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Guided by Governance: New Perspectives on the Political Dynamics of Latino Education
(2015-06-25)
In the United States, it is widely recognized that racial and ethnic minorities now constitute an ever-expanding share of the general population. While this growth has catapulted minorities to the forefront of the public ...
Brothers of the Trade: Intersections of Racial Framing and Identity Processes upon African-Americans and African Immigrants in America - Ancestral Kinsmen of the American Slave Trade
(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 ...
African American Women in Appalachia: Personal Expressions of Race, Place and Gender
(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, ...
Representation in the Fourth Branch of Government: A Closer Look at the Link between Employee Demographics and Client Outcomes
(2016-04-29)
Bureaucrats play a major part in implementing government programs and—ultimately—take on a policy making role in many contexts given the broad discretion bureaucrats often have as they go about their work. Representative ...
"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 ...
The Strategic Nature of Politics
(2011-02-22)
Scholarship shows that the social construction of crime is responsible for the
public’s demand for tougher criminal justice policies. Yet, there remains disagreement
over several key issues regarding the relationship ...
Intersectionality and the Perpetuation of White Male Power through Interracial Sexual Violence
(2014-04-02)
The purpose of this dissertation research is to investigate the reactions and attitudes of white men, white women, black men, and black women to the sexual violence of enslaved black women carried out by white men. Using ...
Asian American Sexual Politics: The Construction of Race, Gender, and Sexuality
(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 ...
A Micro and Macro Analysis of Adult U.S. Mortlaity
(2010-07-14)
This study utilized individual and county-level analysis to examine the impact of demographic and distal factors on individual level mortality as well as spatial and county specific attributes on county death rates. The ...
A People's History of Philosophy: The Development and Ideological Segregation of Black Nationalism
(2012-10-19)
The primary objective of this thesis is to advocate for Black Nationalism's full inclusion in the academic field of political philosophy. By bringing the thinkers in the Black Nationalist tradition into this discourse, the ...