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Title
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"Because We're Unique": The Literate Lives of Black Adolescent Females
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Author
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Strong, Kellan
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Education, Reading, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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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...
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HE WHO FEEDS YOU: THE MALES PLACE COMMUNITY GARDEN AS A FACILITATOR OF DEVELOPMENT IN BLACK MALE YOUTH
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Author
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Simmons, Alexander
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Agriculture, Developmental psychology, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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Recent theory and findings suggest that even while enduring adverse social circumstances such as poverty, Black male youth exhibit strengths that can aid in their development. Some frameworks maintain that youth strengths can be fostered through i...
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Title
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The Goldmar Strike: Formative Years of the MCOP, 1977-1979
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Author
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Stroud, Lucinda
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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History, Industrial relations, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, Hispanic Americans--Study and teaching
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Description
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This thesis examines the Maricopa County Organizing Project (MCOP or the Project) which was founded in 1977 in Maricopa County, Arizona. The MCOP is believed to be the first organization to hold an agricultural strike that consisted of entirely un...
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Title
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To Be Young, Black, and Resilient: Navigating a Predominantly White University
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Author
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Strickland, Jasmine
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Education, Higher, Ethnology, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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The current study examines how Black undergraduate students at a predominantly White university respond to the racism they encounter on campus. Specifically, the case study seeks to identify (a) the response strategies that Black undergraduate stu...