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Understandings of Race and Their Effect on Political Ideology, Engagement, and Self-Identity Among 1.5, Second, and Third Generation Dominicans
Get PDFThis thesis looks at the ways 1.5, second, and third generation Dominicans in the United States understand their racial identities and how this affects their political ideology and engagement. More specifically, it looks at whether the participants of this study identify with a racial identity or with an ethnic identity, and how this might affect their political ideology and engagement with politics. This study found that there is a relationship between Dominicans’ self-perceptions of race and how others identify them racially, and that there is a relationship between whether participants identify with an ethnic or racial identity and the degree to which they leaned left politically and engaged with politics
A Reason for the Rampage: Aggrieved Entitlement and White Masculinities
Get PDFAs mass shootings events continue to occur with alarming frequency in the United States, scholars search for explanations, turning frequently to a dynamic referred to as aggrieved entitlement to explain why shooters are so often white men. This study attempts to continue work expanding the concept of aggrieved entitlement and its applicability across continuums of violence by proposing a preliminary quantitative measure for the dynamic. Survey data from the 1996 General Social Survey is utilized to create an index of aggrieved entitlement which is then compared with sex, race, region, and religion. It is hypothesized that on an index of aggrieved entitlement individuals who are white will score higher than those who are not white, individuals who are male will score higher than those who are female, and individuals who are both white and male will score higher than those who are only white, only male, or neither. The study yielded no statistically significant correlation between the aggrieved entitlement index and gender or race, offering no concrete support for any hypotheses. This study does, however, indicate that future, more effective quantitative measures of aggrieved entitlement could be both plausible in execution and useful in broadening the application of the concept
