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In a 2003 study, we examined five antecedents of school shootings – a history of rejection, acute rejection experience, history of psychological problems, fascination with death or violence, and fascination with guns. In three studies, the current project examined the role of these factors in 57 K-12 shootings, 24 college/university shootings, and 77 mass shootings that occurred since the original study. Over half of all shooters had a history of psychological problems. More K-12 shooters than college or mass shooters displayed a history of rejection. However, more mass than school shooters had experienced an acute rejection, such as a workplace firing. The characteristics identified in the original study appeared as common antecedent conditions of not only K-12 shootings but college/university and mass shootings as well. These results identify problems that can be addressed to minimize the occurrence of school and mass shootings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article applies Jungian psychology to the film Get Out (2017), written and directed by Jordan Peele. It examines American culture, race, and racism issues through the conceptual lenses of complexes, archetypes, and personal myth. The movie is organized into a series of chapters exploring psychological, racial complexes: the complex of being the objectified other, the complex of not being other enough, and the complex of otherness and annihilation. The article then considers personal myth and the presence of invisible otherness in the lives of both Jung and Peele. The author places emphasis on the necessity and responsibility of the other as a disrupter and developer of personal and cultural individuation, and proposes the development of an archetype of otherness through the arts, Archetype X. The naming of this new archetype opens a way for the marginalized to begin to be seen, to create a home in which to place themselves and to belong. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Very few early cookbooks have survived a fragile archive in a West Indian context and, to this day, West Indians tend to eschew written or printed recipes in favour of individual culinary improvisation and/or oral family traditions. This article discusses the light shed by an early West Indian cookbook on an often-overlooked minority tradition of written recipes produced by and for the “white elite” Euro-Creole and colonial expatriate community of Barbados. The text reveals much about the culinary and material culture and codes of a colonial society starkly divided along class, gender and racial lines, and about an elite eager to gain cultural and culinary capital and to consume material goods as a sign of upward social mobility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A review of the article "Translation and food: The case of mestizo writers" by Ma Carmen Africa Vidal Claramonte and Pamela Faber which appeared in the periodical "Journal of Multicultural Discourses" is persented.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including cosmopolitanism, Indian author Mulk Raj Anan's novel "Untouchable", and issues of race and sexuality in relation to colonialism.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses the contents within the issue, including articles on topics such as the depiction of the centrality of food in literature and motion pictures; politics of the colonial and postcolonial cookbooks; and the film "The Lunchbox" by Ritesh Batra.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including global modernisms, magical realism, and colonial discourses in India.

The article discusses various reports published within the issue including one about contemporary poetry, another one about the ameliorative dimension of art, and about the conflict within geopolitical structures and institutions during and after decolonization.

The article discusses various reports published within the issue, including one by Matthew Mead on immigration in Great Britain after World War II, one by Simon Lewis on slavery in Charleston, South Carolina, and one by Anthony Carrigan on tourism in Hawaii.