Browsing by Subject "African American"
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Five African American Male Superintendents and Their Leadership in Diverse School Districts in Texas (2012-11-29)The focus of this research is in the area of African American male superintendents and their leadership in diverse settings. The research approach adopted in this dissertation used semi-structured interviews with five ...
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(2021-11-03)The essay that follows explores how the institution of education bred social hierarchy, access to citizenship, and engineered generations-long racism through a case study in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas. Using Molina’s ...
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(2014-04-29)This research study was conducted as a qualitative study on four African American male elementary principals. The qualitative research framework was selected to examine and give voice to the life experiences and leadership ...
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(2013-05-09)This qualitative, phenomenological study examined the experiences of four African American undergraduate students and two White professors, all current or former affiliates of a predominantly White university (PWI) in the ...
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(1997)This study examined how African American students' attitudes and beliefs change as they align with ingroups and differentiate from outgroups upon entering a predominantly Anglo environment. Eighty-five African-American ...
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(2015-12-08)The purpose of this study is to hear the voices, life experiences and lobbying practices of four African American educational lobbyists and their role in lobbying for education. There is a void where the voices of African ...
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(2018-11-29)The purpose of this qualitative study is to examine and interpret the lived experiences and parenting practices of four African American grandmothers raising grandchildren in one urban school district. A disproportionate ...
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(2011-08-08)The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions of African American and Hispanic students who dropped out of school while exploring their schooling experiences and the factors they believe contributed to their ...
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(2023-07-12)This qualitative research study aimed to analyze the psychological and social aspects of Black male football student-athletes’ identity development and how that affects their ability to transition to life after sports and ...
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(2009-05-15)The history of the United States is one of racial division and conquest. People of color have employed every method of resistance available to them to defend themselves against white racist aggression. Large political ...
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(2014-10-14)This study investigated the perceptions of African American undergraduate males who attend a predominately White institution in the southwest as they concern leadership after participation in a leadership development program ...
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(2009-05-15)This research study was conducted as a qualitative case study of six middle class African American mothers living in a suburban community. Their children attended a predominantly White suburban junior high school in their ...
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(2012-12-10)Closing the achievement gap between African American and White students continues to challenge educators in both urban and suburban contexts. Teachers and administrators in America are overwhelmingly White, and have limited ...
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(2017-05-24)I explore the intersection of the woman suffrage movement and minority voting rights in Texas, a state that did not require voters to be citizens but disfranchised all servicemen for the length of their enlistment during ...
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(2013-12-04)This qualitative study sought to describe college-enrolled African American daughters’ interpretation of their single mother’s personal characteristics, acts of parenting, and meaningful influence on their collegiate ...
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(2009-05-15)For the past decade the attainment gap in college admission and graduation rates between Black males and their White counterparts has continued to grow. A growing body of research has held that there is a negative correlation ...
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(2012-10-19)The current study examined whether obesity contributed significantly to the prediction of depression and health status independent of other relevant factors such as sex, age, and perceived racism in a sample of 198 African ...
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(2017-05-30)While studies that examine religion in movements for social justice have increased in recent years, the intersections of race and religion remain understudied. Therefore, this dissertation is a relational and comparative ...
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(Library Juice Press, 2016-01-21)This essay discusses a number of identity issues related to what people of color experience in American society, with a particular focus on Derrick Bell's concept of racial realism. The essay looks at Bell's theory as it ...
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Recruiting African American Male Teachers in K-12 Schools: A Case Study in One Urban School District (2012-02-14)A case study of the experiences of six African American male teachers in a southern K-12 school district is presented in this study. The purpose of this study was: 1) to hear the voices of African American male teachers ...