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A CLOSER LOOK INTO WHY AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN LEAVE AND AVOID STEM MAJORS IN COLLEGE
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...
HAVE HOMEOWNERSHIP RATES TRANSITIONED SINCE THE FINANCIAL CRISIS? EVIDENCE FROM THE SURVEY OF CONSUMER FINANCES DATA.
Title
HAVE HOMEOWNERSHIP RATES TRANSITIONED SINCE THE FINANCIAL CRISIS? EVIDENCE FROM THE SURVEY OF CONSUMER FINANCES DATA.
Author
Amrelle, Kevin
Date Created
2017
Subjects--Topical
Economics, Hispanic Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching
Description
Since 1989, significant mortgage finance innovation and federal policies with the intent of increasing homeownership participation particularly amongst minorities were implemented until the 2007 recession. This paper uses the Survey of Consumer Fi...
EBONY IN EXILE: AN EXAMINATION OF REVOLUTIONARY BLACK AMERICA AND THE CUBAN INFLUENCE 1960s-1980s
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...
Explaining Fertility Intentions Among Non-Assimilated Hispanic Immigrant Women Living in the U.S.: A Rational Choice Reinforced by Social Identity?
Title
Explaining Fertility Intentions Among Non-Assimilated Hispanic Immigrant Women Living in the U.S.: A Rational Choice Reinforced by Social Identity?
Author
Barros de Redard, Maria
Date Created
2017
Subjects--Topical
Women's studies, Social sciences, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, Hispanic Americans--Study and teaching
Description
Research on the assimilation of Hispanic immigrants in the United States isabundant; however, fewer studies have examined the effect of assimilation on Hispanicimmigrant women and childbirth. Prior research has documented that the fertility rateam...
“Our Children’s Children Live Forever”: The Educational Activism of The Sawyer-Flowers-Wilson Family in America From 1866 To 1986
Title
“Our Children’s Children Live Forever”: The Educational Activism of The Sawyer-Flowers-Wilson Family in America From 1866 To 1986
Author
Thomas, Christina
Date Created
2017
Subjects--Topical
Education, History, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description
Since slavery, Southern states prohibited the education of Black Americans. Post-emancipation, the first actions of these newly emancipated Black men and women involved the opening of informal and formal schools. The self-determination of Black Am...