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Title: An Early Breakfast on a "Dinah".
Date Created: 1861
Identifier: DP0012816_a
Format: Set of related objects
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0012816_a

Title: Durham tobacco.
Date Created: 1840-1880
Identifier: DP0015391
Format: Image (JPEG)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0015391

Title: Park scene of well dressed freedmen.
Date Created: 1800s
Identifier: DP0015386
Format: Image (JPEG)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0015386

Title: MAMMY.
Date Created: 1930s
Identifier: DP0015356
Format: Image (JPEG)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0015356

Title: Aunty.
Date Created: 1940s
Identifier: DP0015368
Format: Image (JPEG)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0015368

Title: The rising sun stove polish.
Date Created: 1885-1895
Identifier: DP0015355
Format: E-book
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0015355

Title: Honey, does yo lub yo man?.
Date Created: 1897
Identifier: DP0015451
Format: Set of related objects
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0015451

Title: Sapolio, Enoch Morgan & Sons.
Date Created: 1880s
Identifier: DP0015445
Format: E-book
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0015445

Title: GOING NATURAL: AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN AND THEIR HAIR.
Creator: Dennis, Brittney, Gay, David, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: The study seeks to gain a better understanding of the term "going natural" in regards to women with natural African American hair. The study also seeks to understand natural hair and reclaiming a positive perspective of acceptance and natural appearance. The study will give light to what it is to have natural hair in present day and calls upon the experience of the Black woman on her journey with her hair and her past.
Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: CFH0004278, ucf:44964
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0004278

Title: Portrait of a young African American female.
Date Created: 1861-1865
Identifier: DP0012820
Format: Image (JPEG)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0012820

Title: Portrait of an elderly African American female.
Identifier: DP0012818
Format: Image (JPEG)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0012818

Title: States and their capitals: Complete new song with words and music.
Creator: Blunt, Mary M.
Identifier: DP0016476
Format: E-book
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0016476

Title: SEXUAL ASSAULT ON COLLEGE AGED WOMEN: INTERSECTIONALITY MATTERS.
Creator: Comeau, Dhaneen D, Hinojosa, Melanie, Reckdenwald, Amy, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: Sexual assault on college campuses is a pervasive issue that continues to affect women from a variety of backgrounds. Unfortunately, the narratives of women of color, especially black women are often marginalized even though data shows that they tend to be more susceptible to sexual assault. Using survey questions concerning traditional gender roles, and situations of sexual assault (while considering race and gender), this study will measure the attitudes of 300 college-aged individuals....
Show moreSexual assault on college campuses is a pervasive issue that continues to affect women from a variety of backgrounds. Unfortunately, the narratives of women of color, especially black women are often marginalized even though data shows that they tend to be more susceptible to sexual assault. Using survey questions concerning traditional gender roles, and situations of sexual assault (while considering race and gender), this study will measure the attitudes of 300 college-aged individuals. Data will be analyzed using an ANOVA test to study the combined effects that race and gender may have on the respondents' perception of victims. Historically, African American/black women have faced unique stereotypes about their sexuality that dehumanizes and normalizes sexual aggression towards them. This study aims to explore perceptions about sexual assault as it relates to college-age black women and expand the scope of research currently being done on victimization.
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Date Issued: 2017
Identifier: CFH0000230, ucf:44679
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0000230

Title: Ole Virginia Hickory Chips.
Date Created: 1940s
Identifier: DP0015371
Format: Set of related objects
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0015371

Title: Max Stadler & Co., Leading Clothiers.
Date Created: 1884
Identifier: DP0015447
Format: Set of related objects
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0015447

Title: Club Plantation Souvenir Menu.
Date Created: 1940s
Identifier: DP0015351
Format: E-book
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0015351

Title: Lonely Monsters.
Creator: Davis, Patricia, Rushin, Pat, Thaxton, Terry, Neal, Mary, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: Lonely Monsters is a full-length feature screenplay that explores the ways in which a classic damsel narrative may be reconsidered. It offers ideas on how death and girlhood may find symmetry. The characters within Lonely Monsters deal with loss, identity of the self versus the world's ideas on self-identity, place, gender, and class. Utilizing the elements of a fairy tale, the narrative seeks to complicate the roles of gender in a cautionary tale. Set in the fictional Florida town of Puerto...
Show moreLonely Monsters is a full-length feature screenplay that explores the ways in which a classic damsel narrative may be reconsidered. It offers ideas on how death and girlhood may find symmetry. The characters within Lonely Monsters deal with loss, identity of the self versus the world's ideas on self-identity, place, gender, and class. Utilizing the elements of a fairy tale, the narrative seeks to complicate the roles of gender in a cautionary tale. Set in the fictional Florida town of Puerto Palmera, an economic divide between the Estates and the Glades makes for a ripe, troublesome environment for a foul modern-day aristocrat who masquerades as a grandiose and romantic prince. The story's protagonist, Fisher Franklin, loses two key relationships(-)as well as her sound mind(-)in the wake of the false prince's folly. Utilizing her experiences as a child within the lavish lives of the Estates(-)at the desire of a wealthy and secretive benefactor with motives of her own(-)Fisher creates a persona who becomes entangled in a lustful and dangerous liaison with Wyatt Sharpe, the villainous playboy. By assuming this persona, Fisher recasts herself as the damsel, the monster, and the heroine.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: CFE0005600, ucf:50232
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0005600

Title: MIXED SIGNALS AT THE INTERSECTION: THE EFFECT OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMPOSITION ON RATINGS OF BLACK WOMEN'S MANAGEMENT SUITABILITY.
Creator: Bowens, Laticia, Fritzsche, Ph.D., Barbara, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: Historically, Black women's workplace experiences have been understudied, partially due to an implicit assumption that their experiences are subsumed by research on Black men and/or White women. This oversight is even more evident in the field of management. However, considerable attention has been given to the debate about whether Black women are at a double advantage (i.e., as supposed affirmative action "two-for-one bargains") or at a double disadvantage due to their double marginalizing...
Show moreHistorically, Black women's workplace experiences have been understudied, partially due to an implicit assumption that their experiences are subsumed by research on Black men and/or White women. This oversight is even more evident in the field of management. However, considerable attention has been given to the debate about whether Black women are at a double advantage (i.e., as supposed affirmative action "two-for-one bargains") or at a double disadvantage due to their double marginalizing characteristics. Empirical research in the area has found support for each side, furthering the debate, but also advancing an overly simplistic explanation for a set of experiences that is certainly much more complicated. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the conditions under which Black women, when seeking managerial employment, are at a double advantage or disadvantage, using Critical Race Feminism, Cox's Interactional Model of Cultural Diversity (IMCD; 1994), and theories of social categorization as the theoretical foundation. A 2 (sex) x 2 (race) x 2 (demographic composition of the workplace) between-subjects design was used to test the hypotheses that the Black female applicant would have a double disadvantage in a more demographically balanced organization and double advantage in an organization that is more White and male. Participants (N = 361) reviewed information about an organization (where demographic composition was manipulated) and three available management positions. They also reviewed a fictional professional networking profile of a job applicant where race and sex were manipulated through photos, and job qualifications and experience were held constant. Based on all of the information, they rated the applicant on his/her suitability for the jobs. Results of planned contrasts and ANOVAs showed partial support for the hypotheses. In the balanced organization, the Black female applicant was rated lower in suitability for entry-level management than the Black male and White female applicants. Likewise, she was rated higher than the Black male and White female applicants in the less diverse organization, when evaluated for upper-level management. Thus, the study clarifies the theories of double advantage and double disadvantage by identifying organizational composition as a moderator of the relationship between applicant race/sex and employment outcomes (i.e., management suitability ratings). The implications of these findings are discussed.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: CFE0003761, ucf:48761
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0003761

Title: THE OPPRESSION AND SEXISM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN: THEN AND NOWSUBSTANTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HISTORY OF MUSICAL THEATRE.
Creator: Owens, Kelli, Weaver, Earl, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: A wise Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "Freedom is never given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed (King 1)." For as long as men and women have shared the planet, sexism has been a universal issue in civilization. In a social justice context, American society has found ways to oppress people for centuries. The Oxford Dictionary defines sexism as a "prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex ("sexism")." Voting rights in...
Show moreA wise Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "Freedom is never given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed (King 1)." For as long as men and women have shared the planet, sexism has been a universal issue in civilization. In a social justice context, American society has found ways to oppress people for centuries. The Oxford Dictionary defines sexism as a "prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex ("sexism")." Voting rights in America were established in 1790, but it took years of petitioning at various women's rights conventions before the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution stating "the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex" was passed in 1920 ("Nineteenth Amendment"). Traditionally, men were supposed to be the strong, decisive, driven, courageous, money-making breed, while women were expected to be the nurturing, affectionate, weak subordinates. Today, we find men and women working in careers previously linked with sexism; men as nurses and teachers, women as CEOs and factory workers. Statistics show that today there are an increasing number of women providing the financial support in their families. As with sexism, people also have been oppressed by racism for centuries. According to The Oxford Dictionary, racism is defined as a "prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior ("racism")." It has been argued that African Americans have been one of the most oppressed groups in America. Even after they were emancipated in 1865, it was nearly one hundred years later that their rights were protected with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Before the act's passing, African Americans were denied equal education, employment, housing property, and a political voice. My interest in this topic was peaked right around the same time I became interested in performing on the musical theatre stage. I got my start in local community theatres, and up until college, was the only African American cast in the productions. I started playing multiple ensemble roles per show, and throughout the years advanced myself to "supporting character" but never the lead. Admittedly, there were times when I wasn't as talented as the women who snagged the leading roles, but many a time when I was just as talented or more qualified for the role, it went to another woman —most times of Caucasian descent. What did they have that I didn't have? When I got accepted into The University of Central Florida as a BFA Musical Theatre student, I auditioned for the plays and musicals every semester, and each season I began to see the same patterns of who was cast for each show. Roles I thought I would get often went to White actors. I felt victimized in this modern-day example of racism. But racism goes beyond black and White. Internal racism between the light-skinned and dark-skinned African American women I was competing with became a factor as well. There were many times when an audition notice called for an African American woman; however, an unsettling trend became very apparent to me; if the casting description was for a maid, or something of that nature, larger, dark-skinned women would get the majority of the callbacks, which would lead to them getting cast. On the flip side, if an audition notice called for an African American ingenue type, more of the slimmer, lighter-skinned women were called back and later cast. Has American society cast a racial stigma for African American beauty?
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: CFH0004545, ucf:45211
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0004545

Title: "ANIMAL-LIKE AND DEPRAVED": RACIST STEREOTYPES, COMMERCIAL SEX, AND BLACK WOMEN'S IDENTITY IN NEW ORLEANS, 1825-1917.
Creator: Dossie, Porsha, Lester, Connie, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: My objective with this thesis is to understand how racist stereotypes and myths compounded the sale of fair-skinned black women during and after the slave trade in New Orleans, Louisiana. This commodification of black women's bodies continued well into the twentieth century, notably in New Orleans' vice district of Storyville. Called "quadroons" (a person with 1/4 African ancestry) and "octoroons" (1/8 African ancestry), these women were known for their "sexual prowess" and drew in a large...
Show moreMy objective with this thesis is to understand how racist stereotypes and myths compounded the sale of fair-skinned black women during and after the slave trade in New Orleans, Louisiana. This commodification of black women's bodies continued well into the twentieth century, notably in New Orleans' vice district of Storyville. Called "quadroons" (a person with 1/4 African ancestry) and "octoroons" (1/8 African ancestry), these women were known for their "sexual prowess" and drew in a large number of patrons. The existence of "white passing" black women complicated ideas about race and racial purity in the South. Race as a myth and social construct, or as Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham explains in her essay, African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race, a "metalanguage" exposes race not as a genetic fact, but rather a physical appearance through which power relations and status were to be conferred. My methodology uses race and gender theory to analyze primary and secondary sources to understand and contextualize how population demographics, myths, and liberal 18th century colonial laws contributed to the sale of black women's bodies. The works of Emily Clark, Walter Johnson, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall and other historians who utilize Atlantic history have been paramount in my research. Emily Clark has transformed the "white-black" women from a tragic, sexualized trope into a fully actualized human being, while Hall has tackled the racist underpinnings inherent in the neglect of black women's history. The writings of bell hooks, particularly her essay Eating the Other, establishes the modern day commodification of black women vis-a-vis their representation in media, as well as through the fetishism of their bodies by a white patriarchal system. During slavery plantation owners could do virtually anything they wanted with their property, including engaging in sexual intercourse. By depicting black women as hypersexual jezebels, they could justify their rape, while establishing their dominance and place in the white male hegemony of that time period. For the right price a white male of a lesser class could achieve the same thing at a brothel down in Storyville at the turn of the twentieth century, for as Emily Clark argues in her book, The Strange History of the American Quadroon, these brothels were a great equalizer, allowing all white men to experience "sexual mastery enjoyed only by elite planters before the Civil War." By democratizing white supremacy, the quadroon and others like her forged solidarity that bridge across all classes, while upholding whiteness and oppressing people of color at the same time.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: CFH0004652, ucf:45310
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0004652

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