This study revisits Paula D. McClain and Joseph Stewart Jr.’s (1995) framework of competition and coalition among racial and ethnic minorities to analyze Black American responses to immigration in Chicago. It contends that contemporary perspectives reveal complicated solidarities, which are tensions between racial solidarity and material preservation shaped by globalization, neoliberal urban governance, and evolving political narratives. Using qualitative analysis of municipal documents, public debates, and media coverage, this article demonstrates that institutional neglect and racialized governance shape how Black communities interpret migrant inclusion. The findings extend McClain and Stewart’s (1995) framework by centering intra-Black diversity, structural inequality, and urban policy as key dimensions of race and immigrant politics in twenty-first-century America.

On January 4, 1966, a major accident occurred at an oil refinery at Feyzin in South-East France. Although this event has been recognized as a watershed in the history of French industrial hazards regulation, little has been studied about the oil industry’s response. The period following the disaster saw an initiation into public relations for the leading figures of the young French oil industry, concurrent with the energy transition that was happening in Western Europe. Most of these leaders continued to hold executive roles in the same companies during the following decades and capitalized on these experiences to communicate on environmental issues. While many oil historians have focused on either a global or a national scale, this contribution proposes a multi-scalar approach to scrutinize how oil companies crafted their communications in the chosen territories for refining and petrochemical activities. Focusing on these areas enables us to emphasize that levers of consent to industrial activities are phenomena that are constructed in lived spaces where frontline communities have to cope with petroleum-based industry’s ordinary risks.

Trilobites collected from six locations of the Madison Group (middle to late Tournaisian) of Montana consist of 17 taxa and 11 new species. New species include Proetides raymondi new species, Brachymetopus swimmingwomanensis new species, Liobolina montanaensis new species, Belgibole complanata new species, Belgibole? madisonensis new species, Phillibole? acutis new species, Piltonia sandoi new species, Piltonia douglassi new species, Perexigupyge angusticapitalis new species, and Thigriffides? andersoni new species. Eoameura kollari new genus new species is also recognized, and neotypes are designated for Phillipsia peroccidens (Hall and Whitfield, 1877) and Perexigupyge loganensis (Hall and Whitfield, 1877). The overall taxonomic makeup of the trilobite faunas from the Madison Group is markedly different from that of contemporary strata of the central and eastern United States in that it appears to have a distinctly European generic composition. The lowest unit of the Madison Group (Lodgepole Formation) appears to exhibit a distinct upsectional change from deep- to shallow-water paleobathymetric characteristics that translate into a paleoecological gradient of trilobite species consistent with those seen in contemporary units of western Europe.

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Les interventions basées sur la pleine conscience (IBPC) sont reconnues comme des approches pertinentes auprès de personnes vieillissantes à risque de déclin cognitif. Toutefois, peu d’études ont exploré l’expérience vécue de participants présentant un déclin cognitif accompagné de symptômes anxiodépressifs. Cette étude qualitative vise à comprendre l’expérience de 13 adultes de 55 ans et plus ayant participé à une IBPC de groupe. Des entrevues semi-dirigées menées après l’intervention ont été analysées selon une approche inductive pour dégager les thèmes émergents. Les résultats révèlent une trajectoire expérientielle en trois temps : une surprise initiale face aux pratiques, une évolution progressive de leur vécu, tant individuel qu’interpersonnel, notamment grâce au groupe, puis un sentiment d’élucidation et de satisfaction à l’égard du programme. L’analyse met en lumière des processus individuels et relationnels importants, soulignant la nécessité de considérer divers facteurs dans l’étude des mécanismes et effets des IBPC auprès des personnes vieillissantes.

Verb doubling constructions in Mandarin such as CHI, wo (shi) chi le ‘As for eating, I (did) eat’, where the first verb is stressed, are perceived as incomplete if not followed by a continuing clause, but only when the copula shi is present do these constructions require a contrastive continuation marked by the coordinator keshi or buguo ‘but’. This article addresses these two puzzles by (i) analyzing verb doubling constructions as contrastive topic constructions where the initial stressed verb is a contrastive topic triggering a set of polar questions, and (ii) taking the copula shi to be a marker associated with contrastive topic. In particular, shi in a verb doubling construction presupposes that (a) there is at least one polar question Q which is an alternative of the current question under discussion, CQ, and entails CQ, and (b) Q has a negative answer. It is shown how the proposal accounts for the puzzles, and how it can be extended to VP doubling and object preposing constructions, both of which demonstrate similar incompleteness effects.

This article argues that post-syntactic feature insertion is insufficiently motivated at present and should therefore not yet be accepted as a morphological process within the theory of Distributed Morphology. Post-syntactic feature insertion has been proposed for Nimboran verbal morphology (Noyer 1998), Kiowa agreement prefixes (Harbour 2003a), Leísta Spanish doubled clitics (Nevins 2007), and Romanian gender agreement (Farkas 1990). I show that these datasets can be analysed without invoking post-syntactic feature insertion, and discuss what a dataset would have to look like to motivate it. Such a dataset would have a number of parallel circumstances, each with a true elsewhere exponent and a specific environment in which another exponent behaved like an elsewhere one, exponing two feature bundles that are the polar inverse of each other. A theory of morphology that does not allow for post-syntactic feature insertion predicts such data to be impossible.

Investigators are often interested in how a treatment affects an outcome for units responding to treatment in a certain way. We may wish to know the effect among units that, for example, meaningfully implemented an intervention, passed an attention check or demonstrated some important mechanistic response. Simply conditioning on the observed value of the post-treatment variable introduces problematic biases. Further, the identification assumptions required by several existing strategies are often indefensible. We propose the treatment reactive average causal effect (TRACE), which we define as the total effect of treatment in the group that, if treated, would realize a particular value of the relevant post-treatment variable. By reasoning about the effect among the “non-reactive” group, we can identify and estimate the range of plausible values for the TRACE. We demonstrate the use of this approach with three examples: (i) learning the effect of police-perceived race on police violence during traffic stops, a case where point identification may be possible; (ii) estimating effects of a community policing intervention in Liberia, in communities that meaningfully implemented it; and (iii) studying how in-person canvassing affects support for transgender rights, among participants for whom the intervention would result in more positive feelings toward transgender people.