This study uses a rate of return model and a Regression technique to estimate the net effects of investment in higher education in the United States, more comprehensively on key measures of monetary and non-monetary outcomes ...

African American students that attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois and University), from the early years of its founding had to bear much of the burden their ancestors had endured. ...

To navigate modernist fiction's racial constructions is to understand how race anatomizes the ascendant value of newness in the twentieth century. In the primary texts of this dissertation, manifold visions of race, racism, ...

I examine the race talk dilemmas of school officials in public school meetings over a 20 year period to attempt to understand why racialized policies and practices still persist against African American students at Blakesdale ...

How does economic integration affect social protection regimes differently across the developing world? The existing literature predicts a causal relationship between globalization and larger welfare states under the ...

Previous research has shown that the health of black Americans is persistently worse than that of white Americans. The aim of this dissertation is to comprehend why these racial differences in morbidity and mortality exist. ...

The transfer of cultural, social, and symbolic capital shapes the educational processes and influences the educational outcomes of African-American students in desegregated environments. The stratified nature of capital ...