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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"White spaces"”.
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Colouring in the White Spaces: Reclaiming Cultural Identity in Whitestream Schools
… the page as blank. It’s actually not blank, it’s white. That white background is just “there” and we don’t think much about it. Not only is the background uniformly white, the lines are already in place and they dictate where the colour is allowed to go. When children are young, they don’t care …
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LIKE THIS AND LIKE THAT: BLACK MIDDLE-CLASS COLLEGIANS IN WHITE SPACES
… for Black college students at historically white institutions tend to be lower than those of white students (Improving College Access and Completion, 2015). Scholars have attributed lower college completion rates among this subgroup to precollege factors such as academic preparation, along …
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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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Yall Aint Heard Us? Black Identity and Belonging in Appalachian Virginia
… to the understanding of identity creation in white spaces.
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Historicizing and Engaging Lindy Hop: The Development, Presence, and Absence of Black Cultural Values and Aesthetics
… Black space of the Savoy Ballroom to primarily white spaces today, questions arise about cultural preservation and erasure in this historically Black dance.Using historical methodologies, this research examines the human experience of historical Lindy Hop participants to analyze the culture that …
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Ex Ante Approaches for Security, Privacy, and Enforcement in Spectrum Sharing
… The free spectrum portions are referred to as white spaces or spectrum holes. It is widely believed that CRs are one of the key enabling technologies for realizing a new regulatory spectrum management paradigm, viz. dynamic spectrum access (DSA). CRs often employ software-defined radio (SDR) …
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Beyond the Letters: Understanding the Importance of Black Women's Sense of Belonging in Predominantly White Sororities At Predominantly White Institutions
… diversity in higher education, predominantly White institutions (PWIs) often maintain environments where racial dynamics can significantly influence the student experience, particularly in social organizations such as sororities. The literature emphasizes the importance of belonging for …
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Racism without Race: The Racialization of Middle Eastern and North African Students at U.S. Colleges
… peers, and reported often self-isolating from white spaces due to fear of tokenization and prejudice. Participants who identified as MENA experienced more pride in their heritage and a deeper understanding of the role of race in their lives than participants who identified as white. These …
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“Just a Pepper in a Bunch of Salt”: Aboriginal Students’ Stories of School
… The research recognizes schools as white spaces where dominant identities are affirmed through place, spaces, curriculum, and pedagogy. Data was collected through four semi-structured interviews with five adolescents who self-identified as Aboriginal. A Critical Race Theory …
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Being and Becoming: Voice and the Performance of Self by Black and Brown Women Members of An Educational Space Organized in Whiteness
… of Black and Brown individuals in elite white spaces of independent schools. As a qualitative research project this study utilizes narrative, I Poems, and art-ifacts to create an ecology of experiences illustrating the past and the resiliency of the present. This research disrupts status …
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A Narrative Inquiry of Early-Career Women of Color in Student Affairs
… shaped by the challenges of navigating primarily White spaces, others’ attitudes toward them because of their ages, their communities of support, positive and negative supervisory experiences, a decline in mental health and burnout, their passion for supporting students, and feeling undervalued …
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Radio spectrum utilization in Zambia: establishing availability of white space, as enablers for ICT services network rollouts
Recently, the use of Television White Spaces (TVWS) for broadband communication has raised interest world over. TVWS refers to regions of radio spectrum in the Ultra High Frequency(UHF)bandthatarenotusedallthetimeinaspecificgeographicallocation.TVWS spectrum brings with advantageous propagation …
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Radio spectrum utilization in Zambia: establishing availability of white space, as enablers for ICT services network rollouts
Recently, the use of Television White Spaces (TVWS) for broadband communication has raised interest world over. TVWS refers to regions of radio spectrum in the Ultra High Frequency(UHF)bandthatarenotusedallthetimeinaspecificgeographicallocation.TVWS spectrum brings with advantageous propagation …
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A seat at the table : an instrumental case study on the personal and professional strategies of resistance Black women professionals adapt while employed at a predominantly White institution.
… of Black women professionals at predominantly White institutions as they struggle towards professional and personal persistence. Chilly environments within these educational sites ingrain feelings of isolation and alienation, perpetuating exclusionary policy, practice, and rhetoric. When …
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Exploring the interaction between the international radio spectrum management regime and national radio spectrum management policies
… neutrality, and opportunistic access in the TV White Spaces (TVWS), which are considered as main elements of the three alternative approaches to command and control. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews with main national and international actors. The main finding of the thesis …
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From behind the veil: unveiling the experiences of Black British-born males of African heritage navigating psychotherapy training within a White-dominated culture
… of race, identity, and systemic barriers within white-dominated spaces. Drawing on a transdisciplinary approach—Black Africana Existentialism (BAE), Black Critical Race Theory (BCRT), and the Colonial Matrix of Power (CMP)—that constitute the Africana Critical Race Framework (ACRF), this research …
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Portraits of black educators in predominantly white suburban high schools: the cost of pursuing equity for students of color
… Black high school educators in predominantly White suburban schools. In response to the dearth of research on Black educators in predominantly White schools, this dissertation uses the qualitative methodology of Portraiture to focus on the experiences and reflections of five Black educators …
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On the feasibility of the communications in the TVWS spectrum analysis and coexistence issue
… unused channels within this band are called “TV white spaces” (TVWS). Even after the redistribution of the digital TV channels, the problem of an efficient utilization of the allocated frequencies is still far from being solved. For example, there are still large territorial areas on which, …
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The Myth of Promiscuity: Examining Black Male Sexual Narratives and Sexual Identity
… sense of fragmentation in predominantly White spaces. Third, The participants note experiences of anxiety and vigilance because they were uncertain of how people saw them. Fourth, the participants state that people sexually objectify and reduce them to their penises which also highlights …
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On-Farm Apprenticeships: Labor Identities and Sociocultural Reproduction within Alternative Agrifood Movements
… representing upper- to middle-class white cultural norms (Allen, 2004; Guthman, 2008a; Slocum, 2007), for romanticized agrarian ideology (Carlisle, 2013), and for mechanisms reproductive of neoliberalism, which buttresses the dominant agrifood system (Guthman, 2008b). These AAM …
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