Browsing by Subject "race"
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The 1920s Texas Ku Klux Klan Revisited: White Supremacy and Structural Power in a Rural County
(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 ... -
The Bias hiding in your LIbrary
(The Conversation, 2019-03-20)Cataloging and classification are critical to any library. Without them, finding materials would be impossible. However, there are biases that can result in patrons not getting the materials they need. This article illustrates ... -
Children Of The Sleeping Giant: Social Activism Among Latino Youth In The United States.
(2013-10-07)Racialization, oppression, and resistance are key components of the United States’ race relations. Consequently, social movements organized and led by youth of color represent the manifestation of resistance to social and ... -
Clarifying the Relationships between Rural Parenting Practices and Child Sedentary Behaviors
(2013-04-29)Childhood obesity is a growing problem in the United States. Though a great body of research has focused on this area, little is still known about the factors that influence this phenomenon in rural settings. Sedentary ... -
Color, the Visual Arts, and Representations of Otherness in the Victorian Novel
(2012-07-16)This dissertation investigates the cultural connections made between race and color in works of fiction from the Victorian and Edwardian era, particularly how authors who are also artists invent fantastically colored ... -
Culture, Structure, and Race in Pick-Up Basketball: Everyday Hoops inside a Predominantly White University Student Recreation Center
(2015-05-08)When an observer looks at pick-up basketball in an integrated space it appears like groups of players are playing based simply on racial difference, but a deeper look reveals other factors that influence how these apparent ... -
Dear Student-Athlete: Illuminating the Voices of Former Female Student-Athletes of Color
(2020-07-30)Racism and sexism have and continue to permeate college sport. While scholars have explored the impact this has on African American male student-athletes, and female student-athletes in general, fewer have directed their ... -
Effects of Educational and Metropolitan Context on U.S. Black Intermarriage
(2017-05-02)Both individual and structural level analyses have been conducted on black intermarriage extensively, but how well have they been measured? This dissertation examines the effects of education and metropolitan contexts of ... -
Essays on the Behavioral Economics of Discrimination and Stereotypes
(2019-04-08)While there are people who gain success in life without many complications, there are many others those who struggle and must overcome challenges in order to succeed. In these three chapters, I use experimental methods to ... -
Eyeliner
This piece is an invitation into one woman’s navigations of COVID-19 alongside the threat and manifestations of viral racism as a U.S. based Asian woman. -
Formal and Informal Discrimination of Intersectional Workplace Romances
Workplace romances (WRs) have been shown to produce negative outcomes for organizations, yet are steadily increasing in prevalence. Prior studies have looked into both the interpersonal and organizational implications of ... -
Imperial Standard-Bearers: Nineteenth-Century Army Officers' Wives in British India and the American West
(2012-07-16)The comparative experiences of the nineteenth-century British and American Army officer's wives add a central dimension to studies of empire. Sharing their husbands' sense of duty and mission, these women transferred, ... -
In the Shadows of Politics: Emergent Indigeneity in Bolivia 1970-2010
(2015-08-11)My dissertation is a study of emergent indigeneity in Bolivia. In the last forty to fifty years, there has been a reconsideration of the place of the indigenous peoples in the traditional narrative of Bolivian historiography. ... -
Juvenile Justice and the Incarcerated Male Minority: A Qualitative Examination of Disproportionate Minority Contact
(2012-07-16)Racial inequality within the juvenile justice system has been cited by numerous studies. This racial inequality is generally referred to as disproportionate minority contact (DMC), and the causes have been debated in the ... -
Latina/o Health Discourses in Newsprint Media from 2006-2010: A Content Analysis of Four Syndicated Newspapers
(2013-12-11)Latina/o health discourses stem from historical and social notions of biological, cultural, and racial inferiority. Popular U.S. newspapers pay scant attention to Latina/o health concerns and often inaccurately portray ... -
Life in lockdown: Diary of a Pakistani student in Beijing
The essay illustrates my initial state of disorientation but also my struggle and hope for new life during lockdown -
Love isn't always black and white: understanding black-white interracial couples, their challenges, and their dyadic communication
(2009-05-15)While a great deal of sociological and psychological research has been done on black-white interracial couples and the challenges they have faced in past eras, the communication between the partners remains largely ... -
Malady of the "model minority": White racism's assault on the Asian American psyche
(2009-05-15)My research is a qualitative study about the Asian American experience. Studies have shown that Asian Americans obtain high levels of educational attainment and household income, but these figures are misleading. Asian ... -
Merton's Status Exchange Theory and Husband-Wife Education Differences in Black Intermarriage
(2013-10-23)Most studies of racial intermarriage aiming to test Merton’s status exchange theory use education to determine the odds of intermarriage, but none have actually used intermarriage to predict the difference in education ...