An introductory lecture in ideological analysis of media, covering works of Marx, Gramsci, Adorno & Horkheimer, Hall, given to BA-1 students at the Erasmus University Rotterdam
An introductory lecture in ideological analysis of media, covering works of Marx, Gramsci, Adorno & Horkheimer, Hall, given to BA-1 students at the Erasmus University Rotterdam
The Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University was created in 1990, formally recognizing fifty years of informal cooperation between the two universities. The geographic proximity of the campuses—just nine miles apart—greatly encourages and facilitates regular collaboration among faculty and students. The UNC and Duke Consortium has received major funding from the Andrew W. Mellon, Ford, and Tinker Foundations. Since 1991 it has been designated a Title VI National Resource Center (NRC) by the U.S. Department of Education.
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Volume 23, No. 1 Bulletin of the General Anthropology Division Spring, 2016
Tales of the ex-Apes
By Jonathan Marks
UNC-Charlotte
The GAD Distinguished Lecture, given
November 20, 2015, is based on a book
of the same title, recently published by
the University of California Press.
This will be an exploration of meaning
in human evolution without paleoanthro-
pology. I’m not talking about the foot of
Australopithecus sediba or the supraor-
bital torus of Homo erectus; I want to
talk about who we are and where we
came from. I am talking about origin
myths; I am talking about kinship. I am
not talking about human evolution; I’m
talking about how we talk about human
evolution.
Human evolution as bio-politics
Let me start off, then, with a sort of epi-
graph by Carleton Coon. Coon is not
remembered fondly today, because in the
early 1960s, as President of the Ameri-
can Association of Physical Anthropolo-
gists, he was secretly colluding with the
segregationists, giving them preprints of
his book which purported to demonstrate
that the reason that Africans were eco-
nomically and politically subjugated by
Europeans is that they hadn’t been mem-
bers of our species for very long, be-
cause whites had evolved into Homo
sapiens 200,000 years before blacks did.
And I’m happy to say that most of his
contemporaries smacked him down, and
in particular he got into a heated ex-
change with the great fruit fly geneticist
Theodosius Dobzhansky, who, I might
add, was a member of the American An-
(See Marks, page 2)
When the Mines Closed:
Heritage Building in North-
eastern Pennsylvania
By Paul A. Shackel and V. Camille
Westmont
University of Maryland
Introduction
Since 2009, the Anthracite Heritage Pro-
ject has focused on social issues in
Northeastern Pennsylvania (NEPA).
NEPA is a resource rich, economically
poor area located in the northernmost
reaches of the Appalachian Region.
While anthracite coal was discovered in
this region in the late eighteenth century,
large scale extraction of this carbon fos-
sil fuel did not occur until the middle of
the nineteenth century with the develop-
ment of railroads and canal systems. It is
the fuel that helped propel American
industry to become an international
leader in manufacturing. Our goal in this
project is to study the rise and fall of the
anthracite coal industry, and to address
inequities in the community, past and
present, related to work, labor, gender,
race, and immigration.
The NEPA communities, including
the city of Hazleton, the focus of our
study, developed in the mid-nineteenth
century with a massive influx of newly
arrived foreign immigrants who were
necessary for the extraction of coal. This
migration also created a ready workforce
with more available workers than jobs.
Surplus labor allowed the coal operators
to keep wages relatively low with the
threat that there were always willin.
Chapter 9Science, Technology, and the Future of African AmJinElias52
Chapter 9
Science, Technology, and the
Future of African Americans
Science
The intellectual and practical activity
encompassing the systematic study of the
structure and behavior of the physical and
natural world through observation and
experiment.
Technology
The application of scientific knowledge for
practical purposes, especially in industry;
Machinery and equipment developed from the
application of scientific knowledge;
The branch or knowledge dealing with
engineering or applied science
Popular Culture is increasingly supplanting
science as the major purveyor of cultural
imagery, values, and interpretations of social
and physical phenomena.
It's not magic, it’s Science!
Science is the process and the body of knowledge that enables us humans
to know nature. So far, it’s the best idea we’ve ever had.
Bill Nye, “The Science Guy,” is an American mechanical engineer, science
communicator, and television presenter
Receiving the Presidential Medal of
Freedom from Barack Obama at the
White House on 12 August 2009
Eddie Redmayne and Stephen Hawking at
the Theory of Everything feature film
premiere at the Odeon, Leicester Square,
in December 2014.
Stephen Hawking floating in a zero-
gravity jet undertaking parabolic dips to
simulate space conditions over the
Atlantic.
The first episode in which theoretical physicist and
cosmologist Stephen Hawking guest-starred as
himself (1999).
Stephen Hawking
The pop idol turned science idol, Professor Brian Edward Cox is a British physicist and professor of particle physics at the
University of Manchester. He is best recognized as the presenter of science programs for the British Broadcasting
Corporation (BBC).
After presenting six programmes about physics, Prof Cox and his TV mentor, BBC head of science Andrew Cohen, felt he
was ready to make a blockbuster series of his own. Wonders of the Solar System established his mass appeal in 2010.
Today, after the airing of Wonders of the Universe, Wonders of Life and Human Universe, and countless appearances on
other programmes he is the undisputed heir apparent to David Attenborough as Britain’s premier presenter of science.
Science is too important not to be a part of popular culture.
— Brian Cox
neil
degrasse
tyson
The good thing about science is
that it’s true whether or not
you believe in it
Neil deGrasse Tyson, 2013
Integrating Science and Technology Studies
into African American Studies
S. E. Anderson has taught mathematics, science and Black History courses at Queens College, Sarah Lawrence College, SUNY
at Old Westbury College, Rutgers University and the New School University as well as CCNY & Queens Colleges’ Centers for
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struggles. He is currently doing national and international education consulting work with a particular focus on developing
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The GAD Distinguished Lecture, given
November 20, 2015, is based on a book
of the same title, recently published by
the University of California Press.
This will be an exploration of meaning
in human evolution without paleoanthro-
pology. I’m not talking about the foot of
Australopithecus sediba or the supraor-
bital torus of Homo erectus; I want to
talk about who we are and where we
came from. I am talking about origin
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not talking about human evolution; I’m
talking about how we talk about human
evolution.
Human evolution as bio-politics
Let me start off, then, with a sort of epi-
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remembered fondly today, because in the
early 1960s, as President of the Ameri-
can Association of Physical Anthropolo-
gists, he was secretly colluding with the
segregationists, giving them preprints of
his book which purported to demonstrate
that the reason that Africans were eco-
nomically and politically subjugated by
Europeans is that they hadn’t been mem-
bers of our species for very long, be-
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sapiens 200,000 years before blacks did.
And I’m happy to say that most of his
contemporaries smacked him down, and
in particular he got into a heated ex-
change with the great fruit fly geneticist
Theodosius Dobzhansky, who, I might
add, was a member of the American An-
(See Marks, page 2)
When the Mines Closed:
Heritage Building in North-
eastern Pennsylvania
By Paul A. Shackel and V. Camille
Westmont
University of Maryland
Introduction
Since 2009, the Anthracite Heritage Pro-
ject has focused on social issues in
Northeastern Pennsylvania (NEPA).
NEPA is a resource rich, economically
poor area located in the northernmost
reaches of the Appalachian Region.
While anthracite coal was discovered in
this region in the late eighteenth century,
large scale extraction of this carbon fos-
sil fuel did not occur until the middle of
the nineteenth century with the develop-
ment of railroads and canal systems. It is
the fuel that helped propel American
industry to become an international
leader in manufacturing. Our goal in this
project is to study the rise and fall of the
anthracite coal industry, and to address
inequities in the community, past and
present, related to work, labor, gender,
race, and immigration.
The NEPA communities, including
the city of Hazleton, the focus of our
study, developed in the mid-nineteenth
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arrived foreign immigrants who were
necessary for the extraction of coal. This
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with more available workers than jobs.
Surplus labor allowed the coal operators
to keep wages relatively low with the
threat that there were always willin.
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practical purposes, especially in industry;
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application of scientific knowledge;
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engineering or applied science
Popular Culture is increasingly supplanting
science as the major purveyor of cultural
imagery, values, and interpretations of social
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It's not magic, it’s Science!
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the Theory of Everything feature film
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in December 2014.
Stephen Hawking floating in a zero-
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simulate space conditions over the
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that it’s true whether or not
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1. Stony Brook University,Manhattan Campus
387 Park Avenue South,3rd Floor,NY,10016
Latin American & Caribbean
Studies Center
12th Annual Graduate Conference
April 12th,2013
9:00-9:30 am Registration (Main Hall)
Breakfast Reception
9:30-10:00 am Conference Opening andWelcome (Lecture Room-321B)
Paul Firbas,Director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Center at Stony Brook University
10:00-12:oo m SESSION I
Panel I:Global Exchanges and Domestic Markets
Chair:Professor Paul Gootenberg,Stony Brook University,Department of History
Santiago Muñoz,Yale University,Department of History
“NativeTextiles and the Formation of a Colonial Economy in the New
Kingdom of Granada (1550-1700)”
Edward Bace,BPP University College (UK)
“CocoaTrade in the Seventeenth Century”
Gregory Rosenthal,Stony Brook University,Department of History
“Furs Across the Pacific:Hawaiian Migrant Labor and Sea Otters on
the Spanish American Coast”
Eron Ackermann,Stony Brook University,Department of History
“High Anxiety:Ganja,East Indian Laborer,and Imperial Politics in Jamaica,1880-1913”
Chris De Lorenzo,Georgetown University,Department of History
The United Nations Coca Commission Report and Its Reception in Bolivia,1949-1952
12:00-1:00 pm Keynote Presentation (Lecture Room-321B)
Marcy Norton,GeorgeWashington University,
Department of History
(introduced by Paul Gootenberg)
1:o0-2:00 pm Lunch (Gallery & Main Hall)
2:00-4:00 pm SESSION II
Panel II:Literature and Science
Chair:Professor Paul Firbas,Stony Brook University,Department of Hispanic Literature
Pilar Espitia,Stony Brook University,Department of Hispanic Literature
“De conventos y economías espirituales:El caso de Francisca del Castillo,monja
Clarisa de la Nueva Granada”
Lisa Reinhalter Burner,University of Illinois,Department of Spanish,Italian and
Portuguese.
“BuriedTreasure in Fictions of Mineral Extraction in the Andes”
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Rachel O’Donnell,York University (Canada),Department of Political Science
“Colonies of Plants: Modern Science,Plant Classification and EuropeanVoyages of
Discovery”
Irma Palma de Sanchez, Rutgers University,Department of Spanish & Portuguese
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MelissaVásquez,NewYork University
“Transnational Executives and the Culture of Mid-Twentieth Century
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Pablo Montes,Yale University.Environmental Studies
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“Economies of Underdevelopment:ISI and Urban Poverty in Rio (1920-1990)”
Stephanie Parham,Tulane University,Department of History
“Making itWork:Legislating Labor in Guatemala City (1944-1957)”
TobiasTimm,York University (Canada),Department of Sociology
“Social Exclusion amongWorkers in an Organic Farming Community in Sao Paulo”
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Nelson Santana,CUNY.
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Tara Ruttenberg,University for Peace of Costa Rica
“BuenVivir:Indigenous CulturalWisdom Guiding Latin America's Post-Extractivist
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We would like to extend a warm thanks to all attending guests,
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Keynote Speaker, Marcy Norton;the Conference Director,
María-ClaraTorres and the Organizing Committee:
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