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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"African American woman"”.
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An Inquiry into the Experiences of the African American Woman Principal: Critical Race Theory and Black Feminist Perspectives
… explored the leadership issues that confront one African American woman principal in the Southeastern United States. The focus was on race, gender, and power issues that influence the leadership styles and successful career of this educator. Traditionally, educational leadership has silenced the …
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GENDER, JUSTICE, AND JIM CROW: NORTH CAROLINA JUDGE ELRETA ALEXANDER AND THE LONG CIVIL RIGHTS ERA
… Melton Alexander (1919 – 1998) was a pioneering African-American attorney from Greensboro, North Carolina. Coming of age during the Jim Crow period of the South, she was the daughter of a Baptist minister and a teacher and grew up comfortably as a part of the black middle class. The descendant of …
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GENDER, JUSTICE, AND JIM CROW: NORTH CAROLINA JUDGE ELRETA ALEXANDER AND THE LONG CIVIL RIGHTS ERA
… Melton Alexander (1919 – 1998) was a pioneering African-American attorney from Greensboro, North Carolina. Coming of age during the Jim Crow period of the South, she was the daughter of a Baptist minister and a teacher and grew up comfortably as a part of the black middle class. The descendant of …
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My Faith in the Constitution is Whole: Barbara Jordan Signifies on Scriptures
… in the life and speeches of U.S. Congresswoman Barbara C. Jordan (1936–1996). I engage in a research methodology that utilizes critical historical, auto/biographical, literary, and rhetorical analyses. My research agenda is to explain how scriptures work and are used by Barbara Jordan to …
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So-journeying: creating sacred space in education
… education, teaching and curriculum from an African/African American perspective. This inquiry is based on my experiences as an African American woman curriculum theorist committed to the education of African American youth. Drawing on the lifework of Sojourner Truth, a nineteenth century …
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Whose line is it anyway: Exploring how to utilize narrative voice in nonfiction
… their lives and, ultimately, my own. As an African American woman, I navigate themes of racism, the significance of appearance, and the burdens of achieving the so-called "Black idea of success." This paper highlights how storytelling preserves identity, challenges stereotypes, and gives …
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African American women superintendents: Their point of exit
… recently have scholars paid attention to the African American woman superintendent who is an anomaly in this powerful leadership position in public education. Additionally, only a few academicians have asked why talented African American women who successfully obtain the superintendency exit …
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Piecing a Quilt: Jessie Carney Smith and the Making of African American Women's History
… analysis of Jessie Carney Smith's Notable Black American Women (1992) as an illustration of black feminist knowledge production. It explores the contributions of Dr. Smith to African American women's and library history during her more than four decades as Head Librarian at historically black …
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Piecing a quilt: Jessie Carney Smith and the making of African American women's history
… analysis of Jessie Carney Smith’s Notable Black American Women (1992) as an illustration of black feminist knowledge production. It explores the contributions of Dr. Smith to African American women’s and library history during her more than four decades as Head Librarian at historically black …
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A single subject study on major depressive disorder, PTSD, and mild mental retardation
… agency was used in the study. The client was an African American woman who resided in a low socioeconomic area and whose income was below the poverty line. The client experienced emotional, physical, and psychological abuse and neglect during childhood. She presented with symptoms of depression, …
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Gendered and Racialized Experiences at Central State Hospital, Indianapolis, 1877 - 1910
… 1877 – 1910” analyzes the treatment of African American patients at the now-defunct Central State Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana, throughout the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, from the late 1870s through the 1900s. This thesis examines the impact of scientific racism and …
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God's School on the Hill: Nannie Helen Burroughs and the National Training School for Women and Girls, 1909-1961
… areas that are seldom studied in the history of American education. A primary theme focuses on the role of Christianity in shaping the broad educational policy and classroom practices of an African American school. A second theme looks at the central role played by Burroughs, affording the …
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From Crisis to Empowerment: African American Women in Community Colleges
<p>Social challenges tear at the fabric of the African American family, revealing complexities that identify a de facto leader, the African American woman. She exists in a chasm of overt circumstances which heavily influences her successes. The purpose of this study is to identify factors that …
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Autobiography as Counter-Narrative: An Empirical Study of How Race Enters and Structures the Stories of Our Lives
… had learned, I created two chronicles, one of an African American woman and the other a White woman. The point/counter-point illuminated a look at seemingly normal, seemingly non-racialized, everyday experiences that played out in extraordinarily different ways, with race being the only …
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Invisible Life in the Academy: Understanding the Workplace Experiences of African American Women Staff in Higher Education
… study was to explore the experiences of African American women staff in higher education. Specifically, the emphasis was on staff at predominantly White institutions (PWIs) in the Midwest. The experiences of African American women have been studied, but there is a gap in literature on the …
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I Speak From the Wound in My Mouth
… but rather the end-products produced. As an African American woman and an activist artist educator, I believe that socially conscious, imagination-intellectual development should be the primary goal of k--12 public schooling, and that Maxine Greene's aesthetic appreciation, and aesthetic …
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The quest for identity of African American women from 1939 to 2000 in postmodern American Drama
… study was conducted to explore the oppression of African American women as well as to determine how their identity was in a struggle to gain in a selection of Postmodern American plays. Sharing the experiences of African American women and their black community of that time, represented as a …
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Encircled by Sisterhood: Mentoring Experiences of African American Women in Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
Research suggests that African American women are minorities by race and gender and the intersectionality of these constructs poses obstacles for African American women seeking to attain positions of power. Mentoring can aid African American women in overcoming these barriers. The purpose of this …
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Multiple literacies in a multicultural setting: Contextualizing nontraditional students' appropriation of virtuality and reality
… analyses, I write of how a Latina and an African American woman use their diverse backgrounds to enrich online discussions and to question issues related to race, gender, and educational practices. My examination of individual students' appropriation of the virtual contact zone reaffirms …
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Specializing in the wholly impossible: A rhetorical analysis of phronesis and kairos in the writings of Nannie Helen Burroughs
… in impossibility denotes a profound paradox that African American women were able to believe in their own agency despite the virulent forces of racism. Rhetoric is the most significant referent to how African American women survived and progressed historically. Burroughs forged a powerful verbal …
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