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- Title
- "Because We're Unique": The Literate Lives of Black Adolescent Females
- Author
- Strong, Kellan
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Reading, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- This qualitative study explores the literacy and language practices of Black adolescent girls as they read and make meaning of a critical text. The focus of this inquiry was to broadly examine how societal and situational factors influence the way...
- Title
- "Public Order is Even More Important than the Rights of Negroes:" Race and Recreation in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1927-1973
- Author
- Ervin, Michael
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- History, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- In July 1960, Charlotte’s Park and Recreation Commission enacted an official policy of desegregation in the city’s parks, playgrounds, swimming pools, and recreation centers. This development, which resulted in the first integrated municipal swimm...
- Title
- #RatchetQueerTeacher: Social, Emotional Well-being and Liberation Through Mindfulness and Hip Hop Thearapy
- Author
- Wheatley, Torie
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching, Queer studies
- Description
- There is a growing mental health concern among Black Ratchet queer womxn in educational and criminal justice realms and the Covid-19 pandemic has left the educational climate in a state of high stress and anxiety. Consequently, Black Womxn in educ...
- Title
- A CLOSER LOOK INTO WHY AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN LEAVE AND AVOID STEM MAJORS IN COLLEGE
- Author
- Bailey, Jr., Ricardo
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology, Educational sociology, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- African American males are underrepresented in university Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) programs as STEM majors in the United States. I will be investigating why this phenomenon is so prevalent in America’s collegiate STEM program...
- Title
- A Constellation of Economic Possibilities: Latinx Food-Based Diverse Collaborative Economies as Catalysts for More Sustainable Economic Futures
- Author
- Tornabene, Sara
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography, Area studies, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- Diverse and alternative forms of economies have recently gained increased attention for their potential to transform conceptually and empirically the mainstream economic system. Around the world, scholars have documented the emergence and impact o...
- Title
- AIN'T I A YOGI?: A CRITICAL EXPLORATION OF SYMBOLIC AND SOCIAL BOUNDARIES IN THE YOGA WORLD
- Author
- Brooks, Temeka
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology, Women's studies, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- Recent sociological research considers the relationship between social and symbolic boundaries in a variety of social contexts. In this study, I build on such research by exploring how such boundaries are reproduced and potentially bridged in oste...
- Title
- Afrocentricity for all: A case study examining the self-healing power of alternative curricula as a mediating tool of inclusion
- Author
- Watson, Marcia
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Curriculum planning, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- Student achievement and school reform are some of the most pervasive topics in public school discourse. However, the curriculum is one area that remains virtually unchanged across U.S. schools. The efflorescence of federal legislative policies, su...
- Title
- Black Doulas and The Quest For Empowerment in the Black Woman's Birthing Experience
- Author
- Mattison, Sydney
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Obstetrics, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- Doula care has proven to be an effective approach to reducing adverse birthing outcomes among women. However, less is known about doula care and birthing outcomes concerning specifically Black women. This qualitative study focused on the narrative...
- Title
- Black Lives Matter and Black Power
- Author
- Fraser, Daviana
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Communication, Rhetoric, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- Today, Black Americans face the same foes as in previous efforts to secure civil rights. Over the last decade, names like Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice, Keith Lamont Scott, Philando Castile, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor join those ...
- Title
- Digital Mirror: An Examination of Social Media’s Influence on Late Adolescent Black Females’ Global and Academic Self-Concept
- Author
- Williams, Nakeshia
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Educational psychology, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- The broad socialization of new media has the ability to cultivate the values, beliefs, interests, and personality characteristics of Black females. Specifically, new media’s digital platform of social media offers individuals immediate access to v...
- Title
- EBONY IN EXILE: AN EXAMINATION OF REVOLUTIONARY BLACK AMERICA AND THE CUBAN INFLUENCE 1960s-1980s
- Author
- Willard, Joseph
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Area studies, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- ABSTRACTJOSEPH WILLARD. Ebony in Exile: An Examination of RevolutionaryBlack America and the Cuban Influence 1960s-1980s.(Under the Direction of DR. JURGEN BUCHENAU)In the 1960s Black America began to embrace an ideology of revolution shifting the...
- Title
- EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SELECTED VARIABLES AND THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
- Author
- Graham, David
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Counseling psychology, Education, Secondary, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- Research investigating the impact of factors such as gender, socioeconomic status, racial socialization, and academic self-concept on the academic achievement of African American high school students has been of interest to scholars for decades. P...
- Title
- EXPLORING THE INFLUENCE OF DRAMATIC ARTS ON UNDEREXAMINED LITERACIES: EXPERIENCES OF BLACK GIRLS IN AN URBAN MIDDLE SCHOOL
- Author
- York, Portia
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Performing arts, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- This study examined the influence of drama participation on foundational, digital, and Black Girls’ literacies of urban middle school Black girls. This interpretive case study used the Culturally Relevant Arts Education framework with Black Femini...
- Title
- Explaining Fertility Intentions Among Non-Assimilated Hispanic Immigrant Women Living in the U.S.: A Rational Choice Reinforced by Social Identity?
- Author
- Barros de Redard, Maria
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Women's studies, Social sciences, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, Hispanic Americans--Study and teaching
- Description
- Research on the assimilation of Hispanic immigrants in the United States isabundant; however, fewer studies have examined the effect of assimilation on Hispanicimmigrant women and childbirth. Prior research has documented that the fertility rateam...
- Title
- Exploring Diasporic Dialects of Black Women in College Composition and Communications: A Critical Reflective Narrative Inquiry
- Author
- Dervin, Alicia
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Language and languages, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching
- Description
- Historically, standard English language ideologies have been perpetually ingrained in American educational practices and policies (Smitherman, 2017; Wong & Teuben-Rowe, 1997). These practices are not limited to K-12 studies and maintain a position...
- Title
- Exploring Sense of Belonging Among First-Generation College, Second-Generation Immigrant Students
- Author
- Brais, Sayde
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher, Educational leadership, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experiences of four-year university and college students identifying as first-generation in college (FGC) and second-generation immigrant (SGI) in the United States., with a focus on a sense of be...
- Title
- FROM ROOTS TO STAR TREK: A CASE STUDY ON SUCCESSFUL PERSISTENCE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE ENGINEERING MAJORS
- Author
- McGee, Marquis
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Engineering, Education, Higher, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- The United States is competing on a global level for jobs in the STEM fields but retention and graduation rates in the engineering disciplines are lower than desired. African American males make up 5 % of the population of American colleges and un...
- Title
- Filling the Void: Exploring Predictors of African American Beginning Teacher Retention
- Author
- Hopper, Eugenia
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Educational leadership, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- African American teachers make up only about 7% of teachers in the United States, while African American students make up 16% of the public school population. Unfortunately, African American teachers leave teaching at almost a 60% higher rate when...
- Title
- Genocide Activism: Generational Interpretations within African American and Native American Organizations, 1948-1978
- Author
- Marlowe, Kathryn
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- History, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching, Indigenous peoples
- Description
- This thesis is a comparative analysis of Native American and African American activist strategies from the immediate post-WWII era to the height of the Civil Rights Era using a term I call "genocide activism." Genocide activism is when a group or ...
- Title
- HAVE HOMEOWNERSHIP RATES TRANSITIONED SINCE THE FINANCIAL CRISIS? EVIDENCE FROM THE SURVEY OF CONSUMER FINANCES DATA.
- Author
- Amrelle, Kevin
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Economics, Hispanic Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching
- Description
- Since 1989, significant mortgage finance innovation and federal policies with the intent of increasing homeownership participation particularly amongst minorities were implemented until the 2007 recession. This paper uses the Survey of Consumer Fi...