[Review of] Shay Youngblood. The Big Mama Stories

Shay Youngblood learns how to tell stories from her many Big Mamas. The tales answer questions about her biological mother who is dead, what it means to be a woman, and how it feels to be black in Princeton, Georgia, prior to the civil rights movement. The voices of Big Mama, Miss Emma Lou, Aunt Mae and others leap off the page, and take readers on a journey into homes, on porches, and down the river fishing. Each story is a piece of a puzzle that adds to form a complete picture of the protagonist

[Review of] Margaret B. Wilkerson, ed. 9 Plays by Black Women

Black women writers, primarily novelists, have taken center stage for the last two decades, but black women playwrights have not been given similar coverage. The explanation, in part, is that plays are often only published after successful productions, and the plays by the majority of black women have only been produced in local, small theaters. Consequently, their works have not been given serious critical attention. Margaret Wilkerson\u27s 9 Plays by Black Women showcases plays by established and well celebrated black female playwrights, like Alice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, Ntozake Shange, and Beah Richards as well as less well-known playwrights whose works deserve to be produced more widely such as P. J. Gibson, Kathleen Collins, Aishah Rahman and Alexis De Veaux

PERSEPSI TAMU HOTEL TERHADAP PROGRAM SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT DALAM MENCIPTAKAN CORPORATE REPUTATION DI NOVOTEL BANDUNG

Pada era globalisasi saat ini sangat penting bagi suatu perusahaan untuk menciptakan corporate reputation dalam suatu organisasi dalam hal ini industri perhotelan agar dipandang baik dalam persepsi tamu. Pentingnya reputasi hotel yang positif karena dapat menjadi alat komunikasi yang efektif antara hotel dan tamu. Corporate reputation terdiri dari credibility, reliability dan responsibility. Faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi persepsi tamu hotel ini berkaitan dengan komitmen yang kuat pada tamu hotel dalam niat mengunjungi dan menginap di hotel. Kinerja pemasaran di berbagai industri mengacu pada orientasi lingkungan, dimana perusahaan mulai menerapkan isu-isu lingkungan, ekonomi dan sosial di masyarakat sebagai salah satu strategi pemasarannya tak terkecuali pada industri perhotelan. Industri perhotelan yang menjalankan kinerja pemasaran seperti ini di Negara berkembang termasuk Indonesia menunjukan pertumbuhan yang meningkat. Bukti nyata adanya dampak perkembangan dalam industri perhotelan yakni bermunculannya hotel yang berorientasi pada lingkungan termasuk di Kota Bandung. Salah satu kinerja pemasaran yang dilakukan di Novotel Bandung ialah program sustainable development yang terdiri dari environmental, economic dan social. Program jangka panjang tersebut tentu akan berdampak kepada reputasi perusahaan yang menjalankannya. Jenis penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif dan verifikatif. Responden penelitian ini adalah tamu yang menginap di Novotel Bandung. Dengan penyebaran angket sebanyak 106 tamu hotel. Teknik analisis yang digunakan adalah Regresi Linear Berganda. Variabel independent dalam penelitian ini yaitu Sustainable Development yang terdiri dari environmental (X1), economic (X2) dan social (X3), variable dependent yaitu Corporate Reputation (Y). Hasil penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa persepsi tamu hotel terhadap program Sustainable Development berada di kategori tinggi dalam menciptakan Corporate Reputation di Novotel Bandung. Hasil perhitungan diketahui bahwa dimensi yang signifikan dai Sustainable Development adalah environmental, economic dan social

Effects of biofouling on shellfish aquaculture

The culture of oysters, clams, scallops, and other molluscs is collectively one of the fastest growing sectors of the aquaculture industry. An inherent issue with shellfish culture methods, particularly for off-bottom culture (i.e. floating trays, racks, long lines, strings, rafts), is biofouling. This can occur directly, by biofouling of the animals themselves, or indirectly, by fouling of cages, nets, filters, and other equipment. Problematic biofouling species have been identified and segmented into six groups: algae, barnacles, mussels, tubeworms, ascidians and hydroids. Controlling and mitigating biofouling can result in significant costs for commercial shellfish culture operations

Aquacultural production of mangrove oyster, Crassostrea gasar, in tidal waters of Niger Delta, Nigeria

Aquaculture or fish farming is a developing industry in Nigeria with potentials to make significant contribution to food security, livelihood, socioeconomic status, and the nation's economy. The aquaculture industry has grown substantially the last decades, both as a result of the over-fishing of wild fish populations, and because of the increasing consumer demand for fish meat. Oyster production around the world is becoming a growing industry since natural production is decreasing. The main species used for culture belong to Crassostrea genus and are in use for aquaculture. The native mangrove oysters are an important group of shellfish, exploited along the coasts and estuaries where they are naturally found. Mangrove oysters are found naturally in abundance in the brackish water creeks of Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers states, attached to the aerial roots of red mangrove vegetation, Rhizophora racemosa

News framing and ethnic conflicts vulnerability in multiethnic societies

The springboard of conflicts in most multiethnic African societies have been alluded to the media and ethnic group leaders, however much attention has not been directed at these helixes.More so that there is a new strong concern about the increasing cases of ethnic conflicts being stimulated by dramatic surge in intolerant expressions, the hardening of ethno-political positions and the proliferation of ethnic militias that have unleashed varying degrees of violence and terror on the polity while the government interventions appeared ineffective.This motivates the main objective of this study which goes beyond understanding the immediate motives for ethnic conflicts in Nigeria but to discover the mainsprings of ethnic conflict behaviour in relation to the roles of newspaper framing and ethnic groups’ attitudes alongside a long lasting solutions.Therefore, series of accusations against the Nigeria newspapers by the ethnic group leaders lead us to understand that the media are indeed insensitive on the issues of ethnic conflict. Also, that from bias framing of ethnic issues, newspapers have enormous power in setting ethnic differences which shape conflict behaviour. Another salient but veiled influences emanating from the findings are the ethnic consciousness and intolerance that have continued to impede the relationship among ethnic groups as well as progress of Nigeria. Due to high level intolerance for each other, every action and inaction is given ethnic coloration as a result conflict ensue. Meanwhile, both government and media self-regulation should be strengthened to curb the excesses that stimulate ethnic conflicts.Hence, how the newspaper presents news of ethnic issues should be a direction for future research

Issues and consequences of newspaper framing on ethnic conflict: a qualitative study of ethnic group leaders’ conflict frames

This paper attempts to explore the waves of media frames on ethnic group leaders’ conflict frames. In general, the effects of what media frame as news on public behaviours to politics have been discussed extensively in scholarly works. However, the extent that newspapers framing stimulate conflict frame (behaviours) in ethnic leaders who rheostat the hearts and minds of ethnic groups, are still underexplored. Specifically, this study seeks to understand the extent that media frames about ethnic issues have become the driving force behind volatile ethnic groups in Nigeria. Therefore, series of in-depth interviews on 26 ethnic group leaders were conducted and data were analyzed thematically using NVIVO 10 software. The study found that the unswerving newspapers framing on ethnic issues, especially on interethnic relations and politics, culminated to inciting, double standard, name calling, all of which stemmed from the ownership interest, are some of the major factors that widen ethnic differences and eventually stimulated ethnic groups into conflict. Based on the lived experiences of the ethnic group leaders, newspapers are culpable in the emergence and escalation of ethnic conflict as a result of these stimulations. This study has significantly contributed to the understanding of potential influence of conflict frames (behaviors) of ethnic group leaders on ethno-political conflict