Benjamin Wiggins
Biographic Data
| ID | 236044 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Wiggins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Wiggins |
| SIGNATURE | WIGGINS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Affiliate Assistant Professor of History, University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2100-4815 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Exam Preview Methods Are Associated With Improvements for the Experiences and Learning of College Science Students
College science exams are an important and widespread marker for student progress toward technical careers. Predominantly enacted using traditional teaching practices, exams also represent an opportunity for significant improvement in higher education. To explore the potential benefits of a particular style of exam assessment known as exam preview methods, a mixed‐methods experimental design was enacted in science classrooms across fields and wit…
Calculating Race: Racial Discrimination in Risk Assessment
Calculating Race: Racial Discrimination in Risk Assessment presents the historical relationship between statistical risk assessment and race in the United States. It illustrates how, through a reliance on the variable of race, actuarial science transformed the nature of racism and, in turn, helped usher racial disparities in wealth, incarceration, and housing from the nineteenth century into the twentieth. The monograph begins by investigating th…
Race and place at the city limits: Imaginative geographies of South Central Los Angeles
In the early 1990s, a new cycle of films emerged that depicted complex portrayals of the lives of African-Americans in the neighbourhoods in which they lived. This so-called 'hood genre was quite radical in its foregrounding of structural racism and police violence. But Hollywood's marketing of these films muted this radical content by directly contradicting explicit signifiers in the films' story worlds. While many of the 'hood films take place …
Race and place at the city limits: Imaginative geographies of South Central Los Angeles
In the early 1990s, a new cycle of films emerged that depicted complex portrayals of the lives of African-Americans in the neighbourhoods in which they lived. This so-called 'hood genre was quite radical in its foregrounding of structural racism and police violence. But Hollywood's marketing of these films muted this radical content by directly contradicting explicit signifiers in the films' story worlds. While many of the 'hood films take place …
Race and place at the city limits: Imaginative geographies of South Central Los Angeles
In the early 1990s, a new cycle of films emerged that depicted complex portrayals of the lives of African-Americans in the neighbourhoods in which they lived. This so-called 'hood genre was quite radical in its foregrounding of structural racism and police violence. But Hollywood's marketing of these films muted this radical content by directly contradicting explicit signifiers in the films' story worlds. While many of the 'hood films take place …
Calculating Race: Racial Discrimination in Risk Assessment
Calculating Race: Racial Discrimination in Risk Assessment presents the historical relationship between statistical risk assessment and race in the United States. It illustrates how, through a reliance on the variable of race, actuarial science transformed the nature of racism and, in turn, helped usher racial disparities in wealth, incarceration, and housing from the nineteenth century into the twentieth. The monograph begins by investigating th…
Exam Preview Methods Are Associated With Improvements for the Experiences and Learning of College Science Students
College science exams are an important and widespread marker for student progress toward technical careers. Predominantly enacted using traditional teaching practices, exams also represent an opportunity for significant improvement in higher education. To explore the potential benefits of a particular style of exam assessment known as exam preview methods, a mixed‐methods experimental design was enacted in science classrooms across fields and wit…
Gender Studies (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Academic integrity and plagiarism (1 works) · actuarial science (1 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · African american criminals (1 works) · African americans (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (1 works)