Sir Samuel Montago, Bart., M. Y. [Illustration] : (Porträt)

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Street-Ball: The Myth of the Ghetto Basketball Star

In recent decades, countless scholars have examined the developing trend of African American dominance in United States’ professional sports. Many have hypothesized that this over-representation is caused by the presumed reliance on sports as an avenue out of poverty for the African American youths. This trend, it is believed, has a highly detrimental effect the African American community. In actuality, this argument is flawed because it works under the stereotypical assumption that the overwhelming majority of African Americans come from abject poverty. To dispel this fallacy, the author has analyzed the upbringings of each All-National Basketball League First Team player over the past thirty years. The author discovered that while the majority of the players selected were African American, only a small percentage of these athletes were raised in a poverty-stricken environment. Logically, this would not be the case if poor African Americans relied more heavily on sports than middle-class African Americans. This data proves that stereotypes, not empirical evidence, are the substance of nearly every previous study conducted on the topic.

"An attentive Ear, a watchful Eye, and a Calm judicious Pen": William Samuel Johnson, the Colonial Agents, and the Transformation of the British Atlantic World

By looking at Great Britain and the American colonies in conjunction with the larger British Atlantic Empire, historians can better understand the political, social, and cultural transformations that occurred when transatlantic actors met. William Samuel Johnson is an example of an "ordinary" agent who nonetheless had extensive contacts with numerous British and American thinkers. While acting on Connecticut's behalf in London between 1767 and 1771, he sent reports back to Connecticut governors Jonathan Trumbull and William Pitkin on parliamentary proceedings while corresponding with the people who traveled around the Atlantic world during this critical period-merchants, seafarers, emigrants, soldiers, missionaries, radicals and conservatives, reformers, and politicians. He is also representative of the late eighteenth-century empire writ large. Agents, who had once been a source of stability in the far-flung colonies, became a destabilizing force as confusion and conflict grew over conceptual ideas of what constituted "the empire" and who was included in it. Johnson was a sane observer in the midst of the ideological and administrative upheaval of the 1760's and 1770's. His subsequent loyalism and political obscurity during the war years was in many ways a result of his attempts to reconcile various factional interests during his tenure as an agent. Although he did his best to resolve these divisions and provide an accurate account of the powerful nationalistic forces gathering on both sides of the Atlantic on the eve of the American Revolution, the agents' collective failures as transatlantic mediators helped bring about the collapse of an imperial community. This disintegration had dramatic effects on the whole of the Atlantic world.

Zionistisches von Samuel David Luzzatto

Samuel David Luzzatto

Samuel Formstecher : ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der jüdischen Religionsphilosophie im 19. Jahrhundert

Ignaz Maybaum

Zur Frage fremder Einflüsse auf das rabbinische Recht : Samuel und das sasanidische Recht

Herbert Finkelscherer

Mar Samuel und Schabur I.

Jakob Horovitz

Ein pseudoepigraphisches Sendschreiben angeblich von Hai Gaon an Samuel Nagid

Heinrich Graetz

Das hebräisch-persische Wörterbuch des Salomo ben Samuel

Saul Horovitz

Zur Überlieferungsgeschichte des jüdisch-deutschen Samuel- und Königsbuches

Willy Staerk

Bemerkungen über das gegenseitige Verhältnis der Beraita des Samuel und der Pirke de R. Eliesar

Senior Sachs

Samuel Schlettstadt

Raphael Kirchheim

Don Pedro und sein Schatzmeister Samuel Lewi : Ein historischer Versuch

Meir Kayserling

Eine Hymne Samuel Hanagids

Pinkus Friedrich Frankl

Eine Hymne Samuel Hanagids

Pinkus Friedrich Frankl