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Colonization
Title
Colonization.
Date Created
1863
Identifier
DP0012741, E448.C65 1863
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0012741
Runge & Schacht
Title
Runge & Schacht.
Date Created
1850
Identifier
DP0012815
Format
Set of related objects
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0012815
Portrait of a young African American female
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
Portrait of an elderly African American female
Title
Portrait of an elderly African American female.
Identifier
DP0012818
Format
Image (JPEG)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0012818
Crime Against Kansas
Title
The Crime Against Kansas: The Apologies for the Crime; The True Remedy. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner. In the Senate of the United States,19th and 20th....
Creator
Sumner, Charles
Date Created
1856
Identifier
DP0012822
Format
Set of related objects
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0012822
"ANIMAL-LIKE AND DEPRAVED": RACIST STEREOTYPES, COMMERCIAL SEX, AND BLACK WOMEN'S IDENTITY IN NEW ORLEANS, 1825-1917
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
Wild sports in the South; or, The camp-fires of the Everglades
Title
Wild sports in the South; or, The camp-fires of the Everglades.
Creator
Whitehead, Charles E. (Charles Edward), PALMM (Project)
Abstract / Description
A collection of tales about hunting and interactions with indians in Florida during the middle of the Nineteenth Century.
Date Issued
1860
Identifier
AAB6340QF00001/18/200508/04/200516448BfamIa D0QF, FHP C CF 2005-01-19, huc3090202, FCLA url 20050420xOCLC, 60544644, CF00001695, 2581474, ucf:24945
Format
E-book
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/CF00001695.jpg
Judas vile betrayed his master, I betrayed fair liberty (Pictorial envelope)
Title
Judas vile betrayed his master, I betrayed fair liberty (Pictorial envelope).
Date Created
1861-1865
Identifier
DP0012813
Format
Set of related objects
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0012813
COMPARISON OF LEARNING EXPERIENCES AND OUTCOMES BETWEEN A SERIOUS GAME-BASED AND NON-GAME-BASED ONLINE AMERICAN HISTORY COURSE
Title
COMPARISON OF LEARNING EXPERIENCES AND OUTCOMES BETWEEN A SERIOUS GAME-BASED AND NON-GAME-BASED ONLINE AMERICAN HISTORY COURSE.
Creator
Hess, Taryn, Gunter, Glenda, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
The use of online courses continues to increase despite the small amount of research that exists on the effectiveness of online educational environments. The little research that has been conducted has focused on evaluating factors taken into consideration during the adoption of online learning environments. One notable benefit often cited is the ability to incorporate multimedia such as video games. Although game researchers and developers are pushing for the use of video games for...
Show moreThe use of online courses continues to increase despite the small amount of research that exists on the effectiveness of online educational environments. The little research that has been conducted has focused on evaluating factors taken into consideration during the adoption of online learning environments. One notable benefit often cited is the ability to incorporate multimedia such as video games. Although game researchers and developers are pushing for the use of video games for educational purposes, there is a lack of research on the effectiveness of serious video games. When paring the increasing use of online educational environments, the push to use serious video games, and the lack of research on the effectiveness of online learning environments and video games, there is a clear need for further investigation into the use of serious video games in an online format. Based on current literature, no other known study has conducted an analysis comparing a serious game-based and non-game based online course; making this a unique study. The purpose of this study was to compare student learning experiences and outcomes between a serious game-based and non-game based online American History course. The data sources were data provided from Florida Virtual School (FLVS) and student and teacher interviews. Random samples of 92 students were statistically analyzed. A group of 8 students and 4 teachers were interviewed. FLVS data provided were analyzed using an independent t-test and the Mann-Whitney test and the student and teacher interview were analyzed using thematic analysis. Results of an independent t-test revealed that there was a significant (p < .01) difference in the mean number of days necessary to complete the course (MGB = 145.80, SDGB = 50.64, MNGB = 112.63, SDNGB = 49.60). The Mann-Whitney results indicated a significant difference between course performance and the type of American history course (Z = -5.066, p < .01); students in the serious game-based online course had an A average whereas students in the non-game-based online course had a B average. The thematic analysis of the relationship between student performance and motivation in both courses indicated that students and teachers of the game-based online course provided more reasons for student motivation than the students and teachers in the non-game-based online course. The thematic analysis of what aspects do students perceive as helpful and/or hindering to their learning indicated that students and teachers of the game-based online course provided more desirable, more helpful, less undesirable, and less hindering aspects for their course than the students and teachers in the non-game-based online course. As a result of the unique nature of this study, the findings provide new information for the fields of research on online learning, serious video gaming, and instructional design as well as inform instructional-designers, teachers, education stakeholders, serious video game designers, and education researchers.
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Date Issued
2010
Identifier
CFE0003221, ucf:48566
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0003221

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