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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"black experience"”.
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Home grown : the black experience in the city of Monroe, Michigan, 1900-1915
… collections and family papers, required that the black-white experience in Monroe be approached on several levels and from several perspectives. First, a cliometric approach was employed in describing and analyzing the demographic, economic, and political past of Monroe's Afro-Americans. The major …
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(Un)Bundling the Black Experience at PWIs: Using Assets-based Frameworks to Explore the Lived Experiences of Black Sub-Saharan African-born Graduate Students in STEM
… populations in the United States (US) is the Black population. This marginalization extends into higher education, where Black students are underrepresented and continue to experience challenges, especially at Predominantly White Institutions (PWI) and in science, technology, engineering, and …
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Searching for the Transatlantic Freedom: The Art of Valerie Maynard
… to those works with which the artist mirrors the Black experience in the United States and Africa on the other side of the Atlantic. In the process, the thesis sheds new light on the significance of Valerie Maynard's work and how she has used some of them to embody the Black quest for freedom and …
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Becoming Transcultural: Filling The Cultural And Communication Gap Within The Black American Community
… is to define transculturalism by exploring the Black experience through collectivism/individualism, Black identity and the ability to be transcultural. The study included 83 male and female Black American, college students, graduate students and college graduates. The participants answered a …
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Blackness in a predominantly white academe : a case of the University of Cape Town's Faculty of Health Sciences
This study examined the lived experience of black registrars (medical residents) in a predominantly white academic medical milieu using the case of the University of Cape Town Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa. It foregrounded this experience by demonstrating how it is circumscribed by …
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Dashiki Project Theatre: black identity and beyond
… Southern Theater was the only theatre of the black experience in New Orleans. Through Dashiki Project Theatre, the black community found another opportunity to relate to black experience through the medium of theatrical performance. In the mid-sixties Theodore Gilliam, a Dillard University …
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Mythic reinscriptions in W.E.B. Du Bois's The souls of Black folk, James Weldon Johnson's The autobiography of an ex-coloured man, and Ralph Ellison's Invisible man
… or even the very existence of the American black population. Meaningful participation in the promise of these myths, loosely bound up in the notion of The American Dream, and defined in texts such as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, has been systematically denied to …
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Black theology : a quest for a true humanity in South Africa
… and political system in South Africa has caused blacks to experience their blackness negatively. Being black is the reason for their pain and suffering. This is not merely a political problem but in its deepest sense it is a theological problem because it has caused doubt in the hearts and minds …
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DISCUSSING THE RACIAL ASSOCIATION WITH BLACK MATERNAL MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY AND THE ROLE OF PUBLIC INTELLECTUALISM IN PROVIDING EQUITABLE HEALTHCARE THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA.
… Social determinants of health plays into the black experience within healthcare, which is a factor in the increase in black maternal morbidity and mortality. An important note to highlight in the increase in black maternal morbidity and mortality is the growing public knowledge of the racial …
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Culturally Adapted Multiphasic Treatment Program: A Proposed Model for Increasing Successful Community Reintegration for Sex-Trafficked Black Teens
… nations for centuries. Within the United States, Black teen girls make up the largest demographic of commercially sexually exploited children. Despite efforts, most treatment interventions and programs have limited success in preventing or reintegrating Black teen girls into their respective …
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African American adolescent suicidality and prevention from an urban school counselor perspective
… The focus of this research was to hear the lived experiences of urban school counselors regarding the impact of racial discrimination on African American adolescent suicidality. The two theoretical frameworks that were used to support this study are the world-systems analysis theory and critical …
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Dear Black Child: A Discussion on the Formation of Identity for African Diasporic Adolescents in the U.S.
… using art, photography, and music to depict the experiences of African diasporic youth in the United States. I will explore the white supremacist systems that contribute to the anxiety that comes with being a black child in America. In this project, I plan to discuss the ways in which African …
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Sighting public history : a re-education on race and space in the City of Chicago
… eyes. The project takes as its focus sites of black public history: locations in the built environment where history is put to work in the public realm. It is an effort to re-educate one's self using the visual grammar of the city. The project uses the concept of sights -- authored photographs, …
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Integrating natural coping and survival strategies of African American women into social work practice: lessons learned from the works of Nannie Helen Burruoghs
… are important in that they support the impact of Black women's experiences as a central component to their psychological health particularly in four distinct areas: understanding and appreciation historical oppression in reform efforts; developing and exploring critical awareness/critical …
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Black Students Resisting And Coping With Racism At Predominately White Institutions
Black students attending predominately white institutions (pwis) have many obstacles to overcome while navigating their college career. Black students at pwis experience micro-aggressions and different forms of racial discrimination. Various studies have focused on the experiences of black students …
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Her Hideous Progeny: <em>Frankenstein</em>'s Legacy, Adaptability, and Contemporary Prominence to Critical Story Telling
… as a Frankenstein adaptation that centers the Black experience in twenty-first century America, and Poor Things controversial yet important exploration of a female Frankenstein creature finding her personal agency in a patriarchal world.</p>
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“The Wilderness Within”: African Diasporic Religion in New Granada, 1690-1790
… it argues for the constitutive role of black mobility, space, and state institutions in their creation and circulation. Africans and their descendants—whether black or of mixed African, indigenous, and European heritages—had a deep engagement with Catholicism and its material culture in …
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A critical investigation and evaluation of access: the experiences and subsequent employment of black students in higher education
… the effect of access policies on recruitment and experience of black students in higher education. As part of a broadening and reconceptualisation of institutional access programmes and of black students responses to them, I have examined black student admission and progression with a specific …
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“NO COSBY SHOW”: SINGLE BLACK MOTHER HOMES AND HOW BLACK MEN BUILD ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS
… qualitative study explored the lives of 11 Black men to better understand how Black men who were raised in single Black mother homes build romantic relationships with Black women. One focus group and a series of individual in-person interviews were conducted with the participants who ranged …
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A Glance in their Direction: The New York City Press and their Coverage of African Americans during World War II
… riots of 1943. Through examining the white and black media’s perception of these events I hope to elucidate how the press wrote about the topic of race during the period and if there was any change in their reporting on race due to the war. Although addressed marginally in the context of African …
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