#roediger

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Bernd Roediger flying today in the Aloha Classic.

[kittycatsasuke]

turning in my absolute gibberish psychological study proposal

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[yngsuk]

On the minstrel stage, the comic inversions, bawdy humor, and lampooning of class hierarchies nonetheless operated within the confines of the tolerable, particularly since this transgression of order occurred by reproducing the abject status of blackness. While the dynamics of “romance and repulsion,” to borrow Eric Lott’s terms, enabled acts of transgression licensed by the blackface mask, blackness was also policed through derision, ridicule, and violence. In the end, the white flights of imagination and transgressive exploits facilitated by donning blackface ultimately restored the racial terms of social order. The transgressions and the loosened strictures of identity enabled by the blackface mask in turn fortified a repressive and restrictive reception of blackness, one that was elastic enough to permit white self-exploration, but unwilling to trespass the parameters established to maintain racial hierarchies. Minstrelsy flouted high culture and cultivated a common sense of whiteness only as it reinforced the subjugated status of blacks. Minstrelsy articulated a white working-class consciousness, writes David Roediger, “by racializing conflict more than directly articulating class grievances.” [...] “Far from being a failed union of black and white workers,” observes Michael Rogin, “minstrelsy realized the Jacksonian dream of allying the northern popular classes with slave labor.”

Saidiya Hartman, Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

[lilflowerpot]

not to be "that person" but the implications of calling half-galra/mixed galra/part galra, "hybrids" feels dehumanizing.

In a real-world context I'd be inclined to agree with you, but within the realms of the narrative there are several elements at play as to why I personally choose to use the term hybrid—chief among them being that race as we define it is a social construct (see below), whereas Keith & Lotor's status as hybrids very much has a biological basis—but let us first start by clarifying the key components of the topic at hand.

A race is a categorization of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into groups generally viewed as distinct within a given society.[1] The term came into common usage during the 16th century, when it was used to refer to groups of various kinds, including those characterized by close kinship relations.[2] By the 17th century, the term began to refer to physical (phenotypical) traits, and then later to national affiliations. Modern science regards race as a social construct, an identity which is assigned based on rules made by society.[3][4] While partly based on physical similarities within groups, race does not have an inherent physical or biological meaning.[1][5][6] [1] Barnshaw, John (2008). "Race". In Schaefer, Richard T. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society. Vol. 1. SAGE Publications. pp. 1091–3. ISBN978-1-45-226586-5. [2] Roediger, David R. "Historical Foundations of Race". Smithsonian. [3] Amutah, C.; Greenidge, K.; Mante, A.; Munyikwa, M.; Surya, S. L.; Higginbotham, E.; Jones, D. S.; Lavizzo-Mourey, R.; Roberts, D.; Tsai, J.; Aysola, J. (March 2021). Malina, D. (ed.). "Misrepresenting Race — The Role of Medical Schools in Propagating Physician Bias". The New England Journal of Medicine. Massachusetts Medical Society. 384 (9): 872–878. [4] Gannon, Megan (5 February 2016). "Race Is a Social Construct, Scientists Argue". Scientific American. Springer Nature. ISSN0036-8733. Archived from the original on 14 February 2023. Retrieved 1 March 2023. [5] Smedley, Audrey; Takezawa, Yasuko I.; Wade, Peter. "Race: Human". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. Retrieved 22 August 2017. [6] Yudell, M.; Roberts, D.; DeSalle, R.; Tishkoff, S. (5 February 2016). "Taking race out of human genetics". Science. American Association for the Advancement of Science. 351 (6273): 564–565.

The dictionary definition of a hybrid is pretty clear-cut across the board, but I've included several different sources, for the sake of both clarity and peace of mind.

​Oxford: [1] (of an animal or plant) Having parents of different species or varieties.​ [2] That is the product of mixing two or more different things. Cambridge: [1] A plant or animal that has been produced from two different types of plant or animal, especially to get better characteristics. [2] Something that is a mixture of two very different things. Merriam-Webster: [1] An offspring of two animals or plants of different subspecies, breeds, varieties, species, or genera. [2] A person whose background is a blend of two diverse cultures or traditions. [3] Something heterogeneous in origin or composition. Collins: [1] A hybrid is an animal or plant that has been bred from two different species of animal or plant. [2] You can use hybrid to refer to anything that is a mixture of other things, especially two other things.

So yes, the term hybrid is much more commonly used to refer to plants and animals than humans, with Merriam-Webster's definition alone being the only one to specify "people", but all the above agree that it is a term that references anything that is a mixture of two different things (heterogeneous). Scientifically speaking, humans are never this; we are all of the same species—homosapiens—and our perceived "race" is actually a societal construct born of phenotypical traits. So while objectively we can argue that Keith as a character was written as biracial, within the narrative he is very explicitly born of parents of two different scientific species: the term hybrid isn't being used to other him, it's,,, literally a genetic fact.

But let's approach this from Lotor's perspective. Our favourite galra prince is a scientist with "a modest background as a geneticist, [his] particular field of study being the rather niche subject area of galra hybridisation" (LB:ch13), meaning it's hardly surprising he'd feel comfortable using the scientific terminology. If ever the term hybrid was used in imperial circles as a slur intended to dehumanise (degalranise?), then Lotor as a hybrid himself has reclaimed it in much the same way that n-slur has been reclaimed the black community. I, myself, am not black, so I can't really speak to that experience, but I do not imagine the reclamation of that word to be dissimilar to that of queer by the queer community. Approaching it from this angle, I am personally happy to identify as queer, and equally happy for other people to identify me as queer; that being said, there's still intent to consider. Though I've no problem with (and in fact quite like!) the word queer, if a homophobe were to throw it at me with obviously malicious intent, it would still sting—not for the word itself, but the fact that the person using it is aiming to other and dehumanise, which begs the question: does the Empire consider hybrid to be a slur?

Personally, I don't think so. I certainly don't write LB with that in mind, but what I do do is apply that sort of a weight to "half-breed" given that canon made particular use of it as a derogatory term, most notably with Throk in s3ep01—"Worse than that, [Lotor's] top generals aren't even pure galra, they're half-breeds at best. He has no honour."—and Haggar in s5ep04—"The blood that so bolsters your claim is also what quells it! You are not full galra, you are a half-breed."—both of whom put a distinctly unkind spin on this term with both their tone and the context within which they use it (to discredit the inherent "worth" of hybrids). In Little Blade, it has thus-far been used twice, both by Lotor and both when he's evidently echoing cruel sentiments that he himself suffered in the past:

“Impure half-breeds we may be, but weak we are most certainly not.” It’s a cold sort of pride. - Lotor, Little Blade, chapter 15 “Any commander worth his quintessence would be able to subdue a mere cadet with ease, especially one so small as you.” the amused lilt Lotor says this with fades in favour of something sweet and deeply saddened, “As for the rest of it—the neglect you suffered as a child—that would never have happened had you been raised galra. Even if we are half-breed whelps, our value is in our blood: it is an irrefutable part of us.” blue eyes turn baleful, “The Empire, for all its faults, would not have forsaken you.” - Lotor, Little Blade, chapter 24

So no, within the context of LB, hybrid is not a derogatory term, but a scientific one that Lotor, his generals, and Keith all identify with and use to encompass the rather unique experience of their lineage in a universe where both sides of their parentage are likely to other them for simply existing as they are.

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Labor Organizer Spotlight, Archie Green

#LaborOrganizerSpotlight Archie Green, a Labor folklorist, historian, carpenter, union organizer, and shipwright.

Green was a pioneer in documenting the cultural traditions of working people and he influenced a generation of scholarship on occupational culture and working life. He called himself first and foremost a worker and a union member, especially as a union activist in San Francisco. He is credited with revolutionizing occupational folklore and winning Congressional support for passage of a bill that established the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.

He also helped edit a book called "The Big Red Songbook",where he compiled over 250 songs from the various editions of "Little Red Songbooks" published over the years 1909 to 1973 by the Industrial Workers of the World. The cover is displayed above. See Collection 5189 Labor Songbooks for various editions of "Little Red Songbooks" that we have in our collections.

Pictured: Book cover that reads "The Big Red Songbook, 250+ IWW Songs by Archie Green, David Roediger, Franklin Rosemont, Salvatore Salerno, Editors. Foreword by Tom Morello, Afterword by Utah Phillips".

Each #LaborOrganizerSpotlight is designed to highlight historical figures who have participated significantly in the labor/labor organizing movement who are also featured in our collections. To learn more about Archie Green visit https://rare.library.cornell.edu/finding-aids-for-archival-and-manuscript-collections/ and search #5641 AV. This is an interview with Archie Green where he talks about the legends and myths of the labor movement, including songs of the American Labor Movement.

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Let's Change Some Things!

The first thing we should change is pandering to the experiment called "white"!

The next thing we should change is allowing ourselves to be divided by a false social construct called race!

The third thing we should change is allowing ourselves to be divided by liars, thieves, convicts and other criminals.

The fourth thing we must change is our system of justice that allows a criminal to run for the highest office in the land.

We must change how judges are confirmed in the so-called highest.

We must ensure the supreme court never again grant criminal immunity to an already convicted criminal!

The truth is, there is only one race - the human race!

The experiment called "white"! This is an experiment developed in the 18th century as a racial term at a time when the enslavement of African Americans was widespread.

Roediger argued that the construction of the "white race" in the United States was an effort to mentally distance slave owners from slaves!

According to this article in Wikipedia entitled "Definition of whiteness in the United States",

The process of officially being defined as white by law often came about in court disputes over pursuit of citizenship.

The Naturalization Act of 1790 offered naturalization only to any alien, being a free white person in at least 52 cases, people denied the status of white by immigration officials sued in court for status as white people!

The article goes on to note that by 1923, courts had vindicated a "common knowledge concluding that scientific evidence was incoherent.

Legal scholar John Tehranian argues that in reality this was a performance-based standard, relating to religious practices, culture, education, intermarriage, and a community's role in the United States!

So you see, those of you under the moniker of "white" were not always known as such!

Your ancestors were originally defined by the country of their origin!

The 'white" construct is more about having origins in Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa and it does not conform to any biological, anthropological or genetic criteria!

According to Wikipedia, European colonists use of the word 'white" to refer to people who looked like themselves, grew to become entangled with the word "race" and "slave" in the American colonies in the mid-1660s! End of use of article in Wikipedia!

In practice, those in power in the US, feared the unification of formerly enslaved people and poor Europeans who lived, worked and shared neighborhoods becoming more powerful than those in power.

So they sowed division by convincing those European immigrants that they were better than their Black neighbors because of their pigment, thereby putting a wedge between the ethnic groups to maintain power!

The next installment will address the next two issues raised in the beginning of this writing!

[nicolanlang]

Make It Stick: The Ultimate Guide to Supercharging Your Learning - A Review

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Deliberate Practice

Deliberate Practice #FOANed #nurseeducator #nursing #deliberatepractice #simulation

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"We tend to think of our memory as a tape recorder, but that's wrong. It's a living structure, a scaffold of nearly infinite size. The more we generate impulses, encountering and overcoming difficulties, the more scaffolding we build. The more scaffolding we build, the faster we learn."

"Struggling in certain targeted way - operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes - makes you smarter."

"There was an experiment by psychologist Henry Roediger at Washington University of St. Louis, where students were divided into two groups to study a natural history text. Group A studied the paper for four sessions. Group B studied only once but was tested three times. A week later both groups were tested, and Group B scored 50 percent higher than Group A."

- Daniel Coyle, from The Talent Code

[ali-esperanza]

02/dic/2023: Un pequeño pensamiento

Es muy complicado ser rara en tantos sentidos. Soy una persona trans, lesbiana, no tradicionalmente linda, con una discapacidad, etc. Me he puesto a darle vueltas y vueltas a esto, porque me hace sentir realmente mal el hecho de que, por todas esas cosas, no puedo involucrarme en actividades que hacen otras personas, y tampoco sea considerada dentro de lo que es normal...

Para muchos no soy ni una mujer ni un hombre. El ser una persona trans me saca de las posibilidades de ser atractiva para muchas personas, y me siento en un limbo sobre lo que los demás piensan de mí. Quisiera poder ser tradicionalmente bonita, quisiera ser normativa para no sentirme como una extraña excluida del mundo amoroso.

Si hablamos de lo que yo pienso acerca de mí misma, genuinamente veo cosas muy positivas. Creo que soy amable, cariñosa, e incluso me atrevo a decir que sí, sí soy muy bonita. Pero esto no parece importar, considerando que la percepción que yo tengo de mi persona no va a cambiar el hecho de que sea rara y no bonita para los demás. Eso me hace sentir triste.

Y aparte de eso, ni siquiera puedo involucrarme en la mayoría de las actividades de las personas de mi edad, el ser discapacitada hace muy difícil hacer cosas como ir a fiestas o salir seguido. Incluso si no fuera una gay torpe, no podría evitar el aislamiento al que mi condición me somete.

Quisiera sentirme un poco normal, quisiera sentir como que pertenezco con el resto del mundo, pero no se suele sentir así.

Las únicas personas que me hacen sentir parte de algo son mis amistades. Amo mucho a mis amigxs: a Mario; a Daphne; a Liz; a Meli; a Nihil; etc. Adoro su presencia y me hacen sentir muy feliz, pero no puedo evitar sentir que también necesito ese algo más, un te amo y muchos besos y abrazos, por favor. Quizás esté pidiendo demasiado, pero pues es la verdad. Así me siento.

Pero bueno. Hoy me siento un poco mejor al respecto, dormir ayudó. Anoche me sentía aún peor. Ahora estoy leyendo un libro que se llama Make It Stick, de Henry L. Roediger III y colaboradores. Es sobre estrategias basadas en evidencia sobre cómo aprender y estudiar. Henry fue lo que más me llamó a leer el libro, debido a que ya había leído un artículo que escribió sobre el conductismo, que me gustó mucho. Se llama What Happened to Behaviorism?, y básicamente tira muchos de los mitos sobre la idea de que el conductismo es una corriente muerta en psicología, y bobadas por el estilo.

Quizás luego debería contar que me va pareciendo el libro por acá. Pero pues ahora solo quería descargar un poco este sentimiento de soledad y exclusión que pasaba por mí.

Ya es diciembre chicuelos, tengan felices pascuas.

[isurfit]

Antoine Martin wins the 2023 Aloha Classic

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Expand Your Mind: 5 Must-Read Books on Learning for Personal Growth and Professional Development

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Solvay SA (SVYSF) Q4 2022 Earnings Call Transcript

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Solvay SA (SVYSF) Q4 2022 Earnings Call Transcript

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World Masters Cross Country Championships preview part 3

With statistical assistance from Scott Lawrence

There are now just five days until runners and fans converge upon Bathurst for the World Cross Country Championships. My previews have focussed on the Masters 6k races because the 2k relay teams largely remain a mystery to me. But a few enquiries have revealed some interesting pairings. In the 40+ division, it has been confirmed that Ben Bruce and April Lund (USA) will run as a team and they should clean up. Steve Dinneen and Anna Kasapis are the strongest Aussie pairing, followed by Nathan Crowley and Nicole Joseph. These four runners are all from Victoria and I'm not aware of any teams from other States that might challenge them.

(L to R) Dinneen, Kasapis, Crowley, Joseph

In the 50+ category, Steve Moneghetti has thrown the cat among the pigeons by dropping down from his 60+ age group to team up with Krishna Stanton. A clever move from the master of Masters! But I fancy the chances of Victorian duo, John Meagher and Julie Norney, who have an age advantage over this all-star pair. In a remarkable coincidence, Krishna and Julie ran identical times in their most recent parkruns (18:56), so will Mona have the speed over 2k to beat his younger rival? I am going out on a limb and tipping an upset by the younger team. Ant Rickards and Bev Thomas (also Vic) are the likely third team on the podium. Krishna's presence should at least prevent a Victorian sweep of the medals.

(L to R top) Moneghetti, Stanton, Meagher

(L to R bottom) Norney, Rickards, Thomas

Now we return to the 6k individual cross country and the top 60+ and 65+ prospects. There are only three overseas M60 entries and it's a shame that most of the best runners in this age group appear to have preferred to enter the World Indoor Track Championships in Poland next month. Nonetheless, the field remains of high quality. Mona, fresh from his 5000m world track record, is the hottest of red-hot favourites. In an ominous sign for his rivals, when asked recently about the upcoming race, Mona simply volunteered: "I like cross country", four words carrying a very clear message to his rivals, among whom will be Bruce Graham (ACT), the winner of numerous Masters track titles over many years, and Derek Froude, a two time Olympian for New Zealand but now representing the USA. Craig Downie (Tas) is another elite runner, with recent times of 10:08/17:47 for 3000m/parkrun to his name. Gary Mayor (Qld) ran 17:35 for 5000m last year and so is also a chance for a medal.

(L to R) Graham, Froude, Downie, Mayor

The W60 field is not nearly as strong and has no foreign runners, so is a de facto Australian Championships. Victoria Gunn (Tas), or Vicky to her friends, ran 21:06 and scored an age grading over 90% at the Launceston parkrun last year, which probably makes her (what else?) a gun runner. Robyn Basman (NSW) has a similar 5000m time from 2022. Anne Lord (Vic) is a four-time Australian World Cross Country representative. The other runners have little or no form on the board, so there could easily be a surprise win here from someone sneaking under my radar.

(L to R) Gunn, Basman

How good it would have been to see the two outstanding M65 runners in the world going head to head in Bathurst? But alas, it's not to be, as NSW's own Keith Bateman and Scotland's Alistair Walker are both skipping the event, unfortunately. This leaves Allan Long (formerly NT, now Vic) as the clear favourite. Ian Calder (NZ) and Peter Hutton (NSW) are experienced Masters competitors and should both be in the mix. In the W65 age group, Rosemary Roediger (NSW) has a strong claim with recent parkrun times just beyond 21 minutes and consistent 90%+ age gradings, but New Zealander Christine Adamson will be close by. Great Britain and Northern Ireland's Margaret Phillips boasts an impressive 441 parkruns to date, but she cannot match the speed of Rosemary or Christine. Helen Stanley (Vic) is another respected Masters competitor. Calder and Adamson will be a chance to win the 60+ 2k relay if they team up, although the younger pair of Downie and Gunn could conceivably take the gold medals back with them to Tasmania.

(L to R) Calder, Hutton, Adamson, Stanley

I hope that you are enjoying these event previews. The final episode in these series will look at the 70+, 75+ and 80+ divisions, where the race distance drops to 4k. Until then, keep on running!