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Las bocas que daban pánico: Antología en español de la pandemia Covid-19 en Estados Unidos
Martin Camps
El mundo se detuvo, la cuarentena se tornó en un momento de introspección y reflexión existencial: ¿por qué hacemos lo que hacemos? ¿Qué es lo más valioso de esta existencia? A fuerza pusimos nuestras vidas en la balanza. Recuerdo que las noches eran largas en esos primeros días, los sueños eran vívidos. ¿Cómo es posible que suceda esto en nuestros tiempos de supuesto progreso científico? Y lentamente nos adaptamos, a lavarnos juiciosamente las manos, con “veinte aguas” como decían en casa. A ponernos cubrebocas, parte de nuestra nueva nomenclatura (barbijos, tapabocas, mascarillas). Los que podían aprendieron de sopetón a utilizar el Zoom, esa plataforma de interacción cuyo sonido al activarla aún me provoca resquemor. Pero los que más sufrieron fueron los trabajadores que no podían hacer su labor a distancia y se pusieron en riesgo para llevar comida a sus casas. Recuerdo que en la tienda “Mi Tierra” en Berkeley, California, después de hacer fila para entrar y seguir las reglas de distanciamiento, escuché a un señor decir en su teléfono: “¿cómo quieres que trabaje a la distancia si soy plomero?”. En efecto, la pandemia se cebó sobre todo en las comunidades latinas. Esta antología es también un ejercicio por recopilar el español que se habla del otro lado de la frontera. El español que trajimos cuando cruzamos por la línea, porque no importa qué tan pobre se haya llegado a este país, los bolsillos los traíamos llenos de español. En los meses inciertos de la pandemia algunos recurrimos al solaz de la lectura. Recuerdo leerles poemas de una antología a mis hijos en la noche como una manera de pasar el tiempo, pero también para estar presentes, de estar allí y reducir el estrés provocado por lo incierto. La pandemia también pegó en un momento de hiperinformación, cuando el teléfono se soldó a los ojos como sanguijuelas y nos dio la ilusión de contacto, de relación, de interacción, pero nada más doloroso que estar separado físicamente de los otros...
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Where Social Identities Converge: Latin American and Latinx Youth on Screen
Traci Roberts-Camps
Where Social Identities Converge examines adolescent girlhood as a metaphorical site in Latin American and Latinx film. Author Traci Roberts‑Camps analyzes the work of a series of female directors from Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, and the United States to understand how female adolescence and young adulthood are represented in film. She argues that using an intersectional lens reveals how these directors present the image of adolescent girlhood as a site of early trauma that presages women’s lived experiences with institutional, interconnected forms of oppression. The book thus considers intersectionality through young female protagonists who represent identity struggles in Latin America and US Latinx communities. In doing so, it examines a range of genres, such as fictional film, documentary, and television miniseries. Each chapter includes a close reading of specific scenes that offer insight into the young female protagonists’ multiple identity markers and a continuous comparison between chapters.
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From the Center to the Margins: Itineraries of Modernity in the Mexican Novel
Martin Camps
The Oxford Handbook of the Latin American Novel draws literary, historical, and social connections so that readers will come away understanding this literature as a rich and compelling canon. In forty-five chapters by leading and innovative scholars, the Handbook provides a comprehensive introduction, helping readers to see the region's intrinsic heterogeneity--for only with a broader view can one fully appreciate García Márquez or Bolaño. This volume charts the literary tradition of the Latin American novel from its beginnings during colonial times, its development during the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century, and its flourishing from the 1960s onward. Furthermore, the Handbook explores the regions, representations of identity, narrative trends, and authors that make this literature so diverse and fascinating, reflecting on the Latin American novel's position in world literature.
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Sellos en la memoria: Crónicas de viajes
Martin Camps
“Se viaja sobre el viaje de los otros”, nos dice Martín Camps quien con estas dieciocho crónicas de viaje en Rusia, Islandia, Japón, India, Chile, Canadá, Nueva York, Tijuana, Hawaii, Río de Janeiro, Italia, Marruecos, Helsinki, Perú, Croacia y Atlanta, nos deja otear por estos países y ciudades donde siempre está la literatura como centro. Los viajes levantan una tolvanera en la memoria que no se asienta hasta que se pone en palabras. Como dice el autor: “La ciudad del recuerdo es como el sello en un pasaporte, un laberinto cerrado en la tinta como una Medina enmarañada, una impronta que se guarda en nosotros para acompañarnos por otros viajes en los días caliginosos de la rutina, cuando fluyen días que no registramos, que se pierden en la marejada de los días. La ciudad viaja conmigo como un sello circular de tinta en la memoria”. Estas crónicas impiden que lo cotidiano se estanque como el ancla de los barcos, hay que salir a la calle, hay que ver el mundo.
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Service, Leadership and Sisterhood: An Overview of Black Sororities in Social Science Research
Marcia D. Hernandez
Sisterhood is oft elusive, if not a misunderstood concept. Despite all the factors that could impede the development, elevation, and maintenance of sistering relationships, Black women continue to acknowledge the value of sisterhoods. Sistering offers a lifeline of support and validation. Holding membership in an empowering woman-centered relationship is a special kind of privilege. The authors in this volume contest any assumption that sisterhood is limited to blood relationships and physical proximity. In this volume, we consider sisterhood simultaneously as paradigm and praxis. We approach Sisterhood as Paradigm and attempt to parse out the nature of Sisterhood as it is understood in Black communities in the United States. We hope to convey an organized set of ideas about “sisterhood” to create sisterhood as a model of interaction or way of being with one another, specifically among Black women. As we consider how sisterhood could be enacted as practice. Using Sisterhood as a framework, we explore Sisterhood as Peer Support, examining how Black women provide support to peers in academic and professional settings. we embark on a provision of applied exemplars of sistering in emerging digital media in Digital Sisterhood.
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Competent Cell Preparation and Transformation of Pichia pastoris
Joan Lin-Cereghino, Christopher A. Naranjo, and Geoff Lin-Cereghino
During the past three decades, the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris (recently reclassified as Komagataella phaffii) has gained widespread acceptance as a system of choice for heterologous protein expression. One of the reasons that this yeast is used so frequently is the simplicity of techniques required for its molecular genetic manipulation. There are several different protocols available for introducing DNA into P. pastoris using electroporation or heat shock. We describe here a shortened protocol for cell preparation and transformation that works reliably with either prototrophic markers or antibiotic selection in this host. This procedure utilizes the most efficient portions of the electroporation and heat-shock transformation protocols to yield a method that is both time-saving and effective.
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Racism, Canon and the Controversy Surrounding #BlackHermoine
Florence Maatita and Marcia D. Hernandez
A fascinating reconsideration of the depictions and implications of race and diversity in the Harry Potter franchise
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Black Theater, City Life: African American Art Institutions and Urban Cultural Ecologies
Macelle Mahala
Macelle Mahala’s rich study of contemporary African American theater institutions reveals how they reflect and shape the histories and cultural realities of their cities. Arguing that the community in which a play is staged is as important to the work’s meaning as the script or set, Mahala focuses on four cities’ “arts ecologies” to shed new light on the unique relationship between performance and place: Cleveland, home to the oldest continuously operating Black theater in the country; Pittsburgh, birthplace of the legendary playwright August Wilson; San Francisco, a metropolis currently experiencing displacement of its Black population; and Atlanta, a city with forty years of progressive Black leadership and reverse migration.
Black Theater, City Life looks at Karamu House Theatre, the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Pittsburgh Playwrights’ Theatre Company, the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, the African American Shakespeare Company, the Atlanta Black Theatre Festival, and Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company to demonstrate how each organization articulates the cultural specificities, sociopolitical realities, and histories of African Americans. These companies have faced challenges that mirror the larger racial and economic disparities in arts funding and social practice in America, while their achievements exemplify such institutions’ vital role in enacting an artistic practice that reflects the cultural backgrounds of their local communities. Timely, significant, and deeply researched, this book spotlights the artistic and civic import of Black theaters in American cities. -
Using Writing in Science Class to Understand and Activate Student Engagement and Self-Efficacy
Eileen K. Camfield, Laura Beaster-Jones, Alex D. Miller, and Kirkwood M. Land
Writing is an active learning strategy strongly linked to student engagement. Student-authored learning narratives can reveal powerful self-beliefs that can either activate or inhibit success. In this targeted study of the aspect of student engagement most associated with self-beliefs (i.e., self-efficacy), students in separate sections of an introductory college biology course taught by the same professor were divided into experimental and control groups. The experimental group participated in an additional 1-unit required study skills component featuring writing-to-learn and self-efficacy development strategies. One hundred forty “pre” and “post” student self-efficacy narratives written in both cohorts were scored and also thematically coded. Scoring revealed a Cohen’s effect size d = 0.63 for the experimental group, but only d = 0.28 for control. Thus, writing appears to activate student self-efficacy most if it is part of a deliberate and sustained campaign. Gains seemed particularly impactful for struggling students, as the experimental group also saw significantly fewer students, with unmet fundamental skills, earning Ds and Fs in the course than those in the control group. Subsequent student interviews were also analyzed and informed recommendations for future research and pedagogical practice.
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Transpacific Literary and Cultural Connections: Latin American Influence in Asia
Martín Camps and Jie Lu
This critical interdisciplinary volume investigates modern and contemporary Asian cultural products in the non-westernized transpacific context of Asian and Latin American intellectual and cultural connections. It focuses on the Latin American intellectual, literary, and cultural influences on Asia, which have long been overshadowed by the dominance of Europe/North America-oriented discourse and by the predominance of academic research by both Asian and western intellectuals that focuses only on the West. Moving beyond the western intellectual paradigm, the volume examines how Asian literature, films, and art interact with Latin American literature and ideas to reexamine, reconsider, and re-explore issues related to the two regions' historical traumas, cultural identities, indigenous/vernacular traditions, and peripheral global-ness. The volume argues that Asian and Latin American literary and cultural endeavors are part of these regions' broader efforts to search for the forms of modernity that best fit their unique sociohistorical and sociocultural conditions.
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The Cost of Losing Team Bias in Water Polo
James Graham and John Mayberry
Parallel game simulations are utilized to determine whether or not bias in foul calling can impact the outcomes of games. The authors find that referees, not team performance, may be the source of losing team bias.
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The Commemoration of Women in the United States: Remembering Women in Public Space
Teresa Bergman
The Commemoration of Women in the United States examines the public memorialization of women in the US over the past century, with a particular focus on the late twentieth century and early twenty first. The analysis centers on six case examples of memorialization, and explores broad themes of cultural representation.
Bergman argues that the construction, or relocation, of a series of prominent national memorials together form a significant moment of change in the ways in which women are commemorated in the US. The historic and present-day challenges facing such commemoration are examined, with reference to broader political debates. The case examples explored are the Women in the Military Service for America Memorial; the Women’s Rights National Historic Park; the Vietnam Veterans Women’s Memorial; the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park; the Eleanor Roosevelt Statue in the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial; and the Portrait Monument of Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Providing insightful and grounded analysis of the history and practice of the commemoration of women in the US, this book makes useful reading for a range of scholars and students in subjects including heritage studies, communication studies, and history.
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Prebiotics, Probiotics, and Bacterial Infections
Christina C. Tam, Kirkwood M. Land, and Luisa W. Cheng
Bacterial pathogens have developed exquisite virulence mechanisms to survive in the host cells. These virulence mechanisms help them bind and internalize into host cells, replicate, and evade the host immune response. The mammalian host itself has developed its own repertoire of weapons to prevent this from happening. One important component of host response in preventing infections in the gut lumen is the diverse commensal microbiota present. Dysbiosis of the gut microbiota has been implicated in the development of many gastrointestinal diseases. A potential therapeutic pathway to solve these diseases would be by providing probiotics and/or prebiotics to help stimulate growth of the beneficial commensal bacteria. Here, we will present evidence of commensal microbiota imbalance in the development of disease as well as potential therapies to restore gut harmony.
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Adaptation for growth as a common goal throughout the lifespan: Why and how
Rachel Wu and Carla M. Strickland-Hughes
Thriving in a constantly changing environment requires human learners to adapt. In turn, adaptation requires learning new information and skills (i.e., adaptation for growth). Although specific personal goals change across the lifespan, the need for adaptation for growth is common across all ages. Yet, research with older adults often focuses on adaptation to loss, whereas research with infants and children often focuses on adaptation for growth. However, recent aging research demonstrates the possibility of cognitive maintenance, or even growth, in older adulthood. Focusing more on gains rather than losses may lead to a better understanding of adaptation for growth, and ultimately functional independence in a dynamic environment. After briefly reviewing theories on cognitive growth across the lifespan, we present a novel theoretical framework to explain why and how human learners adapt to grow in a dynamic environment from infancy to older adulthood. This framework highlights the role of real-world skill learning on three intermediate elements of learning to adapt relevant for any age. A driving metaphor conceptualizes these three elements: (1) learning what to learn and how to learn (GPS), (2) motivation to learn and adapt (fuel), and (3) cognitive abilities for learning (engine). We propose that these three elements lead to functional independence in a dynamic environment. We explain how the new framework builds on and extends existing learning research with older adults. Implications and future directions to raise the standard for cognitive aging from loss prevention and maintenance to adaptation for cognitive growth are discussed.
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Noodle Soup: Recipes, Techniques, Obsession
Ken Albala
Every day, noodle shops around the globe ladle out quick meals that fuel our go-go lives. But Ken Albala has a mission: to get YOU in the kitchen making noodle soup.
This primer offers the recipes and techniques for mastering quick-slurper staples and luxurious from-scratch feasts. Albala made a different noodle soup every day for two years. His obsession yielded all you need to know about making stock bases, using dried or fresh noodles, and choosing from a huge variety of garnishes, flavorings, and accompaniments. He lays out innovative techniques for mixing and matching bases and noodles with grains, vegetables, and other ingredients drawn from an international array of cuisines. In addition to recipes both cutting edge and classic, Albala describes new soup discoveries he created along the way. There's advice on utensils, cooking tools, and the oft-overlooked necessity of matching a soup to the proper bowl. Finally, he sprinkles in charming historical details that cover everything from ancient Chinese millet noodles to that off-brand Malaysian ramen at the back of the ethnic grocery store.
Filled with more than seventy color photos and dozens of recipes, Noodle Soup is an indispensable guide for cooking, eating, and loving a universal favorite.
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Dialogues on the Delta: Approaches to the City of Stockton
Martín Camps
This collection of essays examines the city of Stockton, California from an interdisciplinary perspective. Stockton is in the heart of the Central Valley, an agricultural region that comprises a diverse population and rich history. This book covers the economic downturn of the city that was ground zero for the housing market crisis during the Great Recession, which resulted in it becoming the first major American city to declare bankruptcy. Nevertheless, the city cannot be framed only on its economic misfortunes; Stockton has a vibrant community with important historical figures such as Martín Ramírez, an outsider painter who was a patient in the Stockton State Hospital. This book also covers topics such as food studies, religious communities, historical resources at the library at the University of the Pacific, business community programs such as “Puentes”, an overview of the city’s racial diversity, auto-ethnographies, the family connection to Mexican author Elena Poniatowska, and a program at the Stockton High School during WWII to send jeeps as part of the war effort. This book is informed by the perspectives of historians, sociologists, political scientists, economists, business scholars, and literary and cultural studies theorists to provide a wide range of approaches to a vital community in the Central Valley of California.
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The Stockton Challenge: Surviving the Misery of the Great Recession
Marcia D. Hernandez
This collection of essays examines the city of Stockton, California from an interdisciplinary perspective. Stockton is in the heart of the Central Valley, an agricultural region that comprises a diverse population and rich history. This book covers the economic downturn of the city that was ground zero for the housing market crisis during the Great Recession, which resulted in it becoming the first major American city to declare bankruptcy. Nevertheless, the city cannot be framed only on its economic misfortunes; Stockton has a vibrant community with important historical figures such as Martín Ramírez, an outsider painter who was a patient in the Stockton State Hospital. This book also covers topics such as food studies, religious communities, historical resources at the library at the University of the Pacific, business community programs such as “Puentes”, an overview of the city’s racial diversity, auto-ethnographies, the family connection to Mexican author Elena Poniatowska, and a program at the Stockton High School during WWII to send jeeps as part of the war effort. This book is informed by the perspectives of historians, sociologists, political scientists, economists, business scholars, and literary and cultural studies theorists to provide a wide range of approaches to a vital community in the Central Valley of California.
A selection of published books and book chapters from faculty members of the College of the Pacific at University of the Pacific.
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