Browsing 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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(Vanderbilt University, 2005)We undertake a case study of riots in the context of Cleveland's economic decline between 1950 and 1980. Our empirical perspective emphasizes differential changes in property values and population levels across census ...
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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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(Oregon Law Review, 2005)This Article examines the conditions under which acting as if one has a particular legal status is sufficient to secure that status in the eyes of the law. Legal determinations of common-law marriage, functional parenthood, ...
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(2021-08-11)This capstone project focuses on the decline in enrollment at a specific all boys boarding school in the suburbs of Pennsylvania. I examined data for the past three years for enrollment trends. The data used was a mixture ...
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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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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2017-06-15)Throughout history, Black children have been dehumanized, criminalized, and sexualized. Additionally, though education can be a transformative and liberative tool, Black children have been deprived of quality and equitable ...
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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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(Clinical Law Review, 2019)The demographics of clinical law faculties matter. As Professor Jon Dubin persuasively argued nearly twenty years ago in his article Faculty Diversity as a Clinical Legal Education Imperative, clinical faculty of color ...
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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 ...