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Germans and Poles in the Middle Ages
This volume examines mutual ethnic and national perceptions and stereotypes in the Middle Ages by analysing a range of historical sources, with a particular focus on the mutual history of Germany and Poland.
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Intersecting Boundaries
Past research finds that Americans hold biased stereotypes about ethnoracial groups and about immigrants, but we lack an understanding of how these group identities intersect. Immigration theories offer opposing predictions; while the straight-line assimilation model predicts Americans will hold weaker ethnoracial stereotypes about the native-born compared to their immigrant coethnics, theories of racialized assimilation suggest that the enduring power of race will limit any differential stereotyping of immigrant and native-born members of racialized groups. I use an original survey experiment to compare Americans’ stereotypes of native- and foreign-born members of the four largest ethnoracial groups in the United States—Whites, Blacks, Latinos, and Asians. As predicted by straight-line assimilation theory, I find that Whites’ negative stereotypes of Latinos fade away with nativity; however, White Americans do not substantially alter their stereotypes of Asians and Blacks based on nativity status. Moreover, native-born Black and Latino Americans do not appear to hold differential stereotypes of ethnoracial groups based on their nativity status. This research highlights both the importance and limitations of accounting for nativity status to understand ethnoracial group boundaries in the United States.
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\Perilous and Fair\ in \A Bleak, Barren Land\: A Feminist Responds to Dylan Lee Henderson's Essay
Dylan Lee Henderson's 2023 essay in Mythlore (vol. 42, no. 1) titled \"A Bleak, Barren Land': Women and Fertility in The Lord of the Rings,\" claims that \"many feminist scholars [since 1971] have condemned Tolkien's depiction of women as inadequate and denounced Tolkien himself as a misogynist\" (88). In my response, I argue that Henderson's essay reduces a fifty-plus year history of scholarship (much of it by feminists) exploring the complex, contradictory issues of Tolkien's female characters to a single negative stereotype. I described that stereotype in my 2015 essay in Perilous and Fair (Croft and Donovan) in my conclusion which argued it was more than time to \"move beyond the perceived need to defend Tolkien (whether the author, the body of work, or the human being) from the outdated stereotype of 'feminist critics' who exist only to rend and destroy\" (39). In addition, while Henderson cites a number of essays to support his point, I would encourage those interested in the topic to read the original sources for themselves to get a better sense not only of the scholarship on Tolkien's female characters.
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Ghost of the Ozarks
In 1929, in a remote county of the Arkansas Ozarks, the gruesome murder of harmonica-playing drifter Connie Franklin and the brutal rape of his teenaged fiancee captured the attention of a nation on the cusp of the Great Depression. National press from coast to coast ran stories of the sensational exploits of night-riding moonshiners, powerful \"Barons of the Hills,\" and a world of feudal oppression in the isolation of the rugged Ozarks. The ensuing arrest of five local men for both crimes and the confusion and superstition surrounding the trial and conviction gave Stone County a dubious and short-lived notoriety._x000B__x000B_Closely examining how the story and its regional setting were interpreted by the media, Brooks Blevins recounts the gripping events of the murder investigation and trial, where a man claiming to be the murder victim--the \"Ghost\" of the Ozarks--appeared to testify. Local conditions in Stone County, which had no electricity and only one long-distance telephone line, frustrated the dozen or more reporters who found their way to the rural Ozarks, and the developments following the arrests often prompted reporters' caricatures of the region: accusations of imposture and insanity, revelations of hidden pasts and assumed names, and threats of widespread violence._x000B__x000B_Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland South entertains readers with a dramatic tale of true crime as well as a skilled interpretation of the region. Throughout this narrative, Blevins weaves a sophisticated social history of the Ozarks in the early twentieth century, critically analyzing the stereotypes and imagery inherent in local folklore and embedded in media coverage of the murder and trial. Locating the past of the Upland South squarely within the major currents of American history, Blevins paints a convincing backdrop to a story that, more than 80 years later, remains riddled with mystery and a source of bitter division in the community where some believe Connie Franklin met his end.
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Sister citizen : shame, stereotypes, and Black women in America
Jezebel's sexual lasciviousness, Mammy's devotion, and Sapphire's outspoken anger-these are among the most persistent stereotypes that black women encounter in contemporary American life. Hurtful and dishonest, such representations force African American women to navigate a virtual crooked room that shames them and shapes their experiences as citizens. Many respond by assuming a mantle of strength that may convince others, and even themselves, that they do not need help. But as a result, the unique political issues of black women are often ignored and marginalized.In this groundbreaking book, Melissa V. Harris-Perry uses multiple methods of inquiry, including literary analysis, political theory, focus groups, surveys, and experimental research, to understand more deeply black women's political and emotional responses to pervasive negative race and gender images. Not a traditional political science work concerned with office-seeking, voting, or ideology, Sister Citizen instead explores how African American women understand themselves as citizens and what they expect from political organizing. Harris-Perry shows that the shared struggle to preserve an authentic self and secure recognition as a citizen links together black women in America, from the anonymous survivors of Hurricane Katrina to the current First Lady of the United States.
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Investigating Stereotypes Among Minority Group Members in Israel: The Role of Ingroup and Outgroup Symbols
This research examined the influence of exposure to ingroup and outgroup concepts on stereotypes of minority members toward the majority. Arab participants were primed by concepts representing group affiliation content (Jewish concepts or Arab concepts), and then their stereotypes toward Jewish people were examined. It was found that priming group concepts had differential effects on Arab minority subgroups, where the Muslim group revealed more negative stereotypes toward Jews than in the non-Muslim group. These effects were found for both ingroup and outgroup concepts: When primed with outgroup concepts Muslims perceived Jews as more unpleasant, and when primed with ingroup concepts they perceived Jews as more antagonist. The activated group content has an important role in increasing stereotypes as a function of the group affiliation among members of a minority group. Research implications and further experiments are discussed.
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Breaking the Shackles: Reshaping the Stigma of Stereotypes in Character Development
For centuries, Black people have lived under these stereotypes, a \"widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing, but which is often not true in reality. When a white man, cloaked in blue, puts his knee on the neck of an unarmed forty-six-year-old Black man and leaves it there for nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds without any regard for the value of this Black man's life, that says something.2 When a Black woman is raped by six white men while walking home and the men are tried twice but never convicted, that says something.3 When the first Black president of the United States witnesses people touting depictions of apes eating bananas as a reflection of him, that says something.4 This way of thinking became the foundation upon which the institution we call the United States was built. According to Psychology Today, \"Identity encompasses the values people hold, which dictate the choices they make. Because of her careful analysis, she was able to avoid the repercussions from the use of this stereotype.
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The Birth of a Stereotype
In early medieval Western Europe intellectuals were used to indicate the external location of Slavic countries, as though outside civilization, with the term 'the North'. This study shows the detailed image of Poland created by German authors in the earliest period of existence of the Piast state (963-1034).
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