Sydney D. Bailey and Sam Daws
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198280736
- eISBN:
- 9780191598746
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198280734.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
Looks at diplomacy and debate at the UN Security Council, and the role of procedural rules and practice in these activities. The first four sections of the chapter describe the rules for: the order ...
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Looks at diplomacy and debate at the UN Security Council, and the role of procedural rules and practice in these activities. The first four sections of the chapter describe the rules for: the order of speakers; interrupting the speaker; the right of reply; and motions, proposals and suggestions — the various types of these are all defined. The next section discusses precedence motions (Rule 33), which are techniques available to the Council by which debate can be suspended or terminated, either to facilitate positive purposes, or to frustrate negative ones (such as filibustering); these include: suspension of the meeting; adjournment of the meeting either sine die or to a certain day or hour; reference of any matter to a committee, the Secretary‐General of the UN, or a rapporteur; postponement of the discussion to a certain day, or indefinitely; and introduction of an amendment; all of these are described separately. The remaining sections of the chapter discuss amendments, and statements before or after the vote.Less
Looks at diplomacy and debate at the UN Security Council, and the role of procedural rules and practice in these activities. The first four sections of the chapter describe the rules for: the order of speakers; interrupting the speaker; the right of reply; and motions, proposals and suggestions — the various types of these are all defined. The next section discusses precedence motions (Rule 33), which are techniques available to the Council by which debate can be suspended or terminated, either to facilitate positive purposes, or to frustrate negative ones (such as filibustering); these include: suspension of the meeting; adjournment of the meeting either sine die or to a certain day or hour; reference of any matter to a committee, the Secretary‐General of the UN, or a rapporteur; postponement of the discussion to a certain day, or indefinitely; and introduction of an amendment; all of these are described separately. The remaining sections of the chapter discuss amendments, and statements before or after the vote.
Roger W. Shuy
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195181661
- eISBN:
- 9780199788477
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195181661.003.0006
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
This chapter shows how being inconsistent when representing illegality in cases involving more than one target in the same alleged crime can damage a prosecution’s case. More important, however, is ...
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This chapter shows how being inconsistent when representing illegality in cases involving more than one target in the same alleged crime can damage a prosecution’s case. More important, however, is the way this 2002 case in Oklahoma illustrates the dangers to a successful prosecution when the undercover agents block (interrupt and overlap) the target’s words, especially when this is done when the targets appear to be trying to say something exculpatory.Less
This chapter shows how being inconsistent when representing illegality in cases involving more than one target in the same alleged crime can damage a prosecution’s case. More important, however, is the way this 2002 case in Oklahoma illustrates the dangers to a successful prosecution when the undercover agents block (interrupt and overlap) the target’s words, especially when this is done when the targets appear to be trying to say something exculpatory.
Roger W. Shuy
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195181661
- eISBN:
- 9780199788477
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195181661.003.0014
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
This case is set in the cross-culture milieu of Scotland, where many Muslim families now live. Fearing that his daughter would disgrace the family by marrying outside of the Muslim cultural ...
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This case is set in the cross-culture milieu of Scotland, where many Muslim families now live. Fearing that his daughter would disgrace the family by marrying outside of the Muslim cultural framework, Arshad expressed his frustration to a friend, who for an unknown reason told the police that Arshad was looking for a hit man to kill his daughter’s new husband. In the undercover conversations that followed, the policeman uses all of the conversational strategies of ambiguity, hit and run, interrupting, scripting, and refusing to take “No” for an answer.Less
This case is set in the cross-culture milieu of Scotland, where many Muslim families now live. Fearing that his daughter would disgrace the family by marrying outside of the Muslim cultural framework, Arshad expressed his frustration to a friend, who for an unknown reason told the police that Arshad was looking for a hit man to kill his daughter’s new husband. In the undercover conversations that followed, the policeman uses all of the conversational strategies of ambiguity, hit and run, interrupting, scripting, and refusing to take “No” for an answer.
Youseop Shin
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780520293168
- eISBN:
- 9780520966383
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520293168.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Law, Crime and Deviance
This book focuses on fundamental elements of time series analysis that social scientists need to understand to employ time series analysis for their research and practice. Avoiding extraordinary ...
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This book focuses on fundamental elements of time series analysis that social scientists need to understand to employ time series analysis for their research and practice. Avoiding extraordinary mathematical materials, this book explains univariate time-series analysis step by step from the preliminary visual analysis through the modeling of seasonality, trends, and residuals to the prediction and the evaluation of estimated models. Then, this book explains smoothing, multiple time-series analysis, and interrupted time-series analysis. At the end of each step, this book coherently provides an analysis of the monthly violent crime rates as an example.Less
This book focuses on fundamental elements of time series analysis that social scientists need to understand to employ time series analysis for their research and practice. Avoiding extraordinary mathematical materials, this book explains univariate time-series analysis step by step from the preliminary visual analysis through the modeling of seasonality, trends, and residuals to the prediction and the evaluation of estimated models. Then, this book explains smoothing, multiple time-series analysis, and interrupted time-series analysis. At the end of each step, this book coherently provides an analysis of the monthly violent crime rates as an example.
Bruce A Thyer
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195387384
- eISBN:
- 9780199932085
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195387384.003.0004
- Subject:
- Social Work, Research and Evaluation
Interrupted time series research designs are a major approach to the evaluation of social welfare and other governmental policies. A large-scale outcome measure is repeatedly assessed, often over ...
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Interrupted time series research designs are a major approach to the evaluation of social welfare and other governmental policies. A large-scale outcome measure is repeatedly assessed, often over weeks, months or years. Then, following the introduction or change of some policy, the data are continued to be collected and appraised for any shifts, following the change in policy. If comparable outcome measurements can be concurrently gathered from a equivalent entity (e.g., a community, county or state) which does not apply the policy change, sometimes very strong causal inferences can be plausibly be drawn regarding the effects of a given policy. Various ways to strengthen the interrupted time series design are described, and a number of published examples of studies that used this form of quasi-experimental research design are described.Less
Interrupted time series research designs are a major approach to the evaluation of social welfare and other governmental policies. A large-scale outcome measure is repeatedly assessed, often over weeks, months or years. Then, following the introduction or change of some policy, the data are continued to be collected and appraised for any shifts, following the change in policy. If comparable outcome measurements can be concurrently gathered from a equivalent entity (e.g., a community, county or state) which does not apply the policy change, sometimes very strong causal inferences can be plausibly be drawn regarding the effects of a given policy. Various ways to strengthen the interrupted time series design are described, and a number of published examples of studies that used this form of quasi-experimental research design are described.
Dana H. Ballard
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780262028615
- eISBN:
- 9780262323819
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262028615.003.0006
- Subject:
- Neuroscience, Research and Theory
The traditional thinking was that the brain somehow ‘sees’ the image, but increasing evidence suggests that most of vision is the result of driven tests that are ordered up to serve a cognitive ...
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The traditional thinking was that the brain somehow ‘sees’ the image, but increasing evidence suggests that most of vision is the result of driven tests that are ordered up to serve a cognitive agenda, so much so that even interrupts may be modulated by an agenda-driven context. Much of this change of perspective has been driven by the primate visual system’s retinal organization, which has a pronounced high-resolution foveal region at the center of a low-resolution periphery. This architecture sends a very compressed coded version of the image to the Thalamus, which uses extensive cortical feedback for its interpretation. The foveal architecture also demands that a collection high-speed eye movements are used to stabilize gaze on important targets. Studies of such movements show that they are exquisitely programmed to facilitate the extraction of task-centric information from the image quickly.Less
The traditional thinking was that the brain somehow ‘sees’ the image, but increasing evidence suggests that most of vision is the result of driven tests that are ordered up to serve a cognitive agenda, so much so that even interrupts may be modulated by an agenda-driven context. Much of this change of perspective has been driven by the primate visual system’s retinal organization, which has a pronounced high-resolution foveal region at the center of a low-resolution periphery. This architecture sends a very compressed coded version of the image to the Thalamus, which uses extensive cortical feedback for its interpretation. The foveal architecture also demands that a collection high-speed eye movements are used to stabilize gaze on important targets. Studies of such movements show that they are exquisitely programmed to facilitate the extraction of task-centric information from the image quickly.
Amy Speier
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781479827664
- eISBN:
- 9781479858996
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479827664.003.0005
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Medical Anthropology
This chapter deconstructs the fundamental contradictions embedded within this global care chain. Czech fertility clinics are global checkout lanes for North American global bio-citizens opting to ...
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This chapter deconstructs the fundamental contradictions embedded within this global care chain. Czech fertility clinics are global checkout lanes for North American global bio-citizens opting to purchase IVF with egg donation. Yet the economic nature of these transactions are minimized by affective discourse and the intimate labor provided by Czech clinics and accommodations. This chapter considers the ways in which women’s bodies are implicated in the contradictory aspects of “fertility holiday” abroad.Less
This chapter deconstructs the fundamental contradictions embedded within this global care chain. Czech fertility clinics are global checkout lanes for North American global bio-citizens opting to purchase IVF with egg donation. Yet the economic nature of these transactions are minimized by affective discourse and the intimate labor provided by Czech clinics and accommodations. This chapter considers the ways in which women’s bodies are implicated in the contradictory aspects of “fertility holiday” abroad.
Jessica Berman
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231149518
- eISBN:
- 9780231520393
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231149518.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter explores the works of American writers Jack Conroy and Meridel Le Sueur, which focus on the working class of 1920s and 1930s America. Conroy's The Disinherited (1933) uses an episodic ...
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This chapter explores the works of American writers Jack Conroy and Meridel Le Sueur, which focus on the working class of 1920s and 1930s America. Conroy's The Disinherited (1933) uses an episodic narrative structure that creates “skaz”, sketches from “overheard” stories and interrupted autobiography, and then assembles those sketches into a communal tale of political disenfranchisement and burgeoning consciousness. Similarly, Le Sueur's The Girl (1939) presents the suffering of female bodies in hard labor, hunger, childbirth, or partner abuse. She generates an iterative style that rejects the authority of a presiding narrator and emphasizes the narrative dimension of the “contact” between the embodied lives of working-class women. These working-class narratives illustrate orality, folk culture, and the materiality of everyday life through the bodies of working women and men which emerges as a politically engaged, experimental narrative tradition.Less
This chapter explores the works of American writers Jack Conroy and Meridel Le Sueur, which focus on the working class of 1920s and 1930s America. Conroy's The Disinherited (1933) uses an episodic narrative structure that creates “skaz”, sketches from “overheard” stories and interrupted autobiography, and then assembles those sketches into a communal tale of political disenfranchisement and burgeoning consciousness. Similarly, Le Sueur's The Girl (1939) presents the suffering of female bodies in hard labor, hunger, childbirth, or partner abuse. She generates an iterative style that rejects the authority of a presiding narrator and emphasizes the narrative dimension of the “contact” between the embodied lives of working-class women. These working-class narratives illustrate orality, folk culture, and the materiality of everyday life through the bodies of working women and men which emerges as a politically engaged, experimental narrative tradition.
Youseop Shin
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780520293168
- eISBN:
- 9780520966383
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520293168.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Law, Crime and Deviance
Chapter Seven explains interrupted time series analysis. This chapter includes the impact analysis of the Three-Strikes-Out law with October 1994 (when Public Law 103-322 was enacted) as the ...
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Chapter Seven explains interrupted time series analysis. This chapter includes the impact analysis of the Three-Strikes-Out law with October 1994 (when Public Law 103-322 was enacted) as the intervention point.Less
Chapter Seven explains interrupted time series analysis. This chapter includes the impact analysis of the Three-Strikes-Out law with October 1994 (when Public Law 103-322 was enacted) as the intervention point.
Drew Paul
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781474456128
- eISBN:
- 9781474480727
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474456128.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
This chapter considers the problem of depicting the border on screen, and in particular the limits of the ability of an emerging genre of wall documentaries to expose the “reality” of borders in the ...
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This chapter considers the problem of depicting the border on screen, and in particular the limits of the ability of an emerging genre of wall documentaries to expose the “reality” of borders in the region. In light of cinema studies scholarship on how documentaries construct truth claims, and studies of filmic and literary representations of the wall, Chapter 5 focuses on two films that examine critically the Israeli-built wall in the West Bank. The first, Mur (2004), directed by Simone Bitton, juxtaposes rhetoric and image to interrogate official narratives of the wall. It shows the border to be a deceptive space and reveals the danger of letting the border speak for itself. The second, Five Broken Cameras (2011) by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi, questions the truth claims of documentaries, particularly the notion that the camera can produce a cohesive depiction of the border. Instead, filming the border is a process of constant interruption.Less
This chapter considers the problem of depicting the border on screen, and in particular the limits of the ability of an emerging genre of wall documentaries to expose the “reality” of borders in the region. In light of cinema studies scholarship on how documentaries construct truth claims, and studies of filmic and literary representations of the wall, Chapter 5 focuses on two films that examine critically the Israeli-built wall in the West Bank. The first, Mur (2004), directed by Simone Bitton, juxtaposes rhetoric and image to interrogate official narratives of the wall. It shows the border to be a deceptive space and reveals the danger of letting the border speak for itself. The second, Five Broken Cameras (2011) by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi, questions the truth claims of documentaries, particularly the notion that the camera can produce a cohesive depiction of the border. Instead, filming the border is a process of constant interruption.
John J. Mcgavin and Greg Walker
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198768616
- eISBN:
- 9780191821998
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198768616.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
This concluding chapter examines some of the striking complexities in the tacit contract entered into by audiences and players for the duration of a performance. It looks at the ways in which texts ...
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This concluding chapter examines some of the striking complexities in the tacit contract entered into by audiences and players for the duration of a performance. It looks at the ways in which texts cued spectators to respond to specific dramaturgical tropes and gambits and how audience response was itself a cause of potential anxieties for writers. It also draws together the different constructions of the spectator that the previous chapters have intimated, including the spectator’s sense of him or herself, and it adds another: the notion of an ideal spectator that each individual might have as a benchmark for their own experience. This builds up a layered account of the rich range of experiences involved in dramatic spectatorship in the period.Less
This concluding chapter examines some of the striking complexities in the tacit contract entered into by audiences and players for the duration of a performance. It looks at the ways in which texts cued spectators to respond to specific dramaturgical tropes and gambits and how audience response was itself a cause of potential anxieties for writers. It also draws together the different constructions of the spectator that the previous chapters have intimated, including the spectator’s sense of him or herself, and it adds another: the notion of an ideal spectator that each individual might have as a benchmark for their own experience. This builds up a layered account of the rich range of experiences involved in dramatic spectatorship in the period.
William R. Thompson and Leila Zakhirova
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- October 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190699680
- eISBN:
- 9780190909574
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190699680.003.0009
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics, Political Economy
No two system leaders were identical in their claims to being the most innovative states in their respective zones, eras, and periods of leadership. Nonetheless, three general categories emerge: ...
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No two system leaders were identical in their claims to being the most innovative states in their respective zones, eras, and periods of leadership. Nonetheless, three general categories emerge: maritime commercial leadership, a pushing of agrarian boundaries, and sustained industrial economic growth. Those that made breakthroughs in the latter category, of course, redefined the modern world. Frontiers were critically important in all four cases of system leadership (China, the Netherlands, Britain, and the United States), but not exactly in the same way. Major improvements in transportation/communication facilitated economic growth by making interactions more feasible and less expensive, although the importance of trade varied considerably. Expanding populations were a hallmark of all four cases, even if the scale of increase varied. Population growth and urbanization forced agriculture to become more efficient and provided labor for nonagricultural pursuits. Urban demands stimulated regional specialization, technological innovation, and energy intensification, expanding the size of domestic markets and contributing to scalar increases in production. Just how large those scalar increases were depended on the interactions among technological innovation, power-driven machinery, and energy transition. Yet no single change led automatically to technological leadership. While lead status was never gained by default, it helped to have few rivals. As more serious rivals emerged, technological leaderships became harder to maintain.Less
No two system leaders were identical in their claims to being the most innovative states in their respective zones, eras, and periods of leadership. Nonetheless, three general categories emerge: maritime commercial leadership, a pushing of agrarian boundaries, and sustained industrial economic growth. Those that made breakthroughs in the latter category, of course, redefined the modern world. Frontiers were critically important in all four cases of system leadership (China, the Netherlands, Britain, and the United States), but not exactly in the same way. Major improvements in transportation/communication facilitated economic growth by making interactions more feasible and less expensive, although the importance of trade varied considerably. Expanding populations were a hallmark of all four cases, even if the scale of increase varied. Population growth and urbanization forced agriculture to become more efficient and provided labor for nonagricultural pursuits. Urban demands stimulated regional specialization, technological innovation, and energy intensification, expanding the size of domestic markets and contributing to scalar increases in production. Just how large those scalar increases were depended on the interactions among technological innovation, power-driven machinery, and energy transition. Yet no single change led automatically to technological leadership. While lead status was never gained by default, it helped to have few rivals. As more serious rivals emerged, technological leaderships became harder to maintain.
John Orton and Tom Foxon
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199695829
- eISBN:
- 9780191748844
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199695829.003.0005
- Subject:
- Physics, History of Physics
Modified MBE growth methods include gas source MBE, the use of modulated beams and the use of surfactant molecules. Gas source MBE replaces solid source effusion cells with gaseous sources controlled ...
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Modified MBE growth methods include gas source MBE, the use of modulated beams and the use of surfactant molecules. Gas source MBE replaces solid source effusion cells with gaseous sources controlled with leak valves. These do not require the periodic replacement of source material which demands letting the vacuum system up to air. Modulated beam methods involve shutting off one or more beams for a short period during film growth (growth interrupts) to allow surface atoms to diffuse to surface sites, thus improving the quality of the surface and allowing growth at reduced substrate temperatures. Examples include migration-enhanced epitaxy (MEE), atomic layer epitaxy (ALE) and nucleation-enhanced epitaxy (NEE). Surfactant atoms are large compared to the species making up the growing crystal and are not incorporated in the film. However, they can have significant influence on the quality of the growth surface and, hence, on film quality.Less
Modified MBE growth methods include gas source MBE, the use of modulated beams and the use of surfactant molecules. Gas source MBE replaces solid source effusion cells with gaseous sources controlled with leak valves. These do not require the periodic replacement of source material which demands letting the vacuum system up to air. Modulated beam methods involve shutting off one or more beams for a short period during film growth (growth interrupts) to allow surface atoms to diffuse to surface sites, thus improving the quality of the surface and allowing growth at reduced substrate temperatures. Examples include migration-enhanced epitaxy (MEE), atomic layer epitaxy (ALE) and nucleation-enhanced epitaxy (NEE). Surfactant atoms are large compared to the species making up the growing crystal and are not incorporated in the film. However, they can have significant influence on the quality of the growth surface and, hence, on film quality.
Jiří Wackermann
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- June 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780199794607
- eISBN:
- 9780190654795
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199794607.003.0035
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Vision
A line segment, subdivided into smaller parts, appears longer than an undivided line segment of the same length. This phenomenon is known as “Oppel–Kundt illusion,” also named “illusion of ...
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A line segment, subdivided into smaller parts, appears longer than an undivided line segment of the same length. This phenomenon is known as “Oppel–Kundt illusion,” also named “illusion of interrupted extent” or “filled space illusion,” is a classic example of so-called “geometric-optical illusions.” It was described about 150 years ago but it is still insufficiently explored and not well understood. This chapter provides an overview of the research into the Oppel–Kundt illusion, summarizes the most important empirical findings and explanatory approaches, and points out relations to other illusory phenomena. The chapter also discusses results of recent original research.Less
A line segment, subdivided into smaller parts, appears longer than an undivided line segment of the same length. This phenomenon is known as “Oppel–Kundt illusion,” also named “illusion of interrupted extent” or “filled space illusion,” is a classic example of so-called “geometric-optical illusions.” It was described about 150 years ago but it is still insufficiently explored and not well understood. This chapter provides an overview of the research into the Oppel–Kundt illusion, summarizes the most important empirical findings and explanatory approaches, and points out relations to other illusory phenomena. The chapter also discusses results of recent original research.
Christina Zwarg
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- November 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780198866299
- eISBN:
- 9780191898457
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198866299.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 19th Century Literature
Du Bois borrows the idea of the interrupted lecture to develop his case study of Andrew Johnson in Black Reconstruction. Johnson represents the type of man that John Brown did not expect to find in ...
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Du Bois borrows the idea of the interrupted lecture to develop his case study of Andrew Johnson in Black Reconstruction. Johnson represents the type of man that John Brown did not expect to find in the slave-holding world: someone who began his political career by hating the aristocrats responsible for slavery. Du Bois finds a potential for cross-racial alliance in a famous Tennessee lecture where Johnson is interrupted and hailed as a “Moses” of the color line. Even though the record of the lecture also exhibits traces of Johnson’s well-known racial prejudice, Du Bois momentarily suspends judgment in an effort to invite his reader into an anarchic space. Johnson would later perversely brag to Douglass about this stunning encounter but Du Bois rehearses Johnson’s positive response to the demands of his audience in order to challenge his reader to “demand the impossible” for themselves: the black reconstruction of democracy.Less
Du Bois borrows the idea of the interrupted lecture to develop his case study of Andrew Johnson in Black Reconstruction. Johnson represents the type of man that John Brown did not expect to find in the slave-holding world: someone who began his political career by hating the aristocrats responsible for slavery. Du Bois finds a potential for cross-racial alliance in a famous Tennessee lecture where Johnson is interrupted and hailed as a “Moses” of the color line. Even though the record of the lecture also exhibits traces of Johnson’s well-known racial prejudice, Du Bois momentarily suspends judgment in an effort to invite his reader into an anarchic space. Johnson would later perversely brag to Douglass about this stunning encounter but Du Bois rehearses Johnson’s positive response to the demands of his audience in order to challenge his reader to “demand the impossible” for themselves: the black reconstruction of democracy.
