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African American citizen soldiers in Galveston and San Antonio, Texas, 1880-1906Blair, John Patrick 15 May 2009 (has links)
The Texas Volunteer Guard, created by the Militia Law of 1879, continued to
allow African Americans to serve as citizen soldiers. From 1880 to 1906 over six
hundred black men faithfully served in the various state militia companies of Galveston
and San Antonio; yet, their service has rarely obtained scholarly attention. Often
discounted by historians as mere social clubs or deemed too few and insignificant to
warrant study, these men sought not only to demonstrate their citizenship, but to improve
their social status during a period of racial segregation.
The differences and similarities of these groups of African American men at the
grassroots level are illuminated by using the comparative method to examine socioeconomic
characteristics. Furthermore, this examination demonstrates how racial
attitudes remained flexible enough during this period to allow these men to participate in
military-type activities.
An examination of these activities, both as citizens and as soldiers, makes
evident what inspired this state military service. Framed within the network of local
fraternal, social, religious, educational, and political organizations, coupled with a study of previous military service, the militia companies expose the aim of these African
American men to improve their social status as citizens through militia participation.
The Adjutant General of Texas issued firearms, ammunition, and equipment to the
respective companies of African American militiamen from these cities, and coordinated
training exercises, which involved the travel of armed black men over the state’s existing
railroads.
Despite their segregated status, the very presence of armed, uniformed black men
officially sanctioned by the Democratic-controlled government of Texas suggests that
race relationships still remained flexible enough during this time for African Americans
to display their citizenship and manhood through state military service. Conversely,
their dissolution in 1906 reveals the termination of that flexibility and solidified their
status as second-class citizens. Even though they were unsuccessful in continuing their
military organization, the heroic efforts of these men deserves inclusion in the written
history of the long struggle for African American civil rights in this country.
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Examining the therapeutic compliment with African-Americans: a counseling technique to improve the working allianceDuncan, Bryan Thomas 15 May 2009 (has links)
The working alliance has received consistent empirical support relating the
construct to psychotherapy outcome. There is no empirical research on any particular
techniques that may prove useful at increasing the level of working alliance. In this
study, the therapeutic compliment is defined, discussed, and compared with other
therapeutic interventions to find its usefulness in therapy and its ability to impact the
working alliance. 120 African-Americans from a large southwestern university and a
medium southeastern university participated in this study by viewing one of six mock
therapy sessions that had one of three different interventions: Therapeutic Compliment,
Simple Compliment, and Advanced Accurate Empathy. The mock sessions were created
to provide two levels of session relationship (high and low). The participants completed
three measures, the Working Alliance Inventory, Hopefulness Scale, and Accurate
Empathy Scale, to determine the perceptions of the different interventions. The study
utilized multiple analyses of variances (ANOVAs) to compare the means of the three
interventions.Statistical significance was not found with overall general working alliance
scores from the Working Alliance Inventory (WAI). The individual subscales of the
WAI, goals, tasks, and bonds, however; did reveal significance when comparing the
interventions across one level of the session relationship (high). The interventions were
not statistically different from each other in terms of perceived hopefulness and
empathy. No significance was found when comparing the interventions with perceived
hopefulness of outcome or level of perceived empathy. The implications from this study
include a first look at the use of complimenting in therapy and a first attempt to analyze
a specific technique to create an influence on the working alliance. Further research is
still needed to understand which techniques are more beneficial at creating an affect on
the working alliance.
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Explorative study of African Americans and internet datingSpates, Kamesha Sondranek 17 February 2005 (has links)
The online dating industry is estimated to be worth 1.5 billion dollars. The growing
trends in technology have resulted in African Americans logging on to the Web at
astonishing rates. Therefore, the goal of this research project is to evaluate dating
orientated interaction in the context of virtual communities. The theoretical perspective
of this thesis is that of the concept of trust, and I examine the role that trust has on dating
oriented interaction in the context of virtual communities. This study utilizes both
ethnographic qualitative research methods along with the survey research method to
explore the topic of African Americans and their use of the Internet as a tool to find
quality or compatible dates. This study also provides an examination not only of
dating patterns among African Americans via the Internet, but it also provides an
examination of the role that technology plays in creating and mediating dating trends. An
additional interest is to evaluate dating orientated interaction in the context of virtual
communities.
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Legal segregation: racial violence and the long term implicationsThompson-Miller, Ruth K. 17 September 2007 (has links)
This thesis explores the research questions: How did African Americans cope with the
oppressive system of legal segregation? How did they survive and raise their families?
What were African Americansâ everyday interactions with whites like during legal
segregation? What coping and resistance strategies did they utilize to survive? Using
case studies from nearly 100 in-depth interviews with elderly African Americans between
the ages of 50-90 in the Southeast and Southwest, I use qualitative methods to detail and
analyze the experiences of elderly African Americans.
This thesis explores how the exploitation and oppression of African Americans
during legal segregation were enshrined by means of racial violence and discrimination in
every aspect of American society. Much of the racial violence was legitimized and
essential to the routine operation of legal segregation in the United States. Building on
the work of Jackman(2002), Blee(2005), and Feagin (2006) for this thesis, I
conceptualize racial violence as physical violence, written violence, and/or spoken
violence, including being called âÂÂnigger,â âÂÂboy,â and âÂÂuncle.â The racial violence can be
individual or collective which, intentionally or unintentionally, inflicts or threatens to
inflict physical, psychological, social, or material injury on African Americans who often
resist. In addition, the racial violence can occur in any public or private geographical location including, the street, workplace, and home. Lastly, an individual does not have to
witness or personally experience the racial violence to be psychologically injured or
affected by it.
During legal segregation the respondents faced actual everyday racial violence or
the threat of racial violence in the form of lynchings, sexual abuse, house burnings,
imprisonment, rape, and being incessantly called âÂÂnigger.â I argue that the psychological
traumatic experiences of fear, anxiety, stress, anguish, humiliation, stigmatization and
shame can affect a personâÂÂs life for a very long time. Every one of these injuries is
apparent in the interviews with elderly African Americans who survived legal
segregation. Thus, I suggest the important idea of a âÂÂsegregation stress syndrome,â for
the chronic, enduring, extremely painful responses to official segregation that are
indicated by the respondents.
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The experience of African American hospice patient/family with board certified music therapy as a component of their plan of careGifford, Elizabeth. January 2009 (has links)
THESIS (D.N.P. (Doctor of Nursing Practice))--School of Nursing, University of San Francisco, 2009. / Title from p. 42 ("Informed consent" page). Bibliography: leaves 30-36.
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Time-binding in African American verbal art as a salve for post-traumatic slave syndromeAdolph, Jessie. Prahlad, Anand. January 2009 (has links)
The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on January 26, 2010) Thesis advisor: Dr. Anand Prahlad. Includes bibliographical references.
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Does increasing black homeownership decrease residential segregation?Bond, Carolyn Beck. January 2004 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Notre Dame, 2003. / Thesis directed by Richard Williams for the Department of Sociology. "April 2004." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 97-102).
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Cultural assimilation, appropriation and commercialization : authenticity in rap music, 1997-2004 /Tummons, Jonathan P. January 2008 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-195).
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The institutional production of literary value studies of African-American popular music lyrics and the avant-garde /Silvio, Carl. January 2001 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2001. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains iii, 310 p. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-310).
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Father-daughter attachment and sexual behavior in African-American daughtersHill-Holliday, Karen M. January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D)--Virginia Commonwealth University, 2009. / Prepared for: Dept. of Maternal Child Nursing. Title from title-page of electronic thesis. Bibliography: leaves 120-159.
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