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The Myth of Retrospection: Syon Abbey and the Futurity of Lancastrian Legitimation
Authors: Bude Tekla 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
This article argues that the foundation of Syon Abbey by Henry V was a Lancastrian investment in political prophecy and the Revelations of Saint Bridget of Sweden, rather than—as has been generally argued—a space of retrospectival legitimation. It argues, furthermore, that the political and religious claims charted by Syon's foundation are simultaneously insular and international, invested in French land claims as well as in civil politics.
Fantasies of Asian American Kinship Disrupted: Identification and Disidentification in Michael Kang's The Motel
Authors: Lee Fred 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
This article interprets Michael Kang's independent feature The Motel (2005) as a critique of the Asian American fantasy of post- 1965 incorporation into the multicultural US polity. The film discloses that this Asian American Dream is normatively constituted by heteronormative, middle-class, intra-racial kinship. The protagonist Ernest Chin's longing for this kind of normative Asian American family is symptomatic of his identification with the exclusionary norms of the incorporative fantasy. In a moment of disidentification, though, Ernest is able to release his grip on the dream and its reciprocal grip on him. Disidentification, in my usage, is a kind of political action that both disrupts and reworks processes of social formation from within. As a contribution to the critical philosophy of race, my rendition of disidentification draws on recent developments in cultural studies and political theory to address the critical theoretical question of the psychic life of domination.
On the Particular Racism of Native American Mascots
Authors: Tarver Erin C. 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
An account of the specific ill of Native American mascots—that is, the particular racism of using Native Americans as mascots, as distinct from other racist portrayals of Native Americans—requires a fuller account of the function of mascots as such than has previously been offered. By analyzing the history of mascots in the United States, this article argues that mascots function as symbols that draw into an artificial unity 1) a variety of teams existing over a period of time and thereby 2) a community of individuals who are thus able to use that team as their own symbolic locus of unification. This unification of teams and their concomitant communities is accomplished by appeal to a symbol that facilitates a particular fantasy of collective identity. The usage of Native American mascots is racist not only because it involves stereotypical portrayals of Native Americans, but (more specifically) because it treats Native persons simply as a means to symbolic unification—and not, importantly, as members of the community they thus serve. In other words, in these cases mascots work as unifying signifiers precisely by being the purely instrumental facilitator of a group's collective fantasy of itself.
Genealogies of Orientalism and Occidentalism: Sephardi Jews, Muslims, and the Americas
Authors: Shohat Ella , Stam Robert 
Published: April 2016

ABSTRACT
Tracing Orientalism back to the two 1492s—of Iberia and of the Americas—the authors examine Latin America’s ambivalence toward its Moorish-Sephardic heritage. Once belonging to a shared cultural landscape, Muslims and Jews were later seen by Ibero-American authorities as alien excrescences to be symbolically excised from a putatively pure body politic. Modernization came to be synonymous with Occidentalization. Using Gilberto Freyre’s work as a case study, the authors highlight his tracing of both patriarchal authoritarianism and sexual-racial flexibility in relation to Brazil’s Moorish lineage, as well as his recuperation of the Sephardi for the national formation of Brazil’s economy, science, and culture. Freyre’s revisionist project with regards to the Sephardi and the Moor, which offers a Luso-Brazilian apologia of miscegenation, must be understood in light of the omission of the enslaved African-Muslims from official history. The authors outline the “anxious affections” that the Janus-faced figure of the Moor/Sephardi has provoked in the Americas, thus disturbing facile analytical dichotomies of East/West and North/South.
Black Panther Palestine
Authors: Lubin Alex 
Published: April 2016

ABSTRACT
Throughout the 1970s Arab (Mizrahi) Jews built a social movement within Israel to confront their racial exclusion from the promises of Israeli citizenship. The movement crystalized in the formation of the Israeli Black Panther Party, a group that formed solidarity with the U.S. Black Panther Party as well as with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). In this essay I examine the history of the Israeli Black Panthers and identify the global conjunctures that enabled the movement. Of particular focus is the solidarity formed between the U.S. Black freedom movement and the PLO’s “global offensive.” In addition to describing the linked movements of the Black Panthers and the PLO, I consider what this example of internationalism reveals about the possibilities of Diasporic Jewish identities and politics.
Animals and Humans: Some Perspectives from an Eastern Christian Tradition
Authors: Brock Sebastian P. 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
The article looks at the relationship of human beings to animals as seen from the Syriac Christian tradition. In the absence of any detailed discussion of the topic among Syriac authors, the focus of attention is on the general approach of two influential writers, the poet-theologian Ephrem (died AD 373) and the monastic author Isaac the Syrian (7th century), as illustrated above all by their interpretation of the two parts of Gen. 1:26 and the relationship between the "image of God" in which humanity is created and the "dominion/authority" conferred upon it. Also considered is the effect of sanctity upon animals.
Animals Do Have an Interest in Liberty
Authors: Giroux Valéry 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
According to Alasdair Cochrane, liberty can have value for most animals only because it allows them to obtain other desirable things, such as well-being. With this he concludes that humans can continue to use other animals as long as they treat them well. In this article, I reject this conclusion by arguing against the positive conception of liberty in favor of its negative or republican conception. I suggest that it is sufficient for a being to be capable of agency in order to have an interest in liberty, which deserves to be protected by the right to be free.
Animal Law in Australasia: A Universal Dialogue of “Trading Off” Animal Welfare
Authors: Schaffner Joan E. 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
Animal Law in Australasia: Continuing the Dialogue provides a comprehensive, thoughtprovoking discussion and analysis of animal law in Australasia while critiquing the existing paradigm that presumes human desire always outweighs animal suffering and proposing reforms to provide better legal protection for all animals. The authors of each chapter, experts in relevant fields such as academia, private practice, and government, describe the theoretical, practical, and political obstacles faced by animal advocates and offer solutions for changing the status quo. This review provides a summary of the text and notes that although focused on Australasia, the book is relevant worldwide.
Blue-Collar Identity and the "Culture of Losing": Cleveland and the "Save Our Browns" Campaign
Authors: Linden Andrew D. 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
In November 1995, Cleveland football fans began the "Save Our Browns" campaign after owner Art Modell announced he would move the team to Baltimore after the season. By February 1996, the initiative influenced the National Football League’s decision to allow Cleveland to keep the legacy of the Browns and offer the city a new team. Letters found at the Pro Football Hall of Fame show how the Save Our Browns campaign illuminated a "culture of losing"–the combination of a declining city, poor sports teams, and angst from social change–in the greater Cleveland community. I argue that Clevelanders’ fight for the Browns represented their desire for a Cleveland of the past that included an idealized blue-collar identity consisting of expressions of heteronormative, white masculinity. These expressions show how some considered sports more important than other forms of social change in the Rust Belt city in the late-twentieth-century United States.
Tensions in the Third Space: Examining the Digital Visual Culture of Teenagers
Authors: Olson Brad 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
The concept of the third space is a broad area of interest for educational researchers, particularly within art education. This realm is often tied closely to elements of popular culture, and may often enter subversive, transgressive, and inane territories. In the 21st century, teenagers are spending vast amounts of time online, engaging in the same informal types of play, socialization, learning, and art making as occur in real life (IRL). Because of these issues, some have responded by exploring the hybrid "third space" between formal and informal learning spaces, both on- and offline. The third space integrates concepts like playful pedagogy into learning, and it is typically seen as a productive co-mingling of teacher and student interests. However, this study traces the third space to its roots as a discourse of dissent and conflict, and examines the unique tensions that arise in this space and their implications for art education. This qualitative case study examines the researcher’s efforts to facilitate a third space for learning in the Digital Arts Workshop (DigArts). This workshop was designed as a third space that intended to facilitate a productive space for tech-savvy teens to meet, work on self-initiated projects, and forge a cooperative community of art makers. This report presents a survey of the digital visual culture of these teenagers, and discusses the various tensions that arise in the third space between teacher and student, formal and informal learning, offline and online.
Video Game Prosumers: Case Study of a Minecraft Affinity Space
Authors: Wu Hong-An 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
As youth are becoming active prosumers of cultural artifacts, it is important to examine the mechanisms that prompt them into self-initiated making. Affinity spaces, which are spaces where groups of "people primarily orient toward a common set of endeavors and social practices in terms of which they attempt to realize these endeavors" (Gee, 2007, p. 196), have been discussed as key informal learning sites that support youth in making their own iterations of popular visual culture. Drawing from theories on informal learning, this study looks at a Minecraft video game affinity space to understand the mechanisms that support and encourage youth video game players to move beyond being consumers of video games and into being producers of artifacts. This case study uses content analysis to investigate the descriptions, discussions, and artifacts produced on Minecraft affinity space r/Minecraft. This study finds that artifacts produced and shared in this affinity space congregate around the themes of news, artifacts inspired by the game, artifacts created through the game, add-ons to the game, and opinions. At the same time, members posit that participating in these affinity spaces through critiquing artifacts produced by other members and producing artifacts of their own is an integral aspect of playing Minecraft. This study implies the need for art educators to further consider digital platforms when designing formal learning experiences and create curriculum that harnesses the informal learning mechanisms supported by affinity spaces.
Identity Tableaux: Multimodal Contextual Constructions of Adolescent Identity
Authors: Lalonde Martin , Castro Juan Carlos , Pariser David 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
Mobile and social media are blurring the social spaces in which teens construct and disseminate representations of identity to their peers. We refer to these representations as identity tableaux. In this paper, we present an unexpected finding from a long-term study investigating the use of mobile media, visual art, and civic engagement to reconnect at-risk youth with their education. Using a framework of hybrid spaces and multimodal media literacies, for our analysis, we looked at the processes adolescents utilize to create and share representations of their identity within the social and intimate spaces that they inhabit. From our analysis of social media posts and interviews, we saw that the participating teens defined their social relationships through representations of affective experiences using context-specific multimodal media literacies. Youth identity formation using mobile and social media is a synergetic relationship between the individual and the collective online.
Informal Youth Cultural Practices: Blurring the Distinction Between High and Low
Authors: Faucher Christine 
Published: April 2016

AbstractThis article argues that art educators need to focus on informal youth cultural practices in order to develop art projects that are meaningful to young people and relevant to their contemporary social media and postmodern artistic context. First, this article reports on doctoral research that examines informal youth cultural practices in cyberspace, or those taken up by young people "behind the scenes" of school art education and institutional curricula. Various methodological approaches, including a multiple case study, were used to understand the lesser-known dimensions of teenagers’ cultural capital. The results underscore the importance of image-processing software in fostering the teenagers’ appropriation skills as well as their technical, artistic, and identity exploration. The results also show that the teenagers’ creative processes and visual productions migrated from their art class to digital social networks. Furthermore, the youth participants, whose informal cultural practices drew from different genres (friendship-driven and interest-driven), expressed a vision of cyberculture focused on the blurring of cultural boundaries. Second, this article examines an art project related to the author’s doctoral research. The project mobilized the viral distribution of gossip on a digital social network and addressed informal youth creative practices through the notion of cultural landmarks. Cultural landmarks refer to key pedagogical resources that connect teenagers with their culture in art education. Cultural landmarks emanating from commercial culture and young people’s informal ways of expressing their inventiveness in digital and analog spaces generated art products and practices that blurred distinctions between high and low culture. Such blurring also happens in the broader context of contemporary art, justifying the need for art educators to consider informal youth cultural practices in their classrooms.
On the Impossibility of Life in Art and Education
Authors: Tervo Juuso 
Published: April 2016

AbstractThere is a historical tendency in art education to envision both art and education as integral parts of the development and sustainment of individual human life and a just society. While this conception has enabled art educators to tackle various societal issues in their profession, it reduces the societal presence of art education into a predetermined narrative of completion and conservative politics where everything eventually finds its allegedly right place and function. In this article, I historicize this argument by examining how human life and its development have been tied to the goals of public art education in the United States in the early decades of the 20th century and reflect on what kind of tradition of political thought have they upheld. In order to eventually offer an alternative approach to politics of art education, I end this article by sketching an impossible relation between art, education, and human life that would not consider human agency and its development as given categories but as modalities of being that have radical potentialities beyond predetermined actualizations.
Tenuous Ties: The Nature and Costs of Kin Support among Low-income Rural Black Mothers
Authors: Garrett-Peters Raymond , Burton Linda M. 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
Since Stack’s (1974) landmark ethnography of kin support in a close-knit group of poor black mothers in the Midwest, there has been ample research on social support among low-income black families. While this body of work has largely painted a picture of the cohesive and supportive nature of families in black communities, recent research has highlighted the limited nature of kin support, especially the support available to low-income black mothers. Much of this work, however, has focused primarily on urban black mothers and paid less attention to the conditions that poor rural black mothers face when seeking and giving family support. Using longitudinal ethnographic data from a sample of 16 low-income black mothers in the rural South, we draw on social exchange, negotiated-order, and social capital perspectives to scrutinize the nature and costs of kin support in family networks marked by limited resources, instability, and chronic need. Our findings reveal the centrality of problematic resources and unpredictable family networks as conditions that diminish mothers’ autonomy and compromise important "side bets" as mothers seek out, manage, and repay support. Implications of this study for theories of social support and social capital are also discussed.
Female Soccer and Parenting in the Caribbean
Authors: McCree Roy 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
In the context of increasing concerns over health issues like obesity, as well as achieving gender equality, increasing interest has been shown in the factors that affect participation in sport in general and female participation in particular. Against this background, drawing on the expectancy value model of sport participation, the principal objective of this paper is to examine the extent to which the family, and parents in particular, have influenced the participation of their daughters in sport and the possible gendered nature of this process through modeling, interpreting experience, and providing experience. Methodologically, it is based on a qualitative case study of national soccer players (n=11) and their parents (n=11) from Trinidad and Tobago. The study generated three major related findings. First, it found little evidence of gender stereotypic beliefs among the parents of the players or their families, be they single parent or nuclear in nature, as they generally served as role models for their daughters and supported them both materially and nonmaterially in their participation in soccer from childhood to adulthood. Second, gendered-based sport socialization was experienced more by some parents when they were growing up than their daughters. Third, while mothers were generally as involved as fathers in their daughters’ football activities--in some cases, much more so--this involvement assumed a different form in several instances, as men tended to assume the role of coach (formally and informally), although their role was not limited to this.
Puerto Rican Families in Central Florida: Prejudice, Discrimination, and Their Implications for Successful Intergration
Authors: Aranda Elizabeth , Rivera Fernando I. 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
Central Florida is an emerging destination for Puerto Ricans migrating to the contiguous states of the United States. We use in-depth interviews with Puerto Rican adults and young adults (N=25) and data from the U.S. Census to examine Central Florida Puerto Rican families’ demographic and economic profiles and to compare them to those in older destinations such as New York. We focus particularly on socioeconomic integration. Findings from interviews suggest that kinship networks may aid the efforts of families to maintain socioeconomic stability by providing access to social capital. However, the generational status and levels of acculturation may affect the kinds of jobs that are attainable. Importantly, experiences with discrimination may blunt economic progress and socioeconomic integration. The erosion of feelings of belonging due to discrimination may, in turn, affect future settlement decisions. We discuss the implications of these results for Puerto Rican families’ socioeconomic status and economic stability.
The Color Line Exception: The Transracial Adoption of Foreign-born and Biracial Black Children
Authors: Raleigh Elizabeth 
Published: April 2016

AbstractCensus data show that the number of transracial adoptive households is rising, but white parents are more likely to adopt Hispanic and Asian children than black children. These demographics provide empirical support for the argument that the color line in the United States is evolving from a white/nonwhite divide toward a black/nonblack one. Yet these racial demarcations treat blacks as a monolithic group and hide the potential for subgroup variation. The purpose of this article is to explore the ways in which white adoptive parents differentiate among black children available for adoption. Specifically, I examine how the adoptions of foreign-born black and of native-born multiracial black children are positioned as distinct from native-born "full" black children. To analyze these questions, I draw on in-depth interviews with adoption professionals who routinely help facilitate transracial adoptions (n=25). I argue foreign-born and biracial black children are seen as the exception to African American exceptionalism--in other words, these children are seen as "not black." The study concludes with a discussion of implications for child welfare workers and adoptive families.
Mothering and Entrepreneurship: Experiences of Single Women in St. Lucia
Authors: Esnard Talia 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
Over the past three decades, there has been a growing interest in the role of female entrepreneurship as a missing link in the economic quagmire facing developing countries. However, while this attention has been marked by noted policy initiatives that seek to link current research to some measure of capacity building for women in that sector, wider research suggests that women combining work and family roles often experience taken-for-granted complications in establishing some degree of work-life balance. These are often neglected in entrepreneurial policy formation. Despite this, little research within developing regions like the Caribbean investigates the complexities related to the experiences and practices of navigating the combined roles of work and family for vulnerable subgroups like single mothers. The aim of this study is to explore, through in-depth phenomenological interviews, the situated nature of single mothering for female entrepreneurs in St. Lucia. Findings point to moral mothering as central to their perception, experiences, and decisions related to mothering and entrepreneurship. Findings also suggest that these women adopt creative strategies for working within these domains. Implications for future research are also discussed.
Diagnosis of Active Groups of Samples Taken (Aniline-Benzoic Acid -Acetic Anhydride and Comparing: The Results of the Laboratory)
Authors: Al-amiri Allaa Hussein Mhdi Salh 
Published: April 2016

<p><em>FTIR comparison study</em> between experimental and computational calculations by four molecular modeling methods (AM1, PM3, HF and DFT) was carried out to identify the vibration frequencies of different bonds for some compounds such as benzoic acid, aniline and phthalic anhydride to evaluate the accuracy of each method and to determine the shift value of frequencies for each bond. Results obtained confirm that the accuracy depends on the type of method and the functional group present near the certain bond. </p>