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Previous articleNext article FreeContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreKristian Bernt Karlson is associate professor of sociology at the University of Copenhagen. His research centers on educational and social stratification. Karlson was awarded the 2022 Raymond Boudon Award for Early Career Achievement in Sociology by the European Academy of Sociology. His recent work appears in Sociological Science, Social Science Research, and Sociological Methods and Research.Heeju Sohn, PhD, is a demographer and a scholar of social inequality in the Department of Sociology at Emory University.Paige L. Sweet is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Michigan. Her book, The Politics of Surviving: How Women Navigate Domestic Violence and Its Aftermath, was published by University of California Press in 2021.Martin Hällsten is professor of sociology at Stockholm University. His research broadly concerns the generation and consequences of inequality and has mainly been focused on intergenerational inequality processes, educational choice, ethnic inequality, and how social relations convey trust and tolerance.Martin Kolk is associate professor in demography at the Sociology Department at Stockholm University and the Institute for Future studies in Stockholm. He works on a diverse set of topics in demography and adjacent fields, including the demography of same-sex marriage, historical demography, and contemporary childbearing patterns. He has published extensively on kinship and how it is related to social mobility.Jaime Kucinskas is associate professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at Hamilton College. In her research, she examines the constitutive institutional conditions under which people engage in moral sensemaking. She is the author of The Mindful Elite and coeditor of Situating Spirituality: Context, Practice and Power (Oxford University Press).Yvonne Zylan is a sociologist and attorney who has taught at the University of Arizona, Hamilton College, the University of New Mexico, Thomson Rivers University Faculty of Law, and the University of British Columbia Allard School of Law. She is the author of States of Passion: Law, Identity, and the Social Construction of Desire, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2011. She currently works as a senior law clerk at the New Mexico Supreme Court.Felix Elwert, PhD, is professor of sociology and affiliated professor of biostatistics and population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the editor-in-chief of Sociological Methods and Research. He conducts research on methods of causal inference, social inequality, health, and education.Tamás Keller, PhD, is a senior researcher at the Centre for Social Sciences and the Institute of Economics in the Center for Economic and Regional Studies, Budapest, Hungary. He conducts research on education and social inequality.Andreas Kotsadam is a senior researcher at the Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research as well as professor of economics at the University of Oslo, Norway. Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by American Journal of Sociology Volume 128, Number 6May 2023 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/725999 © 2023 The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

DNA isolation at a distance: Undergraduate experiential learning to create a virtual elementary outreach program.

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the realities of science education, and the move to remote learning has made laboratory instruction particularly challenging. Extensive efforts have been made to design virtual labs,1, 2 including efforts to create at-home wet lab experiments.3 In addition to remote wet labs, we experienced an additional challenge: continuing our elementary outreach program. Each year we host a STEM outreach for several hundred local students. Undergraduates help guide elementary students through an activity isolating their own DNA from cheek cells. To address the need for remote labs and to continue our elementary outreach program, we united the two in a virtual experiential learning approach. Undergraduate students, faculty, and instructional design staff worked collaboratively to create an interactive video of DNA isolation and a YouTube channel, SciKids Network, to share the digital content. Experiential outreach opportunities improve academic performance and STEM enthusiasm in both elementary students4, 5 and their undergraduate mentors.6, 7 With the suspension of our outreach program, we sought to continue this valuable experience through a virtual format. Working collaboratively, undergraduate students adapted the lab-based DNA isolation protocol to a version that could be easily performed at home. They converted metric units to US customary units, and identified reagents and equipment commonly available in a kitchen. Students learned how to trouble-shoot as they independently iterated through the protocol. After finalizing the at-home method (Figure 1a), students filmed themselves performing the protocol using smartphones or other devices. They provided age-appropriate commentary and instructions for their elementary audience. Student film clips were edited together into a single, cohesive video for the elementary audience. We used Adobe Premiere and Adobe Illustrator to create the final video, adding visual and auditory aids to improve the clarity of instructions and engagement. Three major goals for the outreach video were to: (1) make science fun and accessible, (2) teach the concept of DNA through a hands-on activity, and (3) create an inclusive experience for elementary students. By compiling many students' clips, we sought to celebrate diversity and show elementary students that everyone can be a scientist (Figure 1b). Studies have demonstrated that early intervention in elementary students' perception of scientists can increase enthusiasm and participation in STEM, particularly for underrepresented groups.8 Our pre-pandemic outreach program was geographically limited to local schools, and the move to a virtual format created the opportunity to reach a broader audience. To share the video, we developed a new YouTube channel, SciKids Network (Figure 1c, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU23sXeFXVm98ScDcXRAmbA), hosted by our institution. We will continue to create biology content for the channel, as well as broaden the scope to other STEM fields. While remote learning has been challenging, it stimulated us to develop a digital outreach platform that connects with a larger audience, offers more equitable access to learning opportunities, and is primed for future growth of content to promote STEM literacy. We would like to thank the students who created the video content: Pablo Reina-Gonzalez, Emnet Sisay, and Shelby McVey. We would like to thank our instructional designer, Sacharja Cunningham for his support with software and the channel creation and our graphic designer, Brad Lewthwaite for his logo designs for SciKids network, as well as Hamilton College LITS and Communications departments. Our project was supported by the Social Innovation and Transformational Leadership Grant from the Hamilton College Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center and by the National Science Foundation: grant MCB-1925546.

The Piano

The Piano Lea Nagy (bio) Translation from the French Click for larger view View full resolution Click for larger view View full resolution In your living room wasa bone-colored piano.In boredom we presseda key.We even sang.Do you remember?You know, just sosomething fills yourrented apartment in Buda,and recovers its moldy silence.At the time we wereboth still beautiful.It was fall.I saw you lessand less.I could not sleep.Still can't. [End Page 17] Lea Nagy Lea Nagy is the recipient of an NKA grant (National Cultural Fund of Hungary). She has published two poetry collections, Kōhullás / Whirlwind and Légörvény / Stone Fall, with Editions Napkút in Budapest. She won the prize for Best Young Hungarian Poet in 2018. A French collection, Le chaos en spectacle, just came out from Éditions du Cygne in Paris. Hélène Cardona Hélène Cardona received her MA in American literature from the Sorbonne and has authored five translations and three collections. Her awards include the Independent Press and International Book Awards. She worked as a translator for the Canadian Embassy, taught at Hamilton College and Loyola Marymount University, and received the Royal Society of Arts Translation Diploma (Cambridge). Copyright © 2022 World Literature Today and the Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma

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Film Review: Forsaken Fragments

Review| June 01 2022 Film Review: Forsaken Fragments Forsaken Fragments by Robert Gardner, 50 min., 2021. Scott MacDonald Scott MacDonald Scott MacDonald’s many books on independent cinema include collections of interviews with independent filmmakers, the five-volume Critical Cinema series from University of California Press, and more recently Avant-Doc: Intersections of Documentary and Avant-Garde Cinema (2014) and The Sublimity of Document: Cinema as Diorama (Avant-Doc 2) (2019)—as well as explorations of particular moving-image artists and films/videos, and of institutions that have kept independent media alive. He teaches film history and programs film events at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2022) 49 (2): 104–109. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2022.49.2.104 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Scott MacDonald; Film Review: Forsaken Fragments. Afterimage 1 June 2022; 49 (2): 104–109. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2022.49.2.104 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAfterimage Search In October 2009 Bard College honored Robert Gardner’s filmmaking career, which included remarkable, if now sometimes controversial, contributions to ethnographic cinema—Dead Birds (1963), Rivers of Sand (1974), Deep Hearts (1981), Forest of Bliss (1986), and Ika Hands (1988)—as well as dozens of episodes of Screening Room, a late-night, Boston-area TV interview show that focused on independent filmmakers. For the Bard event, Gardner put together a fifty-minute compilation titled “Nine Forsaken Fragments.” In his comments at Bard, Gardner was diffident about the individual fragments or the compilation being considered finished films. As time has passed—along with Gardner himself in 2014, and Peter Hutton, who had organized the Bard event, in 2016—Gardner’s “fragments” have become something more than a compilation for a one-time occasion. In 2021, Documentary Educational Resources, the distributor of much of Gardner’s work, released Forsaken Fragments: a compilation of fourteen short pieces that together can be... You do not currently have access to this content.

Scholarly Milton ed. by Thomas Festa and Kevin J. Donovan

Reviewed by: Scholarly Milton ed. by Thomas Festa and Kevin J. Donovan Margaret Thickstun Scholarly Milton. Ed. by Thomas Festa and Kevin J. Donovan. Clemson, SC: Clemson University Press. 2019. vii+295 pp. $130. ISBN 978–042054–81–1. A book entitled Scholarly Milton and asking what it means ‘to historicize and theorize Milton’s work as a scholar’ by trying to clarify ‘the specific pressures affecting early modern scholarly exchange—epistemological, political, and theological’ (p. 2) appears intimidating, and the fact that it puts first a complex argument by Sharon Achinstein charting the shift in Milton’s attitude towards different available understandings of ‘scholarship’ as he wrote his divorce tracts might lead one to think that only extremely serious Miltonists should be reading it. That could not be further from the truth. The Introduction is admirably clear and informative. It lays out the basics of Milton’s education and intellectual life and the evolution of his thinking in relation to the political concerns of his time in ways that should orient a person new to this material at the same time as it provides a focused refreshment for someone more expert. The articles themselves offer engaging and thoughtful explorations of Milton’s work by grounding their analysis in specific seventeenth-century intellectual concerns. Most address Paradise Lost, and the collection as a whole demonstrates that [End Page 115] topics which may appear as dry as dust—how Milton taught grammatical tenses, for example—can instead result in rich and fresh understandings of this much-studied work. In the section addressing the ethical ends of learning, Sam Hushagen argues that Milton uses typological patterning to locate the fulfilment of God’s plan within history, thus preserving individual agency and foregrounding the exercise of reason. James Ross Macdonald puts the poem in conversation both with a sixth-century narrative of the Fall and Milton’s Art of Logic to suggest a more pessimistic attitude towards the ability to choose rightly through reason. J. Antonio Templanza distinguishes the Athens temptation in Paradise Regained from the Kingdoms of the World section to suggest that, in rejecting classical learning, Jesus champions the distinction between wisdom and knowledge, advocating a Socratic idea of education as process. Gardner Campbell uses Bateson’s concept of the double bind to show how the requirement to love and obey God creates a fruitful tension that may result in an individual’s higher level of understanding. Addressing Milton’s relation to the trivium, Emma Annette Wilson returns to the Art of Logic as the means to interrogate Empson’s assessment of Milton’s God, arguing that Milton justifies God by laying out ‘the cosmic structure to which we are all subject’, not by proving that God is ‘good’ (p. 125). Russell Hugh McConnell uses Milton’s Latin grammar to explore the way his deployment of tense in Paradise Lost draws attention to time, perspectives, and the nature of God. Joshua R. Held considers Raphael’s peroratio in Book viii in relation to examples in the Aeneid and the Pauline Epistles to argue that Raphael not only offers a successful peroration, but that his surpasses earlier models by addressing all the passions as it ties together his afternoon’s lesson. Placing Milton among scholars, Emma E. Stelzer investigates the moral significance of the ingredients Michael uses in purging Adam’s optic nerve to explore the question of visual perception and its connection to eloquence in Paradise Lost. Nicholas Allred demonstrates the way in which early finding aids, such as tables, indices, and concordances, both reveal how early modern readers engaged with the poem and shaped their understanding of what mattered. Edward Jones addresses the difficulties inherent both in editing the state letters and in determining how much control Milton might have had over the final versions. It should be clear that the essays in this volume speak to one another in fruitful ways; they foreground Milton the educator as much as Milton the scholar. Both educators and scholars will find it equally useful. Margaret Thickstun Hamilton College Copyright © 2022 Modern Humanities Research Association

Amassing Russica and Ucrainica: Memoirs of a Collector and His Collecting

ABSTRACT Over the course of the last several years I have made significant donations of Ukrainian and Russian books, manuscripts, art works, and ephemera to a number of institutions, most notably to the Bakhmeteff Archive/Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University, the Museum of Russian Icons (Clinton, MA), the Museum of Russian History (Holy Trinity Monastery, Jordanville, NY), and Special Collections at Hamilton College (Clinton, NY). The materials gifted to Columbia have been described as “probably one of the more significant collections of early imprints to come available in recent memory.” This memoir-essay explores my early and mature stages of collecting and the growing impact of study, teaching, and research at Columbia, in the Soviet Union, and at Hamilton College on subsequent focused acquisition of items, in particular relating to Pochayiv Lavra and Ukrainian rushnyky (ritual textiles).

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Stressed? Depressed? You are not alone

Many physicists find that establishing work–life balance is crucial to battling the COVID-related stresses of isolation, low productivity, and despondency.

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz Judith P. Hallett Quidam litterator ex Hiberis olim duos illustres Graecos poetas scaenicos, Sophoclen atque Euripiden,62 liberalissime laudavit, quod longe clarius opus eorum inlustraverunt.63 Haec progenies maximae in mundo urbis,64 haec femina non solum alacris et affabilis sed etiam litteratissima, omne corpus tragoediarum clarissime illuminavit, explicans quomodo mulieres dicerent et agerent. Amplexa sibi futuri curam65 apud academiam parientem multas Sapphica puellas Musa doctiores,66 est adepta gradum Baccalaureae Artis apud Collegium Urbis Novi Eboraci, sedem respiciendi adspiciendique prospiciendique.67 Adepta gradum Doctoris Philosophiae apud universitatem ubi scientia crescit et vita excolitur,68 in urbe ventosa, statim fiebat columen communitatis apud universitatem hortantem et praeceptores et praeceptos ut se scirent.69 Vindex iustitiae omnibus, societatem nostram locuplevit et munificum patronum nostrum beatae memoriae honoravit laboribus ingeniosis. Plaudamus igitur Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz. [End Page 478] An ancient Roman literary critic once praised the great Greek playwrights Sophocles and Euripides most generously, because they had shone a much more brilliant spotlight on their chosen genre. This native New Yorker, a woman not only energetic and outgoing but also of immense literary learning, has illuminated the entire corpus of Greek tragedies with exceptional brilliance, by analyzing and theorizing the words and actions of their female characters. One of the many accomplished and creatively inspirational Hunter College High School alumnae (and now alumni), she received her BA from the City College of New York. After earning her PhD from the University of Chicago, she joined the Hamilton College faculty, and immediately became the heart and soul of that college community. A champion of social justice, she has enriched our learned society, honoring the legacy of Jerry Clack by organizing lectures in his memory that entertain and instruct. Let us applaud Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz. [End Page 479] Judith P. Hallett University of Maryland, College Park Footnotes 62. Catullus 12. 14 nam sudaria Saetaba ex Hiberis; Catullus 14. 9 munus dat Sulla litterator. 63. Quintilian 10.1. 67 Sed longe clarius inlustraverunt hoc opus Sophocles et Euripides. 64. Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hunter College High School '98), "The Schuyler Sisters", Hamilton. Hamilton College was chartered in 1812 in honor of inaugural trustee Alexander Hamilton (1755–1804). 65. Mihi cura futuri, motto of Hunter College High School. Among its other graduates are Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, poet Audre Lord and classicists Alice Kober and Ann Raia. 66. Catullus 35.15–16 Sapphica puella, Musa doctior. 67. Respice, Adspice, Prospice, motto of the City College of New York. 68. Crescat scientia, vita excolatur, motto of the University of Chicago. 69. Gnothi Seauton =Know Thyself, motto of Hamilton College. Copyright © 2021 The Classical Association of the Atlantic States, Inc.

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Elias Sime: Tightrope curated by Tracy L. Adler Ruth

Elias Sime: Tightrope curated by Tracy L. Adler Ruth

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Current Opinion in Otolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery was launched in 1993. It is one of a successful series of review journals whose unique format is designed to provide a systematic and critical assessment of the literature as presented in the many primary journals. The fields of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery are divided into 11 sections that are reviewed once a year. Each section is assigned a Section Editor, a leading authority in the area, who identifies the most important topics at that time. Here we are pleased to introduce the Journal's Section Editors for this issue. Section Editors David A. ShayeDavid A. ShayeDr David Shaye is a Facial Plastic & Reconstructive surgeon at Massachusetts Eye & Ear and an Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School. He earned his undergraduate degree in physics at Hamilton College, going on to become a U.S. Department of State Fulbright Scholar studying HIV/AIDS in Dominica. He earned his medical degree at Albany Medical College and completed a residency in Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery at the University of California at Davis. Dr Shaye completed his fellowship in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery at the University of Minnesota. Dr Shaye focuses his research on global surgery, the delivery of surgical services to areas with limited resources. Specific research interests include cleft lip and palate, facial trauma, and surgical solutions in resource poor settings. Dr Shaye works with Doctors Without Borders in Nigeria, performing reconstructive surgery on children with Noma, a devastating oral facial gangrene that affects impoverished populations. He performs surgery for children with cleft lip and palate deformities in Zimbabwe, has collaborative research programs in Nepal to improve surgical access to remote regions, and has worked with the AO Alliance Facial Trauma Teaching Program to foster improved trauma education throughout low resource settings. Dr Shaye, his wife and 3 daughters relocate to Rwanda for 3 months per year where he operates and serves as faculty at the Central University Teaching Hospital in Kigali. Sherard A. TatumSherard A. TatumDr Tatum has dedicated his career to the reconstruction of children and adults with deformities of the face, head, and neck. He completed his undergraduate work at Rollins College in Winters Park, Florida, USA. He earned his medical degree at the University of South Florida, College of Medicine in Tampa, Florida, USA. He continued on to his residency in General Surgery and Otolaryngology at the Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. After his residency training, he went on to complete two fellowship years, one in craniomaxillofacial surgery at the University of Eppendorf in Hamburg, Germany, and one in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery at the University of California Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, USA. He is Board Certified in both otolaryngology and facial plastic and reconstructive surgery. He has been at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University, USA, since 1992, and is currently Interim Chair of Otolaryngology and Professor in Otolaryngology and Pediatrics. He is the Medical Director of the Central New York Cleft and Craniofacial Center, USA. He is Co-Director of the Craniomaxillofacial Surgery fellowship. He has given over 240 presentations and has authored, co-authored, or edited over 190 publications. He is active in the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, and the American Cleft Palate – Craniofacial Association. He is or has been on the editorial boards of the Archives of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Current Opinion in Otolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery. He specializes in cleft lip and cleft palate repair, orthognathic surgery, correction of craniosynostosis, and craniofacial syndromes such as Crouzon syndrome, Treacher Collins syndrome, Velo-cardio-facial syndrome, Pierre Robin sequence, and many others. He also performs trauma repair and reconstruction. He has been honored by Best Doctors in America, Patient's Choice, America's Best Physicians, and America's Top Plastic Surgeons. Dr Tatum has taken his expertise overseas to help children in Ekaterinaburg, Russia; Linyi, China; Ecuador; El Salvador, Vietnam, and Moldova. He has also traveled to Zagrab, Croatia, to do reconstructive work on those injured by the war. He has received service awards from the Onondaga County Medical Society, the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery for this work.

FR01-03 UNSUNG UROLOGIC HERO OF WORLD WAR I- GEORGE EMERSON BREWER

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE: George Emerson Brewer (1861-1939) is a little known nor recognized proto-urologist from New York City an early member of the American Urological Association. He was an internationally known innovative surgeon who became a colonel and early volunteer leading the U.S. Base Hospital, No. 2 on May 15, 1917. Here his unit provided many firsts for U.S. military medical units but one particular life and death struggle beckons. METHODS: A review of the literature of all aspects of Brewer′s remarkable life and writings was performed, including written materials and photographs at Columbia University′s Archives. We also had grateful access to the war journals of Harvey Cushing. RESULTS: Brewer was born in Westfield, NY on July 29, 1861 to Francis B. Brewer and Susan H. Wood. He attended Hamilton College and did two years of medical studies at the University of Buffalo prior to finishing his M.D. at Harvard. His mentors were luminous surgeons- Robert Lovett, John Munro and Leonard Wood and he finished in Washington, D.C. and Johns Hopkins under Welch. He returned to NYC as assistant to proto-urologist Fessenden Nott Otis. He arose quickly to the top in clinical surgery publishing widely on basic surgical methods that would make him prominent amongst America′s general surgical elite. His team at Columbia Presbyterian organized and early created a team to be deployed if needed during WWI. Late in the afternoon of Wednesday August 29, 1917 at about 5 P.M. a 4.2 inch shell exploded near the one fateful Royal Field Artillery unit and Edward Revere Osler, only surviving child of Sir William Osler was critically injured (thigh, abdomen and chest wounds) along with his Battery Commander Captain Lym Taverner and six others. He was rushed to the 47th Casualty Clearing Station and onwards to the U.S. Base Hospital No.2 into the hands of Brewer and his fellow surgeon William Darrach were the first to receive the injured Revere. Harvey Cushing and George Crile were called and emergency surgery was begun at about 10 PM. ″Brewer, Cushing & I were in consultation, the splendid Durrach in charge. The long marquee tent was quiet and dim; the end was fast approaching. The boy′s features were serene and a faint smile illuminated his face when he was told that his father′s American friends were there.″ CONCLUSIONS: Most of the reported history of one of an iconic personal tragedy of WWI, the injury and heroic surgery on Paul Revere′s great-great grandson and son of Sir William and Lady Grace Osler comes to us via Harvey Cushing. The rest of the story about the two surgeons who actually operated on Edward Osler is almost untold and unsung. ″A wise physician, skilled our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal.″ Pope Source of Funding: None

From “the Chord Was King” to “a Dynamic Journey”: Changes in the Barbershop Quartet Style in Contests Since the 1950s

Research Article| April 01 2020 From “the Chord Was King” to “a Dynamic Journey”: Changes in the Barbershop Quartet Style in Contests Since the 1950s Robert G. Hopkins Robert G. Hopkins Robert G. Hopkins is associate professor of music at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, where he teaches music history and theory. He has been a member of the Barbershop Harmony Society since 1976, served as its president in 2004–5, and was inducted into the society’s Hall of Fame in 2017. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Music (2020) 38 (1): 78–101. https://doi.org/10.5406/americanmusic.38.1.0078 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Robert G. Hopkins; From “the Chord Was King” to “a Dynamic Journey”: Changes in the Barbershop Quartet Style in Contests Since the 1950s. American Music 1 January 2020; 38 (1): 78–101. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/americanmusic.38.1.0078 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressAmerican Music Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2020 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2020 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Growing Up with the Country: Family, Race, and Nation after the Civil War by Kendra Taira Field

Reviewed by: Growing Up with the Country: Family, Race, and Nation after the Civil War by Kendra Taira Field Quincy D. Newell Growing Up with the Country: Family, Race, and Nation after the Civil War. By Kendra Taira Field. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018. ix + 216 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $38.00, cloth. Drawing on her own family history, contextualized among countless other primary sources, including (but not limited to) oral histories, photographs, archived letters, and newspaper stories, Kendra Taira Field offers a fascinating story of migration by "freedom's first generation" (2) in Growing Up with the Country. Focusing on the multigenerational stories of three families after the Civil War, Field persuasively argues that the dominant understanding of the Great Migration as an event that took African Americans from the rural South to the urban North in the early twentieth century is incomplete. Instead, Field contends, we should understand the Great Migration as part of a larger movement by newly free African Americans in search of what Nell Irvin Painter called "real freedom" (1). In Field's analysis, this movement was transnational and multiracial, and it took black people west to Indian Territory and across the Atlantic to Africa—as well as north to the urban centers traditionally associated with the Great Migration. Crucially, Field demonstrates that we must see all these movements in relation to one another, rather than as unrelated movements in response to distinct impulses. Field's analysis begins with an examination of black movement to Indian Territory and early Oklahoma. Illustrating a range of connections between black, Indian, and black Indian people, Field helpfully undermines the racial categories on which the United States relied, even as she chronicles the construction and imposition of those categories on people in Indian Territory and early Oklahoma as well as more broadly in the US. The book's final chapter examines the Chief Sam movement, an effort to transport African Americans from the US to Africa's Gold Coast (present-day Ghana), where Sam was from. In many ways, this chapter demonstrates the payoff of Field's method: her focus on specific individuals allows her [End Page 112] to trace the connections between movement west and migration to Africa, showing that the same people kept moving in search of a home beyond the reach of American racism. Simultaneously, Field's sources reveal the ways this movement—and the transnational, multiracial character of the larger search for "real freedom" of which it was a part—have been obscured, forgotten, and erased. This book will be of great interest to scholars of African American history and the history of the North American West. Like other excellent books, Field's Growing Up with the Country will leave readers wanting more, and I expect that graduate students will find fertile ground here for innumerable projects elaborating on the ideas that Field advances so elegantly here. Quincy D. Newell Religious Studies Department Hamilton College Copyright © 2020 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Book Reviews

Christophre Georges of the Department of Economics, Hamilton College reviews “Handbook of Computational Economics. Volume 4. Heterogeneous Agent Modeling,” edited by Cars Hommes and Blake LeBaron. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Fourteen papers, comprising a handbook for professional researchers and advanced graduate students, survey behavioral heterogeneity as a critical part of the modeling framework and empirical work.”

M. Kevin Brown.

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Previous article FreeContributors to This IssuePDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreAlexsia T. Chan is assistant professor of government at Hamilton College. Her research focuses on comparative politics, the political economy of development, and Chinese politics, and her interests include inequality, authoritarian rule, labor, public service provision, and social control.Xi Chen is associate professor in the Department of Government and Public Administration, Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Social Protest and Contentious Authoritarianism in China (2012) and is currently completing another book, Disempowering Contention: Restructuring, Resistance, and State Domination in China. He has also published articles in journals such as Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Politics and Society, China Quarterly, and Journal of Democracy.Wing-Chung Ho (何榮宗) is associate professor of sociology at City University of Hong Kong. He holds a PhD in anthropology from SOAS, University of London. Ho has published broadly on community studies and social problems in relation to subordinate people in Hong Kong and China in journals that include China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of Contemporary Asia, and China Review.Carsten A. Holz, an economist, is a professor in the Social Science Division at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research focuses on China’s reform-period economy, most recently on the quality of Chinese statistics, issues of economic growth, and economic development in underdeveloped regions of the PRC.Yu Huang (黄瑜) is a postdoctoral fellow in the Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Her research interests include industrial automation and robotization, science and technology studies, labor studies, agrarian change and rural development in China.Tao-chiu Lam teaches at the College of Professional and Continuing Education, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests are local government and politics and governance issues in China.Carlos Wing-Hung Lo is professor and head of the Department of Government and Public Administration at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and director of the Centre for Business Sustainability in the Faculty of Business Administration. His main research interests are in the areas of law and government, environmental governance, public sector management, and corporate social and environmental responsibility.Jian Lu (陆健) is a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Public Policy and Management of Tsinghua University in Beijing. His research interests include contentious politics, environmental governance, and environmental nongovernmental organizations in China.Kevin J. O’Brien is the Alan P. Bedford Professor of Asian Studies and Political Science and director of the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on Chinese politics since 1978, and his interests include policy implementation, legislative politics, village elections, popular resistance and protest policing.Naubahar Sharif is associate professor in the Division of Social Science and the Division of Public Policy at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His current research is on the process of industrial automation, including robotics, unfolding in southern China. Previous article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The China Journal Volume 81January 2019 Published on behalf of the Australian Centre on China in the World at the Australian National University Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/700669 Copyright 2019 by The Australian National University. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Vivre Ici: Space, Place and Experiences in Contemporary French Documentary by Alison J. Murray Levine

Reviewed by: Vivre Ici: Space, Place and Experiences in Contemporary French Documentary by Alison J. Murray Levine Martine Guyot-Bender Levine, Alison J. Murray. Vivre Ici: Space, Place and Experiences in Contemporary French Documentary. Liverpool UP, 2018. ISBN 978-1-78694-041-4. Pp. 320. Film documentary is still often perceived as cinema's parent pauvre. However, cinema itself began as a new technology whose purpose was to record life. Today, thanks to smaller cameras, film documentary is flourishing all over the word, most notably in France. Film documentary does not merely record "life caught unaware," as Vertov claimed. It uses the same components as fiction: a camera, lighting, framing, and situations that are assembled into coherent narratives. Apart from nature films, however, documentary is rarely considered as an esthetic experience. In this context, Levine's book fills in an important gap in French film studies in that it moves away from the topic of a small set of films to focus on what matters the most—that documentaries can transmit a sensual experience to the audience. Levine examines films produced over the last twenty years in metropolitan France. However, her analysis can apply to general documentaries, past or future, French or not. For Levine, documentaries are cinematographic, experiential objects. She carefully lays out her theoretical frame, which combines theorists such as Jean-Louis Comolli and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and a brief review of the recent history of documentary, which she calls "Renaissance?" The question mark suggests that there is no renaissance, that documentary has long been an important genre, but has only recently become a subject of analysis. Levine separates the vast theme of her book into well-defined subsets. The chapter titled "Planet" describes various cinematic strategies used in nature films—that is, the nonhuman dimension of planet Earth—to guide their audience into feeling, in a tactical way. A second chapter, with examples from Depardon, Varda, and Marker, presents road documentaries as the complement of fictional road movies: people who travel and observe their world. Considering the excitement that surrounded Nicolas Philibert's Être et avoir (2002), a chapter focused on the filming of schools was logical. Using a series of recent films on the challenges of multiculturalism in urban schools, Levine shows the French fascination for education. She evokes the tightrope on which filmmakers find themselves when attempting to represent issues such as laïcité, without voyeurism. There is also France's fascination for the transformation of rural life, which, [End Page 194] as Levine shows, is often filmed by the means of portraits, some "dark," some "golden," which contain a strong political stance. The last chapter, "Edge," addresses documentaries that focus on human misery on the margins of society, such as Claude Dextrel's extraordinary Au bord du monde (2013). Levine handles the challenge of introducing a myriad of documentary sub-genres by using a systematic, narrow focus, which will help many viewers and non-specialist educators of cinema to see documentary as cinema, instead of seeing it as a raw representation of reality, which it has never been. Martine Guyot-Bender Hamilton College (NY) Copyright © 2019 American Association of Teachers of French