Affect, Identity, and Ethnicity: Towards a Social-Psychological Mode of Ethnic Attainment

Since the days of Shils and Geertz it has been common to refer to ethnicity as a bond, a tie, or an attachment. Shils used the term tie in the title of his seminal 1957 article to refer to a set of social relationships, including what he called civil, kinship, sacred, and primordial. The primordial tie was notable for the ineffable significance which social actors attribute to it and to the relationship which it engenders: the attachment [is] not merely to the other ... as a person, but as a possessor of certain especially \u27significant relational\u27 qualities, which could only be described as primordial. The attachment ... is not just a function of interaction. ^1 Subsequently Geertz developed the notion of ethnic attachment as an affect and identity, or better yet, an affect-centered identity. The intention, often quite explicit, of these thinkers and the many who followed them was to emphasize the emotional quality of ethnicity as an explanation of its persistence and power. At the same time, as an emotional and not rational phenomenon, ethnicity was expected to decline and disappear under the onslaught of modern rationalizing social forces. This essay returns to the issue of ethnicity as an affective relationship. It will argue that affect is indeed a critical element in ethnicity but that the theoretical treatment of ethnic affect has tended to be counterproductive

BIOTECHNOLOGY--DIVERSIFICATION, AND THE FOOD INDUSTRY

Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies,

Informulacra and Information: Fake News, Truth Substitution, and Other Sovereign Acts

Justified criticism of fake news as practice and as accusation is premised on a pair of assumptions that there is such a thing as true news or truth more generally and that truth is the business of news and of governments Both of these assumptions are dubious This essay following the lead of Baudrillard s Simulacra and Simulation considers fake news and other forms of disinformation and non-knowledge not as simulations or distortions of information but as substitutes for information that is as informulacra Examining some of the principal purveyors of fake news and the accusers of mainstream media as traffickers in fake news such as Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump as well as corporations the essay explores how fake news lies disinformation and propaganda are tools of political power and acts of sovereignty literally deployed to replace information with informulacra and to impose the speaker s will on society and realit

Mixed Chamber Ensembles

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Mixed Chamber Ensembles Recital

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Faculty Recital: Joseph Eller, clarinet

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Chapter 3 Race and Racial Thinking

Knowledge of and sensitivity toward diversity is an essential skill in the contemporary United States and the wider world. This book addresses the standard topics of race, ethnicity, class and gender but goes much further by engaging seriously with issues of language, religion, age, health and disability, and region and geography. It also considers the intersections between and the diversities within these categories. Eller presents students with an unprecedented combination of history, conceptual analysis, discussion of academic literature, and up-to-date statistics. The book includes a range of illustrations, figures and tables, text boxes, a glossary of key terms, and a comprehensive bibliography. Additional resources are provided via a companion website

Faculty Recital: Joseph Eller, clarinet, David Watkins, piano and Tom Sherwood, percussion

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Faculty Recital: Joseph Eller, clarinet, David Watkins, piano and John Meisner, violin

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