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Showing 1 to 20 of 92 for “"White Men"”.
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Why do White men ride the glass escalator?
Women face barriers to advancement in male-dominated fields (Glass Ceiling) and in female-dominated fields (Glass Escalator). More research is needed to elucidate the causes of these barriers in order to reduce the negative effects on women’s advancement. This study attempted to broaden the …
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The White Men Are Coming! The White Men Are Coming!: Identifying Navajoness through Reservation Tourism in 30 Days, Jamie's American Road Trip, and Navajo Cops
… Navajo identities are constructed by the shows’ white/non-Navajo hosts and producers for viewers’ cultural consumption. Interrogating a combined total of nine episodes, I seek to understand the ways in which Navajos are made (in)visible and represented through the shows’ touristic and …
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Masculinity Threat, Misogyny, and the Celebration of Violence in White Men
… relationship between masculinity and the endorsement of attitudes towards guns and violence and aggressive fantasies. I examine threatened masculinity and masculine gender role stress in addition to a newly developed measure, which assesses traits associated with incels, who believe that social …
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Vascular and Neuro-Inflammatory Modulation Following Resistance Training in Young African American and White Men
African American men have a higher incidence of hypertension and associated co-morbidities. Altered vascular and autonomic function has been implicated in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases in this population. We sought to examine the effect of resistance exercise training on vascular and …
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Suffrage for White Men Only: The Disfranchisement of Free Men of Color in Antebellum North Carolina
This thesis explores the disfranchisement of free men of color in 1835 North Carolina through the lens of antebellum citizenship and within the context of the racial turmoil of the 1830s. Citizenship and the evolution of southern racial ideology converged in the 1835 North Carolina Constitutional …
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My Choice, My Fraternity, and My Engagement: Experiences of White Men in Black Greek Letter Organizations (BGLO)
… and research of Alexander Astin’s Student Engagement Theory, with support from Critical Race Theory and Terrell Strayhorn’s work on Sense of Student Belonging, utilizes a methodological case-study approach with multiple units of analysis. In an effort to understand the choice, ownership, and …
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Agency to Change: A Narrative Inquiry of White Men Faculty in Engineering Engaged in Broadening Participation Work
… the case of BPE, investigation of faculty engagement is limited. Further, limited exploration of the majority group's experiences (i.e., white men) exists concerning their agency and this type of work. This study investigates the experiences of engineering faculty who identify as white men and …
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White men speaking : an exploration of intersections, tensions and alternative ways of being white and a man in South Africa
… for social transformation. In South Africa, white men still dominate these centres. Some white men have recognised this and have taken on the task of confronting their prejudice and acknowledging their privilege, in order to forge more transformative ways of being a white man in South Africa. …
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Out of Sorts: An intersectional analysis of disabled men's and women's workplace outcomes
… research that demonstrated that disabled men and racial/ethnic minority men are more likely than non-disabled white men to work in female-dominated occupations, while at the same time not reaping the same privileges in those occupations as non-disabled white men do. Using an intersectional …
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Broken Promises: Rape, Race, and the Union Army
… paper will examine the ways in which black women who had been assaulted by white men were denied justice in military courts. Although the Union Army was often perceived of as an army representing freedom and higher moral purpose, the court martial records reveal a darker side. They reveal that …
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Race. Nation. Zombie: Imperial Masculinities Gazing at the Undead
… that zombie narratives have always been about white masculinity and that colonialism is the true living dead monster. The zombie is not the load-bearing signifier in these stories. It is the white men who act as representatives of empire that embody tropes and evolve. This dissertation examines …
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Masculine Identities Among Asian American Men: Negotiating Varying Masculine Ideals for the Self and Others
… varying masculine identities for Asian American men of East Asian descent. The study tested the hypotheses that compared to White men, Asian American men would endorse lower levels of Western hegemonic masculine ideals, see themselves as less masculine in terms of those ideals, and report lower …
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Neighborhood Compositional Characteristics on HIV, Sexual Risk Behaviors, and Prevention Activities among Black and White Young Men Who have Sex with Men
… characteristics for young black and white men who have sex with men (MSM), ages 15-25 years. Individual baseline data were collected during 1999-2000 as part of a 13-city randomized control trial. Neighborhood composition data at the zip code tabulation area were obtained from the …
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"Dropped ""from the clouds"": Cincinnati and manumission among the fancy and newly freed, 1831-1901"
… mistresses and the children they produced with white men thoughtfully rebuilt their lives as newly freed people by capitalizing on earlier, sometimes ongoing, ties to white men, but also by relying on themselves and others sharing their circumstances. Some such women appear to have been “fancy …
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Learning to work in white spaces: An autoethnographic and linguistic analysis of racial and gender discrimination in a Midwestern American organization
… business staffed almost entirely by White men. The multi-method approach facilitates intersectional analysis of racist, sexist, and homophobic talk while also attending to issues of class.
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Undervalued and unseen : a multiple case study exploring the underrepresentation of African American women in Division I athletic director positions.
African American women represent an overwhelmingly low percentage of Division I athletic directors compared to White men, Black men, and White women. White men hold the majority, 64%, of Division I athletic director positions, while African American women only hold 3% of these positions. African …
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MELTING INTO THE MARGINS: THE DIS-APPEARANCE OF NORMALITY
… academic and media debate about normality: the white nuclear family and white middle class men. This thesis traces the emergence of the contemporary discourse which suggests that the normal is being displaced into the margins, away from the centre, 'disproved' as a lived condition and shown to …
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Fighting for Independence and Slavery: Confederate Perceptions of Their War Experiences
It is striking that many white southerners enthusiastically went to war in 1861, and that within four years a large number of them became apathetic or even openly hostile toward the Confederacy. By far, nonslaveholders composed the greatest portion of the disaffected. This work interprets the …
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Predictors of Drug Treatment Completion Among Black Women: A Black Feminist Intersectionality Approach
… used a national sample of substance abuse treatment centers to analyze predictors of drug treatment completion among a sample of black women compared to white women, white men, and black men. Data are drawn from the Treatment Episode Data Set - Discharges (TEDS-D) 2006, which is representative …
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