African American students are graduating from high school and enrolling in higher educational institutions at greater rates than in previous years (U.S. Department of Education, 2009). Yet, they have not achieved the same level of academic success as their racial counterparts (American Council on Education, 2010; Ross, 2012). Ultimately, this disparity has resulted in only 17.7% of the African American population 25 years of age and older having at least a Bachelor’s degree (U.S. Department of Commerce, 2012). Many researchers have employed comparative study designs to explore this disparity. Additionally, researchers commonly study academic success through the exploration of intrapsychic or environmental contributing factors. As a result, limited studies examining the confluence of these factors exist in the literature, and the impact of these contributing factors is not clearly understood. This study seeks to explore the predictive factors of academic success among African American students by attending to both intrapsychic and environmental factors without the comparison of African American students to students from other races/ethnicities. Employing Tinto’s longitudinal model of institutional departure (Tinto, 1993) and positive psychological approaches, this study will use multiple foci and strengths to answer the research question: Do racial identity, goal commitment, and institutional climate predict academic success among African American college students? Academic success was measured in this study by academic adjustment, social adjustment, and self-reported grade point average (GPA). Data consisted of 240 African American freshmen from colleges and universities across the nation. Participants completed an online survey that assessed their perceptions regarding racial identity, institutional climate, goal commitment, academic adjustment, social adjustment, and GPA. The results showed that racial identity and institutional climate predicted academic adjustment and social adjustment, but not GPA. Goal commitment predicted academic adjustment, social adjustment, and GPA. When all predictors were combined in the same regression analysis, academic adjustment, social adjustment, and GPA were each predicted and unique significant contributors to the explained variance in those analyses emerged. These findings may help address some of the gaps in the literature regarding academic success among African American students These results can aid in the understanding of the impact of racial identity, institutional climate, and goal commitment among African American college students. Additionally, these results may to the creation of environmental conditions that can facilitate a connection and commitment to higher educational institutions and thus, adaptive academic and psychological outcomes.

The purpose of the current study is to revise the wording of the items in the Strong Black Woman (SBW) attitudes scale and investigate the psychometric properties of this revised scale (renamed the SBW Cultural Construct Scale, SBWCCS). Another goal is to determine if the scale predicts racial identity, stress, and social support. The sample consisted of 152 women of African descent, who were recruited from a community based organization. An exploratory factor analysis on the SBWCCS scale suggested a 3-factor model consisting of (1) caretaking, (2) affect regulation, and (3) self-reliance. These factors parallel those found in the original scale (Thompson, 2003). The internal consistency was adequate for the overall scale and the caretaking subscale, but somewhat low for affect-regulation and self-reliance. The SBWCCS scale predicted centrality of racial identity and stress (measured as perceived stress and number of stressful events). Specifically, women who reported higher levels on the SBWCCS also reported higher levels of centrality and stress. In addition, higher levels on the caretaking subscale predicted lower reciprocity of social support. Other aspects of racial identity (public and private regard) and social support (received and satisfaction) were not predicted by SBWCCS. Methodological limitations and implications for future research are discussed.

Submitted by Jos? Henrique Henrique (jose.neves@ufvjm.edu.br) on 2018-05-03T19:37:47Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) vanderson_ely_meira.pdf: 1355580 bytes, checksum: f344746e769375a843c59673a52e6122 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Rodrigo Martins Cruz (rodrigo.cruz@ufvjm.edu.br) on 2018-05-04T16:24:18Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) vanderson_ely_meira.pdf: 1355580 bytes, checksum: f344746e769375a843c59673a52e6122 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-05-04T16:24:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) vanderson_ely_meira.pdf: 1355580 bytes, checksum: f344746e769375a843c59673a52e6122 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017 / A quest?o central desta pesquisa ? investigar como a identidade racial negra foi incorporada no processo de elabora??o do Plano Municipal de Educa??o de Diamantina/MG. Indicamos uma abordagem metodol?gica mista, sendo predominantemente qualitativa, mas, tamb?m quantitativa, integrada como estrat?gia de pesquisa complementar. Propomos um arranjo de an?lise desenvolvido em tr?s etapas, sendo revis?o bibliogr?fica, coleta de dados e prepara??o do material e, infer?ncia e apresenta??o dos resultados. Para composi??o da amostra utilizamos dois instrumentos, coleta documental e entrevista, sendo que dos documentos que integram o corpus do trabalho nas duas vers?es da meta 22 ? Projeto de Lei n? 08/2015 e Lei n? 3.880/2015 ? concentraram nosso maior interesse, sendo a parte dos documentos onde foi abordado o tema da identidade racial negra. As entrevistas foram direcionadas ? representantes de dois segmentos que participaram da elabora??o do Plano, os dirigentes municipais e grupo de discuss?o. Efetuamos a an?lise dos dados de acordo com o m?todo de an?lise de conte?do descrito por Bardin (2010). O texto da disserta??o foi dividido em quatro se??es: Metodologia; Dial?tica das ra?as: por uma identidade racial negra; Planejamento e Plano Educacional: pol?ticas de curr?culo; An?lise da elabora??o do Plano Municipal de Educa??o de Diamantina/MG: a identidade racial negra em quest?o. Os resultados indicaram que o p?s-colonialismo, determinante nas ?[...] rela??es de poder e formas de conhecimento que colocam o sujeito imperial europeu na sua posi??o atual de privil?gio [...]? (SILVA, 2014, p.127), como fen?meno presente em todas as inst?ncias sociais, reproduz no campo das pol?ticas de planejamento curricular, formas de discrimina??o e exclus?o da identidade racial negra, evid?ncia que julgamos importante para a interpreta??o do campo pol?tico curricular brasileiro. / Disserta??o (Mestrado Profissional) ? Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Educa??o, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, 2017. / The central question of this research is to investigate how the black racial identity was incorporated in the process of elaboration of the Municipal Plan of Education of Diamantina/MG. We indicate a mixed methodological approach, being predominantly qualitative, but also quantitative, integrated as a complementary research strategy. We propose an analysis arrangement developed in three stages, being bibliographical review, data collection and preparation of the material, and inference and presentation of the results. For the composition of the sample we used two instruments, documentary collection and interview, and the documents that integrate the corpus of the work in the two versions of goal 22 ? Bill n? 08/2015 and Law n? 3.880/2015 ? focused our greatest interest, being the part of the documents where the subject of the black racial identity was approached. The interviews were directed to the representatives of two segments that participated in the elaboration of the Plan, the municipal leaders and the discussion group. We performed the data analysis according to the content analysis method described by Bardin (2010). The text of the dissertation was divided into four sections: Methodology; Dialectic of races: by a black racial identity; Planning and Educational Plan:curriculum policies; Analysis of the elaboration of the Municipal Plan of Education of Diamantina/MG: the black racial identity in question. The results indicated that postcolonialism, which is a determining factor in the "[...] power relations and forms of knowledge that place the European imperial subject in its current position of privilege [...]" (SILVA, 2014, p. 127), as a phenomenon present in all social instances, reproduces in the field of curricular planning policies, forms of discrimination and exclusion of black racial identity, evidence which we deem important for the interpretation of the Brazilian curricular political field.

A dissertação analisa a presença e a atuação de mulheres negras na representação política no Estado do Rio de Janeiro, tomando como base de comparação as duas últimas eleições, de 2002 e 2006. Nestas eleições consideram-se as candidatas aos cargos de deputada estadual, de deputada federal e, no caso da eleição do ano de 2006, também a disputa para o cargo de senadora. O trabalho visa se inserir num cenário mais amplo que é o da representação política negra e feminina, diminuta quantativamente no país. Assim, a problemática analisada é a incorporação ou não de bandeiras feministas e anti-racistas pelas candidatas. Os instrumentos utilizados para esta análise foram o Horário Gratuito de Propaganda Eleitoral destas duas eleições e as entrevistas com candidatas negras que participaram da pesquisa qualitativa. A partir desta ótica, são consideradas questões pragmáticas que envolvem a busca pela eleição e as perspectivas de gênero que se inserem no campo da disputa eleitoral, um espaço tradicionalmente ocupado por homens brancos. A dissertação conclui indicando que o evidenciamento e o reconhecimento racial é tímido em disputas eleitorais o que não acontece com a perspectiva de gênero - , mas não significa a negação destes. / The dissertation analyzes the presence and the performance of black women in the representation politics in the State of Rio de Janeiro, taking as base of comparison the two last elections, 2002 and 2006. In these elections the candidates to the positions of state deputy consider themselves, of representative and, in the case of the election of the year of 2006, also the dispute for the senator position. The work aims at to insert itself in a scene ampler than it is of the representation the politics black and, feminine miniature quantitatively in the country. Thus, the problematic one analyzed is the incorporation or not of flags feminists and anti-racists for the candidates. The instruments used for this analysis had been the Gratuitous Schedule of Electoral Propaganda of these two elections and the interviews with black candidates who had participated of the qualitative research. From this optics, pragmatic questions are considered that involve the search for the election and the gender perspectives that if they insert in the field of the electoral dispute, a traditionally busy space for white men. The dissertation concludes indicating that the evidence and the racial recognition are shy in electoral disputes - what does not happen with the gender perspective -, but does not mean the negation of these.

abstract: The present study explored longitudinal associations between self-esteem and a specific dimension of gender identity (GI) and ethnic-racial identity (ERI), namely felt pressure from family and peers to act or behave in either gender or race/ethnic-accordant ways, among a sample of 750 African American and Latino/a middle school students (M = 12.10 years, SD = .97 years) in a southwestern U.S. city. Participants completed measures of self-esteem and GI and ERI felt pressure from family and from peers at two time points. Data were analyzed through bivariate correlation and hierarchical multiple linear regression analyses. Hierarchical multiple linear regression results revealed that among African American students, there was a significant negative longitudinal association between ERI felt pressure from family at Time 1 and self-esteem at Time 2 after controlling for self-esteem at Time 1. There was also a significant negative longitudinal association between ERI felt pressure from peers at Time 1 and self-esteem at Time 2 among African American participants. However, these associations were not found among Latino/a participants. Implications of findings with regards to GI and ERI development during early adolescence, socialization, and school context are discussed. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Counseling Psychology 2017

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:38:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DissPSA.pdf: 1664828 bytes, checksum: 6f4fb2b20ce7a32642050b5f6122298f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-03-27 / Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos / This research is related to the influence of Teaching of History to build the sense of embrace their ethnic-racial roots and the relation between blacks and whites. It has participated in this research four former black students of an Affirmative Action project who took place in the city of Sao Carlos, state of Sao Paulo, which aimed to prepare students to College admission exams. This research was performed and guided by the following research inquiry: Does the teaching of History contribute to the affirmation/denial to the ethnic-racial feeling of poor black students in the college admission courses? The study takes off from the observations made by the researcher in charge for the subjects of History and Geography in this project. He aimed to verify whether the teaching of History interferes in the self esteem and identity of afro-descendants students, leading them to the feeling of denying their own ethnic racial roots, which is fabricated in the society. Systematic talks with two former female students and two male students were conducted involved in the Affirmative action project that was developed in the period of 2002 and 2003, sponsored by Fundação Ford and attached to Department of Physics of USP, campus Sao Carlos Sao Paulo, aiming to facilitate the access and permanence of poor black students at the public university. It also aimed to strike back situations of prejudice, discrimination and racism such ideas reinforced by ideologies still present along the years in Brazil. The findings showed that the integration of the researched students favored them to embrace the feeling of ethnic and racial roots to what they were alike, when they identify themselves as afro-descendants. These students dealt with racist attitudes and discriminations in their routine. However, they got their self esteem and identity favored by the time they recognized themselves as culture makers and active agents in the scenery of the Brazilian history. / Esta pesquisa está relacionada às influências do Ensino de História na construção do pertencimento étnico-racial e nas relações entre negros e brancos. Teve como participantes quatro ex-alunos afro-descendentes de um projeto de Ação Afirmativa, realizado na cidade de São Carlos-SP, que visava preparar estudantes para o exame vestibular. Esta pesquisa foi realizada, orientando-se pela seguinte questão de pesquisa: O ensino de História contribui para afirmação/negação ao pertencimento racial de estudantes negros e carentes em cursinho pré-vestibular? O estudo parte de observações feitas pelo pesquisador, responsável pelas disciplinas de História e Geografia nesse projeto. E teve por objetivos de verificar se o Ensino de História interfere na auto-estima e identidade de alunos afro-descendentes, levando-os a não aceitação de seu pertencimento étnico-racial, o que é reproduzido na sociedade. Realizou-se conversas sistemáticas com duas ex-alunas e dois ex-alunos, estudantes do projeto de ação afirmativa, que se desenvolveu no período entre 2002 e 2003, com recursos da Fundação Ford, vinculado ao Departamento de Física da USP, campus São Carlos - São Paulo, com o objetivo de facilitar o acesso e permanência de alunos negros e carentes na Universidade Pública, e de rebater situações de preconceitos, discriminações e racismo fortalecidos por ideologias que se fazem presente ao longo do fazer histórico brasileiro. Constatou-se que com a integração dos jovens ao projeto em pauta, houve favorecimento para que estes assumissem o pertencimento étnico-racial com o qual se identificavam, sentindo-se fortificados quando identificaram-se como negros. Passaram a rebater atitudes racistas, discriminatórias sofridas no cotidiano, tiveram ainda o favorecimento da auto-estima, identidade, a partir do momento que se reconheceram fazedores de culturas e agentes ativos no fazer da História, da História brasileira.

Submitted by Maria Suzana Diniz (msuzanad@hotmail.com) on 2015-11-23T12:54:24Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 834850 bytes, checksum: 3f47e172ae5d08bf12af8808e094a40b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-11-23T12:54:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 834850 bytes, checksum: 3f47e172ae5d08bf12af8808e094a40b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-05-29 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The research aim at the analysis of the constitution of identities of the racial-ethnic relationships as well as the discursive practices in narratives of black teachers who work in the fundamental teaching of public schools in the municipalities of Mamanguape and Rio Tinto, located in the Mamanguape Valley region, places where units of the UFPB Campus IV operate. To do so, it problematizes educators narratives of the school units generated like linguistic materiality specifically produced for this investigation. Thus, the guiding issue adoption is: how the sense effects expressing focuses of resistance are translated in the discursive-linguistic materiality of the life narratives of black teachers when these – whilst involved in the task of getting rid of stereotyping and stigmatizing identities – look for its change in the relation themselves, in an ethical attitude? It also aims at analyzing the process of constitution of identities in linguistic-discursive sequences that compose biographical scripts and narratives of black teachers as from the relationship between liberty practices and truth discourses as regards the school trajectory, family co-existence, social mobility, , affect-marital arrangements and social The research is inserted in the area of Applied Linguistics and adopts the concept of language as a social practice (MOITA LOPES, 2006). The investigation affiliates notions of the French Discourse Analysis (DA) on discourse and inter-discourse and foucaultian theorizations about the discursive formation and practice and identity constitution in social institutions. The analyzed discursiveness showed that teachers adopt the ego technologies as a form of resistance before discriminating and excluding practices, when constituting their identities. / Este trabalho elegeu como objeto de estudo a análise e constituição de identidades das relações étnico-raciais, bem como de práticas discursivas em narrativas de professores negros que atuam no ensino fundamental de escolas públicas dos municípios de Mamanguape e Rio Tinto, situados na região do Vale do Mamanguape, locais onde estão sediadas as unidades do Campus IV da UFPB. Para isso, apresenta narrativas de educadores das unidades escolares geradas como materialidades linguísticas produzidas especificamente para este estudo. Assim, adotou-se como questão norteadora: Como se traduzem, na materialidade linguístico-discursiva nas narrativas de vida de professores negros, os efeitos de sentidos que expressam focos de resistência quando esses, na tarefa de se livrar de identidades que estereotipam ou estigmatizam, buscam sua transformação, em uma relação consigo mesmo, numa atitude ética? E como objetivo geral: analisar o processo de constituição de identidades em sequências linguístico-discursivas que compõem roteiros biográficos e narrativas dos professores negros, a partir da relação entre práticas de liberdade e discursos de verdades concernentes à trajetória escolar, ao convívio familiar, à mobilidade social, e aos arranjos afetivo-conjugais. A pesquisa se insere na área da Linguística Aplicada e adota a concepção de linguagem como prática social (MOITA LOPES, 2006). A investigação perfilha noções da Análise do Discurso Francesa (AD) sobre discurso e interdiscurso e teorizações foucaultianas acerca de formação e práticas discursivas e constituição identitária nas instituições sociais. As discursividades analisadas indicaram que os professores, ao constituírem suas identidades, se munem de tecnologias do eu como formas de resistência ante as práticas discriminatórias e excludentes.

The purpose of this thesis was to take a deep look into the history of race in American foreign policy in two White House administrations. The presidencies of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Bill Clinton were examined in which the influence of racism in domestic politics was demonstrated as a factor which shaped, and continues to shape, U.S. foreign policy. The research found that 1) segregation, 2) the concept of “primitiveness” formed due to the history between black and white nation-states and 3) the idea of “the other” used by the media and political elite are three manifestations of the consideration of race in Eisenhower’s foreign policy, particularly with respect to Ethiopia. The research also found that 1) American discomfort with white suffering, 2) the normalization of violence in black countries and usage of the term “tribalism,” and 3) the significance of ethno-racial identity all demonstrate the role of race in Clinton’s foreign policy which resulted in the disproportionate political prioritization of the Western Balkans over Rwanda.

A dissertação analisa a presença e a atuação de mulheres negras na representação política no Estado do Rio de Janeiro, tomando como base de comparação as duas últimas eleições, de 2002 e 2006. Nestas eleições consideram-se as candidatas aos cargos de deputada estadual, de deputada federal e, no caso da eleição do ano de 2006, também a disputa para o cargo de senadora. O trabalho visa se inserir num cenário mais amplo que é o da representação política negra e feminina, diminuta quantativamente no país. Assim, a problemática analisada é a incorporação ou não de bandeiras feministas e anti-racistas pelas candidatas. Os instrumentos utilizados para esta análise foram o Horário Gratuito de Propaganda Eleitoral destas duas eleições e as entrevistas com candidatas negras que participaram da pesquisa qualitativa. A partir desta ótica, são consideradas questões pragmáticas que envolvem a busca pela eleição e as perspectivas de gênero que se inserem no campo da disputa eleitoral, um espaço tradicionalmente ocupado por homens brancos. A dissertação conclui indicando que o evidenciamento e o reconhecimento racial é tímido em disputas eleitorais o que não acontece com a perspectiva de gênero - , mas não significa a negação destes. / The dissertation analyzes the presence and the performance of black women in the representation politics in the State of Rio de Janeiro, taking as base of comparison the two last elections, 2002 and 2006. In these elections the candidates to the positions of state deputy consider themselves, of representative and, in the case of the election of the year of 2006, also the dispute for the senator position. The work aims at to insert itself in a scene ampler than it is of the representation the politics black and, feminine miniature quantitatively in the country. Thus, the problematic one analyzed is the incorporation or not of flags feminists and anti-racists for the candidates. The instruments used for this analysis had been the Gratuitous Schedule of Electoral Propaganda of these two elections and the interviews with black candidates who had participated of the qualitative research. From this optics, pragmatic questions are considered that involve the search for the election and the gender perspectives that if they insert in the field of the electoral dispute, a traditionally busy space for white men. The dissertation concludes indicating that the evidence and the racial recognition are shy in electoral disputes - what does not happen with the gender perspective -, but does not mean the negation of these.

This diploma thesis focuses on the analysis of the conditions of lighter-skin black women of mixed ancestry, both free and enslaved, before and after emancipation, as related in four novels written by the 19th century African-American novelists: Hannah Crafts, Harriet E. Wilson, Julia C. Collins and Frances E. W. Harper. The work especially deals with the main motifs appearing in their novels, such as the interracial relationships, variations of racism toward mulattos, the problematics of ``passing{\crqq} for white and the issue of ``racial uplift{\crqq}. The analyses of the novels themselves are preceded by a survey of the authors´ lives since they drew inspiration from their own personal experience. This is followed by a brief conclusive comparison of their novels.