'Wi Run Tings, Tings Nuh Run Wi':Black Humanity and the Nonhuman World in Anglophone Caribbean Neo-slave Narratives, 1983-2020

Anti-Black stereotypes have been scrutinised in cross- and inter-disciplinary studies, but as Anthony Layng states, ‘there has been no cross-cultural functional analysis of the [a]etiology of ethnic images in the [Caribbean] region’ (Layng, 1975, p. 130). Several decades have passed since Layng addressed this critical gap. However, his words remain true in literary studies. While attending to this gap, this thesis brings attention to another. The neo-slave narrative, which has become a powerful tool for writing back, has been praised in critical writings predominantly for its rehumanising adeptness. Largely disregarded is how the genre represents the nonhuman world and modes of interspecies bonds that informed enslaved people’s survival and resistance. Completely overlooked is how the genre reveals the historical role the nonhuman was made to play in constructing and perpetuating the degrading anti-Black images that justified violence. The analysis of the selected neo-slave narratives reveals how Caribbean writers depict the bio-political control of Black bodies as reflected in and perpetuated by controlling images that depict the nonhuman world as open to invasion. Framed as exotic and erotic, enslaved people are also being rewritten in these texts in ways that uncover hidden histories of human-and-nonhuman engagements and oppression. This study brings ecocriticism and decolonial scholarship together in one sustained dialogue to argue that the responses to, and demythologisation of, Western stereotypes by Anglophone Caribbean writers is an attempt to reclaim Black humanity and promote positive ecological practices. Emerging in the analysis are examples of the power of the neo-slave narrative genre to look backwards to recuperate a suppressed history and forward to attentive responses to Black humanity and the nonhuman world. My fictional corpus includes The Book of Night Women (2009) by Marlon James, I is a Long Memoried Woman (1983) by Grace Nichols, Slave Song (1984) by David Dabydeen and Cane Warriors (2020) by Alex Wheatle

WHA UP BRUH, YOU GOOD: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF MENTORING PROGRAMS FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN MALES IN COMMUNITY COLLEGE

This qualitative case study used a phenomenological research approach to explore the lived experiences of African American male community college students who participate in mentoring programs. Mentoring programs for African American males in higher education have been implemented to help improve retention, academic performance in the classroom, sense of self, intention to complete, and graduation rates (LaVant et al., 1997). Critical race theory (CRT) informed the use of qualitative interview methods to represent the lived experiences of the participants and to elevate the knowledge of young African American men in research on higher education mentoring programs. Research participants were 8 African American male mentees from Oklahoma City Community College (OCCC) and Bluegrass Community and Technical College (BCTC) mentoring programs. Findings revealed the perspectives African American male mentees hold of mentoring programs, their experiences within these programs, and the challenges they believe that mentoring programs might help them overcome. The results of this study contribute to efforts to identify and correct the historical inequities African American males face in higher education. Future research should focus on retention and degree completion and their impact on African American males. African American males attending community college warrant further discussion and research regarding mentoring programs

Building a Better World

A review of: The Global New Deal: Economic and Social Rights in World Politics by William Felice. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. 204pp

The JPL telerobot operator control station. Part 2: Software

The Operator Control Station of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)/NASA Telerobot Demonstrator System provides the man-machine interface between the operator and the system. It provides all the hardware and software for accepting human input for the direct and indirect (supervised) manipulation of the robot arms and tools for task execution. Hardware and software are also provided for the display and feedback of information and control data for the operator's consumption and interaction with the task being executed. The software design of the operator control system is discussed

Silver Bullet or Fools' Gold? A Global Review of Markets for Forest Environmental Services and Their Impact on the Poor

Market-oriented approaches to environmental management are increasingly common in all sectors of the economy. Forestry is no exception. As forestry sectors around the world open their doors to growing private sector participation, governments have been increasingly attracted to market-based instruments as a new set of tools for guiding private investment. Of the many instruments available to policy-makers, by far the most ambitious to date is the development of markets for forest environmental services, such as carbon sequestration, biodiversity conservation, watershed protection and landscape values. Markets are thought to offer an efficient mechanism for promoting and financing forest protection and sustainable forest management. However, policy-makers' enthusiasm for market development is not matched by practical understanding. Very little guidance is available on the mechanics of market evolution, or on the consequences of markets for human welfare. Unanswered questions abound. What drives market development? How should markets be established? What costs are involved? Will markets improve welfare? Will some stakeholders benefit more than others? How does performance vary between market structures? What is the role for governments? Of particular concern is the lack of knowledge related to what market creation means for poor people. The critical question is whether markets for forest environmental services can contribute to poverty reduction, while at the same time achieving efficient environmental protection. In short, do markets for forest environmental services offer a "silver bullet" for tackling economic,social and environmental problems in the forestry sector, or are they simply "fools' gold"?Drawing on ideas in New Institutional Economics and recent thinking on forests and poverty, this paper attempts to shed light on these questions through (1) the development of a conceptual framework for guiding research; and (2) the application of this framework in a global review of emerging markets for carbon sequestration, biodiversity conservation, watershed protection and landscape beauty. In total, 287 cases are reviewed from a range of developed and developing countries in the Americas, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific

Identification and enzymatic profile of yeasts isolated from artisinal cheese in Southern Brazil

Yeasts may contribute positively to the characteristic taste and flavour development during cheese ripening or cause deterioration of the product. In this study we report the presence of yeasts in 59 samples of artisanal cheeses (43 samples of colonial cheese, 5 of ricotta, 9 of provolone, and 2 of Caccio Cavallo) marketed at stands in the coastal area of Rio Grande do Sul, collected between November 2004 and June 2005. Yeast counts were between 10  4 and 107 UFC/g. One hundred and ten strains were isolated from 30 representative cheese samples. Of these, 97 isolates had ascomycetic affinity, and only 13 were basidiomycetes. The isolates belong to the genera Candida, Debaryomyces, Dekkera, Dipodascus, Galactomyces, Kluyveromyces, Kodamaea, Pichia, Rhodosporidium, Saccharomyces, Schizoblastosporion, Sporidiobolus, Torulaspora, Trichosporon, Yarrowia, and Zygosaccharomyces. The predominant species found were Yarrowia lipolytica, Debaryomyces hansenii, and Candida zeylanoides. More than 56% of the strains were lipolytic, while almost 13% were caseinolytic, and approximately 31% were gelatinolytic. The presence of potentially pathogenic and/or deteriorating yeasts emphasizes the need for a better hygienic control of cheese manufacturing and storage. The ability these microorganisms have to produce proteolytic and lipolytic enzymes enhance the potential risk of cheese deterioration during storage

A new era in farm lending: who will prosper?

Agriculture's strong financial recovery after six recession years and the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987 mark a new era in farm lending. Some farm lenders are likely to gain in the new lending environment, while others may lose.Agricultural credit

A ambiguidade da memória: os ressentimentos de judeus e alemães na Alemanha Nazi

Resumo criado pelo pesquisador do Projeto PROGRAD/DIREN/UFU 2016-2017 Historiografia e pesquisa discente: as monografias dos graduandos em História da UFU.Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso (Graduação)O trabalho visa contrapor as memórias das pessoas que viveram lados opostos de uma mesma história da Alemanha nazista, permitindo ver as ambivalências encontradas nas recordações dos sujeitos históricos e como elas se construíram alicerçadas em sentimentos fomentados pelo curso dos acontecimentos. Não se pode deixar de lado o esquecimento, que tem papel fundamental na seleção daquilo que deve ser lembrado e naquilo que se quer velado ou rejeitado. No primeiro capítulo a autora trabalha com questões referentes a sentimentos morais cotejando-as com fontes orais. O segundo capítulo apresenta os sentimentos de humilhação, culpa, vingança e outros, relatados pela literatura de testemunho e, principalmente, por imagens das narrativas encontradas nos livros “É isto um homem?” e “Os afogados e os sobreviventes”, de Primo Levi, entrelaçando-os com relatos esparsos encontrados em outros livros. No terceiro e último capítulo, aborda-se a visão alemã da história, o outro lado da memória do regime nazista e os sentimentos compartilhados pelos algozes, tratando também do sentimento de humilhação depois da derrota e o sentimento de culpa destinado a toda uma nação