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(2014-09-16)Intergroup dialogue is a multicultural education strategy aimed at promoting conflict resolution and enhancing the understanding of differences (Zuniga et al., 2002). An intergroup dialogue course involves gathering ...
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(2015-04-23)For college students, academic and social issues play a huge role in their higher education experience. This experience is exceptionally complicated for diverse Black populations, who often have to negotiate their complex ...
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(2003)African-American women schoolteachers played an important role in African-American communities. They applied innovative methods to relieve the conditions of an inadequate educational system and in the process made enormous ...
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(1995)"I am the Devil's Own" examines the ways the criminal justice system interacted with social services and military regulation to foster and impose class, gender, and ethnic identities on inhabitants of the Dutch East Indies ...
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(2001)This dissertation examines the possible value of utilizing theories of the human subject derived from recent philosophical work to understand the practices of mass media audiences. The first half of the manuscript provides ...
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(2010-06-22)In the early twentieth century, record companies frequently used the designation “good music” as a catch-all category to describe serious art music selections, and the commercial and cultural value afforded to “good music” ...
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(2013-08-22)Coaching often rests upon a “causal cascade” (Atteberry, Bryk, Walker & Biancarosa,2008) that posits that collaboration with a coach leads to a change in the attitude, beliefs and practices of teachers and therefore improves ...
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(2016-04-22)This dissertation sheds light on the gendered and commemorative history of the Civil War. Many historians have recognized the importance of soldiers' letters as evidence of the cultural and ideological mentalities of ...
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(2020-04-28)This study examines the cross-racial interactions of Students of Color and white students within the higher education classroom. Utilizing critical race theory, this study primarily focuses on the experiences and interactions ...
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(2018-04-19)The years following World War II have seen a wealth of scholarship dedicated to the topic revealing the undeniably huge impact the war had on people and politics throughout the world. In terms of the United States’ involvement ...
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(2007)Mule Bone (1931), Zora Neale Hurston's collaboration with Langston Hughes, has been credited as the 'first' attempted by African Americans to create 'Negro folk comedy.' This dissertation is driven from a question to the ...
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(2020-08-19)Political polarization among the American electorate continuously grows (Iyengar, Sood, & Lelkes, 2012), perniciously impeding political cohesion. Partisans refute policies simply because they do not align with their party’s ...
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(2004)*This dissertation is a compound document (contains both a paper copy and a CD as part of the dissertation). The CD requires the following system requirements: QuickTime; Microsoft Office.
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(2001)This auto/ethnographic, sacred performance text constitutes a radical, interpretive, political act. It argues for and is an exemplar of, what I define as a socially conscious, imagination-intellect. It counters the traditional ...
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(2019-12-09)This is just a study of how I survived. Not all people arrive in institutions of higher education by taking the same path or get an art education the same way. For example, not everyone had an art studio at their ...
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(2020-04-24)Play scholars believe that humans play throughout their lifespan (e.g. Gray, 2009; Brown, 2009). There is a relatively large body of literature about play in childhood (e.g. Smith, 2009), but relatively little about play ...
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(2015-04-30)This study investigates whether adding peripheral webpage ad for a product that is placed in an online sitcom affects audiences’ recognition of and attitude toward the product. Because the ad and placement may serve as ...
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(2017-04-25)This thesis examines three Black drum and bugle corps from the Civil Rights era of the nineteen-fifties and sixties: the Carter Cadets and the CMCC Warriors Drum and Bugle Corps from New York City, NY and the Washington ...
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(2012-02-01)My dissertation explores postbellum texts that put African American womanhood at the heart of their narratives, both as an abstract symbol of race and gender and as embodied through female characters. I focus on realist ...
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