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Penumbra: The Premier Stage for African American Drama
Macelle Mahala
Penumbra Theatre Company was founded in 1976 by Lou Bellamy as a venue for African American voices within the Twin Cities theatre scene and has stood for more than thirty-five years at the intersection of art, culture, politics, and local community engagement. It has helped launch the careers of many internationally respected theatre artists and has been repeatedly recognized for its artistic excellence as the nation’s foremost African American theatre.
Penumbra is the first-ever history of this barrier-breaking institution. Based on extensive interviews with actors, directors, playwrights, producers, funders, and critics, Macelle Mahala’s book offers a multifaceted view of the theatre and its evolution. Penumbra follows the company’s emergence from the influential Black Arts and settlement house movements; the pivotal role Penumbra played in the development of August Wilson’s career and, in turn, how Wilson became an avid supporter and advocate throughout his life; the annual production of Black Nativity as a community-building performance; and the difficult economics of African American theatre production and how Penumbra has faced these challenges for nearly four decades.
Penumbra is a testament to how a theatre can respond to and thrive within changing political and cultural realities while contributing on a national scale to the African American presence on the American stage. It is a celebration of theatre as a means of social and cultural involvement—both local and national—and ultimately, of Penumbra’s continuing legacy of theatre that is vibrant, diverse, and vital.
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Partnerships across campuses and throughout communities: Community engaged research in california’s central san joaquin valley
Simón E. Weffer, James J. Mullooly, Dari E. Sylvester, Robin M. DeLugan, and Marcia D. Hernandez
In this chapter the co-authors explore the process of conducting social indicator research in California’s Central San Joaquin Valley. The “Central Valley” is notable for the high level of ethnic diversity, deep economic disparity, unemployment and underemployment, and blend of rural and agricultural communities with urban areas experiencing various levels of gentrification and development. The Partnership for the Assessment of Community (PAC) project was created to serve as a model to measure the changes over a 10-year period in the Central Valley. The PAC research team consists of faculty from different universities in the Central Valley and student-researchers. A description of the pilot study of PAC research is discussed in this chapter. The co-authors offer a critical read of the promises and challenges for researchers interested in conducting community-based research with students across multiple sites. We offer a summary of successful ventures as well as valuable lessons of what did not work for the initial study and salient issues for future social indicator research endeavors in the Central Valley.
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Routledge International Handbook of Food Studies
Ken Albala
Over the past decade there has been a remarkable flowering of interest in food and nutrition, both within the popular media and in academia. Scholars are increasingly using foodways, food systems and eating habits as a new unit of analysis within their own disciplines, and students are rushing into classes and formal degree programs focused on food.
Introduced by the editor and including original articles by over thirty leading food scholars from around the world,the Routledge International Handbook of Food Studies offers students, scholars and all those interested in food-related research a one-stop, easy-to-use reference guide. Each article includes a brief history of food research within a discipline or on a particular topic, a discussion of research methodologies and ideological or theoretical positions, resources for research, including archives, grants and fellowship opportunities, as well as suggestions for further study. Each entry also explains the logistics of succeeding as a student and professional in food studies.
This clear, direct Handbook will appeal to those hoping to start a career in academic food studies as well as those hoping to shift their research to a food-related project. Strongly interdisciplinary, this work will be of interest to students and scholars throughout the social sciences and humanities.
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Three World Cuisines: Italian, Mexican, Chinese
Ken Albala
Knowledge of Italian, Mexican, and Chinese cuisines illuminates many of the great historical themes of the past 10,000 years as well as why we eat the way we do today.
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The Lost Arts of Hearth and Home
Ken Albala and Rosanna Nafziger Henderson
A celebration of the new old-fashioned approach to living - from soapmaking to sewing to bread baking and much more. It is not about extreme, off-the-grid-living, but these projects are decidedly unplugged and a little daring.
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A Cultural History of Food in The Renaissance
Ken Albala, Fabio Parasecoli, and Peter Scholliers
A Cultural History of Food presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. This set of six volumes covers nearly 3,000 years of food and its physical, spiritual, social and cultural dimensions. - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/a-cultural-history-of-food-9781847883551/#sthash.LF11bLyZ.dpuf
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More Votes That Count: A Case Study in Voter Mobilization
Robert Benedetti, Randall Collette, Brett DeBoer, Qingwen Dong, Austin Erdmann, Ben Goodhue, Nathan Monroe, Erin O'Hara, Alan Ray, Jon F. Schamber, Keith Smith, Dari E. Sylvester, Lisa Tromovitch, and Paul Turpin
This collection grew from the experience of a group of scholars at the University of the Pacific who were challenged by the San Joaquin County Registrar of Voters to reduce voter error, improve poll worker-training, and increase voting by mail (absentee voting). The project was supported by funds from the help America Vote Act (HAVA), legislation passed in the wake of Florida's experience in the 2000 presidential election, and by the Pew Foundation for the States. Its immediate context was a controversy in California over the use of voting machines, a controversy that resulted in a return to the use of paper balloting at least for the near term. Both the Florida experience and the controversy in California reflect a growing realization that the electoral system itself has influenced the outcomes of elections rather than provided a level playing field for all candidates and all voters. In addition, the costs and potential costs of elections have skyrocketed with the increasing participation of media consultants, equipment manufacturers, and data specialists. In other words, the voting system is increasingly political and expensive in itself. Can and should such trends be reversed? The experience of San Joaquin County and research at the University of the Pacific shed light on this important question.
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Can Patriotism Be Carved In Stone?: A Critical Analysis of Mt. Rushmore’s Orientation Films
Teresa Bergman
Considerable scholarly analysis in recent years regards Mount Rushmore as a site of national symbolism.¹ Mount Rushmore has been interpreted and reinterpreted in ways that provide insight into its use and meaning as a U.S. patriotic icon. The choice of Mount Rushmore as a location for inquiry into the changing notions of patriotism stems from several sources. One reason is its prevalent cultural use as “shorthand for patriotism” in political campaigns, films, and marketing.² Additionally, the interest in “historically oriented tourism”³ resulted in approximately 1,989,771 tourists visiting Mount Rushmore in 2006 and more than a million tourists attending this site.
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Current methods for detecting the presence of botulinum neurotoxins in food and other biological samples
Luisa W. Cheng, Kirkwood M. Land, and L. H. Stanker
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Common Core State Standards for High School Math: Geometry. What Every Math Teacher Should Know
Christopher D. Goff
This book explains the Geometry Common Core State Standards line by line. It is the first in a series intended to help high school math teachers better understand the Common Core State Standards.
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What a Man: The Relationship Between Black Fraternity Stereotypes and Black Sorority Mate Selection
Marcia D. Hernandez, Anita McDaniel, LaVerne Gyant, and Tina Fletcher
The black Greek-letter organization (BGLO) movement grew rapidly throughout the twentieth century, and these groups remain important for black cultural, political, and social life. Since their beginning, BGLOs have been defined by a tripartite identity. At the individual level, the organizations encourage members to excel, largely with respect to high academic achievement.¹ At the interpersonal level, BGLOs promote the development and maintenance of fictive kinship ties between individuals not related by blood or marriage.² Collectively, BGLOs share a similar mission of promoting racial equality and challenging discrimination via community service, civic action, philanthropy, and the shaping of public policy.³
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It’s the Best Place for Him: Harry Potter and the Magical Uses of Space
Florence Maatita, Marcia D. Hernandez, and Kristen Kalz
Philosophers and psychologists have explored the Harry Potter stories through the lenses of their disciplines, now it's time for sociologists. In the twenty-two chapters of The Sociology of Harry Potter, social scientists from eight countries cast their imaginations on the wizarding world. From standard topics such as inequality and identity to more contemporary topics such as technology and trauma memory, this essay collection analyzes, not J. K. Rowling's books as fiction, but her wizarding world as a "real" society.
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Showtime at the Cartesian Theater? Vehicle Externalism and Dynamical Explanations
Michael Madary
Vehicle externalists hold that the physical substrate of mental states can sometimes extend beyond the brain into the body and environment. In a particular variation on vehicle externalism, Susan Hurley (1998) and Alva Noë (2004) have argued that perceptual states, states with phenomenal qualities, are among the mental states that can sometimes spread beyond the brain. Their vehicle externalism about perceptual states will be the main topic of this article. In particular, I will address three strong objections to their vehicle externalism, objections by Ned Block (2005a), Jesse Prinz (2006), and Fred Adams and Ken Aizawa (2008). Though in some ways these objections appear disparate, I will argue that all of them depend on a crucial presupposition, one which Hurley, Noë, and their sympathizers should reject. This presupposition is that perceptual character is fixed by an instantaneous snapshot of neural states, a view that Hurley dubbed ‘temporal atomism’. To put the presupposition in more familiar terms, all three objections are implicitly committed to something like Dennett’s Cartesian Theater (1991).
In the first part of the article, I will discuss Hurley and Noë’s views, and include reasons why their views entail the rejection of the Cartesian Theater. In the next part of the article I will introduce the three objections and show how they presuppose something like a Cartesian Theater. I will also show that, if the Cartesian Theater is rejected, the objections all vanish. In the final part of the article I address the charge that Noë and Hurley confuse causation with constitution. This charge reveals a lack of appreciation for the way in which dynamical explanation motivates Hurley’s externalism.
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Andrew, Acts of
Caroline T. Schroeder
One of several early Christian Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles, the Acts of Andrew narrates the exploits and death of one of the disciples in the years following Jesus' resurrection. According to the canonical Gospels, Andrew was Peter's brother. The Acts of Andrew was popular in Antiquity. It was mentioned in a Manichaean psalmbook and by Christian authors as early as Origen. It was dismissed as heretical by church historian Eusebius.
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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