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LET'S GIVE THEM SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT: EXPLORING RACISM AND RACIAL TENSIONS AS POTENTIAL FACE THREATS IN BLACK AND WHITE INTERRACIAL RELATIONSHIPS.
Title
LET'S GIVE THEM SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT: EXPLORING RACISM AND RACIAL TENSIONS AS POTENTIAL FACE THREATS IN BLACK AND WHITE INTERRACIAL RELATIONSHIPS.
Creator
Castle, Gina, Hastings, Sally O., University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
This study examined how racism and racial tensions potentially threatened the face needs of Black and White interracial couples. Specifically, this study investigated the benefit of family approval of one's interracial relationship. Couples use of corrective face work in response to prejudice was also examined. This research used a qualitative, interpretive method to gather and analyze data from 14 personal interviews. The interview schedule enabled interviewees to use storytelling to...
Show moreThis study examined how racism and racial tensions potentially threatened the face needs of Black and White interracial couples. Specifically, this study investigated the benefit of family approval of one's interracial relationship. Couples use of corrective face work in response to prejudice was also examined. This research used a qualitative, interpretive method to gather and analyze data from 14 personal interviews. The interview schedule enabled interviewees to use storytelling to share their experience of being in a Black and White interracial relationship. Interviewees were asked questions surrounding their experience as the partner in an interracial relationship. Couples shared how they told their family that their romantic partner was a different race and shared how they encountered prejudice when they are out in public. Further, they spoke about how people stare at them and make comments about their interracial relationship. The data underwent a thematic analysis (Owen, 1984) where I reviewed the data and searched for themes that were recurrent and repeated by interviewees. There were several themes that emerged. First, the very presence of racial tensions and racism affects interracial couples. Second, family support seemed to mitigate threats to couples' positive and negative faces and enabled couples to engage in open and honest dialogue with their family and their significant other. Finally, even couples with family support, engaged in corrective face work to respond to the face threats posed by racism and racial tensions.
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Date Issued
2008
Identifier
CFE0002441, ucf:52884
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0002441
An Examination of the Connection Between Genuine Dialogue and Improv
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An Examination of the Connection Between Genuine Dialogue and Improv.
Creator
O'Neal, Kathleen, Hastings, Sally, Katt, James, Musambira, George, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
The value of improv training extends beyond the stage. Improv has been successfully utilized and applied in a variety of ways in the workplace, school, and community. This study examines the connection between genuine dialogue and improv to determine if improv exhibits dialogic qualities. Three focus groups were conducted with a total of nineteen improv students. Additionally, an interview was conducted with the director of a hospital's Innovation Lab where improv is used in an organizational...
Show moreThe value of improv training extends beyond the stage. Improv has been successfully utilized and applied in a variety of ways in the workplace, school, and community. This study examines the connection between genuine dialogue and improv to determine if improv exhibits dialogic qualities. Three focus groups were conducted with a total of nineteen improv students. Additionally, an interview was conducted with the director of a hospital's Innovation Lab where improv is used in an organizational setting. The conditions for dialogue set by Gordon (2006) served as a guideline for analyzing data. Thematic analysis generated categories used to analyze data. The most prominent of Gordon's conditions for dialogue within improv were Imagination (&) Innovation, Vulnerability and Immediacy of Presence. The importance of this study, implications and future studies for the connection between improv and dialogue are examined.
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Date Issued
2014
Identifier
CFE0005389, ucf:52873
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0005389