Sonoma State University Research Articles

Cleaving Glutathione S‐Transferase from a B‐cell Receptor Protein to Improve Interactions as seen in EMSAS

The purpose of my project is understanding the specific amino acid interactions for the B‐cell Receptor, BAFF‐R, protein interacting with a RNA aptamer. A RNA aptamer is a peptide that binds to a molecule of interest. We had to express our protein with a GST tag. We used different lab skills, such as gel shift assay, to investigate the interaction between the BAFF‐R and its RNA aptamer. However, the results were inconclusive as we saw an unexpected binding pattern. We hypothesize that cleaving the Glutathione S‐Transferase (GST) tag using thrombin will provide for our expected binding pattern in an EMSA.Support or Funding InformationFunded by Office of Undergraduate Research in Sonoma State University.This abstract is from the Experimental Biology 2018 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this abstract published in The FASEB Journal.

Le fabuleux destin des noms propres devenus communs par Jean Maillet

Reviews 225 in the “auto-minorisation” by speakers in Picardie who devalue their own regional language practices. The volume is bookended by Klinkenberg’s intellectually lively and robust chapter on “la fabrique du francophone” and Mufwene’s far-reaching and thought-provoking ecological perspective on the differential evolution of French as a world language. The broad theme of language and legitimation around the discursive construction of the Francophone speaker exceeds any single volume. Some readers may wish for more focused discussions on key aspects surrounding the construction of minority language speaker and heritage language speaker identities, particularly in linguistically and culturally super-diverse settings where those identities may be highly racialized. For example, the notion of langue d’héritage as well as intersecting constructions of language, education, and race float through the chapters, without forming the focus of any of them. However, the book’s diverse chapters—all well written, methodologically solid and thematically interesting—will contribute to the reader’s engagement on different levels into this complex field of inquiry and reflection. Extensive bibliographies appear at the end of each chapter. This volume is a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners working on questions related to the construction of language/s and speaker identities in and across many disciplines, including sociolinguistics, anthropology, education, and applied linguistics. Sonoma State University (CA) Robert Train Maillet, Jean. Le fabuleux destin des noms propres devenus communs. Paris: Le Figaro, 2016. ISBN 978-2-8105-0759-7. Pp. 136. I begin this review with a brief quiz: in the following dialogue,which of the common nouns are derived from proper nouns? This exercise is worth six points. —Benjamin, pourquoi tu jettes ce club sandwich à la dinde à la poubelle? —Parce que la mayonnaise a tourné. Je prends plutôt des céréales. The correct answers represent the volume’s four divisions: common nouns derived from classical myths or legends (céréales, derived from the goddess Ceres); from the Bible (benjamin); from an investigator, authority, or amateur (le comte de Sandwich, Eugène René Poubelle); or from place names (poule d’Inde > dinde; Port-Mahon > mayonnaise, although this derivation is speculative). Each entry in this collection contains a well-documented etymology elaborated in a larger historical and cultural context, often accompanied by entertaining anecdotes. It turns out, for example, that Prefect Poubelle stipulated that trash be sorted into several containers, depending on its nature: glass, paper, oyster shells—un écolo avant la lettre! Although this volume is intended for a general readership, the linguist can also extract useful examples of the mechanisms driving semantic change. In the case of poubelle, the referent was expanded to signify the disdained object of the prefect’s attention. Subsequently, with increasing public acceptance of this innovation, the term lost its pejorative taint, entering the dictionary in 1890 to denote récipients à ordures without any disparaging connotation. In the evolution of this referent, social acceptance motivated semantic change with a shift in register. Another case: the name of King Jeroboam II, the eighth-century (BCE) king of Israel, is the origin of that very large bottle of champagne, un jéroboam. Jeroboam reigned during a prosperous time. His court enjoyed a lavish and eventually corrupt lifestyle. A two-magnum bottle of champagne becomes emblematic of these qualities, signifying la démesure. This collection also prompts reflection on the nature of borrowings, which compose a good number of terms in Maillet’s inventory. Most borrowings are viewed as “conférant à la conversation clarté, saveur et souvent poésie,” as the series editor claims in his preface (3). But in Messieurs les Anglais, pillez les premiers! (2016), Maillet rails against anglicismes, calling them lexicophages, Anglo-Saxon terms that gobble up “native” French terms.What are the criteria for their“naturalization”? Although Maillet accepts sandwich, he condemns “cet horrible ‘coach’, qui [...] pollue notre vocabulaire” (17). It may be argued that sandwich was borrowed because the item was a novelty with no referent in the target language and culture. I would counter that specific usages of coach fill a semantic gap that is not adequately represented by the “synonyms” that Maillet proposes (guide,maître,conseiller).Un coach is not only targeted...

A New and Exciting Account of an Old and Familiar Story

Book Review| December 01 2017 A New and Exciting Account of an Old and Familiar Story Robyn C. Spencer, The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016. Michael Ezra Michael Ezra Sonoma State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Civil and Human Rights (2017) 3 (2): 110–113. https://doi.org/10.5406/jcivihumarigh.3.2.0110 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Ezra; A New and Exciting Account of an Old and Familiar Story. Journal of Civil and Human Rights 1 January 2017; 3 (2): 110–113. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jcivihumarigh.3.2.0110 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 PressJournal of Civil and Human Rights Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2017 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Tina Saitone: Understanding the beef market, and whether sheepdogs are earning their keep

Profile Tina Saitone: Understanding the beef market, and whether sheepdogs are earning their keep A visit to the supermarket meat case makes clear that special types of beef command special prices. From certified Angus to antibiotic-free to pasture-raised — along with designations such as certifications of traceability or specific vaccination protocols that consumers don’t see — beef cattle are now marketed with long lists of “value-added” attributes. Evett Kilmartin For a rancher, each attribute represents both an added production cost and an opportunity to earn more when cattle are sold. But cattle are sold at auction for a single price per pound — there’s no itemization for what the buyer is paying for each attribute — so it can be difficult for ranchers to tell which practices are profitable and which aren’t worth the trouble. “Producers know their costs better than anyone, but the marginal value of each value-added attribute is really hard for ranchers assess,” said Tina Saitone, who joined UC Cooperative Extension (UCCE) in June as a specialist in livestock and rangeland economics based at UC Davis. In a research paper in this issue of California Agriculture (page 179), Saitone and her co- authors report findings from a study designed to tease out the value of each of these attributes, as well as the price ef- fects of forward con- tracting (fixing a price a month or more before the Tina Saitone is a cattle are delivered) and the distance a lot of UC Cooperative Extension specialist cattle is from the major cattle feeding and meat based in the processing hubs in the central United States. Department of Broadly, Saitone’s research program aims to Agricultural and Resource Economics help cattle and sheep producers better under- at UC Davis. stand the economics that influence their busi- ness decisions. A native of Sonoma County, where until recently her family ran a small, century-old 178 CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURE • VOLUME 70 , NUMBER 4 vineyard started with rootstock brought from Italy by her great-grandparents, Saitone grew up around farming and horses and gravitated to economics as an undergraduate at Sonoma State University. She com- pleted her Ph.D. in agricultural and resource econom- ics at UC Davis in 2008 and worked for an economic consulting firm before returning to UC Davis. An ongoing challenge is developing good sources of data on livestock markets in California. The study described above drew on sales data involving more than 2 million head of cattle over 17 years, provided by Western Video Market, a Chico- based video auction operator that has partnered with UCCE Shasta County director Larry Forero on market studies for several years. In a video auction, buyers bid on groups of cattle based on video footage of the animals as well as verification documentation col- lected by the auction operator. Because the transac- tions are conducted online, video auctions generate large, well-organized data sets. But Western Video Market represents only a por- tion of the total cattle sales in the state — most of the rest are sold through in-person auctions, with no sys- tems for data reporting. One long-term plan for Saitone and ANR collabora- tors — Forero, as well as Tehama County Livestock, Range and Natural Resources Advisor Josh Davy — calls for developing a monthly market report for cattle producers based on data from all of live auctions. The group is working with auction operators to standard- ize data collection and reporting. Saitone is also working to better understand the role of predation in livestock production in California and the cost-benefit associated with a wide variety of non-lethal depredation strategies. One study looks at the guard dogs — typically Great Pyrenees or Anatolian Pyrenees — that many sheep producers now use to protect flocks from coyotes and other pred- ators. By gathering data on lamb losses to predation, the effectiveness of guard dogs at preventing those losses, and the costs of maintaining a guard dog, Saitone said she hopes to help sheep producers with a basic calculation: “Does the dog make sense? Does it save you enough to be worth it?” c — Jim Downing

A Jewish Feminine Mystique?: Jewish Women in Postwar America

Book Review| July 01 2016 A Jewish Feminine Mystique?: Jewish Women in Postwar America A Jewish Feminine Mystique?: Jewish Women in Postwar America. Edited by Hasia Diner, Shira Kohn, and Rachel Kranson. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2010. 284 pp. 9 illustrations. $72 (cloth); $26.95 (paper). Lena McQuade-Salzfass Lena McQuade-Salzfass Sonoma State University Lena McQuade-Salzfass is Associate Professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at Sonoma State University. Her research interests include histories of women’s reproductive health in New Mexico and Jewish feminism. She has published historical work on midwives in New Mexico and on the bat mitzvah in Albuquerque. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2016) 35 (4): 113–115. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.35.4.113 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Lena McQuade-Salzfass; A Jewish Feminine Mystique?: Jewish Women in Postwar America. Journal of American Ethnic History 1 January 2016; 35 (4): 113–115. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.35.4.113 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 PressJournal of American Ethnic History Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2016 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Editor’s Note

Editorial| April 01 2016 Editor’s Note Michael Ezra Michael Ezra Sonoma State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Civil and Human Rights (2016) 2 (1): 1–2. https://doi.org/10.5406/jcivihumarigh.2.1.1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Ezra; Editor’s Note. Journal of Civil and Human Rights 1 January 2016; 2 (1): 1–2. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jcivihumarigh.2.1.1 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 PressJournal of Civil and Human Rights Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2016 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

An Interview with Professor Alexandra von Meier on an Efficient Electric Grid: Improving Visibility and Integrating Renewable Sources

A n I nterview with P rofessor A lexandra von M eier on an E fficient E lectric G rid : I mproving V isibility and I ntegrating R enewable S ources B S J By: Manraj Gill, Saavan Patel, Harshika Chowdhary, Daniel Miller, Philippa McGuinness Dr. Alexandra von Meier is an adjunct associate professor in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley and is co-director of the electric grid program of the California Institute for Energy and Environment (CIEE). Her interest in electric energy spans from making distribution systems more efficient to improving the integration of renewable energy sources into the electric grid. We got the opportunity to talk with Dr. von Meier about her passion for energy, the current and future power distribution grids, micro-synchrophasor technology and the challenges with optimizing the incorporation of renewable energy into the pre-existing system. about essentially how the system works. Not dumbing it down, but not starting with a bunch of phasor diagrams that would be immediately unintelligible. So, the goal was to write something that would qualitatively explain what’s happening and what are the constraints when you’re operating the electric grid. That was a labor of love, and I started it during my postdoc. Figure 1. Professor Alexandra von Meier teaches courses in electric power systems at UC Berkeley. Berkeley Scientific Journal: How do you find yourself here, in this research field? Professor Alexandra von Meier: I was a physics major as an undergraduate at Berkeley. Then I taught high school physics and chemistry for two years. I came back here and as a master’s and PhD student in energy and resources here at UC Berkeley. Then I did a postdoc in electrical engineering here with Felix Wu, during which time I started writing a textbook, which has done pretty well. The book is called “Electric Power Systems.” It’s a little atypical as an engineering text. The idea [with the book] was to teach people who are interested in energy and electricity but who don’t have an electrical engineering background Then I did another postdoc in nuclear engineering, also at Berkeley. I studied plutonium, in the context of nuclear materials management: what to do with spent fuel from nuclear reactors and what to do with plutonium that comes out of dismantled nuclear warheads. Long story, but then I got a job as a professor at Sonoma State University where I taught in the Environmental Studies and Planning Department. I taught energy management and design. This is a wonderful program, where I was for about twelve years, and taught a curriculum that’s really pretty unique. It spans renewable energy, energy efficiency, green Figure 2. Professor von Meier’s building. It’s not really book, “Electric Power Systems: an engineering program, A Conceptual Introduction,” but it’s quite technical is used in her ‘Introduction and quantitative so it to Electric Power Systems’ at 44 • B erkeley S cientific J ournal • W aste • S pring 2015 • V olume 19 • I ssue 2 Berkeley.

A Tribute to Arthur Warmoth, PhD

The following presents similar perspectives from two of his peers on a most unusual man: Arthur Warmoth. About Arthur Warmoth, Eleanor Criswell, emeritus psychology professor at Sonoma State University, says: Arthur Warmoth, PhD, was born July 18, 1937, in Red Bluff, California. He died April 4, 2014, in his home in Rohnert Park, California. He was married to Georgina A. Warmoth, originally from Torreon, Mexico. The couple had three children: Monica Hinson, Arthur Warmoth, and Tonantzin Warmoth. He had a deeply fulfilling family life. Art was graduated from Reed College in 1959 with a BA in Theatre Arts and Literature. While at Reed, he was a member of the Latino Democratic Club. Art was a significant contributor to the field of humanistic psychology. He studied under Abraham Maslow, James Klee, and Ulric Neisser at Brandeis University, where he earned his PhD in 1967. He joined the psychology faculty of Sonoma State University in 1969 and was named full professor in 1985. Before coming to Sonoma State University, he worked as a clinical psychologist at Mendocino State Hospital in Talmage, California. In 1986, he was visiting professor at the Universidad Autonoma de la Laguna in Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico. After 41 years as professor of psychology at Sonoma State University, he became an emeritus faculty member, continuing to work on university projects. His organizational involvements included serving as an at-large board member, Division 32, Humanistic Psychology (now the Society for Humanistic Psychology), and he served as president of the Association for

Andreï Makine: l’ekphrasis dans son œuvre par Murielle Lucie Clément

the theory of Michel de Certeau and Gayatri Spivak and with frequent reference to works by Jacques Derrida, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Sigmund Freud, Bruyère uses case studies to explore the limits of theoretical fiction as a source of historical investigation. Recognizing the risks involved in mixing ethnography with history and literature, Bruyère is careful to focus upon self-reflective texts that are conscious of the process of their own production. The result is a thought-provoking (albeit perhaps overly dense and linguistically convoluted) study of historiographical invention and the importance of recognizing the very limits of historiography. Following a general introduction concerned with the place of Francophone studies among university disciplines, Bruyère examines examples from de Certeau, Spivak, Mudimbe, Derrida, and Marin in order to point to césures, or gaps, these works have in common, traces of past paroles, archives that are silent, absent bodies calling to be read—all stories of transfer involving substitutions of theoretical fictions which historians must ultimately recognize as inevitable and yet necessary. In the second chapter, Jean de Léry’s sixteenth-century travel narrative offers a point of departure for consideration of the silences of the colonial text and of the intrinsic fragility of the documentary impulse when faced with unstable manuscripts, gazes, and locations. The third chapter— arguably the strongest—examines visual representations of le sauvage (and ‘savage’ alterity), carefully reading différence in the anachronistic re-presentation that is mediated by the production of image and the retreat of the ethnographer from the scene. A chapter on Patrick Chamoiseau and the mal d’archive highlights the way in which fiction engages with bones, ghosts, and absent bodies and the imprints they leave behind. A final chapter on the film Allah Tantou examines apocryphal inscriptions and absent witnesses in the context of filial memory. This book is concerned with fundamental desires at the core of the study of history: desire for a speaking body, for presence, for contact with an Other, for transmission of knowledge, for an origin. Seduced by what is missing, the historian and the literary figure alike must recognize the fragility of the historical project, constantly re-interrogating the status of their own discursive intervention as being located somewhere between knowledge and invention, and remembering all that such a project has already forgotten. Marred by occasional typographical errors and repetitions, La différence francophone may nonetheless offer future fields of research within the discipline of literary history even as it calls into question the very notion of that discipline. Sonoma State University (CA) Suzanne C. Toczyski Clément, Murielle Lucie. Andreï Makine: l’ekphrasis dans son œuvre. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011. ISBN 978-90-420-3403-7. Pp. 158. $41. Makine, born in Siberia in 1957, has been living and publishing in Paris since 1987. He gained international attention with his fourth novel, Le testament français (1995), 218 FRENCH REVIEW 88.1 Reviews 219 which won the Prix Goncourt. Most of Makine’s writing is autobiographical, a creative blend of life in Russia and France. In his efforts to write about and capture Soviet life, Makine weaves in descriptions and commentaries considered“non littéraires”: photographs , films, and music (7). In approaching Makine’s texts, Clément works with the idea of ekphrasis, as theorized by Mitchell and Genette: “une représentation verbale d’une représentation visuelle” for photographs and films and “une représentation verbale d’une représentation auditive” for music (20). Following Bal as well, Clément argues that ekphrasis is “un point de focalisation dans les textes. [...] un point de concentration dans lequel Makine focalise le sens de ses romans” (20). This book is divided into three chapters: les ekphraseis photographiques, les ekphraseis filmiques, and les ekphraseis musicales. Within each chapter, Clément examines several functions of ekphrasis,which at times overlap.The first chapter on photographs and the final chapter on music are arranged similarly by function (psychological, structural, rhetorical, and ontological). Clément’s second chapter is, however, a series of descriptions of films, both real and imagined, as well as her discussion of their various functions. The rhetorical function can be seen in Makine’s...

“Spanglish” and Identity within and outside the Classroom

The session that AATSP organized at this year's MLA Convention in Boston (held on January 4,2013, from 10:15 to 11:30 am) was dedicated to topic that has been object of constant debate in past decades: use of as marker of identity among US Latinos. I put into quotation marks because, as I explained in my Guest Editorial from September last year, term controversial and best to be avoided. However, since it widely used in US discourse in both academie and nonacademic environments, I included it in call for papers so that potential presenters knew what it was that I expected them to focus on. It was our tacit understanding that we were all going to refer to what one of authors calis various linguistic strategies that characterize what commonly referred to as 'Spanglish'; namely code-switching, code-mixing, borrowings and other contact phenomena commonly employed by ... bilinguals (Sanchez-Munoz). The three presenters that participated in this session (which was well attended and included lively discussion at end) tackled issue of from variety of perspectives. Robert Train from Sonoma State University introduced audience to fascinating world of early nineteenth-century California and bilingual practices of some prominent Anglo to Los Angeles. These immigrants, whom Train calis Mexican ized gringos, demonstrated, as archivai evidence attest, highly skilled bilingual and multilingual abilities in their routine interactions with each other, in addition, of course, to their mastery of Spanish, which appears to have been the lingua franca among immigrants in California prestatehood period. They used code-switching as powerful communicative resource, and Train's hope that language Professionals today can connect these historical memories and identities to our present-day context in order to reconsider prevalent misun derstanding of as mixing of two distinct languages, communities and identities. A central lesson to be learn from past, he adds, is an understanding of complexity of use in lives of Spanish speakers in California across ever-shifting boundaries between monolingual-bilingual-multilingual contact zones and ecologies of use and identity. Returning us to present-day California, Ana Sanchez-Munoz from California State University-Northridge examined functions and use of (as defined in quote from her paper given above) in creative pieces of writing produced by second-generation Chicana/o (and other Latina/o) College students in class of Spanish for Heritage Speakers. For Sanchez-Munoz, Spanglish way for students to deal with complex linguistic and ethnie issues in creative manner insofar as it creâtes another level of meaning for negotiating hybridity of Chicana/o experiences, constructing and reconstructing a third space of. . . identity, linguistic nepantla. The examples she gave from some students' poems demonstrated the creative use of contact features to create an identity space that defies clear boundaries between that ' Anglonness' and 'Mexicanness' that Anzaldua wrote about. The third presentation by Regan L. Postma from The College of Idaho raised impor tant issue of use of bilingual texts in literature courses as means of engaging students in dialogues considering larger issues of language, culture and identity such as dynamic and contextual nature of language, politics and power of choice, and creative possibilites of negotiating linguistically and culturally in multiple and hybrid rather than in singular modes. She illustrated her approach to these issues by analyzing her students'

SAMURAI OR SNITCH? THE POLITICS OF INTERRACIAL SOLIDARITY DURING THE 1960s FREEDOM MOVEMENTS

Previous articleNext article No AccessSAMURAI OR SNITCH? THE POLITICS OF INTERRACIAL SOLIDARITY DURING THE 1960s FREEDOM MOVEMENTS Diane C. Fujino, Samurai among Panthers: Richard Aoki on Race, Resistance, and a Paradoxical Life. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. Pp. 441. Cloth $67.50. Paper $18.95. Seth Rosenfeld, Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. Pp. 734. Cloth $30.00. Paper $25.00. Rychetta Watkins, Black Power, Yellow Power, and the Making of Revolutionary Identities. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2012. Pp. 190. Cloth $55.00. Paper $30.00.Steve EstesSteve EstesSteve Estes is Professor of History at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California. Search for more articles by this author Steve Estes is Professor of History at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California.PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of African American History Volume 98, Number 3Summer 2013St. Claire Drake: The Making of a Scholar-Activist A journal of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.5323/jafriamerhist.98.3.0466 Views: 24Total views on this site Copyright 2013 The Association for the Study of African American Life and HistoryPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

How Soon Is Now? Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time and Opening Up Middle English Manuscripts: Literary and Visual Approaches

How Soon Is Now? Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time and Opening Up Middle English Manuscripts: Literary and Visual Approaches

Alcanzando Niños en las Fronteras (Reaching Children Along the U.S./Mexico Border): A Program for Disadvantaged Children

The Alcanzando Niños en las Fronteras project brings together years of biofeedback, art therapy, and somatic education work with underprivileged and disadvantaged children. The program is designed to reach the most at-risk youth in Mexico: those children living in towns along the U.S./Mexico border. These towns are racked with violence due to the drug wars, and the children in these towns are especially susceptible to being led into illegal activities. In cooperation with Sonoma State University, the U.S. State Department, the Government of Mexico, Rotary International, and a number of other organizations, the program will train more than 200 medical doctors in noninstrumental biofeedback methods, including art therapy, music, somatic training, autogenic breathing, temperature control, and reading. By reaching children early and educating families in prevention and health, the program will have a lasting impact on reducing illegal activities and bringing about true social change.

Review: California Women and Politics: From the Gold Rush to the Great Depression, by Robert W. Cherny, Mary Ann Irwin, and Ann Marie Wilson

Book Review| May 01 2013 Review: California Women and Politics: From the Gold Rush to the Great Depression, by Robert W. Cherny, Mary Ann Irwin, and Ann Marie Wilson California Women and Politics: From the Gold Rush to the Great Depression. Edited by Robert W. Cherny, Mary Ann Irwin, and Ann Marie Wilson. (Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2011. xviii + 404 pp. $40 paper) Michelle E. Jolly Michelle E. Jolly Sonoma State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2013) 82 (2): 327–329. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2013.82.2.327 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Michelle E. Jolly; Review: California Women and Politics: From the Gold Rush to the Great Depression, by Robert W. Cherny, Mary Ann Irwin, and Ann Marie Wilson. Pacific Historical Review 1 May 2013; 82 (2): 327–329. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2013.82.2.327 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 ContentPacific Historical Review Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2013 by the Regents of the University of California2013 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Modernités de Rousseau—Lumières 15.1 ed. by Céline Spector

(autonomie, pédagogie, etc.). Nevertheless, Soëtard’s essay offers much food for thought on the continued relevance of Rousseau’s Idea of education to pedagogical practices today, and the potential perils involved when reading Rousseau à la lettre. Sonoma State University (CA) Suzanne Toczyski Spector, Céline, éd. Modernités de Rousseau—Lumières 15.1. Pessac: CIBEL/PU de Bordeaux, 2010. ISBN 978-2-86781-681-9. Pp. 231. 22 a. This bi-annual issue offers ten penetrating essays on the continuing influence of Rousseau’s political thought on current debates, for the most part, within the AngloSaxon and German worlds of political theory. One would not immediately associate Rousseau’s thought with the likes of Rawls,Walzer, Nussbaum, Benhabib, Horkheimer, Adorno, Althusser, Habermas, or Honneth. Yet, strikingly cogent cases are made here linking directly or dialectically many of Rousseau’s key political concepts to those of modern and contemporary political theorists. Counter to the belief that the Marxist Althusser held Rousseau’s political theory in contempt, Kenta Ohji traces the author’s lifelong meditation on Rousseau cum philosopher of history whose notion of historical mutation (Second Discourse) helped mold his own work on contingency and necessity. Florent Guénard examines the central role (and misreading) of Rousseau’s notion of pity, self-love, self-esteem, and recognition in the ongoing debates between Walzer and Rawls on the question of social equality and justice. Fabienne Brugère studies the delicate relationship between Rousseau’s ideas of the moral self and those of Martha Nussbaum and Joan Tronto on liberal democracy and a theory of care. While they acknowledge Rousseau’s importance in positing both moral sentiment (Second Discourse) and moral education (Émile) as key to the development of a sense of social justice, they are equally uncomfortable with his treatment of women as moral and political actors on unequal footing. Authors Florian Nicodème and Isabelle Aubert offer surprising insight into the role Rousseau plays as the forerunner of social philosophy or ‘founding father’ of Critical Theory. Nicodème’s study is genealogical, tracing both hostility and receptivity of respective generations of the Frankfurt School (Horkheimer/ Adorno; Habermas; Honneth) to Rousseau’s anthropology and political theory, in particular, his concept of socialization as a process of ‘dénaturation’(this becomes key to Honneth’s formulation of ‘social pathology’).Aubert traces the profound influence that Rousseau had on Habermas whose earliest work on the public sphere finds inspiration in Rousseau’s creative works, seeing in him the earliest great theorist of individualism who placed value on intimacy and introspection of the domestic sphere (Nouvelle Héloïse, Confessions); to continue with Rousseau’s reflections on ‘public opinion’(Second Discourse) and its absence, to a large degree, from the Social Contract that paves the way for Habermas’s theory of deliberative, rather than a cognitive, form of democracy. Two essays reassess Rousseau’s influence on political institutions of the 244 FRENCH REVIEW 87.2 Reviews 245 Third Republic, revealing a surprising reticence among late nineteenth-century French republican thinkers to embrace Rousseau’s legacy. Finally, Carla Hesse’s essay on“Lire Rousseau sous la Révolution française”convincingly argues the question of Rousseau’s impact on revolutionary politics from a phenomenological rather than a hermeneutical , approach: How was Rousseau being read by whom? While radicals tended to read excerpts of Rousseau, gleaned from pamphlets or speeches, conservative factions worked from the full text.Ironically,the latter,more‘learned’readings tended to pervert his thought, while ‘Rousseau as slogan’ became moments of ‘public intimacy’ where these new citizens brought Rousseau’s words to life. University of Kansas Diane Fourny Vitali, Ilaria, éd. Intrangers (I): post-migration et nouvelles frontières de la littérature beur. Louvain-la-Neuve: Academia, 2011. ISBN 978-2-8061-0020-7. Pp. 147. 19 a. , éd. Intrangers (II): littérature beur, de l’écriture à la traduction. Louvain-laNeuve : Academia, 2011. ISBN 978-2-8061-0047-4. Pp. 189. 25 a. These volumes constitute the second and third publications of the Sefar collection that explore multiple forms of displacement, exile, and crossings between the global South and the global North. The essays and theoretical approaches showcased herein...

The Storm and Mom’s Prayers, or How I Lost My Religion

The Storm and Mom’s Prayers, or How I Lost My Religion Arthur Ramírez (bio) After the sun was blotted out, the wind picked up. A strange windiness and a tense humidity were followed by a few drops of rain that became heavier and heavier. Lightning and thunder and a strong whirling wind broke the earlier stillness. The rain and the wind made the fine mesquite trees in front of our house swing about wildly, skeletal but with no firmness. The storm hit us with so much force that it went beyond storms experienced before. We had no warning, no expectation, that this storm would not only strike, but be so powerful. My sister was four, and I, five. We weren’t yet of school age, so we had stayed home with Mom. The storm’s blinding rain meant we couldn’t see outside, but storm sounds increased. Mom’s response was more immediate than usual when a storm hit. After circling through the house, Mom genuflected and kneeled in a corner of the living room. She signaled for us to do the same, and we did. Mom said, “Let’s pray.” The storm was scary. Mom started off by reciting the Lord’s Prayer: “En el nombre de Dios, Jesucristo y el Espíritu Santo.” To add to my fears, after reciting some prayers from her rosary, she really scared me. “Look around carefully,” she said. “Ay Dios, the roof or the walls might collapse. Then we’ll have to figure out what to do. This house is so flimsy.” Mom, as she looked around while reciting the prayers, noticed that I wasn’t saying them too. I was too scared now by Mom’s shaky voice and trembling hand. She raised her voice, panicky, and asked me, “Why aren’t you praying?” The truth is I wanted to pray but I told her, “I don’t remember them.” And, I added, “I’m trying to say what you say, but the storm is too loud.” Mom said, “I have to protect you.” Now almost hysterical, she again mentioned how the roof or walls might collapse. “We have to avoid getting crushed or drowning.” The storm seemed to go on and on, but after a good while the storm subsided, and an uncertain stillness returned. Now Mom almost sneered at us, and seemed cruel and superior to us. “Did you kids really think that the house would collapse and we would die?” she said. She said it more with relief than lording it over her two little kids. I could see in her face that she was actually ashamed of showing us her panic. No, she hadn’t played a dirty trick by scaring us, and now she could calmly thank the Lord for saving us. At that moment, I came to several life-long conclusions. One, the storm was a natural phenomenon—God had nothing to do with it. Two, it all wasn’t so serious a crisis as Mom made it out to be—it wasn’t apocalyptic. Three, prayer had nothing to do with the lifting of the storm—the two were completely separate. Fourth, at that moment I gave up prayer. I never even tried to remember the prayers I used to know. Fifth, clearly God did not exist and religion was useless. Sixth, Mom, though loving and meaning well, was weird and panicky. She made me realize that I should take everything with a grain of salt. And discount authority and the surface of things. [End Page 87] Arthur Ramírez Austin, Texas Arthur Ramírez Arthur Ramírez has taught at Whittier College, Idaho State University, Colby College, USC, San Diego State University, UCSD, and Sonoma State University in northern California, where he retired in 2002 as Professor Emeritus in Latino and Chicano Studies. He believes in the story above all, whether in folklore, film, theatre or in his own memoirs, such as the present story about a hurricane. His academic presentations and scholarly articles range from subjects in English, Spanish, and Chicano literature, as well as the field of folklore. He is co-editor of the book Aztlán (San...

Humanistic Psychology a Rise for Positive Psychology

The first phase of humanistic psychology, which covered the period between 1960 to 1980, was largely driven by Maslow's agenda for a positive psychology. It articulated a view of the human being as irreducible to parts, needing connection, meaning, and creativity. As the intellectual core of the human potential movement, humanistic psychology had a broad impact both on the field of psychology as well as the culture at large. This holistic perspective on psychological development and self-actualization laid the foundation for the professions of individual and family counseling (Satir, 1964) and organizational development consulting (Massarik, 1992). The study of peak experiences and self-actualization was popularized throughout the culture. psychology also affected the educational system with its views on self-esteem and self-help, offering tools forpersonal and spiritual transformation. For example, the state of California funded a study of self-esteem which was sponsored by John Vasconcellos, past president of the Association for Psychology and at the time Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the California Assembly (Mecca, Smelser & Vasconcellos, 1989).The Psychology Division (32) of the American Psychological Association was founded in September, 1971 in response to the call for theory construction, research, and clinical professional education in humanistic psychology. psychology has continued as an oiganized movement that focuses research and educational efforts on the study of human experience. Besides Division 32, the organizational structures that carry the movement forward include the Association for Psychology, as well as the graduate programs of the members of the Consortium for Diversified Psychology Programs, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Saybrook Graduate School, Seattle University, Sonoma State University, State University of West Georgia, Union Institute, Universidad AutUnoma de la Laguna (Mexico), and Harmony Institute (Russia). It includes The Psychologist and the Journal of Psychology as well as the Association for Transpersonal Psychology and the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology.The first brochure of Division 32 stated in its mission statement: Humanistic psychology aims to be faithful to the full richness of human experience. Its foundations include philosophical humanism, existentialism, and phenomenology. Its approach to the science and profession of psychology accepts the challenge to develop a systematic and rigorous understanding of human beings. psychologists investigate not only suffering and trauma, but also growth and creativity, dreams, ethics and values (Frankl, 1959; James, 1961; Maslow, 1971; May, 1958). They want to know what works, and how to assess outcome in therapy (Bohart, 1997; Schneider, & Eagle, 1996-7).Historic look on positive psychologyThe advent of positive psychology as we know it today can be traced back to Martin E. P. Seligman's 1998 Presidential Address to the American Psychological Association (Seligman, 1999). Following a serendipitous holiday meeting between Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi in winter 1997 (Csikszentmihalyi, 2003), and an epiphanic moment when gardening with his daughter Nikki (Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000), Seligman realized that psychology had largely neglected the latter two of its three pre-World War II missions: curing mental illness, helping all people to lead more productive and fulfilling lives, and identifying and nurturing high talent. The advent of the Veterans Administration (in 1946) and the National Institute of Mental Health (in 1947) had largely rendered psychology a healing discipline based upon a disease model and illness ideology (see also, Maddux, 2002; Maddux, Snyder, & Lopez, 2004). With this realization, Seligman resolved to use his APA presidency to initiate a shift in psychology's focus toward a more positive psychology (Seligman, 1999). …

The First-Generation College Student Experience: Implications for Campus Practice, and Strategies for Improving Persistence and Success (review)

Reviewed by: The First-Generation College Student Experience: Implications for Campus Practice, and Strategies for Improving Persistence and Success Rachelle Winkle-Wagner The First-Generation College Student Experience: Implications for Campus Practice, and Strategies for Improving Persistence and Success. Jeff Davis. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, 2010, 221 pages, $29.95 (softcover) First-generation student status, signifying those students whose parents do not have college degrees, is a reasonably new area of inquiry in higher education research. Jeff Davis' new book highlights first-generation students as a growing population of students with unique challenges and needs. Davis desires to emphasize the diversity of first-generation student status as an important category on its own, one that may or may not relate to socioeconomic, immigrant, race, or gender categories. The first three chapters of the book review research about first-generation students. Chapter one provides a call to arms to take first-generation students seriously alongside some recommendations for ways to better account for these students from numerical and policy perspectives. Chapter two reviews learning and campus presence, illustrating that first-generation students may have [End Page 763] unique needs that are often not met on college campuses and that more empirical work on first-generation students is needed. Chapter three provides an overview of the struggles of first-generation students. The heart of this book is in chapter four, a collection of reflective essays, or narratives as Davis refers to them, written by first-generation students from Sonoma State University. These student accounts of their experiences about gaining college access and attempting to persist through their degree are candid and sometimes heart-wrenching. Scholars and practitioners could gain valuable insight from these students' essays. First-generation students may see themselves in these stories. Or, they may at least feel less alone for having read them. Following these narratives, Davis offers his interpretation, relating it to previous literature and practice in chapter five. The final chapter provides recommendations for practice that faculty and student affairs administrators in particular could implement on their campuses. While these narratives and Davis' reflections upon them are thoughtful and valuable, the book's lack of a research methodology and theoretical grounding with respect to the consideration of intersections between race, class, and gender categories were not as satisfying. The book contains no description of the research design or methodology used in regards to sampling or data analysis, for example. The students who wrote the narrative accounts were primarily a convenience sample of 14 students at Sonoma State University who were involved in a federally funded project during the past decade. This is not problematic in and of itself, but, there are significant variations in the students who were included in the book, representing combinations of the following characteristics: first- and second- generation immigrants to the U.S., students of color, Whites, men, women, nontraditional college students, and traditional aged college students. Although this demonstrates the diversity in first-generation students' experiences, because the book includes only 14 students' essays over a 10-year period, it is difficult to decide how to analyze, and especially interpret, these experiences. Also missing from the book was a description of how the data/narratives were analyzed. Davis indicates that he does not intend for these narratives to be social science case histories but chapter five of the book does offer some interpretation. If the interpretation is not from a social science perspective, it is difficult to assess the rigor or quality of the findings and subsequent interpretations and policy recommendations. This is potentially detrimental to the very heartfelt, important, and compelling student narratives present in the text. That is, without demonstrating the way in which one arrives at the interpretations from data, the findings are less meaningful. Additionally, and related to data analysis and interpretation, there was no indication of how trustworthiness or validation of the analysis was ensured (Patton, 2001). Although the students did meet with a faculty member about their narratives, it is unclear if the students had the opportunity to voice concerns about how their stories were used or interpreted. This could disfavor the noble intentions of the book, which are undoubtedly to advocate for first-generation students...

Using a Targeted Rubric to Deepen Direct Assessment of College Students’ Abilities to Evaluate the Credibility of Sources

At the Sonoma State University Library, a rubric was designed specifically for deepening the assessment of freshmen students’ ability to evaluate the credibility of sources. The course-level rubric was developed after program-level assessments proved too broad to uncover specific challenges in this particular skill. As a direct assessment tool, the rubric allows teaching faculty and librarians to more clearly identify and address the smaller steps required for a student to successfully learn to evaluate a source. The rubric and the results of using it as an assessment tool with a freshmen-level, general education oral communication/critical thinking course are discussed.

Sonoma State University's North Bay Historic Preservation Digital Collection: Starting a Digital Project

A number of years ago, a staff member in the Sonoma State University (SSU) Library’s regional and special collections department discovered a box of mounted photographs and accompanying display material of Sonoma County sites. A bit of detective work led to further identification of these photos as part of a larger compilation of materials associated with History 362, a course offered at SSU in the mid-1970s. More recently, additional materials were connected to this original discovery, including photo negatives, proof sheets, and some slides; a dozen audiotaped interviews of Sonoma County residents; student papers on the architectural styles of buildings in the county; resource inventories of historic county sites; and files from the offices of two history professors who were involved in the work to create these documents. And History 362 wasn’t the only course with which various documents were associated. The organization of materials continues to this day, but the regional and special collections department staff has managed to piece together most of the history of this unique collection.