Reclaiming White Privilege: The Crisis of White Masculinity in Post-World War II American Literature

This thesis examines the ways in which post-World War II American literature written by white men responded to the Civil Rights and Feminist movements that called for equality during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s in the United States. I argue that these movements led to a crisis of white male identity, as white men saw their privileged position within American society being questioned. I chart this crisis of white masculinity in the fiction of three white male American novelists: John Updike, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth. Contrary to what current scholarship on these authors has proposed, I suggest that their novels, while purportedly espousing the ideals of the above movements, in truth defend and reinscribe white masculinity through a variety of ways. In Chapter 1, I argue that Updike’s Rabbit Redux (1971), Roth’s American Pastoral (1997) and Bellow’s Mr. Sammler’s Planet (1970) ostensibly show support for the African American cause but upon closer inspection re-establish white privilege and restore the destabilised societal position of white Americans in the context of Civil Rights by merging white identity with that of African Americans. In Chapter 2, focusing on Updike’s Rabbit Redux, Bellow’s Herzog (1964), and Roth’s Sabbath’s Theater (1995), I argue that these novels caricature second-wave feminism as a way of reinstating the social hierarchies that placed men at the top of American society. In Chapter 3, I propose that Updike’s Rabbit, Run (1960), Roth’s American Pastoral, and Bellow’s Herzog turn to religious morality in order to revitalise the privileged position of white masculinity. Reading these novels in this manner, I show how they associate white masculinity with moral goodness in order to pull it out of its postwar crisis

Non-Volatile Memory Characteristics of Submicrometre Hall Structures Fabricated in Epitaxial Ferromagnetic MnAl Films on GaAs

Hall-effect structures with submicrometre linewidths (<0.3pm) have been fabricated in ferromagnetic thin films of Mn[sub 0.60]Al[sub 0.40] which are epitaxially grown on a GaAs substrate. The MnAl thin films exhibit a perpendicular remanent magnetisation and an extraordinary Hall effect with square hysteretic behaviour. The presence of two distinct stable readout states demonstrates the potential of using ultrasmall ferromagnetic volumes for electrically addressable, nonvolatile storage of digital information

Capturing Success! Using Remote Observation Technology for Teacher Candidate Supervision: What Does the Research Say?

Excerpt: In response to the shortage of special education teachers in rural areas, many teacher preparation programs are providing supervision to pre-service teachers via distance education technologies

Epitaxial-tau(Mn,Ni)Al/(Al,Ga)As heterostructures: Magnetic and magneto-optic properties

Ferromagnetic Perpendicularly magnetized epitaxial thin films of tau (Mn,Ni)AI have been successfully grown on AlAs/GaAs heterostructures by molecular beam epitaxy. We have investigated the polar Kerr rotation and magnetization of tau MnAl and (Mn,Ni) Al as a function of Mn and Ni concentration. The largest polar Kerr rotation and remnant magnetization were obtained for Mn0.5Al0.5 thin films with values of 0.16-degrees and 224 emu/cm3, respectively. We observed that the Kerr rotation and magnetization remained constant with Ni additions up to about 12 at. % and subsequently decreased with further Ni additions. We discuss these results and one possible method of enhancing the Kerr rotation

Critical behavior of the random-anisotropy model in the strong-anisotropy limit

We investigate the nature of the critical behavior of the random-anisotropy Heisenberg model (RAM), which describes a magnetic system with random uniaxial single-site anisotropy, such as some amorphous alloys of rare earths and transition metals. In particular, we consider the strong-anisotropy limit (SRAM), in which the Hamiltonian can be rewritten as the one of an Ising spin-glass model with correlated bond disorder. We perform Monte Carlo simulations of the SRAM on simple cubic L^3 lattices, up to L=30, measuring correlation functions of the replica-replica overlap, which is the order parameter at a glass transition. The corresponding results show critical behavior and finite-size scaling. They provide evidence of a finite-temperature continuous transition with critical exponents $\eta_o=-0.24(4)$ and $\nu_o=2.4(6)$. These results are close to the corresponding estimates that have been obtained in the usual Ising spin-glass model with uncorrelated bond disorder, suggesting that the two models belong to the same universality class. We also determine the leading correction-to-scaling exponent finding $\omega = 1.0(4)$.Comment: 24 pages, 13 figs, J. Stat. Mech. in pres