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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Racial inequalities"”.
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Church in Black and White: Racially-Integrated Churches and Whites' Explanations for Racial Inequalities
… that conservative Protestants tend to blame racial inequalities on individual traits like motivation or ability as opposed to structural constraints such as oppression or discrimination. Emerson and Smith have also established that churches tend to be racially homogenous organizations. The …
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HOW CAN SCHOOL LEADERS SUPPORT TEACHERS IN BECOMING CULTURALLY PROFICIENT? LESSONS FROM TEACHERS AND SCHOOL LEADERS THAT SUPPORT CULTURALLY RELEVANT TEACHING PRACTICES
… practices, and teaching that perpetuate racial inequalities; implement culturally relevant practices; and prepare all students to succeed in a multicultural and global society with ongoing professional development.</p>
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Black Male Emerging Adults: Investigating Inequalities in Adult Transitions, Social Learning, and Criminality
… the importance of disadvantages embedded in racial inequalities. This mixed method study analyzes data from the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR) to examine Social learning criminology for black male emerging adults. Results provide an understanding of how peer criminality and …
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The lived experiences of black managers in accessing top management positions within the Namibian private corporate sector
… concealed structure undergirding the persistent racial inequalities within Namibian private sector organisations, through which black managers are subjugated, disempowered, exploited, and marginalised from opportunities to access organisational resources and top management positions. Furthermore, …
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Colonialism and Empire: Are Reparations Owed by the United Kingdom to the Descendants of Slavery?
… of anti-black racism through eugenics, racial theory and meritocracy. Precedents for reparations are investigated with a focus upon Germany (De Gruyter, 2011), and the rejection of early Caribbean migrants to Britain is highlighted (Rauhut, 2021). Discussion includes the origins of white …
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Three Papers on Public Schools and Political Participation Among Americans of Color
… the features of American society that drive racial inequalities in outcomes like voting, volunteering for campaigns, and other forms of political participation. This study explores an important and underexamined source of long-term differences in political behavior: childhood experiences in …
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Whither Color-Blind Love? A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of Love in Black and White
Interracial marriage remains one of the most emotionally charged issues in the troubled racial history of the United States. Love in Black and White: The Triumph of Love over Prejudice and Taboo is Mark and Gail Mathabane's relatively popular memoir of their interracial marriage. Using this text as …
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Back to Black: Black Radicalism and the Supplementary School Movement
… a political ideology can be used to overcome racial inequalities in contemporary Britain. A Black radical challenge to mainstream racial theory within the academy is outlined, along with an interrogation of the principle limitation of Black radical thought, that of essentialism and cultural …
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Examining the Relationships Between Urban Heat Island Effect and the Spatial and Racial Dimensions of Inequality
… the relationship between the spatial and racial dimensions of housing inequality in New York City and Washington, D.C. This research aims to demonstrate the influence of historical policies on present day public housing and the impacts of continuously rising temperatures resulting from …
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The minstrelising discourse of 21st century rap music
… relationship with slavery and the subsequent racial inequalities inAmerican society make the imagery and terminology of blackface a complex conceptprovoking ideas of guilt, shame, and embarrassment. Moreover, these ideological andemotive ideas are mobilised readily through the use of blackface …
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The Colored Sense of Awareness: An Analysis of African American Perceptions of Race and Communication in the Workplace
… have immeasurably experienced racism and racial oppression in various forms and in many sectors of the American society. One of the sectors that the racial inequalities of our past have affected is the employment sector. Many Americans experience the workplace on a daily basis and …
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Return on investment: Identifying K-12 funding inequities to improve postsecondary achievement and affordability for marginalized students
… to predominantly White communities, perpetuating racial inequalities in educational resources. The study explores the impact of funding on key factors affecting student achievement, such as teacher quality, class size, and socio-emotional support, while analyzing the role of parental education …
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Crossing the 'Color Bar': African American Soldiers in Britain and Australia During the Second World War
… of Jim Crow style segregation as a threat to the racial status quo, and attempted to enforce segregation overseas themselves. These attempts were often resisted fiercely by African American soldiers and the local white populations, both of whom despised such rules being forced upon them. This …
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An exploration into the challenges and experiences of South Sudanese male refugees living in Pretoria, South Africa
… highlighted certain political, religious and racial inequalities, and the unequal distribution of resources between the South and North Sudanese. The participants indicated that they had come to seek refuge in South Africa for security, safety and socio-economic reasons. Because there was no …
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Relatability: the hidden force behind Black African youth employment disadvantage
… labour market is characterised by high levels of racial inequalities which lead to marked disparities in employment access and outcomes based on race. Studies have revealed that Black African youth in South Africa are as much as five times more likely to be unemployed than their peers from other …
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White Muslim convert in the UK : beyond integration paradigm and the politics of “the other”
… or grandparents. Their presence challenge racialized representations of Muslims as 'brown bodies.' They also interrogate the implications of being white and English, Scottish, Northern Irish, or Welsh identities that are frequently linked to Christianity. Therefore, the aim of this research …
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The Ambivalence of Altruism: White Canadian Women in International Development in East Africa
… altruistic ideals and the (neo)colonial and racial inequalities that make up the foundation of the development industry. This dissertation extends earlier works to more fully and empirically understand the subject position of development workers and how development workers reaffirm, …
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In Pursuit of Racial Justice: The Politics and Consequences of Racial Disparity Reform in the U.S. Criminal and Juvenile Justice Systems
Overrepresentation of racial and ethnic minorities is a troubling fact in the U.S. criminal and juvenile justice systems. The scope and racial character of American criminal processing is critically shaped by politics. Scholarship has focused on the politics that helped to forge a large and …
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Affirmative action, higher education, and human rights: a comparison between supreme court rulings in the United States and Brazil
… have histories of colonization, slavery, and racial inequalities. In addition, both countries have adjudicated cases centered on the use of affirmative action admissions policies in higher education but with differing results. The constitutional court of Brazil, the Supremo Tribunal Federal, …
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Go Into All the World: Moral-Subject Formation through Evangelical Short-Term Missions from the United States to the Dominican Republic
… volunteers to striking socioeconomic and racial inequalities, which could powerfully (re)shape their worldviews by raising their awareness, for example, of the exploitative working and living conditions behind a ubiquitous commodity, sugar. However, STM leaders and volunteers conceptualize …
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