Verge 9 (2012-2013)

Randi Turner, Yellow Fever

Jeff Bessen, Homology and Convergence in the Evolution of the Eye

Weston Kulvete, “The Bitter Dream”: Internalized Racism in the Passing Narratives of the Harlem Renaissance

Megan Rucker Livingston, Utopia Within Dystopia: Stand on Zanzibar as Speculative Postcolonial Literature

Dorie Chevlen, Youngstown

Colin Breen, Beyond the Master Plot: Exceptional Literature in Stalin’s USSR

Samantha Haas, Orphans in South Africa and the Stigma of HIV/AIDS

Christina Murphy, HIV/AIDS and Income Generation: The Use of Microfinance Initiatives as a Prevention Strategy in Sub-Saharan African Refugee Camps

Ben Mueser, Individual Responsibility in Aristotle’s Politics

Tim Proser, The Core of Us: Properties of the Socialization Process and the Influence of Social Class Therein

Maya Ward, De engaños y valores olvidados

Lila Scott, La homosexualidad como enfermedad mental

The Development of Community and Resistance Through Traditional Music Culture

“Perhaps the most relevant to Lorde’s ideas of the erotic and joy, Ehrenreich states, “The joy of the rhythmic activity would have helped overcome the fear of confronting predators and other threats” (Ehrenreich, 26). This is critical to understanding the importance of music and dance in protest. Synchronised singing, dancing, and stomping, galvanises the people, keeps the fear at bay while also intimidating the oppressor in a raucous show of force from a crowd. The act of singing and dancing is a human behaviour so instinctual it has lasted from the primitive human to today, utilizing what Lorde would describe as the erotic, to build and defend a community.”

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