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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"African American Girls"”.
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African American girls' perceptions of health, obesity and recreation
Obesity and inactivity rates of African American girls are high. However, little research has been conducted that examines how girls conceptualize health, recreation and obesity. Girls have received multiple messages about health from the media and at school. It is important to examine whether …
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Examining intersectional invisibility of African American girls in high school Advanced Placement classrooms
… Board, 2014). When specifically examining African American girls, there is a dearth of literature on this population’s performance and engagement within AP classrooms. This absence extends beyond AP classrooms, as the inclusion and support of African American girls is also limited within …
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Cultivating Voice Through Web 2.0-Infused Critical Media Literacy: Pedagogy for African American Girls
… the role of the mass media in the lives of four African American girls. The results uncovered how the media’s negative stereotypes contribute to the silencing of their voices. It explored the effectiveness of enacting Web 2.0-infused Critical Media Literacy in facilitating the cultivation of …
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Wading in the Water: A White Educator and African American Girls develop Critical Literacy
… spent twelve months working with a group of 8-12 African American adolescent girls at a community center in an urban community. Data collection methods included fieldnotes, interviews, questionnaires, photographs, participant's journals, and other artifacts. The study focused on the use of …
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Creating inclusive aquatic spaces: Designing a culturally responsive-sustaining swim lesson and water safety program for African American girls
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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Inner City African American Girls' Learning Mathematics: Parental Influence And Classroom Experience As They Impact Mathematics Scores On The Act
… performance of their daughters; how female African American students view their teachers' influence in their mathematical thinking; how critical is the mathematical classroom experience for African American girls; and can positive classroom experiences (teacher implementation of best …
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Examining Perceptions of High School Science Teachers Regarding the Participation and Outcomes of African American Girls in Advanced Science Courses
<p>African American girls were underrepresented in STEM related education and careers. Social and historical factors caused African American girls to be double marginalized based on gender and sex. African American girls had the potential to fill STEM positions with a strong foundation in advanced …
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The impact of structural oppression and systemic racism on the post-secondary pathway of African American girls and women in a major metropolitan area of the Midwest
… systemic racism on the post-secondary pathway of African American girls and women in a major metropolitan area of the Midwest. Participants were individuals ages 18-45 who were assigned female at birth, identified themselves as Black/African American, and attended school in the Greater Milwaukee …
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A study of the experience of female African-American seventh graders in a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) afterschool program
… determine what inspires or leads seventh-grade African-American girls toward an interest in STEM, to characterize and describe the context of an out-of-school STEM learning environment, explore the impact on the seventh- grade African-American girls who participated in the program as it relates …
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Visualizing Opportunities and Inspiring Choices that Embody Success (V.O.I.C.E.S.)
African-American girls experience disparate rates of pregnancy and acquisition of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), when compared to their non-Hispanic, white counterparts. Among African-American girls, current pregnancy rates are equal to the …
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An Examination of Racial Differences in Anxiety Disorder Symptom Structure and Trajectories among Pre-Adolescent Female Youth
… structure was examined among a sample of 570 girls (252 European American, 318 African American) who completed the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) at nine years of age (M = 9.63, SD = .33). Results of a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) suggested that a five …
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Carol and the Ugly Sisters: A Play in Three Acts
… reflects the trajectory of two teenage African American girls growing up in 1960s Harlem. They met when Anita was 16, and Carol was 17. Anita, the protagonist, is from a lower middle-class family, and goes on to graduate Columbia University. Carol, her friend, dropped out of middle …
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Black Girls Matter: The Impact of Historical Representation on Contemporary Education
… and negative stereotypes about Black<br />girls and women can be found throughout the literature and popular <br />culture of the United States. These stereotypes inform the lived <br />experience of Black girls and women, and in particular interfere with <br />African American girls’ …
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Spoken Self: Recognizing, Renaming, and Reclaiming
… their own culture. This study then explores how African-American womens literature can be used to encourage culturally richer classrooms as students, especially African-American girls, discover who they are. I look through the lens of Black Feminist theory because it affords me the opportunity to …
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NOBODY’S PERFECT: A QUALITATIVE EXAMINATION OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CAREGIVERS AND THEIR ADOLESCENT DAUGHTERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF ADOLESCENT GIRLS’ BODY IMAGE
… rates of body dissatisfaction among adolescent girls are alarming. Research suggests that cultural norms emphasizing thinness and unrealistic standards of beauty may be contributing to this growing problem. This is concerning given the link between negative body image and a host of unhealthy …
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"Real Queens Fix Each Other's Crown": Addressing the Misseducation of the Blackgirl
… the violence and human rights violations of Blackgirls and minorities are at a significant high, Blackgirl collectives provide the space for the promotion of valuing individual freedom and the right to exercise their own agency when political force are ineffective and dehumanizing. Furthermore, …
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Praising Girls: The Epideictic Rhetoric of Young Women, 1895-1930
… reacted by alternately idealizing and demonizing girls, whom they often viewed as emblems that signified the best and worst of American culture. Despite these adult impositions and interventions, some young women began to define their collective identities through school-sponsored publications. …
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Permanent Solution: Contraceptive sterilization policies and practices in the U.S. from 1960-1979
… 1970s that led to the sterilization of young, African-American women from low-income families. It begins by analyzing the roles of the population control and burgeoning feminist movements that with the support of physicians, successfully lobbied for liberalized contraceptive sterilization …
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Cultural capital in urban communities as a pathway to engineering at a predominantly white institution: Narratives of African American women in engineering
… two research questions specifically, 1) As African American girls in urban communities overcome challenging circumstances to succeed in math and science in high school, what experiences do they report as motivating them to pursue engineering at a selective predominantly white institution …
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