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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Racial/ethnic diversity"”.
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What Happened? An Examination of Critical Change in the 2016 Election
… access to health care, union membership, racial/ethnic diversity, and income level all had statistically significant relationships with votes in both elections and with the change in vote between 2016 and 2012, all were substantively significant or in directions consistent with the …
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The online obstacle : a study of African-American enterprise on the Internet
… Facebook, and Twitter, have exhibited some racial/ethnic diversity among their founders, yet there appears to be a dearth of African-Americans in the group. In this thesis I conduct an empirical investigation into the potential existence of a set of impediments to blockbuster success for …
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The nature and origins of dually diverse neighborhoods
… the extent to which neighborhoods that are both racially and economically diverse, hereafter referred to as dually diverse neighborhoods, exist within the metropolitan landscape of the United States and what factors contribute to the emergence of such neighborhoods. Using the Neighborhood Change …
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Perceptions and experiences of LatinXs in nontraditional Hispanic-serving institutions (NTHSIs)
… elements that influence the climate for racial/ethnic diversity, this qualitative study focused on the efforts that two institutions in the Midwest are making to serve their Latina/o students from the perspectives and experiences of Latina/o undergraduate students. The study was designed …
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IMPACTS OF A BRIEF SELF-COMPASSION INTERVENTION FOR WOMEN WITH OBESITY AND INTERNALIZED WEIGHT BIAS: PRELIMINARY FINDINGS FROM A PILOT RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
… 2018). Many of IWB intervention studies lack diversity in their participant sample (e.g., Levin et al., 2018; Lillis et al., 2009). This not only limits the generalizability of findings but neglects the importance of developing interventions that are inclusive and relevant to different lived …
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Examining Texas diversity : identifying the composition of diversity and the coverage of a minority-related issue in the top ten daily Texas newspapers
… goal of this study is to examine the existing diversity in the top ten daily Texas newspapers. The second goal of this study is to analyze the newspapers' content, specifically relating to President Barack Obama's most recent immigration speech given in November 2014. Obama's speech expressed …
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The Associations Between Parental Involvement and Science Achievement via Children's Perceived Academic Competence and Academic Effort
… and academic effort across gender and race/ethnicity groups using data from the Longitudinal Study of American Youth (LSAY). The ecological model, social cultural contexts of parental academic socialization, the parental involvement framework, and social cognitive theory served as the …
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Dangerous Subjects: U.S. War Narrative, Modern Citizenship, and the Making of National Security, 1890-1964
… by labor uprisings, women’s rights activism, and racial-ethnic diversity, around therapeutic notions of an endangered common life. I consider the socializing role bestselling potboilers played as they summoned metaphysical appeals to sacrifice to channel a diversity of political loyalties into a …