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Coping Among Black College Women: A Transformative Study of Gendered Racism
(Wiley, 2024) Burton, Wanda Martin; Ezemenaka, Christina; Jaiswal, Jessica; Guyotte, Kelly W.; Sanders, Angelica M.
Black women in the United States are placed at higher risk for mental health challenges, including distress and depression, due to structural inequities. Black college women enrolled in predominantly White institutions may be particularly exposed to stressors related to gendered racism, but there is limited knowledge about this population's coping strategies. A cross‐sectional survey and focus group were utilized to understand and disrupt participants’ experiences of gendered racism. In phase one, a survey assessing coping strategies and mental health outcomes was conducted with 168 Black women enrolled at a predominantly White institution in the southeastern United States. Logistic regression results indicated that several coping strategies including behavioral disengagement, self‐blame, self‐distraction, denial, and positive reframing were significantly associated with depression and psychological distress, all p< 0.05. Phase two included a single focus group with a subset of the sample from phase one. The focus group findings supplemented the survey results, suggesting education (more accurately consciousness‐raising) as a foundational theme that seemed to create space for humor and social support as coping subthemes and created a transformative space where participants spoke openly about gendered racism. Findings from this study highlight the societal underpinnings that shape Black college women's experiences of gendered racism. College settings should endeavor to provide formal and informal support for Black women to minimize the harms related to gendered racism.
A Study of the Graduates of the New College External Degree Program at The University of Alabama
(University of Alabama Libraries, 1982) Dice, Patricia Anne Carter
The study was concerned with identifying and
analyzing the characteristics of New College External
Degree graduates; examining their academic curricula and
opinions of the program; and assessing the influence the
degree has had on graduates' employment opportunities,
further education, and personal development.
Specifically, the research was designed to:
1. Develop a profile of New College's External
Degree graduates from personal and demographic data.
2. Obtain academic and curricular demographic data
on graduates including credit options used to complete
program requirements.
3. Assess the "success" of the degree as perceived
by graduates in terms of access and admittance to graduate
study, career and employment opportunities, and impact on
personal development and life enrichment.
4. Seek an evaluation of graduates' perceptions of
adequacy of External Degree Program features and services.
Book Review: The fear of too much justice: Race, poverty, and the persistence of inequality in the criminal courts by Bright, S. B., & Kwak, J.
(Sage Journals, 2024-02-28) Babalola, Abiodun; Salman, Abdulmalik
This review is based on the work of Stephen Bright and James Kwak titled The Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts which was published by the New Press in 2023. The book contains 368 pages with nine chapters, each of which focuses on a different aspect of the criminal justice system in the United States, acknowledgements, notes, an index, and a foreword written by Bryan Stevenson, a renowned civil rights lawyer and activist in the United States.
It aims to shed light on the flaws and injustices within the American criminal justice system, especially concerning issues such as unfair trials, racial discrimination, inadequate legal representation, intense legal proceedings, lengthy working hours, and the profit motive in the judicial system. It also addresses the paucity of funds in defense representation, and the failure of state and local governments to make adequate provisions for funding the legal defense of poor individuals.
Women's Philanthropy: Motivations for Giving
(University of Alabama Libraries, 2004) Parsons, Pamela Hughey
This study examined the motivation for women providing financial support to charitable organizations, whether volunteering leads to financial support, and whether the age of the donor influences their motivations to give financial support. The study used the Identification Theory as a framework for understanding the transfer of wealth between family, friends, and philanthropic organizations. The researcher used qualitative and quantitative methods that included content analysis by a panel of development professionals and a researcher-developed interview protocol. For the quantitative position of the study, a 4-point Likert-type scale was used to determine women's motivations for providing financial support. The survey was administered to women who had provided $250,000 or more during their lifetime, to The University of Alabama with a 46% response rate. Cronbach alpha and item-to-total correlations were used to determine internal consistency and test reliability. An ANOVA was used to determine if there was a difference between women who volunteer and those who do not in providing financial support and found a significant difference. ANOVA was also used to determine if there were differences in women's motivations for giving and age; no significant difference was found. An ANOVA also found a significant difference between motivations and the marital status of the women. The qualitative portion of the study used open-ended questions designed to elicit responses about why women provide financial support. Inductive analysis was used to analyze the data allowing for patterns, themes, and categories to emerge. Findings indicated that women who volunteer are more likely to provide financial support to the same organizations where they or family members contribute their time, women are influenced by husbands, women want to pass on their philanthropic goals to future generations, women learn their philanthropy from religious organizations and family, and they want to make a difference in their communities. Women exhibit an ethic of care in their philanthropy confirming the Identification Theory.
The effects of systematic desensitization on stuttering in a standardized interview situation
(University of Alabama Libraries, 1968) Reynolds, David Seymour
The present investigation was designed to assess the effects of
systematic desensitization on a dysfunctional behavior frequently
seen in a clinical setting, i.e., chronic stuttering. There have
been previous clinical reports of success using this treatment technique
with stutterers (Lazarus, 1964; Lazarus & Rachman, 1957; Walton
& Mather, 1963). Because it has been suggested that the standardized
interview may be sensitive to changes in interactional behavior
following psychotherapy and other forms of treatment (Hannon, 1962;
Patterson, 1963; Sas 1ow & Matarazzo, 1959) it was selected as the
dependent measure here.
The primary question was whether systematic desensitization, as
used in this study, would effect changes in the speech behavior of
stutterers under standardized interview conditions. To determine
what changes had occurred measures were taken of both nonfluencies
and SI variables before and after treatment.
A secondary question was how stutterers would compare with normally
fluent Ss on SI variables. It was expected that SI variables
and nonfluency measures would be related since speech blocks would
tend to increase the length of time required to express a thought.
The direction of this relationship was difficult to predict, however,
because there had been no previous studies of the behavior of stutterers
under SI conditions.