Journal of Interdisciplinary Research (JIDR), vol. 2, no. 1 (2008)
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Item Journal of Interdisciplinary Research (JIDR), vol. 2, no. 1 (2008) Preliminary Materials(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2008) Cornell, Megan; JIDR EditorsIncludes editorial board, IDSC 2007-2008 Representatives, JIDR Referees, table of contents, and note from the editor.Item Gardiner C. Means and the 1980s Shareholders' Attempted Revolution(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2008) Pham, XuanGardiner C. Means was one of the first twentieth-century economists to have noticed the concentration of corporate power in the hands of managers. He believed that this power arrangement caused production inefficiency and inappropriate resource allocation. Means advocated for the redistribution of control among four groups of stakeholders—consumers, workers, managers, and shareholders. He believed an equitable distribution of economic power will increase macroeconomic stability and growth. During the 1980s Deal Decade, shareholders and corporate raiders attempted to take power away from the managers by mean of hostile takeovers. The shareholders did not succeed because managers retaliated by erecting legal barriers to protect themselves. I argue that the shareholders' revolution failed because shareholders did not heed Means' advice. If the shareholders had been more willing to share power with workers and consumers, they could have defeated the managers.Item An Oreo Ain't Nothing But A Cookie: An Analysis of Identity Struggles of African Americans in Desegregated Public Schools from 1950 to 1968(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2008) Perkins, Rotha M.“It is not just the white man who does not know the Negro's name, however; the Negro does not know either. . .the controversy over name is bound up with the most fundamental question of identity: the flight from blackness, the hatred of self, the yearning to be white. . .” (Powell 1973, 22). The purpose of this qualitative study is to analyze the identify struggles of African American students from 1950-1968. I used empirical evidence based on the events and my experiences expressed through the realities of my identity struggles during the Civil Rights Movements. The analytical descriptions and interpretations are naturally occurring behaviors in the struggle for social justice and educational equality. I based my research on the question: what are the identity struggles of African Americans in Desegregated Schools during the Civil Rights Movement?Item Indiscriminate or Intentional: Locations of Nonprofit Organizations in Kansas City(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2008) Nemenoff, Erin K.This study examines the locations of Kansas City metropolitan area nonprofit organizations, as defined by the eleven-county Kansas City Metropolitan Area. Although several authors have conducted similar studies of nonprofits in metropolitan areas, none have looked at Kansas City specifically. This study utilizes census data as well as data from Internal Revenue Service Form 990 to assess the relationship between nonprofit location, income level, and heterogeneity in the community. This study finds that both median household income and heterogeneity predict the number of nonprofits in the area. Additionally, this study highlights the difficulties of researching nonprofit organizations based on IRS reporting.Item Penitence, Punishment, and Pain: Negotiating Personal Authority in Francis Lathom's The Midnight Bell(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2008) Condit, Lorna Anne; Religious StudiesFrancis Lathom's novel, The Midnight Bell (1798), uses conventional gothic themes of crime, guilt, and punishment to interrogate gender roles and to explore how individuals may conform to, reject, or subvert mechanisms of social control in order to preserve their autonomy and sense of self. This paper examines the treatment of two characters, Countess Anna and Count Byroff, who each commit murder and come under the auspices of the Catholic penitential system and French judicial system, respectively. For Anna, voluntary self-flagellation provides an alternative form of self-authorization and subjectivity based on the special status of Catholic female religiosity, while Byroff's state-controlled subjugation results in his being objectified and feminized. While the subversive vision of male and female power dynamics is ultimately reversed, I argue that the novel's radical potential is never entirely contained, the high cost of the “happy ending” interrogating the social values on which such an ending depends.