Queer Relationality as Family: Yas Fats! Yas Femmes! Yas Asians!

ABSTRACT

In this essay, we, as queer subjects, share our embodied experiences to rearticulate and reimagine possible and impossible performances of queer relationality as family. We collaboratively pay careful and nuanced attention to our queer performative roles of becoming and being femmes as referring points of this critical queer engagement. To do so, we adapt methodological implications of autoethnography and intersectional reflexivity. Thereby, we take further steps to explore an anti-anti-relational landscape of queerness that works on and against hegemonic, heteronormative, and homonormative paradigms of relating.     

Richmond Barthé: Black Homoeroticism and the Raptures of the Hermaphroditic Body

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African American sculptor Richmond Barthé (1901–1989) conjoined issues of sexuality and race in works that foreground the aesthetic worth of Black bodies. While exposing Western figuration practices that exclude Black people from artistic visibility, Barthé also targeted the African American distaste for the explicit treatment of nudity. Barthé’s androgynous sculptures have by now become the trademark of his art, but Barthésian scholarship still neglects the significance of a small group of statues, which de-emphasize the aura of same-sex desire, in order to explore the intricacies of corporeal ambisexuality. In view of his homoerotic depictions and the presence of the hermaphrodite at the core of his disruption of the sexual dichotomy, the frequent assumption that Barthé remained “closeted all his life” does not stand critical scrutiny. Instead of taking refuge in the sexual closet, Barthé debunked the man/woman binary as the foremost epistemic construct that prompts the societal need for sexual self-misrepresentations.     

香港赛马会赛事规例特征的解读

香港赛马赛事规例从幼稚走向成熟,在融浸了社会发展的特征及一般规律之后,逐步成为香港赛马重要的法制依据,具体特征有:以风险控制为中心、以追求赛事公平为灵魂、强调终点一致、严格的组织体系及权责、争议结果裁决于仲裁手段。     

试论爱伦·坡的种族观

出于对国家未来的焦虑,爱伦.坡把当时美国社会尖锐的种族问题巧妙融入小说叙事中。他用隐喻、象征等多种艺术手法,对残酷的奴隶制和种族压迫进行了无情的批判和鞭挞,对黑奴的悲惨遭遇表达了深切的同情和怜悯。然而,坡深受南方传统文化的熏陶,其思想上的保守因子导致种族立场的局限性和不彻底性。为了避免过分触及种族问题而陷入政治漩涡,他在小说中采取一种调和策略,即一种既不触怒白人读者、又能为大多数黑人所接受的"平均种族主义"。坡竭力在小说中构建一个没有种族歧视、种族迫害的理想世界,表达了对黑人、白人等多种族和谐共存的美好憧憬。     

中外中长跑训练负荷强度安排特征比较研究

通过对中外学者关于耐力项目运动强度研究得出的生理实验数据和中外教练在耐力项目-／OIl练强度上的安排特征进行比较分析发现：中外生理实验数据指标都与两极化训练研究得出的结论一致;国外教练员在体能类耐力项目训练强度的安排上采用两极化训练模式。使运动员长期保持良好的竞技状态,从而创造出个人最佳成绩;中国教练把提高无氧乳酸能力作为训练重点,易造成运动员肌体交感神经系统活动能力下降而伴随有激素疲劳综合征,从而缩短了其运动员竞技生涯．     

“内伤”与“外伤”的双重煎熬——再议福克纳笔下的创伤

威廉·福克纳被公认为南方文学的代表者及美国南方文艺复兴的支柱,他独具匠心地勾勒出一个由创伤编织的世界,再现了社会变革的种种阵痛,揭开了人们难以痊愈的创伤。通过突显主人公的性属创伤和种族创伤,揭露内伤与外伤双重煎熬下创伤的升华,不仅更好地刻画了人物,而且形成一种巨大的张力,深深地触及时代的脉搏,在丰富作品文化内涵的同时,亦拓展了作品的现实意义。     

福克纳种族观之变化——《喧哗与骚动》,《去吧,摩西》和《闯入坟墓者》

作为20世纪美国南方最著名的作家之一,对黑人生活的和种族问题的关注是福克纳小说中不可忽视的组成部分。他痛恨种族歧视,同情黑人的命运,并赞美黑人身上的优秀品质,但是在当遇到彻底解决南方奴隶制的问题时,福克纳无论在作品里还是言论中都表现出复杂而矛盾的态度。由于受到时代,社会,家庭和自身局限性的限制,在三部不同时期的作品中福克纳对于种族观点的变化可以清晰地体现出来。     

Reflective Practices for Engaging in Trauma-Informed Culturally Competent Supervision

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Race, ethnicity, and culture are critical components that affect and shape the supervisory relationship, yet literature about ways to acknowledge and actively engage them from a trauma-informed approach has been limited. To enhance the discussion of this issue, this article first reviews leading theoretical aspects of supervision designed to train practitioners in the field of mental health, followed by a discussion of race, ethnicity, and culture in supervision and, finally, provides reflective practices for engaging in trauma-informed culturally competent supervision.     

Racial/ethnic disparities in US college students’ experience: Discrimination as an impediment to academic performance

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Objective and Participants: Using data from 69,722 US undergraduates participating in the spring 2015 National College Health Assessment, we examine racial/ethnic differences in students’ experience of discrimination. Method: Logistic regression predicted the experience of discrimination and its reported negative effect on academics. Additional models examined the effect of attending a Minority Serving Institution (MSI). Results: Discrimination was experienced by 5–15% of students, with all racial/ethnic minority groups examined- including Black, Hispanic, Asian, AI/NA/NA, and Multiracial students- more likely to report discrimination relative to White students. Of students who experienced discrimination, 15–25% reported it had negatively impacted their academic performance, with Hispanic and Asian students more likely to report negative impacts relative to White students. Attending an MSI was associated with decreased experiences of discrimination. Conclusion: Students from racial/ethnic minority backgrounds are disproportionately affected by discrimination, with negative impacts for academic performance that are particularly marked for Hispanic and Asian students.     

Production Teams and Producing Racial Diversity in Workplace Relationships

Production teams have become a dominant form of work organization as labor markets have become increasingly diverse. This transition likely affects coworker networks—possibly undermining entrenched patterns of workplace segregation. Contact theory suggests that teams can foster network diversity when workers cooperate and share values emphasizing mutual respect. Yet variants of conflict theory, including the critical teams literature, contend that the benefits of teamwork may be eroded by associated factors, including peer discipline, work intensification, and job insecurity. This study uses 2006 General Social Survey data to assess whether and how teamwork affects the racial diversity of worker acquaintance networks, contrasting worker‐ and manager‐directed teams. We find a positive relationship between teams and diversity, but only when teams are worker directed. Despite countervailing tendencies highlighted in the literature, teams foster greater cooperation between workers, which in turn promotes cross‐racial friendships. African Americans tend to receive the greatest diversity payoffs from teams. These findings suggest that teamwork can undermine segregation, though only with certain implementations and with variation across groups.