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Jewish Environmentalism in the “Jewish Americans in 2020” Study and Beyond
It is unsurprising that the Pew Research Center’s “Jewish Americans in 2020” study and report emphasized politics, anti-Semitism, and coronavirus...
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Socioeconomic Attainments of Second-Generation South Asian Americans: Evidence from the American Community Survey, 2014–2018
Using data from the American Community Survey for 2014–2018, we provide empirical evidence about the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of...
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Race, gender, and cohort differences in the educational experiences of Black and White Americans
Federal legislation and judicial intervention led to significant transformation in the U.S. education system during the early to mid-twentieth...
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Repurposing the Black Arts Movement on the South Side of Chicago
This chapter explores an instance of how the arts and culture led urban rebranding projects so central to the new urban economy play out in African...
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Disability Culture & Disability Arts
Der Beitrag skizziert die Entwicklung der internationalen Disability Culture und Disability Arts parallel zur Formierung der kulturellen und...
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Cultural Change in Post-Migrant Societies: Re-imagining Communities Through Arts and Cultural Activities
Where do we stand between the exclusion of migrants as others from national narratives and traditions invented in the nineteenth century and the...
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“Saturday Night Seder” and the Affordances of Cultural Arts during COVID-19
Saturday Night Seder (SNS) was broadcast online on 11 April 2020 as a public celebration of Passover and as a benefit for the Centers for Disease...
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Music, Literature and the Arts
This chapter starts with the possible origins of virtual artistic endeavor in the animal kingdom: mimicry, camouflageTruthcamouflage, etc.—as well as...
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A Generosity Gap? Comparisons with the United States
This chapter examines changes in Canadian discourse on the relative generosity of Canadians and Americans. In the welfare era, public generosity...
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The Entanglements of Ethics
Repatriation is a process of returning where unresolved issues of the past that are entangled with the present. The repatriation of human remains...
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The “Ultimate Athlete:” Bruce Lee, Martial Arts and the Pursuit of Human Perfection
Bruce Lee’s philosophical reflections are influenced by the works of Jiddu Krishnamurti, Alan Watts, D. T. Suzuki and other thinkers of the 1960s and...
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Learning Together: Exploring Visual and Textual Narration with Students Affected by Forced Migration
In the summer of 2019, Vassar hosted its New Americans Summer Program. For two weeks, eighteen high school students came together to take academic...
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Ritual and Recovery Outside of Regiment: Performing Arts in a University-Based Adjunct Wellbeing Program for Injured Soldiers
Adjunct therapies associated with a range of arts mediums are increasingly being utilised to address the mental health challenges experienced by...
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College major’s effect on marriage and children
We investigate how college major is associated with later-life family outcomes such as marriage and children. Using 2016–2020 data from the American...
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Assessing changes in the underrepresentation of Blacks, Latinx/Hispanics, and Native American doctoral students in U.S. Geography Programs, and a model for change: the Michigan State University model
This study used critical race theory to examine the changes in awarding of doctoral degrees in Departments of Geography to American citizens who are...
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Urban Design for the Economy
When Singapore gained independence in 1965, the Singapore economic model was one of courting multinational corporations to set-up low-cost...
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Similarities and Differences in Interoceptive Bodily Awareness Between US-American and Japanese Cultures: A Focus-Group Study in Bicultural Japanese-Americans
Interoceptive awareness is the conscious perception of sensations that create a sense of the physiological condition of the body. A validation study...
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Showing the Invisible in the Sociological Documentary
Cinema, like all the arts, aims to show the invisible, in the sense that they are all interpretations thwarting the projects of the proponents of...
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Rebuilding After War and Genocide: Learning with and from Refugees in the Transnational Digital Classroom
The Covid-19 emergency spurred a flurry of teaching innovations as higher education institutions turned to online or blended learning models, and as...