New Stuff Tuesday – March 8, 2016

Posted on March 8, 2016 by James Castrillo

Cover Image of U.S. Latinos and Criminal Injustice

U.S. Latinos and Criminal Injustice
by Lupe S. Salinas
KF4757.5.L38 S35 2015
New Arrivals, 2nd floor

As of July 2014, Latinos made up roughly 17.4% of the U.S. population and growing. While Latinos do make up the largest group of non-whites in the United States, the history of Latinos like many other minority groups in America is fraught with struggles. Lupe Salinas, a retired judge unpacks the history where latinos and the criminal justice system in the United states intersect with each other. Salinas begins the book with background information about the general history of racism faced by latinos in the United States. The second and third section of the book focus on law enforcement issues and courtroom/trial issues facing Latinos. This book at its heart is a story about oppression. Salinas does a great job of explaining how unfairly many in the Latino community have been treated by the criminal justice system from language barriers in the court room to racial profiling in immigration law enforcement.

Interested in more about Latinos? Check our Pew Research Center’s Hispanic Trends website.

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Community health opportunities

Posted on March 7, 2016 by Rebecca Jones

Whitewater is a great place to be active and get outdoors. Depending on the season, there are great opportunities for hiking, snowboarding, skiing, hang-gliding, golf ing or mini-golfing, paint-balling, or canoeing. Links are available HERE for more information about these activities. The Spring 2016 Whitewater Parks & Recreation Guide has even more fun outdoor activities listed such as Freeze Fest 2016, Ice Skating at Big Brick Park on West Center Street, fitness classes, Adult Open Gym, and more!

Not the outdoorsy type? If you prefer to access an affordable fitness facility there are options such as the University Fitness Center or the Whitewater Aquatic & Fitness Center. Even if you don’t buy an on-campus gym membership (for the weight room and group fitness classes), you can still use the pool, fieldhouse and racquetball courts at the Williams Center during open recreation.

Join Working for Whitewater’s Wellness (W3) for the 5th annual W3llfest on March 13, 2016 from 1-4pm. Event takes place at the Whitewater High School and features a resource fair, fitness classes, gardening and cooking demos, health screenings, and info sessions. Healthy snack samples and free childcare are provided.

Why not catch a film? On Monday, March 7th, the student organization, P.E.A.C.E. will host a screening of  That Sugar Film: One man’s journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. Director Damon Gameau follows the Supersize Me playbook, documenting the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body by consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as ‘healthy’. As noted in a the New York Times review, the “breezy blend of computer imagery, musical numbers, sketches and offbeat field trips makes the nutrition lessons easy to digest.”

Catch this film screening in Summers Auditorium in the University Center, Monday, March 7th, at 5:30 pm.

Want to read more about Sugar?

Try The Truth About Sugar – Academic DVD,

Salt, Sugar, Fat : How the Food Giants Hooked Us

Sugar: A Bittersweet History

This site is not meant to replace the advice of a health care or counseling professional. You should not rely on any information on this blog to replace consultations with qualified professionals regarding your own specific situation.
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Featured Resource: Artemis Primary Sources

Posted on March 2, 2016 by James Castrillo

logo for Gale Artemis database

The Artemis Primary Source interface is a tool that can be used to search across databases that contain historical newspaper and other periodicals. The collections Artemis searches include the 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection, British Newspapers 1600-1950, Eighteenth Century Collection Online, Nineteenth Century Collection Online, Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers, and The Times (London) Digital Archive. Previously, searching these databases would have to be done separately. The collections are capable of being searched individually, across all or only certain ones now. Like any good historical database, the ability to search for various works by date of publication is an option. A user can also search by types of works published in a newspaper. For example, a user could limit the search to just advertisements if they wanted to find historical ads from a business that they were researching.

screen shot of the search interface from Artemis with results limited to advertisements from Newspapers about the Ford Motor Company.

Another built in feature to Artemis is the Term Frequency visualizer. This tool will chart how frequently a user’s search term is represented in the results. So, if a user were researching a term from pop culture like “rock ‘n’ roll”, they could see the rise and fall of this term being used in various articles. Artemis primary sources serves as an easy to navigate tool, filled with a wealth of interesting stories from days gone past.

screen shot of a chart which show how frequently the phrase rock n roll is used in publications from Artemis.

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Transforming Cultures to Create Gender Equity

Posted on March 1, 2016 by Barbara

KaYing Yang, social justice activist, as well as co-founder of the artisan community support site RedGreen Rivers™ and the community campaign Building Our Future that focuses on ending gender-based violence, will talk about “Transforming Cultures to Create Gender Equity” at 3:30 p.m. on Tues., Mar. 1, in UC 275A. It’s part of the Southeast Asian Heritage Lecture Series!

cover of Gendered Work in Asian Cities bookIf you would like to lean more, Andersen Library may be able to help! You can search Research@UWW to find articles such as “Blaming culture for bad behavior” (Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, 2000, vol.12:no.1, pp.89-116) or books such as Rising tide: Gender equality and cultural change around the world (available to UWW students or staff from other UW campus libraries via free UW Request service; requested items arrive in 2-5 weekdays), Gendered work in Asian cities: The new economy and changing labour markets (online via ebrary), or Body evidence intimate violence against South Asian women in America (online via ebrary).

Please Ask a librarian (visit the Reference Desk, call 262.472.1032, or choose to email or chat) for assistance with finding additional materials.

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New Stuff Tuesday – March 1, 2016

Posted on March 1, 2016 by Martha

Cover Image of Asian American Avant-Garde: Universalist Aspirations in Modernist Literature and Art

Asian American Avant-Garde:
Universalist Aspirations in Modernist Literature and Art
by Audrey Wu Clark
PS153.A84 C56 2015
New Arrivals, 2nd floor

Audrey Wu Clark’s book is the latest addition to the Asian American History and Culture series by Temple University. It focuses on the literary and artistic works of Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, and Korean authors living in the United States from 1882 to the end of World War II, an era in which discrimination against Asians and Asian Americans was pervasive. It examines these authors’ work as counter to Euro-American modernists, and explores the ways in which they responded to their racialization and to the prevalent Orientalism of that period. During the Exclusion Era and before the panethnic idea of the “Asian American” came into existence the debate between racial particularity and liberal universalism was becoming more prominent. The authors discussed here show diverse, persuasive visions of universal socialism and gender equality, and Clark demonstrates the ways in which their experimentation demonstrates the historical, sociological, and political qualities of early Asian American literature so as to imagine a future democratic utopia.

Use this link to read Deborah Kalb’s interview with Audrey Wu Clark.

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Bare Knuckle Warrior Poetics

Posted on February 29, 2016 by Barbara

Cameron Conaway, a former mixed martial arts fighter and award-winning writer, will talk about “Bare Knuckle Warrior Poetics: On Fighting, Writing, and the Worlds Between” at 7p.m. on Mon., Feb. 29 in the Young Auditorium. It’s part of the Contemporary Issues Lecture Series.

Conaway has written several books, including Malaria, poems, which was on National Public Radio’s “Best Books of 2014” list. UWW students and staff may request it from another UW campus library using the free UW Request service (requested items arrive in 2-5 weekdays–sign in, click Get It, then click UW Request and then the Request button). You can read an excerpt in “If you think you’ll never see a poem about malaria, you’re wrong” on the NPR website.

If you’re inspired and want to know more, Andersen Library may be able to help, with book such as Reading, writing, and rising up: Teaching about social justice and the power of the written word (3rd-floor Main Collection, LB1632 .C49 2000) and Love rise up: An anthology: Poems of social justice, protest & hope (available via free UW Request from UWM).

Please Ask a librarian (visit the Reference Desk, call 262.472.1032, or choose to email or chat) for assistance with finding additional materials.

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Healthy Eating & Nutrition

Posted on February 29, 2016 by Rebecca Jones

UW-W is committed to helping you make positive choices when it comes to nutrition. University Health and Counseling Services hosts a bi-weekly “Try-It Tuesday” event at the Andersen Library to offer free samples of snack foods to help give students ideas for healthy snacking alternatives and combat the stereotype of unhealthy foods on college campuses.

  • Stop in between 3-4pm on Tuesdays: March 8th, April 5th, April 19th and May 3rd.

Image of menu from Dineoncampus.com/uww/Hungry now and can’t wait for the next Try-It Tuesday? Food for Thought Café is conveniently located near the library’s entrance. There are plenty of healthy options like fresh fruit, salads, tea, yogurt, and more! Check out the Dine on Campus website for menu options or download the app from the Google Play Store  or Tunes Store to help you navigate UW-W campus dining menu choices on the go.

Andersen Library and UHCS both have many great resources available to help you stay healthy. Visit the UHCS’s Nutrition and Eating Healthfully wellness site for advice from the experts. Check out #AndersenLibrary materials related to nutrition and healthy eating, including documentary DVDs on nutrition and the food industry, and many cookbooks such as this tantalizing title – The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook.

Why not catch a film? On Monday, March 7th, the student organization, P.E.A.C.E. will host a screening of  That Sugar Film: One man’s journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. Director Damon Gameau follows the Supersize Me playbook, documenting the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body by consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as ‘healthy’. As noted in a the New York Times review, the “breezy blend of computer imagery, musical numbers, sketches and offbeat field trips makes the nutrition lessons easy to digest.”

Catch this film screening in Summers Auditorium in the University Center, Monday, March 7th, at 5:30 pm.  NEW TIME: 5:00PM

 

This site is not meant to replace the advice of a health care or counseling professional. You should not rely on any information on this blog to replace consultations with qualified professionals regarding your own specific situation.
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LEAP Day panel: What do employers want??

Posted on February 25, 2016 by Barbara

clip art of person taking a leapMonday, February 29 is LEAP Day at UWW!

Would you like to know what knowledge and skills employers want when they hire college graduates? Come to the employer panel discussion from 9 a.m.-9:50 a.m. in the UC Summers Auditorium. The alumni panel consists of

Cover of Hart Research reportYou also can read the report Falling Short? College Learning and Career Success: Selected findings from online surveys of employers and college students to learn more about what employers want, including the most important college learning outcomes.

See the full LEAP Day schedule to choose what else you’d like to hear about on LEAP Day.

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New Stuff Tuesday — February 23, 2016

Posted on February 23, 2016 by Diana

Tyranny of the Meritocracy

The Tyranny of the Meritocracy
Democratizing Higher Education in America
by Lani Guinier
LA227.4 .G85 2015
New Arrivals, 2nd floor

Lani Guitier’s new book attempts to answer the question of why our so-called meritocracy can often be so unfair to many. She focuses on how our system of higher education often reinforces this unfair system by granting those already benefiting from wealth and privilege the best access to the best education. She articulates a call for a more inclusive vision of how we determine who has “merit”–arguing that we should not rely on standardize testing and instead focus on a holistic evaluation of the whole person.

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Critical Issues Facing African American Students

Posted on February 22, 2016 by Barbara

“Critical Issues Facing African American Students in Education” will be discussed on Tues., Feb. 23, from 3:30-4:30pm in UC275A. The alumni panel includes Dr. Alisia Moutry, Executive Director of Milwaukee Teacher Education Center, Dr. Tremayne Clardy, Principal of Sennett Middle School (Madison Metropolitan School District, MMSD), and Dr. Monica Kelsey-Brown, Director of Teaching and Learning at Brown Deer School District. It’s part of the African American Heritage Lecture Series!

You can read an interview with Dr. Moutry at WisconsinWatchdog.org. You can read a brief introduction to Dr. Clardy in MMSD’s “Meet Our Principals” web page. Dr. Kelsey-Brown has a brief introduction as a member of the College of Education and Professional Studies Dean’s Advisory Board.

cover of book African American students in urban schoolsAndersen Library has resources for learning more, such as the book African American students in urban schools: Critical issues and solutions for achievement (3rd-Floor Main Collection, LC2717 .A37 2012) and articles such as these: “Challenges to success in higher education: An examination of educational challenges from the voices of college-bound black males” (Journal of Negro Education, 2013, vol.82:no.3, pp.288-299), “‘Our biggest challenge is stereotypes'”: Understanding stereotype threat and the academic experiences of African American undergraduates” (Journal of Negro Education, 2013, vol.82:no.4, pp.382-392), “Inside and outside gifted education programming: Hidden challenges for African American students” (Exceptional Children, 2008, vol.74:no.4, pp.433-450), “Improving African American student outcomes: Understanding educational achievement and strategies to close opportunity gaps” (Western Journal of Black Studies, 2014, vol.38:no.4, pp.209-217), and “The jar is half-empty and the jar is half-full: Challenges and opportunities in graduating first-generation African American undergraduates” (Critical Questions In Education, 2011, vol.2:no.1, pp.14-27).

Please Ask a librarian (visit the Reference Desk, call 262.472.1032, or choose to email or chat) for assistance with finding additional materials.

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