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Title: Sense and nonsense about race.
Creator: Alpenfels, Ethel Josephine, Johnson, Warren
Date Issued: 1957
Identifier: 677385, CFDT677385, ucf:5590
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/677385

Title: Race prejudice: A description of the various factors in racial animosities, discriminations, and conflicts, and the conditions under which these antagonisms are increased or eliminated.
Creator: Claessens, August
Date Issued: 1943
Identifier: 2683246, CFDT2683246, ucf:5054
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2683246

Title: ABC's of scapegoating: With a foreword.
Creator: Allport, Gordon W. (Gordon Willard)
Date Issued: c1943
Identifier: 1927548, CFDT1927548, ucf:4859
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/1927548

Title: Danger has alternatives.
Creator: Ferry, W. H. (Wilbur Hugh), Singer, J. David (Joel David)
Date Issued: 1960
Identifier: 2660251, CFDT2660251, ucf:4973
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2660251

Title: Socialism: World without race prejudice.
Creator: Haas, Eric, Socialist Labor Party
Date Issued: c1940
Identifier: 2700016, CFDT2700016, ucf:5147
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2700016

Title: Resistance against Fascist enslavement in South Africa: With a postscript for Americans.
Creator: Hunton, William Alphaeus
Date Issued: 1953
Identifier: 671324, CFDT671324, ucf:5540
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/671324

Title: Creating Constructs Through Categorization: Gender and Race.
Creator: Simpkins, Joshua, Carter, Shannon, Carter, James, Anthony, Amanda, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: In U.S. society, the systems of gender and race operate to privilege and oppress individuals based on their location within these systems. All of the interactions an individual experiences as they go about their day-to-day lives are shaped by these interlocking systems. As a result, there is an extensive body of sociological literature addressing how individuals in U.S. society are privileged and oppressed on the basis of their perceived membership in gender and race categories; however,...
Show moreIn U.S. society, the systems of gender and race operate to privilege and oppress individuals based on their location within these systems. All of the interactions an individual experiences as they go about their day-to-day lives are shaped by these interlocking systems. As a result, there is an extensive body of sociological literature addressing how individuals in U.S. society are privileged and oppressed on the basis of their perceived membership in gender and race categories; however, relatively little research exists examining how individuals come to be seen by others as members of gender and race categories in the first place. In order to address this gap in the existent literature, this thesis asked 354 participants to perform gender and race categorizations for 28 target individuals of various gender and race category memberships. Participants were asked to make a categorization, rate how confident they were in that categorizations accuracy, and then explain why they made the gender or race categorization that they did. In analyzing these categorizations, this thesis produced three important findings about the process of gender and race categorization. First, this thesis identified two gender categories ("female" and "male") and eight race categories ("White," " Black," "Latino," "Asian," "Southeast Asian," "South Asian/Indian," "Middle Eastern," and "Mixed Race") used in gender and race categorization. Second, particularly in the common usage of the biologically-based concepts of "sex" and "race," rather than the socially-based concepts of "gender" and "ethnicity." Third, this thesis found interactions between the gender and race systems in categorization, finding that White individuals and male individuals are gender categorized more easily than Black individuals or female individuals, and individuals will less "ambiguous" skin coloration are more easily categorized than others.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: CFE0005259, ucf:50610
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0005259

Title: The Latina/o Student's Experience in Social Studies: A Phenomenological Study of Eighth Grade Students.
Creator: Busey, Christopher, Russell, William, Cintron Delgado, Rosa, Owens, James, Hopp, Carolyn, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: The purpose of this research investigation was to explore the experiences of eighth-grade Latina/o students in a large, urban school in the Southeastern United States. Overall, the study uncovered the essence of the Latino/a student experience in social studies and furthermore revealed that social studies is not meeting the needs of Latino students. Using phenomenology as a method of research, two interviews were conducted with twelve research participants who were selected through purposive...
Show moreThe purpose of this research investigation was to explore the experiences of eighth-grade Latina/o students in a large, urban school in the Southeastern United States. Overall, the study uncovered the essence of the Latino/a student experience in social studies and furthermore revealed that social studies is not meeting the needs of Latino students. Using phenomenology as a method of research, two interviews were conducted with twelve research participants who were selected through purposive sampling. In addition to the interviews, students wrote narratives and drew images as a form of data triangulation. The goal was to give students various methods for relaying their experiences. Data were analyzed using suggested methods of analysis by Moustakas (1994) and Creswell (2007).Using Critical Race Theory and Latino Critical Race Theory as a framework, results revealed that students experienced middle school social studies through the lens of race. Students felt oppressed by the curriculum and textbook due to the fact that culturally responsive teaching practices were primarily absent, diversity was presented only through a Black-White dichotomy, and the social studies curriculum was dominated by notions of White supremacy. Latina/o students experienced a curriculum that was boring as a result of teachers who were boring. Students validated the use of Critical Race Theory and Latino Critical Race Theory as a framework for educational research at the middle school level.In all, this research investigation fills a void in social studies research. The voices and experiences of Latino learners in social studies have been absent in social studies research. Educators can use this research study to alter the approaches to the social studies curriculum for the betterment of our culturally diverse learners.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: CFE0004825, ucf:49738
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0004825

Title: THE EFFECT OF RACE ON PARENTS' INTENT TO VACCINATE THEIR CHILDREN AGAINST HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS.
Creator: Ruiz Aguilar, Ariana L, Weiss, Josie, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a sexually transmitted disease that often presents as genital warts, but may also lead to cancers, including those of the vagina, penis, mouth and tonsils. Despite three vaccines being currently available to prevent HPV, the HPV vaccine retains a low national average vaccination rate when compared to the Tetanus-Diptheria- Pertussis (Tdap) vaccine. Considering the need for improvement it is important to identify factors that may be contributing to this low...
Show moreHuman papillomavirus (HPV) is a sexually transmitted disease that often presents as genital warts, but may also lead to cancers, including those of the vagina, penis, mouth and tonsils. Despite three vaccines being currently available to prevent HPV, the HPV vaccine retains a low national average vaccination rate when compared to the Tetanus-Diptheria- Pertussis (Tdap) vaccine. Considering the need for improvement it is important to identify factors that may be contributing to this low national immunization rate, one of them being parental race. The purpose of this literature review is to identify whether race affects parents' intent to vaccinate their children against HPV. A database search of CINAHL Plus with Full Text, MEDLINE, and PsycINFO was conducted and a total of 13 articles were reviewed based on the relevance to the purpose of the literature review. While racial differences were noted, there were other factors that also affect a parent's intent to vaccinate their children against HPV. There is more research to be done when looking at how race may independently affect a parent's intent to vaccinate their children against HPV.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: CFH2000304, ucf:45849
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH2000304

Title: THE PERCEPTION OF HOMELESS PEOPLE: IMPORTANT FACTORS IN DETERMINING PERCEPTIONS OF THE HOMELESS AS DANGEROUS.
Creator: Donley, Amy, Wright, James, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: This study uses two quantitative and two qualitative data sources to determine if homeless people are viewed as dangerous and if they are what factors contribute to this perception. Areas examined are respondent's characteristics, media affects and the perceived rights of homeless people to urban space. Actual levels of perpetration among the homeless are examined to allow for comparisons between perception and reality to be made. Findings showed that race plays a major role in the...
Show moreThis study uses two quantitative and two qualitative data sources to determine if homeless people are viewed as dangerous and if they are what factors contribute to this perception. Areas examined are respondent's characteristics, media affects and the perceived rights of homeless people to urban space. Actual levels of perpetration among the homeless are examined to allow for comparisons between perception and reality to be made. Findings showed that race plays a major role in the perception of homeless peo-ple among whites, while gender is more influential among blacks. There was no rela-tionship between media and perceptions. A negative relationship was found between support of rights of the homeless and the perception that they are dangerous. While the homeless have higher incarceration rate as compared to the poor-but-never-homeless, the crimes for which they are sentenced appear to be non-violent in nature and are of-ten what are characterized as nuisance crimes. Recommendations were made to study actual perpetration rates among the homeless to allow for a more in-depth analysis of criminal involvement.
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Date Issued: 2008
Identifier: CFE0002261, ucf:47846
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0002261

Title: The struggle against white chauvinism: Outline for discussion and study guide for schools, classes, study groups.
Creator: Communist Party of the United States of America National Education Department
Date Issued: 1949
Identifier: 671282, CFDT671282, ucf:5532
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/671282

Title: THE DRIVING FORCE: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF GANG-MOTIVATED, FIREARM-RELATED HOMICIDES.
Creator: Polczynski, Christa, Huff-Corzine, Lin, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: The knowledge of gang homicides is constantly increasing, but one aspect of gangs rarely studied is drive-by shootings (Dedel 2007; Hutson, Anglin, and Pratts 1994; Hutson, Anglin, and Eckstein 1996; Polczynski 2007; Sanders 1994; Sugarmann and Newth 2007). In this paper are comparative analyses of gang-motivated, firearm-related homicides perpetrated through a drive-by shooting to those which are not perpetrated through a drive-by shooting, by spatial and regression analyses. The data used...
Show moreThe knowledge of gang homicides is constantly increasing, but one aspect of gangs rarely studied is drive-by shootings (Dedel 2007; Hutson, Anglin, and Pratts 1994; Hutson, Anglin, and Eckstein 1996; Polczynski 2007; Sanders 1994; Sugarmann and Newth 2007). In this paper are comparative analyses of gang-motivated, firearm-related homicides perpetrated through a drive-by shooting to those which are not perpetrated through a drive-by shooting, by spatial and regression analyses. The data used for the analyses are a combination of incident variables, such as victim, offender, and incident characteristics, as well as social and economic characteristics of the communities in which the homicides occurred for a 31 year time period in Chicago. The findings indicate that there are differences in the characteristics and spatial location of gang-motivated, firearm-related homicides whether perpetrated through a drive-by shooting or by some other means. Based on the findings there may be policy implementations that are available in order to reduce the likelihood of a gang-motivated drive-by shooting.
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Date Issued: 2009
Identifier: CFE0002524, ucf:47635
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0002524

Title: TESTING BIAS IN THE OCCUPATIONAL INTERVIEW: A PILOT STUDY ON RACIAL DISCRIMINATION.
Creator: Presley, Brandon, Lynxwiler, John, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: The purpose of this study is to determine the possibility of the occupational interview utilizing tests that prove to be bias towards one particular race or another. This study is a pilot study and represents the first step in developing a more extensive research design to examine testing bias within the occupational employment interview setting. Ten black students and ten white students are asked to complete two types of occupational interview samples. Those samples are then reviewed by two...
Show moreThe purpose of this study is to determine the possibility of the occupational interview utilizing tests that prove to be bias towards one particular race or another. This study is a pilot study and represents the first step in developing a more extensive research design to examine testing bias within the occupational employment interview setting. Ten black students and ten white students are asked to complete two types of occupational interview samples. Those samples are then reviewed by two black hiring managers and two white hiring managers. The results are examined to determine if one test had a greater impact on the manager's hiring decisions. The findings indicate that when compared to the unstructured interview, the structured interview was associated with less bias in the hiring selection. From the data reviewed, possible limitations and future research was discussed.
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Date Issued: 2009
Identifier: CFE0002780, ucf:48107
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0002780

Title: STUDENT PERCEPTIONS OF RACE AND GENDER REPRESENTATIONS WITHIN COLLEGE TEXTBOOKS.
Creator: Blankenship, Chastity, Grauerholz, Dr. Elizabeth, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: This study examines introductory textbooks images across a variety of disciplines, with particular focus on the ways in which race and gender are shown. This study goes beyond a basic analysis of textbooks, however, and also explores student perceptions of textbook images. My data show that compartmentalization of gender and race into certain themes still occurs within some textbooks. Specifically, white men were more likely to be depicted as hard workers and contributors to the field than...
Show moreThis study examines introductory textbooks images across a variety of disciplines, with particular focus on the ways in which race and gender are shown. This study goes beyond a basic analysis of textbooks, however, and also explores student perceptions of textbook images. My data show that compartmentalization of gender and race into certain themes still occurs within some textbooks. Specifically, white men were more likely to be depicted as hard workers and contributors to the field than any other race and gender. Despite these results, students seemed mixed on the importance of textbook images with many students focused on the extent their textbook was useful for class.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: CFE0003878, ucf:48714
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0003878

Title: Martin Cenquizqui.
Creator: Guillen, Christina, Nwakanma, Obi, Rios, Gabriela, Milanes, Cecilia, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: The historical novel, Cort(&)#233;s Cenquizqui, set in sixteenth century Mexico and Spain, follows the conflicted lives and minds of several characters through an age of freshly crossing culture, language, and power. The narrator, Maria de Quesada of high ranking Spanish and Mexica parents, resents the white world for condemning her work as a female healer or curandera. Yet she acknowledges that she is ill-equipped to leave Mexico City to live in the outlying Indigenous villages. Maria...
Show moreThe historical novel, Cort(&)#233;s Cenquizqui, set in sixteenth century Mexico and Spain, follows the conflicted lives and minds of several characters through an age of freshly crossing culture, language, and power. The narrator, Maria de Quesada of high ranking Spanish and Mexica parents, resents the white world for condemning her work as a female healer or curandera. Yet she acknowledges that she is ill-equipped to leave Mexico City to live in the outlying Indigenous villages. Maria recalls the tale of her three brothers who were caught in a web of pride and prejudices. Her interjections throughout shed light on questions of feminism, nationalism, identity, diversity, love, and queerness. Her tragic story leaves the reader with an understanding of the outsider and of hopeful possibilities for the future.This novel calls on a biblical passage and historical documentation. Page 39 and 191 are examples of the biblical passage and documented speech from historical persons used within the literary context of this work.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: CFE0005176, ucf:50657
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0005176

Title: An investigation into the use of grade retention as an intervention strategy in Volusia County, Florida.
Creator: Porter, Wesley, Murray, Barbara, Murray, Kenneth, Doherty, Walter, Baldwin, Lee, Lindsley, Boyd, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: This study was conducted to analyze the performance of 1,493 students in Volusia County from 2003 to 2010, comparing ethnic and socio-economic groups, who had been retained a minimum of one time while enrolled from third grade through 10th grade. This study utilized the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) Reading and Mathematic Developmental Test Scale Scores to evaluate student improvement. The groups compared in this study include Black, White and Hispanic students. Higher and...
Show moreThis study was conducted to analyze the performance of 1,493 students in Volusia County from 2003 to 2010, comparing ethnic and socio-economic groups, who had been retained a minimum of one time while enrolled from third grade through 10th grade. This study utilized the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) Reading and Mathematic Developmental Test Scale Scores to evaluate student improvement. The groups compared in this study include Black, White and Hispanic students. Higher and lower socio-economic (SES) rates of retention were investigated for the entire population of retained students in Volusia County from 2003-2010. The groups were compared to see if there was a significant difference between each group being retained once, twice, or three or more times.
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Date Issued: 2016
Identifier: CFE0006377, ucf:51500
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0006377

Title: Attitudinal Trends in Support for Police Use of Force Before and After Ferguson.
Creator: Dennison, TaShanda, Donley, Amy, Reckdenwald, Amy, Gay, David, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: Since the 2014 death of an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown by a white Fergusonpolice officer, there has been a string of similar incidents that have occurred in a relatively shortperiod of time. These high profile incidents of police officers using questionable amounts offorce have shaken public trust in law enforcement. Studies have shown that public confidence inlaw enforcement often erodes drastically following heavily publicized, controversial mediareports of police misconduct (Tuch...
Show moreSince the 2014 death of an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown by a white Fergusonpolice officer, there has been a string of similar incidents that have occurred in a relatively shortperiod of time. These high profile incidents of police officers using questionable amounts offorce have shaken public trust in law enforcement. Studies have shown that public confidence inlaw enforcement often erodes drastically following heavily publicized, controversial mediareports of police misconduct (Tuch and Weitzer 1997; Weitzer 2002). The current levels ofpublic outrage in response to allegations of police brutality have surpassed the levels of outragethat followed similar, highly publicized incidents in previous decades (Lawrence 2000; Weitzer2015). Scholar suggest that recent events, may have a longer-term impact than those in previousdecades (Lawrence 2000; Weitzer 2002). This study seeks to extend the current literature oncitizens' interpretations of police violence and how, if at all it is impacted by highly-publicizedincident of police misconduct. Specifically, the current research uses a national sample tocompare citizens' endorsement of police use of force before and after the 2014 death of MichaelBrown. Overall, the results from a series of logistic regression analyses found that publicattitudes toward police use of force are multifaceted and are shaped by a variety of individualand contextual level variables. Race/ethnicity was determined to be the strongest predictor ofcitizens' endorsement for police violence. It was also revealed that attitudinal support variesdepending on the situational-context surrounding police/citizen interactions.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: CFE0006992, ucf:51616
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0006992

Title: THE SOCIOPOLITICAL CONSTRUCTION OF RACE AND LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF THE BIRACIAL SUBJECT.
Creator: Fontenot, Kara, Casmier-Paz, Lynn, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: Twentieth-century American literature incorporates interracial and biracial themes that bring to light the often unnamed and unrecognized biracial identities of many Americans. Unfortunately, despite the potential value for a deeper understanding of the construction of race, these themes have seldom been seriously considered in the context of reevaluating the nature of the system that creates racial labels and categories until the recent emergence of postmodern critical theories. This thesis...
Show moreTwentieth-century American literature incorporates interracial and biracial themes that bring to light the often unnamed and unrecognized biracial identities of many Americans. Unfortunately, despite the potential value for a deeper understanding of the construction of race, these themes have seldom been seriously considered in the context of reevaluating the nature of the system that creates racial labels and categories until the recent emergence of postmodern critical theories. This thesis examines the black-white interracial themes and biracial protagonists in Nella Larsen's Quicksand (1928) and Danzy Senna's Caucasia (1998) in order to explore the texts' representations of systems of hegemonic power that create racial labels and categories. I discuss the binary sociopolitical construction of race in the United States (black-white) and the complexity of biracial identities as a foundation for my examination of literary representations of biracial subjectivity, racial passing, primitive exoticism, and the intersections between race, class and gender. I conclude that a study of the interracial theme in literature is a dive into the chasm between margin and center, the enunciative split between the binary racial signifiers black and white. Therefore, representations of biracial subjectivity provide a unique vantage point for surveillance of the complexities of the human struggle to gain and maintain power.
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Date Issued: 2006
Identifier: CFE0001361, ucf:46976
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0001361

Title: America's racist laws.
Creator: Aptheker, Herbert
Date Issued: 1952
Identifier: 367822, CFDT367822, ucf:5343
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/367822

Title: PREDICTORS OF PERCEIVING RACISM IN AMBIGUOUS SITUATIONS.
Creator: Marino, Teresa, Negy, Charles, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: The present study used a mixed-experimental analog design to examine 858 undergraduate students' reactions to a scenario depicting a store clerk being mildly rude to a customer. The ethnicity of the clerk and customer were manipulated. Results indicated that participants' beliefs regarding the general prevalence of racism and the degree to which they identify with their respective ethnic group significantly predicted the extent to which they perceived the clerk's behavior as being racially...
Show moreThe present study used a mixed-experimental analog design to examine 858 undergraduate students' reactions to a scenario depicting a store clerk being mildly rude to a customer. The ethnicity of the clerk and customer were manipulated. Results indicated that participants' beliefs regarding the general prevalence of racism and the degree to which they identify with their respective ethnic group significantly predicted the extent to which they perceived the clerk's behavior as being racially motivated. It also was found that participants' beliefs regarding the general prevalence of racism, levels of cynicism, and attributional style significantly predicted the extent to which they perceived the clerk's behavior as unjust. Moreover, participants' beliefs regarding the general prevalence of racism, levels of cynicism, self-esteem, and symptoms of depression significantly predicted the extent to which they considered the clerk's behavior as a common occurrence. Finally, participants judged the clerk's behavior to be significantly more racially motivated when the clerk was White and the customer was Hispanic or African American than when the clerk was Hispanic or African American and the customer was White. This last finding was robust for White, Latino and African American participants. Implications of the findings are discussed.
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Date Issued: 2006
Identifier: CFE0000932, ucf:46727
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0000932

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