Browsing by Subject "African Americans"
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(2018-04-25)The second Ku Klux Klan made its first public appearance in Texas at a United Confederate Veterans parade in October 1920, then quickly expanded across the state. Founder William J. Simmons created this organization as an ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)The national standardization sample from the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale - Revised was examined to determine the relative impact of the general factor of intelligence, group factors, subtest specificity, and socioeconomic ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)The present study was designed to investigate one primary research question. Do Black and White adults differ in ability patterns, independent of any overall score differences, as determined by the 11 substests of the ...
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(2013-08-06)The African American consumer represents a valuable market segment in the United States. This target market possesses both substantial purchasing power and future growth potential. Yet, baseball marketers have failed to ...
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(2009-05-15)The Texas Volunteer Guard, created by the Militia Law of 1879, continued to allow African Americans to serve as citizen soldiers. From 1880 to 1906 over six hundred black men faithfully served in the various state militia ...
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Black women face three times the risk of dying from a pregnancy-related cause than White women (CDC). This project explored what Black maternal mortality rates (MMR) are like within the state of Texas. It recounts the ...
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(2013-07-18)This study used Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of practice and analyzed African Americans’ under-representation at parks and in outdoor recreation. It focused on Cedar Hill State Park (CHSP) located in Cedar Hill, Texas and ...
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(2013-08-07)Education and its associated resources continue to be unequally administered and delivered in the United States. All stakeholders in the education of the nation‘s children—parents, teachers, unions, school administrators, ...
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(Texas Digital Libraries, 2016-05-26)This ppt presentation details a collaborative proof of concept project called Digital Black Bibliography (DiBB) that sought to provide scholars with the tools to compile, preserve, manipulate, and interpret Africana cultural ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1983)The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which power and influence exists within the membership of selected community education advisory councils in Texas. In order to accomplish this purpose, the researcher ...
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This study aims to answer the question, ‘does social media usage influence the impact of racial discrimination on mental health?’ Specifically, this study examines the impact that social media usage has on the relationship ...
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(2016-05-31)The history of the United States educational system has been plagued by issues of inequity. After the notable case of Brown v. Board of Education a new and unintended consequence surfaced, there was a lack of African ...
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(2018-05-09)Texas Populists were ahead of their time. The borderlands experience in Texas caused farmers to develop economic ideas far in advance of the contemporary economic literature. Faced with Populists’ economic demands, the ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1983)This dissertation involved the development of three attitude measuring scales relating to Hispanic Americans, Black Americans and Native Americans. The tests were designed to assess the current stereotypes as identified ...
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(2012-02-14)Race-related stress has been found to impact the mental health of African Americans in literature. Three manuscripts were developed for this dissertation. The first is a critical literature review identifying the multiple ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)The online dating industry is estimated to be worth 1.5 billion dollars. The growing trends in technology have resulted in African Americans logging on to the Web at astonishing rates. Therefore, the goal of this research ...
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(2016-01-22)Individuals who identify with a social minority group, particularly African American, tend to face problematic social conditions wherein difference becomes a salient factor by which they must make sense of, negotiate, and ...
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(2019-05-01)This poster explores the hairstyles and hair stories of Black women in America. The images follow a historical chronology from the legacy of slavery to these contemporary times. Black women have both struggled to conform ...
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(2012-02-14)The Marines of Montford Point are largely absent from the World War II narrative, and relatively unknown to individuals in the military services and to the public at large. After 144 years of official policy against allowing ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)This thesis explores the research questions: How did African Americans cope with the oppressive system of legal segregation? How did they survive and raise their families? What were African Americansâ everyday ...