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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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"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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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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Title
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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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Black Doulas and The Quest For Empowerment in the Black Woman's Birthing Experience
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Author
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Mattison, Sydney
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Obstetrics, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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Doula care has proven to be an effective approach to reducing adverse birthing outcomes among women. However, less is known about doula care and birthing outcomes concerning specifically Black women. This qualitative study focused on the narrative...
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Title
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Black Doulas and The Quest For Empowerment in the Black Woman's Birthing Experience
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Author
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Mattison, Sydney
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching, Obstetrics, Gynecology
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Description
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Doula care has proven to be an effective approach to reducing adverse birthing outcomes among women. However, less is known about doula care and birthing outcomes concerning specifically Black women. This qualitative study focused on the narrative...
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Title
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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 ...
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Title
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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, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--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 ...
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Title
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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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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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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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Title
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From Tee to Green: Municipal Planning, Golf, and Mountain Progress
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Author
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Dixon, Kenneth
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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History, African Americans--Study and teaching
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Description
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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...
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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...