Alien Registration- Roccadano, Philis (Auburn, Androscoggin County)

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Weavers of the Southern Highlands

Weaving centers led the Appalachian Craft Revival at the beginning of the twentieth century. Soon after settlement workers came to the mountains to start schools, they expanded their focus by promoting weaving as a way for women to help their family’s financial situation. Women wove thousands of guest towels, baby blankets, and place mats that found a ready market in the women’s network of religious denominations, arts organizations, and civic clubs. In Weavers of the Southern Highlands , Philis Alvic details how the Fireside Industries of Berea College in Kentucky began with women weaving to supply their children’s school expenses and later developed student labor programs, where hundreds of students covered their tuition by weaving. Arrowcraft, associated with Pi Beta Phi School at Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and the Penland Weavers and Potters, begun at the Appalachian School at Penland, North Carolina, followed the Berea model. Women wove at home with patterns and materials supplied by the center, returning their finished products to the coordinating organization to be marketed. Dozens of similar weaving centers dotted mountain ridges. A cornucopia of information about weaving, the crafts revival, benevolent work, and gender in Appalachia. . . . Scholars in Appalachian studies, women\u27s studies, and folklore, along with weavers and other crafts persons will find this book\u27s arsenal of data indispensable. --Appalachian Journal Describes, defends, and celebrates the schools and workshops that made the towels, place mats, coverlets, and baby blankets that decorated middle-class homes from the 1900s through the 1940s. --Journal of Southern History Alvic has provided a well-documented and comprehensive history of the Appalachian Craft Revival that began in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and continues to the present. --Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot Recovers a lost history of Appalachian weavers. Alvic shows how the development of weaving centers and the revival of weaving became the foundation of the craft revival movement in the region. --Helen Lewis Alvic knows more about the revival of weaving in Southern Appalachia during the missionary era, as well as about the art of weaving, about looms, patterns, dyes, yarns, and the marketing of handwoven fabrics, than anyone I know. She has written a literate, informative, thoroughly researched book about the history of this movement. --Loyal Jones, former director of the Appalachian Center at Berea College “The first book to present the institutional history of weaving in Appalachia…In addition to contributing an important historical resource, there are other reasons to recommend Weavers of the Southern Highlands. It is meticulously researched and well illustrated with one hundred period photographs. There are also maps, notes, and a comprehensive bibliography.”—Journal of Appalachian Studies Alvic offers a detailed and in-depth look at the art, craft, history, and business of weaving traditions throughout the region. --Goldensealhttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_appalachian_studies/1001/thumbnail.jp

Eliza Calvert Hall, \u3ci\u3eA Book of Hand-Woven Coverlets\u3c/i\u3e, and Collecting Coverlet Patterns in Early Twentieth Century Appalachia

In her 1912 book, Eliza Calvert Hall describes looking out of her window and seeing coverlets thrown over tobacco wagons on way to market. She would run out and try to bargain with the owner for the coverlet. She collected coverlets, their design names, and their patterns. Since Hall supported herself with her writing, she counted on her coverlet book appealing to the wide audience of people interested in the Colonial Revival in home decoration. Although hall published the book, she was just the more visible of those interested in coverlets during the early twentieth century. Throughout Appalachia, there were women, some originally from the area and others working there, who collected coverlet patterns. Many of these women knew each other and supported each other’s efforts to train weavers to reproduce coverlets in a form of early economic development for Appalachia. In Kentucky, Katherine Pettit, the founder of the Hindman Settlement School and the Pine Mountain Settlement School, and Anna Ernberg, Director of the Fireside Industries at Berea College collected patterns and ran weaving businesses. In Tennessee, Sarah Doughterty, who traced her lineage in the mountains to Revolutionary War times, wove many of the coverlet patterns she gathered as part of her family business, the Shuttle-Crafters. In North Carolina, a Presbyterian missionary, Francis Goodrich, was fascinated by a Bowknot Coverlet and embarked on finding weavers, seeking out patterns, and promoting passing down skills to the next generation. Weaving signaled the beginning of the Appalachian Craft Revival as dozens of weaving centers provided income to continue to inspire weavers, coverlet collectors, and textile enthusuasts

Alien Registration- Roccadano, Philis (Auburn, Androscoggin County)

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Breaking Away from Reverence and Rape: The AFI Directing Workshop for Women, Feminism, and the Politics of the Accidental Archive

In 1974, the American Film Institute opened the Directing Workshop for Women (DWW). Trying to normalize the idea of a woman director, the program admitted nineteen women, providing each one with the materials to direct two films. Focusing on the DWW\u27s first cycle, this article argues that the DWW\u27s history is a vehicle for understanding the complex ways in which moderate and radical feminists interpreted the role of the women\u27s rights movement in the commercial film industry by examining the controversy and media attention that surrounded it, as well as the ways in which race, class, and fame operated to impact the DWW\u27s significance both in Hollywood and in the individual experiences of each participant

Digital health tools to promote diabetes education and management of cardiovascular risk factors among under-resourced populations

Diabetes is a major risk factor for the development of cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in the United States, further highlighting the need for improved diabetes management, particularly among individuals from ethnic minorities or low socioeconomic status

Demographic, Behavioral, and Cultural Factors on Chlamydia Trachomatis Infection

Chlamydia trachomatis is a sexually transmitted disease, and its incidence has been increasing in recent years in the U.S. population. Certain demographic factors have been identified as posing an increased risk to acquire this disease. The purpose of this mixed-methods research was to examine how population demographics (quantitative section) and cultural and behavioral factors (qualitative section) affect risk for contracting chlamydia trachomatis in the Miami-Dade, Florida area. The theory of reasoned behavior was the theoretical framework of the study. The quantitative component used secondary data from Jackson Health System (2012- 2018) pertaining to 333 Miami-Dade young adult individuals with incidents of chlamydia trachomatis by gender, ethnicity, and race. For the qualitative component, 13 health care providers were interviewed using purposeful sampling, and the qualitative data were transcribed verbatim and analyzed thematically. Quantitatively, proportion of sample data was compared to national data using z statistics. Chlamydia cases were more often in the Black versus White group and Hispanics versus non-Hispanics group in Miami-Dade area compared to the similar national proportions (z=4.9, p\u3c0.0001, and z=6.4, p\u3c0.0001, respectively). Qualitatively, health care providers reported a significant lack of education and awareness on the infection, especially in young populations in the Miami-Dade area. Social change can be achieved by using findings of this research to develop more effective public health initiatives regarding the spread of chlamydia trachomatis in the Black and Hispanic population as well as with health care providers

Escuelitas and children's literature of Texas

Between 1880 and 1930, ideas around inclusion and exclusion in American society often revolved around the increasing importance of language and citizenship. Within this context, ethnic Mexicans’ relationship to education—their enrollment in the public school system, as well as in escuelitas—provided a means for both resisting and complying with the dominant United States society’s demands for a linguistically homogenous populace. The escuelitas’ proliferation during various time periods points to an unfulfilled need, and likewise, their decline signals their growing irrelevance amongst the ethnic Mexican population. Essentially, their existence—their rises and their falls— points to junctures of ethnic Mexican cultural negotiation. This dissertation examines the proliferation and decline of escuelitas in the context of the expansion of the public school system, modernization, progressivism, and the Mexican Revolution. Mapping escuelitas’ vicissitudes against the backdrop of these historical developments also maps the role of education in the transformation of how Texas Mexicans became Mexican Americans.American Studie

Predictors of Dropouts From a San Diego Diabetes Program: A Case Control Study

INTRODUCTION: The objective of this study was to determine the demographic, treatment, clinical, and behavioral factors associated with dropping out of a nurse-based, low-income, multiethnic San Diego diabetes program. METHODS: Data were collected during a 17-month period in 2000 and 2002 on patients with type 2 diabetes from Project Dulce, a disease management program in San Diego County designed to care for an underserved diabetic population. The study sample included 69 cases and 504 controls representing a racial/ethnic mix of 53% Hispanic, 7% black, 16% Asian, 22% white, and 2% other. Logistic regression was used to determine factors associated with patient dropout. RESULTS: Patients who had high initial clinical indicators including blood pressure and hemoglobin A1c and those who smoked currently or smoked in the past were more likely to drop out of the diabetes program. CONCLUSION: This study provides markers of patient dropout in a low-income, multiethnic, type 2 diabetic population. Reasons for dropout in this program can be investigated to prevent further cohort loss