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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"White Race"”.
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Black and White: Race, Culture, and Urban Renewal
… 2015; Rennel, 2015). My research focuses on race and culture in relation to perceptions in relationships, community, and education before and after urban renewal. I present my work in two-manuscripts: Growing Up White: I Didn't Know What I Didn't Know and Gainsboro: It's Just the Way Things …
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Suburbs in Black and White: Race, Jobs & Poverty in Twentieth-Century Long Island
<p>“Suburbs in Black and White” examines how economic development shaped African American suburbanization on Long Island, New York from 1920 through 1980. After 1940, the fortunes of Long Island’s growing black population shifted from widespread poverty to upward social mobility, though by the …
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The New Deal Era and Blacks: A Study of Black and White Race Thought, 1933--1945
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T23:20:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7212247.pdf: 14176088 bytes, checksum: e5f85468f0a989ba72caf34ef798d23e (MD5) Previous issue date: 1971
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Investigation of Gender and Race Effects on Promotion in Departments of Geography in the United States
… in academic promotion associated with gender or race within the discipline of geography in the United States. Professors were identified between 1991 and 2007 using the Association of American Geographers’ Guides and Directories. For each institution, males were matched to female assistant …
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Measurement models for understanding the social challenges of caring for the elderly in Brazil and England
… better for men, but worse for those of non-white race and with older age. Regional disparities were also present in health and economic well-being. In Brazil, economic well-being was worse with older age, in rural areas, male gender and non-white race. In England, economic well-being was …
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Function and Pain in Community-Dwelling, Adult Mid-Southerners with Limb Loss
… include diabetes, obesity, smoking, minority race, and poverty, which are all common in the Mid-South population. Function is impaired by limb loss, and pain associated with limb loss may further impair function.</p> <p><strong>Purpose:</strong> Describe the function, pain, health status, and …
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Insights in Response to Statewide COVID-19 Sampling in Indiana
… These finding indicate that persons of non-White race and persons of Hispanic ethnicity had highest risk of exposure to the virus. Understanding the disparity in health in various racial and ethnic populations and addressing how different communities are impacted by the pandemic, as well as …
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Differences in COVID-19 Fatality Risk Among Racial and Ethnic Groups: A Secondary Data Analysis of Electronic Health Records in the TriNetX Platform
… increased odds of fatality and varied by race and ethnicity. In some models, fatality risk was lower for people of color when compared to those of white race. Similar to other studies, being male and of older age increased risk of fatality. Social determinants of health and vaccine status …
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Using Working Memory to Address the Validity-Diversity Dilemma: Incremental Validity and Subgroup Differences Compared to GMA
… for practitioners because of the large Black-White race differences associated with GMA tests. The use of GMA tests, therefore, results in adverse impact when basing decisions on predicted performance. In order to address this validity-diversity tradeoff, a more specific cognitive ability is …
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Exploring Postsecondary STEM Faculty's Experiences Teaching Underrepresented Minority Students in STEM Introductory Courses in an HSI
… how to support URM students and the role of race in their participation in a STEM community of practice. This is a phenomenological study (Moustakas, 1994) that collected White STEM teachers' experiences when instructing URM students in STEM introductory courses. Additionally, this study …
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The Functions of White Nationalism Online: A Content Analysis of White Nationalist Thematic Discourse Surrounding the Eve Carson Homicide
Extant literature on White Nationalism illustrate the myriad of social issues members of this racialist extremist group presently recognize as threatening the continuation of the white race and the preservation of white heritage (Swain 2002). One of these threats includes the high incidences of …
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New Negro Artists and Post-War American Modernism: A Reconsideration
… on the Alston cohort, I demonstrate how race and racism was a factor in protecting the legacy of a small group of white artists in the 1950s while simultaneously minimizing the contributions of other artists who were not white. Race is an important factor in understanding this phenomenon, …
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That Rotten Richness': Old Maids and Reproductive Anxiety In U.S. Southern Fiction, 1923-1946
… are coming to an end. Concerns about white race suicide, land reform, Depression-era economics, and the New Woman converge in the figure of the old maid. Her body, often subject to desire, becomes a particular site of crisis because the old maid represents both possibility and failure …
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Unsettling whiteness : Kipling's Boers and the case for a white subalternity
… of the Boers as both 'degenerate' and as 'white'. Broadly, in the course of this thesis this tension is approached in two ways. This first of these considers the motivating forces behind Kipling's racialization of the Boers, specifically in terms of the anxieties provoked by the …
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Intimate femicide-suicide in South Africa : the epidemiology of male suicide following the killing of an intimate partner
… were associated with: the perpetrator being of White race; employed as a professional or white collar worker; and owing a legal gun. The study findings have shown that South Africa has the highest reported rate for intimate femicide-suicide in the world. This poses an important public health …
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The Sigh of Triple Consciousness: Blacks Who Blurred the Color Line in Films from the 1930s through the 1950s
… live in a world which offered opportunity to the White race. These films will also portray the social betrayal forced upon Black people for the need of survival. These films show the desperation for equality as seen through a new genre of film trail blazers, all of whom understood the need to …
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Predictors of Contralateral Breast Cancer In Brca Negative Women
… age, alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking, white race, physical inactivity, benign breast conditions, reproductive and hormonal factors, dietary factors, and family history. Hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome (HBOC) is caused by mutations in the <em>BRCA1</em> and <em>BRCA2</em> …
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Growth patterns of hispanic and caucasian children
… Racial classification of Hispanics can include White, Asian, Black, and East Indian. In this study, Hispanics were defined as people whose ancestors were from Mexico. The label Caucasian defined the segment of the White race without ancestry from a Spanish-speaking country. This study examined …
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How Do the Perceived Barriers, Attitudes, and Knowledge of Grocery Store Personnel Affect Availability of Organic Food Products?
… relative price of milk and percentage of white residents proved to be the strongest predictors of attitudes toward organics. Attitude toward customer demand for organic products was the strongest positive predictor of availability, while perceived barriers had the strongest negative …
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Tuberculosis in San Bernardino County, 1993-2004 : Lifestyle and Environmental Factors
… the U.S. These included Hispanic or non- Latino white race and unemployment. An additional logistic regression analysis, based upon drug use, resulted in a number of significant indicators. These included homelessness, incarceration in a correctional facility, abusing alcohol, U.S. birth, and …
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