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I argue that Mississippi most profoundly needs to attend to Aristotle's lessons about genuine, virtuous friendship, which he called acknowledged reciprocal goodwill. Such goodwill explains how and why Mississippi has made the progress that it has, as well as why the state flag should change. True friendship cares about what a symbol means to one's friends.
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Uniting Mississippi is a short book which considers Mississippi as a prime context for testing out a philosophically informed theory of democratic leadership. Governor William Winter has agreed to write a foreword for the book. The book begins with an examination of Mississippi’s apparent Catch-22, which the author believes can be overcome. First, in chapter 1, the problem of poverty is reconsidered, since the approach to addressing poverty has for so long been unsuccessful. Next, in chapter 2, the challenges of educational failure are explored to reveal the extent to which there appears to be a caste system of schooling, in which certain groups of people are educated in schools that are underfunded and failing. The ideals of democracy reject hierarchical citizenship, and thus are tested in Mississippi. In chapter 3, therefore, theories of good leadership in general and of democratic leadership in particular are introduced to show how Mississippi’s challenges could be addressed for the sake of democratic values. The book draws on insights from classical and contemporary philosophical outlooks on leadership, which highlight four key social virtues: wisdom, courage, moderation, and justice. Within this framework, Mississippi’s problems of poverty and educational frustration are approached in a novel way that is applicable in and beyond the rural South. In chapters 4, 5, 6, and 7, each of the virtues of democratic leadership is emphasized with application to particular problems and areas of public policy. The book concludes with some overarching lessons to draw and values to advance in addressing Mississippi’s problems and opportunities for progress. Finally, a set of 7 of the author’s editorial essays are included in the appendix as examples of engagement in public inquiry for the sake of democratic leadership.
Southeastern Geographer
Black, White or Green?: The Confederate Battle Emblem and the 2001 Mississippi State Flag Referendum2012 •
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Friendship
Friendship and Citizenship2022 •
This Chapter investigates whether friendship has any place among citizens of contemporary states. It begins with a very brief sketch of personal friendship and a longer sketch of citizenship, which distinguishes between different interpretations of the idea. Though clearly quite different, the Chapter argues that there are some analogies between personal friendship and citizenship, not least a constitutive ideal of equal status. The Chapter goes on to explore the notion of civic friendship, starting with Aristotle and then more recent defences of the idea. It's argued that, pace some critics, the ideal of civic friendship makes some sense, especially on a civic republican view of citizenship, though obstacles remain, in particular how far citizens can express mutual concern in the way that personal friends do.
The Confederate flag remains a controversial symbol. This article reviews research on attitudes toward the Confederate flag and its public display. In order to better understand the divisiveness of the flag, I outline a historical timeline of the U.S. South and the Confederate flag while emphasizing the association between race and politics within the region. Culture is crucial to this paper because the flag is rooted in cultural constructions of its symbolism, and because opinions toward the flag shed light on the process of cultural change. Overall, this work synthesizes existing research on attitudes and legislative voting patterns focused on the flag and provides a foundation and suggestions for future inquiry into the topic. As a case study analyzing the manner in which “unsettled times” (Swidler, 1986) produce climates conducive to social change, I argue that the Charleston Emanuel AME Church shootings created an opportunity to remove the Confederate flag from the South Carolina capitol grounds. I conclude by viewing the flag debate within a society that has and continues to perpetuate racial inequities. Future research has the task of analyzing implications of Confederate flag support hopefully leading to the elimination of ideologies that spur racial violence.
Democratic Arts of Mourning
Removing the Confederate Flag in South Carolina in the Wake of Charleston: Sovereignty, Symbolism, and White Domination in a " Colorblind " State2018 •
Why did it take only 23 days for the state of South Carolina to to remove the Confederate Battle Flag (CBF) from the grounds of the state house after Dylann Roof, white, murdered nine black parishioners at a prayer meeting in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015?1 The flag had been flying at the state capitol since 1962, raised as a commemoration of the centennial of the Civil War, but then never lowered; the resignification of the CBF that had occurred mid-20 th century had turned the flag from revered, almost sacred memorial/historical object to a symbol of contemporary resistance to the Black Freedom Movement. So why and how did the Charleston Massacre overcome 53 years of resistance to the removal of the CBF in a mere 23 days? To begin formulating an answer to these questions, the first section provides an overview of the events in Charleston and the political context surrounding the events, while the second section traces the evolution of the meanings of the CBF from 1865 to date. The third section then offers a variety of ways we might interpret the events leading to the removal of the flag. I argue that the response to these questions lies where sovereignty, symbolism, and white domination intersect. First, the sovereignty of the state required reassertion in the wake of Roof's massive unleashing of violence on black persons, persons against whom the state frequently and disproportionately uses violence. Roof's arrest and prosecution, then, might be read as an effort to reassert sovereignty by reminding the state's (white) citizens that it alone has the monopoly on violence against black persons. Second, one of the significant symbols of the state's sovereignty
2013 •
Much has been written about the controversial confederate flag, and its relationship with racial issues and public memory. Only rarely however, the development of the flag was studied within the context of the Civil War. In this paper, the varying designs of the flag that was to represent the Confederate States, are linked to the Confederacy's emergent nationalism.
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Annals of clinical biochemistry
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Veterinary Pathology
Schistosomus Reflexus Syndrome in Olive Ridley Sea Turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea)2016 •
Mneme-Revista de Humanidades
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THE JOURNAL OF THE ACADEMY OF CLINICAL DENTISTRY
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The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
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Experimental Gerontology
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Journal of Clinical Investigation
Vascular and inflammatory stresses mediate atherosclerosis via RAGE and its ligands in apoE–/– mice2008 •
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