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Predictors Of Job Satisfaction Among Three Racial/Ethnic Groups Of Professional Female Human Service Workers, R. L. Mcneely

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Three hundred and thirty-six female human service workers were studied to determine whether or not racial/ethnic status was related to job satisfaction among managerial, supervisory and professional employees. Both overall and intrinsic satisfaction were assessed. Two groups were similar in the patterns predictive of their satisfaction but the third group appeared to be influenced by concerns peculiar to those achieving recent professional status.

Ua12/2/7 Wku Sorority System Annual Report, Kimberly Logan

WKU Archives Records

Annual report regarding the Panhellenic system at WKU for the 1986-1987 school year.

The Incidence And Magnitude Of Tooth-Size Discrepancies In Caucasians, Blacks And Hispanics, Dana R. Shaltry

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The present investigation utilized the Bolton Analysis to determine the incidence and magnitude of tooth-size discrepancy in a sample of 227 orthodontic patients. Sliding calipers were used to measure the mesiodistal width of the permanent dentition on pretreatment study models of 120 Caucasian, 51 Black, and 56 Hispanic patients. The overall and anterior ratios were analyzed and the frequency and magnitude of excess maxillary and mandibular tooth structure was determined. Each racial group demonstrated a significant incidence of tooth-size discrepancy in the maxillary and mandibular arches of a magnitude (> 0.5mm) which would require some form of correction. In addition, …

Ua45/6 Commencement Program, Wku Registrar

WKU Archives Records

Commencement program listing graduates.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 62, No. 58, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

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

• Carlton, Chad & Carla Harris. Pay Raise Tops List of Proposed Budget Increases
• Hoppes, Lynn & Ann Schlagenhauf. 172 Protest Story About Unwed Mom
• Klausnitzer, Dorren. AIDS Teaches Man Lesson Too Late
• Jessie, Lisa. Business College Faced with Accreditation Loss
• White, Douglas. Eleven Students Lose Home in Apartment
• Four Dry Rush Policies Revised
• Eagleston, Leigh. Bad Checks Cost More Than Money
• Keen Hall Slightly Damaged by Electrical Fire
• Marsupial Awards 1987
• Pelz, Karen. Form Needs Improving – Faculty Evaluations
• Brown, Pamela. Not Positive
• Padgett, David. …

Ua12/2/1 Magazine, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

Special edition of the College Heights Herald, includes articles:

• Klausnitzer, Dorren. Some Gays Casual About Deadly Disease – AIDS
• Eagleston, Leigh. The Amish: A Look Inside an Older World
• Malmer, Victoria. Student Mother – Deborah Terry
• Duff, Jill & Todd Pack. Western’s Success Stories – Russell Dougherty, Mitchell Payne, William Meacham, John Stewart, Harry Gray
• Grad Invests in Beauty – James Marshall

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 62, No. 56, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

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

• Jessie, Lisa. Hotel Group’s Report Mixed
• Eagleston, Leigh. Conflicts, Walkouts Finish Off Associated Student Government Year
• Goheen, Mike. Below-Par Students Get Second Try at College
• Summers, Jason. Senior Fights Age-Old Battles – Robert Cull, Civil War Reenactors
• High School Throws Party for Robert Penn Warren
• White, Douglas. Paralyzed Senior Fights to Stay Alive – Angie Norcia
• Academic Council to Discuss Attendance
• White, Douglas. Observatory Operates After Years of Delay
• Associated Student Government Has Image Problems, Should Leave Antics Behind
• Barry, Julia. Editorial Cartoon – Tim …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 62, No. 54, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

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

• Eagleston, Leigh. Tim Todd Beats Greg Elder in Election Re-Run
• Goheen, Mike. Western May Require Mandatory Advisement
• Klausnitzer, Dorren. Mind Matters in Psychic’s Show – Nancy Czetli
• Colonnade Cherry Hall Getting Fixed
• Suggestions for Centers Due Monday from Panel
• White, Douglas. Five Cited for Having Alcohol at Greek Mixer – Phi Delta Theta
• Schlagenhauf, Ann. Clay Mulford Teaches Kenyan Pastors
• A Special Brand of Caring Sign Up as an Olympic Buddy
• Barry, Julia. Editorial Cartoon – Football
• Whittington, Bill. Successful Reception
• Robson, Ann. Offers help …

Older Blacks' Predictions Of Their Social Support Networks, Brenda Crawley

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Predicting resources for one's later years is risky and evokes feelings of vulnerability. Findings from a study of older blacks reveal that while race and culture may predispose clients to prefer certain resources, such as spouses and children, others realistically expect kin and friends to care for them. The heterogeneous nature of the black elderly suggests an open posture be maintained in assessing support resources for those who face short- or long- term care needs.

The Impact Of Cultural Patterns On Cognition And Intention In Singapore, Chin Tiong Tan, John U. Farley

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Ethnicity of models used in advertisements and the advertised product's country of origin are manipulated experimentally to study how attitudes toward advertising and products lead to behavioral intention. A sample of Singaporean students' traditional Eastern values about family and conformity are also examined. Patterns of results for three products are consistent with theoretical predictions of cognitive processes, and attitude-intention links appear stronger than do those in similar tests in the West. Culture has mixed effect.

Ua3/7/7 Scrapbook File, Wku President - Alexander

WKU Archives Records

Clippings regarding WKU during February 1987.

Screwballs Comic: "Toke N' Choke", Tom Higgins

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

A four-panel black and white comic strip drawn and authored by Tom Higgins expressing ethnic, black male stereotypes.

Long description.

Panel one: In the foreground is one of the usual white, men characters. The man has a long, rectangular nose and long, flat-top hair style. A speech bubble over his head says, "Hey man, did you get th' stuff?" He is looking in the direction of a black man wearing a striped Zoot suit and black fedora who has opened a door and is walking into the room, toward the white character. The black character is drawn as if he …

Group Says Time Has Come For Celebration, Mike Laberge

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

For the members of the newly formed Afro American Association, celebrating Martin Luther King's birthday on campus was an idea whose time had come.

Income Variability In Connecticut: 1980, William H. Groff, Kenneth P. Hadden

Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station

No abstract provided.

Youth Employment And Unemployment: Outreach Initiatives In Massachusetts And The City Of Boston, James Jennings, William J. Stracqualursi, Zaki A. Sakin

William Monroe Trotter Institute Publications

An effort is made here to identify trends in the labor market participation of teenagers, especially in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and in the City of Boston; to specify unemployment trends in terms of the racial identification of teenagers or youth, with a special focus on the 14-19 year old cohort; to describe the types of jobs held by teenagers and make an assessment of the long-term implications of types of employment for future employability; to specify the most frequently identified issues* delineated when attempting to address the problem of youth unemployment; to permit young employed people to speak about …

Originally From Dorchester: Arrivals And Departures In A Neighborhood, Kathleen Kilgore

New England Journal of Public Policy

In "Originally from Dorchester," her portrait of a neighborhood that wrestled — and continues to wrestle — with problems of race, ethnicity, cultural values, economic development, and mobility, Kathleen Kilgore captures the nuances of the small gesture, whether of defiance or gentility, that reveal the underside of social conflict more eloquently than databases or court findings. "The neighborhood," Kilgore writes, "weakened and aged, and forcibly resisted change." But it then began to adapt, the influx of the young and the upwardly mobile providing a lifeline that facilitated a process of renewal and accommodation, in which, in the best sense, diversity …

Table Of Contents

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Table of contents for Explorations in Sights and Sounds, Number 7, Summer, 1987

[Review Of] Edward D. Beechert. Working In Hawaii: A Labor History, Patricia Grimshaw

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

For those interested in ethnic experience, the history of Hawaii offers unique insight. Initially a Polynesian island group, with a population related culturally to inhabitants of islands as far afield as Easter Island, New Zealand and Tahiti, Hawaii from the late eighteenth century onwards became the home of Americans, Europeans, Portuguese, Filipinos, Chinese and Japanese, all drawn there for differing reasons. When to this ethnic and racial variation, the complex permutations of class and gender are added, observers of Hawaii's past are witness to a rich range of inter-cultural encounters. In Working in Hawaii, Edward Beechert's particular focus is the …

[Review Of] Carol Bruchac, Linda Hogan, Judith Mcdaniel, Eds. The Stories We Hold Secret-Tales Of Women's Spiritual Development, Nancy K. Herzberg

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The Stories We Hold Secret -- Tales of Women's Spiritual Development is an anthology of thirty-one short fiction pieces written by and about women in America. These are not stories about extraterrestrial visits, enlightenment through gurus, or dramatic religious conversion; rather, these are stories of inner knowing, of our "holy dailiness," as Linda Hogan says in the preface. The stories are as varied as women's experience, from the quietness of a Native American woman cooking beans and cornbread in her kitchen to the tumult of a woman who for the first time becomes involved with a workers' strike.

[Review Of] Michelle Cliff. The Land Of Look Behind, Aisha Eshe

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Passing and its effect on the individual is one of the themes that Michelle Cliff explores in her book, The Land of Look Behind. Passing is a recurring theme in much of the literature written by people of color both past and present. In much of this literature passing is detrimental to the character. In her attempt to hide her color, Clare Kendry from Nella Larsen's Passing destroys her inner self long before her actual death. When a person does not have a developed sense of self-identity, the self can be lost within any situation.

[Review Of] James D. Cockcroft. Outlaws In The Promised Land: Mexican Immigrant Workers And America's Future, Arthur Ramirez

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

In place of myths about Mexican immigrant workers, Cockcroft establishes several well-founded realities. One is that the border is porous because U.S. business interests want it that way so they can have cheap labor to exploit as needed by means of a border " revolving door." Another is that there is such an interrelated U.S.-Mexico economy, achieved through "silent integration," that in effect the border is a legal fiction. A third is that Mexican " undocumented" workers contribute substantially more to the U.S. economy than they take out. A fourth is that U.S. immigration policy is not at all simple …

[Review Of] Roger Daniels, Sandra C. Taylor, And Harry H. L. Kitano, Eds. Japanese Americans: From Relocation To Redress, Victor N. Okada

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This collection of previously unpublished essays grew out of a conference in Salt Lake City in 1983 on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II and the issue of redress. It includes essays by the three editors and contributions, some no more than brief notes, by twenty-seven individuals. It also includes a detailed chronology of Japanese-American history and comprehensive bibliographical notes.

[Review Of] Lenwood G. Davis, With The Assistance Of Marsha L. Moore. Malcolm X: A Selected Bibliography, James Gray

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Malcolm X's central role in contemporary black thought and life means that students of history, sociology, religion, politics, and literature (to begin a list) must study him carefully. This volume provides a useful starting place, and every reasonable public collection should have a copy. Unfortunately, the cost and several shortcomings limit its use for personal libraries.

[Review Of] Rodolfo O. De La Garza, Frank D. Bean, Charles M. Bonjean, Ricardo Romo, And Rodolfo Alvarez, Eds. The Mexican American Experience: An Interdisciplinary Anthology, Cary D. Wintz

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Mexican-Americans comprise the second largest minority group in the United States and one of the most rapidly growing elements in the population. Their history in the American southwest goes back almost four hundred years, they have interacted with Anglo·Americans in that region since the early nineteenth century, and have been the most numerous immigrant group coming to the United States since the middle of the twentieth century. Despite this clear evidence of their significance and their impact on this country, scholars in the social sciences have often neglected this ethnic group in their research and writing. This volume makes an …

[Review Of] Vine Deloria, Jr., Ed. A Sender Of Words: Essays In Memory Of John G. Neihardt, Helen Jaskoski

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

John Neihardt was like James Boswell: each man's genius -- and it is a rare one -- lay in recognizing, respecting and calling forth the greater genius of another. Neihardt’s task was easier; he was nearly the sole arbiter of Black Elk's communication, with little to fear from comparison with other accounts, but also harder. He faced barriers in personal knowledge, tastes, values and language, as well as a public unprepared to accept his mentor's worth. This book pays tribute to Neihardt and appropriately is not a "balanced" appraisal but an appreciation of his best. However, despite claims for his …

[Review Of] Michael N. Dobkowski, Ed. Jewish American Voluntary Organizations, David M. Gradwohl

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This encyclopedic reference work on Jewish sodalities is one of a series of Greenwood Press publications dealing with ethnic American voluntary organizations. Previously published volumes deal with Irish Americans and Hispanic Americans. Some 120 national and local organizations are summarized in alphabetical sequence, as it were, from aleph to sof, or in this case from Agudath Ha-Rabbanim (Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada) to the ZOA (Zionist Organization of America).

[Review Of] Leslie W. Dunbar, Ed. Minority Report: What Has Happened To Blacks, Hispanics. American Indians, And Other Minorities In The Eighties, Carlos F. Ortega

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Six years since President Reagan took office, public policies related to the needs of the poor have been established which set back the gains of the Civil Rights movement. Although gains have been made, at least on the surface, the current administration's policies have widened the gap between those who have and those who have not. Policies such as affirmative action, education programs, and public welfare are being eroded, sacrificed in favor of escalating military budgets and "constructive engagement" in Central America.

[Review Of] Paul Espinoza, Producer. The Lemon Grove Incident, Freddy Dean

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The Lemon Grove Incident is a compelling and informative presentation of how the members of the local school board in Lemon Grove, California, attempted to implement de jure segregation of American citizens of Mexican American descent in 1930. The narratives of actual participants -- victims in the incident -- enhance the authenticity of the presentation and guide the viewer through the convoluted Machiavellianism of the Lemon Grove School Board and its supporting satellites, the Lemon Grove Parent Teacher Association (PTA) and Chamber of Commerce as well as the federal government.

[Review Of] Joe R. Feagin And Clairece Booher Feagin. Discrimination American Style: Institutional Racism And Sexism, 2nd Ed., Margaret A. Laughlin

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Discrimination American Style seeks to answer two basic questions: "Why do women, blacks, and other minorities experience discrimination in the United States?" and "What types of discriminatory behaviors continue in practice today?" Feagin and Feagin attempt to integrate existing research on issues of racism and sexism which focuses on the overall theme of institutional discrimination. They examine similarities and differences between racist and sexist behaviors and practices in order to determine whether or not discrimination exists, and if so, to what degree. They reject the popular belief that prejudice and bigotry are causes of discrimination and argue that practices which …

[Review Of] Richard F. Fleck. Henry Thoreau And John Muir Among The Indians, Robert F. Sayre

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The idea behind this book, a comparative study of Henry David Thoreau's and John Muir's attitudes toward American Indians, is excellent. Muir, born in 1838, was twenty one years younger than Thoreau. He first read Walden and A Week at the University of Wisconsin in 1862, the year of Thoreau's death. His early writings, although not published until much later, contained generally pro-Indian sentiments similar to Thoreau's , while he also had a Thoreau-like squeamishness about Indians being dirty, lazy, superstitious, and demoralized by contact with whites. "Perhaps if I knew them better, I should like them better," he wrote …