"A Man" is an original text created by the author that deals with the struggles that Black men experience when confronted by White privilege. By using autoethnographic analysis, the author critiques the language, ironies, tensions, emotions, and opportunities expressed within "A Man," then extends findings to confront the issues that Black men…

One hundred fifteen undergraduates rated 15 word-cued memories and their 3 most negatively stressful, 3 most positive, and 7 most important events and completed tests of personality and depression. Eighty-nine also recorded involuntary memories online for 1 week. In the first 3-way comparisons needed to test existing theories, comparisons were…

Letras y Arte: Literacy and Art, is a summer course that pairs college students and children from a Latino neighborhood for literacy and art learning. Started five years ago, Letras y Arte provides opportunities in four areas: (1) literacy opportunities that foster distinctive identities and voice; (2) immersion in a broad view of literacy that…

By analyzing the similarities and differences between the art and art practice of Neshat and Ghazel, this article seeks to examine the way that their art simultaneously deconstructs stereotypes of Iran while offering more encompassing representations. In "un-saying" their life stories, these artists struggle not to "be said" by…

The authors describe a project that illustrates the use of autoethnography as a research methodology to better understand their decisions to become professors. Strangers to one another, both authors discovered common motivations to make mid-life changes in opposition to cultural expectations. A review of the literature on epidemic theory,…

This writing describes a literacy project between preservice teachers enrolled in a small university in Montana and an inner city school classroom in Kansas. It shows how the preservice teachers and children negotiate meaning at the beginning of the project as well as what the preservice teachers were learning from the children and from their…

A concern with international cooperation in psychology has been present since the beginnings of psychology as a science. In this article, the author traces the development of international cooperation from the late 19th century to the present day to document the interesting ways in which the forms of collaboration have always been related to the…

This article presents the idea behind Projected Identities, an art activity wherein students fuse art-making processes and digital image manipulations in a series of exploratory artistic self-examinations. At some point in every person's life they've been told something hard to forget. Students might, for example, translate phrases like, "Good…

In the opening pages of Marilou Awiakta's "Selu: Seeking the Corn-Mother's Wisdom," the author offers a metacommentary on her delightfully hybrid text, likening it to a "double-woven basket (Cherokee-style)." The image resonates on many levels with the author's tribal traditions and thus serves to foreshadow the text's wealth of material on…

THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 228 AUTOBIOGRAPHIES BY PENNSYLVANIANS IS DIRECTED TO STUDENTS, HISTORIANS, LIBRARIANS, AND GENERAL READERS. IT DOES NOT INCLUDE BOOKS PUBLISHED AFTER 1960, FICTIONAL AUTOBIOGRAPHIES, DIARIES, JOURNALS, MANUSCRITPTS, OR SHORT SKETCHES IN VOLUMES OF COLLECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY. ENTRIES CONTAIN BRIEF ANNOTATIONS, REFERENCES TO THE…

Outlines the ways that the life history method (a research technique based on autobiographical interviews) has been used in anthropology. Debates among French anthropologists on the method's validity are discussed. A study using life histories to examine the social functions of an Occitan language revival among French peasants is described. (AM)

Lists and annotates seven new adult books of interest to high school readers, including biographical and autobiographical works, fiction, and nonfiction. (GT)

The biographical material in book form, and especially that which exists in journals, is widely dispersed and difficult to locate systematically. Approximately 100 sources of biographical and autobiographical material on women who have contributed significantly to psychology are listed. (Author/BEF)