There is increasing concern in news media sources regarding police killings of unarmed Black males. However, there is limited research on the portrayal of such incidents in the news and the implications for police-community relations in African- American communities. In order to address this gap, this study analyzed 120 experts’ quotes provided by two of the largest and most respected newspapers in the United States -- the New York Times and USA Today. This research comprised a content analysis of quotes related to the deaths of Eric Garner (Staten Island, New York), Michael Brown (Ferguson, Missouri), and Freddie Gray (Baltimore City, Maryland). A number of factors are discussed: The news organization’s predominate category and specialty of experts selected; whether the experts’ quotes attributed to pro-police or community bias; if the experts’ quotes discussed social or racial inequalities in the cities selected; whether the experts addressed evidence-based strategies necessary to improve police-community relations in the Black community, and whether experts’ quotes discussed solutions to improve police and community relations in the Black community. The findings suggest that the selected national news sources, in the one year following the deaths of each of the unarmed victims, highlighted quotes from state manager, particularly politicians, at a much higher rate than intellectuals. Although revealing a substantial level of procommunity bias, the quotes presented very little regarding evidence-based strategies for improving police-community relations in the Black community and reducing the number of unarmed deaths caused by police. The implications for research on media and crime as well as policing strategies are discussed. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2016. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

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[pt] Esta pesquisa pretende analisar qual o papel do negro na obra do intelectual Sílvio Romero. A análise, terá como base as obras A literatura brasileira e a crítica moderna (1880), A história da Literatura Brasileira (1888), Martins Penna: ensaio crítico (1901) e Brasil Social e outros estudos sociológicos (2001) nas quais o autor mobiliza um repertório racialista para se pensar a composição racial na identidade nacional. Acreditando na existência de uma lacuna no entendimento de como o intelectual sergipano pensa a população negra, se introduz essa questão em um contexto marcado pela ação da Geração de 1870 que elaborava uma cultura capaz de renovar mentalidades daquela contemporaneidade através dos ideais cientificistas caracterizados como sendo verdades absolutas, agindo em contraposição aos pilares imperiais que seriam representados como símbolos do atraso. Para realizar esse processo, a ação intelectual romeriana é dividida em três fases: crítica radical, crítica equilibrada e pessimismo, escolhendo obras que representassem essas fases e que trouxessem respostas para a seguinte pergunta: qual o papel do negro na obra de Sílvio Romero? / [en] This research intends to analyze the role of black people in the work of the intellectual Sílvio Romero. The analysis will be based in the works: A literature brasileira e a crítica moderna (1880), A história da Literatura Brasileira (1888), Martins Penna: ensaio crítico (1901) e Brasil Social e outros estudos sociológicos (2001) which the author mobilizes a racialist repertoire to think about racial composition in national identity. Believing in the existence of a gap in the understanding of how the Sergipe intellectual thinks about the black population, we will introduce this issue in a context marked by the action of the Generation of 1870, which elaborated a culture capable of renewing mentalities of that contemporaneity through the scientistic ideals characterized as being absolute truths, acting in opposition to the imperial pillars that would be represented as symbols of backwardness. To carry out this process, we divided the author intellectual action into three phases: radical criticism, balanced criticism and pessimism, choosing works that represent these phases and that bring answers to the following question: what is the role of black people in the work of Sílvio Romero?

There is a tendency in education theory to place the focus on the consequences of racial hegemony (racism, Eurocentric education, low performance by racial minorities) and ignore that race is antecedent to these consequences. This dissertation explores the treatment of race within critical theory in education. I conduct a metaphysical analysis to examine the race concept as it emerges from the works of various critical theorists in education. This examination shows how some scholars affirm the scientifically discredited race concept by offering racial essentialist approaches for emancipatory education. I argue that one of consequences of these approaches is the further tightening of racial constraints on the student’s personal autonomy. This mandates that critical theorists gain a deeper understanding of race as a problem, conceptually, epistemically, ideologically, and existentially. I argue that critical theorists of education draw from work conducted in the philosophy of race by theorists such as K. Anthony Appiah, Jorge Gracia, Charles Mills, and Naomi Zack to gain insights on the metaphysics of race to better inform theory and praxis. I further recommend the creation of a critical philosophy of race in education to address and combat race as a problem and its consequences. I contend that the groundwork for philosophy of race in education must entail strategies that encourage and assist theorists and teachers to move toward the elimination of the race in society, while utilizing race only as heuristic tool to address its consequences. Additionally, I argue that a philosophy of race in education must advocate for an education for autonomy as a means to racial liberation for students.