A sample of 168 African American undergraduates was surveyed to clarify past findings demonstrating a consistent relationship between endorsing negative attitudes about being African American and experiencing negative affect. Specifically, shame was tested as a mediator between participants' endorsement of preencounter attitudes (i.e., anti-Black attitudes) and both feelings of depression and g...

The subject matter of the nation is a usual staple on the menu of postcolonial Nigerian fiction. In this sense, the repertoire of Chinua Achebe’s art echoes an incurable preoccupation with Nigeria’s postcolonial condition as a nation. Also, this paper explores the centrality of intertextuality in the production of Achebe’s fiction, primarily his political novel about crisis plaguing intellectua...

Purpose – The purpose of this Design/methodology/approach – The article analyzes the role of the fiction known as the some of its conspicuous exemplars, and how its adaptation might affect attitudes and even prejudices about how to view life. Findings – Present and future are not always what one thought they could become. ‘‘What if?’’ also gives rise to endeavours in ‘‘science’’ fiction and str...

Discard studies have demonstrated that waste is more than just a symptom of an all-too-human demand for meaning, or a merely technical problem for the likes of sanitary engineers and public health officials. The afterlife of waste materials and processes of waste management reveal the centrality of transient and discarded things for questions of materiality and ontology, marginal and polluting ...

ing from a single case, she is representative of at least a sizable class of people attracted to Belo Monte. In this way, it is the "rezar pela carta do Pai Conselheiro" that founds her 9 That is, for lack of grazing lands for the horses or mules, either because of the semi-arid region did not support any more animals or because the fighting did not allow for the use of any pastures. His father...

The discourse of posthumanism considers the body a site of negotiation between the material and the transcendent, and medievalists have noted the resemblance between this posthuman body-as-nexus and the medieval notion of the body of Christ as a material pathway to transcendence. The physical incarnation of Christ, in elevating the standing of humanity through a synecdochic association between ...

150-200 Mental spaces are not unitary. Rather, people conceive of different spaces differently, depending on the functions they serve. Four such spaces are considered here. The space of the body subserves proprioception and action; it is divided by body parts, with perceptually salient and functionally significant parts more accessible than others. The space around the body subserves immediate ...