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Some 300 years after the founding of the first American institution of higher education, developing students into future leaders remains a central objective of contemporary colleges and universities (Astin, 1993; Johnson, 2000; Komives, ...
Traumatic head injury is associated with an array of antisocial behavior. Furthermore, head injury is associated with many of the antisocial risk factors identified in the criminological literature. To date, no research has attempted to...
The critical analysis of race often has been considered the domain of fields like history, sociology, and ethnic studies, yet African American literature has always been fertile ground for the examination of race and whiteness, defined...
This dissertation asserts that members of Ile Asho Funfun, the Lucumí spiritual house at the center of the research, is comprised of members who have undergone the process of converting to the spiritual practice of Lucumí and, as such, ...
Over the last three decades, a steady flow of research has explored the factors that explain the spatial distribution of interracial homicides in America. However, despite the many advances made in the interracial homicide literature, ...
A collection of short stories and a novella focusing on the lives of Muslim characters, American and otherwise, primarily of South-Asian descent. The collection examines concepts such as family relationships, arranged marriage in a...
In the early 1900s researchers began to examine various dimensions of the human personality. Throughout the years this research has solidified the notion that there are several master traits that every individual possess to some degree...
With the current priorities and challenges surrounding equity in higher education, many institutions are looking for new resources to support diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) goals at their institutions. One resource that has been...
Moving Metacognitive Regulation Beyond Curriculum and into Culture: Improving Marginalized Students' Agency through Motivation Infused Cognitive Awareness Training
Underrepresented (UR) university students approach postsecondary studies in multitudes; yet are minorities in the larger landscape. They are less prepared given sustained societal and systemic inequities, and face added obstacles to...
Blood Vinyls investigates the definition of 'Memory in the blood, ' or 'blood memory, ' which is defined as one's ancestral or genetic connection to their language, songs, spirituality, and teachings" (Huang 6), as well as Toni Morrison's...
The way Black masculinity is portrayed in American society is often negative. Black men are forced to wade through deleterious messaging and images that situate their masculinity within tightly defined stereotypes. Furthermore, Black...
Sister Montclair and Sister Paige are missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS/Mormon Church) and are serving in Cape Town, South Africa, when they are sexually assaulted by a group of men from a local...
Exploring Relationships between Arts Administrators in Appalachian Kentucky and Tennessee and Their State Arts Agencies: A Qualitative Narrative Inquiry
This dissertation explores the relationship of arts administrators in isolated Appalachian communities in Kentucky and Tennessee with their respective representative state arts agencies. Using the narrative inquiry methodology, I...
I urge here for a reconceptualization of such female protagonists’ embodiments of the trope of strong black womanhood that shows the benefit of troubling these rigid narratives of inclusion which have underwritten and, to wit, regulated...
This qualitative study aims to explore the experiences of undocumented college students enrolled at public institutions of higher education in the state of Florida who engage in the phenomena of activism. The research will explore...
At the nexus of Black feminist theory, geography, and literature this multidisciplinary project investigates the politics of space and the problem of dwelling in Toni Morrison’s socio-spatial quartette. Collectively, A Mercy, Beloved, ...
A growing impulse in American black female fiction is the reclamation of black female sexuality due to slavery's proliferation of sexual stereotypes about black women. Because of slave law's silencing of rape culture, issues of consent, ...
This dissertation examines the historical and cultural context of lynching and lynching trends in scholarship and places Claude Neal's lynching within that context. The dissertation provides a detailed account of the Neal lynching by...
This dissertation focuses on mothers' fears of allowing their children outside because of neighborhood violence. These worries occur across race and class categories, but they are especially prevalent for mothers living in high poverty...
Get It How I Live: An Exploratory Qualitative Analysis of How Black First-Generation Low-Income Students Learn about Money through Community Cultural Wealth
Grounded in critical race theory, Yosso’s (2005) Community Cultural Wealth Model aims to capture unique ways that help students of color succeed in predominantly White institutions, and in society. This case study explores how Black...
This dissertation examines new interventions into the historiography of chattel slavery. In reading several texts by Black women authors and artists—including Octavia E. Butler’s Fledgling (2005), Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017...
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