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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"racial inequality"”.
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Race and Consumption: Consumer Markets and the Production of Racial Inequality
<p>Racial economic inequality is a major social concern in the United States. Sociological research on the issue has focused primarily on understanding disparities in the process of earning income and accumulating wealth. Much less clear, however, is what happens when individuals try to spend the …
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eThekwini's changing occupational structure : a question of deindustrialization and racial inequality
… to have specific consequences for persisting racial inequality. This study tests the aforementioned theories of occupational change by looking at the metropolitan municipality of eThekwini, which houses the city of Durban. It demonstrates that deindustrialisation in eThekwini is undergoing a …
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New Wine Calls for New Wineskins: Black Megachurch Approaches to Racial Inequality
… period coincides with the decline in collective racial protest, or what some scholars consider the activist or prophetic wing, of black churches. As a result of the shift from the overt racism of the Civil Rights era to the hidden and often invisible forms of contemporary racism, the ways in …
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Comparative Study on Racial Inequality in Higher Education in Brazil and South Africa
This research investigated how racial aspects impacted on access to higher education in Brazil and South Africa, respectively. It also tried to determine how race influenced the completion of higher education in both countries. Based on a descriptive quantitative research design, the researcher …
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Race, power, history, and justice in America
… First, I seek to explain the persistence of racial inequality in an era of formal racial inequality. I offer a theory of power, historically evolved socially embedded power. The theory states that racial inequality is to be explained in the first instance by the way historical racial norms …
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THE BLUEPRINT OF REFORM, SOCIAL JUSTICE QUESTIONS, AND THE MISSING PERSPECTIVE OF AFRICAN AMERICANS
… to the evidence of the historical roots of racial inequality in failing schools and how it relates to Black and Latino students locked into inferior schools today. I provide a historical background of Chicago’s restrictive housing policy and the subsequent development and maintenance of …
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Racial threat theory and Black Lives Matter: advancing our understanding of police killings of Black Americans and consequential civil resistance in contemporary America
… about the relationship between the BLM movement, racial inequality, and police violence. Thus, this thesis aims to fill this gap by examining this relationship in two distinct ways. First, I examine various forms of political and economic threat to understand if, and how, these occurrences …
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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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Supply-Side Education: Race, inequality, and the Rise of the Punitive Education State
… by an understanding that unemployment and inequality were primarily the result of structural failures of the market economy. However, the unraveling of New Deal liberalism throughout the 1940s and 1950s shifted ideological understandings of problems like unemployment, poverty and racial …
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The lived experience of being privileged as a white English-speaking young adult in post-apartheid South Africa: a phenomenological study
… processes are making progress in addressing racial inequality in post-apartheid South Africa, white South Africans are, in many repects, still privileged, economically, in terms of access to services, land, education and particularly in the case of English-speaking whites, language. This …
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Cacophonous geographies : the symbolic and material landscapes of race
… with questions regarding the salience of racial inequality. While the days following Katrina harshly illuminated these inequalities, the election of the country's first black president indicated that we had made great strides toward racial equality and many hoped that we would move forward …
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Enacting Race and Class Online: Gatekeeping and Meaning Making on Reddit’s r/Brooklyn
… about race and class as an extension of the racial inequality present in social structures offline. Isolating gentrification, and topics related to gentrification such as new business openings and apartment hunting advice, this thesis observes how Redditors participate in the perpetuation of …
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The feminist pornography debates: Civil rights v. civil liberties
… choice and privacy, as well as gender and racial inequality, misogyny and racial bigotry, and sexual violence. In this context, the individual right to be active autonomous sexual agents comes into conflict with the right to refuse sexual abuse and violence, particularly in the context of …
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Neoliberal globalization, racism and education: The model minority thesis in education policy
… create equitable educational opportunities for racial minorities in the US unintentionally exacerbate racial inequality? What can we do about it? “Neoliberal Globalization, Model Minority Politics and Education Policy Research” traces current trends in US education policy research discourse …
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Visualizing the invisible: The role of race and white racial identity in the teaching and pedagogy of new ESOL teachers
… my overall argument explore the role that white racial identity has in the teaching and pedagogy of new ESOL teachers. Throughout this dissertation I argue for better understandings of race to raise awareness of how knowledge systems are socially constructed to support a level of inequality that …
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Both Sides of the Tracks: Louisville and Nashville Railroad's African -American Workers in Louisville, Kentucky, 1915--1945
… the African-American community's efforts to end racial inequality. Because Louisville and the L&NRR recognized their importance in these two contexts, Louisville's African-American L&NRR workers experienced a complex interplay of strategies by the city and company to maintain amenable race …
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An Examination of Policies and Programs Used to Increase Ethnic and Racial Diversity Among Faculty at Research Universities
… a leading principles underpinning discussions on racial inequality in higher education, along with the epistemological framework of organizational analysis of racism in higher education are used. Considering the afore mentioned theoretical and conceptual frameworks, this dissertation does the …
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The Ford Foundation and the Reinvention of American Liberalism, 1968-2000
… liberal policy toward poverty, crime, and racial inequality. This dissertation shows how the Ford Foundation, responding to growing concerns about a conservative ‘white backlash’, embarked on a self-conscious effort to reinvent liberal policymaking toward crime and urban poverty. Through …
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Own Your Politics: The Entanglement of Resistance and the Luxury Fashion Industry
… resistance. Most notably, the persistence of racial inequality and the cultural output of minority groups advances an ulterior form of resistance whose project, while coterminous with economic exploitation, is not perfectly delineated within its terms. In the second chapter, I engage with such …
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