Search results | J. Murrey Atkins Library

Title: "Because We're Unique": The Literate Lives of Black Adolescent Females
Author: Strong, Kellan
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Education, Reading, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: 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...

Title: "Public Order is Even More Important than the Rights of Negroes:" Race and Recreation in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1927-1973
Author: Ervin, Michael
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: History, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: 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...

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...

Title: AIN'T I A YOGI?: A CRITICAL EXPLORATION OF SYMBOLIC AND SOCIAL BOUNDARIES IN THE YOGA WORLD
Author: Brooks, Temeka
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Women's studies, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: 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...

Title: Afrocentricity for all: A case study examining the self-healing power of alternative curricula as a mediating tool of inclusion
Author: Watson, Marcia
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Education, Curriculum planning, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: Student achievement and school reform are some of the most pervasive topics in public school discourse. However, the curriculum is one area that remains virtually unchanged across U.S. schools. The efflorescence of federal legislative policies, su...

Title: Black Doulas and The Quest For Empowerment in the Black Woman's Birthing Experience
Author: Mattison, Sydney
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Obstetrics, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: 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...

Title: Black Lives Matter and Black Power
Author: Fraser, Daviana
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Rhetoric, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: 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 ...

Title: Digital Mirror: An Examination of Social Media’s Influence on Late Adolescent Black Females’ Global and Academic Self-Concept
Author: Williams, Nakeshia
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Education, Educational psychology, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: The broad socialization of new media has the ability to cultivate the values, beliefs, interests, and personality characteristics of Black females. Specifically, new media’s digital platform of social media offers individuals immediate access to v...

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...

Title: EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SELECTED VARIABLES AND THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Author: Graham, David
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology, Education, Secondary, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: Research investigating the impact of factors such as gender, socioeconomic status, racial socialization, and academic self-concept on the academic achievement of African American high school students has been of interest to scholars for decades. P...

Title: EXPLORING THE INFLUENCE OF DRAMATIC ARTS ON UNDEREXAMINED LITERACIES: EXPERIENCES OF BLACK GIRLS IN AN URBAN MIDDLE SCHOOL
Author: York, Portia
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Performing arts, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: This study examined the influence of drama participation on foundational, digital, and Black Girls’ literacies of urban middle school Black girls. This interpretive case study used the Culturally Relevant Arts Education framework with Black Femini...

Title: Exploring Diasporic Dialects of Black Women in College Composition and Communications: A Critical Reflective Narrative Inquiry
Author: Dervin, Alicia
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education, Language and languages, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching
Description: Historically, standard English language ideologies have been perpetually ingrained in American educational practices and policies (Smitherman, 2017; Wong & Teuben-Rowe, 1997). These practices are not limited to K-12 studies and maintain a position...

Title: FROM ROOTS TO STAR TREK: A CASE STUDY ON SUCCESSFUL PERSISTENCE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE ENGINEERING MAJORS
Author: McGee, Marquis
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Education, Higher, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: 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...

Title: Filling the Void: Exploring Predictors of African American Beginning Teacher Retention
Author: Hopper, Eugenia
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education, Educational leadership, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: 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...

Title: From Tee to Green: Municipal Planning, Golf, and Mountain Progress
Author: Dixon, Kenneth
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: History, African Americans--Study and teaching
Description: 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...

Title: Genocide Activism: Generational Interpretations within African American and Native American Organizations, 1948-1978
Author: Marlowe, Kathryn
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: History, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching, Indigenous peoples
Description: This thesis is a comparative analysis of Native American and African American activist strategies from the immediate post-WWII era to the height of the Civil Rights Era using a term I call "genocide activism." Genocide activism is when a group or ...

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...

Title: HE WHO FEEDS YOU: THE MALES PLACE COMMUNITY GARDEN AS A FACILITATOR OF DEVELOPMENT IN BLACK MALE YOUTH
Author: Simmons, Alexander
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Agriculture, Developmental psychology, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: 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...

Title: Healing and Posttraumatic Growth in African American Survivors of Domestic Violence: An Exploration of Women's Narratives
Author: Dickerson, Anne
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology, Women's studies, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: This research explores how African American women's narratives present their healing processes after they experience domestic violence. The research was conducted within the framework of Black feminist epistemology. A narrative approach was select...

Title: I am not your Negro: What African American male counselor students' perceptions of their racialized gendered identity say to Counseling Education and Supervision programs with respect to a Pan-African Paradigm
Author: Feemster, Ryan
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching, History
Description: ABSTRACTDr. RYAN BENSON FEEMSTER: I am not your Negro: What African American male counselor students' perceptions of their racialized gendered identity say to Counseling Education and Supervision programs with respect to a Pan-African Paradigm (Un...