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Showing 1 to 20 of 75 for “"Racial Segregation"”.
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Racial segregation in Indiana, 1920-1950
There is no abstract available for this dissertation.
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Essays on the economics of racial segregation
In this dissertation I analyze the economics of racial segregation. Each chapter provides theoretical models and empirical methods to analyze the separation of racial groups in several contexts. Chapter 2 propose a method for measuring residential segregation using techniques from the spatial …
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The spaces between us : a spatial analysis of racial segregation amongst university students
… settings where a fair amount of interracial contact is expected to occur, the problem of "illusory contact" persists. In these contexts, the appearance of integration is undermined by de facto segregation. The present research investigated the resilience of segregation as an informal …
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More than just a game: the impact of sports on racial segregation in one southern town
… Movement, particularly addressing school desegregation during 1965–1971 in Valdosta, Georgia, based on interviews with nine Black football athletes who played for Valdosta High School during that period. The Valdosta High School football team had a tradition of excellence that was recognized …
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Essays in public finance and labor economics
… finance and labor economics: the effect of racial segregation on city characteristics, the effect of divorce on women's economic outcomes, and the effect of abortion legalization on completed fertility. Chapter one examines the effect of segregation on cities. There is a strikingly negative …
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Segregation, Transformation, and Urban Education: A History of Attaining Racial Equity in the Hickman Mills C-1 School District
This dissertation examines the history of racial segregation in Kansas City, Missouri, leading to the creation of the Hickman Mills C-1 Racial Equity Policy. The study’s six chapters present an analysis of the history of education and schooling in the greater Kansas City metropolitan community from …
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Working lives in Howick : a case study
… policy, as it attempts to redress the legacy of racial segregation and oppression left by colonialism and apartheid (Tregenna 2004). While the term has been variously defined (Smith 2007; Rembe 2005; Sherry, Chand and Misra 2000; Irogbe 2003; Kriel 2007), this research looks at transformation as …
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Thomas H. Brewer and the Struggle for Civil Rights
… over this decision that declared school segregation unconstitutional, many white southerners felt anger, fear, and uncertainty about how this court decision would affect their lives.</p> <p>Their culture based on racial segregation was threatened with destruction. "Separate but equal, " …
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Inequities in Education: The Case of Fulton County School District
… a time when there are high levels of residential segregation that are producing resegregated schools. Residential segregation is not only creating racial resegregation, but also a consolidation of poverty. Forty-three percent of African American and Hispanic students attend schools with poverty …
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Environmental Planning, Urban Development, and the Making of Environmental Injustice in Minneapolis
… first chapter, focused on the period in which racial segregation began to characterize the urban landscape, considers the intersection of racial covenants and park development in Minneapolis in the 1910s. The second chapter connects the historical insights from Chapter 1 to contemporary …
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Centering the periphery: Re-framing East London central business district towards social & spatial equality
… with current spatial planning, has perpetuated racial divisions, exacerbating social and spatial inequality. By incorporating peripheral communities, the study seeks to create a more inclusive and equitable urban environment, bridging gaps caused by urban fragmentation and racial segregation. …
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Racism in novels : a comparative study of Brazilian and South African cultural history
… and Too late, the Phalarope use the theme of racial segregation in South Africa and its consequences of social, economic and political exclusion as a basis for their stories, while the selected novels of Amado – Seara Vermelha and Jubiabá – explore social, political and economic segregation in …
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Three essays on the impact of student assignment policies
… the impacts of the removal of school desegregation plans on school racial segregation and on ninth grade repetition rates in the U.S. The third paper examines the impact of the school choice policy in Seoul, Korea on school segregation by academic performance levels.</p> <p>Over the last …
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The New Borderland: A Mixed-Methods Examination of Teacher Perceptions of Intelligence, Race, and Socioeconomic Status in Relation to Behavior Genetics
… policy within a context where economic and racial segregation continue to dictate who gains access to resource and opportunities.
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Creole Resistance in Louisiana from Colonization to Black Lives Matter: Activism’s Deep-Rooted Role in Creole Identity
… of Creole identity because it complicates racial politics that are predicated on reductionist singular conceptions of racial and ethnic identity. An understanding of Creole identity as a challenge to the racial binary imposed within Louisiana illuminates the larger legacies of colonialism, …
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Reaping the "Colored Harvest": The Catholic Mission in the American South
… mantle of human universality and inclusivity, racial segregation and discrimination structured its schools and defined its sisterhoods. The history of Catholic schools in the American South evinces this contradiction. "Reaping the `Colored Harvest' " focuses on the origins and growth of the …
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Growing 'homeplace' In Critical Service-Learning: An Urban Womanist Pedagogy
… Given the city's economic disparities rooted in racial segregation, structural violence and gender oppression, Detroit is a site of critical learning within a postindustrial/postcolonial context. This intersectionalist approach to service-learning is likened to bell hooks's concept of homeplace, …
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Equipped for Change: A Grounded Theory Study of White Antiracist School Leaders’ Attitudes and Perceptions of Racial Consciousness in Educational Leadership
… especially those greatly impacted by poverty and racial segregation. Unfortunately, it is highly likely many of these occurrences either go unrecognized, unacknowledged, or are perpetrated unknowingly by White educators and administrators—many of whom are well-intentioned, but lack the critical …
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Confronting White Femininity in Community-based Social Work Practice: An Autoethnography and Foucauldian Discourse Analysis
… this dominant discourse conceals the racial segregation prominent in the field of social work that prevents Indigenous, Black, and other racialized people from gaining entry into the profession. While Whiteness and its effects within social work have been a subject of study, the …
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Pass, passing : between frames of memory, cinema and the archive
… a centralizing truth; history and the present; racial segregation; cutting, editing, and creating narratives; the position, power, and intention of the author and artist as producer and presenter of narratives, images, and representations. How are representations considered South African? How …
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