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What causes racially segregated residential communities? Testing agent-based and institutional explanations for the locational decisions of homebuyers
(2012-12-17)
Neighborhoods across the United States are still segregated along racial lines. This dissertation contains three linked analyses that test the most prominent explanations for contemporary racial residential segregation. ...
Access to Dental Care and Health Disparities: The Digital Divide and Other Divides in Dental X-Rays and Treatment
(2013-12-10)
The United States Department of Health and Human Services describes oral disease and tooth decay as a silent epidemic plaguing the poor. Poor oral health is negatively associated with several other physical health measures ...
Does It Work?: Examining the Utility of the Stress Process Model for Explaining Variations in Mental Health among African American Young Adults
(2013-12-03)
The stress process model has become a prominent framework for understanding social variations in mental health. Though previous studies find compelling evidence that this model adequately explains variations in mental ...
The Whitening Project in Venezuela, ca. 1810-1950
(2016-12-09)
The Whitening Project in Venezuela, ca. 1810-1950
Alana Alvarez
Dissertation under the direction of Professor Ruth Hill
Simon Bolívar’s (1783-1830) still-popular and demagogical notion of the Venezuelan ...
Police Arrests in a Time of Uncertainty: The Impact of 287(g) on Driver’s License Arrests in a New Immigrant Gateway
(2013-08-02)
Since 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 ...
Reading What isn't There: Empiricism, Delusion, and the Construction of Race and Racism in Othello
(2015-08-21)
This 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 ...
Racial Limbo: A Systematic Study of the History of Coloured South Africans and their Contemporary Attitudes, Perceptions of Deprivation, and Racial Identifications
(2014-09-11)
I 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 ...
Reckoning with a Violent and Lawless Past: A Study of Race, Violence and Reconciliation in Tennessee
(2010-08-05)
This 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 ...
Invisible Threads: Fictions of Cotton in the Anglo-Atlantic Triangle, 1833-1863
(2016-08-17)
With 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 ...
Contextual Analysis of Measurement Bias in the Child Behavior Checklist for African American Children
(2006-07-31)
This study examined the cultural validity of the Child Behavior Checklist, by employing an Item Response Theory analysis to determine measurement inequivalence in both the items and scales for 1st grade African-American ...