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- 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
- Black Women Doctoral Students' Perceptions of Barriers and Facilitators of Persistence and Degree Completion in a Predominately White University
- Author
- Howell, Cathy
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Educational leadership
- Description
- This study explored the experiences of persistence and degree completion for Black women at a Predominately White Institution (PWI). The conceptual framework used to ground the research was Black Feminist Thought (BFT). The participants were 12 Bl...
- Title
- Development of a Patient Navigator Training Protocol to Promote Timely Approval for Pregnant African American Women Seeking Pregnancy Medicaid Coverage Prior to 14 Weeks Gestation
- Author
- Foh DNP, FNP-BC, Mariama
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Public health
- Description
- ABSTRACTMARIAMA T. FOH. Development of a patient navigator training protocol to promote timely approval for pregnant African American women seeking pregnancy Medicaid coverage prior to 14 weeks’ gestation. (Under the direction of Dr. DEE BALDWIN)P...
- 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
- From Tee to Green: Municipal Planning, Golf, and Mountain Progress
- Author
- Dixon, Kenneth
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- History, African Americans--Study and teaching
- Description
- On May 17, 1954, the United States Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board ruled the "separate but equal" doctrine, set in place by the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case in 1896, to be unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment’s "Equal Pro...
- 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
- The "Disposable Others": Settler Colonial Processes of Industrial Pollution in Cancer Alley, Louisiana, 1964-2023
- Author
- Martin, Alyssa
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- This thesis uses the lens of settler colonialism to bring memory, place-making, space, and history into the discussion of environmental racism in Louisiana. The effects of environmental racism are most obviously seen through higher rates of health...
- Title
- The Politicization of The 1619 Project—The Necessity for Transformative Curricula in Social Studies
- Author
- Rochester, Antoinette
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Education
- Description
- In August 2019, The New York Times published what was said to be a "controversial" journalistic take on African American and American history. Written by Nikole Hannah-Jones, an awardee of the Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur Genius Award, and her f...
- Title
- The effects of urban renewal on African Americans in Charlotte, North Carolina, the case of the Brooklyn neighborhood: 1960-1974.
- Author
- Hijazi, Khalid
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- The federal urban renewal program, which was created as part of the Housing Act of 1949, was designed to provide cities with money to rehabilitate their infrastructure by replacing old decaying buildings and blighted inner city areas. Almost in ev...
- Title
- Transforming Early Childhood Education Through Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy
- Author
- Ardrey, Tameka
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Early childhood education
- Description
- Low-income African American children have been identified among the majority of children without access to high-quality early education (Barnett, Carolan & Johns, 2013). Consequently, they lack the necessary skills to successfully navigate the sch...
- Title
- Understanding the Impact of Racism and Sexism on the Development of the Professional Identity of African American Women Principals
- Author
- Brown, Chrystal
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Educational leadership
- Description
- The purpose of this study is to understand the impact of racism and sexism in the development of the professional identity of African American women principals in public K-12 schools. African American women experience the principalship differently...
- Title
- Woke AF: Black Feminism and The Read
- Author
- Cameron, Shanice
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Communication
- Description
- The purpose of this study is to analyze how Crissle West and Kid Fury use humor and African American discourse to discuss Black feminism on the weekly comedy podcast, The Read. I argue that West and Fury discuss Black feminism with respect to the ...