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Item Designing a Platform that Connects People of Color to Therapists of Color(2020-05-25) Iyamah, Jacquelyn; Walsh, Greg; University of Baltimore. School of Information Arts and Technologies; University of Baltimore. Master of Science in Interaction Design and Information ArchitectureBeing a person of color comes with a set of unique challenges. Society often discusses racism, but rarely does this discussion delve into the psychological effects of racism on communities of color. In truth, racism can induce illnesses such as anxiety, depression, and race-based stress, which is akin to post-traumatic stress disorder. Further exacerbating the situation is that there are several barriers that prevent people of color from seeking out mental healthcare treatment. From access to mental healthcare, to distrust in the system, to stigma, to a lack of culturally competent providers; people of color often find themselves with few options to treat their symptoms. This thesis examines reputable journals and articles that delve into this phenomenon. It also points to a solution: designing a digital application that connects Black, Indigenous, and people of color to therapists of color who can also address race-based stress if need be.Item Enacting the nation on stage: styles, subjects, and themes in American opera librettos of the 1910s(National Opera Association, 2009-06) Ziegel, Aaron; Towson University. Department of MusicThe article focuses on six staged operas of 1910s with national style. Topics discussed include operas with a theme of racial encounter such as "Natoma" by Victor Herbert, opera "Azora" by Henry Hadley showing the fall of Aztec empire of emperor Montezuma, picturization of Indians in American culture in all the operas, use of dramaturgy adopted from the Europeans for the characters of the opera and the libretto problem faced by the operas.Item Far From the Tree(2021-04-14) Conway, Dominque; Burke, Porscha; Orange, Michelle; MFA in Creative NonfictionThis project focuses on how race and space are experienced in the United States by drawing on my family history and my own experiences as a person of mixed racial heritage. Here, I incorporate genealogy, personal narrative, self-reflection, examination of historical documents and patterns of family migration, as well as oral histories from family members to analyze and document these experiences. Using autoethnographic and other research methods, I have attempted to construct the collective voice of ancestors in order to recreate memory. This journey has exposed me to a historical narrative that has long sat in the shadows of United States history. Even though some aspects of the lives of several of my ancestors have been documented, this information was mostly unknown, especially to the descendants. This project became a process of filling in the blanks, and constructing a fuller historical view of my ancestors and the places where they lived and died as well as broadening my own understanding of United States history. Fall Far from the Tree increases the understanding of the human experience by telling the stories of a people and places that have gone mostly untold.Item JAPS: The Racism of American Soldiers Toward the Japanese in World War II(1992-05-01) Bose, Joanne; Hood College History; History SeminarItem Lessons from Sterling Brown's arrest: Bodycams don't deter racist cops(Salon.com, LLC, 2018-06-05) Watkins, Dwight; Communications Design; Communications DesignWe have the technology to monitor problem cops in real time. Why aren't we using it?Item A Question of Identity: Politics, Race, and Rage on a College Campus(2018-06-29) Hazlett, Andrew W.; Orange, Michelle; Levenson, Jacob; MFA in Creative NonfictionA reported memoir of a college campus in political turmoil over issues of race and identity. It is a story of young people trying to put ideals into action but coming into conflict with other people and other realities.Item Racial Cleansings Against African Americans in the Early 1900s: Forsyth County, Georgia(2021-12-13) Cooper, Olivia; FSU Department of HistoryThis paper focuses on the rising racial tensions in Georgia that led to a racial cleansing against African Americans in Forsyth County in 1912. Other racial cleansings occurred throughout the South in towns where “too many” black people lived. White people were threatened by African Americans especially after claims of sexual assaults against white women “came to light”. The lynching of multiple black men in Georgia including Sam Hose and Rob Edwards helped raise tensions between white people and African Americans, which ultimately led to the racial cleansing. The Atlanta Race “Riot” of 1906 also made black and white people further distrust each other. The racial cleansing of Forsyth County was celebrated by white people all over the South, because racial cleansings were deemed as a way to rid criminals from your community. White people were scared of having black people become successful because they were concerned about their own status. White people were able to massacre African Americans and destroy black communities because ultimately American society still did not view them as people, even decades after slavery was abolished.Item Racism And The White Studies Experience At A Predominantly White Institution(2017) Diaz, Katherine Lloyd; Prime, Glenda M.; Shockley, Kmt; Advanced Studies, Leadership, and Policy; Doctor of PhilosophyThis research study examined black college students lived experiences with racism and white studies. A qualitative phenomenological study was conducted with five black college students. They participated in entrance interviews, a white studies workshop that incorporated a focus group, wrote reflective journals, had exit interviews, and a group debriefing session. The data were analyzed and interpreted through the theoretical lenses of Critical Race Theory and Transformative Learning Theory. A textual analysis of the data revealed two overarching themes. Those themes are the oppressive acts of racism and the revelations from white studies. The participants' white studies experience revealed the power of hearing other students' stories about their experiences with racism, opened their eyes to certain aspects and manifestations of whiteness, provided them with language to use, and fostered strategies about how to respond to racist offenders. Those findings led to a few implications for student affairs professionals, especially those who work with black and minority students, like those in multicultural student programs and services. Multicultural student programs and services are tasked with educating students about privilege and providing programs that address confronting prejudices and changing oppressive attitudes and behaviors on campus. Multicultural student programs and services professionals could use white studies as a tool to equip black college students with knowledge and language to use when responding to incidents of racism and racist offenders.Item Sambo, Beast, or Brother? The Faces of Southern Racism, 1890-1914(1988) Beers, Diane; Hood College History; History SeminarItem The Relation between Discrimination and Cognitive Function: Moderating and Mediating Factors(2019-01-01) Taylor, Antione D.; Waldstein, Shari R.; Psychology; PsychologyDiscrimination is a chronic stressor that disproportionately affects African Americans. Chronic stress itself is a risk factor that has been linked to a plethora of negative brain health outcomes across the lifespan in both animal and human models that include damaging changes in brain structure and function, cognitive decline and increased risk for dementia. Despite an increasingly aging population, and that African Americans are disproportionately burdened by cognitive decline and dementia, little research has examined the relations of discrimination to cognitive functioning among African Americans. Using data from the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Life Span study, multiple regression analyses were conducted on a sample of 946 socioeconomically diverse African Americans (mean age = 47.4 years old, 56.2% female, 50.1% above the poverty line) to examine the interactive relations of discrimination (assessed by the Williams' Everyday Discrimination Scale), age and poverty status on cognitive functioning. Further analyses examined potential biobehavioral mediators of the relation of discrimination to performance on neuropsychological measures. Results revealed no significant three-way interactions of discrimination, age, and poverty status or two-way interactions of discrimination and age with respect to cognitive outcomes. There was only one significant two-way interaction of discrimination and poverty status on the Digit Span Forward subtest (p < .05), such that attention was better for those who reported higher levels of discrimination and were above the poverty line, but worse for those who reported higher levels of discrimination and were below the poverty line. Results also revealed one significant association of discrimination and cognitive function such that higher levels of discrimination were related to higher scores on a measure of memory, the CVLT short delay free recall (p < .05). No proposed candidate mediator attenuated the significant findings. Results indicate a relative absence of a relation of discrimination, and its interaction with age and poverty status, with cognitive function in the present, predominantly middle-aged African American sample. While the minimal significant findings may be spurious, it is possible that relations of discrimination to cognitive function may vary by socioeconomic conditions in select instances. Because the present sample was much younger than prior investigations that noted significant relations of discrimination to cognitive function, it is plausible that such associations may not be seen earlier in the lifespan. While the findings of this study were largely nonsignificant, the results represent an important contribution to the field in understanding the complex relations between discrimination and cognition among African Americans in different sociodemographic groups across the lifespan. Future research investigating relations of discrimination to cognitive function, and associated underlying mechanisms, remains critical to inform efforts to reduce racial disparities in cognitive impairments.Item Trayvon Martin's parents tell Salon: "Nobody is being held accountable" for racist violence(Salon.com, LLC, 2020-06-25) Watkins, Dwight; Communications Design; Communications DesignSybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin discuss the 6-part TV documentary on their son's life and death, "Rest in Power"Item What if we prayed more? Discrimination, religious and spiritual coping, and cardiovascular disease risk among African American women and men(2023-01-01) Ashe, Jason; Waldstein, Shari R; Psychology; PsychologyInterpersonal discrimination is a chronic stressor for many African American (AA) adults and is implicated in racial disparities in cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). AAs, and particularly AA women, often turn to religion and spirituality (R/S) to cope with undue mistreatment and racism, but no prior studies have examined whether religious/spiritual coping might differentially buffer the associations of discrimination with CVD risk factors among AA women and men. This study examined the interactive relations of self-reported multidimensional discrimination, religious/spiritual coping, and sex with several traditional cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors ? including systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP, DBP), glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c), body mass index (BMI), and total cholesterol (TC) ? in a sample of midlife AA women and men. Data were drawn from 753 AA adults (52.9% = women; mean age = 48.73 years; 44.4% below the federal poverty level; 61.9% religiously affiliated with most identifying as Christian/Catholic) in the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Life Span (HANDLS) epidemiological cohort study in Baltimore, Maryland. Participants underwent comprehensive medical examinations, including clinical assessment of SBP, DBP, HbA1c, BMI, and TC; self-reported multiple dimensions of interpersonal discrimination (social status-based, lifetime burden, gender, racial, and everyday) and endorsed frequency of religious/spiritual coping use. Multivariable linear regression examined interactive relations of multidimensional interpersonal discrimination, religious/spiritual coping, and sex to CVD risk factors in models that adjusted for age, poverty status, educational attainment, health insurance status, history of clinical CVDs, and use of antihypertensive, blood glucose-lowering, and lipid-lowering medications. Further sensitivity analyses adjusted for affective (depressive symptoms), biobehavioral (substance use history), social support (marital status, instrumental and emotional social support coping use), and biomedical (BMI when not assessed as an outcome) factors. Results revealed significant three-way interactions among discrimination, religious/spiritual coping use, and sex for SBP, DBP, BMI, and TC (after removal of one outlier). Although visual plots demonstrated similarly patterned findings across these CVD risk factors, all simple regression slopes were nonsignificant. Significant main effects of religious/spiritual coping (b = 0.45, p = .031) and sex (b = 2.50, p = .003) were noted for DBP levels. More frequent religious/spiritual coping use was associated with higher DBP; and men had higher DBP than women. These relations became nonsignificant when social support variables were added to the base models in sensitivity analyses; however, these variables did not mediate the associations. These largely null findings suggest that, in this sample of AA women and men, religious/spiritual coping use may not differentially buffer the associations between multidimensional interpersonal discrimination and CVD risk factors. However, complex methodological considerations lead us to call for further investigation of this topic using improved measurements of other forms of discrimination, multidimensional assessments of religious/spiritual coping use and other forms of religiosity, and increased attention to Intersectionality-driven statistical models.Item WISPOBISH: FOREST OF GHOSTS, TOWER OF VOICES(2018-01-01) Aslanbeik, Parastoo; Durant, Mark Alice; Visual Arts; Imaging and Digital ArtsWispobish is a powerful tree in Persian mythology. The tree contains the nest of the Simurgh, a mythical phoenix-like bird, representing benevolence. In Persian, the word Wispobish means ‘the cure of every disease.' I am employing the symbol of the Wispobish in response to the attempts to ban Iranians and other Muslims, from the United States, regarding to the recent Executive order 13769 Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry. I utilize the old photographic technique of wet plate collodion in combination with tree branches to create a ghostly forest. A fragile yet monumental structure constructed from white-washed cardboard boxes, is inscribed with ancient Persian poems and silhouettes of branches. In this piece, I hope to evoke the voices of those who have been demonized and offer healing through collective strength.