The purpose of this study is to evaluate the Student Police Unity League as an effective program at fostering more positive views of the police from black citizens operating by the core tenants provided by Intergroup Contact Theory. It was expected that black students who participated in the Student Police Unity League would report higher levels of trust, legitimacy, willingness to work with the police, outcome justice, and lower level of perceived racial profiling. While the majority of the findings did not reach statistical significance at the .05 level, participation in the Student Police Unity league did lead to better views of police in terms of outcome justice and legitimacy. However, trust, profiling, and willingness to work with the police unexpectedly had inverse results. / Master of Science

In Porto Alegre, Brazil, at the entrance of the city, the Workers Party (PT) implemented a re-urbanization project called the Entry of the City. This project included an investment in urban infra-structure and formalization of “informal” spaces where 3200 poor families live, most of them Black and Afro-descendent people. These families were removed from their original places and were settled in housing projects in the same neighborhood. This dissertation is a study of the historical processes of inclusion and exclusion, and removal and resettlement of Black families in Brazilian urban spaces. I use Porto Alegre both to discuss general trends of racial politics in Brazilian urban spaces and to discuss how poor and Black people are continuously involved in historical processes of racialization promoted by the Brazilian society. Based on ethnographic research conducted in the Entry of the City, this dissertation analyzes different levels of racialization of Black people and their spaces, as well as different levels of segregation within segregated areas. This dissertation is divided in four sections in which I demonstrate: a) the history of urbanization of Porto Alegre and the genesis of the formation of this space as a process of removal and dispersion of Black families; b) the contemporary processes of this history that disperse and segregate Black people; c) how everyday life of the Entry of the City reinforces the processes of segregation of Black people despite the generalized poverty that affects the residents of that area; and d) how common senses about Black families and other poor people are expressed in the local newspaper and contribute to racialize Black people as well as poor neighborhoods. This dissertation presents three main arguments: first, I argue that race is an independent category that must be used to analyze urban segregation in Brazil. Second, Porto Alegre displays a disperse segregation instead of configuring ghettos in its space. Third, the exclusion and segregation of Black families within segregated areas is because of and constitutive of the dynamics of the racialization processes of Black families that are present in Brazilian urban spaces. / text

This study will investigate family life and explore the realities and the resilience of traditional, Black middle class families in Carver City-Lincoln Gardens through changing times. This research will contribute to the literature on local history in Tampa, with a particular focus on Black family. The goal of this study is to demonstrate how Black families support and sustain themselves through the collective efforts of the community and extend kinships.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / The Loving Neighborhood was a very active ecosystem consisting of four communities (Capella, Carson, Midtown, and Summerville) that came together to form one larger community. Although the four neighborhoods’ ethnic makeup was about 30% Black, 30% Latino, and 30% White, the Carson community was predominantly Black. The Carson neighborhood had a very vibrant neighborhood association in which there were four adult Black males who actively participated in Carson’s economic and community development efforts. These men consistently attended neighborhood meetings, volunteered on community action committees, held community leadership positions, and participated regularly in local events. In order to understand the work of adult Black males who were seeking to improve the quality of life in a specific community context, this research sheds light on the “voices” of these four adult Black males as they attempted to foster neighborhood transformation by becoming more active in an Black urban community. It is imperative that the shared meanings of Black men be understood within the ecosystems in which they existed, emphasizing the importance of their conversations that addressed the needs of their communities. While previous research studies have explored adult learning and community engagement separately, these studies have failed to address how Black males could have helped Black communities in grassroots development efforts. Studies that have addressed these intersections could have provided valuable insight into why Black men became active in their communities, what they might have learned because of their community activism, how they remained motivated, and what skills they would have needed in order to effectively engage underserved neighborhoods. In response to this deficiency, this inquiry employed a critical approach to explore the importance of the unique voices of these four Black men as they participated in the transformation of their neighborhoods.

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252f. / Submitted by Oliveira Santos Dilzaná (dilznana@yahoo.com.br) on 2013-10-09T18:31:41Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese Final - Valéria Gomes Costa.pdf: 3771417 bytes, checksum: bb91959918d5900904973fdc9c1397e1 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ana Portela (anapoli@ufba.br) on 2013-10-30T18:35:58Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese Final - Valéria Gomes Costa.pdf: 3771417 bytes, checksum: bb91959918d5900904973fdc9c1397e1 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-10-30T18:35:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese Final - Valéria Gomes Costa.pdf: 3771417 bytes, checksum: bb91959918d5900904973fdc9c1397e1 (MD5) / CNPq / Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo investigar as experiências sociais de africanos libertos nas áreas urbanas do Recife no século XIX. A partir de trajetórias de vida de ex-cativos que conseguiram algum prestígio social, econômico e político no meio da comunidade negra (e fora dela), são analisadas suas estratégias de sobrevivência em meio aos estigmas que lhes foram impostos pela sociedade escravista. Embora Pernambuco, depois do Rio de Janeiro, tenha recebido o maior número de africanos escravizados do hinterland de Angola, o foco de interesse do estudo são os africanos provenientes da África Ocidental – ―minas‖ em sua maioria – que após a alforria, em meados do Oitocentos, criaram mecanismos para assegurar seus espaços sociais. Os fragmentos das experiências individuais e coletivas desses indivíduos revelaram a formação de uma afluente comunidade negra na cidade, composta de africanos e seus descendentes. A construção do objeto desta tese viabilizou a elaboração do conceito de cartografia negra, denominação atribuída à complexa rede de sociabilidades, conflitos e tensões entre africanos, crioulos, libertos, escravizados e os demais setores sociais e políticos – quiçá raciais – urbanos. Tais embates e malhas sociais fizeram parte do protagonismo cotidiano das pessoas, sobretudo africanas, cujas lutas pela liberdade e reconstrução de suas autonomias (política, social, cultural, etc.), nas Américas, foram orientadas por suas experiências familiares e de parentesco ao longo das gerações. Para estabelecer os laços de parentesco, trabalho, negócios e religião entre os sujeitos foi utilizada como metodologia de análise a ligação nominativa em fontes variadas. Ao tratar os libertos enquanto uma categoria social, esta pesquisa vem preencher uma lacuna na historiografia pernambucana, que ainda não dispõe de nenhum estudo sistematizado sobre os ex-escravos, em particular africanos. The objective of this study is to investigate the social experiences of free slaves in the urban areas of Recife in the 19th century. Its survival strategies are analyzed in light of the stigmas that were imposed by members of the slave society from the life experiences of ex-slaves who attained some social, economic, and political prestige in the Black community, and outside of it. After Rio de Janeiro, Pernambuco had received the largest number of enslaved Africans from the hinterlands of Angola; the focus of this study is the Africans originating in West Africa—―minas‖ in their majority which after emancipation in the middle of the 1800s created mechanisms to maintain their social space. The fragments of individual and collective experiences of these individuals reveal the formation an affluent Black community in the city, composed of Africans and their descendants. The construction of the subject matter of this thesis permits the elaboration of the conception of black cartography, denomination that attributes to the complex network of sociability, conflict, and tension between Africans, crioulos, freed Africans, enslaved Africans and other social and political sectors, perhaps racial and urban as well. Such social resistance and networks became part of the daily character of the people, principally African women, whose fight for liberty and reconstruction of their autonomies (political, social, cultural, etc.) in the Americas, were oriented by their familiar and kin experiences throughout the generations. A nominative connection was used as a method of study from various sources to discover the kin, employment, business, and religious relationships between the subjects. In treating the freed enslaved Africans as a social category, this study seeks to fill a void in the historiographical study of Pernambuco as there is still no systematic study about formerly enslaved peoples, in particular, Africans. / Salvador

CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / O tema desta dissertaÃÃo cabe dentro de um tema mais geral que à o da histÃria das populaÃÃes negras no CearÃ. Trata-se de um tema com diversos aspectos e muitas polemicas, tais como a existÃncia de negros no estado, mas faz parte de uma postura social que tem sido alvo da pesquisa historiogrÃfica e da educaÃÃo nos Ãltimos 10 anos no estado do CearÃ. Alto Alegre à um distrito do municÃpio de Horizonte, parte perifÃrica da grande regiÃo metropolitana de Fortaleza. A comunidade de quilombo de Alto Alegre à uma comunidade rural negra com mais de um sÃculo de existÃncia, no entanto a literatura apresenta poucas referÃncias a esta existÃncia. A pesquisa realizada trabalha com os conceitos de afrodescendÃncia e populaÃÃo negra baseada nos aspectos histÃricos e nÃo biolÃgicos. Utiliza o conceito de bairro rural negro e traÃa o conjunto do conhecimento com base na historia oral, tendo como foco a memÃria negra, como memÃria coletiva organizada com foco na cultura e no patrimÃnio cultural da populaÃÃo negra. A pesquisa teve como eixo os fatos econÃmicos e as relaÃÃes sociais estabelecidas pela comunidade de Alto Alegre dentro de um territÃrio onde figuram os grupos sociais negros, Ãndios e brancos, esses Ãltimos representados pelos posseiros considerados como donos da terra. O estudo mostrou uma trajetÃria de comunidade marcada pelas mudanÃas nas formas de trabalho e nas perspectivas de vida, mas com a presenÃa de forte identidade cultural, entremeada de mudanÃas significativas de costumes e de religiÃo. O municÃpio de Horizonte està dentro de uma regiÃo de forte industrializaÃÃo e de constante intervenÃÃo geogrÃfica pelo estado atravÃs de construÃÃo de grandes obras como a rodovia BR-116, e os canais de integraÃÃo e do trabalhador. / The subject of this dissertation is part of a more general theme concerning whit the black population history in the state of Cearà - Brazil. This is an issue with many aspects and many polemics, such as the existence of black people in the state, but is part of a social attitude which has been the subject of historical research and education in the last 10 years in our graduate program. Alto Alegre is the name of a district of Novo Horizonte city. This city is at the periphery of the large metropolitan region of Fortaleza. The community of maroon Alto Alegre is a black rural community with more than a century of existence, yet the literature contains few references to this existence. The research work with the concepts of afro - dependency and black population based on the historical aspects and not biological. Uses the concept of black rural district and outlines the set of knowledge based on oral history, focusing on the black memory, organized as a collective memory with a focus on culture and cultural heritage of the black population. The research was shaft the economic facts and the social relations established by the community of Alto Alegre in a territory where social groups include blacks, indians and white settlers regarded as represented by the landowners. The study showed a trend of community marked by changes in the forms of work and life prospects, but with the presence of strong cultural identity, interspersed with significant changes in customs and religion. The city of Horizonte is within a region of strong industrialization and geographical constant intervention by the state through the construction of large works such as the BR-116, and channels of integration and the worker.

Le but de cette thèse est d'identifier les analogies entre les manifestations culturelles des communautés noires dans les villes de Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires et New York à la fin du XIXe et au début du XXe siècle. Du point de vue de cette réflexion, nous prétendons montrer que les stimulations culturelles et idéologiques qui imprégnaient ces villes ont été fondamentales pour la formation d’une matrice provocante et atténuante dans les compositions musicales et poétiques telles quelles les sambas, milongas, tangos et jazz de cette période et passibles, de cette façon, d’être observées dans une perspective trans-hémisphérique en ce qui concerne les Amériques. Fatalement, comme les villes de Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires et New York possèdent en commun le fait d’avoir participé à une expérience modernisatrice, nous déduisons que l’élément de désillusion senti par une fraction sociale a produit un mouvement de critique dans ces manifestations musicales qui faisait échouer les objectifs civilisateurs en créant des atmosphères qui rivalisaient avec la ville officialisée. Il s’agit de la ville contre la ville qui attirera notre attention à partir de l’atmosphère sentie dans les clubs, favelas et conventillos de ces villes et qui, prise dans sa complexité et densité historique, nous fournira des éléments pour penser les similitudes et les différences de ces villes et expériences musicales dans les Amériques. / The aim of this thesis is to identify the analogies between the cultural manifestations of black communities in the cities of Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires and New York in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From the point of view of this reflection, we claim to show that the cultural and ideological stimulations that permeated these cities were fundamental for the formation of a provocative and attenuating matrix in musical and poetic compositions such as sambas, milongas, tangos and jazz of this period and in this way can be observed in a trans-hemispheric perspective in the Americas. Fatally, as the cities of Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires and New York have in common the fact of having participated in a modernizing experiment, we deduce that the element of disillusionment felt by a social fraction produced a movement of criticism in these musical demonstrations that defeated the civilizing aims by creating atmospheres that rivaled the official city. It is the city against the city that will draw our attention from the atmosphere felt in the clubs, favelas and conventillos of these cities and which, taken in its complexity and historical density, will provide us with elements to think similarities and the differences of these cities and musical experiences in the Americas.

Until very recently, Colombia was the only country in the world that still permitted the eradication of illicit crops –primarily coca and to a lesser extent, opium poppies— through aerial fumigation. It was a controversial practice for a number of reasons, chiefly the damage caused to plants, animals, and people living in or near fumigated areas. A favored tactic in the U.S.-supported War on Drugs, aerial eradication actually contributed to the spread of illicit crops to increasingly remote areas of Colombia, such as the collectively titled lands of both indigenous and black communities. Concerns about the practice of aerial eradication, however, appeared completely disconnected from the positive framing of the policy and guidelines governing its implementation. Employing mixed methods, both ethnographic and cartographic, this dissertation examines how these contradictory discourses —aerial eradication explained by officials involved in its operation versus described locally by people living in or near fumigated areas— materialized in 2015, the last year the aerial eradication program was in operation. This study engages critical social science theory to deconstruct dominant conceptualizations of territoriality, geopolitics and environmental conservation, while at the same time proposing alternative understandings of those concepts grounded in local experiences. This research finds that aerial eradication authorities overstated the accuracy of aerial eradication operations by: 1) downplaying the incidence of pilots spraying legal crops, 2) invalidating local reports on the effects of aerial eradication, and 3) requiring technical evidence far beyond the means of poor rural Colombian farmers. Furthermore, in the specific context of the collectively titled black communities of the Pacific region, aerial eradication authorities did not respect the right to previous consultation per Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention 169. This dissertation concludes that that aerial eradication —justified by notions of security and environmental conservation that had little to do with black communities of the Pacific region— operated as a means of displacement. This displacement was literal in the sense that aerial eradication made life difficult for people to live in affected communities and figurative because local knowledge was pushed aside in favor of the external interpretations of the effects of this counternarcotics policy.

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