Ellen C Scott
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 94959 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ellen C Scott |
| PRENOMES | Ellen C |
| SOBRENOME | Scott |
| ASSINATURA | SCOTT E C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Kentucky |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3795-8207 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 269 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1978 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
A 100-Year-Old Trial that is Still Relevant
In the not-too-distant past, a young teacher in a small town bravely stood against a new law banning the teaching of evolution. Defying the law, he taught his students evolution, and was ignominiou
Public acceptance of evolution in the United States, 1985–2020
The public acceptance of evolution in the United States is a long-standing problem. Using data from a series of national surveys collected over the last 35 years, we find that the level of public acceptance of evolution has increased in the last decade after at least two decades in which the public was nearly evenly divided on the issue. A structural equation model indicates that increasing enrollment in baccalaureate-level programs, exposure to …
Censorship and Regulation
Michel Foucault intended the method he called “genealogy” to challenge the linear and rationalizing impulses of historical design. Genealogy was meant to embrace the marginal, accidental, and failed as constitutive of what “was” and “is.” Perhaps it is fitting, then, that a genealogy would explore a subfield fairly obsessed with the value of what is lost, cut, missing, or strays from the path: that of media regulation.The earliest studies of film…
Precarity, Black Life, and Filmmaking
Unresolved Subjects
This article is the first extended examination of the career of the last race filmmaker, Powell Lindsay. Lindsay, an African American, Harlemite, and compatriot of Richard Wright and Langston Hughes, developed his style in the 1930s avant-garde and leftist theater and employed Brechtian techniques that produced a provocative and often unresolved African American image. His films and theatrical pieces combine semi-documentary sequences, hostility,…
Introduction
Introduction: Black Images Matter: Contextualizing Images of Racialized Police Violence Ellen C. Scott (bio) Through the Black Lives Matter campaign, the country has witnessed on video the deadly force police visited on Eric Garner, Walter Scott, and Sandra Bland, among others. Black protesters, like other social media activists, have stretched new media beyond its penchant for ephemerality, and “like-ability,” into a medium of dissent, remembran…
Cinema Civil Rights
Journal Article Cinema Civil Rights: Regulation, Repression, and Race in the Classical Hollywood Era Get access By Ellen C. Scott. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2015. xii, 253 pp. Cloth, $90.00. Paper, $29.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 248–249, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw123 Published: 01 June 2016
Black Movement Impolitic
Soundies, three-minute musical films from the 1940s, have remained on the fringes of black cinema history although many prominently featured black musicians and dancers, distributing them to viewing machines situated in drugstores and five-and-dimes nationwide. More than Hollywood’s underinformed black “scenes,” these films drew performers and aesthetics from Harlem nightclubs. In their embrace of the blues song’s “low-down” sensibility (at once …
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
Making a Promised Land
Reviewed by: Making a Promised Land: Harlem in Twentieth-Century Photography and Film by Paula J. Massood Ellen C. Scott Paula J. Massood Making a Promised Land: Harlem in Twentieth-Century Photography and Film. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2012. 264 pp. $72.00. The first generation of black film criticism identified stereotypes and valorized the real in black cinema: that is, those elements authentically linked to black culture and communities. Do…
Agony and Avoidance
Pixar films expand the limitations typically binding G-rated films by employing a postmodern adaptation of the “principle of deniability,” a producer-designed multivalence. This deniability allows adult spectators to identify with the object, to distance themselves from “grown-up” cinema, and to contemplate adult fears through the guise of animation.Keywords:: animationapocalypsecensorshipnoirPixarspectatorship NotesNotes1. Pixar's films are Toy …
More than a "Passing" Sophistication
More than a "Passing" Sophistication:Dress, Film Regulation, and the Color Line in 1930s American Films Ellen Scott (bio) When we think of African American representations of 1930s Hollywood, we likely first envision the maid or butler—Hattie McDaniel as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939) or Gertrude Howard as Beulah Thorndyke in I'm No Angel (1933). These films arguably normalize black servitude as an inevitable part of an intractable and glamor…
Black “Censor,” White Liberties
Most accounts of censorship follow a predictable narrative: an innocent author creates a work, only to have menacing censors obstruct free expression. However, Illinois’s first state censorship law challenges this narrative: its sponsor, the black legislator Robert Jackson, attempted to hone censorship into a tool for black freedom. Exploring the legislative and social history of the law’s creation and enforcement, I examine how Jackson’s unusual…
Streakers, Strollers, and Readers
Countering Creationism with Drive-By Science
The Creation/Evolution Controversy
Evolution Devolves in Kansas
The Trouble with Science. Robin Dunbar
Antievolution and Creationism in the United States
Evolution is considered controversial by a substantial minority of Americans. Religious opposition explains this, but this opposition is comprised of a broad continuum of religious views. It runs from "young earth creationism" through "old earth creationism" (including "day-age," "gap," and "progressive creationism") to "theistic evolutionism." Historically, antievolutionists have attempted to ban evolution and to present it on an equal footing w…
Future Projects/Future Theorizing in Feminist Field Research Methods
The conference Feminist Dilemmas in Fieldwork: Studying Ourselves/Studying Others concluded with a panel discussion entitled Future Projects/Future Theorizing. The six participants discussed the quandaries that feminist researchers face, and suggested future directions and trends that feminist field researchers should pursue. The speakers were Sylvia Yanagisako, Beatriz Pesquera, Judith Stacey, and Judith Newton (presenting a joint project), Anna…
Antievolutionism, scientific creationism, and physical anthropology
Antievolutionism is alive and well in the United States, as shown by public attitudes toward evolution and the factual truth of Biblical literalism. High percentages of college students do not accept evolution as a valid explanation of earth's history. One in three think humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time. Antievolutionism has had three phases: (1) “straight” antievolutionism, during which time the teaching of evolution was outlawed; (2)…
Anti-Evolutionism, Scientific Creationism, and Education
Anti-evolutionism is alive and well in 1986, and it is especially prominent in American education. I have received comments on my teaching evaluations to the effect that "Evolution is a lot of —." High school teachers report students. walking out when they begin discussing human evolution. According to "A Consumer's Guide to Biology Textbooks" (Washington: People for the American Way, 1985), censors of the Religious Right have sufficiently Pressu…
Fertility, Biology and Behavior
Science, Nutrition, Fat, and Policy
Supplementation of the diets of pregnant and nursing mothers in underdeveloped countries is sometimes criticized because more food for these women is seen as producing more body fat, shortened postpartum amenorrhea, and increased fertility. We argue that the link between body fat and shortened postpartum amenorrhea is based on a hypothesis that has not been corroborated. The critical-fat hypothesis is that menarche, maintenance of menstrual cycle…
Estimation of total water and fatness from weight and height
Mellits and Cheek have provided a regression equation which predicts total water, and by extension, fat, from weight and height of women. The equation has been used by many researchers as a convenient means to estimate fat when more complicated body composition estimation techniques are not possible. It is an essential component of evidence provided by Frisch for the critical fat hypothesis. The equation has not been validated on another sample, …
Dental wear scoring technique
An ordinal dental attrition scoring technique for molar teeth involving a quadrant system is applied to three Amerind skeletal samples. Molar teeth are visually divided into four sections and each section scored on a 1–10 scale. The score for the whole tooth is the sum of the quadrant scores and ranges from 4–40. Scores are based on the amount of enamel in each quarter of the tooth. The method's reliability is demonstrated by a paired comparison …
The Energetic Paradox of Human Running and Hominid Evolution [and Comments and Reply]
The energetic cost of running is relatively high in man. In spite of this, humans are adept endurance runners, capable of running down, for example, zebra and kangaroo. Distance running is made possible for man in part by an exceptional ability to dissipate exercise heat loads. Most mammals lose heat by panting, which is coupled to breathing and locomotor cycles during running. This interdependence may limit the effectiveness of panting as a mean…
Principal axis analysis of dental attrition data
The principal axis method is an age independent analysis method for dental attrition data which avoids many problems associated with earlier methods of analysis, correlation and regression. A principal axis equation is determined from the scatter of M1 on X and M2 on Y, and the slope of the equation can be used to indicate rate of wear. High slopes indicate rapid rates of wear. Because rate of wear rather than degree of wear is the parameter of i…
Antievolution and Creationism in the United States
Evolution is considered controversial by a substantial minority of Americans. Religious opposition explains this, but this opposition is comprised of a broad continuum of religious views. It runs from "young earth creationism" through "old earth creationism" (including "day-age," "gap," and "progressive creationism") to "theistic evolutionism." Historically, antievolutionists have attempted to ban evolution and to present it on an equal footing w…
Science, Nutrition, Fat, and Policy
Supplementation of the diets of pregnant and nursing mothers in underdeveloped countries is sometimes criticized because more food for these women is seen as producing more body fat, shortened postpartum amenorrhea, and increased fertility. We argue that the link between body fat and shortened postpartum amenorrhea is based on a hypothesis that has not been corroborated. The critical-fat hypothesis is that menarche, maintenance of menstrual cycle…
Future Projects/Future Theorizing in Feminist Field Research Methods
The conference Feminist Dilemmas in Fieldwork: Studying Ourselves/Studying Others concluded with a panel discussion entitled Future Projects/Future Theorizing. The six participants discussed the quandaries that feminist researchers face, and suggested future directions and trends that feminist field researchers should pursue. The speakers were Sylvia Yanagisako, Beatriz Pesquera, Judith Stacey, and Judith Newton (presenting a joint project), Anna…
Cinema Civil Rights
Journal Article Cinema Civil Rights: Regulation, Repression, and Race in the Classical Hollywood Era Get access By Ellen C. Scott. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2015. xii, 253 pp. Cloth, $90.00. Paper, $29.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 248–249, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw123 Published: 01 June 2016
Agony and Avoidance
Pixar films expand the limitations typically binding G-rated films by employing a postmodern adaptation of the “principle of deniability,” a producer-designed multivalence. This deniability allows adult spectators to identify with the object, to distance themselves from “grown-up” cinema, and to contemplate adult fears through the guise of animation.Keywords:: animationapocalypsecensorshipnoirPixarspectatorship NotesNotes1. Pixar's films are Toy …
Black “Censor,” White Liberties
Most accounts of censorship follow a predictable narrative: an innocent author creates a work, only to have menacing censors obstruct free expression. However, Illinois’s first state censorship law challenges this narrative: its sponsor, the black legislator Robert Jackson, attempted to hone censorship into a tool for black freedom. Exploring the legislative and social history of the law’s creation and enforcement, I examine how Jackson’s unusual…
Streakers, Strollers, and Readers
Evolution Devolves in Kansas
Subsistence and dental pathology etiologies from prehistoric coastal Peru
The Concept of Race in the Latter Part of the 20th Century
The subspecies concept, as used by modern biologists, has little similarity to the outmoded typological, static, and nonevolutionary 19th century concept of race. During the 1960's and early 1970's, some anthropologists criticized the concept of race, sometimes confusing the 19th century view with the 20th. As a result, the biological concept of race has been rejected by many anthropologists as having no validity for the study of human variation.…
III. Evolutionary Theory
III. Evolutionary Theory
II. Genetics
II. Genetics
Dental wear scoring technique
An ordinal dental attrition scoring technique for molar teeth involving a quadrant system is applied to three Amerind skeletal samples. Molar teeth are visually divided into four sections and each section scored on a 1–10 scale. The score for the whole tooth is the sum of the quadrant scores and ranges from 4–40. Scores are based on the amount of enamel in each quarter of the tooth. The method's reliability is demonstrated by a paired comparison …
Principal axis analysis of dental attrition data
The principal axis method is an age independent analysis method for dental attrition data which avoids many problems associated with earlier methods of analysis, correlation and regression. A principal axis equation is determined from the scatter of M1 on X and M2 on Y, and the slope of the equation can be used to indicate rate of wear. High slopes indicate rapid rates of wear. Because rate of wear rather than degree of wear is the parameter of i…
Subsistence and dental pathology etiologies from prehistoric coastal Peru
The Concept of Race in the Latter Part of the 20th Century
The subspecies concept, as used by modern biologists, has little similarity to the outmoded typological, static, and nonevolutionary 19th century concept of race. During the 1960's and early 1970's, some anthropologists criticized the concept of race, sometimes confusing the 19th century view with the 20th. As a result, the biological concept of race has been rejected by many anthropologists as having no validity for the study of human variation.…
Polygyny and Inheritance of Wealth [and Comments and Replies]
Cross-cultural data are used to test the hypotheses that (1) polygyny in humans is resource polygyny and (2) parents transfer wealth to male heirs when wealth increases the heirs' chance of obtaining multiple mates. A reinterpretation of Freud's Oedipus complex follows as an adjunct
Estimation of total water and fatness from weight and height
Mellits and Cheek have provided a regression equation which predicts total water, and by extension, fat, from weight and height of women. The equation has been used by many researchers as a convenient means to estimate fat when more complicated body composition estimation techniques are not possible. It is an essential component of evidence provided by Frisch for the critical fat hypothesis. The equation has not been validated on another sample, …
The Energetic Paradox of Human Running and Hominid Evolution [and Comments and Reply]
The energetic cost of running is relatively high in man. In spite of this, humans are adept endurance runners, capable of running down, for example, zebra and kangaroo. Distance running is made possible for man in part by an exceptional ability to dissipate exercise heat loads. Most mammals lose heat by panting, which is coupled to breathing and locomotor cycles during running. This interdependence may limit the effectiveness of panting as a mean…
Fertility, Biology and Behavior
Science, Nutrition, Fat, and Policy
Supplementation of the diets of pregnant and nursing mothers in underdeveloped countries is sometimes criticized because more food for these women is seen as producing more body fat, shortened postpartum amenorrhea, and increased fertility. We argue that the link between body fat and shortened postpartum amenorrhea is based on a hypothesis that has not been corroborated. The critical-fat hypothesis is that menarche, maintenance of menstrual cycle…
Anti-Evolutionism, Scientific Creationism, and Education
Anti-evolutionism is alive and well in 1986, and it is especially prominent in American education. I have received comments on my teaching evaluations to the effect that "Evolution is a lot of —." High school teachers report students. walking out when they begin discussing human evolution. According to "A Consumer's Guide to Biology Textbooks" (Washington: People for the American Way, 1985), censors of the Religious Right have sufficiently Pressu…
Antievolutionism, scientific creationism, and physical anthropology
Antievolutionism is alive and well in the United States, as shown by public attitudes toward evolution and the factual truth of Biblical literalism. High percentages of college students do not accept evolution as a valid explanation of earth's history. One in three think humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time. Antievolutionism has had three phases: (1) “straight” antievolutionism, during which time the teaching of evolution was outlawed; (2)…
Future Projects/Future Theorizing in Feminist Field Research Methods
The conference Feminist Dilemmas in Fieldwork: Studying Ourselves/Studying Others concluded with a panel discussion entitled Future Projects/Future Theorizing. The six participants discussed the quandaries that feminist researchers face, and suggested future directions and trends that feminist field researchers should pursue. The speakers were Sylvia Yanagisako, Beatriz Pesquera, Judith Stacey, and Judith Newton (presenting a joint project), Anna…
Antievolution and Creationism in the United States
Evolution is considered controversial by a substantial minority of Americans. Religious opposition explains this, but this opposition is comprised of a broad continuum of religious views. It runs from "young earth creationism" through "old earth creationism" (including "day-age," "gap," and "progressive creationism") to "theistic evolutionism." Historically, antievolutionists have attempted to ban evolution and to present it on an equal footing w…
The Trouble with Science. Robin Dunbar
Evolution Devolves in Kansas
The Creation/Evolution Controversy
Streakers, Strollers, and Readers
Countering Creationism with Drive-By Science
Black “Censor,” White Liberties
Most accounts of censorship follow a predictable narrative: an innocent author creates a work, only to have menacing censors obstruct free expression. However, Illinois’s first state censorship law challenges this narrative: its sponsor, the black legislator Robert Jackson, attempted to hone censorship into a tool for black freedom. Exploring the legislative and social history of the law’s creation and enforcement, I examine how Jackson’s unusual…
More than a "Passing" Sophistication
More than a "Passing" Sophistication:Dress, Film Regulation, and the Color Line in 1930s American Films Ellen Scott (bio) When we think of African American representations of 1930s Hollywood, we likely first envision the maid or butler—Hattie McDaniel as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939) or Gertrude Howard as Beulah Thorndyke in I'm No Angel (1933). These films arguably normalize black servitude as an inevitable part of an intractable and glamor…
Making a Promised Land
Reviewed by: Making a Promised Land: Harlem in Twentieth-Century Photography and Film by Paula J. Massood Ellen C. Scott Paula J. Massood Making a Promised Land: Harlem in Twentieth-Century Photography and Film. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2012. 264 pp. $72.00. The first generation of black film criticism identified stereotypes and valorized the real in black cinema: that is, those elements authentically linked to black culture and communities. Do…
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