Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Subject "race"
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(2022-11-16)Department: SociologyScholars have recently examined the cost of activism for activists, paying particular attention to burnout experiences in social justice spaces, yet we still know very little about the role of White supremacy to burnout ...
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(2014-07-15)Department: HistoryA Model for America investigates how black and white South Orange, New Jersey residents formed alliances in order to transform their community from a predominantly white community into a racially integrated community. ...
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(2017-08-29)Department: HistoryBeginning with the rise of a white pacifist movement in the United States during the First World War, this dissertation tracks how Howard Thurman, Bayard Rustin, and James M. Lawson, Jr. envisaged pacifism and navigated ...
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A Solid Black Hyphen: Race, Religion, Identity, and the Black Power Activism of Gayraud S. Wilmore (2020-03-30)Department: ReligionIn 1963 the United Presbyterian Church appointed black minister Gayraud S. Wilmore as head of its new racial justice commission. In that post, as the top racial justice official for one of the largest, wealthiest, most ...
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(2013-12-10)Department: SociologyThe 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 ...
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(2013-05-28)Department: Community Research and ActionDespite myriad well-funded local and national initiatives to achieve health equity in the U.S., significant disparities in health between racial groups persist. Local health departments (LHDs) are one of the most salient ...
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(2021-07-23)Department: SociologyUsing data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 – Young Adult Sample (N=464), this study examines the relationship between college attainment and self-esteem among Black adults. Further, I examine whether ...
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(2022-03-24)Department: Latin American StudiesArgentine and Brazilian contemporary cinema provide thorough documentation of the avenues through which neocolonialism rears its head in modern Latin America. In the following work, four films are given treatment to provide ...
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(2020-07-24)Department: PhilosophyMichel Foucault’s deeply influential theorization of modern power has had an extraordinary impact on those disciplines seeking to understand the “historical ontology of ourselves.” Despite his radical claim that the modern ...
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(2006-07-31)Department: PsychologyThis 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 ...
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(2014-06-24)Department: EnglishOthello by William Shakespeare exists in two early printed versions, as a 1622 Quarto and a 1623 Folio. Despite their differences, they have only recently been regarded as two distinct plays worthy of their own interpretations. ...
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(2015-03-25)Department: HistoryThis paper suggests nonviolence in the United States was a form of moral being with roots in Gandhism and the Christian tradition whose central architect was James M. Lawson, Jr. Commonly described as a leading “tactician” ...
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(2013-12-03)Department: SociologyThe 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 ...
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(2022-07-21)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietyRace based stress, also known as racial trauma, is defined as significant distress due to real or perceived racial discrimination. These can include threats to harm and/or injure, shaming and humiliation, and being witness ...
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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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(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 ...