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Maquiladora Slavery [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This article is part of the collection of writings of Marshall (Mike) Westfall, retired autoworker from General Motors in Flint, Michigan (1964-1994) and activist critic of the auto industry restructuring that led to devastating job losses. It originally
Westfall, Marshall (Mike)
core   +1 more source

Navigating Identity and Resilience: Supporting Black Women With Multiple Sclerosis

open access: yesJournal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Black women with multiple sclerosis developed and maintained cultural expectations of strength, self‐reliance, and caregiving known as superwoman schema (SWS) while also navigating their disability identity. The SWS framework guided this study and highlighted unique factors that contributed to the help‐seeking behaviors of Black women.
Jessica S. Henry   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Who is local and what do they know? Braiding knowledges within carnivore management in Europe

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Growing recognition of Indigenous Peoples and traditional local communities as stewards of biodiversity has brought to the fore the issues of knowledge and value pluralism in conservation policy and practice. Given their basis in practical and multi‐generational experience, Indigenous and local knowledges are highly relevant to managing human ...
Hanna Pettersson   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Slavery in Massachusetts: Did Its Peculiar Nature Contribute to the Rise of Antislavery Advocates before 1776? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The purpose of this paper was to discover whether slavery in Massachusetts was distinct from that institution in the South. Slavery in this colony was an admixture of servitude and bondage due to several factors.
Morgan, L. Claire
core   +1 more source

Integrating target capture with whole genome sequencing of recent and natural history collections to explain the phylogeography of wild‐growing and cultivated cannabis

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Cannabis has been used by humans for millennia, resulting in diverse landraces and uses. Its complex legal status and economic importance make sampling wild‐growing populations difficult, limiting past studies to modern cultivars with low genetic diversity. Our research provides crucial insights into the genetic diversity of wild‐growing and cultivated
Manica Balant   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

A History of Slavery in Central Asia: Shī’ī Muslim Enslavement in 19th Century Bukhara [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay\u27s first paragraph. Despite more than a century of interest on the part of western scholars and historians in the region of Central Asia, in many respects our knowledge of many topics in Central Asian history ...
Dunbar, Robert
core   +1 more source

A stochastic differential equation framework for gravity wave parametrisation with testing in an idealised setting

open access: yesQuarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.
Parametrisations of unresolved gravity waves used in general circulation models can be made more computationally efficient by introducing a stochastic component to the forcing. Additionally, it is believed that intermittency associated with a stochastic parametrisation could be tuned to resemble the intermittency of observed gravity wave sources to ...
K. Xie, M. Ewetola, J. G. Esler
wiley   +1 more source

Uniqueness and permanence dream of Brazilian slave society (XIX Century)

open access: yesHorizonte, 2014
Within a sequence of studies on slavery in Brazil in 50 years, we have the original study on the political dimension of this slavery from original documentation (Annals and Archives) carried forward by Tamis Parron.
Ênio José da Costa Brito
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