Browsing by Subject "race"
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(Northwestern University Law Review, 2018)In recent decades, legal scholars have advanced sophisticated models for understanding prejudice and discrimination, drawing on disciplines such as psychology, sociology, and economics. These models explain how inequality ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2002)This paper examines the racial gap in infant mortality rates from 1920 to 1970. Using state-level panel data with information on income, urbanization, women's education, and physicians per capita, we can account for a large ...
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(Human Rights, 2019)There is a long history of the intersection of immigration, race, and civil rights in America. Immigration laws have operated in a manner to maintain homogeneity to the exclusion of immigrants of color. Immigration laws ...
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(2016-08-17)Department: EnglishWith a series of technological innovations in cotton cultivation and production, a booming transatlantic cotton economy sprang into life in the early decades of the nineteenth century, an economy that depended on the forced ...
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(2017-12-11)Department: SociologyThis dissertation uses a qualitative approach to study this important topic in the area of intersectionality and health. My primary data are semi-structured interviews I conducted with 49 black breast cancer survivors in ...
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(2014-07-21)Department: EnglishThis dissertation examines textual constructions of stillness—representations of waiting, resting, hesitating, sensing, and perceiving—and argues that the still body becomes a trope infused with political significance in ...
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(2020-08)This study explores the experiences of African-American females (AA/Fs) who serve as corporate board directors of public and private corporations in the United States. Questions that guided this research attempted to offer ...
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(2013-04-19)Department: SociologyPrevious studies consistently find noted racial differences in stress and perceived social support, as well as evidence of a buffering effect of social support against stress in pregnancy. What has not been established, ...
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POISONOUS INSECURITY: A POLITICAL THEORY OF THE ROOTS OF RACISM IN THE ARCHITECTURE OF COLONIALISM (2023-07-17)Department: Political SciencePolitical theorists concerned with enduring structural injustice often focus on the politics of the body, space, and knowledge. Yet, they do not always bring the body’s sensory experiences of physical space into their ...
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(2013-08-02)Department: SociologySince the late 20th century, the U.S. immigrant population has become more geographically diverse. Although some new destinations welcome the influx of new residents, others implement a variety of harsh local anti-immigration ...
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(2023-03-24)Department: SociologyThis dissertation is composed of three studies that examine race and gender biases in criminalization and medicalization. Paper I examines how the relationships between personality traits and the likelihood of arrest vary ...
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(2017-03-28)Department: Latin American StudiesThe importance of an adequate description of the general population from which a researcher is sampling is a central premise of all epidemiological and public health research. Racial and ethnic categories are a critical ...
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(2014-09-11)Department: SociologyI define racial limbo as belonging to a group positioned between a dominant and subordinate group in a racial hierarchy. Examinations of groups in racial limbo are important because they highlight hidden details of racial ...
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(2020-10-27)Department: EnglishIn his 1854 address on the Fugitive Slave Act, Ralph Waldo Emerson criticizes pro-compromise Northern Whigs for basing their politics on a theory of “despair.” Lambasting the Compromise of 1850 for its torpid attempt to ...
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Reading What isn't There: Empiricism, Delusion, and the Construction of Race and Racism in Othello (2015-08-21)Department: EnglishThis paper recovers the subjectivity of the Moor, in order to better understand the presentation of racial difference in the play in terms of the play's understanding of visual evidence. Othello's aggressive hermeneutic ...
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Reckoning with a Violent and Lawless Past: A Study of Race, Violence and Reconciliation in Tennessee (2010-08-05)Department: Political ScienceThis project examines acts of violence and injustice directed toward Black Tennesseans in the forms of slavery, Jim Crow legislation, lynching, pogroms and race riots between 1865 and 1946. After systemic research of ...
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(2018-06-18)Department: EnglishRepresentations of Race, Rape, and Consent in Early Modern English Drama analyzes the intersections of raced bodies and sexual violence in theatrical performances of the late Elizabethan and early Stuart periods that ...
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(2012-04-04)Department: Community Research and ActionRace, class, and gender dynamics can result in power differentials and discrimination in organizations. Such deleterious effects are particularly troubling for non-profit agencies with diverse employee and community bases ...
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(2014-07-15)Department: HistoryThe first part of Still Separate and Still Unequal examines how the agenda pursued by former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), George Romney, was the closest that America would come to achieving racial ...
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(2014-06-09)Department: HistoryThis dissertation studies the Northeastern region of Brazil by contemplating its interactions with the world around it. It sets out from the assumption that Northeastern regional identity is in constant transformation due ...