Keywords
College students -- Attitudes, College textbooks, College textbooks -- Social aspects, Race, Sex
Abstract
This study examines introductory textbooks images across a variety of disciplines, with particular focus on the ways in which race and gender are shown. This study goes beyond a basic analysis of textbooks, however, and also explores student perceptions of textbook images. My data show that compartmentalization of gender and race into certain themes still occurs within some textbooks. Specifically, white men were more likely to be depicted as hard workers and contributors to the field than any other race and gender. Despite these results, students seemed mixed on the importance of textbook images with many students focused on the extent their textbook was useful for class.
Notes
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Graduation Date
2011
Semester
Summer
Advisor
Grauerholz, Elizabeth
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
College
College of Sciences
Department
Sociology
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
CFE0003878
URL
http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0003878
Language
English
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Access Status
Doctoral Dissertation (Open Access)
Subjects
Dissertations, Academic -- Sciences, Sciences -- Dissertations, Academic
STARS Citation
Blankenship, Chastity Lynn, "Student Perceptions Of Race And Gender Representations Within College Textbooks" (2011). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1900.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/1900