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This research seeks to examine how authors represent Black/African-American beauty in children’s literature. To conduct my research, I have chosen to review Natasha Tarpley’s I Love My Hair and Carolivia Herron’s Nappy Hair in conjunction with Zora Neale Hurston’s young adult novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. The objective of my thesis aims to highlight the emphasis authors place on Black/African-American children’s hair and the cultural differences in their perceptions of Afro-beauty. Today, society expends extensive time and interest in outward appearances through media: television, radio, digital media, and fashion magazines. As a result, Black/African-American adolescent and teen girls become overly concerned with their beauty and face extreme pressure to fit into the dominant cultures definition of beauty: ‘lighter skin, slender nose, slim body frame, and straight hair.’ Black/African-American girls who fall short of the prescribed characteristics of beauty become psychologically impaired with their self-confidences; sometimes refusing to embrace their own features or invest extensively in beauty care products to conform to the dominant beliefs of beauty. I have provided a summary of the focused literature for the benefit of readers who not have had the opportunity to read the previously mentioned texts along with a sample lesson plan.

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This study examined the opinions of 552 residents of rural Virginia regarding acceptance of manufactured homes, formerly known as mobile homes, and their occupants. The purpose of this study was to determine to what extent respondents' demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, innovativeness, and perceptions of manufactured home characteristics, its occupants and neighborhood characteristics, predicted the acceptance of manufactured homes. Data were obtained from two mail surveys distributed among eight rural counties. One survey covered single-section manufactured homes (N = 274) and another covered double-section manufactured homes (N = 278). A proposed theoretical model was adapted from M. J. Dear and S. M. Taylor's (1982) model for community attitudes toward mental health care facilities. Hypotheses were tested through multiple regression analyses. The statistical model for the full sample included 13 independent variables. Six variables (perceived manufactured home occupant behavior, proportion of manufactured homes in the county, perceived manufactured home condition, manufactured home type, respondents’ gender, and manufactured home knowledge) emerged as significant predictors of manufactured home acceptance (R² = .3541). Separate regression models for the single- and double-section manufactured home subsamples were evaluated. In the single-section manufactured home subsample, perceived manufactured home occupants’ behavior, proportion of manufactured homes in the county, and perceived manufactured home condition were significant predictors of single-section manufactured home acceptance (R² = .2522). In the double-section manufactured home subsample, perceived manufactured home occupants’ behavior, perceived manufactured home condition, respondent's manufactured home knowledge, and neighborhood physical homogeneity were significant predictors of double-section manufactured home acceptance (R² = .3574). Results suggested respondents' socioeconomic and demographic characteristics were not important in predicting manufactured home acceptance. Instead, acceptance was mostly the result of perceptions about occupants’ behavior, a finding consistent with Dear and Taylor's (1982) study about acceptance of mental health facilities. In general, double-section models were more accepted than single-section models. / Ph. D.

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This thesis investigates the effects that cultural ideals of height in the United States have upon how males react to and contend with their physical stature. Anthropological and psychological approaches are used to examine and interpret ways that height is culturally constructed, altered, and perceived by young adult males in the United States. Height has been demonstrated to have economic, political, reproductive, educational, and social consequences that are often overlooked in everyday life. In the United States, certain cultural ideals appear to grant advantages to taller individuals. Understanding how these cultural ideals are constructed and investigating cultural reactions to such ideals provides insight into culture in the United States. Cyberspace holds some of the answers for understanding how individuals construct and perceive height. Two studies were conducted employing MySpace, a social networking community, to investigate factors that may affect the self-reporting of male height. The self-reporting of height is a manifestation of how individuals chose to culturally represent themselves. MySpace provides a rich source of information and data for investigating the self-reporting of height. The first study determined that median household income had no association with how users choose to self-report their height. The second investigation found that there are significant differences in the way males self-report their height according to ethnicity and sexual orientation. The results underscore the tendency for males to positively distort their self-reported heights to approximate cultural ideals.

Esta dissertação realiza uma análise empírica do Programa Minha Casa Minha Vida na Região Metropolitana de São Paulo, utilizando os dados de produção habitacional do programa, o Censo 2010, as bases cartográficas do CEM, entre outros dados. Além disso, as diversas leis que regulam o programa fazem parte do material empírico analisado. Com essas informações, são discutidos três argumentos que a literatura sobre o Minha Casa MinhaVida propõe: a adequação do programa ao perfil do déficit habitacional, o caráter de mercado do programa em detrimento de uma política social, e a relação do programa com a segregação urbana. O objetivo deste debate não é discordar dos argumentos propostos pela literatura, mas sim, adicionar informações que tornem as críticas ao programa mais nuançadas, destacando que a produção habitacional do programa não possui tantos aspectos negativos como foi apontado pela crítica, assim que o Minha Casa Minha Vida foi lançado em 2009. / This dissertation conducts an empirical analysis of My house My life (Program Minha Casa Minha Vida) in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo, using data from the program housing production, Census 2010, and CEM cartographic databases, among other data. In addition, various laws governing the program are part of the empirical material analyzed. With this information, we discuss three arguments that the literature on My life My house proposes: the appropriateness of the program to the housing deficit, the market feature of the program to the detriment of social policy, and the relationship of the program with urban segregation . The aim of this discussion is not to disagree with arguments proposed in the literature, but add information to throw lights to the critics making them more nuanced program, noting that the program housing production lacks many negative aspects that were pointed out by the critics when it was released in 2009.

Esta pesquisa trata das determinações críticas da atual relação entre a política habitacional brasileira, as incorporadoras nacionais de capital aberto e a reprodução do capital financeiro ligado ao setor imobiliário, com uma pesquisa focada na análise do Programa Minha Casa Minha Vida I e II (PMCMV) na metrópole de São Paulo. A história da política habitacional no Brasil, porém, mais claramente no BNH, evidencia que a confluência entre Estado, empresas privadas do setor imobiliário e capital não é a novidade do momento atual. A diferença reside, basicamente, no contexto histórico e econômico em cada um dos períodos, ou seja, em como a questão da habitação se presta à adaptação dos diferentes momentos de reprodução do capital e do trabalho pelos quais o país passou e vem passando. Se no momento do BNH/autoconstrução a questão da habitação estava inserida no contexto de uma economia industrial, e produzia casas ao ritmo de rotação do capital industrial, coube a nós, nesta pesquisa, investigar quais seriam os elementos da produção da habitação social, via PMCMV, ao ritmo do capital de uma economia financeirizada. / This research deals with the critical current determinations between the Brazilian housing policy, opened capital national developers and reproduction of finance capital on the real estate sector, from a research focused on the analysis of the Minha Casa Minha Vida I and II (PMCMV) in the metropolis of São Paulo. The history of housing policy in Brazil, better seen in the case of BNH, shows that the confluence between the state, private real estate companies and capital is not the novelty of the present moment. Basically, the difference lies in the historical and economic context from each period, showing how the issue of housing serves as an important means to the reproduction of capital and labor force throughout the different moments the country has been in. Once in the period of BNH, housing in Brazil was inserted in the context of an industrial economy, and therefore, it produced houses at the pace of the industrial capital rotation. In this research, though, we will investigate what are the elements of the social housing production, via PMCMV, under the rhythm of the capital of a financialized economy.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:48:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Giovanni Danielli Montagnana.pdf: 2498195 bytes, checksum: 3ad962e48efc5362ab9690ff0c5e107f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-17 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This paper aims to present the main investment plans in housing by the federal government, with greater emphasis on Housing Financial System (SFH) to the program My House, My Life. It also establishes a survey of the Real Estate Financial System (SFI) under the aegis of the new legislative and financial practices that mainly cater to middle and upper class. It then presents an analysis of public finances in São Paulo and the resources devoted to housing for low-income population / O presente texto objetiva apresentar os principais planos de investimentos em habitação, por parte do Governo Federal, com maior ênfase no Sistema Financeiro Habitacional (SFH) até ao programa Minha Casa, Minha Vida. Além disso, estabelece uma pesquisa sobre o Sistema Financeiro Imobiliário (SFI) sob a égide das novas práticas legislativas e financeiras que atendem principalmente à classe média e alta. Em seguida, apresenta uma análise das finanças públicas do Município de São Paulo e os recursos destinados à Habitação para a população de baixa renda