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Considering the 2022 film Nope, this essay pushes beyond indexical and ontological readings of blackness in film in order to consider how invisible forms of blackness—in particular, the labor of black film workers—are inscribed in the film text. It argues that the inscription of black labor and a reading of film as an effect of labor supply a reformulation of a deracinated film formalism. Mining Nope's self-reflexive gestures, the essay explores the film's reformulation of American film history and its navigation of the invisible and the spectacular as the limited forms of manifesting blackness in cinema.

This article summarizes literature focusing on social work roles in end-of-life care (EOLC) for persons experiencing homelessness. I conducted a scoping review drawing from the framework by Arksey and O'Malley (2005). Included articles were English language, peer-reviewed papers from MEDLINE, Social Work Abstracts, and Social Services Abstracts, published through to May 2018. I reviewed nonscholarly databases and conducted hand searches of reference lists. After applying inclusion criteria, I reviewed 21 articles in full. The selected articles revealed three themes: trusting relationships, collaboration and partnerships, and education, training, and knowledge. EOLC within the mainstream healthcare system holds assumptions that challenge adequate service to homeless populations. Incorporating social work into EOLC delivery can help address these gaps in the system.

AbstractThe landmark United States healthcare reform law – the Affordable Care Act – provides an opportunity to study the dynamics of implementation for complex, politically contentious policies. Matland's Ambiguity-Conflict Model suggests that bottom-up models will dominate in such cases. I exploit variation across states in the implementation of online health insurance marketplaces to test whether the federal- (top-down) or state-managed (bottom-up) implementation model produced better outcomes. Specifically, the study examines if state, federal or partnership exchanges were most effective at offering generous plans for consumers based on premiums, deductibles and copayments in 2014, the first year of operation. The results unambiguously indicate that state exchanges were most successful. The findings provide evidence for what Matland suspected – that bottom-up models, by providing more discretion to local implementers to adapt to contexts and build coalitions, are superior for high-conflict, high-ambiguity policies.