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Johnson, Levester. ""Other" biracial students in the college environment /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3173531.
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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Indiana University, 2004.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-04, Section: A, page: 1295. Chair: Deborah F. Carter. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed Nov. 22, 2006)."
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Leung, Shi Chi. "Race and the racial other: Race, affect and representation in Hong Kong television." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2015. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/150.
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This cultural research explores the relation between racial representation and emotions/affects as part of the struggle for racial minorities’ visibility. It is informed by conjunctural theory in cultural studies, with the use of textual narrative and affective analysis. It focuses on Hong Kong’s television culture as a site for context configuration, or conjuncture, for constructing the inter- and intra-ethnic relations between the dominant ethnic Chinese and ethnic minorities (EMs), via the production of emotions.
Chapter One introduces a conjunctural understanding of the construction of EMs in Hong Kong through revisiting some of the most prominent theoretical works that explore the transformation of Hong Kong identity, in order to point out an underlying Hong Kong-Chineseness as a cultural center, and to argue that the demand of the present conjuncture is to respond to the necessity of generating an alternative “EM-context” suitable for reimagining Hong Kong identity. Chapter Two attempts to map out this “EM-context” by reviewing the major popular non-Chinese figures on TV, namely Louie Castro, Gregory Rivers (known as “Ho Kwok-wing”) and Gill Mohinderpaul Singh (known as “QBoBo”) in order to study how their particular cultural visibility can open up ways to rethink the problems surrounding visibility. The narrative affective approach to study racial relations is applied to the reading of No Good Either Way (TVB) in Chapter Three and Rooms To Let (RTHK) in Chapter Four. Together, these two core chapters explore the affective configuration of “anxieties” and “shame” in the two TV programmes. It is suggested that these affective landscapes help position EMs as either a “sweetened trouble-maker” (in the work place) or “assimilating neighbor” (in the domestic sphere), both of which fall short of being able to construct a new context/conjuncture for understanding the cultural presence of EMs. This research rejects the study of race/ethnicity through content analysis of stereotype, and opts for an approach that reads affects and narratives in the search not for representational visibility, but for what is termed “conjunctural visibility.” Ultimately, Chapter Five concludes with a discussion of the dynamics of “soft” and “hard” representations of the ethnic other: the former in the mode of “sugarcoated racism” which involves the figure of EM as the sweetened troublemaker appealing for audience’s sympathy, and the latter in the form of public pedagogy aimed at educating the audience (through shaming) to treat their EM neighbor as the assimilated other. This research study aims at making a small contribution to the understanding of the struggle for conjunctural visibility among EMs in Hong Kong.
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Leung, Shi Chi. "Feelings and the racial other: race, affect, and representation on Hong Kong television." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2015. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/248.
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This cultural research explores the relation between racial representation and emotions/affects as part of the struggle for racial minorities’ visibility. It is informed by conjunctural theory in cultural studies, with the use of textual narrative and affective analysis. It focuses on Hong Kong’s television culture as a site for context configuration, or conjuncture, for constructing the inter- and intra-ethnic relations between the dominant ethnic Chinese and ethnic minorities (EMs), via the production of emotions. Chapter One introduces a conjunctural understanding of the construction of EMs in Hong Kong through revisiting some of the most prominent theoretical works that explore the transformation of Hong Kong identity, in order to point out an underlying Hong Kong-Chineseness as a cultural center, and to argue that the demand of the present conjuncture is to respond to the necessity of generating an alternative “EM- context suitable for reimagining Hong Kong identity. Chapter Two attempts to map out this “EM-context by reviewing the major popular non-Chinese figures on TV, namely Louie Castro, Gregory Rivers (known as “Ho Kwok-wing) and Gill Mohinderpaul Singh (known as “QBoBo) in order to study how their particular cultural visibility can open up ways to rethink the problems surrounding visibility. The narrative affective approach to study racial relations is applied to the reading of No Good Either Way (TVB) in Chapter Three and Rooms To Let (RTHK) in Chapter Four. Together, these two core chapters explore the affective configuration of “anxieties and “shame in the two TV programmes. It is suggested that these affective landscapes help position EMs as either a “sweetened trouble-maker (in the work place) or “assimilating neighbor (in the domestic sphere), both of which fall short of being able to construct a new context/conjuncture for understanding the cultural presence of EMs. This research rejects the study of race/ethnicity through content analysis of stereotype, and opts for an approach that reads affects and narratives in the search not for representational visibility, but for what is termed “conjunctural visibility. Ultimately, Chapter Five concludes with a discussion of the dynamics of “soft and “hard representations of the ethnic other: the former in the mode of “sugarcoated racism which involves the figure of EM as the sweetened troublemaker appealing for audience’s sympathy, and the latter in the form of public pedagogy aimed at educating the audience (through shaming) to treat their EM neighbor as the assimilated other. This research study aims at making a small contribution to the understanding of the struggle for conjunctural visibility among EMs in Hong Kong.
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Moras, Amanda. "When other isn't enough challenging hegemonic racial discourse on interracial intimacy and multiracial identities /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0010530.
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Weil, Amy Margaret. "The Darkening of the Other: Demarcating Difference in Cantar de Roldan, Cartas marruecas, and La reina del sur." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/86446.
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This thesis analyzes the research of various historical and literary theorists in relation to identification of Otherness in three Spanish works: Cantar de Roldán, Cartas marruecas, and La reina del sur. Throughout the thesis, I analyze hwo the discourse of identification of Otherness has progressed throughout these three works. Each work was chosen as a cultural artifact of its time. I begin the thesis with Cantar de Roldán and analyze how variation in faith served as primary demarcation of Otherness. I then analyze Cartas marruecas and how race also becomes an identifier of Otherness; I end the thesis analyzing La reina del sur and the role of racial discourse as the primary identifier of Otherness.Master of Arts
This thesis analyzes the research of various historical and literary theorists in relation to identification of Otherness in three Spanish works: Cantar de Roldán, Cartas marruecas, and La reina del sur. Throughout the thesis, I analyze how the discourse of identification of Otherness has progressed throughout these three works. Each work was chosen as a cultural artifact of its time. I begin the thesis with Cantar de Roldán and analyze how variation in faith served as primary demarcation of Otherness. I then analyze Cartas marruecas and how race also becomes an identifier of Otherness; I end the thesis analyzing La reina del sur and the role of racial discourse as the primary identifier of Otherness.
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Foster, Theodore Roosevelt III. "Ultimately Other-ed: The Transnational Development of Racial Discourse in Ecuador and the Black Subject." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1306874504.
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Rojo, Sergio. "Discriminación racial: Discurso oficial versus realidad en Cuba postrevolucionaria." Scholar Commons, 2018. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7224.
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El objetivo de esta investigación es buscar y analizar las causas que han mantenido la discriminación racial dentro de Cuba después de 1959. En mi investigación pretendo examinar cómo la Revolución Cubana no eliminó la continuidad histórica de discriminación racial heredada del pasado. En mi análisis quiero verificar cómo el estereotipo y la imagen política del afrocubano que ha sido formada tras los cambios sociales ocurridos después del 1959, no es más que el resultado de una falacia política montada en nombre de la igualdad.
Muchas de las políticas adoptadas por el estado se hicieron en pos de eliminar la mayoría de los vestigios y rasgos de la discriminación, pero la principal estrategia radicó en manipular la memoria histórica de los afrocubanos haciendo alusión al periodo esclavista para crear un compromiso partidista. En realidad, se camufló el verdadero objetivo de estas políticas. Si bien se borraron las leyes discriminatorias del sistema jurídico, no ocurrió de la misma manera del pensamiento de los individuos ya que muchas políticas adoptadas a través de los años, contribuyeron a su persistencia.
Otro aspecto importante es hacer referencia a la emigración de la población blanca y el impacto económico de este proceso en la constitución racial de la población de la isla. La diferencia de los niveles de vida entre blancos y afrocubanos después de casi sesenta años arroja índices de desigualdad y ratifica que la discriminación se ha identificado bajo las nuevas demandas políticas.
Paralelamente, la lucha por la igualdad racial en la revolución se convirtió en agenda alternativa al sistema segregacionista que caracterizaba a los Estados Unidos a finales en la década de los cincuenta, pero aunque esta competencia le trajo cambios positivos a los afrocubanos, al tomar un nuevo tipo de identidad, hizo diferencias.
La nueva sociedad cubana ofrecía oportunidades a cambio de lealtad. En la actualidad, los cubanos de cualquier raza son caracterizados por su fidelidad para el gobierno, el color de la raza cubana es por afiliación política y no por la pigmentación de la piel.
En mi tesis quiero demostrar que el mito existente detrás del igualitarismo no es más que una primitiva propaganda que perdura desde la época de la era de la Guerra Fría. Citando a autores como Fernando Ortiz, Manuel Moreno Fraginals, Carlos Mesa-Lago, Mark Sawyer, entre otros, analizaré los diferentes espacios sociales de los afrocubanos para demostrar que ellos siguen siendo el sector más quebrantado de la sociedad. El lector encontrará libros muy fundamentales en cuanto a la raza cubana, pero también encontrará citas de periódicos, páginas de la internet, y otros medios, que ayudan a incorporar un pensamiento inmediato y actual que se mueve en los medios de comunicación que demuestre que el racismo solo se puede combatir dentro de una sociedad civil en discusión y no por decretos, haciéndolo un asunto social, no cultural ni político.
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Alsarhan, Jawaher. "Gender and Racial Empowerment in Selected Works of Maya Angelou." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2019. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/cauetds/162.
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This study examines Maya Angelou as a powerful African-American woman in the twentieth century who impacted generations of African Americans. Her biographies and selected works speak strongly and wisely about gender and racial empowerment. This empowerment was sown in her childhood and could be traced throughout her life. It is also a fact that seldom does the realization of one’s race and gender take place at such an early age as with Maya Angelou. She was highly marginalized not only in terms of gender but also in terms of race with acute consciousness.
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Brown, Brandon. "Improving America's Racial Climate by Decreasing the Use of the Race Card." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/466.
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The goal of this paper is to explore the way the Race Card is used in the United States and how its use affects the racial climate of the country. The use of the Race Card in politics, courts, and sport is addressed. Research and examples show that the use of the Race Card in these areas has generally negative effects. In most cases the use of the Race Card in these areas not only reinforces stereotypes but also can racialize a situation, which can cause the actual issue to be ignored. Therefore, in order to improve America’s racial climate and ensure the root of issues are being addressed it is important to limit the use of the Race Card to anti-discrimination issues courts.
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Lefrandt, Jason Bernard. "Comparing Alcohol Abuse of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander College Students to that of Other Racial Groups." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2019. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/7687.
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Alcohol abuse is a ubiquitous issue for college students across the United States (U.S.) including Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (NHPI). As compared to their counterparts, NHPI students tend to underutilize university counseling services and have significantly lower retention rates than their White counterparts. Considering that NHPI may be reluctant to go to counseling, their levels of distress and alcohol abuse may have to reach a higher threshold before they seek treatment. This study examined NHPI college students' presenting levels of alcohol abuse both at intake and over time and compared these students to students from other ethnic/racial groups. Data were gathered from the Center for Collegiate Mental Health (CCMH), a practice-research network used by hundreds of college counseling centers across the U.S. Aggregated data from the years 2012-2015 included variables measured by the Standardized Data Set (SDS) and the Counseling Center Assessment of Psychological Symptoms (CCAPS). The data were analyzed using Latent Growth Modeling (LGM) to assess the differences at intake and over time in alcohol abuse and distress across ethnic groups. Results of this study indicated that NHPI college students at college counseling centers had higher levels of alcohol abuse and presenting distress at intake than students from other ethnic/racial groups. However, NHPI did not have significantly different changes in levels of alcohol abuse from session one to session 12 as compared to other students. Implications and directions for further research are also discussed.
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Wager, Laura. "Racial differences in the relationship between child externalizing and corporal punishment the role of other discipline strategies /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3355004.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Cognitive Science, 2009.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Feb. 5, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-04, Section: B, page: 2590. Adviser: John E. Bates.
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Mooney, Laura Louise. "Listening to silence, reading the unwritten : articulating the voice of the racial other in white male discourse." Thesis, University of Kent, 2015. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/52388/.
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This thesis explores literary representations in white male discourse of the voices of the racial Other. Tracing a chronological development from colonial to postcolonial texts, it closely analyzes the wider political and ethical implications of these representations in Daniel Defoe’s "Robinson Crusoe", Joseph Conrad’s "Heart of Darkness", Albert Camus’ "L’Étranger" and ‘L’Hôte’, J.M. Coetzee’s "Foe" and "Disgrace", J.M.G. Le Clézio’s "Onitsha" and Cormac McCarthy’s "No Country for Old Men". At the core of my research is the question how can white male writers resist the dominance of Eurocentric consciousness and be a witness to the racial Other and articulate his/her voice without recourse to prejudice and stereotyping. The representation of the Other transitions from the anonymity of slavery in colonial texts to identified and identifiable individuals in postcolonial writings. Through these novels the impact of national Independence, freedom from racial oppression and immigration − all legal expressions of freely articulated voice − can be observed on the traditional colonial power relationship. As a consequence, dominated, silenced voices gradually develop into silent refusals of acquiescence that withhold information. The impact of such resistance is frequently paralleled by a crisis of male identity and the declining stature of the white male protagonists who suffer imprisonment, death, sickness, confusion or defeat, as gestures symbolic of the decline of white patriarchal systems and challenges to accepted concepts of identity, humanity, justice, good and evil. In a globalized world the category of the Other encourages us to think beyond the known and recognize the validity of ideologies that challenge the authority of our own.
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Sebastiao, Yuri Combo Vanda. "Racial and Ethnic Differences in Low-Risk Cesarean Deliveries in Florida." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6583.
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Background and Significance: Cesarean delivery rates increased by more than 50% between 1996 and 2011 in the United States. The large increase in rates for the procedure was generally not associated with significant improvements in obstetric outcomes, raising concern about quality and prompting recommendations for prevention. Primary cesareans provide the best opportunity to reduce overall cesarean rates, and the group of first-time mothers considered low-risk for cesarean (known as nulliparous, term, singleton, vertex, NTSV) constitutes the focus of prevention efforts. Studies increasingly report racial and ethnic differences in NTSV cesareans, which remain after controlling for health factors. However, the reasons for these disparities and whether or not they can be mitigated are issues that are not well known. The objective of this investigation was to examine factors that modify the association between race, ethnicity and NTSV cesarean deliveries in Florida. Our overall aim was to improve understanding of drivers of racial and ethnic disparities in cesareans in order to inform efforts to reduce disparities.
Methods: We conducted a population-based retrospective cohort study of 145,117 NTSV deliveries in labor, using Florida’s linked birth certificate and maternal hospital discharge records for the period of 2012 to 2014. The study was restricted to births in routine delivery hospitals to five racial and ethnic groups: non-Hispanic whites and blacks (including Haitians), Cubans, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans. Two contrasting approaches were employed in the analysis. First, generalized linear mixed modelling was used to examine, quantify and describe effect modification of the race/ethnicity–association by cesarean risk factors. Non-Hispanic whites were the reference group for comparison. Second, classification tree modeling (chi-Squared Automatic Interaction Detection, CHAID) was used to identify cesarean risk factor combinations that define distinct subgroups with high and low rates of NTSV cesarean among the different racial and ethnic groups in the study population. Risk factors examined included individual socioeconomic, medical and health service-related factors, hospital factors, and a maternal neighborhood index of deprivation/affluence.
Results: Non-Hispanic whites were the largest racial/ethnic group in the study population (57.6%), followed by non-Hispanic blacks (23%), Cubans (8.1%), Puerto Ricans (6.8%) and finally Mexicans (4.5%). All four minority groups experienced a higher risk of cesarean relative to non-Hispanic whites after adjusting for significant risk factors, with Cubans having the highest adjusted risk ratio (RR, 1.27) followed by non-Hispanic blacks (RR, 1.18). From the regression-based tests of effect modification, we found positive interactions between race (non-Hispanic black versus white), older gestational age, and labor induction; and negative interactions between ethnicity (Cuban versus non-Hispanic white), presence of medical risk conditions, and labor induction. The adjusted RR of cesarean comparing blacks to whites was 1.04 among spontaneous deliveries at early term (P=.33), but increased to 1.28 (P
Conclusions: Our findings on risk factors that modified the association between race, ethnicity and NTSV cesarean delivery and differences in cesarean risk subgroups between racial and ethnic groups suggest that there are potential opportunities to reduce disparities in rates for the procedure in Florida. Whereas racial disparities appear to be related to disparities in health service factors related to cesarean, ethnic disparities appear to persist above and beyond the medical and health service factors included in this investigation. Further research, potentially involving qualitative methods and targeting some of the identified maternal subgroups with high rates of cesarean may help clarify maternal cultural factors, or differences in patient-provider interaction, that may contribute to some of the disparities.
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Lunceford, Tama. "Stories of Color: An Exploration of Storytelling and Racial Microaggression." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3672.
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This study examines experiences of racial microaggressions as related to an audience through the art of Storytelling. Integrating Performance Ethnography and Critical Race Theory, it examines how storytelling may serve to illuminate the concept of racial microaggressions. After examining the current body of work on Racism, Storytelling and Microaggression, the author moves through the stories of experiences with racial microaggression from four individuals, gathered and performed as a storytelling event, before a live audience. The communicative management methods individuals use when talking about race and racial microaggressions are explored in presentation of the audience discussion which followed the performance. The author concludes storytelling has merit as a tool for the illumination of racial microaggressions, yet the potency with which racism is ingrained in the psyche of white people in U.S. indicates significant structure must be applied to public discussions of race to support the utilization of storytelling in this manner.
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HaMai, Truc. "The "other" women| What about the experiences of women faculty of color in community colleges?" Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3692151.
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Critical research on the intersections of gender, race and class on women faculty of color largely addresses the experience of those in 4-year universities. In addition, the available research on community college faculty namely addresses the perceptions of culture and climate by those of White women faculty. To date, the scholarship on the experiences of women faculty of color (WFofC) in community colleges is nearly nonexistent. This study offers in-depth insight into the experiences of WFofC at 2-year institutions, contributing to the emerging body of critical research. Bringing the perspectives of WFofC at 2-year institutions to the forefront validates not only their presence in academe, but also acknowledges and celebrates their work as committed educators.
Semi-structured interviews were collected from 37 participants who represented 11 different community colleges in the urban/suburban regions of Los Angeles and Orange Counties in southern California.
Findings revealed that WFofC experience multiple forms of marginalization, as well as agency. The intersections of gender, race and class manifested themselves in the findings and confirmed that the experiences of WFofC can be unified as a collective minority experience to contrast dominant groups. They are simultaneously diversified because of the unique differences in ethnic identity and lived experience amongst each other.
For many, the institutional culture and climate perceived by WFofC in community colleges validated that it was “chilly” and not as “warm” as those from research findings that sampled White women faculty. The type of the community college district, department culture and status in the faculty hierarchy were factors that influenced their experience of climate. Despite many expressing the culture of their institutions as being “hostile,” these women of color were overwhelmingly satisfied in their faculty work. Their commitment to serving underrepresented students, and sense of responsibility to the community at large, mediated the chilliness.
Recommendations for future research include further analyses of the rich data collected from this study. Recommendations for policy and practice include institutionalizing the hiring of diverse administrators and faculty to reach critical mass. Furthermore, community college leaders should provide formal support for WFofC through ongoing structured mentoring opportunities and faculty learning communities.
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Marshall, Christine Lowella. "The re-presented Indian: Pauline Johnson's "Strong Race Opinion" and other forgotten discourses." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/288722.
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The daughter of a Mohawk chief and an English immigrant, Pauline Johnson had an unusual childhood which exposed her to Shakespeare and Byron, as well as to her Mohawk grandfather's ancient stories. Her writing reflected her parents' optimism and belief that her dual heritage was the beginning of a new world in which native values and abilities would be integrated as important contributions to Canadian society as a whole. For nearly seventeen years Johnson toured Canada, the United States, and England, reciting her own poetry and adding her own humorous observations. Aware that her special draw to her audiences was her native heritage, Johnson assumed the stage persona of "The Mohawk Princess," and wore a buckskin dress, moccasins, a bearclaw necklace, and other accouterments as she recited angry poems protesting white treatment of native peoples. In the second half of her performance, however, she changed into an evening gown, thereby subverting her audience's expectation of the stereotyped identity, "Indian." Although her performances succeeded in disrupting, for an evening, the dominant colonial discourse, she was ultimately co-opted as a sentimental trope and today is often dismissed as a serious writer. However, such dismissal overlooks the fact that Pauline Johnson was the first and only native writer to make her living from her writing. During the four years between her retirement from the recital platform and her death in 1913, she produced more than 80 short stories that appeared in national magazines. This dissertation examines examples of the colonial discourse of her contemporaries and Johnson's response to such discourse for clues to her current near-exclusion from the Native American literary canon.
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Brown, Linda Joyce. "The literature of immigration and racial formation : becoming white, becoming other, becoming American in the late progressive era /." New York : Routledge, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39232180t.
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Harper, Ti'esh N. "Capitalism, the Reproduction of Racial Difference in American Education, and Black Student Resistance." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/626.
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The research and analysis of Capitalism, The Reproduction of Racial Difference in American Education, and Black Student Resistance comes from my experiences working for a dropout prevention nonprofit organization in Title 1 public schools with Black middle school and high school students. I observed many conflicts between Black students and school staff that were resolved by convincing students that the cultural norms and rules of the school system were objective and morally right, and therefore Black students needed to accept and obey them. From these interactions, I could see that more than academic skills were being taught in schools. The messages of success being proposed were exerting violence on the mind, body, and spirit of Black youth. I could also see that many of the ways that Black students expressed themselves in schools was not rooted in defiance or an inability to obey but in protest to the socialization that was being imposed on them. My observations of Black students reactions to school culture and the insistence on achievement has fueled my work.
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Dyson, Sue Miles 1945. "The relationships between services received by First American juvenile offenders versus all other juvenile offenders." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291807.
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The purpose of this thesis was to determine if there was a significant relationship between the services provided First American juveniles in the Pima County Juvenile Court system as compared to others. In addition this thesis also provides an overview of the history of the Juvenile Justice system as well as the current practices in Pima County Juvenile Court.
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Hightower, Carrita A. "Food choices of African Americans compared to other racial/ethnic U.S. populations using NHANES, 2003-2006, dietary survey data." Diss., Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/4259.
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Burstion-Young, Michelle R. "“Let’s Stay Together: Racial Separation and Other Coping Strategies Among African American High School Students Attending Predominately White Schools.”." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1231817941.
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Mandic, Danilo. "Separatists, Gangsters and Other Statesmen: The State, Secession and Organized Crime in Serbia and Georgia, 1989-2012." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467287.
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What role does organized crime play in determining the success of separatist movements? I explore the role of organized crime in the separatist movements of Kosovo in Serbia and South Ossetia in Georgia, two most similar cases that have generated different outcomes in levels of separatist movement success in 1989-2012 (inclusive). Through the comparison, I argue in six propositions that organized crime can both promote and retard separatist movement success. The explanatory propositions are: (1) organized crime can be formative of state structure, capacity and stability; (2) popular support for the separatist movement can directly depend on organized criminal activities; (3) organized criminal capacity can – through its relations to the host state and separatist movement – hinder or advance separatist success; (4) the ethnic heterogeneity/homogeneity of organized crime may determine its capacity and willingness to promote separatist success; (5) organized crime contributes to separatist movement success when it is (a) prepared and (b) predisposed to divert regional smuggling opportunities towards movement goals; and (6) whether host state repression helps or harms the separatist movement depends on the role that organized crime is fulfilling vis-à-vis the state and separatists. The argument is developed in four steps. First, I examine regional indicators of a connection between separatist success and organized crime, justifying a comparison of Serbia/Kosovo and Georgia/South Ossetia as most similar cases. Second, I process-trace changes in the relational triad of host state, separatist movement and organized crime over the 24-year history, contending that different trajectories in these relations account for different levels of success for the two separatist movements. Third, I examine under what conditions aggregate regional smuggling trends before critical junctures of movement success in fact contribute to that success; I model criminal “filtering” of the aggregate criminal flows as a determinant of whether separatist goals are advanced or hindered. Finally, I compare two nefarious criminal episodes – organ smuggling in Kosovo and nuclear smuggling in South Ossetia – that harmed the separatist movements; I show that superior organized criminal capacity in Kosovo (reflected in its infrastructure, autonomy and community) managed to contain the harm of exposure from the nefarious episode.Sociology
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Nguyen, Dao. "Comparing the molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis in the Iniut and other Canadian-born populations of Quebec." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=81367.
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Population-based molecular epidemiologic studies of tuberculosis have been widely performed to assess the burden of ongoing TB transmission within a population. By genotyping M. tuberculosis isolates (M.TB), cases with matching DNA "fingerprints" are inferred to be due to ongoing transmission, and those with non-matching or "unique" fingerprints are inferred to represent re-activation disease. Two population-based molecular epidemiologic studies using three genotyping methods (IS6110 RFLP, spoligotyping and MIRU) are presented here. The first study examines all TB cases among the Inuit community if Nunavik, Quebec (1990-2000). Our analysis identified previously unrecognized inter-village transmission and estimated that at least 65% of TB cases were due to ongoing transmission. The second study is a case-control study that examines a pyrazinamide-resistant (PZA-R) M.TB strain present in the Canadian-born population (1990-2000). We observed that 77 PSA-R TB cases shared a common mutation conferring the PZA resistance. In this low-incidence setting, the cases were most likely due to reactivation from a common but old PZA-R M.TB strain in the absence of significant ongoing transmission. In contrast to the Inuit case-study where 76% of cases had matching genotypes across all three modalities, only 19% of PZA-R cases and 13% of Canadian-born controls were clustered by the same analysis. The utility of cluster analysis in the understanding of the transmission patterns of TB in these two different populations are compared and discussed.
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Okombo, Florence A. "Racial Ethnic Health Disparities: A Phenomenological Exploration of African American Adults with Diabetes Complications." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3572.
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Racial/ethnic minority groups experience a higher mortality rate, a lower life expectancy, and worse mental health outcomes than non-Hispanic in the United States. There is a scarcity of qualitative studies on racial/ethnic health disparities. The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological study was to explore the personal experiences, attitudes, and perspectives of 6 African American adults with chronic health issues related to diabetes through a face-to-face interview. Social cognitive theory and health belief model guided the study. The participants were recruited through purposeful sampling. The data were coded using axial and thematic coding and subsequently analyzed through phenomenological interpretive inquiry. The participants' perceived experiences were summarized in 7 themes (Beliefs and perceptions, denial, attitudes, treatment cost, neighborhood effect, juggling work and family related stress, and need for positive motivation and support). The participants' experiences with their health outcomes were influenced by internal and some external factors that were beyond their control. Social change implications include public policy makers integrating health policies that are designed for socioeconomic inequality in the neighborhood and improving health insurance company policies on treatment copays. Public health and other human services professionals can develop health intervention to assist minorities with chronic health issues to manage their disease and overcome barriers related to the disease.
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Rubenstein, Batya Yisraela. "The Effects of Racial Bias on Perceptions of Intimate Partner Violence Scenarios." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6372.
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The purpose of this study was to explore how racial bias affects perceptions of intimate partner violence (IPV). Public perceptions of IPV have been studied under numerous contexts to ascertain how characteristics of victim and the offender can affect these attitudes. A portion of this body of research has been dedicated to understanding the role of race in perceptions of IPV and a large portion of the findings have been mixed due to the interaction of biases and attitudes about race and IPV. Very few studies have looked at multiple forms of IPV in comparison with one another while also studying the sole effect of racial bias on these attitudes.
This study aimed to explore how racial bias affects perceptions of multiple forms of IPV. Through a survey design that utilized vignettes to present three forms of IPV, participants were randomly assigned to one of four racial dyads for the offender and victim in the vignette and then asked a series of questions about the vignette that measured perceptions of seriousness of the scenario, offender and victim culpability, and punitiveness of punishment. Participants’ attitudes towards domestic violence, racial bias, and violence in general were also measured using known attitudinal scales. The final sample consisted of 401 participants who were recruited through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and completed the online survey.
Findings from this study suggested a role of racial bias on the sample’s perceptions of the seriousness of the scenario, offender culpability, and labeling the vignette a violation of the law.
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Carpenter, Sandra Louise. ""The Afro that Ate Kentucky": Appalachian Racial Formation, Lived Experience, and Intersectional Feminist Interventions." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6200.
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This thesis examines selections of Appalachian women’s personal narrative as well as Affrilachian Poetry written by Kentuckians Bianca Spriggs and Nikki Finney. This project’s goal lies in resisting oppression and erasure of Appalachian culture’s heterogeneity. Contrary to constructions of Appalachians as lazy, complacent, and white, many Appalachians organize communities of resistance from within the region itself. Challenging these representations, I argue that Appalachian feminists as well as Affrilachian poets create countercultures that disrupt monolithic, colonialist, and unquestioned constructions of Appalachia.
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Williams, Benjamin McKay. "Expanding perceptions of self and other through study abroad." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1163539049.
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Weisenberger, Emily Janna. "A Culture of Resistance: An Ethnography of Tampa Bay’s Racial Justice Activist Community." Scholar Commons, 2018. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7592.
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Racial justice activists in Tampa Bay comprise a community and culture structured as a movement of social transformation. Data from eleven interviews and more than 100 hours of participant observation show that activists consist of a diverse array of Tampa Bay residents of varying ages, genders, sexualities, racial/ethnic identities and livelihoods. This community is best described by their beliefs and practices of ideology steeped in intersectionality and anti-capitalism, and are motivated by or empathetic to racial injustices directly experienced by them or those around them. The intention of this paper is to describe activists as they are rather than as they are depicted in the popular imagination, as well as to share the insights of racial justice activists to the public for their own use in resisting injustices.
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Pope, Kailyn. "Upending the "Racial Death-Wish": Black Gay Liberation and the Culture of Black Homophobia." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2021. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/2319.
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This thesis analyzes the origin and impact of Black homophobia found in activist spaces of mid- to late-twentieth-century American society. Black gay Americans were subjected to intersecting forms of systemic and cultural oppression that were exceedingly hard to escape due to both the homophobia in Black spaces and the racism in gay spaces. Black gay activists and artists thus had to create their own avenues of expression where they and others could fully embrace what it meant to be Black and gay. This work utilizes a Black feminist framework to explore the roots of Black homophobia and how this type of bigotry was able to so deeply infiltrate Black activist spaces like the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Panther Party. Black homophobia originated as a response to White supremacist domination of the Black body, and was able to spread through the community for generations through paths such as hypermasculinity, the Black church, and misogynoir. The experiences and voices of Black gay activists and artists are at the forefront of this work in an effort to shine a light on a group often overlooked by Black history and LGBTQ history alike. This thesis works to fill in one of the many gaps present in the historiography pertaining to Black gay life in America, though more contributions can and should be made in order to shift the field away from its historic focus on the White gay male. An investigation of Black gay exclusion from Black and gay activist spaces offers valuable insight into how Black gay activists and artists persevered and cultivated their own spheres of inclusion within a society that fundamentally opposed virtually every part of their identities.
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Baghalian, Anja, and Amina Fehratovic. "Det mörka förtrycket på den vita duken : En studie om 1900-talets medborgarrättsrörelse i samtida film." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-44066.
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Films can be a source to enjoyment, cultural enrichment and relaxation. But films are alsofilled with messages and subtext that affects the one who watches the film. One of the effectsis the reproduction of racism and stereotypes. Therefore, have we chosen to analyze threemodern films that illuminate the civil rights movement. The purpose of this study is toinvestigate whether the selected reality-based films offer alternative perspectives onrelationships, racism and civil rights. This study will be based on the films The butler (2013),Niceville (2011) and Remember the Titans (2000). Based on the three selected films, a selection of scenes and sequences will also be performed.Ranking of scenes and sequences will be grounded on a variety of events so that this studycan show the breadth of the issues that are highlighted in the films. We will then combinesome of the scenes and sequences in the results and analysis to present under the sameheading. In the final part will we conclude with a summary discussion of our work.
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Lambert, Ebony A. "Examination of the Role of Dehumanization as a Potential Mechanism Underlying the Racial Disparities in School Disciplinary Measures." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5656.
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Schools should be safe and supportive spaces for all students, yet Black students tend to face biased treatment in the education system, which often results in harsh disciplinary measures. This research examined the role of animalistic dehumanization (i.e., perceiving others as animal-like and uncultured and denying uniquely human characteristics), in predicting choice of harsher disciplinary measures for Black students as opposed to White students. It was hypothesized that individuals who dehumanize Black students to a greater degree would be more likely to believe that Black students need to be disciplined through harsher measures. Additionally, it was hypothesized that the link between dehumanization and choice of disciplinary measure would be mediated by empathy, attribution of mind, and/or perceived threat. Both Study 1 (in which dehumanization was assessed) and 2 (in which dehumanization was experimentally manipulated) failed to provide evidence supporting the role of dehumanization in differential choices of school disciplinary measures for Black vs. White students. However, both studies provided evidence suggesting that dehumanization of and negative attitudes toward Black Americans are still prevalent and related in American society, and that animal learning perceptions and paradigms influence participant perceptions of threat from students and disciplinary decisions. These findings indicate a need for continued investigation of racial stereotypes about students when assessing racial disparities in school discipline.
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Reilly, Wilfred. "The Effect of Racial Status and Other Core Characteristics on Collective Self-Esteem A Quantitative Test of Divergent Theories of Identity Valuation." OpenSIUC, 2015. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1040.
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The question of why individuals value identities like race and gender is a contested one. Scholars in the Reflected Appraisals tradition argue that members of minority groups experience identity devaluation and minority stress (Hacker 1992; Harris 1993; Meyer 1995; Tatum 1997; Hoff-Sommers 2000; McIntyre 2002) and come to value their identities less in empirical terms than do members of equivalent majority groups (Harris 1993; Hacker 1995). The thesis here is that the values individuals place upon in-group identities are determined by the prestige and power of their in-groups (Cornell and Hartmann 2006: 60). This argument has been advanced often in both domestic and multi-national contexts (Spinner-Halev and Theiss-Morse 2003), but several rigorous empirical tests so far fail to support it (Charles 2003). My dissertation is a comprehensive test of the hypothesis that membership in a minority in-group predicts lowered valuation of in-group identity. I employ ordinal and List Experiment surveys to determine whether members of four minority groups value their identities less than members of the equivalent majority groups (racial, sexual, heterosexual, religious) in terms of (1) placing lower monetary values upon them and (2) being hypothetically more willing to change them. My hypothesis is that identity valuation will not be status dependent: minority status will not generally correlate to a significant degree with lowered identity valuation, as development of oppositional identities allows minorities to value themselves despite potential discrimination (Stern 1995; Simein 2005). This thesis was largely although not totally confirmed. With several exceptions during my List Experiment research, American racial minority status does not correlate with lowered valuation of racial identity, and female sex does not correlate with lowered valuation of gender identity. Religious minorities do not generally value their religious identities less than Protestant Christians, to a statistically significant degree. However, I did find consistent negative and usually significant correlations between LGBT status and lowered valuation of sexual orientation. List Experiment results also indicate that whites may be less honest about their levels of in-group identification than are minorities.
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Pinczower, Zoe A. "Roles, Race, and Receipts: The Implications of Foreign Racial Preferences For the Supply of U.S. Films." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1518.
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Numerous U.S. studio executives claim that the lack of on-screen racial diversity is a result of producers responding to discriminatory racial preferences of international audiences. To test these claims, this paper augments prior film financial success models by introducing measures of cast diversity to quantify the impact that actor race has on film revenue in the domestic and international market. Using OLS regressions, I examine and compare this effect within the domestic and aggregate movie market to investigate the underlying motivations for producers to not cast nonwhite actors. The findings support the claims made by studio heads that, on the whole, films with greater levels of diversity significantly underperform in the international box office, yet are not a strong determinant for domestic consumption. Although producers may be making assumptions about foreign demand when investing in films, the revenue regressions seem to support their assumptions. However, the results are ultimately difficult to interpret. Holding budget and other key film characteristics constant, more diverse films perform poorly relative to less diverse films in foreign markets, so the demographic disparities in films could be mostly driven by rational, profit-maximizing behavior from studios and producers.
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Humphreys, Christopher. "On Black Anger: An Analytic-Philosophical Response to the Problem of Social Value." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1848.
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The fact of racial injustice in the US presents the difficult question of which emotional responses are (conceptually) appropriate to the perpetration of that injustice. Given that our answer must be informed by the nature of the injustice, this paper takes up Christopher Lebron’s diagnosis of the persistence of racial injustice against blacks in the US as a problem of social value in order to analyze a candidate response on the part of black americans. If Lebron’s theory accurately describes the problem, then it seems that anger appropriately responds to the injustice. The paper’s aim, then, is to give a positive account of black anger in response to the problem of social value. The account is informed by an analysis of “angry black literature,” i.e. a selection of essays from W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, and Audre Lorde. Approaching the subject within the framework of analytic philosophy, the paper concludes that anger is appropriate in virtue of its being a response to specific moral failures, and further notes that anger offers the ameliorative benefit of pointing out where those failures have taken place, and how we can avoid them in the future.
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Mitchell, Kierra. "Racial Disparities in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes in Black American Youth." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1239.
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Introduction: Rates of childhood-onset type 1 diabetes (T1D) are steadily increasing among American youth, yet Black Americans are more likely to suffer from serious T1D-related complications caused by poor glycemic control. The aim of this thesis is to determine the external factors that are causing discrepancies in the development, diagnosis, treatment, and long-term management of T1D in Black youth.
Methods: Epidemiological studies were compiled from the American Diabetes Association, Center for Disease Control (CDC), International Diabetes Foundation (IDF), Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), and the Claremont Colleges Library network to identify the sociocultural aspects that negatively affect long-term glycemic control in Black youth.
Results: Studies indicate that Black youth with T1D are more likely to face disadvantages in treatment regimen which are attributed to insurance coverage, socioeconomic status, education level, and implicit bias. Most studies demonstrate that these factors result in poor glycemic control, which subsequently leads to severe dysglycemia-related complications later in life.
Conclusion and Discussion: Many Black youth who suffer from T1D receive insufficient healthcare, which is often exacerbated by a lack of social and economic resources. As a result, they may not have the means to maintain consistent, healthy glycemic levels. System-level changes are necessary to change the morbidity and mortality of T1D in Black youth. Future research should include the analysis of other racial minority groups in order to uncover additional institutional disparities.
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Hector, Audrey. "Four Square: A Short Animation based on The Struggles of Growing Up with a Bounded Racial Identity." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1106.
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For my thesis I discussed the struggles of growing up with a bounded racial identity through the medium of animation. Portraying through the personal stories I have endured, I explain to my viewers how often I struggled with my internal and external identities that either ignored or confronted the ignorance and racial mistreatment I faced growing up. The hope for my animation is to have viewers acknowledge the issue of the bounded racial identity and hopefully begin a dialogue that ignites change.
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Salinas-Miranda, Abraham A. "Social Determinants of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Perinatal Morbidity: Social Origins of Perinatal Health Study." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4937.
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BACKGROUND: The social causation of preterm birth remains elusive, without an adequate explanatory framework. Thus, this study proposed and evaluated a conceptual model of the social determinants of perinatal health for the understanding of perinatal health disparities.
METHODS: A prospective cohort study was conducted with pregnant women between 20 and 35 weeks gestation who were participating in two Healthy Start programs in Central Florida, from July 2011-August 2013. Perinatal health was operationalized based on gestational age, birth weight, and healthy start infant risk screen score. The predictors were: early life adversity, social position, maternal health-related quality of life, maternal stress, racism and discrimination, lack of social support, father involvement during pregnancy, intimate partner violence, and adverse maternal behaviors. Data collection consisted of a self-administered survey and birth outcome data was obtained from Healthy Start administrative databases. The statistical framework was structural equation modeling.
RESULTS: The study sample was racially and ethnically diverse (N, Hispanics=72; N, non-Hispanic blacks=61; and N, non-Hispanic whites=48). The majority of mothers in this study were single or not married (cumulative 76%), US born (74.6%), and with English speaking preference (74.6%). The sample tended to cluster in low income groups (cumulative 58% less than $25,000 annual household income) and with education levels of less than high school (79.6%). A greater proportion of Hispanic mothers were married (66.7%) compared to non-Hispanic blacks (34.4%) and non-Hispanic whites (47.9%). Only 41.7% had completed high school, compared to 63.9% non-Hispanic blacks and 64.6% non-Hispanic whites. Nearly all non-Hispanic blacks and non-Hispanic whites were born in the US, compared to only 43.1% Hispanic mothers. Only 40% of non-Hispanic blacks reported on currently living with the baby's father at the time of the survey, compared to 66.2% for Hispanic mothers, and 58.3% for non-Hispanic whites. Furthermore, non-Hispanic blacks reported a greater proportion of discriminatory experiences in daily situations (mean = 4.74), compared to the other groups (mean for Hispanics was 2.14, and mean for non-Hispanic whites was 1.95). Non-Hispanic whites reported the greater proportion of daily alcohol use (mean 3.8 beverages per month), compared to other groups (Hispanic mean was 0.69, and non-Hispanic blacks mean was 1.68). Non-Hispanic white mothers also presented a higher mean of adverse childhood experiences before 18 years of life (mean = 3.4), compared to other groups (mean for Hispanics was 1.63, mean for non-Hispanic blacks was 2.48). With the exception of the confirmatory factor analysis for intimate partner violence (low correlations with common factor), all other confirmatory factor analyses demonstrated an acceptable Chi-square to degrees of freedom ratio (<6), and the RMSEA was less than 0.08 (minimum for acceptance). Thus, structural equation models were estimated subsequently. The first model was a model of direct effects between social position and perinatal health (hypothesis 1: direct effects), which demonstrated a good fit as indicated by X2/DF ratio of 1.4 (Chi-Square = 19, DF =13) and a RMSEA of 0.05. However, the direct effect of social position was very small and non-significant (Beta=-.02, p-value =.76), supporting the conclusion that a simple direct effect of social position on perinatal health was not found in this population. The second model explored indirect effects of social position through intermediate factors (hypothesis 2: indirect effects), which demonstrated a good fit to the data, as indicated by a Chi-square/df ratio = 1.45 and RMSEA=.05. Social support was a statistically significant mediator between social position (Beta=0.284, p<0.05) and perinatal health (Beta=0.22, p<0.05). The third model incorporated adverse childhood experiences as predictor of social position effects. Adverse childhood experiences were significantly associated with social position (Beta=.363, p<0.05) and moderated the effects of social position on social support and perinatal health. In the presence of adverse childhood experiences, the social position was significantly associated to maternal health-related quality of life (Beta=-0.226, p<0.05) and maladaptive maternal behaviors (Beta=0.654, p<0.05).
CONCLUSION: This study demonstrated synergistic effects of social determinants of health. Controlling for all factors considered, social support was significantly associated with perinatal health, which presents implications for strengthening prenatal programs that provide support to pregnant women. Findings need to be replicated in larger studies with the US general population. Policy makers and researchers need to pay greater attention to the role of early life adversity on perinatal health outcomes.
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Geller, Rachel. "Schools Uniting Neighborhoods: Sustainability and Racial Equity in a Community Schools Initiative." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1210.
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Schools Uniting Neighborhoods (SUN), a collaborative initiative in Multnomah County, Oregon, combines the increasingly popular community school model with an innovative organizational structure to further two key goals: sustainability as an initiative and furthering racial equity. This thesis situates SUN within the context of American public education reform and existing literature on the positive outcomes, organizational structures, and leadership components of community schools. Building on past reviews of SUN and its outcomes, I use results from qualitative interviews with key stakeholders to provide insight into how its organizational structure contributes to the goals of sustainability and racial equity. I discuss the current state of SUN, future directions, and the relevancy of findings to other community schools initiatives and more generally, public education reform efforts.
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Lee, Pejing. "Factors of Achievement and Persistence of Minorities in Physics." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/436.
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This study explores how racial differences may influence achievement and persistence in physics by using data provided by the Persistence Research in Science and Engineering (PRiSE) project, which surveyed college students throughout the United States about their backgrounds, high school science experiences, and science attitudes. This study draws upon previous studies to first determine the factors that predict achievement and persistence in physics by using hierarchal linear multiple regression analysis. Once statistically significant factors of persistence and achievement were determined, the study determines whether those variables are significantly different among students of determine races.
The study found that race was ultimately not a good predictor of both achievement and persistence in physics; however, this does not necessarily mean that race was an insignificant component. Due to the nature of hierarchal regression analysis, the component of race may have been accounted for in other predictors. However, the analyzed predictors for could not fully account for the variance in either achievement or persistence. This may be due to the limited scope of the PRiSE survey, which did not include socioeconomic factors. The study concludes with a proposal for future research.
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Salaam, Omar J. "A Family Histories Study of Parents Engaging Issues of Race and Racism." Scholar Commons, 2019. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7924.
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This family histories research study uses life history methods to explore narratives of parents’ lives regarding ways in which they socialize their children and engage school staff around issues of race and racism. The information gathered is from interviews with the two primary participants, two focus groups; one with each primary participant and the adults with whom they are raising their elementary school (Pre-K to Grade-5) children, and follow-up interviews with both primary participants. The first finding in this study is that the family life stories in both families play a direct role in socializing their children, in that the parents have shared many of their life stories related to race and racism with one another and their children prior to and regardless of this study. The second finding is that the family life stories in both families play a role in their engagement with school staff around issues of race and racism. Both findings are revealed within the themes of overt racism, covert racism, awakening (the process of one suddenly realizing something he/she had never realized), and closeness (the feeling of some level of emotion or personal connection). Also discussed, following the themes and findings, is the commonality between the two families in this study, enrolling their children in the same racially and culturally diverse International Baccalaureate school. Recommendations include: bringing to the attention of educational leaders and policy-makers the advantages of analyzing ones’ own history; providing the opportunity for voices most often unheard to be listened to and heard by policy-makers and decision makers; and that further research into the impact of policies that are intended to address issues related to race, racism, and other equal opportunity and/or anti-discrimination efforts are confirmed impactful through the voices of individuals.
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Alfonso, Juan D. "Racial Constructions and Activism Within Graphic Literature. An Analysis of Hank McCoy, The Beast." FIU Digital Commons, 2018. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3774.
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Through a post-modern lens, I will primarily focus on comics books published by Marvel Comics to demonstrate the myriad of ways in which graphic literature is used as a subversive tool of sociopolitical discourse. I will demonstrate this by deconstructing and redefining the role of myth as a means of transferring ethical practices through societies and the ways in which graphic literature serves this function within the space of a modern and increasingly atheistic society. The thesis first demonstrates how the American Civil Rights Movement was metaphorically translated and depicted to the pages of Marvel’s X-Men comics to expose its primarily white/ male readership to the plight of discriminated Black Americans through the juxtaposition of depicting white super heroes who represented the segregated experiences of othered or unwanted communities. Secondly, the X-Man Beast is closely analyzed to demonstrate the ways in which the rhetoric and depictions of graphic literature are altered through decades of publication to adapt its messages of social tolerance and peaceful coexistence to its contemporary audiences.
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Johnson, Dawn Rene. "Sense of belonging among women of color in science, technology, engineering, and math majors investigating the contributions of campus racial climate perceptions and other college environments /." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/7723.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2007.Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Counseling and Personnel Services. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Owens, Timothy Christopher Olsen Erik K. "Life on the other side of the street a study of the causes and socioeconomic consequences of intra-metropolitan migration and racial residential segregation in Kansas City /." Diss., UMK access, 2007.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Dept. of Economics. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2007."A thesis in economics." Typescript. Advisor: Erik Olsen. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed Dec. 18, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 142-148). Online version of the print edition.
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Davis, Christopher Anderson. "The Racial Equation: Pan-Atlantic Eugenics, Race, And Colonialism in the Early Twentieth Century British Caribbean." FIU Digital Commons, 2018. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3899.
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This dissertation explores the intellectual discourse on race in the early twentieth century, particularly from 1919 to 1958, examining how British and American eugenicists and Caribbean nationalists debated the limits of colonial politics in the British Caribbean using academic and scientific language. These discussions emerged in the aftermath of World War I, the economic crises that led to the Great Depression, the political and labor unrest in the British Caribbean, and consequences of the Second World War. The dissertation’s goal is to examine how residents of the British Caribbean understood, appropriated, and challenged some of the principles of eugenics, particularly those espousing ideas of white superiority. The dissertation has taken great consideration of both private and published sources from white and black intellectuals in the Anglophone Caribbean to document the dissemination of concepts of race, ethnicity, and identity in the region during the interwar period. Additionally, focusing on such critical areas as education and social policies, it explores whether eugenic ideas influenced the twentieth-century governance of British West Indian colonies.
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Meskil, Dawn M. "A Study of the Perceptions of Racial Equity in One Early Childhood Education Program." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3151.
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Although public education in the United States has had remarkable growth and improvement since its beginning, significant inadequacies concerning racial equity continue to cast a shadow on the system. Despite desegregation efforts and specific attention to providing integrated school settings there has been little progress in establishing educational justice. The purpose of this case study was to uncover perceptions about racial inequity within Asheville City Schools as well as potential facilitators of equity. A qualitative case study using 10 guiding research questions was conducted to evaluate the perceptions of parents as well as educators at Asheville City Schools Preschool regarding racial inequities and potential facilitators of equity. Transcripts from a Racial Equity Photovoice Project were used to identify perceptions of the presence and the impact of racial inequity as well as assets of, barriers to, and potential facilitators of equity. Findings indicate parents and educators agree that barriers of racial equity include elements of negative societal influences, antiquated educational policies and procedures, inapt curricula and instruction, external systems that perpetuate biases, meager funding structures and poor home-school connections. Further, findings indicate parents and educators agree that diverse student bodies and faculties, culturally and social-emotionally relevant curricula and instruction, positive relationships between educators and children, and authentic 2-way communication are potential facilitators of racial equity. Overarching themes incorporate concerns related to resources, mandates, personal narratives, and relationships. This research adds to the literature related to racial equity and has implications for practice as well as future research.
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Benedictsson, Elin. "Connected on a heart level : An anthropological discussion about interracial relationships in post-apartheid South Africa." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-339541.
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Throughout history South Africa has been dominated by a white race group and during the era of apartheid racial segregation was encouraged as well as an idea of racial order was established through institutionalised racism. Marriage across racial borders was prohibited according to the Mixed Marriages Act. The end of apartheid and the transition to democracy in 1994 meant a radical political change within the country, but the issue of race became a question of social and economic inequality. In this essay I study the approaches and experiences of interracial couples in the post-apartheid society, and interracial couples impact on the South African society. I am particularly interested in the South Africans idea of social order today and whereas racial thinking is still present in the postapartheid society. I use qualitative content analysis to discuss ideas of order in relation to race and my material consist in audio files from interviews with interracial couples, as well as literature, books and articles. In my analysis I discuss cultural and social norms, fear of race pollution, prejudice and racial stereotypes as well as thoughts about unity and humanness. Racial thinking is still present in the South African society although the development of relationships across racial borders has increased since the end of apartheid. The interracial couples in my study notice a certain uncomfortableness among the people in their surroundings, some more than others, because people are still getting used to the thought of interracial couples. Although racist beliefs and power relations are still implied by the surroundings the couples appear to feel increasingly at home in South Africa, even though they live in an in-between world, in a New South Africa.
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Samuels, Amy Jo. "Negotiating Race-Related Tensions: How White Educational Leaders Recognize, Confront, and Dialogue about Race and Racism." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4760.
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Despite exposure of educational disparities for students of color, as well as the notion that educational training rarely discusses race and racism, there continues to be a lack of discourse on race, racism, and anti-racism in educational leadership. Subsequently, it is important to challenge deficit thinking and encourage further examination of the deeply-rooted foundation of oppression. The study explored personal narratives of white educational leaders who oppose racial inequity to heighten awareness about conceptualizations of race, racism, and anti-racism. The research involved interviewing educational leaders in three groups: 1) aspiring, 2) currently-practicing, and 3) recently-retired. Eight participants were selected to engage in two semi-structured interviews about their experiences aligned with the following research questions: 1) How do white educational leaders frame the impact of race and racism? and 2) How do white educational leaders describe their perceptions and experiences recognizing, confronting, and dialoguing with others about race and racism? The findings revealed commonalties about the subtle nature of racism, as well as how to confront racism through thoughts and actions. While participants considered dialogue beneficial in their own awareness of race and racism, the lack of venues to dialogue were emphasized. The findings suggest implications for further contextualizing negotiations of race-related tensions and framing the impact of race and racism, particularly in relation to creating purposeful spaces and relationships to encourage such dialogue. Additionally, interpretation of the findings adds insight to further conceptualizing racial identity models and anti-racism.
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Sampson, David. "Strangers in a strange land the 1868 Aborigines and other indigenous performers in mid-Victorian Britain /." Click here for electronic access to document: http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/dspace/handle/2100/314, 2000. http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/dspace/handle/2100/314.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Technology, Sydney, 2000.Sportsmen: Tarpot, Tom Wills, Mullagh, King Cole, Jellico, Peter, Red Cap, Harry Rose, Bullocky, Johnny Cuzens, Dick-a-Dick, Charley Dumas, Jim Crow, Sundown, Mosquito, Tiger and Twopenny. Bibliography: p. 431-485.
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Minter, Lauryn T. "We Wear the Mask: Exploring the Talented Tenth and African American Political Philosophy in 21st Century Politics." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2014. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1954.
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Researchers have suggested that Blacks who express linked racial fate are ideologically liberal. Given the prominence of Black philosophical thought and salience of race, I suggest that linked racial fate results in conservative ideology, which exists on a separate ideological dimension than the traditional conservative ideological dimension. This new ideological dimension, referred to as conservatism among Blacks, is vital to understanding Black political thought in the 21st century. Using data from the 1996 National Black Election Study, 2008 National Annenberg Election Study, and focus group data I argue that the conservative ideas espoused by Blacks, specifically members of the Talented Tenth, actually support Black advancement in the same way that Blacks express support for Democratic candidates or ideals as a result of linked racial fate. Moreover, conservatism among Blacks does not result in a specific partisan identification or support for certain candidates; instead, conservatism results in explicit support for policies and ideas that align with the ideas and philosophies of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Marcus M. Garvey. This dissertation fills the gap in the literature that does not utilize Black philosophers, Black political leaders, or college educated Blacks to explain Black political thought and behavior. The study of members of the Talented Tenth provides a framework for understanding how Blacks negotiate various political philosophies, challenging traditional Black American political thought while remaining racially linked to the Black community
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Galindo, Marilys. "A Relationship Between the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test 2.0 Mathematics Scores and Racial and Ethnic Concentrations when Considering Socio-Economic Status, ESOL Student Population." FIU Digital Commons, 2013. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1010.
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From the moment children are born, they begin a lifetime journey of learning about themselves and their surroundings. With the establishment of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, it mandates that all children receive a high-quality education in a positive school climate. Regardless of the school the child attends or the neighborhood in which the child lives, proper and quality education and resources must be provided and made available in order for the child to be academically successful.
The purpose of this ex post facto study was to investigate the relationship between the FCAT 2.0 mathematics scores of public middle school students in Miami-Dade County, Florida and the concentrations of a school’s racial and ethnic make-up (Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics), English for Speakers of other Languages (ESOL) population, socio-economic status (SES), and school climate. The research question of this study was: Is there a significant relationship between the FCAT 2.0 Mathematics scores and racial and ethnic concentration of public middle school students in Miami-Dade County when controlling SES, ESOL student population, and school climate for the 2010-2011 school year?
The instruments used to collect the data were the FCAT 2.0 and Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) School Climate Survey. The study found that Economically Disadvantaged (SES) students socio-economic status had the strongest correlation with the FCAT 2.0 mathematics scores (r = -.830). The next strongest correlation was with the number of students who agreed that their school climate was positive and helped them learn (r = .741) and the third strongest correlation was a school percentage of White students (r = .668). The study concluded that the FCAT 2.0 mathematics scores of M-DCPS middle school students have a significant relationship with socio-economic status, school climate, and racial concentration.