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Examining black 'transness' through contemporary media

7/16/2015 by : H. Roger Segelken , Cornell Chronicle

For C. Riley Snorton, assistant professor of Africana studies and of feminist, gender and sexuality studies in Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences, winning a coveted National Endowment for the Humanities-Schomburg Center Scholar-in-Residence fellowship is the chance of a lifetime. He will examine a topic that has intrigued him since college, when he first self-identified as a transgender person – and write a book about it.

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Re-examining the 'first impressions' adage

6/12/2015 by : H. Roger Segelken , Cornell Chronicle

What does it take to reverse a first impression? Cornell researchers were especially interested in implicit impressions – rapidly and uncontrollably activated positive and negative evaluations of others. Implicit impressions are assumed to be very difficult to revise.