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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: Effects of a Social Skill Instruction Program on the Social Skill Acquisition of African American High School Students with Mild Intellectual Disabilities and Challenging Behaviors
Author: Brophy, Alicia
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Special education
Description: Disproportionality and the poor post-school outcomes for African American youth with disabilities have been ongoing issues in special education. Limited opportunities to engage in social interactions may exacerbate these poor post-school outcomes ...

Title: Exploring the Effects of Being a Peer Educator on African American Breast Cancer Survivors
Author: Rouse, Melanie
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Health education
Description: ABSTRACTMELANIE J. ROUSE. Exploring the effects of being a peer educator on African American breast cancer survivors. (Under the direction of DRS. A. SUZANNE BOYD and DEE BALDWIN)Efforts to reduce breast cancer-related health disparities amongst A...

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: Healing and Posttraumatic Growth in African American Survivors of Domestic Violence: An Exploration of Women's Narratives
Author: Dickerson, Anne
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology, Women's studies, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: This research explores how African American women's narratives present their healing processes after they experience domestic violence. The research was conducted within the framework of Black feminist epistemology. A narrative approach was select...

Title: Posttraumatic Growth Among African American Women Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse: The Roles of Spirituality, Locus of Control, and Self-Concept
Author: Hill, Lisa
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Research has suggested that childhood sexual abuse (CSA) can hinder normal cognitive, social and emotional development. Research has also suggested that CSA contributes to higher levels of pathology than other traumatic experiences. Rates of victi...

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 Academic Achievement of African American Post-9/11 Veterans at Martin R. Delany State University (Pseudonym of an Actual Historically Black University)
Author: Hewitt, Dymilah
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: The purpose of this study is to examine the academic experiences of veterans attending historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Following World War II, enrollment at HBCUs was as high as 35%. Broader access at traditional colleges and...

Title: The Comparative Effects of Function-based Versus Nonfunction-based Interventions on the Social Behavior of African American Students
Author: Mustian, April
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Special education
Description: Disproportionality has been a persistent problem in special education for decades. Despite mandates outlined in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA, 2004), African American students continue to be disproportionately r...

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 ...