History, an Exit Strategy: The Retrofuture Fabulations of kara lynch

A cartographer constructs a map of an individual creative history, that of the American artist kara lynch, as it emerges in connection to a collective history of African American cultural expression. Positioning history as complex, dynamic systems of interwoven memory networks, the map follows lynch’s traversals through various “zones of cultural haunting”: places where collective memories made invisible through systematic processes of cultural erasure may be recovered and revived. Through these traversals, which are inspired by lynch’s “forever project” Invisible, the map covers such terrains as haunted narratives, mechanisms of abstraction and coding within African American media production, water as an informational technology, the distribution of memory in blood, the dialectics of materiality and immateriality that frame considerations of black subjectivity, and the possibility that place of music might not be the site of sound but instead the social production of memory.

Children’s essentialist reasoning about language and race

Across four studies, we directly compared children’s essentialist reasoning about the stability of race and language throughout an individual’s lifespan. Monolingual English-speaking children were presented with a series of images of children who were either White or Black; each face was paired with a voice clip in either English or French. Participants were asked which of two adults each target child would grow up to be – one who was a ‘match’ to the target child in race but not language, and the other a ‘match’ in language but not race. Nine- to 10-year-old European American children chose the race-match, rather than the language-match. In contrast, 5–6-year-old European American children in both urban, racially diverse, and rural, racially homogeneous environments chose the language-match, even though this necessarily meant that the target child would transform racial categories. Although surprising in light of adult reasoning, these young children demonstrated an intuition about the relative stability of an individual’s language compared to her racial group membership. Yet, 5–6-year-old African American children, similar to the older European American children, chose the race-match, suggesting that membership in a racial minority group may highlight children’s reasoning about race as a stable category. Theoretical implications for our understanding of children’s categorization of human kinds are discussed.

O cuidador familiar no olhar da pessoa com depressão

RESUMO: Problema: Atualmente o internamento em unidades de saúde é considerado um recurso de última linha, sendo no contexto familiar e social que a pessoa vive a sua depressão. Consequência desta realidade, o papel de cuidador é naturalmente assumido pelo familiar, mas nem sempre aceite como tal pela pessoa que vive a depressão, tendo este facto repercussões importantes na vida familiar, sobretudo ao nível das relações interpessoais. Questão: - Como é que a pessoa com depressão vê o familiar cuidador? Objetivos: - caraterizar a depressão na perspetiva de quem a vive; - Caraterizar o papel de cuidador familiar na perspetiva do doente; - Descrever as reações do doente na relação com os cuidadores familiares Metodologia: desenho de natureza qualitativa e indutiva com recurso à Grounded Theory. Dois pólos das consultas externas do departamento psiquiatria e saúde mental, Hospital de Évora, em duas cidades diferentes, de fevereiro a julho 2009. Seleção de participantes, não probabilística intencional com os seguintes critérios: adultos ou idosos com diagnóstico de depressão, habitar com familiares, ter capacidade cognitiva que permita recolher informação. Realizadas entrevistas a 20 participantes (8 doentes e 12 familiares), num total de 8 famílias. Resultados: codificação axial permitiu encontrar 4 categorias - narrativa do processo de adoecer – é multifacetada, com a identificação clara do início, causas, características da doença e manifestações; - a depressão e eu – a relação dual entre o doente e a depressão, estratégias de enfrentamento da doença, autoaprendizagem, procura de ajuda, gestão da medicação, sentimentos expressos, desejos; - ler o familiar que cuida - a interpretação e o sentido atribuído pelo doente aos comportamentos do familiar cuidador; o sentimento de não cuidado, centrado na ausência de compreensão e paciência, chantagem emocional, ameaças, agressividade, indiferença, falta de diálogo, controle excessivo, incapacidade para escutar, tentativas falhadas de ajuda; - eu na relação com o familiar que cuida - o doente não reconhece capacidade ao familiar para ajudar, ignora os seus conselhos e sente-se perdido sem saber o que fazer, por vezes evita o diálogo saindo de casa por períodos, não percebe o familiar nem sabe o que ele pensa sobre a sua situação de saúde, sente-se só. Conclusão: quando há uma pessoa com depressão na família tudo se altera; os familiares mudam, construindo o papel de cuidador na interação quotidiana. As estratégias de cuidados desenvolvem-se de modo reativo em função do comportamento do doente, adquirindo contornos particulares de conteúdo nem sempre adequado à situação de saúde vivida. O doente não se sente cuidado, nem reconhece o familiar como parceiro ativo no seu processo de recuperação. Ali, L., Ahlström, B., Krevers, B. & Skärsäter, I. (2012). Daily life for Young adults who care for a person with mental illness: a qualitative study. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 19, 610-617 Silva, N., Guarda, T., Mendes, M., Godinho, M., Lima, K., Soares, M. (2012). Respuestas de la persona adulta mayor frente a la depresión: revisión integrativa. Desarrollo Científico Enfermería, 20, nº2, 46-50 Ward, E., Mengesha, M. & Issa, F. (2014). Older African American women’s lived experiences with depression and coping behaviours. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 21, 46-59

40th Anniversary of Bible Way Church of Atlas Road

This proclamation from Governor Mark Sanford proclaims November 7 9, 2003, as the 40th Anniversary of Bible Way Church of Atlas Road.

Call & response - Fall 2008

Call & Response is the newsletter of the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission, whose mission is to identify and promote the preservation of historic sites, structures, buildings, and culture of the African American experience in South Carolina. This is volume III, number 3 and includes a message from the chair, list of board members, preservation project profile, remembrance of Mr. Herbert Alexander DeCosta, Jr., news from the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, annual meeting information, and events calendar.

Call & response - Spring/Summer 2008

Call & Response is the newsletter of the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission, whose mission is to identify and promote the preservation of historic sites, structures, buildings, and culture of the African American experience in South Carolina. This is volume III, number 2 and includes a message from the chair, list of board members, preservation project profile, spotlight on Michael A. Allen, news from the South Carolina Department of Archives and History and events calendar.

Call & response - Winter 2008

Call & Response is the newsletter of the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission, whose mission is to identify and promote the preservation of historic sites, structures, buildings, and culture of the African American experience in South Carolina. This is volume III, number 1 and includes a message from the chair, list of board members, preservation project profile, news from the South Carolina Department of Archives and History and events calendar.

Call & response - Fall 2009

Call & Response is the newsletter of the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission, whose mission is to identify and promote the preservation of historic sites, structures, buildings, and culture of the African American experience in South Carolina. This is volume IV, number 3 and includes a message from the chair, list of board members, preservation project profile, African Americans during the Civil War, news from the South Carolina Department of Archives and History and events calendar.

Call & response - Spring/Summer 2009

Call & Response is the newsletter of the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission, whose mission is to identify and promote the preservation of historic sites, structures, buildings, and culture of the African American experience in South Carolina. This is volume IV, number 2 and includes a message from the chair, list of board members, preservation project profile, news from the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, annual meeting information, and events calendar.

Call & response - Winter 2009

Call & Response is the newsletter of the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission, whose mission is to identify and promote the preservation of historic sites, structures, buildings, and culture of the African American experience in South Carolina. This is volume IV, number 1 and includes a message from the chair, list of board members, preservation project profile, news from the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, and events calendar.

Call & response - Fall 2010

Call & Response is the newsletter of the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission, whose mission is to identify and promote the preservation of historic sites, structures, buildings, and culture of the African American experience in South Carolina. This is volume V, number 3 and includes a message from the chair, list of board members, preservation project profile, news from the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, annual meeting information, and events calendar.

Call & response - Spring/Summer 2010

Call & Response is the newsletter of the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission, whose mission is to identify and promote the preservation of historic sites, structures, buildings, and culture of the African American experience in South Carolina. This is volume V, number 2 and includes a message from the chair, list of board members, preservation project profile, news from the South Carolina Department of Archives and History and events calendar.

Call & response - Winter 2010

Call & Response is the newsletter of the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission, whose mission is to identify and promote the preservation of historic sites, structures, buildings, and culture of the African American experience in South Carolina. This is volume V, number 1 and includes a message from the chair, list of board members, preservation project profile, news from the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, annual meeting information, and events calendar.

Call & response - 2011

Call & Response is the newsletter of the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission, whose mission is to identify and promote the preservation of historic sites, structures, buildings, and culture of the African American experience in South Carolina. This is volume VI and includes a message from the chair, list of board members, preservation project profile, news from the South Carolina Department of Archives and History and events calendar.

Representações Masculinas Afro-americanas no Cinema: do Filme Liberal de Hollywood a “Boyz n the Hood”

O objecto de estudo deste trabalho é a construção da identidade masculina afro-americana, e representação desta no cinema liberal de Hollywood. Isolam-se três momentos de particular relevo: o período do cinema mudo antes da Primeira Guerra Mundial, os anos 1960-70 e por fim, a década de 1990. Traçar-se-á um percurso analítico que examina obras-chave da história do cinema comercial de Hollywood bem como manifestações do cinema independente afro-americano entabulando um diálogo permanente com o contexto histórico e social, nomeadamente a luta pelos direitos civis, a afirmação do Black Power, traduzida cinematograficamente na Blaxploitation, para finalmente se concentrar em Boyz n the Hood escolhido como sintomático de um impulso regenerativo das representações masculinas afro-americanas, sob forte ataque dos media populares nas últimas décadas do século XX.