"In the shadow of the south": The untold history of racial integration at the University of Texas at Austin

Goldstone, Dwonna Naomi The University of Texas at Austin 2001 해외박사(DDOD)

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My dissertation examines the history of racial integration at The University of Texas beginning in 1950, the year the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the admission of African American Heman Sweatt. This dissertation shows how administrators at The University of Texas, even as they were “desegregating,” always remained conscious of race. These administrators were so conscious of race, in fact, that they noticed race at every turn, in order to insure that there would be integration, but not full integration. While UT administrators remained sensitive to the needs and concerns of latent and blatant white supremacists, they, for the most part, ignored the needs and concerns of African American students. In <italic>Brown v. Board of Education,</italic> the U.S. Supreme Court ruled segregation unconstitutional because it harmed black children irreparably, psychologically, and spiritually. In this dissertation, several African Americans, in their own words, and in the reiterations of their experiences at UT, suggest that limited integration could be no less harmful—that in fact it hurt those who attended the University emotionally and psychologically. These early black students said that although the University claimed to welcome them, they were treated as unwelcome, undeserving, and unwanted. In retrospect, it is rather amazing that desegregation at the University was relatively peaceful, in the midst of the many insults—both public and private—that black students were forced to endure both on and off campus at the hands of their white classmates and white professors. The experiences with limited integration could be instructive. In recent years, as debates swirl around the desirability of race consciousness and race-based programs, we must wonder whether even limited integration will survive. By showing the continued persistence of white racism at UT, the dissertation explores the ways in which white supremacy may be so deeply imbedded in American culture that it never disappears, but simply changes form.

Modernist fictions of aesthetic autonomy

Goldstone, Andrew Yale University 2009 해외박사(DDOD)

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"Modernist Fictions of Aesthetic Autonomy" aims to convert the theoretical question of aesthetic autonomy into a subject for specific historical inquiry. Since literary modernism made art's autonomy its signature concern, this dissertation concentrates on the modernist period, arguing that the problems and possibilities of autonomy are at stake in a surprisingly wide range of modernist practices. I show that modernism's distinctive forms of literary autonomy consisted not in a total independence from its contexts but rather in its relations with them. The first chapter analyzes the function of domestic servants in aestheticist fiction from Wilde to Henry James to Proust. Moving between novels and social history, I argue that domestics, by their literary and actual stylization and marginality, indicate the dialectical dependence of an autonomous aesthetic form on the exploitation of domestic labor. In Chapter Two, I compare T. S. Eliot and Theodor Adorno's rejection of personality. Adorno's theory of Beethoven's "late style" converges with the theory of impersonality Eliot described in his essays and thematized in his poems of aging, from "Gerontion" to Four Quartets. Beethoven's final period emerges as a touchstone for both writers' paradoxical insistence upon aging as the path to freedom from personality. Chapter Three reconsiders artistic expatriation as a form of modernist autonomy. Engaging contemporary work on cosmopolitanism in politics and culture, I show that Djuna Barnes's expatriate literary techniques make her a cosmopolitan modernist whose style is inimical to political community. I use Barnes's writing on Joyce to show the ways in which he, too, challenges the notion that techniques for aesthetic distance could be good models for political commitment. The final chapter studies literary claims to autonomy from external reference. In Wallace Stevens's poetry, the figure of tautology enacts this hermetic refusal to refer, yet it also invokes a shared social milieu. I compare Stevens's poetics to the late-modernist theories of Paul de Man; de Man also describes tautology as generating correspondences between literary language and the real despite the failure of reference.

Getting Outside Our Walls: How a Provulnerable Culture Supports Organizational and Visitor Learning in Museums

Goldstone, Jennie R University of California, San Diego ProQuest Disse 2023 해외박사(DDOD)

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Museum education experiences have transformative potential for visitors, and particularly for young learners whose needs may not be met in formal preK-12 settings. Moreover, education is central to the mission of museums, for whom continued relevance and viability relies on the skill of educators to bridge museum content and the diverse identities of visitors. Yet education often occupies a lower status in museums, and the work of museum educators is often undervalued. In such institutions, educators do not get the time, support, or resources they need to fulfil the potential of their role, working as "technicians" rather than expert practitioners. While the literature acknowledges this problem, the responsibility for change is placed on the educators themselves, rather than examining museum education as a function of museum structure and culture. This goal of this convergent, mixed methods, comparative case study was to address this gap in the literature, and explore the institutional characteristics of two mid-sized museums in the US recognized for excellence in education. The findings suggest that when museum leaders activate their value of education, it is not to replace one hierarchy with another, but rather to move toward greater collaboration and power sharing. Doing so requires the courage to be vulnerable: To let go of an authoritative status in favor of creating space for more voices to be heard. In modeling their openness to vulnerability, museum leaders create a provulnerable culture, which establishes the psychological safety for educators to shift toward a learner-centered approach resulting in deeper learning outcomes; and for the museum to become more open and responsive to visitors and the wider community. Taken together, findings indicate that a provulnerable culture challenges traditional authoritative structures and supports critical moves toward diversity, equity, access, and inclusion (DEAI). Museums have long embraced a mission of education and service, and more recently of advancing DEAI, but the traditional structure and culture of museums preclude its realization. This study suggests that when leaders "get outside their walls", museums are better able to become "the institution that is needed and wanted in [their] community".

Teachers' Beliefs About Students With English as an Additional Language and Co-Existing Disability Participation in State Academic Achievement Tests

Goldstone, Linda University of Minnesota ProQuest Dissertations & T 2023 해외박사(DDOD)

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This study examines teachers' beliefs in relation to their roles with respect to K-12 students with English as an additional language and co-existing disability (SEAL+D) participation in state-mandated accountability assessments. U.S. federal laws of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), last reauthorized as the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 (ESSA), and the Individuals with Disabilities Act of 2004 (IDEA) require states to report on students' test outcomes for English learners and students with disabilities in meeting academic content standards in state assessments. For these tests, SEAL+D, who have both designations, must also participate. Title I and III of ESEA specifically mandate that English learners with disabilities, i.e., SEAL+D, participate in their state's English language proficiency assessments. However, more understanding is needed about the participation of SEAL+D in these tests. This study addressed this gap with asynchronous online focus groups conducted with teachers from a Midwestern state. Thematic analysis of these data through the lens of language policy and intersectionality indicates that teachers broadly shared similar beliefs about the mismatch between the linguistic complexity of the tests and their expectations of students' abilities. Moreover, input from English language teachers concerning students' academic English language proficiency was often not included in a student's special education individualized education program (IEP) team. The exclusion of the consideration of academic English language proficiency in the IEP has implications for students to meet academic standards.

Regulation of the lipid raft localization of the Gal/GalNAc lectin, an adhesin on the surface of the human protozoan parasite, Entamoeba histolytica

Goldston, Amanda Mae Clemson University 2012 해외박사(DDOD)

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Lipid rafts, sterol- and sphingolipid-rich membrane microdomains, have been shown to control virulence in a variety of parasites including <italic> Entamoeba histolytica,</italic> an intestinal parasite that causes dysentery and liver abscess. Parasite cell surface receptors, such as the Gal/GalNAc lectin, facilitate attachment to host cells and extracellular matrix. The Gal/GalNAc lectin binds to galactose or N-acetylgalactosamine residues on host components, and is composed of heavy (Hgl), intermediate (Igl), and light (Lgl) subunits. Although Igl is constitutively localized to lipid rafts, Hgl and Lgl transiently associate with this compartment in a cholesterol-dependent fashion. Exposure to <italic>bonafide</italic> Gal/GalNAc lectin ligands is associated with enrichment of the subunits in rafts. Direct lectin-ligand interactions and sufficient levels of both PIP₂ and calcium were shown to be necessary for lectin enrichment in rafts. Additionally, an initial analysis of both post-translational modifications and protein interactions that regulate the association of the lectin subunits with rafts was performed. Glycosylation, palmitoylation, and GPI-anchoring were all shown to have possible roles in regulating the localization of the lectin subunits. Depolymerization of actin was shown to not affect the localization of any of the three subunit and no cytoskeletal elements were shown to regulate lectin localization in lipid rafts to date.

High-velocity clouds and the Galactic Arecibo L-band feed array survey in H I

Peek, Joshua Eli Goldston University of California, Berkeley 2008 해외박사(DDOD)

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This work is a collection of discrete scientific inquiries that revolve around high-velocity clouds (HVCs) and single-dish radio observations of the 21 cm line of H I. We first describe the state of our knowledge of HVCs and how they may relate to broader questions of galactic evolution and star formation. We then go on to describe the GALFA-H I survey, a large survey of Galactic H I being conducted at the Arecibo Observatory. We show many new techniques for reducing systematic contaminants to the H i data. We also explain a novel technique for determining the distance to HVCs through the study of the morphology of their disruption by gas in the Galactic halo. We find this technique to be consistent with other indirect distance measures. In Chapter 4 we compare high-resolution smooth particle hydrodynamic simulations of galaxy formation to observations of HVCs, and find very good agreement in terms of velocities, fluxes, distances and angular distribution on the sky. We also predict the existence of a large number of low-velocity halo clouds (LVHCs), analogs to HVCs, but without high radial velocity. In the final chapter we conduct a large search for these LVHCs by comparing infrared observations with GALFA-H I data. We find two such clouds in our pilot study. We also recover the known fact that HVCs have little infrared dust emission and confirm the hypothesis that intermediate-velocity clouds have smaller, hotter dust grains than the standard ISM. We also show that HVC complex M is a local cloud, akin to the intermediate-velocity arch, rather than a member of the halo.

Neutron-capture elements and planetary companions in the solar neighborhood

Peek, Kathryn Mary Goldston University of California, Berkeley 2009 해외박사(DDOD)

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When did the Galaxy's stars form? I address this question by investigating the enrichment history of the r-process elements, which form in core-collapse supernovae. I begin by establishing a method by which I measure the abundance of europium, which is almost entirely generated in the r-process, in solar neighborhood stars. The least-squares fitting technique matches LTE synthetic spectra with observed spectra. I demonstrate the technique's accuracy by comparing my results with literature values for 41 stars. I then apply my technique to a full complement of 1070 stars in the solar neighborhood, the largest catalog of europium abundances compiled to date. Comparing my europium results with other properties of those stars, I investigate europium's correlation with a number of qualities, most notably stellar age. I conclude that europium abundance versus time is constant, rising only 0.06 dex over the past 10 Gyr, with an RMS scatter of ∼0.2 dex during that time. Europium abundance and iron abundance are strongly correlated: star forming regions that were significantly enriched by iron-producing supernovae were also significantly enriched by r-process-producing supernovae. Further, the two types of supernovae do not detonate in a constant proportion over the Galaxy's history. In comparing europium abundance with extrasolar planet occurrence, systems with planets have more europium, given their iron abundance, than systems without planets. While europium itself is not abundant enough to influence planet formation directly, it is possible that other elements produced in the same supernovae, e.g., oxygen, do play some role in planet formation. One limitation of field stars in determining the Galaxy's enrichment history is the uncertainty in their ages. To address this issue, I also measure europium abundances in 64 stars within nine open clusters. The result that europium levels have been constant over the past 8-10 Gyr persists. I also announce the existence of two Jovian-mass extrasolar planets orbiting intermediate mass stars in eccentric orbits. Intermediate mass stars are difficult targets for radial velocity planet searches, so these new planets fill out our understanding of the mass distribution of exoplanet hosts.