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Internalization of Race Messages Among Mixed Race Individuals
… theory qualitative methodology to explore mixed race individuals' experiences within specific racial socialization contexts of family, friends, community, and society, to identify messages received within these contexts. How messages influence both their understandings of mixed race identity and …
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Camel race online
El projecte consisteix en el desenvolupament d'un joc multijugador create a base d'AndEngine, AppWarp i Swarm.
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Clothing and Race: An Examination of the Effects of Race on Consumption
This study examines the effect of race on consumption and clothing expenditure is used as the measure of consumption because of its importance as a construct in anthropology, sociology and psychology. And also because historically, researchers from these disciplines and economics have reported that …
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Property values and race
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of City Planning, 1961.
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The Race to Presidency: Toward Race and Citizenship in "A More Perfect Union"
… These remarks represented a larger tension about race in America. In March of 2008, Obama addressed a crowd of faithful followers at the Philadelphia Constitution Center. In it, he credits his achievements to the wonder and freedom of the American Dream and that, ultimately, racial polarization in …
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Mixed-race fantasies: abolitionist propaganda as spectacles of race in the nineteenth century
… sexual fantasies intricately linked with mixed-race women and the New Orleans slave market that these images would have conjured.
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Medical consequences following endurance sports : acute pre-race illness : the effect of a screening and educational intervention program on race participation, inability to finish a race and medical complications during a race
… with respect to the period prevalence of pre-race upper respiratory tract infections (the week before a distance running event) in distance runners, the relationship between exercise and infections, and the possible health consequences of participating in sport whilst suffering from an acute …
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Children's Use of Race in Drawing Inferences Based on Their Understanding of Race Constancy
Children’s understanding of race constancy and their subsequent use of race as a means of drawing inductive inferences were investigated. Race constancy was determined by children’s tendency to say that people could change category membership by changing their outside appearance. A second phase of …
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Own and other race face recognition: the effects of instructions and other-race contact
The cross-race effect occurs when people are more accurate in identifying members of their own race versus those of other races. An emerging theory of the cross-race effect involves social-cognitive processes such as categorization and individuation (Hugenberg, Miller, & Claypool, 2007). Prior …
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Problem Solving Courts & Race: An Examination of Community Courts and the Impact of Race
… This dissertation seeks to understand how race can play a role in problem solving courts, by specifically evaluating community courts. Community courts are courts that focus on low-level offenses in the communities where they reside. Although community courts have been around for nearly …
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The understanding of race: an analysis of laypeople's contemporary understanding of the notion race
This is a thesis about popular perceptions of "race" - the way in which ordinary people in South Africa conceptualise and understand the term. Traditional academic literature on the topic has emphasised the need to differentiate clearly between "popular" and "scientific" conceptions of "race". The …
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Race, belief and interpersonal attraction
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Psychology, 1971
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Race, Social Disorganization and Delinquency
… (<em>n</em> = 4,290), the relationship between race and delinquency was examined looking at social disorganization factors. It was hypothesized that there would be racial and ethnic differences in delinquency and that these differences would be accounted for by social disorganization factors, …
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Essays on Race in Policing
… paper explores three different dimensions of race in policing. The first chapter of this dissertation examines whether the presence of female and minority police officers affects the likelihood of police use of force and whether officers are more or less likely to use force against civilians …
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Race differences in infant mortality
… live birth cohorts. The primary focus is on race differences in the effects of maternal age, education, marital status, and prenatal care on the probability of an infant death and the likelihood of death due to a specific cause. Prenatal care and birthweight are included as intervening …
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Race Car Reverse Gear Design
… SR, a lightweight, motorcycle-engine-powered race car that lacks built-in reverse capability. The proposed solution repurposes a high-torque automotive starter motor to drive the car in reverse through engagement with a custom ring gear on the rear differential. Analytical modeling and …
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Race relations and city planning
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of City Planning, 1947.
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Recognizing Race: The Impact of Twentieth-Century Feminist Movements on Race Relations in West Germany
… women discussed these matters, they ignored the race issues that existed within their own society. As an increase in racial tension spread throughout West Germany in the 1980s, Black German women faced both gendered and racial discrimination. It was during this time that these women unified and …
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Do beliefs about race differences in pain contribute to actual race differences in experimental pain response?
… than 100 million people in the United States. Race differences exist in the way that pain is experienced and in how it is treated. Many biopsychosocial factors contribute to race differences in pain tolerance. Beliefs about race differences in pain sensitivity may be one of these factors. …
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