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I love history. Hello, I'm James Thomas White II, an African American historian, who was born in a small town on the Eastern Shore of the United States and raised in the snowy foothills of New England. In 1988, I earned my BA in Political Science from the University of the District of Columbia. Unlike most political science majors, I started covering high school sports for my hometown newspaper. Eventually, I began volunteering for a community development corporation in my neighborhood. As a result of my grassroots activism, I earned an MS in Community Economic Development from Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) in 1996. After 30 years of working as a professional public interest advocate, my passion for history led me back to grad school. So, in 2015, I earned my MA in History from SNHU. Now, I write comparative histories on race relations in the Portuguese Empire from its colonization of Brazil and Lusophone Africa, and the decolonization into the late 20th Century. Please find some of my favorite historians as follows: Ana Lucia Araujo, Mia Elisabeth Bay, David Birmingham, W.E.B. Dubois, Eric Foner, George Fredrickson, John D. Garrigus, Henry Louis Gates, Alex Haley, John A. Marcum, Patricia McGowan Pinheiro, France Winddance Twine, and Jonathan Warren.
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Proceedings of the 2002 InSITE Conference, 2002
Worldwide demand for qualified IT workers has employers exploring under-represented segments of t... more Worldwide demand for qualified IT workers has employers exploring under-represented segments of the workforce. The percentage of women IT workers is not keeping pace with the growth of the industry. Minority populations, which are country specific, are also under-represented segments. This paper focuses on three significant minority segments in the United States: women, African Americans and Hispanic Americans. Studies have shown that increasing the number of these three groups enrolled in university computer science programs can help ease the shortage of qualified IT workers. One approach to attract and retain these students is to encourage the use of participatory organizations. This paper traces the initial efforts of one university to retain these segments through student-led chapters of the Association for Computing Machinery - Women, National Society of Black Engineers and Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers. Critical success factors are identified for use by other univ...
This thesis argues historians’ approaches to, and understanding of the role of race in the eras o... more This thesis argues historians’ approaches to, and understanding of the role of race in the eras of the Angolan and the Brazilian Wars of Independences has changed over time. Two of the factors that supported this belief were due to the Portuguese colonists’ desire to develop multiracial societies in their tropical colonies and not to enforce formal segregation. Moreover, the existence of racism in Angola and Brazil was distorted because of the legacy of miscegenation between African slave women and their white masters as well as various other forms of racial integrations such as interracial marriages, the high level of slave manumissions, the cultural blend and the fact that Jesuits permitted Negroes to join their order during the colonial period.
Proceedings of the 2002 InSITE Conference, 2002
Worldwide demand for qualified IT workers has employers exploring under-represented segments of t... more Worldwide demand for qualified IT workers has employers exploring under-represented segments of the workforce. The percentage of women IT workers is not keeping pace with the growth of the industry. Minority populations, which are country specific, are also under-represented segments. This paper focuses on three significant minority segments in the United States: women, African Americans and Hispanic Americans. Studies have shown that increasing the number of these three groups enrolled in university computer science programs can help ease the shortage of qualified IT workers. One approach to attract and retain these students is to encourage the use of participatory organizations. This paper traces the initial efforts of one university to retain these segments through student-led chapters of the Association for Computing Machinery - Women, National Society of Black Engineers and Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers. Critical success factors are identified for use by other univ...
This thesis argues historians’ approaches to, and understanding of the role of race in the eras o... more This thesis argues historians’ approaches to, and understanding of the role of race in the eras of the Angolan and the Brazilian Wars of Independences has changed over time. Two of the factors that supported this belief were due to the Portuguese colonists’ desire to develop multiracial societies in their tropical colonies and not to enforce formal segregation. Moreover, the existence of racism in Angola and Brazil was distorted because of the legacy of miscegenation between African slave women and their white masters as well as various other forms of racial integrations such as interracial marriages, the high level of slave manumissions, the cultural blend and the fact that Jesuits permitted Negroes to join their order during the colonial period.