Sentences with phrase «in black studies»

And a BFA from Denison University with a concentration in Black Studies.

Fred Moten is a writer and scholar focused in black studies, performance studies, poetics, and critical theory.

However, also in Austin — one of the country's more progressive cities — local media outlets have on occasion avoided coverage of the Art Galleries in Black Studies at the University of Texas at Austin (of which I am the director).

In connection with the photography exhibition Seen & Unseen: A Sunday Afternoon in Clarksville, at UT - Austin's Art Galleries in Black Studies, this tour will explore Clarksville, a westside community founded in 1871 as a freedom settlement.

Torres holds a B.A. in Black Studies and English from the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio.

She received her B.A. in English Literature and History with a concentration in Black Studies from Swarthmore College and holds M.A. and Ed.M.

In addition to a BA in Black Studies from Cornell, he has an MA in English from Brown, an MBA from The Wharton School, and a JD from Boston University.

This association, however, was not seen in the black study population.

Not exact matches

In one experiment, the study's authors showed consumers either black - and - white or colour pictures of four different types of shoes: plain sneakers, leopard print sneakers, plain heels and leopard print heels.

Being able to study things like black hole mergers through gravity will shed light on some of the «darkest yet most energetic events in our universe,» said Albert Lazzarini, deputy director of the LIGO Laboratory, in an American Physical Society press release.

Glaude is the chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University and the author of Democracy in Black.

According to estimates by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, black voters contributed roughly 70 % of Obama's share of the vote in the state, both in 2008 and 2012.

In one experiment, the study's authors showed 600 British adults black - and - white photographs of real CEOs, military generals, state governors and coaches.

In a study of CMOs, nearly a third of respondents said the «black box» nature of many analytical tools, which makes it difficult for marketers to understand the results they generate, were a primary limitation on their marketing efficacy.

Blacks in Minneapolis were 8.7 times more likely than whites to be arrested for low - level offenses, such as trespassing and disorderly conduct, according to a study of arrests from 2012 to 2014 that the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota published last year.

The study also refreshed an earlier study which looked at listings in 72 predominately black neighborhoods across New York and found that three - quarters of the Airbnb hosts in those areas were white.

In a study of analyst recommendations at the major brokerages, for the underlying components of the S&P 500, Charter Communications Inc has taken over the # 102 spot from Stanley Black & Decker Inc, according to ETF Channel.

Black workers in Baltimore are concentrated in low - wage industries and jobs, a study released Monday by the Associated Black Charities shows.

According to a study in the Journal of Crime and Delinquency, 50 percent of black males and 40 percent of white males have been arrested by the time they are 23 years old.

(Another study, of user photos in seventy - two majority - black neighborhoods, suggested that most Airbnb hosts there were white, complicating the picture.)

The Black Church in the African American Experience by C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya Duke University Press, 519 pages, $ 47.50 When we cut through the many good reasons that lead social scientists to study religion, we find ourselves in the end confronting questions about politics.

According to one recent study, over one - quarter of young black men in the critical age group twenty to twenty - four have dropped out of the economy, in the sense that they are not in school, not working, and not actively seeking work.

But if you are looking for consilience, in which multiple lines of independent evidence converge on the same target, then Schwartz's argument is a good one to have in your arsenal, for it fits nicely with biological arguments for intelligent design (cf. Michael Behe's Darwin's Black Box), recent philosophical work on mental causation (cf. Robert Koons» Realism Regained), cosmological fine - tuning (cf. John Barrow and Frank Tipler's The Anthropic Cosmological Principle), and consciousness studies (cf. Dean Radin's The Conscious Universe).

All of the incidents come after a white gunman killed nine black worshippers at a Bible study at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

Dylann Roof has been found guilty of murdering nine black church members who were shot to death during a Bible study session in South Carolina last year.

A friend of the man accused of shooting nine black Christians during a Bible study at a church in the... More

The study, by the National Registry of Exonerations, reviewed cases that happened over the last 30 years throughout the country and found that in addition to black people being wrongfully convicted, it took significantly longer for them to be exonerated than it did any other group, with black people having to wait an average of three years longer.

One study concluded: «The achievement growth rates of Catholic school attendance are especially strong for students who are in one way or another disadvantaged: lower socio - economic status, black, or Hispanic.»

I recall quiet Saturday mornings, walking with my father block to block, as he pointed out the landmarks no one else knew: the spot where the Third Avenue El of old stopped (he pointed out the supports hidden beneath the black asphalt); the apartment house where another close - knit family lived in cramped quarters, the three boys studying in dim lights under their mother's watchful eye to become a lawyer, a doctor, and a priest (and later a bishop); and the double spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral, the place of my parents» wedding and the baptisms of their three boys.

My black colleagues in NCBC and the Society for the Study of Black Religion (SSBR) helped me to realize more clearly that theology is not black merely because of its identification with a general concept of freblack colleagues in NCBC and the Society for the Study of Black Religion (SSBR) helped me to realize more clearly that theology is not black merely because of its identification with a general concept of freBlack Religion (SSBR) helped me to realize more clearly that theology is not black merely because of its identification with a general concept of freblack merely because of its identification with a general concept of freedom.

Although my studies at these two schools introduced me to the scope and depth of Western thought on the issue of evil, the way in which the problem was defined was quite different from its definition in the black church.

Publication of The Black Book of Communism in November 1997 in France stirred up a major political and intellectual debate, propelling this academic study of the nature of tyranny onto the best - seller list.

Watanabe studied with Serizawa in the 1940s; he received early recognition in a 1947 prize from the Japanese Folk Art Museum for a large black - and - white print depicting Ruth and Naomi.

Robinson reminded us of the original, authentically neo-Puritanical Oberlin: The only college in America at the time which offered a liberal education to both blacks and women, and the place where everyone — including the professors — both studied and did useful work.

«There is an increase now in house churches,» said Fry Brown, the director of black church studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki, The Polish Peasant in Europe and America (Boston: Gorham Press, 1918 - 20); cf. Herbert Blumer, An Appraisal of Thomas» «The Polish Peasant in Europe and America» (New York: Social Science Research Council, 1939); Ellsworth Faris, «The Sect and the Sectarian,» in The Nature of Human Nature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1938); Liston Pope, Millhands and Preachers, A Study of Gastonia (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1940); Raymond J. Jones, A Comparative Study of Civil Behavior Among Negroes (Washington: Howard University, 1939); Arthur H. Fauset, Black Gods of the Metropolis (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1944); J. F. C. Wright, Slava Boku, The Story of the Dukhobors (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1940); Ephraim Ericksen, The Psychological and Ethical Aspects of Mormon Group Life (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1922); Edward Jones Allen, The Second United Order among Mormons (New York: Columbia University Press, 1936); Robert Henry Murray, Group Movements Through the Ages (New York: Harper & Bros., 1935); David Ludlum, Social Ferment in Vermont, Columbia Studies in American Culture, No. 5 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1939).

After high school at the Black Heath School, founded in the 1860s by protofeminists «to produce women who could beat men at their own game,» Coakley entered Cambridge, where she studied with Robinson and «chucked out prayer and the ritual dimension» of faith.

(Ibid., p. 60; also see Max Black, Models and Metaphors: Studies in Language and Philosophy [Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1962], p. 221.)

One of the studies that I talk about in the book is where social science researchers look at black women who had experienced trauma, and they found these women were more likely to internalize the characteristics of the Strong Black Woman as a way of coping with trblack women who had experienced trauma, and they found these women were more likely to internalize the characteristics of the Strong Black Woman as a way of coping with trBlack Woman as a way of coping with trauma.

In fact, a recent study found that 75 percent of respondents have an unconscious bias toward white people over blacks.

One can point to the emergence of a variety of critical approaches to religion in general, and to Christianity in particular, which have contributed to the breakdown of certainties: These include historical - critical and other new methods for the study of biblical texts, feminist criticism of Christian history and theology, Marxist analysis of the function of religious communities, black studies pointing to long - obscured realities, sociological and anthropological research in regard to cross-cultural religious life, and examinations of traditional teachings by non-Western scholars.

Just days after Dylan Roof opened fire at a Bible study at a historic black church in South Carolina killing nine people — all of them African - American — he attended a videoed bond hearing, and faced more of his victims and their families.

Samuel C. Heilman, Synagogue Life; Melvin D. Williams, Community in a Black Pentecostal Church: An Anthropological Study (Pittsburgh: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 1974).

As might be expected in a society in which white Anglo - Saxon Protestants are slow to recognize their own ethnicity, the first, and still the best, ethnographies of congregations are Samuel Heilman's study of an orthodox synagogue and Melvin Williams's description of a black Pentecostal church.71 Heilman and Williams conclusively demonstrate the power of even small, marginal congregations to generate among themselves a rich symbolic communication that gives each its meaning and cohesion.

The discovery, in the year 1901 - 1902, of a black diorite stele covered with column upon column of cuneiform characters, was an epoch - making event in the study of ancient Babylonia.

Before Martin and Malcolm, black ministers and religious thinkers repeated the doctrines and mimicked the theologies they read and heard in white churches and seminaries, grateful to be allowed to worship God in an integrated sanctuary and to study theology with whites in a seminary classroom.

The study found that 72 percent of African Americans in predominantly black churches believe that the reasons for racial inequality are structural, rather than an individual's lack of motivation.

One study suggests that in 2012, a black man was killed every 28 hours by police, security guards, or self - appointed vigilantes.

I could on the basis of my study of ongoing changes predict the black revolt and predict that it would originate in the south.

White students seem deeply interested in the study and practice of religion, but religion apparently holds little or no appeal for black students.