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Title
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A United Front: The American Relief Administration in Ukraine
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Author
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Hunt, David
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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History, Slavs--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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The United States has been involved in humanitarian assistance missions since the late nineteenth century. However, Herbert Hoover’s American Relief Administration (ARA) was the first organization that combined the abilities of several smaller org...
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AIN'T I A YOGI?: A CRITICAL EXPLORATION OF SYMBOLIC AND SOCIAL BOUNDARIES IN THE YOGA WORLD
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Author
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Brooks, Temeka
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Sociology, Women's studies, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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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...
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FROM ROOTS TO STAR TREK: A CASE STUDY ON SUCCESSFUL PERSISTENCE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE ENGINEERING MAJORS
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Author
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McGee, Marquis
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Engineering, Education, Higher, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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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...
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Title
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Filling the Void: Exploring Predictors of African American Beginning Teacher Retention
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Author
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Hopper, Eugenia
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Education, Educational leadership, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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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...
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The Bloody Ground: The Chickamauga Wars and Trans-Appalachian Expansion, 1776-1794.
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Author
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Kane, Sean
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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History, Indigenous peoples, North America, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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Despite the plethora of works on the American Revolution and the Cherokee, few scholars have placed the Cherokee within the context of the Revolution. This thesis explores the often overlooked history of the Cherokee during last quarter of the eig...