yet there are persistent challenges to locating justice within urban mobility regimes. Drawing on two cases of transit activism – Free Transit Toronto and Black Lives Matter in the San Francisco Bay Area – this paper identifies three limitations to transport justice scholarship and practice, namely the theorization of mobility, space, and justice. These activist struggles demonstrate that justice cannot be adequately defined through an abstract accounting of how harms and benefits are distributed, but also concerns the contextual and conflictual processes of producing space and subjects.     

Institutions,inculcation, and black racial identity: pigmentocracy vs. the rule of hypodescent

This research paper investigates the effect political institutions have on black racial identity. In particular, I study individual inculcation in contexts where political institutions institutionalize either of two forms of racial social structures – a pigmentocracy (the Dominican Republic), or the rule of hypodescent (the US South), and the effect such inculcation has on black racial identity. I sampled 101 respondents from the Dominican Republic and 102 from the state of Mississippi, USA. Consistent with the basic assumptions of my hypotheses, respondents in the Dominican Republic study sites showed a weaker degree of identification with blackness vis-à-vis something ‘whiter’. Nevertheless, respondents in the Dominican Republic sites demonstrated a stronger identification with blackness than what most conventional observers would have anticipated. Respondents in the Mississippi study sites showed a stronger sense of identification with blackness. Surprisingly, however, Mississippi respondents demonstrated a larger degree of neutrality than expected in their belief of being of a mixed racial heritage rather than just a black African heritage.     

权力之眼的一瞥——析《弗兰克·莱斯利新闻画报》对美国内战后南方黑人教育的图片报道

以《弗兰克·莱斯利新闻画报》1866年刊登的几幅有关南方被解放奴隶学校的图片为例,说明视觉报道在美国内战后南方的黑人教育中所起的作用。该画报对南方黑人教育的视觉报道是带有偏见的选择性报道,这些报道为北方的白人提供了一个观察南方黑人教育的窗口,使他们可以通过其权力之眼来监督和控制南方的黑人教育。     

英汉“黑色”隐喻映射文化透视对比

分析指出,隐喻是源域事物的部分特征向目标域映射的结果,颜色是最常见的隐喻源之一。通过对比分析英汉语言中的＂黑色＂的隐喻映射普遍性与差异性,有利于揭示产生二者异同的民族文化心理动因。     

汉英语言中“黑色”的文化差异及翻译

汉英语言中存在着巨大的文化差异,其中颜色词的差异很容易导致人们理解的误区。本文着重研究了汉英语言中黑色的文化差异及翻译的问题,力求更好地促进民族间语言和文化的交流。     

绝望深处的笑声——论余华的《在细雨中呼喊》

作为余华的第一部长篇小说,《在细雨中呼喊》带给人们的并不仅仅是历史的沉重和悲凉,也不仅仅是成长的恐惧和绝望,还有一幕幕滑稽与荒诞的反抗、一次次幽默与夸张的嘲解。正是这些浸满泪水的“笑声”,使它摆脱了对历史苦难的简单控诉,并呈现出“黑色幽默”的审美特质。文本分别从其精神意蕴、叙事方式以及语言等方面,分析了它所具备的黑色幽默之特征,并进而指出了这种审美追求在余华后期创作中的重要意义。     

新巴塞尔协议中信用风险管理IRB法解析

为研究商业银行的信用风险管理问题,对新巴塞尔协议中信用风险管理IRB法进行系统分析,概括其基本框架,并通过详细解析其设定的4种风险要素函数来解释目前我国商业银行在运用各种信用风险管理模型时存在“黑箱”的原因,同时,探讨该方法与各种信用风险管理模型的兼容关系,通过解析信用风险管理模型中各种风险要素函数设定的内在逻辑关系,总结目前我国商业银行应用IRB法时存在的各种数据估计上的困难,从而得出应对各种困难的对策。