William E O’brien
Biographic Data
| ID | 2916828 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William E O’brien |
| GIVEN NAMES | William E |
| FAMILY NAME | O’brien |
| SIGNATURE | O’BRIEN W E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida Atlantic University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1950 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Hollywood imagines urban Africa, and it's as bad as you think
Since 1918, the Hollywood film industry has represented Africa on film, portraying the continent and its peoples through long-standing stereotypes. This paper specifically focuses on film representations of urban Africa over time. We analysed 50 films produced in a 100-year time span and present a three-category typology of portrayals of African cityspaces. The categories include “the absent city,” in which urban spaces are fully ignored in favou…
Hollywood’s Africa: Lessons in race, gender, and stereotype
This essay relates our experience in a course that we have co-taught periodically called Honors Africans in Film. It is an upper-level, undergraduate course that engages honors students in watching
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015. vii and 331 pp., photos, notes, index. $29.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-691-16275-1); $19.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-691-62751).Anthropolog
The Land Between the Lakes: A Geography of the Forgotten Future
Ronald A. Foresta. Knoxville, TN: The University of Tennessee Press, 2013. 336 pp., maps, photos, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $67.00 cloth (ISBN 978-1-57233-863-0).While on a
Technology and Work Practices
The production of copper in prehistory was a complex undertaking, involving a sequence of inter-related activities that required specialist knowledge and informed organization. The operation of early copper mines demanded a long-term commitment that had important implications for the societies in question. There are obvious parallels with modern mining in terms of the multi-stage nature of the process, from the initial search for copper ores to t…
Marginal Voices in “Wild” America: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and “Nature” in The National Parks
State Parks and Jim Crow in the Decade Before Brown v. Board of Education
African Americans had access to only a small number of state parks in the Jim Crow South. Between the end of World War II and the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, however, state park officials oversaw a relative expansion in the construction of facilities available to southern blacks. Emphasizing developments leading up to that landmark court ruling, I note that this trend did not indicate waning support for segrega…
Exotic Invasions, Nativism, and Ecological Restoration: On the Persistence of a Contentious Debate
Proponents of ecological restoration view the practice as a means of both repairing damage done to ecosystems by humans and creating an avenue to re-establish respectful and cooperative human–environment relationships. One debate affecting ecological restoration focuses on the place of 'exotic' species in restored ecosystems. Though popular, campaigns against exotics have been criticized for their troubling rhetorical parallels with nativism aime…
The Nature of Shifting Cultivation: Stories of Harmony, Degradation, and Redemption
Revisiting ?Woman-Woman Marriage: Notes on G?k?y? Women
Selling appropriate development vs. selling-out rural communities: Empowerment and control in indigengous knowledge discourse
Did the Jennison Case Outlaw Slavery in Massachusetts
JN his Outline of History, H. G. Wells lists only two events between I780 and I787: the Treaty of Paris and a decision of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts declaring slavery unconstitutional in that state.' Within the past century historians and legal scholars have frequently discussed this decision and, although there are many discrepancies among these accounts, they all agree that the date of the case was either I78i or I783 and that …
Justice Cushing's Undelivered Speech on the Federal Constitution
W T THEN on January 9, I788, the Massachusetts delegates gathered in convention at Boston to ratify or reject the recently drafted national Constitution, the most frightening portent for the Federalists was the governor's gout. recurrence of this chronic affliction meant that his excellency, the influential John Hancock, would be unable to lend the moral support of his mere presence. This in itself was enough to disappoint those who had hoped tha…
National Police Automobile Directory
The Nature of Shifting Cultivation: Stories of Harmony, Degradation, and Redemption
Exotic Invasions, Nativism, and Ecological Restoration: On the Persistence of a Contentious Debate
Proponents of ecological restoration view the practice as a means of both repairing damage done to ecosystems by humans and creating an avenue to re-establish respectful and cooperative human–environment relationships. One debate affecting ecological restoration focuses on the place of 'exotic' species in restored ecosystems. Though popular, campaigns against exotics have been criticized for their troubling rhetorical parallels with nativism aime…
State Parks and Jim Crow in the Decade Before Brown v. Board of Education
African Americans had access to only a small number of state parks in the Jim Crow South. Between the end of World War II and the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, however, state park officials oversaw a relative expansion in the construction of facilities available to southern blacks. Emphasizing developments leading up to that landmark court ruling, I note that this trend did not indicate waning support for segrega…
Marginal Voices in “Wild” America: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and “Nature” in The National Parks
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015. vii and 331 pp., photos, notes, index. $29.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-691-16275-1); $19.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-691-62751).Anthropolog
Selling appropriate development vs. selling-out rural communities: Empowerment and control in indigengous knowledge discourse
Hollywood’s Africa: Lessons in race, gender, and stereotype
This essay relates our experience in a course that we have co-taught periodically called Honors Africans in Film. It is an upper-level, undergraduate course that engages honors students in watching
National Police Automobile Directory
Justice Cushing's Undelivered Speech on the Federal Constitution
W T THEN on January 9, I788, the Massachusetts delegates gathered in convention at Boston to ratify or reject the recently drafted national Constitution, the most frightening portent for the Federalists was the governor's gout. recurrence of this chronic affliction meant that his excellency, the influential John Hancock, would be unable to lend the moral support of his mere presence. This in itself was enough to disappoint those who had hoped tha…
Did the Jennison Case Outlaw Slavery in Massachusetts
JN his Outline of History, H. G. Wells lists only two events between I780 and I787: the Treaty of Paris and a decision of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts declaring slavery unconstitutional in that state.' Within the past century historians and legal scholars have frequently discussed this decision and, although there are many discrepancies among these accounts, they all agree that the date of the case was either I78i or I783 and that …
Selling appropriate development vs. selling-out rural communities: Empowerment and control in indigengous knowledge discourse
Revisiting ?Woman-Woman Marriage: Notes on G?k?y? Women
The Nature of Shifting Cultivation: Stories of Harmony, Degradation, and Redemption
Exotic Invasions, Nativism, and Ecological Restoration: On the Persistence of a Contentious Debate
Proponents of ecological restoration view the practice as a means of both repairing damage done to ecosystems by humans and creating an avenue to re-establish respectful and cooperative human–environment relationships. One debate affecting ecological restoration focuses on the place of 'exotic' species in restored ecosystems. Though popular, campaigns against exotics have been criticized for their troubling rhetorical parallels with nativism aime…
Marginal Voices in “Wild” America: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and “Nature” in The National Parks
State Parks and Jim Crow in the Decade Before Brown v. Board of Education
African Americans had access to only a small number of state parks in the Jim Crow South. Between the end of World War II and the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, however, state park officials oversaw a relative expansion in the construction of facilities available to southern blacks. Emphasizing developments leading up to that landmark court ruling, I note that this trend did not indicate waning support for segrega…
Technology and Work Practices
The production of copper in prehistory was a complex undertaking, involving a sequence of inter-related activities that required specialist knowledge and informed organization. The operation of early copper mines demanded a long-term commitment that had important implications for the societies in question. There are obvious parallels with modern mining in terms of the multi-stage nature of the process, from the initial search for copper ores to t…
The Land Between the Lakes: A Geography of the Forgotten Future
Ronald A. Foresta. Knoxville, TN: The University of Tennessee Press, 2013. 336 pp., maps, photos, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $67.00 cloth (ISBN 978-1-57233-863-0).While on a
Hollywood’s Africa: Lessons in race, gender, and stereotype
This essay relates our experience in a course that we have co-taught periodically called Honors Africans in Film. It is an upper-level, undergraduate course that engages honors students in watching
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015. vii and 331 pp., photos, notes, index. $29.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-691-16275-1); $19.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-691-62751).Anthropolog
Hollywood imagines urban Africa, and it's as bad as you think
Since 1918, the Hollywood film industry has represented Africa on film, portraying the continent and its peoples through long-standing stereotypes. This paper specifically focuses on film representations of urban Africa over time. We analysed 50 films produced in a 100-year time span and present a three-category typology of portrayals of African cityspaces. The categories include “the absent city,” in which urban spaces are fully ignored in favou…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works)