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Get Rich or Die Tryin’: Media and Black Male Academic Identity Development
Get PDFBlack males encounter many difficulties in their educational journeys. Often these disadvantages can be linked to socioeconomic and environmental factors, which have consistently plagued the Black community. However, a relatively unexplored area of interest in higher education is the influence media representation has on the academic identity of Black males. Routinely shown in media outlets as athletes, entertainers, and criminals, Black males rarely view positive representations of themselves across media, thus limiting their academic pursuits. From this study, the researcher hoped to develop a fuller understanding on the influence between multimedia and Black male identity and academic success in higher education. Through the use of photo-elicitation and semi-structured interviews the researcher consulted with six full-time undergraduate Black males who attend historically Black institutions in the South. From the information acquired through each participant’s lived experience, the researcher learned about each contributor’s unique academic identity and means by which educators can increase and develop Black male persistence and achievement in higher education
Just a Girl in a Man’s World: Factors Affecting Women in Leadership in Law Enforcement
Get PDFFederal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) statistics from 2013 revealed that of about 477,000 sworn law enforcement officers at the local level in the United States, only 12% are women; and only 6.2% of those who hold intermediate-level rank are women (U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Local Police Department, 2013: Personnel, Policies, and Practices, 2015). Although legal mandates have afforded women career opportunities in law enforcement, those mandates have not provided protection within the structures of law enforcement agencies regarding achieving high ranking positions. Women are more likely than men to remain in lower-ranking positions throughout their entire careers because they are less likely to be considered for higher ranking command positions. This research explores promotion rates of women employed by police departments, which are typically headed by appointed heads of agencies, and sheriffs’ offices, which are typically headed by elected heads of agencies, in order to determine the similarities or differences regarding rates of promotion of female law enforcement officers as a function of the agency head (elected or appointed). As expected, I find that sheriffs’ offices are less likely to promote women to executive-level positions than are police departments, but surprisingly, sheriffs’ offices promote slightly more women at lower levels of rank. I also examined other variables that may affect the proportion of ranking officers who are women and the findings show that agencies with education-based incentives, higher population (in the agency’s jurisdiction), and agencies in the South are more likely to promote women at lower levels of rank but less likely to promote women at higher levels of rank
Becoming A Constellation
No full textIn the following thesis, titled “Becoming a Constellation,” nine short stories navigate themes of womanhood and illustrate the ways in which life experiences shape a person. Each piece occurs in the fictional Louisiana town of St. Denis and explores setting as an integral piece of character development. The narratives offer a glimpse into the lives of several young women as they grapple with inevitable change and difficult relationships while becoming the women they choose to be
Not The Only Star In The Sky
No full textThis thesis is a collection of fiction short stories written in fulfillment of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of New Orleans. These speculative stories share a common theme of longing for connection. The characters are searching for meaningful connections with each other to alleviate their loneliness
\u27Seeds of Happiness\u27: An Oral History of Members of Soka Gakkai International-New Orleans
Get PDFSoka Gakkai International (SGI) is a Japanese new religious movement present in 192 countries. Despite the substantial amount of academic work that has been produced on SGI’s overseas expansion, many scholars continue to overlook the local context when analyzing the organization’s global presence. This paper is based on oral history interviews and examines the experiences of five members of the SGI-USA New Orleans Buddhist Center, located in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. This thesis argues that many SGI practitioners choose to join and remain in the organization because it fills specific spiritual and emotional voids in their lives, creates an inclusive environment in terms of race, ethnicity, and gender, and allows them to hold leadership roles. Utilizing oral histories to analyze the experiences of members of new religious movements like SGI might contribute to a better understanding of the successful global reach of these groups
Sexual and Erotic Transgression Through Aesthetic History: A Study of Algernon Charles Swinburne
Get PDFThis article examines the relationship between Algernon Charles Swinburne’s poetic writing and history, especially in regards to how he explores sexual transgressions. The article begins with how aestheticism works in tangent with history to further these transgressions within a historical context and especially within the realm of Victorian Christianity. Next, Swinburne’s medieval aesthetics in “The Leper” will be analyzed in regards specifically necrophilia and the taking care of a leper, and how the writing of this poem was both a condemnation of Christianity and an accidental upholding of it. The violent homoeroticism and monstrous femininity of “Anactoria” are also looked at in reference to a classical history and how he tried and failed to use homoeroticism to his advantage in attempting to transgress against Victorian ideals. Finally, an examination of the relationship between Swinburne’s writing and history will conclude that Swinburne damned his own pre-Raphaelite/aesthetic movement as well as the Decadence movement that came after by accidentally associating these sexual and gender oriented transgressions with aestheticism
