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NO PLACE FOR A FEMINIST: INTERSECTIONALITY AND THE PROBLEM SOUTH: SWS Presidential Address
Perceptions of the American South as being no place for a feminist continue to affect and inform decisions about research and activism in the region. By taking a closer look at Memphis and the American South, and by questioning longstanding assumptions, stereotypes, and omissions about the region, we create additional opportunities for further discussion about the complexities of feminism, intersectionality, and place. I challenge two common assumptions about the South. The first is the assumption that southern feminists are rare, or nonexistent, and have had little influence on developing feminist perspectives or pursuing social activism as local initiatives. The second assumption involves the concept of the Problem South and the propensity of scholars, journalists, and activists to fall back on old ideas about southern exceptionalism, and to emphasize continuities between the Old South and New South while minimizing discontinuities. In challenging these assumptions, I review the significance of intersectionality and suggest that paying attention to region and place offers an additional level of complexity and explanatory power for understanding social phenomena, including gender, sexualities, and social movements, as well as southern feminism and the Problem South.
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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
This volume ofThe New Encyclopedia of Southern Cultureoffers a current and authoritative reference to urbanization in the American South from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, surveying important southern cities individually and examining the various issues that shape patterns of urbanization from a broad regional perspective.Looking beyond the post-World War II era and the emergence of the Sunbelt economy to examine recent and contemporary developments, the 48 thematic essays consider the ongoing remarkable growth of southern urban centers, new immigration patterns (such as the influx of Latinos and the return-migration of many African Americans), booming regional entrepreneurial activities with global reach (such as the rise of the southern banking industry and companies such as CNN in Atlanta and FedEx in Memphis), and mounting challenges that result from these patterns (including population pressure and urban sprawl, aging and deteriorating infrastructure, gentrification, and state and local budget shortfalls). The 31 topical entries focus on individual cities and urban cultural elements, including Mardi Gras, Dollywood, and the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
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Behind a bicycling boom
Drawing on theories of place, new political cultures, and idio-cultural perceptions, this paper examines the case of recent place character change in Memphis, Tennessee. Since 2009, a burgeoning bicycling culture has taken root in the city alongside a massive increase in bicycling infrastructure. We analyse how these changes are paralleled by shifts in governance emphasising amenity-based urbanism that favours themes of creative class-centred economic development. Changes also highlight the ability of contemporary urban governance to make place malleable by upending negative conceptions of the city and providing for new alternatives. Implications centre on how place may be more malleable than previously theorised, but recognise that changes serve only some populations, namely creatives and pre-existing power structures, while maintaining traditions that exclude others and contribute to racialised gentrification.
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First Time NCLEX Rates in an Accelerated Nursing Program: A Qualitative Exploratory Case Study
This qualitative exploratory case study aimed to explore the perceptions of nursing school graduates related to the failure of the NCLEX exam on the first attempt at an accelerated nursing program in Florida. An exploratory case study design was used to understand the perceptions of seven nursing school graduates related to testing predictors, exit examinations, and program curricula used by nursing school graduates to pass the NCLEX exam. The study included semi-structured telephone interviews with eight openended questions focusing on the perceptions of the nursing school graduate related to the failure of the NCLEX exam on the first attempt. Based on the responses to the interview questions, five themes emerged from the descriptive data analysis. The five themes included program confidence, time management, testing predictor confidence, exit examination preferences, and testing wait times. The findings connect two theories, Bandura self-efficacy theory and Fishbein and Ajzen reasoned action theory. Using Bandura, Fishbein, and Ajzen's theories demonstrates how individual behaviors and intentions may be related to adverse outcomes. The results of this study provided some insight into the perceptions of nursing school graduates, which may have contributed to adverse outcomes related to the NCLEX exam. Leaders and Practioners understanding the importants of passing the NCLEX exam on the first attempt and assisting with the tools to be successful can help with the nursing shortage.
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Memphis, the Delta, and a progressive sense of place
Memphis has long been thought of as the capital city of the Mississippi Delta. Despite the Tennessee-Mississippi state boundary line dividing them, the social, economic, and symbolic ties connecting the city of Memphis and the Delta are very strong. One of the most impoverished and disadvantaged parts of the US, the Mississippi Delta is a familiar subject to demographers, social scientists, public health officials, and agricultural specialists, who often compare the life chances of people living there to the lives of people in underdeveloped nations. Not surprisingly, most studies of the South, Memphis, and the Delta, have focused on identifying, cataloging, and assessing the extent of social problems and damaged lives in the areas. Consequently, descriptions of violence, disease, and enclaves of backwardness pervade scholarly work and tend to reinforce widely held stereotypes about southerners. The Delta is a place characterized by underinvestment in educational and medical infrastructure that has shaped inequalities and limited the life chances of many.
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Urbanization
Offers a current and authoritative reference to urbanization in the American South from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, surveying important southern cities individually and examining the various issues that shape patterns of urbanization from a broad regional perspective.
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