No description available.

This final document addresses the need to empower participants to bring about social Justice in a municipal district plagued by the chemical enslavement of alcohol abuse. In addition to combatting cultural racism, a subordinate concern was the development of an African-centered media and coalition building model for alcohol prevention and intervention to counter mass media imagery associating alcohol with success, wealth, and having fun. This includes the deadly influence of renegade gangster rap artists who have popularized risk-taking behavior which has contributed to the erosion of the cultural fabric of the community and its morals and values. Social justice, personal and communal development were at the heart of my concerns. The ensuing learning experiences were framed by ethnographic, historical, sociological, biblical, psychological, theological and from a pastoral care perspective.

This dissertation utilizes theoretical and clinical methodology to investigate the relationship between the process of identity formation/change in African-American women and the experience of 'revelation' facilitated in a group context in which members of the group read a common narrative. The novel, Ugly Ways, written by an African-American woman is the selected narrative used in this study. This study postulates a correlation between narrative shared in a group context, revelation, and identity formation/change. This study proposes and investigates narrative as a conducive structure for meaning making which facilitates African-American women recognizing, investigating and integrating information thereby availing to them, via revelation, new options to "reinterpret or transform" their historical life narratives as well as their present life situations and dilemmas. Revelation, in the context of this study, is defined as an organizing, transforming experience resulting in persons reporting a sense of unity and wholeness in their understanding of self, their relationships to others and to God. Finally, this study suggests that revelation experienced within the process of narrative shared within a group context results in increased reportings of change/growth by study participants. Concurrently this study proposes and investigates the homogenous gender group context for the discussion of the novel as a salient factor for the facilitation of narrative/group context related revelation. The theoretical expositions of Na'im Akbar's theory of natural psychology, Heinz Kohut's theory of self-development, Archie Smith Jr.'s relational self, H. Richard Niebuhr's theory of revelation, and womanist theology provide the framing upon which the hypothesis of this study and the clinical observations and results generated by this study are perceived and analyzed. Thirty study participants comprised five (5) groups, four (4) experimental and one (1) control. Reported results of this study were generated by (1) observations and interpretations of the researcher and (2) self-assessment accounts composed by each study participant at the completion of the study. Results provided support a correlation between narrative shared within a group context, revelation, and identity formation/change in African-American women. Specifically the study identifies that (1) narrative content that evolves out of or is congruent with the reader's internal history is most conducive for the experience of revelation and (2) the optimal context for the experience of revelation that facilitates identity formation/change for African-American women consists of the discussion of narrative in an all female African-American group. Also identified in the study results are specific potential inhibitors to the experience of revelation as proposed in this study, such as mixed gender groups, group size and an insufficient quantity of scheduled group meetings.

No description available.

No description available.

This microhistory of an African slave in eighteenth-century New France offers a unique series of angles with which we can examine the motivations, struggles and consequences of slavery in Canada. Mathieu Léveillé worked as a plantation slave in Martinique before arriving in Quebec to serve as the colony's executioner. The story of his importation demonstrates how the buying and selling of these persons reinforced the social and economic connections between Canada's elites and the rest of the Atlantic World. Though often imported as objects of luxury, the slaves themselves generally lived lives of social isolation, marred by their image as odd, foreign and deviant. Léveillé's enslaved status therefore made him the ideal candidate to fill the socially maligned position of the bourreau. Léveillé's Atlantic experience of itinerancy and exchange furthermore offers a glimpse onto the modes of interaction among the various marginalized groups participating in that system. While the population of Canadian slaves under the French regime paled in comparison to that of the more southerly colonies, the value of this study derives from exploring the uniqueness of the institution in this understudied context. / Cette étude microhistorique d'un esclave africain en Nouvelle France au XVIIIe siècle offre une perspective unique avec laquelle nous pouvons examiner les motivations et les conséquences de l'esclavage au Canada. Mathieu Léveillé a travaillé comme esclave dans une plantation en Martinique avant son arrivée à Québec. En arrivant, il a servi comme bourreau de la colonie. L'histoire de son importation montre comment l'achat et vente de ces personnes ont renforcé les liens sociaux et économiques entre les élites du Canada et le monde atlantique. Les esclaves étaient souvent importés comme des objets de luxe. Mais, comme sujets de l'histoire, les esclaves avaient des vies isolées, marquées par leurs images d'étrangers et de déviants. Léveillé, avec son état asservi, était le candidat idéal pour combler le poste du bourreau. Les expériences d'importation et d'itinérance de Léveillé offrent un aperçu des modes d'interaction entre les groupes marginalisés qui participaient au système. La population des esclaves canadiens ne compare pas aux nombres des esclaves aux colonies du sud; la valeur de cette recherche provient de l'exploration de l'institution unique qui est étudiée.

No description available.

Thesis (M.A.)--Central Connecticut State University, 2004. / Thesis advisor: Sylvia Halkin. " ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Biological Sciences." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 49-51). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis--Wisconsin. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 39-43).

Thesis (M.S.)--Oregon State University, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-95). Also available on the World Wide Web.