Browsing by Subject "Race"
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(2014-06-04)African American women in Appalachia have lived, survived and long been overlooked by dominant narratives that support stereotypical depictions of the Appalachian region and its inhabitants. A little over twenty years ago, ...
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(2018-08-06)Anticolonial Amerika: Resisting the Zone of Nonbeing in an Anglo-Saxon Empire revives the anticolonial tradition of Black radical philosophy, drawing upon its unique understandings of race and empire, citizenship and ...
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"Arming the Good Guys?": An Examination of Racial Framing in Students for Concealed Carry on Campus (2014-07-25)Over the last several decades, issues relating to gun rights have received growing attention from the academic community. Much of this research focuses on the importance of masculinity and violence and shaping modern gun ...
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(2011-08-08)Why study Asian American sexual politics? There is a major lack of critical analysis of Asian Americans and their issues surrounding their place in the United States as racialized, gendered, and sexualized bodies. There ...
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(2014-12-17)In this ethnographic study I use queer theory to consider how black cowboys interact with each other to produce counter or micro-narratives about Black male pathologies and socialization in multiple masculinities. Queer ...
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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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(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)The way race works to shape politics is changing as demographic patterns alter the traditional dynamic of race relations throughout the United States. One pattern is the increased tendency of African-Americans and Latinos ...
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(2012-07-16)The "implicit rules" of the white racial framing shape meanings, structure interactions, and impose identities upon all who enter American society. The context of this current study conceptualizes how this racialized frame ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)This dissertation explores how five specific intellectuals challenge hegemony in education and society, and express uncomfortable truths about hegemony faced by local communities in their academic practices. Their actions ...
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(2013-07-22)This dissertation examines the racial identities of middleclass Mexican Americans, and provides a focus on how racial oppression plays a significant role in the formation, negotiation, and organization of these identities. ...
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(2023-07-17)Literature suggests more Black journalists in newsrooms may not simply be “the cure” for inaccurate news depictions of Black communities. This study asks how the professional and personal identities of African American ...
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(2020-05-19)This study examined the intersectionality amongst motor vehicle fatal injury crashes by age, gender and race. Importance of examining this intersectionality is that in the future, a greater number of drivers, passengers, ...
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Crossing Borders and Building Alliances: Border Discourse within Literatures and Rhetorics of Color (2012-10-19)Building on Victor Villanueva and Malea Powell's research in rhetoric and writing, in my dissertation I assert that the hierarchical construction of knowledges within literatures and rhetorics has traditionally been utilized ...
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(2020-11-24)The study examines whether depression among Latino adolescents is related to the percentage of Latinos in their high school. Based on the group density effects theory, the study’s hypothesis is that as the relative size ...
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(2023-06-06)It might be assumed churches coming from diverse cultural backgrounds would also express notable differences in how they conceptualize, operate, and envision the role of church, especially during times of crisis. However, ...
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(2011-02-22)In this study, I specify the reasons why racial minority undergraduate students choose to pursue higher education studies at historically White colleges/universities, despite the schools' potential for diversity controversies. ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2020-04-30)What role does race have in cases of police use of force? This issue of PERCspectives on Research summarizes the paper by Rex B. Grey Professor Mark Hoekstra and Graduate Student Fellow CarlyWill Sloan, which examines how ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2020-03-10)While there is much concern about the role of race in police use of force, identifying causal effects is difficult. This is in part because of selection, and in part because researchers often observe only interactions ...
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(2019-05-03)Professional athletes are paid for their labor and it is often believed they have a weaker argument of exploitation. However, labor disputes in professional sports suggest athletes do not always receive fair compensation ...
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(2022-07-19)Scholars, politicians, and pundits have repeatedly described new Americans, mostly Asian Americans and Latinos, as a “Sleeping Giant” to emphasize their potential as the decisive voter who shuffles up traditional U.S. party ...