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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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Performing Arts Education and the Academic Identity Development of African American Male High School Students
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Author
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Walton, Calvin
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Curriculum planning, Art--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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AbstractThis study examined the effects of performing arts participation on the academic achievement of African American male high school students. The study investigated how engagement in school-based performing arts influenced the academic ident...
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A CLOSER LOOK INTO WHY AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN LEAVE AND AVOID STEM MAJORS IN COLLEGE
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Author
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Bailey, Jr., Ricardo
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Sociology, Educational sociology, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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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...
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A Case Study of Hispanic Middle School Students In An ESL Classroom: Discourses In Academic Reading Instruction
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Author
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Andrews, Horace
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Date Created
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2010
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Subjects--Topical
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English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, Hispanic Americans--Study and teaching
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Description
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This case study examined student teacher interaction that took place in one ESL middle school classroom with 29 Latino/a students learning to read in English. Observations in classrooms and interviews with teachers were conducted over a ten month ...
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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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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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Masking Modernity: Black Performance and the Struggle for a Modern Identity in the Progressive Era South
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Author
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Taylor, Emily
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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History, Performing arts, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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Centering on the concept of dual identity, my thesis examines how the larger black community in the South adjusted to modernity through acts of masking. More specifically, this work analyzes minstrelsy and jubilee spirituals in an effort to explai...
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EBONY IN EXILE: AN EXAMINATION OF REVOLUTIONARY BLACK AMERICA AND THE CUBAN INFLUENCE 1960s-1980s
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Author
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Willard, Joseph
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Area studies, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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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...
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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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"Public Order is Even More Important than the Rights of Negroes:" Race and Recreation in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1927-1973
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Author
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Ervin, Michael
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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History, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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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...
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Black Lives Matter and Black Power
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Author
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Fraser, Daviana
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Communication, Rhetoric, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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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 ...