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Long-term supports and services for persons with intellectual or developmental disabilities: Status and trends through 2020
(Institute on Community Integration, 2024-12-01) Larson, Sheryl; Neidorf, Jonathan; Begin, Brian; Pettingell, Sandra; Sowers, Mary
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Looking for blue sky: Strategies for increasing perspectives in library collections
(2024-11) Nelsen, Katherine; Clarke, KL; Carter, Sunshine; Grant, Malaika
Many libraries are confronting the structural and systemic mechanisms that recreate and reinforce white and Euro-centric perspectives in library collections. A small group of librarians at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities spent the past 4 years wrestling with complex questions to offer recommendations and modify collecting practices to increase the diversity of perspectives in the library’s collections. In 2023, the group developed a roadmap for sustainable anti-racist collection development with feedback from library staff. Creating a roadmap of this sort required us to have uncomfortable conversations and embrace vulnerability–it is all part of the process. Some of the questions we tackled [and in truth, are still tackling] include: How do we define equity in collections? How do we address the tensions between efficiency, shrinking budgets, and equity? Join us as we share insights from our practical experiences and invite attendees to engage with some of the sticky questions all librarians must grapple with to ensure our collections are truly representative of our communities.
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Spacing Asylum: Orders of Protection in a Turkish City
(2018-05) Erensu, Asli Ikizoglu
There has been an increasing tendency within the global refugee regime to contain, slow down and filter refugees in their regions of origin since 1990s. This has effectively rendered political membership inaccessible for the majority of the world's refugees. The resultant need to manage this population has brought together a variety of state and non-state actors with different problematizations of refugee survival. Situated at the edge of Europe as the largest refugee hosting country today, Turkey constitutes an important site where the effects of this dual objective to simultaneously control and care for refugees can be observed. Based on qualitative fieldwork in a Turkish city where refugees are compulsorily dispersed, I trace (1) international mechanisms of regulating refugee mobility and access to protection; (2) state policies of refugee reception and their rationales; (3) local modalities of refugee reception including the social legitimacy accorded to different refugee groups and the related practices of inclusion and exclusion; and (4) refugee agency in coping with the consequent manifestation of only a constrained and differential access to protection. I argue that at the intersection of control and care multiple and conflicting hierarchies of refugees emerge and undercut each other, rendering Turkey a grey zone of asylum in which refugees are positioned between recuperation and rejection.
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Pedagogies of Slavery: Race, Media, and Citizenship
(2016-06) Page, Allison Christine
There has been a recent resurgence in media depictions of U.S. chattel slavery, including more than seven films released in 2013 and the History Channel's 2016 release of an updated version of Roots, the 1977 television miniseries that traced an enslaved family over generations. This media interest has accompanied wider debates about slavery's relation to contemporary racial disparities in poverty, incarceration, housing, and education. My dissertation analyzes five key historical moments since the 1960s when popular media have produced narratives about slavery. Despite significant moments when media produce programming on slavery, media studies has rarely taken up the question of slavery's depiction and further, the uses to which depictions have been put. Pedagogies of Slavery: Race, Media, and Citizenship shows how U.S. media from the 1960s to the present play an important and ongoing role in teaching viewers how to be what I term post-civil rights citizens: citizens who know how to think, act, and feel in accordance with new racial norms in an era defined by the supposed end of legal racism. Emotion plays a crucial role in the constitution of post-civil rights citizenship. Given the immense shifts of the postwar era vis-à- vis race and racial formation, I contend that emotion, produced by the pedagogical use of the history of slavery, is a powerful site through which to shape and manage race. Drawing on extensive archival research as well as political and social theory, I consider the role of news and entertainment television, video games, curricula, and digital apps in educating the American public about slavery in order to navigate post-civil rights citizenship. These media - alongside policy, political discourse, consumer culture, curricula, and institutions such as prisons and schools - provide templates for racialized citizenship in the post-civil rights era, yet these guides change with shifting historical and economic contexts. Despite repeated efforts to locate U.S. chattel slavery as firmly in the past, I document how media cannot fully ignore or erase the ongoing legacies and effects of slavery in the present.
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Volleyball Media Guide, 2001-2002
(University of Minnesota, 2001) Women's Media Relations Office