University Scholar Series: Danelle Moon

Daily Life of Women During the Civil Rights Era On September 28, 2011, Danelle Moon spoke in the University Scholar Series hosted by Provost Gerry Selter at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library. Danelle Moon is the Director of Special Collections & Archives, a Full Librarian, and Adjunct Professor of History at SJSU. In this seminar, she talks about her book, Daily Life of Women During the Civil Rights Era, which looks at the variety of women\u27s experiences in promoting social justice and human rights into the United States from 1920 to the 1980s. It gives the audience a deeper understanding of the complexity of gender, class, and race in America.https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/uss/1009/thumbnail.jp

Difficult Dialogues: The Technologies and Limits of Reconciliation

Projects known as dialogue or reconciliation build on the common ground between members of historically adversarial groups to help overcome vicious cycles of retaliation. This chapter compares observations from two studies of religious and religio-ethnic communities. The more recent is a qualitative study of American Jews\u27 understandings and experiences of anti-Semitism and how it relates to politics, particularly around the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. It compares some of the findings from this study with findings that emerged in earlier ethnographic research on debates about homosexuality within the United Methodist Church. The chapter explores the intersection of politics with the self, which sociological theories of the self have generally ignored

Highly transitive actions of free products

We characterize free products admitting a faithful and highly transitive action. In particular, we show that the group \PSL_2(\Z)\simeq (\Z/2\Z)*(\Z/3\Z) admits a faithful and highly transitive action on a countable set.Comment: 15 pages, 4 figures, Minor change

The nature of doubt and a new puzzle about belief, doubt, and confidence

In this paper, I present and defend a novel account of doubt. In Part 1, I make some preliminary observations about the nature of doubt. In Part 2, I introduce a new puzzle about the relationship between three psychological states: doubt, belief, and confidence. I present this puzzle because my account of doubt emerges as a possible solution to it. Lastly, in Part 3, I elaborate on and defend my account of doubt. Roughly, one has doubt if and only if one believes one might be wrong; I argue that this is superior to the account that says that one has doubt if and only if one has less than the highest degree of confidence

The forward premium anomaly : can sticky-price models generate volatile foreign exchange risk premia?

Fama’s (1984) volatility relations show that the risk premium in foreign exchange markets is more volatile than, and is negatively correlated with the expected rate of depreciation. This paper studies these relations from the perspective of goods markets frictions. Using a sticky-price general equilibrium model, we show that near-random walk behaviors of both exchange rates and consumption, in response to monetary shocks, can be derived endogenously. Based on this approach, the paper provides quantitative results that might explain the forward premium anomaly, which is one of the most important puzzles in international finance