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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Deep South"”.
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Southern Discomfort: Performing Femininity In The Deep South
… does not conform. The mixed-media installation, Southern Discomfort: Performing Femininity in the Deep South, examines this process and its impact on young girls. The young, blonde, female figure who appears multiple times in my installation reveal girls in these gender-norm “policing” …
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Growing Up Biracial and Gay in the Deep South: Living between the Color/Gender Lines
… of three generations of women living in the South. Through the stories my mother, my daughter and I have lived through, I critically reflect on my experience of being a first generation doctoral student growing up in-between the color lines of Black and White and raising a biracial and gay …
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MILITANT MAIDS: DOMESTIC WORKERS’ PARTICIPATION IN BUS BOYCOTTS, VOTER REGISTRATION, AND HEAD START PROGRAMS IN THE DEEP SOUTH
… the Civil Rights Movement, specifically in Gulf South bus boycotts in Baton Rouge, Montgomery, and Tallahassee; voter registration efforts in Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida; and Head Start work in those same Deep South states. Domestic workers engaged in activism by joining unions, …
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Determined To Make A Difference: A Critical Autobiography Of An African American Male Principal In The Deep South
<p><strong>ABSTRACT</strong></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p><strong> </strong>The purpose of this critical autobiography study was to examine how my educational experiences have made me into the man and educational leader I am today. As an …
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Abstinence Based Sex Education: A Mixed-Method Evaluation Of Experiences With And The Effectiveness Of Sex Education In The Deep South
… in current sex education programs in the deep south, and it shows the need for more comprehensive sex education that will ensure safety and health of students.
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The Impact of Intersectional Stigma on Shared Decision- Making and Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence for Young Latinos in the Deep South: Perspectives from HIV Clinicians
… persist among Hispanic/Latino populations in the southern United States. In the Deep South region of the U.S., young Latino men face potential intersecting stigmas related to HIV status, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and immigration status. Stigma is an established barrier to healthcare access …
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A critical analysis of the curricular landscape of secondary Social Studies across the Deep South since the rise of standardization and accountability with No Child Left Behind
… the Social Studies curricular landscape in the Deep South and the changes that have occurred since the rise of accountability and standardization around 2001. This study aimed to find patterns of change within the Deep South, in order to also explore how educational policies have helped shape …
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Breaking Down the Fear' -- John H. Mccray, Accommodationism and theFraming of the Civil Rights Struggle in South Carolina, 1940-1948
… was a political activist who served as editor of South Carolina's leading black newspaper from 1941 to 1954. After years of dormancy, the civil rights movement sprang to life in the state in the 1940s. A historian writing in the late 1950s called it 'one of the South's most dynamic and successful' …
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Mayberry Days
… childhood: the experience of growing up in the Deep South in the 1960s and 70s.
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Variables differentiating between the selection of a predominantly white university and a predominantly black college by black women
… old and traditional and are located in the deep south.
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"Doing Their Own Thing": The Impact of Second-Wave Feminism at the University of Southern Mississippi
… feminism had on cultural transformations in the South. Much of the historiography of feminism and women’s liberation only covers the most radical events and leaders of the 1970s, and it neglects to point out the smaller forms of resistance that ultimately made the movement successful. During this …
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No Foreign Despots on Southern Soil: The American Party in Alabama and South Carolina, 1850-1857
<p>During the 1850s in the South, the American Party, also known as the Know Nothing Party, rallied southerners culturally and politically around nativism, an anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic ideology. This thesis studies nativism in the Deep South and challenges existing scholarship by Tyler …
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Settling and Laying Down: A Cultural History of Quakers in Savannah and Statesboro, Georgia
… and differences between two Quaker meetings in Southeast Georgia, the small but growing urban meeting in Savannah and a discontinued rural one in the small college town of Statesboro (that sometimes met in the village of Guyton). These case studies of local and personal histories, combined with …
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Acts of war: the Southern seizure of Federal property, 1860-1861
… 1860, and his inauguration on March 4, 1861, the Deep South seceded from the Union, seized all the federal forts, arsenals, navy yards, custom houses, revenue cutters, mints, courts and post offices within their borders except Fort Sumter in South Carolina, and Forts Pickens, Taylor, and Jefferson …
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Thomas H. Brewer and the Struggle for Civil Rights
… winter of 1956 was a turbulent period in the deep South. Blacks were demanding their rights and finally obtaining some of their goals at the nationa1 level. The 1954 Supreme Court decision in the Brown Topeka. Kansas Board of Education case was the prime VS stimulus.1 While the blacks in the …
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The Southern snake-handling cult of the U.S.A
… turn of the Century, in the rural areas of the deep south, a small group of fundamentalists adopted the practice of confirming their faith by handling venomous snakes. Today the cult has spread to at least twelve different States, despite the fact that since 1947 snake handling has been …
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"Black and White Together, We Shall Win": Southern White Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
… examines the unconventional stories of white southerners who transcended the segregationist environments in which they were born. As southern white activism took many forms, this work offers biographical insights to three individuals who have received little scholarly attention: journalist P.D …
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Internal Dissent: East Tennessee's Civil War, 1849-1865.
… economically isolated region to Virginia and the deep South. This trade network created a southern subculture within East Tennessee. These divisions had deepened and resulted by the Civil War in guerilla warfare throughout the region. East Tennessee's response to the sectional crisis and the Civil …
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“All the Land Thrown Open:” Southern Culture and Southern Baptist Chaplains: 1861-1865
Southern Baptist chaplains informed Confederate culture and religious belief during the American Civil War by contributing to a unique narrative of Southern identity. One sees the narrative through the letters and sermons of these chaplains to the working- class soldiery. Encompassed in Southern …
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