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Legacies Of American Slavery In The South: An Analysis Of White Racial Resentment Towards African Americans, Rebecca Raveena Feldherr

Periclean Honors Forum Scholar Award Winners

This study aims to explore whether the historical institution of slavery in the United States is manifested in contemporary white racial resentment towards African Americans through engaging institutional replication, racial threat, and intergroup contact theories. Present differences in the residential integration of blacks and whites at the county-level is hypothesized to be a mediating factor in the relation between the presence of slavery in 1860 and attitudinal measures of current white racial resentment. This study analyzes three distinct sources of data: the proportion of slaves in 1860 counties is derived from the U.S. Census Bureau, black-white dissimilarity indices are calculated …

The Last Step To Whiteness : American Jews, Civil Rights, And Assimilation, 1954-1988, Eric Morgenson

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

This dissertation examines the relationship between American Jews and African Americans through the prism of evolving Jewish whiteness. In the post-World War II period, American Jews were an outsider group that were moving into the mainstream. American Jews interested in assimilating tied themselves to the cause of African American civil rights in the 1950s and 1960s. This was partially motivated by a desire to help an oppressed minority work towards equality in the United States. However, it was also motivated in part by a desire to aid in their own assimilation process. The idea of creating a colorblind American society …

Legacies Of American Slavery In The South: An Analysis Of White Racial Resentment Towards African Americans, Rebecca Raveena Feldherr

Sociology Senior Seminar Papers

This study aims to explore whether the historical institution of slavery in the United States is manifested in contemporary white racial resentment towards African Americans through engaging institutional replication, racial threat, and intergroup contact theories. Present differences in the residential integration of blacks and whites at the county-level is hypothesized to be a mediating factor in the relation between the presence of slavery in 1860 and attitudinal measures of current white racial resentment. This study analyzes three distinct sources of data: the proportion of slaves in 1860 counties is derived from the U.S. Census Bureau, black-white dissimilarity indices are calculated …

The Passion Of Love Or The Love Of Passion In A-Minor, Brendan Whitt

ETD Archive

A-Minor is an one-act play that examines the relationship between a Black artist and the predominantly white society and industry he must assimilate into in order to be considered a success. The main character Jacque Bonnet is used as a vessel to interpret the life and career of Joseph Bologne Chevalier de St. George. Despite Bonnet and Bologne being from different eras (Bologne mid to late 1700’s, Bonnet Mid 1800’s) I used Bonnet as a device to investigate the lesser explored life of Bologne. By creating a meta-gothic world for Jacque Bonnet to exist in, the crowd can watch his …

Ligon, Lucy Ann (Parker) Robbins, 1833-1891 - Letters To (Sc 3278), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3278. Letters to Lucy Ann Robbins Ligon, the daughter of Fulton County, Kentucky judge Josiah Parker and his wife Lucy A. Parker, written while she lived in Crittenden County, Arkansas with her late husband’s brother, and in Hickman, Kentucky after her remarriage. Lucy’s parents relay news of her siblings and of pre-Civil War Hickman, and at the outbreak of war dramatically describe the division of loyalties, the townspeople’s fear and uncertainty as invasion threatens from the North, the enlistment of local men, two destructive fires, economic conditions, …

Black Lives, Sacred Humanity, And The Racialization Of Nature, Or Why America Needs Religious Naturalism Today, Carol W. White

Faculty Journal Articles

Embedded in persistent representations of people of African descent as inferior beings or subpar humans are problematic notions of animality, race, and nature in the U.S., or a lethal combination of intimately conjoined white supremacy and species supremacy. Confronting these processes is a model of African American religious naturalism, which presupposes human animals’ deep, inextricable homology with each other and with other natural processes. Building on the ideas of Anna J. Cooper, W. E. B. du Bois, and James Baldwin, this model of religious naturalism emphasizes humans as sacred centers of value and distinct movements of nature itself where deep …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 91, No. 3, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Shaffer, Hannah. Hunter Hayes to Perform Homecoming Concert – Entertainment
• Harney, Lashana & Andrew Henderson. Governors Savings Program – Scholarships
• Sullivan, Tommy. Uber Services Arrive in Bowling Green
• Collins, Emma. WKU Receives Record Amount of Donations – Institutional Advancement
• Shaffer, Hannah. Phi Delta Theta Settles Into Their New Home – Fraternities and Sororities
• Mayo, Marcel. Student Government Association Outlines Goals for Semester
• Editorial Cartoon Stay Uber Safe
• Uber Is Here: Ride-Sharing App Promises Safer Late Night Option
• Freeman, Shane. No Escape – Movie Review
• Livesay, Andrew. Karate Kids Photo …

The Ideological And Organizational Origins Of The United Federation Of Teachers' Opposition To The Community Control Movement In The New York City Public Schools, 1960-1968, Stephen Brier

Publications and Research

This article explores the origins and ideological practice of public school teacher unionism as it was articulated and revealed in New York City before and during the epochal strike against an experiment in community control of neighborhood schools undertaken by the United Federation of Teachers in the fall of 1968 that closed down the city’s massive public school system for weeks and put almost 1 million school children in the street. How and why did unionized New York City public school teachers support the particular kind of trade unionism that the UFT and its president, Albert Shanker, embodied and practiced …

Servant Leadership And African American Pastors, Clarence Bunch

Antioch University Full-Text Dissertations & Theses

Robert Greenleaf (1977) took a follower’s, rather than a leader-centric, point of view of leadership by describing a leader as one who leads by serving. He identified a leader as one who sets other people’s needs above his or her own. He argued that motivation of leaders must begin with the conscious choice to serve others. Greenleaf’s concept provides the basis for a theoretical model of servant leadership. This dissertation examines the extent to which African American pastors exhibit servant leadership characteristics, using the Servant Leadership Questionnaire (Barbuto & Wheeler, 2006). A sample of 358 African American pastors from 11 …

Interview With Pearl Perguson Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Pearl Perguson conducted by Kevin Eans for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Perguson discusses her life and times, including information about social life and reactions to national events in the small town of Horse Branch, Ohio County, Kentucky.

Florida Sentinel Bulletin, August 17, 2010, Gwen Hayes

Florida Sentinel Bulletin Collection

The August 17, 2010, issue of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin.

Florida Sentinel Bulletin, September 22, 2009, Gwen Hayes

Florida Sentinel Bulletin Collection

The September 22, 2009, issue of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin.

"It Was Still No South To Us": African American Civil Servants At The Fin De Siècle, Eric S. Yellin

History Faculty Publications

If Washingtonians know anything about black civil servants of the early twentieth century, it is that they faced discrimination under President Woodrow Wilson. Beginning in 1913, Wilson’s Democratic administration dismantled a biracial, Republican-led coalition that had struggled since Reconstruction to make government offices places of racial egalitarianism. During Wilson's presidency, federal officials imposed "segregation" (actually exclusion), rearranged the political patronage system, and undercut black ambition. The Wilson administration's policies were a disaster for black civil servants, who responded with one of the first national civil rights campaigns in U.S. history. But to fully grapple with the meaning of federal segregation, …

Street-Ball: The Myth Of The Ghetto Basketball Star, Vincent F. Mcsweeney

Honors Scholar Theses

In recent decades, countless scholars have examined the developing trend of African American dominance in United States’ professional sports. Many have hypothesized that this over-representation is caused by the presumed reliance on sports as an avenue out of poverty for the African American youths. This trend, it is believed, has a highly detrimental effect the African American community. In actuality, this argument is flawed because it works under the stereotypical assumption that the overwhelming majority of African Americans come from abject poverty. To dispel this fallacy, the author has analyzed the upbringings of each All-National Basketball League First Team player …

Civil Rights In Black And Green: Towards A Transatlantic Understanding Of The Civil Rights Movements In The United States And Northern Ireland, Mollie Gabrys

American Studies Honors Projects

Due to the lack of recognition for the solidarity between movements for civil rights, little formal scholarship acknowledging the relationship between African Americans and Nationalists in Northern Ireland exists. Nationalists in Northern Ireland, however, have long identified with African American civil rights activists in a cross-cultural quest for equality. From Northern Ireland’s very first protests against discrimination, civil rights campaigners firmly aligned themselves with the ideological framework modeled in the United States. In this thesis, I explore the interconnectedness of civil rights struggles in the United States and in Northern Ireland through the use of scholarly, primary, and secondary documents.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 79, No. 8, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Hoang, Mai. Journalism Gets a $500,000 Donation
• Clark, Ashlee. Kappa Alpha Psi May Return
• Hopkins, Shawntaye. The Psychology Behind Streaking
• Sebastian, Kandace. Injured Students Released – Carlie Heath, Katie Nelsen
• Reed, Lindsey. Students Voice Concerns About Campus Safety – Student Government Association
• Hoang, Mai. Mass Media & Technology Hall Seeks New Name
• Green, Tavia. Winona LaDuke Speaks Tomorrow
• Lamar, Mike. Editorial Cartoon: A Lesson in Economics & Logic – Tuition
• State-proposed Tuition Cap Bad Idea
• Schmitz, Jake. Regarding Latest Transpark News
• Job Good for Luther Hughes – Ombudsman
• Hughey, …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 77, No. 34, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Dittmeier, Kate. Aramark Gets Food Contract
• Loyal, Taylor. Crossing Over – Phi Beta Sigma, Integration
• Holm, Hollan. Students Fooled by Magazine Sales Pitch
• Charles Henson Memorial Service Today
• Forensic Team Competes in St. Louis
• Famed Western Alum Dies – Phil Bailey
• College Heights Herald Wins Kentucky Press Association General Excellence
• Shinall, Dave. High Schoolers Visit Hill
• Warren, Brandy. Old Mall to be Renovated for Business Leasing
• Wood Selig Should Set Policy for Athletes, Coaches – Crime
• Grady, Brian. Editorial Cartoon re: Athletics Policies
• Walker, Joyce. Charles Henson Was Educator, …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 76, No. 27, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Youngman, Sam. New Fees May Affect Financial Aid
• A Moment . . . on the Hill – An Hour of Everyday Life on Campus
• Hoang, Mai. Alumnus Founding Irish City – William Thomas, Eutopias
• Dawes, Jennifer. Government Class Will Take Trip to Washington, D.C. for Inauguration
• Warren, Brandy. Amy Caswell Resigns from Student Government Association
• Stocking Stuffers for All from the College Heights Herald Staff
• Stinson, Sam. Pictures Need to Be Seen – Humane Society
• Randolph, Patty. Shocking Pictures Worthwhile – Humane Society
• Shaver, Vicki. Pet Owners Need Reminder …

Tricky Magic: Blacks As Immigrants And The Paradox Of Foreignness, Lolita K. Buckner Inniss

Publications

Since the beginning of the nation, white Americans have suffered from a deep inner uncertainty as to who they really are. One of the ways that has been used to simplify the answer has been to seize upon the presence of black Americans and use them as a marker, a symbol of limits, a metaphor for the "outsider." Many whites could look at the social position of blacks and feel that color formed an easy and reliable gauge for determining to what extent one was or was not American. Perhaps that is why one of the first epithets that many …

An Historical Review Of The Experiences Of Eastern Washington University African-American Male Athletes From The 1960'S To The 1970'S, T. J. Ewing

Physical Education, Health and Recreation Masters Thesis Collection

This study provided an historical examination of experiences of Eastern Washington University African-American Athletes, as well as their Coaches, and Athletic Directors. The interviewees all attended Eastern during the 60's and 70's. Three African-American players, four coaches who coached them, and three Athletic Director's were interviewed in the study. This study examines how African-American athletes at Eastern were influenced by other African-American athletes or leaders from the 60's through the early 70's. The study also investigates whether or not the Cheney Community was directly affected by these changes that occurred in the 60's through the early 70's. This study shows …

Deconstructing The Ideology Of White Aesthetics, John M. Kang

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

In this Article, the author provides a discussion on the dynamic between race and aesthetics. The author states that because Whites are the dominant group in America, they dictate what is beautiful. The consequence of this power dynamic is that the dominant group, Whites, can exercise preferences in deciding how to look or express themselves, whereas people of color are limited to either conforming to an imposed White standard or rejecting it. The author starts by laying out some of the features to what he terms the "ideology of White aesthetics." He then commences to examine how this ideology has …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 46, No. 1, Jean-Paul Benowitz, John Lowry Ruth, Paula T. Hradkowsky, Monica Mutzbauer

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Mennonites of Pennsylvania: A House Divided
• "Not Only Tradition, but Truth": Legend and Myth Fragments Among Pennsylvania Mennonites
• Mennonite Women and Centuries of Change in America
• "It is Painful to Say Goodbye": A Mennonite Family in Europe and America

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 68, No. 27, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Bryan, Angela. Abduction, Rape Raise Concerns – WKU Police
• Cassady, Pam. Students Buzzing Over Near Beer
• Good, Epha. Student Works Missing from Ivan Wilson Fine Arts Center
• Burnham, Maria. Procrastination: Why Do Today What You Can Do Tomorrow?
• Here’s Wishing You a Hill of a Holiday
• Johnson, Steve. Editorial Cartoon Thomas Meredith Giving Santa Claus His List
• Simmons, Herb. Evaluations Tangled in Legality Concerns – Student Evaluations
• Stottmann, Stephanie. Capitol Arts Center Thanks Sorority Volunteers
• Payne, Daryl. Quit Whining About Tickets & Seating – Athletics …

Ua68/13/4 Limited Edition, Vol. 7, No. 1, Wku Journalism

WKU Archives Records

Newspaper created by students participating in the Minority Journalism Workshop hosted by the WKU Journalism Department.

• Shafi, Farah. Couple Face Struggle to Help Children Overcome Tragedies - Galilean Home Ministries
• Ashan, Human. Western Must Up Minority Enrollment
• Hafiz, Diya. Earnece Walker Gives Shoes Walker Glow
• Patterson, Erica. Western Gets Bonus with Halcomb Twins
• Williamson, Tiffany. Civil Rights Role Started Early
• Ahsan, Human. Western Professor Wants Role in Setting Policy - Saundra Ardrey
• Spaulding, Allonda. Reporter Decides Early on TV Career - Beverly Kirk
• Shafi, Farah. Students Get Inside View at Broadcasting Business
• Townes, Jimmedda. Cold Floor, Steel Doors Greet Warren …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 62, No. 26, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Koniak, Joe. Raid on 4 Local Bars Leaves Officials Questioning Ruling
• Pack, Todd. Pi Kappa Alpha Use Bedside Manner to Tuck Away a Few Bucks
• Turner, Todd. Western Leads State Universities Enrollment Increase
• Schlagenhauf, Ann. Soviet Official Discusses Summit, Afghanistan – Pavel Pavlov
• Jessie, Lisa. Officials Hang Out at Sneakers – University of Wisconsin
• Scholarships are More than Handouts of Money
• Barry, Julia. Editorial Cartoon – Scholarships
• Rezone Grise Lot but Keep Your Asphalt Off the Grass
• Schabel, Christine. Drawn through Mud
• Bhatt, Vishwesh. Homeless …

Florida Sentinel Bulletin, August 2, 1985, Gwen Hayes

Florida Sentinel Bulletin Collection

The August 2, 1985, issue of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin. Included are articles on job training for unemployed people; the 75th annual conference of the National Urban League; Bob Dole's encouragement for Blacks to join the Republican Party; teenage pregnancy; and Stevie Wonder to perform on the Motown Revue Starring Smokey Robinson.

Florida Sentinel Bulletin, July 5, 1985, Gwen Hayes

Florida Sentinel Bulletin Collection

The July 5, 1985, issue of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 60, No. 55, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Meehan, Mary. Board of Regents Approves Limited Budget
• Thomas, Ursula. Special Olympics Volunteer Wins Love – B.J. Little
• Stone, Tom. Administrators Confess to College Mischief – Donald Zacharias, Paul Cook, John Osborne
• Ron Beck Appointed Interim Dean
• Student, Teacher Die Over Weekend – Geraldine Hahn, John Davis
• Kendall, Vallory. Praises Professors
• Reagan, Stan. Backs Up Police
• Verner, Jo & Norm Johnson. Thanks Special Olympics Help
• Knapp, Kevin. Editorial Cartoon – Spring
• McMahon, Dorothy. Reform Should Follow Charles Dickens
• Fraternity’s Stepping Shows Spirit – Kappa Alpha …

Florida Sentinel Bulletin, March 15, 1985, Gwen Hayes

Florida Sentinel Bulletin Collection

The March 15, 1985, issue of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 60, No. 8, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue includes articles:

• Carlton, Chad. New Laws No Party for Drunks – Kentucky
• Edelen, Mark. Tennessee Drunk Driving Law
• Henigman, Louise. Pass-Fail Exams Revamped
• Group Hopes to Fill Abyss of Apathy – United Campuses to Prevent Nuclear War
• Knapp, Kevin. Editorial Cartoon – Apathy
• Thomas, Steve. Editor Has Wild Time in Washington D.C.
• Hutcherson, Jackie. Hilltopper Days Attended by 1,571
• Spirit Dominates Greek Weekend
• Humphreys, Mack. College Heights, Alias Vinegar Hill, Site of Albert Sidney Johnston’s Civil War Fort
• Letteney, Corinne. Crowd Response Cheerleaders’ Reward
• Malmer, Victoria. Golfing …